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Teresa Mangum
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Emeritus Prof still cooking with gas on 19th-century studies, animal studies, age studies burners. Co-editor U Iowa Press Humanities and Public Life book series.
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I just finished teaching TTC too (subbing for a colleague), and the grad students were also stunned by how painfully timely it felt. Timely in all the worst ways.
April 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Adding a link to the data I shared earlier, for historical context. The Black Lives Matter uprising of 2020 (which postdates the chart below) remains the largest protest mobilization in U.S. history by every measure.
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lakauffman.bsky.social L.A. Kauffman @lakauffman.bsky.social · Apr 5
For the data nerds out there, here's a chart of the largest coordinated protests in U.S. history from my 2018 book HOW TO READ A PROTEST

Today's "Hands Off" protests, in 1000+ locations around the country, rank as one of the very largest decentralized days of protests EVER.
MARCHING EVERYWHERE: The Largest Coordinated Protests in US History. A chart with detailed information about 8 different massive days of coordinated protest in U.S. history. Apologies that there is not room here to copy all the data. But the upshot is that today's Hands Off mobilization stands out for the number of locations where protests took place. A map of the United States with a sea of red dots fully covering the blue background except in some of the most rural areas of the country. Beneath the map are the words "Map and List of Nationwide 'Hands Off' Protest Locations on April 5
April 6, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Cedar Rapids: Location provided after registration 12-2
Des Moines: 400 Locust 12-2
Iowa City: Clinton St & Iowa Ave, 11:30-2
Lisbon: Main St 12-2
Maquoketa: Glovik Park 12-1:30
Mount Vernon: First Street Community Center 12-1:30
Red Oak: Legion Park 2-3
April 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Check your name here: thegriffinlist.com
The Griffin List
A list of 60,273 North Carolina voters – these are registered voters who showed ID to early vote in the November 2024 election – whose votes Jefferson Griffin wants to not be counted. ...
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April 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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That’s the quote from the SS agreement I just got via email that I’m not comfortable signing.
March 9, 2025 at 3:26 AM