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Douglass, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress”
Sociologist. Advocate. Race and Wealth
Toxic Inequality;
Hidden Cost of Being African-American;
Black Wealth/White Wealth (w/ Melvin Oliver)
Sociologist. Advocate. Race and Wealth
Toxic Inequality;
Hidden Cost of Being African-American;
Black Wealth/White Wealth (w/ Melvin Oliver)
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
"Categories too often become where thought goes to die."
Struck by this on many levels. "Tyranny of the quantifiable" driving out impact/value, impact of art, actions that 'fail' but lead to greater understanding.
Amazing insights from R. Solnit, No Straight Road Takes you There.
Struck by this on many levels. "Tyranny of the quantifiable" driving out impact/value, impact of art, actions that 'fail' but lead to greater understanding.
Amazing insights from R. Solnit, No Straight Road Takes you There.
May 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
"Categories too often become where thought goes to die."
Struck by this on many levels. "Tyranny of the quantifiable" driving out impact/value, impact of art, actions that 'fail' but lead to greater understanding.
Amazing insights from R. Solnit, No Straight Road Takes you There.
Struck by this on many levels. "Tyranny of the quantifiable" driving out impact/value, impact of art, actions that 'fail' but lead to greater understanding.
Amazing insights from R. Solnit, No Straight Road Takes you There.
May 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"Categories too often become where thought goes to die."
Struck by this on many levels. "Tyranny of the quantifiable" driving out impact/value, impact of art, actions that 'fail' but lead to greater understanding.
Amazing insights from R. Solnit, No Straight Road Takes you There.
Struck by this on many levels. "Tyranny of the quantifiable" driving out impact/value, impact of art, actions that 'fail' but lead to greater understanding.
Amazing insights from R. Solnit, No Straight Road Takes you There.
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An appropriate way to understand Project Esther, and Trump's "anti-semitism" purge, is that it is predominantly driven by right-wing Christian nationalists attacking institutions they dislike, even if it also includes attacking Jewish students and groups.
May 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
An appropriate way to understand Project Esther, and Trump's "anti-semitism" purge, is that it is predominantly driven by right-wing Christian nationalists attacking institutions they dislike, even if it also includes attacking Jewish students and groups.
Thanks Carolyn! Wonderful contribution, insightful, much truth. I spent some time, half a year Fulbright, in the Kirkwood area looking at ‘land reform’ in the citrus industry. Labor conditions, lack Black ownership (1 farm), resistance to transformation put white farmer questions in perspective.
In case you all wanted to hear me do more yapping about the Afrikaner “refugees” and how and why the Trump admin is pursuing this, you can listen to my interview with @onthemedia.bsky.social :
www.npr.org/podcasts/452...
www.npr.org/podcasts/452...
On the Media
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transp...
www.npr.org
May 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Thanks Carolyn! Wonderful contribution, insightful, much truth. I spent some time, half a year Fulbright, in the Kirkwood area looking at ‘land reform’ in the citrus industry. Labor conditions, lack Black ownership (1 farm), resistance to transformation put white farmer questions in perspective.
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In case you all wanted to hear me do more yapping about the Afrikaner “refugees” and how and why the Trump admin is pursuing this, you can listen to my interview with @onthemedia.bsky.social :
www.npr.org/podcasts/452...
www.npr.org/podcasts/452...
On the Media
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transp...
www.npr.org
May 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
In case you all wanted to hear me do more yapping about the Afrikaner “refugees” and how and why the Trump admin is pursuing this, you can listen to my interview with @onthemedia.bsky.social :
www.npr.org/podcasts/452...
www.npr.org/podcasts/452...
Why aren’t Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have? - NPR
Shockingly, it’s the pay…
Good, worker-based apprenticeship programs show good completion rates and considerably higher pay for graduates with certificates.
Shockingly, it’s the pay…still
Shockingly, it’s the pay…
Good, worker-based apprenticeship programs show good completion rates and considerably higher pay for graduates with certificates.
Shockingly, it’s the pay…still
May 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Why aren’t Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have? - NPR
Shockingly, it’s the pay…
Good, worker-based apprenticeship programs show good completion rates and considerably higher pay for graduates with certificates.
Shockingly, it’s the pay…still
Shockingly, it’s the pay…
Good, worker-based apprenticeship programs show good completion rates and considerably higher pay for graduates with certificates.
Shockingly, it’s the pay…still
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Trees planted by Mary Ellen Pleasant, a Blackwoman who became a powerful figure in 19th c. San Francisco, successful plaintiff in a transit discrimination case, Underground Railroad participant-- and who reportedly funded John Brown. Visited her little grove last week.
May 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Trees planted by Mary Ellen Pleasant, a Blackwoman who became a powerful figure in 19th c. San Francisco, successful plaintiff in a transit discrimination case, Underground Railroad participant-- and who reportedly funded John Brown. Visited her little grove last week.
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Cities won't fund housing—but they *will* fund cops to arrest people for the crime of having nowhere to live.
San Jose mayor wants new police unit to arrest homeless people - San José Spotlight
More details are emerging about San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan's plan to arrest or hospitalize homeless people for refusing offers of shelter — and the city could create a police unit to do so.
sanjosespotlight.com
May 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Cities won't fund housing—but they *will* fund cops to arrest people for the crime of having nowhere to live.
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Practically, what does this mean? The government is saying it will go back to garnishing wages, tax returns, social security payments, etc. in order to collect money from the >5 million people currently in default on student loans. I'll make this a lil mini thread that highlights the key points.
BREAKING: Education Department says it will begin collection on student loans for over 5 million borrowers in default.
Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department says
The Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of borrowers, officials said Monday.
bit.ly
April 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Practically, what does this mean? The government is saying it will go back to garnishing wages, tax returns, social security payments, etc. in order to collect money from the >5 million people currently in default on student loans. I'll make this a lil mini thread that highlights the key points.
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Wow. The responses have been overwhelming. Now up to almost 650 signups in less than 24 hours.
Looking for an operations/logistics manager to help me prepare for this Resistance summer course pilot.
DM me or email me at karen@karenattiah.com!
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
Looking for an operations/logistics manager to help me prepare for this Resistance summer course pilot.
DM me or email me at karen@karenattiah.com!
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
open.substack.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Bleak, even dark…but full of insight! Long, thoughtful read that take a coffee break and dog-walk to process. One concern: tens of millions who voted Trump are detached materially from endism and focused on who they see their lives and futures. How to move from endism to where people actually are?
This piece is a bit bleak, but it's a banger.
If we are to meet our critical moment in history, we need to reckon with the reality that we are not up against adversaries we have seen before. We are up against end times fascism. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
If we are to meet our critical moment in history, we need to reckon with the reality that we are not up against adversaries we have seen before. We are up against end times fascism. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Bleak, even dark…but full of insight! Long, thoughtful read that take a coffee break and dog-walk to process. One concern: tens of millions who voted Trump are detached materially from endism and focused on who they see their lives and futures. How to move from endism to where people actually are?
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I suspect a key reason that Musk’s money couldn’t buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat is that everyone saw the would-be purchaser in the open. This is not the case for dark money disinformation campaigns. A lesson: we need to shine more light on campaign cash infiltration.
April 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I suspect a key reason that Musk’s money couldn’t buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat is that everyone saw the would-be purchaser in the open. This is not the case for dark money disinformation campaigns. A lesson: we need to shine more light on campaign cash infiltration.
Hmm, thoughts on declining to do T&P reviews for collaborating institutions collaborating (I know, hard to define?). Tough to 'penalize' candidates via association with their home institution...
Just askin
Just askin
I guess I should have said “an international scholar” because n=1, but I have to assume they’re the first of many.
April 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Hmm, thoughts on declining to do T&P reviews for collaborating institutions collaborating (I know, hard to define?). Tough to 'penalize' candidates via association with their home institution...
Just askin
Just askin
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Musk is now way over $20 million deep into his attempt to buy Wisconsin's Supreme Court. The direct effects of Wisconsin's majority will be enormous. But there's now another huge question at play: can Musk buy whatever election he wants? If Crawford wins, his perceived political power collapses.
March 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
March 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
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Horrific! Follow the profiteers: CoreCivic (really?) has 43 such prisons for profit, extracting wealth from the immoral, inhumane actions of powerful. Largest two share owners? BlackRock and Vanguard group. Financiers of the jailers cashing in on perfidious power.
March 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Horrific! Follow the profiteers: CoreCivic (really?) has 43 such prisons for profit, extracting wealth from the immoral, inhumane actions of powerful. Largest two share owners? BlackRock and Vanguard group. Financiers of the jailers cashing in on perfidious power.
Horrific! Follow the profiteers: CoreCivic (really?) has 43 such prisons for profit, extracting wealth from the immoral, inhumane actions of powerful. Largest two share owners? BlackRock and Vanguard group. Financiers of the jailers cashing in on perfidious power.
March 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Horrific! Follow the profiteers: CoreCivic (really?) has 43 such prisons for profit, extracting wealth from the immoral, inhumane actions of powerful. Largest two share owners? BlackRock and Vanguard group. Financiers of the jailers cashing in on perfidious power.
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Lisbon sign of the times.
b/c it’s not in the school curriculum, Boss was clothier for the SS and Brown shirts. Enslaved/prison labour used.
Musk/Tesla-Hugo Boss more than a metaphor…
b/c it’s not in the school curriculum, Boss was clothier for the SS and Brown shirts. Enslaved/prison labour used.
Musk/Tesla-Hugo Boss more than a metaphor…
March 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Lisbon sign of the times.
b/c it’s not in the school curriculum, Boss was clothier for the SS and Brown shirts. Enslaved/prison labour used.
Musk/Tesla-Hugo Boss more than a metaphor…
b/c it’s not in the school curriculum, Boss was clothier for the SS and Brown shirts. Enslaved/prison labour used.
Musk/Tesla-Hugo Boss more than a metaphor…
Lisbon sign of the times.
b/c it’s not in the school curriculum, Boss was clothier for the SS and Brown shirts. Enslaved/prison labour used.
Musk/Tesla-Hugo Boss more than a metaphor…
b/c it’s not in the school curriculum, Boss was clothier for the SS and Brown shirts. Enslaved/prison labour used.
Musk/Tesla-Hugo Boss more than a metaphor…
March 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Lisbon sign of the times.
b/c it’s not in the school curriculum, Boss was clothier for the SS and Brown shirts. Enslaved/prison labour used.
Musk/Tesla-Hugo Boss more than a metaphor…
b/c it’s not in the school curriculum, Boss was clothier for the SS and Brown shirts. Enslaved/prison labour used.
Musk/Tesla-Hugo Boss more than a metaphor…
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Inspired by @belmontbooks.bsky.social & in support of the planned economic activism, Porter Square Books will be donating 5% of all sales from March 7-March 14 to a number of nonprofits working to build stronger communities & a better world. You can nominate a org for a donation below...
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March 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
One of the reasons I love independent bookstores: they care about their communities. Order/buy from @portersqbooks.bsky.social TODAY and 5% of sales go to nonprofits that YOU can also help choose 👇
Thanks for lifting this up! Justice for farmers, especially Black farmers.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of farmers and nonprofit organizations who were awarded USDA grants through the IRA. This is yet another step towards justice for communities USDA savaged for decades (see Pigford).
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of farmers and nonprofit organizations who were awarded USDA grants through the IRA. This is yet another step towards justice for communities USDA savaged for decades (see Pigford).
I've been waiting for some farmers to sue bc their IRA funding got held up.
A group of largely organic farmers have finally done that. TY to @bloomlove.bsky.social for heads up.
earthjustice.org/wp-content/u...
A group of largely organic farmers have finally done that. TY to @bloomlove.bsky.social for heads up.
earthjustice.org/wp-content/u...
March 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Thanks for lifting this up! Justice for farmers, especially Black farmers.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of farmers and nonprofit organizations who were awarded USDA grants through the IRA. This is yet another step towards justice for communities USDA savaged for decades (see Pigford).
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of farmers and nonprofit organizations who were awarded USDA grants through the IRA. This is yet another step towards justice for communities USDA savaged for decades (see Pigford).