Dr. William Horne
@wihorne.bsky.social
Writer. Radical. Historian at UMD. PhD in History from GW. In Case of Emergency: https://tinyurl.com/mvmrcuvk. (he/him)
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Dr. William Horne
@wihorne.bsky.social
· Dec 15
White Americans Fail to Address Their Family Histories
There is a conversation about race that white families are just not having. This is mine.
activisthistory.com
As a scholar of white supremacy & Black liberation movements, it's important to me to recall my own family's history supporting slavery & Jim Crow as I do this work. I wrote this piece a few years ago to help me think through how this past both facilitates & informs my research today.
Given the way white conservative lawlessness forms a *defining feature* of what has been called democracy in the U.S., something we desperately need coming out of this current crisis is a body of history more directly critical of the state in the U.S., esp pre-1960s.
November 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Given the way white conservative lawlessness forms a *defining feature* of what has been called democracy in the U.S., something we desperately need coming out of this current crisis is a body of history more directly critical of the state in the U.S., esp pre-1960s.
We have a serious white supremacy problem in the US, but misinformation is central to its dissemination & the operation of its systems. I sometimes wonder what kind of world would be possible if we destroyed the misinformation machine.
If you scroll on X, you are only being shown what Elon wants you to see. If you create content on X, no one will see it unless Elon wants them to.
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
We have a serious white supremacy problem in the US, but misinformation is central to its dissemination & the operation of its systems. I sometimes wonder what kind of world would be possible if we destroyed the misinformation machine.
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If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.
If you scroll on X, you are only being shown what Elon wants you to see. If you create content on X, no one will see it unless Elon wants them to.
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.
Reposted by Dr. William Horne
If you scroll on X, you are only being shown what Elon wants you to see. If you create content on X, no one will see it unless Elon wants them to.
November 21, 2025 at 1:23 AM
If you scroll on X, you are only being shown what Elon wants you to see. If you create content on X, no one will see it unless Elon wants them to.
Dems: “You shouldn’t follow an order to do genocide.”
Republicans: “All the people who said not to follow genocide orders should be killed.”
That particular response to that particular statement should make it crystal clear what these fascists are doing.
Republicans: “All the people who said not to follow genocide orders should be killed.”
That particular response to that particular statement should make it crystal clear what these fascists are doing.
Six Democratic lawmakers released a video encouraging members of the military and intelligence community to “refuse illegal orders,” as they are required by law. Right-wing media figures claimed that they're committing “treason,” and trying to “trigger a military coup."
Right-wing media figures are calling a recent video from Democratic lawmakers “treason” and “sedition”
After six Democratic lawmakers released a video encouraging active members of the military and intelligence community to “refuse illegal orders,” as they are required by law, many right-wing media fig...
www.mediamatters.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Dems: “You shouldn’t follow an order to do genocide.”
Republicans: “All the people who said not to follow genocide orders should be killed.”
That particular response to that particular statement should make it crystal clear what these fascists are doing.
Republicans: “All the people who said not to follow genocide orders should be killed.”
That particular response to that particular statement should make it crystal clear what these fascists are doing.
Reposted by Dr. William Horne
The federal government is faking evidence in major criminal cases and then lying when caught. In addition to that they are destroying evidence of their crimes against humanity and the population.
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The federal government is faking evidence in major criminal cases and then lying when caught. In addition to that they are destroying evidence of their crimes against humanity and the population.
Scale. The answer is scale. The more people we can get contributing to & using systems of community aid, the harder & more dangerous to those in power they become to destroy.
Are there any lessons to learn about hardening and reinforcing food aid against crackdown? Like you said further in the thread, their ability to do this is what made them an existential threat per the FBI.
Is there a way to do it to make it endure arrests and raids?
Is there a way to do it to make it endure arrests and raids?
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Scale. The answer is scale. The more people we can get contributing to & using systems of community aid, the harder & more dangerous to those in power they become to destroy.
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NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews.
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
As ICE descends on Charlotte, faith leaders draw on other cities' actions to aid immigrants
(RNS) — As many as 500 people, a mix of clergy and other volunteers, have appeared at the training sessions on how to counter ICE.
religionnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews.
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
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See resident cartoonist Edward Emsworth's take on 2025's events in the arena of food aid and international food security #WFP #FAO #foodaid #development #UN
newbritishrealism.substack.com/p/fiat-panis...
newbritishrealism.substack.com/p/fiat-panis...
FIAT PANIS 2025
Cartoon by Edward Emsworth
newbritishrealism.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
See resident cartoonist Edward Emsworth's take on 2025's events in the arena of food aid and international food security #WFP #FAO #foodaid #development #UN
newbritishrealism.substack.com/p/fiat-panis...
newbritishrealism.substack.com/p/fiat-panis...
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This 1000 percent. Food sits at a tension point in market economies. It is both sustenance required for life and it is a commodity that is grown, bought, and sold for money. Food is therefore political. It is an object but it is also the result of political choices.
The way the Black Panthers understood food aid as a crucial form of self defense against the capitalist machinery of the racial state remains essential to the struggle against fascism today.
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This 1000 percent. Food sits at a tension point in market economies. It is both sustenance required for life and it is a commodity that is grown, bought, and sold for money. Food is therefore political. It is an object but it is also the result of political choices.
Reposted by Dr. William Horne
The way the Black Panthers understood food aid as a crucial form of self defense against the capitalist machinery of the racial state remains essential to the struggle against fascism today.
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The way the Black Panthers understood food aid as a crucial form of self defense against the capitalist machinery of the racial state remains essential to the struggle against fascism today.
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
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That org is disbanded, I wonder what groups are doing this today?
The way the Black Panthers understood food aid as a crucial form of self defense against the capitalist machinery of the racial state remains essential to the struggle against fascism today.
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
That org is disbanded, I wonder what groups are doing this today?
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"Creative destruction" is a term every rebel should be familiar with. Tearing down the system is good but building the new one is essential
The way the Black Panthers understood food aid as a crucial form of self defense against the capitalist machinery of the racial state remains essential to the struggle against fascism today.
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"Creative destruction" is a term every rebel should be familiar with. Tearing down the system is good but building the new one is essential
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Reposted by Dr. William Horne
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
In fairness, I’ve long known that my behavior is “punishable by DEATH.” That’s like part of the orientation at historian school.
Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
In fairness, I’ve long known that my behavior is “punishable by DEATH.” That’s like part of the orientation at historian school.
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Now THIS????
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Now THIS????
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
The way the Black Panthers understood food aid as a crucial form of self defense against the capitalist machinery of the racial state remains essential to the struggle against fascism today.
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The way the Black Panthers understood food aid as a crucial form of self defense against the capitalist machinery of the racial state remains essential to the struggle against fascism today.
Reposted by Dr. William Horne
Prime Minister Wong's interview with John Micklethwait, the news editor-in-chief @bloomberglp.bsky.social is concerned with what happens after Trump. The new post-Trump world is already being shaped.
Fascinating @bloomberglp.bsky.social interview with Prime Minister Lawrence Wong pf Singapore.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUWr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUWr...
[Full] In conversation with PM Wong at Bloomberg New Economy Forum 2025
YouTube video by The Straits Times
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Prime Minister Wong's interview with John Micklethwait, the news editor-in-chief @bloomberglp.bsky.social is concerned with what happens after Trump. The new post-Trump world is already being shaped.
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In an unhinged dissent in our Texas redistricting victory, a GOP appointed judge seems to believe that George Soros and I did...well, I'm not sure what...but he is very mad. Bigly.
November 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
In an unhinged dissent in our Texas redistricting victory, a GOP appointed judge seems to believe that George Soros and I did...well, I'm not sure what...but he is very mad. Bigly.
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"It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
November 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I will confess, I have never seen a situation before where the grand jury never saw the indictment, so the remedy is unknown, but I can’t believe an unseen indictment could be valid.
Times www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
Times www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
Lindsey Halligan Admits Grand Jury Never Saw Final Comey Indictment
Grand jurors have to vote on indictments to approve them, but a prosecutor told the judge in the case that only the foreperson formally approved the second charging document, a move that could…
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I will confess, I have never seen a situation before where the grand jury never saw the indictment, so the remedy is unknown, but I can’t believe an unseen indictment could be valid.
Times www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
Times www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
Was there some kind of “shutdown compromise” over this?
Not satisfied with merely filing a motion with the Supreme Court to avoid paying SNAP benefits
The Trump administration is implementing changes pursuant to the Big Ugly Bill to deprive 3 million Americans of food assistance
You can simply never underestimate the callousness of this government
The Trump administration is implementing changes pursuant to the Big Ugly Bill to deprive 3 million Americans of food assistance
You can simply never underestimate the callousness of this government
November 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Was there some kind of “shutdown compromise” over this?
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NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...