The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
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The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
Well, that’ll wreck you. Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
What happened in the Twin Cities that made it possible for organizations to pull off such a successful strike? And what can be done to make such actions succeed in other parts of the country? labornotes.org/2026/01/how-... 1/3
This close reading of weapons is good. They also should have analyzed the message below the mailbox and where it originated and why.
The Height of Close-Combat Weaponry Is on This Woman’s Doorstep www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks
Image of me standing behind three stacks of Living in a DAISY Age. The stacks of books sit at the back end of a white table. I'm standing in front of a TV, bookcases filled with books and vinyl records, and a couple of speakers sit behind me to my left and right.
Imagine of the first page of a review of Living in a DAISY Age from Library Journal. The lettering is black and set on a white background.
Imagine of the second page of a review of Living in a DAISY Age from Library Journal. The lettering is black and set on a white background. The last paragraph is bolded in black.
Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age drops tomorrow! Also means I’ll be giving away some of these copies. Just wanted to take a picture with all of them 😂 You can still preorder at the link in the comments, your local bookstore, Bookshop, or wherever you buy books.
Also included the Library Journal review!
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Morgantown folks! Join us this evening for a screening of "King Coal" and conversation with award-winning director Elaine McMillion Sheldon. Doors open at 6:30pm and screening at 7pm in G20 Ming Hsieh Hall on the downtown campus. Free and open to the public. No tickets required.
Along w/ @rosecasey.bsky.social & @jessiew.bsky.social, I’m honored that our open letter was the second most read piece @bostonreview.bsky.social in 2023.
We’re grateful for everyone’s support. I hope you’ll support BR. They don’t have a paywall: that’s why why our letter could be so widely read.
I'll be giving the keynote this evening at the exhibit opening of "Women Making History," which includes the stories of women coal miners and how they organized. You can tour the exhibit starting at 5pm, remarks at 6pm.
exlibris.lib.wvu.edu/news/2023/10...
The Waffle House is so much more than a chain of diners in the South. It’s an ad hoc social support system and a beloved institution. That labor organizing has come to Waffle House feels like real social change to me. Remarkable.
Looking forward to this!
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⭐IF YOU HAVE ANY CONNECTION TO WEST VIRGINIA OR WVU⭐
Will you send our open letter directly to the WVU Board of Governors? Help it get to them! We want them to see it.
Email it to Special Assistant to the WVU BOG, Valerie Lopez at valerie.lopez@mail.wvu.edu
