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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 5h

From Kim Phillips-Fein’s brand new review of Melinda Cooper’s COUNTERREVOLUTION. 🗃️

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

“To really take on Trumpism, liberals and the left will have to think less about restoring a tenuous normalcy by winning particular elections or countering the especially noxious parts of Trump’s agenda, and more about how to rebuild those economic and political institutions—unions, tenants’ organizations, independent media, political groups—that give people the experience of political power and collective action. Instead of answering Trump’s personalistic politics by telling voters to let competent experts back into the White House so that they can take control—let alone responding to Trump’s transphobia or anti-immigrant politics by adopting aspects of that language in an attempt to win back the people drawn to him—what we really need is a way to remind many middle- and working-class voters what it actually means to live in a society in which they exercise some measure of agency, and in which the leadership of that society is democratically accountable in a meaningful way.”

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BW @besswww.bsky.social · 1d

Great to see this new bio of Ed Roberts, one of the key figures in the US Disability Rights Mvmt. Looks like great detail on the legislative and politics work he did beyond what he's best known for in Berkeley.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The radical life of the father of independent living

A new book explores disabled activist Ed Roberts' revolutionary career.

www.motherjones.com

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The Organization of American Historians @oah.org · 2d

The OAH, together with the American Historical Association + National Council for the Social Studies, is urging the public to submit comments on the proposed patriotic education funding priority. Find out how you can take action: https://ow.ly/qyla50XaEF2

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 2d

I think it is good to signal virtues to others around you

Norman Rockwell’s Freedom of Speech painting. In it, a clean shaven, dark-haired, white man in a blue gingham shirt and leather jacket with the two bottom snaps fastened is standing and talking at a town hall meeting. He has the town hall meeting minutes rolled up and in his left jacket pocket. There are several other people, all white, sitting around him, many of whom are looking at him as he’s speaking.

The painting has since become a meme to announce an opinion that is being presented as ironically controversial due to the context around it.

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Chelsea D Chamberlain @cdchambs.bsky.social · 2d

had to fight the active discouragement of the admin staff at our pediatrician to get our toddler his covid shots. "Since covid is over insurance probably won't cover it" "You have to sign a waiver" etc. Really frustrating stuff but by god we got it done

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d

Great thread on the distinctive political culture of Portland, by a US historian who is very much from Portland.

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 2d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Emily Webster, PhD, MSc @emilywebz.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone interested in joining a panel proposal on Health in Civil Rights movements for the AAHM this year? DM me or comment if so!

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Ellen Arnold @medievalpenguin.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 history job alert! Modern World History at Ohio Wesleyan!
(I'm the chair if you have questions!)
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Ohio Wesleyan University - Assistant Professor History - Modern World History | H-Net

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 4d

LLM extruded essays are like being cornered by the most boring person at a party while they monotone monologue small talk at you, convinced that they’re pronouncing something profound.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 4d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 4d

ok "the stephen miller door" is a solid bit

3 panels of Ted Lieu and Sarah McBride walking around the capitol. They look in a little door near the speakers office for Stephen Miller. He is not there.

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 5d

let’s have a conference

Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 7d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6d

i am not sure mike johnson’s plan of abandoning the capitol to a bunch of snarky house dems (of which there are many) with nothing to do was a smart strategic move

Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 6d

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

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Chelsea D Chamberlain @cdchambs.bsky.social · 6d

Ohhhh looks great!

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 6d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Chelsea D Chamberlain @cdchambs.bsky.social · 7d

tough but fair.

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Chelsea D Chamberlain @cdchambs.bsky.social · 7d

or, is it an archive? can we call it that?

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 8d

The decision between “ask the coked-out robot to draw the building you’re literally sitting in” vs “send an intern with an iphone downstairs” is sure indicative of some things

Darwin BondGraham @darwinbondgraham.bsky.social · 8d

Contest!

How many inaccuracies can you spot in the AI-generated image of Oakland City Hall that was sent to media in a press release from the mayor's office today?

Send us your list and you could win some Oaklandside merch.

oaklandside.org/2025/10/06/o...

An AI image of Oakland City Hall is missing some stuff…can you spot it?

A press release announcing Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee’s State of the City speech included a curious picture of a civic landmark.

oaklandside.org

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 7d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Chelsea D Chamberlain @cdchambs.bsky.social · 8d

great piece!

Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 8d

Today at #AHAPerspectives, @deannahagman.bsky.social writes about Philadelphia's Carousel House and the history of accessible public spaces.

Making Space – AHA

Philadelphia’s Carousel House is a historical case study for the value of spaces created for and with the disability community.

www.historians.org

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 8d

Look I get that it's not sexy that the Florida facility was closed via an environmental lawsuit but Al Capone got taken down by tax evasion. Not everything is sexy!

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