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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1h

Fascinating.

"Easily missed in the media barrage of burning Waymo cars and heavily armed law enforcement, four of the city’s museums and cultural institutions .... issued a statement condemning the administration."

Easily missed in the media barrage of burning Waymo cars and heavily armed law enforcement, four of the city’s museums and cultural institutions—the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), Chinese American Museum (CAM), LA Plaza de Cultura Y Artes (LA Plaza), and Grand Performances—issued a statement condemning the administration. Denouncing the “immigration raids” and “aggressive enforcement tactics,” as a “manufactured crisis,” by the state, they refuted the description of LA as a warzone, even though their buildings were vandalized during the protests. Instead, they criticised those in power: police who committed “violence,” and National Guard troops marshalled against “protestors exercising their constitutional rights.” They asserted, moving beyond the specific situation in LA, that “we oppose the unjust mass deportation of immigrants.”

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Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social · 2h

Why did 4 LA historical and cultural organizations have the courage to speak out against Trump's ICE raids this summer? I interviewed their leaders and wrote about their commitment to drawing parallels with the past while caring for their communities.
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No Going Back

Mary Rizzo examines how four LA historical and cultural institutions mobilize history and practice solidarity in the fight against immigration raids and deportations.

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 5d

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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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you to my union @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social for this statement denouncing the attacks on my colleagues @mark-bray.bsky.social and Yesenia Barragan, which include doxxing and death threats. We can't be cowed into silence and we will stand together. rutgersaaup.org/defending-ou...

Defending Our Colleagues from Attacks by the Rutgers Chapter of Turning Point USA - Rutgers AAUP-AFT

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray has come under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Their campaign to have Dr. Bray fired has resulted …

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Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social · 7d

What's happening to my colleague Mark Bray is disgusting. Him and his family are being doxed and getting death threats by right wing supposed "free speech" advocates bc wrote a book about anti fascism. You can't make this shit up! Our universities must fight back.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social · 26d

That might be enough. I didn't want this to take the whole class time.

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Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social · 26d

I barely know cursive at this point!

Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social · 27d

Hm.. but not every student has a laptop so probably can't do that. But good to know!

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Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social · 27d

Profs who have switched to in-class writing assignments rather than traditional papers, any tips on what works? Do you give them the prompt ahead of time? Let them use books and notes?

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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · Sep 10

Getting sick of the term “political violence” when a public figure closely aligned w/one ideology or other is a victim. ICE is also political violence. Armies are also political violence. Not sure of my point - just wish for a term that doesn’t immediately wall an act like this off from all the rest

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Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hey! Thanks. So far, treatment with meds has been going well but I appreciate the offer!

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Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social · Sep 6

Review from my sick bed: K Pop Demon Hunters is a banger.

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Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social · Sep 6

I'm blaming this head cold for my inability to decide if who or whom is grammatically correct in this sentence. Help?

Not the activists, who/m we often focus on.

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Diane Zorich @dzorich.bsky.social · Sep 4

Job Opening: Museum Specialist (Digitization Team) @ Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture. IMPORTANT: Position closes after first 125 applications rec'd - apply NOW if interested; FT, onsite, Washington, DC; $69,923 - $90,898 /year. Core tasks: cataloging/digitizing collections

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Job Opening: Museum Specialist IS-1016-09 at National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC.

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Thomas [redacted] DO @tom.medsky.social · Aug 27

In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent

www.nytimes.com

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Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social · Aug 25

We got one!

Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social · Aug 25

Car was broken into last night. Glove compartment and center box rifled thru. Only thing missing?

Original Broadway cast recording of Into The Woods on CD.

Agony.

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Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social · Aug 24

There's such a strange feeling of dissociation when rereading your writing. I'm reviewing the copy edits for the Chicory book and it feels like someone else wrote it.

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Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social · Aug 21

I know. They (and there were several of them) said that bc of propaganda we can't really know how many people were incarcerated in gulags, etc .. it was infuriating.

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Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social · Aug 21

When another student in the Spanish class I took this summer learned that I sew, he gave me 2 random fabrics he didn't need. Here's the T-shirt that I made from the grey and black striped knit. Pattern is free from Closet Core. I've made it twice and highly recommend it. share.google/oHVG6ndczk4R...

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Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social · Aug 21

Oh my. Leftists telling me that gulags weren't so bad was not what I expected to happen today.

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Spaceweft @spaceweft.bsky.social · Aug 20

"C'mon, ICE. We're evil but what you're doing openly is gonna blow all our cover. Tone it down a notch, eh?" - that group of police chiefs, probably.

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Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social · Aug 19

A group for chiefs of police have come out against ICE's tactics, like covering their faces and not identifying themselves.

When a bunch of cops think you've gone too far, you gotta be doing something really bad.
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The International Association of Chiefs of Police calls for more transparency from ICE

The International Association of Chiefs of Police has issued two resolutions focused on ICE agents' use of face masks and heated comments around policing coming from influential leaders. Ari Shapiro s...

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