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Liette Gidlow
@profgidlow.bsky.social
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Historian of US politics, voting rights, women, race, 19thA Wrote TheBigVote & Obama,Clinton,Palin Radcliffe Fellow@Harvard. Swam in RFK Sr's pool
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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · Nov 14
No time for cryin'
We got work to do
-- Mavis Staples

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7m-...
Mavis Staples - "No Time For Cryin'" (Live)
YouTube video by ANTI- Records
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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 7h
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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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 6h
historian agrees 👍
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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 7h
Dear national media: Instead of using photos of LBJ signing the Voting Rights Act, use this one of its bi-partisan reauthorization. It does more to show how far we’ve regressed in a few short years.
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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 20h
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 3d
Laurie Marhoefer delves into the impacts of the queer press and censorship in Weimar Germany, revealing that print media is historically key to self-discovery and finding community

Read free in @jwomenshistory.bsky.social at @ProjectMUSE

tinyurl.com/3ycehye4

#BannedBooksWeek #AcademicSky
“(I)n 1929, Helene Stock described the production and distribution of the magazines as a political and even humanitarian act: “I call on all women: commit yourself to a serious deed. Don’t just pursue your own pleasure while thousands of our sisters suffer in muffled despair. Help with enlightenment.”” “The Book Was a Revelation, I Recognized Myself in it” Lesbian Sexuality, Censorship, and the Queer Press in Weimar-era Germany Laurie Marhoefer Journal of Women’s History Volume 27, Number 2, Summer 2015 Read free thru 31 October 2025
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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 2d
omg
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Meloni doesn't exactly looked thrilled as Trump calls her "beautiful"
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V is for very, very spooky @alana-m-vincent.net · 2d
Mona Lisa Vito is a fictional character and she is still more worthy of an American holiday than Christopher Columbus.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d
Today, House Republicans will take their 70th day off with pay in the last 82 days.
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Virginia Sapiro @vsapiro.bsky.social · 2d
Antifa. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...
La Marseillaise Casablanca
YouTube video by Andrew Barbin
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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 3d
Mellophone. He's a freshman and *loves* BMB. I missed yesterday (and was glad for your vid!) but other family attended. DM if you would like to meet up next time!
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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 3d
my son is in there, too!
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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 4d
Quite a flex for the Western Michigan halftime show: the band used its three pieces to pay tribute to the Broncos’ national champion radio, jazz dance and men’s hockey teams. My daughter is in there somewhere playing “We Are the Champions.”
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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 3d
my son too!
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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 8d
wtaf
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Fruney @fruney.bsky.social · 8d
Maybe someone should investigate if Wells Fargo asked ICE to evict the occupants for them.

therealdeal.com/chicago/2025...
Inside real estate fight that led to South Shore immigration raid
City of Chicago inspected the troubled 130-unit apartment complex two weeks before massive federal operation on Chicago’s South Side.
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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 8d
Witness an ICE raid, call a local Rapid Response Team! These community networks verify raids, support families & connect people with legal help. Know your rights.
Resources for immigrants and families
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AAUP @aaup.org · 8d
NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!

Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.

Please click below, sign, & share.

#DefendHigherEd
University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts
The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...
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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 10d
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Tom (Anne) Brinton @tombrinton.bsky.social · 10d
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10d
"State Terror: A brief guide for Americans"
Revisiting a piece I wrote in April 2025
"In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms... the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness."
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 11d
kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700636037/

Please buy my book. Since I’m unemployed and all.
The Last Lincoln Republican
Of all the great “what if” scenarios in American history, the aftermath of the presidential election of 1880 stands out as one of the most tantal...
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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 10d
Thank you, @btarrington.bsky.social, for your service 🗃️
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 11d
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Yeah, that’s me.
EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles
The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection
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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 14d
I'm teaching the Lavender Scare right now. It resonates
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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 14d
Good message
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 14d
If I’m running messaging, the word on the street is that Democrats are refusing to fund a dictatorship. Either Article 1 means something or nobody gets anything.
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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 16d
scaffolded assignments building the project over the course of the semester. It's not foolproof but Ss need to pass each one to progress to the next, and LLMs aren't very helpful on some of them. fwiw
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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 16d
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Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social · 16d
This NPR story highlights the AMAZING archeological work of Laura Ng @cocalola.bsky.social. Laura has been tracking down descendants of the original Chinatown, including my dad (who gets a few words in at the end). www.kuow.org/stories/wyom...
Wyoming town erects new monument to violent, anti-immigrant history
At a time when President Trump is going after foreign laborers in the U.S, and saying unflattering accounts of U.S. history should be removed, Rock Springs, Wyoming has put up a new monument to ethnic...
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Adam Zyglis @adamzyglis.bsky.social · 20d
Holding the line…
#theKimmelEffect
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Liette Gidlow @profgidlow.bsky.social · 29d
suggestion: check the NARA website for teaching resources. They have a form for this purpose
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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · Sep 15
“I’m holding a sign that says something about the Bill of Rights; my sister’s says, “My daddy is a man of courage; he should be admired, not fired.” From an early age, we knew that his fight was ours too.” @bostonreview.bsky.social
A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review
The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.
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