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Prof of English*Africana Prof at a college that’s a fascist bellwether.Blk Feminist. Quilter. Uses more tech than is good for her. Views my own.

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 7d

Want a taste of *Sweet Taste of Empire*? See this pre-launch discussion w/ a former student about the book, my relationship to writing and to food -- and why it's not just about the early modern. #booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #writing #foodhistory #history
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“Brown Sugar Makes the World Go ‘Round”: A Conversation with Kim F. Hall on The Sweet Taste of Empire | Barnard Center for Research on Women

Tomisin Fasosi interviews Kim F. Hall on her new book, The Sweet Taste of Empire

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same.

They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 3h

This is true, and…

It also reflects the assymetry in media. RW media trumpet every GOP/Trump achievement as a glorious success, because that is their job.

Actual journalists see puffing up those in power as the opposite of their job.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3h

The hostage release is a reminder of how bad the Dems are at politics. Not only did Biden refuse to force this deal on Netanyahu & thereby help Harris win, but most people aren’t even aware that Biden got way more Israeli hostages (over 100) released with his 2023 ceasefire than Trump did with his.

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe the choice is which chapters best make your case? It sounds like life writing might be crucial, but here’s a radical thought by the unread: maybe cut TWO chapters and integrate the life writings as an illustrative throughline in the book?

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 5h

The Middle East is being conned just like America has been conned.

None of what Trump is saying about the Israel-Gaza war being over is true.

None of the agreements he claims have been made have been made, besides a single hostage deal.

He’s lying to the world, and much of the world believes him.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 3h

This is basically what a [Brett] Kavanaugh Stop looks like: Cops roll up on brown person, demand papers, penalize them for not having them. This became the law of the land in that shadow docket decision.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

Under federal law, registered foreign nationals must carry proof of registration with them at all times. But prior to a second Trump administration, it was rarely enforced.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 10h

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 3h

“When they talk about the mixed-race population in the U.S., they don’t include me there, they include me in the category of Hispanic. So the fact that I am native to the Americas gets lost.”

From the archives: The Lipan Apache are reclaiming their identities after decades of denial.

Labeled ‘Hispanic’

Lipan Apaches across Texas are challenging the myth that their tribe was wiped out.

www.texasobserver.org

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 3h

In my book ILLNESS POLITICS AND HASHTAG ACTIVISM, I write about the 2017 protests organized by disabled activists on Capitol Hill & in state houses across the US that used the hashtag #ADAPTandRESIST.

manifold.umn.edu/projects/lln...

llness Politics and Hashtag Activism | Manifold@UMinnPress

*Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism* explores illness and disability in action on social media, analyzing several popular hashtags as examples of how illness figures in recent U.S. politics. Lisa D...

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 3h

The 2017 protests against Republican plans to repeal the ACA & cut Medicaid were led by disabled people who put their bodies on the line to prevent an outcome that would have been devastating for disabled people. And this corrupt twit is talking about his own PTSD? Give me a break. #IllnessPolitics

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan?

MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.

(So, no plan)

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 3h

Yes, long ago we memorized phone numbers of friends and family. But now our crumbling memories can not recall connections of our past.

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 8h

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 4h

Just a reminder “The COCR’s initial conclusion of bias was overturned by a ruling by a Faculty Senate Committee, Cheyfitz said. Despite the committee's ruling, 👉🏾Provost Kavita Bala moved to reopen the case and place it before a new hearing panel and ultimately President Michael Kotlikoff.”

Wunpini F. Mohammed, PhD @wunpini.bsky.social · 4h

Cheyfitz Retires Amid Discrimination Investigation Over Confrontation With Israeli Student in Gaza Class
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Cheyfitz Retires Amid Discrimination Investigation Over Confrontation With Israeli Student in Gaza Class

Prof. Eric Cheyfitz, literatures in English, who in his course on “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance," reportedly asked an Israeli student to unenroll, is now set to retire.

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Jeannine Baker @nenieb.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic piece by Kate Murphy responding to the devastating change of policy at the @BBC Written Archives Centre, which will make it impossible to undertake new independent research using the collection. cstonline.net/defending-th... #mediahistory

DEFENDING THE WAC: RECOVERING THE INVISIBLE WOMEN OF THE BBC by Kate Murphy

My first visit to the BBC’s Written Archives Centre was in 2002. I was working as a producer on Woman’s Hourand had applied for a three-month attachment to what was then the Diversity Centre…

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Dr. Zil Roars (Paul H. White, Ph.D.) @drzilwhite.bsky.social · 4h

#Sigh2

Did not know that was a law. How long until it applies to more of us?

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Tofte ➡️ MFF, NYFB @tofte.bsky.social · 22h

I'm cleaning up my shop and found two nearly-finished iridescent trans flag stained glass suncatchers that I had forgotten about but went ahead and wrapped up tonight. I'd love to find them homes — they're pretty big (11.5"x7.5"), $200 each. DM if you're interested! 💖

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 9h

Obvs my most unhinged literary opinion is that the Great Gatsby is a terrible, over-wrought, self-indulgent, whole-hearted celebration of American capitalism. But I am indeed correct about this!

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 10h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 4h

You are 1000% correct.

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ALT: a group of people applauding with barbarosgif written in the corner

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 4h

Do you know how HARD it is to save for a deposit on an apartment when you have to keep replacing things you need to Not Die on the regular?

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 4h

Man, just learned Diane Keaton was a Capricorn 😔 But DOLLY PARTON is the best ♑️ rep

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 4h

Joseph Trammell’s Freedom Papers (1852-1865)
#slaveryarchive
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"In 1852, Joseph Trammell registered as a free person in Loudon County, Virginia and continued to do so every two years until 1865. During slavery, legally free African Americans were required to register with county courts and secure Certificates of Freedom, also known as freedom papers. Trammell used this handmade tin to protect and carry his precious documents. For Trammell and other free African Americans, carrying their papers was necessary in order to avoid being mistaken as a fugitive and risk being enslaved." - NMAAHC

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 4h

The freedom is a scam!!!!!!!! Don't fall for thinking you're the freest most special people in the world, that's how they get you!

Steven @vedicvalarian.bsky.social · 6h

Hey now, don't you think the populace of THE FREEST COUNTRY ON EARTH wouldn't recognize and viscerally reject any concept of authoritarianism? I mean, unless that was all just propaganda designed to keep the populace complacent with their ever-diminishing rights, but that can't be the case, right?

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 4h

Not trivial! It’s annoying to the listener but theft of the artists’ work. I spoke with someone famous who talked about all the time their lawyers spend on cease & desist on this kind of theft that spreads like kudzu

Charlotte B. @drfunkenstein.bsky.social · 4h

trivial, but does anyone know how to deal with spotify playing versions of songs that you love but are clearly ai generated and added the real artist’s name as if they did this “cover”? there has to be a mobile solution

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 4h

Very cool and awesome that Congress can pass a law which functions as intended but 60 years later an unelected, unaccountable 9-member superlegislature can just say "Nah" and poof the law doesn't exist anymore.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4h

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 4h

And you know what makes homelessness worse?

COPS STEALING ALL THEIR STUFF.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 5h

seriously fuck this guy

Sick of the Homeless Problem in Olde Town Arvada?

So Am I, and I’m Done Tolerating It!

A vote for Aaron Skoff is a vote to put an end to the Arvada homeless problem—once and for all.

1. Zero Tolerance Enforcement – Enough is enough. We will not allow this problem to continue draining our community.

2. No-Nonsense Solutions – Smart business and financial strategies, not handouts, to address the issue.

3. No More Sympathy, Just Action – It's time for real leadership. We’ll stop coddling those who refuse to help themselves.

At the end of the day, no more freebies! The city of Arvada will stop funding programs that attract homeless individuals to our community. Instead, we’ll invest in a massive expansion of law enforcement to actively solve this issue and restore safety and order.

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