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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · May 5

"Vultures welcome war, and profit by it."

- Reverend George Washington Woodbey, during his campaign for California state treasurer in 1914 on the Socialist Party ticket.

#socialism #war #imperialism #capitalism #blackradicalism #history #blackstudies #religion

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"Vultures welcome war, and profit by it." - Reverend George Washington Woodbey, during his campaign for California State treasurer in 1914 on the Socialist Party ticket. Source: “Socialist Speaks ...

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 22h

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 20h

"It would have to abolish 'institutional units'- presumably university programs and departments-that 'belittle' conservative ideas."

Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 20h

Republicans Continue to Batter UT • The Austin Chronicle

The Texas Republican Party’s ideological transformation of UT-Austin is barreling forward, with new developments coming on a weekly and sometimes daily basis. Last Wednesday, Board of Regents Chairma...

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 1d

Actually, so far the UT Regents have said, Thanks so much for including us! We are honored!

Debby33 ❌ 👑 @debby33.bsky.social · 2d

Dartmouth's and MIT's admins have already said "No."

UT-Austin's admin has said "Maybe!" 🤮

The other 6 are still silent, waiting for, what? A magical door allowing them to escape this moment?

Appeasement will get them nothing, as the 500 USC faculty warned their trustees.

Unanimously! 😲

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USC faculty members denounce Trump compact that would shift university to the right

The USC Academic Senate held a special meeting to discuss the Trump administration's education compact, which was presented to the school last week.

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 1d

Exactly. There is no way a reasonable person could read what they said and render it as "maybe." Very big difference‼️

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 4d

💔💔A powerful + heartbreaking summary of the attacks on student services, shared governance, teaching, learning + more from Prof. Lisa Moore who has taught @UTAustin more than three decades. It is not too late to reverse these changes and #SaveUT!

www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion

What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights, Lisa L. Moore writes.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 4d

Marc Rowan says the "compact" will "protect free speech," but First Amendment scholars across the political spectrum are of one mind that the compact is flagrantly unconstitutional, and every major free speech org--from the ACLU to FIRE to PEN--agrees. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 2d

With other former graduate students, I stand in solidarity with Black Studies at @universityoftexas.bsky.social + Mexican & Latino Studies, Women's & Gender Studies, faculty & students across UT #saveUT @utaustinaaup.bsky.social #academic #freedom #education #UT #atx #blackstudies

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Long-Haul Magazine @long-haul-mag.bsky.social · 3d

"Politics was not just a matter of dispensing broad explanations in a leaflet or denouncing the maneuvers by union leadership”; rather, it required “being attentive to what is happening in the enterprise, providing a wider dimension to the struggles there"

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Underneath the Banners and Flags | Long-Haul Mag

Few phenomena have proved as vexing for the labor movement as constructing effective channels of internationalism in the face of repeated waves of nativist reaction. The barriers to achieving working-...

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 3d

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize | Common Dreams

As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention...

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 3d

Help a friend and fellow organizer help a fellow worker.

Donate to Union Member Hardship (eviction and car repair), organized by Tabitha M Mitchell

Ask - help a union member to stay in their apartment and get the ca… Tabitha M Mitchell needs your support for Union Member Hardship (eviction and car repair)

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Nick Estes @nicke.bsky.social · 24d

Capitalism isn’t a thing. It is a social relation. Today that means communal alienation: we’re alone together. Check out the new series Pod Kapital w/ Sina from the East Is a Podcast as we read Marx’s Capital. Subscribe!

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 5d

"To all who adhere to that cause we are comrades... To those who do not know this but are drawn towards resistance to capitalism, we are friends. But to those who, having for years accepted it, are now determined to depart from it, we are enemies, outspoken and relentless."

The Destruction of a Workers Paper by C. L. R. James 1962

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 5d

"...the world around us is in social and spiritual torment precisely because of the abandonment of the idea that the proletariat is the only part of society which can give the impetus to the reorganization of society... To the realization of that truth humanity must come or perish." - CLR James 1962

Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 6d

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8d

*elite capture intensifies*

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 8d

Bari is going to run CBS News not because of her journalism, or even because of The Free Press, but because much of the mainstream media serves as a vessel for elites to distribute power to their allies

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 7d

The truth will set you free. Unless powerful people don’t want to hear it. Then power comes down on you for speaking it.

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy

Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 8d

The (International) Noise Conspiracy - Smash It Up (video)

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 9d

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TEDxMidAtlantic - Sonja Sohn Poem 'Run Free'

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 11d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 11d

Woah the ableist & sanist language got out the fuck of control. It's like everybody's on RFK's eugenicist team the way they view "deviants." For us disabled & mad people it sucks a lot that this harm towards us exploded. Just know you're helping fascism if everything's "insane" & "batshit" to you.

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 10d

I really don't play games...Some of y'all play entirely too many.

Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 15d

Melt ice.

Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 20d

Fuck all of this.

As ICE partnerships spread in the Midwest, incentives rise and civil rights concerns deepen

The ICE 287(g) program is expanding in the Midwest, and immigration advocates say there’s not enough oversight. This month, the Department of Homeland Security announced new financial incentives that ...