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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 10d

Connect with your people offline. Take the chats to signal but also take your close relationships offline entirely. We need to be connected when they shut this all down.

What’s your organizing plan if things go dark? Where do you meet? Who picks up what work? How do we communicate?

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Jordy Yager @jordyyager.bsky.social · 14d

Well, damn.

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Jordy Yager @jordyyager.bsky.social · 14d

Well, damn.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · Sep 9

7 things every child needs to hear?
#parenting #family #ideology

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Jordy Yager @jordyyager.bsky.social · Sep 10

All of this was made possible by the wonderful guidance of David Plunkett at JRML, and the fantastic foundational work of Risa Goluboff, Randi Flaherty, and Birkutawit Assef, combined with the editorial guidance of Andrea Douglas, Ivan Orr, and Addie Patrick. A true and solid team.

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Jordy Yager @jordyyager.bsky.social · Sep 10

As part of the 75th Anniversary of Gregory H. Swanson's successful case to desegregate the University of Virginia, I created a Storymap.

We wanted to share a bit more of the context of Swanson's actions in Charlottesville, and the far reaching ripple that's with us still today.

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Gregory Swanson

Honoring Gregory H. Swanson's pivotal role in a movement for civil rights.

arcg.is

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Yvonne @ypix.bsky.social · Sep 8

Kara Walker Deconstructs a Statue, and a Myth.
Meanwhile boards and curators worry about bad press and retaliations.

Kara Walker Deconstructs a Statue, and a Myth

www.nytimes.com

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · Sep 8

Kara Walker has long been one of my favorite living artists. She’s brilliant.
“Offered the Stonewall Jackson statue, w/ no restrictions on how to use it, she has deconstructed the equestrian form, to render horse and rider in a kind of melted mutant grotesque.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...

Kara Walker Deconstructs a Statue, and a Myth

www.nytimes.com

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Jeff Liszt @liszt.bsky.social · Sep 8

I spent my childhood (sometimes literally) in the shadow of this Stonewall Jackson monument. Kara Walker has a wonderful facility for marrying complex ideas and simple truths, in addition to producing aesthetically excellent work. This is a triumph. (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...

Kara Walker Deconstructs a Statue, and a Myth

www.nytimes.com

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Jordy Yager @jordyyager.bsky.social · Sep 7

The mission of the Center for Local Knowledge (CLK) at @jsaahccville.bsky.social is rooted in reparative and spatial justice.

The CLK helps empower communities reclaim and celebrate their histories, while also addressing injustices and deepening our collective understanding of the past.

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Jordy Yager @jordyyager.bsky.social · Jul 27

“Ever wondered what you would have done during the rise of fascism? You’re doing it RIGHT NOW!”

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Jordy Yager @jordyyager.bsky.social · Jul 18

Screening Raised/Razed to a group of Government officials from Roanoke, Amherst, Warren, Virginia Beach, Hampton, Shenandoah, Prince George, Staunton, Colonial Beach, Vienna, VA + Ennis, TX, Riverside, MO, Westminster, CO, Gaithersburg, MD + Onslow, Gastonia, and Nags Head, NC.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · Jul 8

We can still save the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Here's a practical guide to what to do right now to save not just the agency's funding but its future all together.

Part of this is messaging on reauthorizing the Museum and Library Services Act.

bookriot.com/we-can-still...

We Can Still Save the Institute for Museum and Library Services

Act now to help save the Institute for Museum and Library Services and ensure the well-being of public libraries nationwide.

bookriot.com

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · Jul 7

The UVA Board of Visitors has quite a history. (Below is far from the only grim example.) The current board, which schemed with the Trump regime to oust the university's president, is honoring it.

Jordy Yager @jordyyager.bsky.social · Jul 7

Feels like a good time to remember that when Gregory Swanson applied for admission into UVA Law School, the graduate committee accepted him.

It was the UVA Board of Visitors who overrode that decision and denied him admission, because he was Black.

Swanson took them to court, and won.

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · Jul 7

Persuade me otherwise, but I don’t think every public utterance needs to be archived or posted on the internet. Indeed, at some moments, perhaps this one included, it can actually be risky. Mentioned this to a colleague, who sent this helpful article about security in social movement culture.

Security Culture – Defend Dissent

Digital suppression and cryptographic defense of social movements

open.oregonstate.education

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Jordy Yager @jordyyager.bsky.social · Jul 7

Feels like a good time to remember that when Gregory Swanson applied for admission into UVA Law School, the graduate committee accepted him.

It was the UVA Board of Visitors who overrode that decision and denied him admission, because he was Black.

Swanson took them to court, and won.

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Jordy Yager @jordyyager.bsky.social · Jul 7

I wonder if anyone's studied the first 30 years of UVA graduates (1829-1859) to see where they went & what they did—TJ designed the school to teach, espouse, and spread very specific ideas and ideals, so what did the first three decades of that look like exactly—collectively, in total?

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Jordy Yager @jordyyager.bsky.social · Jul 7

“There are no good or bad guys, that's the part we're all struggling with.” -- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

moneywithkatie.com/status-power...

A Masterclass in Connecting Status, Power, and the Economy with Tressie McMillan Cottom

Podcast Episode · The Money with Katie Show · 06/25/2025 · 1h 31m

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Jordy Yager @jordyyager.bsky.social · Jul 6

One day maybe we'll see the connection between our political and ethical values, and where we spend our money? Maybe?

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Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social · Jul 6

The kids at the cav daily are doing very, very good work. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

A dive into the Board of Visitors’ political donations

Here is a look at Board members’ political donations — all but one of whom has records of political donations which are overwhelmingly to Republican candidates and campaigns.

www.cavalierdaily.com

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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · Jul 6

So many powerful comrades, organizers and scholars working in the Black radical traditions were in the building at socialism 2025 . Become a Hammer and Hope member today and support our work!

Jesse Hagopian with hammer and hope shirt

Mariah parker with hammer and hope shirt

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Jordy Yager @jordyyager.bsky.social · Jul 1

25/ Black graduate students stop coming to UVA + Black faculty departures mean that Black mentors are few. This also brings an economic impact to local businesses and cultural institutions, esp Black-led and owned ones, withdrawing a major source of financial and solidarity-driven support.

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Jordy Yager @jordyyager.bsky.social · Jul 1

24/ Black student enrollment drops as UVA embraces a “colorblind meritocracy,” cutting support for underrepresented students and defunding early outreach programs. Local Black kids grow up with a university that is inaccessible, hostile, and built without them in mind.

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Jordy Yager @jordyyager.bsky.social · Jul 1

23/ UVA historians stop working on projects related to racial justice and repair, while city, county, and private schools get pressured by UVA to adopt a “balanced” curricula that espouses racial lies, false narratives of control and power, and right-wing ideologies.

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