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Greg Brooking, PhD @revhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Grateful for this honor tonight, but mostly I'll "feel like a banker in this." -- Rickey Vaughn, 1989

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Greg Brooking, PhD @revhistorian.bsky.social · 2d

Mass shootings in Mississippi and South Carolina! Where are Trump’s Brown Shirts?

Greg Brooking, PhD @revhistorian.bsky.social · 3d

Great blog!

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The Tattooed Historian @tattooedhistorian.bsky.social · 3d

I just watched a documentary on BBC Select and had to write a blog post about one particular image that we're introduced to in the piece.

open.substack.com/pub/theinter...

A Soldier Disappears at the Somme

What does this tell us about conflict imagery?

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 4d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 4d

Masks. Armed. No insignia. No names. No warrants. But they will come up to an American citizen on the street and threaten him with arrest for peacefully exercising basic American rights.

I'd challenge historians of the American Revolution to articulate how things were worse than this in April 1775.

In a Chicagoland Suburb, Berwyn, IL, multiple ICE agents and a cameraman surround a resident who blew his horn and walked down the street in his own neighborhood. They demand his ID and they threatene...

TikTok video by Ms RK

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Greg Brooking, PhD @revhistorian.bsky.social · 4d

Exciting to be at @kennesawstate.bsky.social later this month.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

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Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham.bsky.social · 4d

In 1776, a Scottish housepainter called James Aitken set out on a secret mission to destroy the British navy and win the War of Independence for the United States. His story is the core of my book, EMPIRE ABLAZE: The American Revolution and the Atlantic Working Class, out next summer with Verso!

The cover of "Empire Ablaze: The American Revolution and the Atlantic Working Class," which features an image of an eighteenth-century building on fire, with small sailing boats visible on a river in the foreground.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone else remember that old SNL sketch in which Jon Lovitz is playing Michael Dukakis and Dana Carvey is playing George H.W. Bush and they're debating and in mid-debate Dukakis turns to the camera and says, "I can't believe I'm losing to this guy"?

Yeah, *that*

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6d

The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”

People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7d

Now is a good time to sign up for the best daily political news bulletin in the universe 👉 www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8d

NEWS: U.S. manufacturing contracted in September for the seventh straight month, as factories felt the devastating impact of Donald Trump’s tariffs.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9d

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 9d

No indication yet from major media that the FBI has any interest whatsoever in investigating this apparent attempted assassination of a well-known judge openly targeted on social media by the far-right activist—Harmeet Dhillon—currently calling herself Assistant Attorney General of the United States

Beachfront home of South Carolina judge, ex-senator burned to ground, injuring 3

Ex-senator Arnold Goodstein, along with two additional people, were rescued by several neighbors and paramedics from a marshy, remote area behind the home after jumping from the fist floor.

nypost.com

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 9d

“Total obliteration” is the kind of talk the Nobel Peace Prize judges really dig

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 9d

During the Obama administration, Oregon Republicans were convinced the federal black helicopters were coming for them at any moment. Today they’re posting videos of black helicopters over Portland & cheering giddily about it. They hate their senator who is speaking out against the black helicopters.

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Wyden's upset ..hes cheering the wrong folks.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10d

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11d

Unhappy at being stuck in traffic, masked ICE agents deploy tear gas. An infant was hospitalized because of this.

Tell me again that Trump did not openly declare war on Chicago in his Quantico speech.

Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 11d

Today, masked agents (I assume to be BP or ICE agents from the badge) threw tear gas canisters toward civilians because they were blocked in traffic and were heckeled at