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Viet!
@vntrinh13.bsky.social
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California boy living in the Midwest. Historian and teacher. Currently writing a book on race, radicalism, and law-and-order policing in Los Angeles. He/Him.
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Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · Nov 13
Hey, y'all! My name is Viet, and I'm hoping to find like-minded folks and friendly faces here on Bluesky as I migrate away from Twitter/X.

I like basketball, cats, longboarding, video games, and D&D. I fancy myself an open-minded dude, and I've tried my hand at a few fun things over the years.

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Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 7h
The “man with butterfly” meme, where the man is “Ezra Klein” and the butterfly is “doxxing college professors for studying and teaching about anti-fascism” and the question is “Is this doing politics the right way?”
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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 1d
Happening in one hour at 11:30am ! #UHA2025LA
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Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 1d
TOMORROW at @urbanhistorya.bsky.social. Chop it up with us over urban insurrections and—spoiler alert—a mass deportation campaign that the LAPD and INS carried out in the middle of the Rodney King Uprisings.

#UHA2025LA
Session 107 • Sat. 11:30 am-1:00 pm Roundtable: Urban Uprisings after the 1970s Athenian Chair: Max Felker-Kantor University of Wisconsin-Madison Elizabeth Hinton Yale University Ashley Howard University of Iowa Tyler Parry UNLV Alexander M. Stephens University of Michigan V.N. Trinh The Ohio State University
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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 1d
I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.
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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1d
Should’ve defunded the police like we instructed smh
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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d
The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
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Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 1d
TOMORROW at @urbanhistorya.bsky.social. Chop it up with us over urban insurrections and—spoiler alert—a mass deportation campaign that the LAPD and INS carried out in the middle of the Rodney King Uprisings.

#UHA2025LA
Session 107 • Sat. 11:30 am-1:00 pm Roundtable: Urban Uprisings after the 1970s Athenian Chair: Max Felker-Kantor University of Wisconsin-Madison Elizabeth Hinton Yale University Ashley Howard University of Iowa Tyler Parry UNLV Alexander M. Stephens University of Michigan V.N. Trinh The Ohio State University
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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 1d
When will my husband return from the Mariner’s game
Oil painting of a woman waiting by the sea
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d
Me walking into the feed, seeing the baseball comments, grabbing my hat and walking back out
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 1d
throw the ball, hit the ball, catch the ball. that's the name of the game right there
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 7d
I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something
On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.
www.the-reframe.com
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 3d
Flock is preparing to roll out a new feature: Its gunshot detection devices will begin listening for voices in “distress.” www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Flock’s Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening for Human
Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States, is rolling out a new and troubling product
www.eff.org
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 12d
I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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Justin Randolph @randolphjustin.bsky.social · 3d
TOMORROW! hear how urban and rural histories of policing are DEEPLY connected. Friday, 3pm, Athenian

#UHA2025LA
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d
This headline is sexy af
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Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 3d
This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"
Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries
Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)
www.axios.com
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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 3d
Goose meme with text of “Who were the Antifascists fighting in Weimar Germany?”
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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 3d
you can’t even occupy an american city without getting laughed at anymore, because of croak
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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5d
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...
Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?
Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.
wordinblack.com
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 4d
"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.
www.nytimes.com
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 4d
“While the material consequences of refusal may be significant, the alternative is far worse. Sacrificing our values and principles would irreparably damage the foundations upon which our university has been built. We must, together, find another way.” ✊
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aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social @aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social · 4d
Brown Chapter of the AAUP's Statement Urging the University to Reject the Federal Government's “Compact”
www.brownchapteraaup.org/statements
Statements — Brown AAUP
www.brownchapteraaup.org
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Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 5d
Back on my bullshit, and my bullshit involves looking dang good.
An Asian dude with amber sunglasses, headphones, and a baseball cap that says “LACAB” stands in front of a park in a downtown area.
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Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 5d
We tried to get into the Chad Powers TV show on Hulu, but they used the same slur as a punchline like 4 times in 5 minutes so we dipped pretty fast after that.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6d
Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it

Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations
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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 8d
wizard frog is insane
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 6d
Hide the existence of your identical twin for decades so you can do a stage magic act in which it seems like you teleported.
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essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 9d
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7d
Some Democrats share Trump's goal of forcing more homeless people into medical care

www.npr.org/2025/10/05/n...
Some Democrats share Trump's goal of forcing more homeless people into medical care
President Trump says one part of the answer to homelessness is civil commitment and forced medical care. Some Democrats agree.
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Doug Campbell @dm-campbell.bsky.social · 7d
"You can't defeat bad ideas by adopting them. You can't grow a coalition by selling out its members." Another useful piece from friend Moxon.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 7d
I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something
On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.
www.the-reframe.com
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