Antonia Randolph
baldwinvidal.bsky.social
Antonia Randolph
@baldwinvidal.bsky.social
Black queer feminist jawn. And how. She/They pronouns.
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Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S.
Here’s what I found 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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“…this desire to get ppl to buy into the fun of sadism” - Jason Stanley…it’s part of…what his colleague @timothysnyder.bsky.social calls “sadopopulism”…policies…that inflict real pain & harm on the US populace, while also encouraging scapegoating & xenophobia against stigmatized groups.
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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beautiful story on today’s cover about Emanuel Food Pantry, Durham’s largest food assistance program.

If you’ve ever driven on Roxboro Road on a Wednesday, the pantry’s distribution day, you’ve doubtless encountered the hundreds of cars that wind throughout the neighborhood in line
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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This is the content today needs. lmao
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November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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NEW — South Shore residents who still live in the apartment building that was raided by ICE nearly two months ago in Chicago spoke out about the unlivable conditions there.

“No one paid attention to the fact that people were living here without heat before ICE came.”

thetriibe.com/2025/11/buil...
Building raided by ICE now ‘falling apart from the inside out,’ South Shore residents say • The TRiiBE
“No one paid attention to the fact that people were living here without heat before ICE came,” said Infiniti Gant, a housing organizer with Southside Together. “People were living here with mice and r...
thetriibe.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Finally. My big 2800 word essay about One Battle After Another and its black women characters is live. www.vulture.com/article/blac...
Black Actresses Are Carrying One Battle After Another
Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall propel the film’s most conflicted ideas, for better and worse.
www.vulture.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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The judge noted that ICE repeatedly shot pepper balls at protesters & clergy at close range; tear-gassed expectant mothers, children, & babies; and pointed guns at people exercising their First Amendment rights--conduct that she concluded “shocks the conscience.”

ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
How Conservative Judges Turned a Throwaway Line Into a Free Pass For ICE Violence
For these judges, the White House not getting its way is a legal crisis that requires immediate intervention.
ballsandstrikes.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Some good popular sociology here on another important revelation of the Epstein files: elite networks and their mechanics of exchange. The article describes "capital conversion" and laundering across forms-money, prestige, research, access and intel. Echoes of C. Wright Mills, Bourdieu, Shamus Khan.
Well-written essay from Anand Giridharadas, showing how power and influence corrupt completely, regardless of party or affiliation.

Gift article below:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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It was so fun to chat with Dan about what's going on with pop music (and gender) today - have a listen!
Episode 6 with @robinjames.bsky.social is out now for your holiday week! We cover the second edition of Resilience and Melancholy, what's happening at the top of the charts, why men left pop music for podcasts, and m o r e e e e
dandipiero.substack.com/p/6-resilien...
6 | Resilient Pop and Alt (Right) Rock with Dr. Robin James
Something's going on with men!!
dandipiero.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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More than 650,000 people have fled the Sudanese city of el-Fasher for Tawila, and the UN is warning of urgent humanitarian needs.

Sudan’s civil war, which began in April 2023, has killed tens of thousands of people and forced about 13 million from their homes.

#Infograph
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Missed this news...
November 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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RIP Jamil Al Amin. Also known as H. Rap Brown.
November 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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IDF is bombing Lebanon this morning. Israel has broken the ceasefire in Gaza hundreds of times.
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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The UAE has a "long-term vision of taking over Sudan," says Sudanese researcher Lina Yassin.
Sudanese Researcher Lina Yassin on COP30 Climate Talks, UAE-Funded Proxy War in Sudan over Gold & More
Sudanese climate diplomacy researcher Lina Yassin is supporting the Least Developed Countries Group at the U.N. climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The group is composed of 44 countries, including Sudan,...
www.democracynow.org
November 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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What a terrible drag to wake up to the news that Jellybean Johnson, one of the all-around funkiest, coldest drummers, guitarists and songwriters of all Time—not just The Time —- is now an ancestor. Sleep well, brother—well done. #MusicSky #BlackSkyOver50
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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A lot of the coverage has omitted the exclusion of Public Health degrees (MPH and DrPH) aspph.org/department-o...

The general pattern is that the degree programs being "reclassified" are entry points into professions that have approached parity for women.
November 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Faculty senates are under attack from new legislation that sidelines faculty voices and undermines academic freedom. The latest AAUP report defends independent, representative governance as essential to higher ed’s integrity. @aaup.org academeblog.org/2025/11/18/i...
In Defense of an Independent and Representative Faculty Voice: The Case of Faculty Senates
BY AFSHAN JAFAR We have recently seen accelerating legislative and political attacks on faculty governing bodies at state institutions, including legislation recently enacted in Indiana, Ohio, Utah…
academeblog.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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“Several prisoners said their facilities had become stingier than usual with toilet paper, and women incarcerated in Carswell in Texas reported a shortage of tampons. “I was told to use my socks,” one said.”
NEW: The exodus of corrections officers from federal prisons to ICE comes amid shortages of critical supplies, from food to personal hygiene items, for both staff and inmates.

It threatens to make the already grim conditions in these prisons even worse.
As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM