James Perry
@jamesperry.bsky.social
Feminist. Stay-at-home dad. Pro-science. Advocate for racial justice. "Traces of the Trade."
Those DEI offices weren't there for fun. They ensured society's preoccupations wouldn't distract from having the most qualified troops, doing their jobs without hindrance. x.com/cspan/status...
x.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Those DEI offices weren't there for fun. They ensured society's preoccupations wouldn't distract from having the most qualified troops, doing their jobs without hindrance. x.com/cspan/status...
78% of Americans support vaccination, including 67% of Republicans.
And this is after months of anti-vaccine rhetoric from the Trump administration. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
And this is after months of anti-vaccine rhetoric from the Trump administration. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Poll: Trump's job ratings stay negative; Americans express strong support for vaccines
Trump's overall approval sits at 43%, while 78% of respondents said they support the use of vaccines. Inflation and the cost of living are the top economic concerns.
www.nbcnews.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
78% of Americans support vaccination, including 67% of Republicans.
And this is after months of anti-vaccine rhetoric from the Trump administration. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
And this is after months of anti-vaccine rhetoric from the Trump administration. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Do they know we can see them ... ?
Pentagon Orders Portrait of Robert E. Lee to be Reinstalled at West Point 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Pentagon Orders Portrait of Robert E. Lee to be Reinstalled at West Point
The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Confederate general Robert E.
open.substack.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Do they know we can see them ... ?
"With Rhode Island’s healthcare system strained to the breaking point, long COVID patients grapple with complex, mysterious, and disabling symptoms — and find meaning supporting each other and working for disability justice." pvdeye.org/caught-betwe...
Caught Between Crises: Long COVID Patients Struggle to Find Healthcare in Rhode Island
With Rhode Island’s healthcare system strained to the breaking point, long COVID patients grapple with complex, mysterious, and disabling symptoms — and find meaning supporting each other and working ...
pvdeye.org
August 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"With Rhode Island’s healthcare system strained to the breaking point, long COVID patients grapple with complex, mysterious, and disabling symptoms — and find meaning supporting each other and working for disability justice." pvdeye.org/caught-betwe...
"In 1860, the market value of the nation’s 4 million slaves was ... more than the capital invested in the entire nation’s manufacturing and railroads combined."
Slave-produced cotton was the leading export of the U.S. and "the foundation of the Industrial Revolution."
Slave-produced cotton was the leading export of the U.S. and "the foundation of the Industrial Revolution."
'Not a substantial part of history': Fox News pundit compares slavery to plane crashes
'Not a substantial part of history': Fox News pundit compares slavery to plane crashes
Conservative radio host Clay Travis told Fox News that slavery was like plane crashes and shouldn't be remembered by museums in the U.S.During a Sunday panel discussion on Fox News, host Howard Kurtz noted that President Donald Trump had recently complained that the Smithsonian highlighted "how bad ...
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August 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"In 1860, the market value of the nation’s 4 million slaves was ... more than the capital invested in the entire nation’s manufacturing and railroads combined."
Slave-produced cotton was the leading export of the U.S. and "the foundation of the Industrial Revolution."
Slave-produced cotton was the leading export of the U.S. and "the foundation of the Industrial Revolution."
As at the time of the Civil War, "we are now, once again, facing a rebellion against our founding principle as a few people seek to reshape America into a nation in which certain people are better than others." heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-3-2025
July 3, 2025
And on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed...
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July 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
As at the time of the Civil War, "we are now, once again, facing a rebellion against our founding principle as a few people seek to reshape America into a nation in which certain people are better than others." heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-3-2025
Deploying National Guard troops was "a dreadful idea," but "sometimes the law allows the chief executive to do stupid things." staytuned.substack.com/p/the-presid...
The President’s Constitutional Power to Do Stupid Things
Federal appeals court lets President Trump keep control of California's National Guard
staytuned.substack.com
June 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Deploying National Guard troops was "a dreadful idea," but "sometimes the law allows the chief executive to do stupid things." staytuned.substack.com/p/the-presid...
“Coming to the table is easy,” DeWolf said. “Staying at the table is the hard part, and the most important part.” #racialhealing #antiracism #Juneteenth spokesman-recorder.com/2025/06/16/r...
Coming to the Table Brings National Racial Healing to St. Paul
A national racial healing gathering comes to St. Paul June 12–15. Circle process, truth-telling, and trauma healing are the core of the event.
spokesman-recorder.com
June 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“Coming to the table is easy,” DeWolf said. “Staying at the table is the hard part, and the most important part.” #racialhealing #antiracism #Juneteenth spokesman-recorder.com/2025/06/16/r...
Kudos to @TeenVogue for acknowledging that northern states continued to practice slavery after it was outlawed in the defeated states of the Confederacy. #Juneteenth www.teenvogue.com/story/junete...
Juneteenth Celebrates an End to Slavery — But Northern States Still Allowed It
"Modern descriptions of American slavery often paint the North as slavery-free, abolitionist states, but this isn’t true."
www.teenvogue.com
June 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Kudos to @TeenVogue for acknowledging that northern states continued to practice slavery after it was outlawed in the defeated states of the Confederacy. #Juneteenth www.teenvogue.com/story/junete...
As we celebrate #Juneteenth, a reminder that this holiday commemorates the end of slavery in the South. Many northern states still permitted slavery, and would do so until passage of the 13th Amendment: www.tracingcenter.org/blog/2016/06...
Where in the U.S. did slavery still exist after Juneteenth? - Tracing Center
Today, June 19, is widely celebrated as Juneteenth, which marks the day in 1865 when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, bringing word that the Civil War had ended and the enslaved population wa...
www.tracingcenter.org
June 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
As we celebrate #Juneteenth, a reminder that this holiday commemorates the end of slavery in the South. Many northern states still permitted slavery, and would do so until passage of the 13th Amendment: www.tracingcenter.org/blog/2016/06...
“As Christians, we’re called to protect others.”
Yet “with every church service, they are creating more people who are sick and vulnerable.” thesicktimes.org/2025/06/06/c...
Yet “with every church service, they are creating more people who are sick and vulnerable.” thesicktimes.org/2025/06/06/c...
Churches are ignoring the Long COVID crisis. Some say it’s at odds with Christian values. - The Sick Times
COVID-concerned Christians and Christians with Long COVID feel abandoned by their religious institutions, alongside other institutions — a blow they believe contradicts the clear connections between C...
thesicktimes.org
June 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
“As Christians, we’re called to protect others.”
Yet “with every church service, they are creating more people who are sick and vulnerable.” thesicktimes.org/2025/06/06/c...
Yet “with every church service, they are creating more people who are sick and vulnerable.” thesicktimes.org/2025/06/06/c...
Reminder that scientific and medical experts still strongly recommend routine COVID-19 vaccinations for both healthy children and pregnant people. www.cnn.com/2025/05/27/h...
RFK Jr. says Covid-19 shot will no longer be recommended for healthy children and pregnant women | CNN
US Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday said the Covid-19 vaccine will no longer be among the recommended vaccines for pregnant women and healthy children on the US Center...
www.cnn.com
May 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Reminder that scientific and medical experts still strongly recommend routine COVID-19 vaccinations for both healthy children and pregnant people. www.cnn.com/2025/05/27/h...
"We are being asked not to charge into a hail of Minié balls and artillery fire but only to speak up and to stand up in the face of foundational threats to the principles for which they gave the last full measure of devotion." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/o...
Opinion | We Are Not Being Asked to Run Into Cannon Fire. We Just Need to Speak Up.
www.nytimes.com
May 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"We are being asked not to charge into a hail of Minié balls and artillery fire but only to speak up and to stand up in the face of foundational threats to the principles for which they gave the last full measure of devotion." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/o...
Reposted by James Perry
Not looking forward to the randomized placebo trials for seatbelts and traffic lights and everyone driving on the right side of the road in the US. I assume those must be coming, because there's no other way to know anything, right?
May 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Not looking forward to the randomized placebo trials for seatbelts and traffic lights and everyone driving on the right side of the road in the US. I assume those must be coming, because there's no other way to know anything, right?
“We had hoped to find abolitionists among the early white leaders, but we found none. We found, instead, that church leaders were in the forefront of an anti-abolitionist expression in Providence during the 1830s and 1840s.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/06/m...
R.I. church confronts its history with the slave trade - The Boston Globe
While the Trump administration tries to downplay matters of race and racism in US history, the minister of a Providence church says, “History is real, and it has to be acknowledged.”
www.bostonglobe.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
“We had hoped to find abolitionists among the early white leaders, but we found none. We found, instead, that church leaders were in the forefront of an anti-abolitionist expression in Providence during the 1830s and 1840s.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/06/m...
"... preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
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www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
May 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"... preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
Once again, if student performance is "still falling," then it probably isn't the fault of pandemic closures.
There are other clues, too: this article notes superintendents frequently cite chronic absenteeism, a rise in disabilities, and student "dysregulation." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/24/m...
There are other clues, too: this article notes superintendents frequently cite chronic absenteeism, a rise in disabilities, and student "dysregulation." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/24/m...
‘The pandemic broke us’: Mass. superintendents see long road to recovery for students - The Boston Globe
Dozens of Massachusetts superintendents said it will be years before students catch up to pre-COVID levels.
www.bostonglobe.com
May 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Once again, if student performance is "still falling," then it probably isn't the fault of pandemic closures.
There are other clues, too: this article notes superintendents frequently cite chronic absenteeism, a rise in disabilities, and student "dysregulation." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/24/m...
There are other clues, too: this article notes superintendents frequently cite chronic absenteeism, a rise in disabilities, and student "dysregulation." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/24/m...
This should be interesting.
Harvard has the law firmly on its side, and can afford this fight.
It also has the resources to outlast Trump.
Harvard has the law firmly on its side, and can afford this fight.
It also has the resources to outlast Trump.
President Trump said he is moving to strip Harvard of its tax-exempt status, in what would be a major escalation of the administration's battle with the university.
Follow live updates.
Follow live updates.
Trump says he’s moving to strip Harvard of its tax-exempt status. Follow live updates. - The Boston Globe
“It’s what they deserve!” Trump wrote.
www.bostonglobe.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This should be interesting.
Harvard has the law firmly on its side, and can afford this fight.
It also has the resources to outlast Trump.
Harvard has the law firmly on its side, and can afford this fight.
It also has the resources to outlast Trump.
“The country was really built by everybody.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/25/m...
‘Not everyone was Paul Revere’: Mass. historians reimagine America’s founding tale - The Boston Globe
Historians around the state are revisiting the nation's origin story with fresh eyes, centering on communities that have often been left out.
www.bostonglobe.com
April 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“The country was really built by everybody.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/25/m...
April 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"The Underground Railroad was not a 'Kumbaya moment' of racial cooperation. It was a resistance movement." www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
'These are facts.' Cincinnati's Freedom Center fights Trump's version of American history
When the National Park Service rewrote the Underground Railroad's story, it pulled Cincinnati's Freedom Center into Trump's war over history.
www.cincinnati.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"The Underground Railroad was not a 'Kumbaya moment' of racial cooperation. It was a resistance movement." www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
"If it didn't matter, they wouldn't try to stop us. You cannot understand the U.S. today without understanding our history with regard to race, slavery, Indigenous people, genocides - all of these things that are 'bad'."
— Ashley Rogers, Whitney Plantation www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
— Ashley Rogers, Whitney Plantation www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
Which US will tourists find when they visit?
Recent changes by the Trump administration are affecting how US museums and institutions tell the nation's multicultural history to travellers.
www.bbc.com
April 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"If it didn't matter, they wouldn't try to stop us. You cannot understand the U.S. today without understanding our history with regard to race, slavery, Indigenous people, genocides - all of these things that are 'bad'."
— Ashley Rogers, Whitney Plantation www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
— Ashley Rogers, Whitney Plantation www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
Education is the first step towards addressing the legacies of slavery and racism. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Most Britons do not know scale of UK’s involvement in slavery, survey finds
Vast majority unaware how many people were enslaved and for how long, although poll finds support for reparations is rising
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Education is the first step towards addressing the legacies of slavery and racism. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
"The results ... underscore how the aftershocks of the pandemic shutdowns continue to this day."
Those shutdowns lasted two months. Five years ago.
It's the pandemic, not public health measures taken against it.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/14/m...
Those shutdowns lasted two months. Five years ago.
It's the pandemic, not public health measures taken against it.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/14/m...
New England’s students remain half a year behind, new analysis shows, with few bright spots - The Boston Globe
Maine and Vermont students have experienced the largest declines in reading of anywhere in the country.
www.bostonglobe.com
February 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"The results ... underscore how the aftershocks of the pandemic shutdowns continue to this day."
Those shutdowns lasted two months. Five years ago.
It's the pandemic, not public health measures taken against it.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/14/m...
Those shutdowns lasted two months. Five years ago.
It's the pandemic, not public health measures taken against it.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/14/m...
"Public trust in science ... took a massive hit during COVID."
And worse, we are essentially devoid of leadership willing to call this out. Instead, we see a competition to deny science, tell the people what they want to hear, and reinforce our worst instincts. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/05/b...
And worse, we are essentially devoid of leadership willing to call this out. Instead, we see a competition to deny science, tell the people what they want to hear, and reinforce our worst instincts. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/05/b...
‘We really never came back to each other’: Five years after COVID, we’re more divided than ever - The Boston Globe
After a brief moment when Americans came together to battle a virus, the pandemic accelerated divisions of all kinds. If it happens again, could we come back together?
www.bostonglobe.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"Public trust in science ... took a massive hit during COVID."
And worse, we are essentially devoid of leadership willing to call this out. Instead, we see a competition to deny science, tell the people what they want to hear, and reinforce our worst instincts. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/05/b...
And worse, we are essentially devoid of leadership willing to call this out. Instead, we see a competition to deny science, tell the people what they want to hear, and reinforce our worst instincts. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/05/b...