Brenda Landis
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Brenda Landis
@landisb.bsky.social
Did you ever hear of swill milk? I didn't until I read an article last year. Lot's of people are raising alarms about the FDA oversight of milk being rolled back and noting the use of chalk in milk in history. But they don't tell the whole story. Read it. It's appalling bigthink.com/the-past/swi...
April 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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been feeling a need to do ink work. So here is a harry clarke style mari
March 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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For fans of British folk-horror

#folklore #horror #film

Penda's Fen 1974
dir. Alan Clarke
March 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Senior Planner Position-Carlisle Borough-Sustainable Community & Economic Planning (SCEP). Focus Areas: land use/planning/zoning, grant funds into neighborhoods, historic preservation, economic development, rental housing/building inspections, codes/ordinances.
www.carlislepa.org/job_detail_T...
March 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"92 years ago, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the 15th chancellor of the Weimar Republic. In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy, Hitler set about destroying a constitutional republic through constitutional means"
archive.ph/202502211449...
February 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I've been looking for anti-fash, anti-rascist, resistance, revolutionary zines to print to leave around college and community. I'll post things I find here for others if interested. Please add anything you might have to share. archive.org/details/zine...
Zine Archive: Anti-fascism : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
A collection of anti-fascist zines
archive.org
February 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Right in time for the Day of Remembrance for Japanese American Incarceration on February 19
I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and-

Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
January 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Your semi-regular reminder that I wrote a book that traces how modern policing emerged explicitly as a reaction to panic over immigrant and Black "crime." It covers the origins of modern police surveillance as well as deportation as a tool of "crime fighting."

www.dukeupress.edu/police-and-t...
February 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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USAID.gov is down. Why is this concerning? Trump has no legal authority to eliminate a congressionally funded independent agency. The work of USAID is vital, and if this can happen to them, it can happen to any of us.
February 2, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism—Yes, You! Yes, Now!” zine makes a great gift for your liberal fam, friends, neighbors & coworkers!

Read, print & distro freely!

Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:

itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...
January 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Further #FolkHorror Lego: a proposal for a Baba Yaga set which sadly wasn't approved for sale. Any more suitable ones out there?

#WyrdWednesday #InternationalLegoDay

ideas.lego.com/projects/893...
January 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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WITCHING WATER : IN SEARCH OF THE UNSEEN In this story from Issue No. 9, Kimberly Coburn gives us a glimpse into dowsing and a centuries-long conversation with the earth. Whatever you call it (“dowsing,” “divining”) this gentle skill of intuition is fascinating. bittersoutherner.com/feature/2024...
January 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Anyway, Andy's thread & reporting is really relevant this week ⬇️
1/ I want to tell you about Russ Vought, the man Trump just named to run an obscure yet hugely influential gov't office.

It's called the Office of Management and Budget.

Vought could turn OMB into the tip of the spear for Trump's most far-reaching and extreme policies.

Here's how... 🧵🧵🧵
January 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
www.theatlantic.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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The new few weeks, months, years, will likely not be pretty. Get this guide to surveillance self-defense to your communities. It has printable PDFs as well as tailored reccomendations for certain activities, types of people, etc.

ssd.eff.org
Surveillance Self-Defense
We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an independent non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting you and y...
ssd.eff.org
January 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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1) Hi, new friends! I’m a reporter w/ @propublica.org & @texastribune.org . Most of my work has focused on immigration & the border, but for the past 2 years, I investigated the Uvalde shooting. This was recognized as a Pulitzer finalist & National Magazine Award
www.propublica.org/article/uval...
In Uvalde, Students Followed Active Shooter Protocol. The Cops Did Not.
Across the country, states require more training to prepare students and teachers for mass shootings than for those expected to protect them. The differences were clear in Uvalde, where children and o...
www.propublica.org
January 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Before CPR there was... blowing tobacco smoke up the bum. One of the recommended procedures for resuscitating "persons apparently dead from drowning", from a 1787 booklet by the Humane Society. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/h...
January 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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As #wildfires rage in #LA and we’re talking about #incarcerated and #immigrants on the front lines, we have to remember that the US has an attrition problem with wildland firefighters. Not only do they get paid really poorly, but their mental health and family lives suffer. youtu.be/cWVs3Kx0DjY?...
As Wildfires Increase, the U.S. Is Losing More Wildland Firefighters Than Ever
YouTube video by ProPublica
youtu.be
January 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg will attend Trump’s inauguration and sit up with Trump’s Cabinet nominees and elected officials.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg to attend Trump's inauguration
The three will be seated together on the inauguration platform with other prominent guests.
www.nbcnews.com
January 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I held out as long as I could
November 14, 2024 at 4:24 PM