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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · May 5

"Vultures welcome war, and profit by it."

- Reverend George Washington Woodbey, during his campaign for California state treasurer in 1914 on the Socialist Party ticket.

#socialism #war #imperialism #capitalism #blackradicalism #history #blackstudies #religion

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"Vultures welcome war, and profit by it." - Reverend George Washington Woodbey, during his campaign for California State treasurer in 1914 on the Socialist Party ticket. Source: “Socialist Speaks ...

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 10h

Anyone who says, "I build or co-create my reality with those whose views/actions are in resonance with mine," is worse than police.

Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 2d

Kirk Watson, Austin mayor, isn't helping.

Gov. Abbott to send National Guard to “No Kings” protest

Austin's mayor clarified in a statement later Thursday that the troops would not be on the streets unless there was “emergency need.”

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 3d

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The Playbook Behind the “University Wars”—And Why It Fails on Purpose, by Angela Valenzuela

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 2d

The deportation machine is soulless and soul crushing. Trying to figure it out is beyond Kafkaesque. I've never been made to feel so frustrated and powerless dealing with government bureaucracies...and the machine's brutal work goes on, through people, fueled by fear, death, and destruction.

Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 2d

Social salvation : Gladden, Washington, 1836-1918 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

References and suggestions: p. [237]-240

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 2d

"Let [no one] speak on these themes...who does not thoroughly know what [they are] talking about. There is a great deal of crude preaching...the whole effect of which is mischievous...[we need] patient and thorough study; to evade [difficult questions] would be infidelity to our trust." Gladden 1902

Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 2d

Whitewashing the "social gospel" and substituting it for socialism, evades history, it's problematic precepts, and ignores a Christian socialist tradition at odds with its bourgeois piety, whiteness, and church centered idea of "social salvation." To borrow from Gladden, we don't need evasion.

Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 2d

Gladden, Social Salvation, 1902 "The strenuous socialist" believes "the conduct of the greedy capitalist and the soulless corporation is morally defective...[but] selfishness is not confined to the upper classes." This inarguable point in effect is to call socialism a "poor philosophy of life."

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 2d

Washington Gladden was never a socialist, unless socialism is understood in the most watered down sense of the word. He advocated collective bargaining and arbitration, but despised strikes and sympathized often with the owners. He preferred "cooperative" ie profit-sharing models.

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 2d

He viewed Black Christianity as "emotional rather than ethical." The AMA should "prepare" Black people for citizenship-Booker T. Washington's "model" in the 1880s and 1890s. Gladden in 1903, "We stand for no unnatural fusion of races, for no impractical notions of social intercourse."

Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 2d

Washington Gladden described the "morally" incapable poor as "diseased social tissue," who "must be separated from society and the sexes from each other, so that the race...shall not be propagated, and so that those segregated may be reclaimed and fitted for social service!" (Social Salvation 1902)

Image of excerpt from Washington Gladden's 1902 book Social Salvation, referring to the apparently immoral unemployed poor as a social disease.

Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 2d

Breaking news and analysis on day 741 of the Gaza genocide | The Electronic Intifada

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 5d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 5d

"It would have to abolish 'institutional units'- presumably university programs and departments-that 'belittle' conservative ideas."

Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 5d

Republicans Continue to Batter UT • The Austin Chronicle

The Texas Republican Party’s ideological transformation of UT-Austin is barreling forward, with new developments coming on a weekly and sometimes daily basis. Last Wednesday, Board of Regents Chairma...

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 7d

Actually, so far the UT Regents have said, Thanks so much for including us! We are honored!

Debby33 ❌ 👑 @debby33.bsky.social · 7d

Dartmouth's and MIT's admins have already said "No."

UT-Austin's admin has said "Maybe!" 🤮

The other 6 are still silent, waiting for, what? A magical door allowing them to escape this moment?

Appeasement will get them nothing, as the 500 USC faculty warned their trustees.

Unanimously! 😲

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USC faculty members denounce Trump compact that would shift university to the right

The USC Academic Senate held a special meeting to discuss the Trump administration's education compact, which was presented to the school last week.

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 6d

Exactly. There is no way a reasonable person could read what they said and render it as "maybe." Very big difference‼️

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 9d

💔💔A powerful + heartbreaking summary of the attacks on student services, shared governance, teaching, learning + more from Prof. Lisa Moore who has taught @UTAustin more than three decades. It is not too late to reverse these changes and #SaveUT!

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After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion

What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights, Lisa L. Moore writes.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 9d

Marc Rowan says the "compact" will "protect free speech," but First Amendment scholars across the political spectrum are of one mind that the compact is flagrantly unconstitutional, and every major free speech org--from the ACLU to FIRE to PEN--agrees. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 7d

With other former graduate students, I stand in solidarity with Black Studies at @universityoftexas.bsky.social + Mexican & Latino Studies, Women's & Gender Studies, faculty & students across UT #saveUT @utaustinaaup.bsky.social #academic #freedom #education #UT #atx #blackstudies

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Long-Haul Magazine @long-haul-mag.bsky.social · 8d

"Politics was not just a matter of dispensing broad explanations in a leaflet or denouncing the maneuvers by union leadership”; rather, it required “being attentive to what is happening in the enterprise, providing a wider dimension to the struggles there"

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Underneath the Banners and Flags | Long-Haul Mag

Few phenomena have proved as vexing for the labor movement as constructing effective channels of internationalism in the face of repeated waves of nativist reaction. The barriers to achieving working-...

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 8d

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize | Common Dreams

As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention...

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 8d

Help a friend and fellow organizer help a fellow worker.

Donate to Union Member Hardship (eviction and car repair), organized by Tabitha M Mitchell

Ask - help a union member to stay in their apartment and get the ca… Tabitha M Mitchell needs your support for Union Member Hardship (eviction and car repair)

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Nick Estes @nicke.bsky.social · 29d

Capitalism isn’t a thing. It is a social relation. Today that means communal alienation: we’re alone together. Check out the new series Pod Kapital w/ Sina from the East Is a Podcast as we read Marx’s Capital. Subscribe!

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 10d

"To all who adhere to that cause we are comrades... To those who do not know this but are drawn towards resistance to capitalism, we are friends. But to those who, having for years accepted it, are now determined to depart from it, we are enemies, outspoken and relentless."

The Destruction of a Workers Paper by C. L. R. James 1962