Susan Strasser

@sustras.bsky.social

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Historian of American consumer culture. Hiker. Knitter. Redhead. Aunt.

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Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social · 7h

I'm Rochelle Bilal, the sheriff for the city and county of Philadelphia. And I say her name. Renee Good [repeats]...
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Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal Issues Blunt Warning To ICE After Renee Good’s Killing

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

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Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social · 12h

Ugh. Here we go. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/a...

Smithsonian Removes Label Noting Trump Impeachments

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Susan Strasser

Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Please be aware that contrary to their fundraising ads, @forwardblue.bsky.social has no relationship with the No Kings mobilizations, no record of doing anything in support, no inside information, and is ignoring requests to cease advertising that suggests they are involved.

Reposted by Trevon D. Logan, Susan Strasser, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Antonio Arellano @antonioarellano.com · 3d

BREAKING: Indivisible and a broad coalition of groups across the country are calling for a coordinated ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action this Saturday and Sunday to demand accountability, honor the life lost, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s actions.

Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social · 3d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian: ‘The goal is to reframe the entire culture of the US’

The long read: The president has vowed to kill off ‘woke’ in his second term in office, and the venerable cultural institution a few blocks from the White House is in his sights

www.theguardian.com

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Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com · 3d

Carnival Cruise Lines.

ICE deleted observer footage.

A representative for Carnival told PEOPLE in a statement: "We are aware that U.S.
Customs and Border Protection took a guest into custody as a person of interest.
As this is a law-enforcement matter, we defer all further questions to the appropriate authorities."

Verhas told 12 News that she had recorded the whole incident, but that a female ICE agent "snatched" her phone away. She said that her phone was returned, but only after the video she attempted to record of her husband being taken away by agents was deleted.

Reposted by Susan Strasser, Manisha Sinha

Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 3d

Larger context on the ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota:

Fed. officers have fatally shot at least 3 other people in the last 5 months & wounded or threatened others. We describe a few of the recent incidents and patterns we've noticed here.

www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/07/i...

Before ICE Shooting, Immigration Agents Repeatedly Used Deadly Force

The killing of a Minneapolis woman is latest by ICE and Border Patrol officers in recent months. Others have been wounded or threatened with guns.

www.themarshallproject.org

Reposted by Susan Strasser

Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 5d

"If I should claim your land by word of mouth, that certainly would not make it mine; and if I were to claim it by a deed which I had made myself, and with which you had had nothing to do, the claim would be quite the same in substance, or rather in utter nothingness."
Abraham Lincoln, 1848

Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

The Papers of Abraham Lincoln is a documentary editing project dedicated to identifying, imaging, transcribing, annotating, and publishing online all documents written by or to Abraham Lincoln during ...

papersofabrahamlincoln.org

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AAUP Texas A&M-College Station Chapter @tamu-aaup.bsky.social · 5d

From an email to one of our faculty members....

Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social · 5d

www.meditationsinanemergency.com/content/imag...

Reposted by Gavin A. Schmidt, Steve Peers, Michael A. Clemens , and 9 more Gavin A. Schmidt, Steve Peers, Michael A. Clemens, Victor Asal, Rosemary A. Joyce, Anders Nilsson, Michael Kevane, Christine Kooi, Brian Keegan, Kate Starbird, Susan Strasser, Matthew Bodie

Tom Dreisbach @tomdreisbach.bsky.social · 5d

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day.

Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 7d

For the past year I've had the feeling that the Trump administration's primary goal is the creation of content, and I expanded upon it here in the wake of our excursion in Venezuela

The Trump-Flavored Content Administration

Understanding the administration as a content mill

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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Susan Strasser

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8d

Wegmans in New York City has begun collecting biometric data on shoppers' eyes, voices and faces from anyone who enters its supermarkets

NYC Wegmans is storing biometric data on shoppers' eyes, voices and faces

The supermarket chain says it’s a move to ensure shopper safety. Surveillance experts warn of privacy risks.

gothamist.com

Reposted by Susan Strasser, Nathan P. Kalmoe

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8d

Happening now: several hundred people are pouring into Chicago's downtown Federal Plaza.

It's 25 degrees outside.

Organizers are leading the crowd in a chant of, "no boots on the ground, no bombs in the air!"

Two protesters hold a large banner reading, "no war for Venezuela oil."

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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 8d

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Susan Strasser

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 8d

Wrote a thing:
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become

1 They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

Reposted by Susan Strasser, Nicole Guenther Discenza

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8d

Trump on why he pardoned notorious drug trafficker Juan Hernandez: “It was a Biden set up. Take any country you want. If someone sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life.”

Reposted by Mark Rice, Susan Strasser

Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 8d

I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather.

“No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!”

“No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Bruce D. Baker, Susan Strasser , and 1 more Kim L. Scheppele, Bruce D. Baker, Susan Strasser, Joanna L. Grossman

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 9d

My latest is up!

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The Year America Broke Open

It would be silly to pretend that 2025 was not among the most challenging years this country has faced in modern times.

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Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Christian E. Weller, Robert C. Richards , and 5 more Brendan Nyhan, Christian E. Weller, Robert C. Richards, Aaron Sojourner, Els Torreele, David C. Kimball, Dana R. Fisher, Susan Strasser

Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 10d

Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches

An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches (Gift Article)

The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.

www.nytimes.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12d

The United States Postal Service (USPS) finalized a rule on postmarks to reflect changes in its mail pickup processes that could cause an uptick in blown deadlines for documents sent by post, including mail-in ballots. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Rural Mail-In Ballots at Risk as Post Office Finalizes Changes to Postmark Dates

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 14d

as seen at Reed College

A sign hanging from a dorm window that reads, “First they came for immigrants and I spoke up because I read the rest of the fucking poem.”

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Scott L. Greer, Susan Strasser , and 1 more Kim L. Scheppele, Scott L. Greer, Susan Strasser, Daxton R. Stewart

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 14d

64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz. Our team fanned out to cover the before, during and after of the federal government’s months-long raid on an American city. This is worth your time to understand the United States today
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...

64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz

President Donald Trump’s federal immigration enforcement operation led to most surreal autumn in Chicago history. What happened during those 64 days will be remembered for a long time.

www.chicagotribune.com

Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social · 15d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Weapons of mass construction’: the US ‘craftivists’ using yarn to fight back against Trump

Fiber artists across the US are using their craft to protest against everything from national guard deployments to rollbacks on abortion rights

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Robert C. Richards, Susan Strasser

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 17d

Merry Christian Nationalism Day

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 17d

"The first written mention of Jews eating Chinese food on Christmas Day comes from 1935, when, according to The New York Times, a man named Eng Shee Chuck brought chow mein and toys to a New Jersey Jewish orphanage." fortune.com/2025/12/24/w...

American Jews, Chinese food and Christmas: The first connection was a 1935 gift of chow mein to a New Jersey orphanage | Fortune

Elena Kagan was asked where she was on Christmas during her Supreme Court confirmation: “Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant.”

fortune.com

Reposted by Aaron Sojourner, Susan Strasser

City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 20d

Private property owners and leaseholders: You can post a notice saying you do not authorize certain immigration enforcement activities, such as staging for an operation. ➡️ Read more: www.minneapolismn.gov/government/programs-initiatives/city-federal-response/business-owners-common-questions

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 20d

For my last Buying Power of the year, I wrote about one way to think about the divergence in consumer sentiment (bad) and behavior (free-spending) this year: It’s the YOLO economy, typified by the expanding popularity of services like Klarna and Affirm. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...