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Daisy Martin

@daisymsc.bsky.social

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Director of The History & Civics Project at UC Santa Cruz. PhD. History teacher, teacher educator, researcher, OAH Distinguished Lecturer, Michigan early women letter winner

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Daisy Martin @daisymsc.bsky.social · 1d

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You will want to go listen to Honorable AG James words. 👑

May we all show the resolve and courage of AG Letitia James. This Trump indictment is an outrageous farce. Please pay attention. 🎥 @MSNBC

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Daisy Martin @daisymsc.bsky.social · 1d

Yay! Congrats Valencia on this well deserved honor!!

Daisy Martin @daisymsc.bsky.social · 2d

Thank u-and that closing quote whoa

“I know, I know
If you could go back you
Would walk with Jesus
You would march with King
Maybe assasinate Hitler
At least hide Jews in your basement
It would all be clear to you
But people then, just like you
We’re baffled, had bills
To pay and children they didn’t
Understand and they too
Were so desperate for normalcy
They made everything normal”
Danny Bryck, in Unruly, A Racial Justice Blog by Jews of Color

Daisy Martin @daisymsc.bsky.social · 7d

Found it :)

Daisy Martin @daisymsc.bsky.social · 7d

Do it! :)me and my students will read it!

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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 12d

Grateful to @daisymsc.bsky.social and @jbf1755.bsky.social for inspiring me to teach about Contingency to my high school students tomorrow. I am also personally grateful for the nudge to question all the false inevitabilities I'm spinning in my head for this present moment.

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Daisy Martin @daisymsc.bsky.social · 10d

🎁 article ⬆️

Daisy Martin @daisymsc.bsky.social · 10d

Judge Young wrote, “squarely presents the issue whether noncitizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The court answers this constitutional question unequivocally, ‘Yes, they do.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech

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Daisy Martin @daisymsc.bsky.social · 13d

Well I hope you get to share that analysis w your students! Helps w the anger :)

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Tiny Petting Zoo @tinypettingzoo.bsky.social · 14d

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Daisy Martin @daisymsc.bsky.social · 13d

“To wonder about this is to pretend ignorance about white supremacy in this country.”
Clear eyed analysis re: “a functioning democracy”

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I Am on Kirk’s “Professor Watchlist.” I Know How It Destroys Civil Debate.

I deeply value free speech and debate. The watchlist created by Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA is anathema to both.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 13d

They are lying about our cities. They are lying about our immigrant neighbors. They are lying about our trans siblings.

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Daisy Martin @daisymsc.bsky.social · 14d

Yes. And this is true for K-12 educators navigating the pulling of funds (even when restored) and other sectors -smaller obscenity but hits already under resourced projects hard and in hugely consequential ways

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Daisy Martin @daisymsc.bsky.social · 16d

Yes! Beautiful evening

Daisy Martin @daisymsc.bsky.social · 16d

Got some! #rain #santacruz

Daisy Martin @daisymsc.bsky.social · 18d

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Daisy Martin @daisymsc.bsky.social · 19d

21st night of #september
Lucky to have seen Earth Wind and Fire as my first concert :)

Poster advertising Earth Wind and Fire concert at I.U. Assembly Hall, Bloomington Indiana. Tickets & 6.50, 5.50 and 4.50. Screenshot of this 1976 poster taken from Indiana Rock History site.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 20d

"When the moral sense of a nation begins to decline and the wheel of progress to roll backward, there is no telling how low the one will fall or where the other may stop."

Frederick Douglass, "The Lessons of the Hour," 1894

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Strange things have happened of late and are still happen- ing . Some of these tend to dim the lustre of the American name , and chill the hopes once entertained for the cause of American liberty . He is a wiser man than I am , who can tell how low the moral sentiment of this republic may yet fall . When the moral sense of a nation begins to decline and the

wheel of progress to roll backward , there is no telling how low the one will fall or where the other may stop . The downward tendency already manifest has swept away some of the most important safeguards . The Supreme Court has surrendered . State sovereignty is restored . It has destroyed the civil rights . Bill , and converted the Republican party into a party of money rather than a party of morals , a party of things rather than a party of humanity and justice . We may well ask what next ?

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 20d

I love a good subtitle

Address
-by-
Hon. Frederick Douglass,
delivered in the
Metropolitan A.M.E. Church,
Washington, D.C.,
Tuesday, January 9th, 1894,
-on-
The lessons of the Hour,
in which he discusses the various aspects
of the so-called, but mis-called,
Negro problem.

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Daisy Martin @daisymsc.bsky.social · 22d

Local newspaper #freepress

Monterey County Now @montereycountynow.com · 22d

Trump fails in uniting the country, instead politicizing an assassination. #trump #politicalviolence #assassination #unity #division #freespeech #democracy

Trump fails in uniting the country, instead politicizing an assassination.

Read the full article on Monterey County Now.

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Daisy Martin @daisymsc.bsky.social · 22d

We can hope. The history of holding former electeds and their accomplices is not a good one in my lifetime. Let’s go back to Iran Contra let alone the current chief executive. But yes to this happening and it not being sidelined in the future because it might play badly w some hypothetical audience

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Daisy Martin @daisymsc.bsky.social · 22d

OMFG

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 23d

Shout out to @mcsweeneys.net for letting me treat a certain kind of article with the level of respect it deserves. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

The Friendly Nazis Next Door

Everyone says that this new crop of American Nazis is really mean, but I, a white journalist, went out to talk to them for this profile, and they w...

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Daisy Martin @daisymsc.bsky.social · 23d

Huh. Nothing abt Kirk really, but some funny take downs of the wanna be king

Daisy Martin @daisymsc.bsky.social · 23d

The extremists know the power of narrative and framing. And it’s on my mind as something to teach harder this year. How does narrative work? And yeah, we will be looking at the Lost Cause