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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 1d

Our problem is identity politics unless Black people refuse to endorse a conservative who doesn’t share their politics just because she is Black.

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Alan Au @alanau.bsky.social · 1d

I've been told that practicing outside will cause neighbors to be more polite.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 1d

“The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities. It is the kind of mind which can see things as they are, which step by step and in a flash, can realize the original nature of everything.”

- Shunryu Suzuki

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 7d

www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com

quote from the last american road trip, a 2025 book

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 11d

In 2005, I wrote an article called "Inventing Akromiya" about how the government of Uzbekistan made up a group called Akromiya to justify a massacre of civilian protesters.

Twenty years later, the US is more like Uzbekistan, and I wrote "Inventing Antifa": sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...

Inventing Antifa

In 2005, the Uzbek government invented a group called “Akromiya” to justify massacring protesters. Now I worry the US government will do the same.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 9d

Before the Trump administration invented "Antifa", the government of Uzbekistan invented "Akromiya": sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...

From article https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-antifa

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 10d

"You need an expansive political imagination, one that can anticipate the tyrant’s next move and understand its logic without obeying it."

My latest: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...

Inventing Antifa

In 2005, the Uzbek government invented a group called “Akromiya” to justify massacring protesters. Now I worry the US government will do the same.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 10d

Very few factors have slowed epigenetic (methylation) aging, such as exercise. This study showed that effect for social engagement H/T @brandonluumd.bsky.social
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 13d

New interview! On all the things going wrong and how we got here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYWn...

Sarah Kendzior on America's Autocratic Turn and How America Lost Its Guardrails

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show

www.youtube.com

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 12d

Four decades! A lot of Trump's plans date to the 1980s. Until very recently, he had the same team of 1980s advisors (Manafort, Stone, etc). Trump is very easy to figure out because he tells you what he's going to do and some ding-dong says "Hey, that's illegal" and then Trump does it and they gasp

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 13d

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 14d

Important: this is exactly how propagandists operate.

Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 15d

NEW:

A dramatic voiceover video the White House and Donald Trump shared last week claiming to show "chaos" in Chicago is littered with outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska, California and Arizona, an AFP investigation found.

factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 14d

Been dreaming of this for a decade. 🙏🏽

kukuwa. @kukuwa.blacksky.app · 14d

@nhannahjones.bsky.social is opening a literary salon & bookstore two blocks away from me and I’m unwell 🤧🥹 #forusbyus

www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-lif...

Bookstore to Open in Former Macon Hardware Digs

Pulitzer-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is teaming up with Bed-Vyne's owners to create a literary salon in the Bed Stuy building.

www.brownstoner.com

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 15d

The one good thing about the time we’re in is it *should* now make crystal clear for the doubters how the a significant faction of the Republican Party has cynically deployed “colorblindness” to further an explicitly racist agenda.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15d

It’s from 2020, not 2021. HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT made every national bestseller list. Tons of people listened. They did not *act*.

Blame lies squarely with officials who knew what was happening and enabled it. That’s why the book after HIDING is called THEY KNEW.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 16d

They canceled my work on race and media.

So I built a @resistanceschool.bsky.social instead.

Now we are teaching over 600 students.

Week 2 of Race, Media and International Affairs starts today.

We move ✊🏾💪🏾

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 17d

Www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21d

Behind the scenes of rehearsal for the fall session of Race, Media and International Affairs, for @resistanceschool.bsky.social !

We still have spots left: www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21d

Columbia cancelled my class on race and media, and Washington Post fired me for speaking about race..

But I’m teaching (again) and speaking anyway.

Behind the scenes of rehearsal for the Fall cohort of Race, Media and International Affairs.

600+ students this fall.

We move! ✊🏾

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 22d

Officials also feign shock to avoid accountability. If they pretend they just learned about something bad, they can claim they weren't responsible for doing something about it. That's why the destruction of media has been a boon for them: people lost access to records of who knew what and when.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24d

Ahhhh, I’ve been bragging about you all summer!

Our youngest student in Race, Media and International Affairs was 17!

The class is open to all ages, all school levels.

Sign up ! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

gigibff.bsky.social @gigibff.bsky.social · 24d

I had a scholarship for the first class. I was the oldest at 79. I am sharing what I learned with friends, family and senior groups. I lead natural history and historical walks in San Rafael CA I'm much better informed now. A walk for our Marin Asian Alliance was much deeper experience due to class.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 25d

Columbia canceled my class on race and media, but I'm teaching the people anyway.

Oct. 5 is the *last day* to register for my online live + recorded classes on Race, Media & International Affairs!

We have more than 500 students enrolled. Let's gooo!

www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series

A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.

www.resistancesummerschool.com

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 26d

Authoritarianism scholar here agreeing with you! These are wealthy criminals exploiting a corrupt system. It's not happening because they're infirm. It's happening because they and their enablers are immoral.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 26d

Let's see how long this CBS news report on Israel as a pedophile refuge stays up under the new management: www.youtube.com/watch?v=unPX...

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 27d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

www.mediaite.com

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