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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

Cause the algorithms are increasingly shady and I don’t see much promotion, let me Gift Link this:

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Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

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vic @vicstew.bsky.social · 2d

“Authoritarianism is as American as slavery, as internment camps, as police brutality, as voter suppression. To fight it, white people have to stop pretending government oppression arrived overnight and start dismantling the systems that have been incubating it all along.”

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 8d

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

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Dr Jenny Woodley @jennywoodley.bsky.social · 9d

The wilful ignorance of history would be funny if it wasn't so racist.

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Eric J. Miller @millerej11.bsky.social · 11d

“American culture encourages a dynamic of ‘While we’re denying that the physical violence that robbed your community has effects in the present, we’re also going to dare you to call that denial violent.’” Koritha Mitchell www.publicbooks.org/white-medioc...

C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 12d

Coates says Black Americans have stories about relatives who were lynched or had to flee and that a life free of political violence is not in reach in his time

Klein:
"Sometimes I think that having a historical scope that wide can make the present too deterministic."

They lynched a kid last week.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 12d

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 12d

Coates says Black Americans have stories about relatives who were lynched or had to flee and that a life free of political violence is not in reach in his time

Klein:
"Sometimes I think that having a historical scope that wide can make the present too deterministic."

They lynched a kid last week.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 12d

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 11d

This is Bryan Stevenson— attorney, NYU law prof, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, author of "Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption". He has 2 degrees from Harvard and has argued cases at SCOTUS.

He say some judges instantly hate him and often mistake him for client he is defending.

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 12d

So exhausting..

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 16d

America 2025. Please Don’t Offend The White Supremacists

4 panel comic

Panel 1: On the left hand side of the panel a member of the KKK is snivelling like a pissy little baby. A Red Guy and a Purple Guy stand next to him. The Red Guy says to the Purple Guy, “Look what you’ve done”

Panel 2: The Red Guy continues “You’ve upset this poor, sweet racist”
the little KKK bitch whimpers “I don’t even feel like lynching a black person”

Panel 3: The Red Guy goes on with disgusting sympathy “He doesn’t even feel like lynching a black person”

Panel 4: The Red Guy says “And that’s his FAVOURITE thing to do” he puts his arm around the whiny little pointy robed cunt.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17d

'Even when women were mentioned, the report found they were more often victims than protagonists, with the women murdered by Jack the Ripper more likely to be taught in lessons than the female code breakers at Bletchley Park during the second world war 1/2

School history lessons minimise the role of women, report finds

Campaigners say key stage 3 curriculum plays to misogny and teaches a ‘false version of the past’

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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 17d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Fantastic example of memory activism.

New statue on National Mall celebrates ‘long-lasting bond’ between Trump and Epstein

Bronze statue by an anonymous creator shows the two men frolicking and holding hands with a foot kicked back in joy

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Dr Jenny Woodley @jennywoodley.bsky.social · 17d

Me: Let me just re-write this sentence for the fourth time so it flows better.

Thomas Chatterton: this sentence will have two sets of parentheses and several em-dashes.

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Dr Jenny Woodley @jennywoodley.bsky.social · 17d

Sometimes, I agonise about the quality of the book I've spent years researching and writing and then I listen to an episode of @ifbookspod.bsky.social and I feel better.

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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 18d

It is a truth too often unacknowledged, that a populist in possession of the public's rage must be in perpetual want of an enemy.

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 19d

USA having an ethic cleansing.

UK watching, wide-eyed. "I want one of those."

Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 19d

At the risk of repeating myself: there’s no bargaining with these people. What they’re calling for now is mass expulsions of long-term residents deemed insufficiently economically productive. There’s no way these demands won’t get even more extreme by election time.

Farage vows to scrap settled status, placing thousands at risk of deportation

Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services

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Thomas Cauvin @thomascauvin.bsky.social · 19d

Rich discussion about #PublicHistory in the UK.
Katie Carpenter, Anna Maguire, David Geiringer, and Julia Laite in History Workshop journal

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Teaching Public History in Britain Today: A Roundtable Discussion

Abstract. ‘What is Public History Now?’ This was the question posed by the 2022 AHRC Network led by Julia Laite. The network culminated in a conference of

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 25d

TLDR: Make racism shameful again. While you’re at it add fascism too.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 25d

All of this. It's no good trying to play nice and "understand" why people are espousing racist ideology. We have tried that. We ended up allowing racists to feel emboldened. The only option to confront racism is to call it out. If people don't like being called racist they should stop doing racism.

Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 25d

Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1

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Daniel Rowe @danrowe.bsky.social · 28d

We’re advertising for a 30 month postdoc position in US Politics (very broadly construed).

The role is mainly research, but allows the holder to gain experience teaching UK and US undergraduates. Happy to answer any and all questions.

Application deadline 27/10. (Start date early 2026.)

Winant-Kinder Career Development Fellow in US Politics at University of Oxford

Recruiting now: Winant-Kinder Career Development Fellow in US Politics on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 27d

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27d

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 27d

Loath though he is to alienate floating racists, perhaps Starmer could rouse himself to condemn a violent fascist rally teeming with people who want him overthrown and/or killed

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29d

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 29d

Apparently the ministers, led by Vallance, are not keen on the same courses being offered within a 50 mile radius either. We were reminded that the East Midlands is very 'crowded'. I'm sure it would be Nottingham History that would go, right?!

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Jon Casey @kidcasey78.bsky.social · 29d

Staffordshire County Council is ignoring the fact that many of the Union flags on the Western Bypass in Lichfield have 'Unite the Kingdom' written on them. Therefore, these are not just national flags, but far right political slogans. The county flag protocol say that modified flags cannot be flown.

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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is absolutely unhinged from Johnson and others. Kirk was a proponent of Great Replacement Theory who called for gays to be stoned and public lynch mobs to murder trans people. He is the definition of a right-wing extremist. The cowardice, avarice and opportunism of Johnson knows no bounds.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · Sep 11

We don’t yet know who killed Kirk or why. Not that you’d know it from the endless numbers of accounts on X with huge follower numbers, including British politicians, making as yet unknowable claims about the motivations behind the murder.

Exhibit A. Extraordinary stuff.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Sep 11

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?

Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

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