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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8m

I've read all three and at least two of them are great!!! #BookSky

The other one can be picked up here:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1h

The relationship between segregation and racial violence is empirically validated! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching | Social Science History | Cambridge Core

Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching - Volume 42 Issue 4

www.cambridge.org

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1h

it feels increasingly ludicrous to step out of the news like I am about to do until Tuesday so that I can tackle all the TKs in my book ms, but also some of the TKs are "the red and lavender scare," "Jane Crow and the law," "Carceral creep," "A zone of lawlessness," "A new founding" so

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 2h

This regime hates Black people. They won't employ us-no matter our expertise because we don't have the credential of whiteness. They see us as criminal. “They’re not going to be good in 10 years, in five years, in 20 years, in two years they’re going to be criminals. They were born to be criminals”

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 6h

It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 2h

i read a history of jim crow in high school, and it forever changed my politics and understanding of u.s. history

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2h

I laughed but worry folks will not know you are joking

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2h

If you don’t think Jim Crow and Apartheid were held together by violence, I don’t know what to tell you.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2h

I unfortunately don't think you are wrong

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2h

I am not changing my position. Terrorism was a constitutive part of segregation. It's why the system worked.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 2h

My increasingly rational concern is that they will try to use lynching as a tool of their terrorism again

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 6h

It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 2h

And some of the methods of today’s fascism, such as creating lists to circulate/target for harassment, violence, and institutional punishment, were used on Black people for just trying to live or exercise basic rights, for trying to do stuff some leftists today wouldn't find politically interesting.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2h

We do a deep disservice to this history by conflating animus with the social system.
People have no idea how much racial debasement and dehumanization was consumption. It was something created and consumed by white supremacists.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 3h

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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nanaslugdiva @nanaslugdiva.blacksky.app · 2h

They do not realize this at all or refuse to acknowledge it.

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3h

When I see this, I wonder if people realize that Jim Crow racism in the American south was a type home-grown fascism. It was not (just) a superficially genteel system of social deference. Refusing to defer was often met with incredible violence designed to terrorize the entire Black community.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3h

When I see this, I wonder if people realize that Jim Crow racism in the American south was a type home-grown fascism. It was not (just) a superficially genteel system of social deference. Refusing to defer was often met with incredible violence designed to terrorize the entire Black community.

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 3h

If a bunch of smart, financially-disinterested experts take a look at something and they all come away with concerns, that's not "bias." It's data.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 4h

theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...

Eliminating DEI isn't just racist — it's segregationist

New segregationists’ need to use euphemisms shows the weakness of their intellectual position and the Civil Rights Movement’s moral clarity.

theemancipator.org

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 5h

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy.

New piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 6h

They aren't even trying to hide it.

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 6h

It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 6h

A loud reminder that this administration wants to bring back SEGREGATION as @victorerikray.bsky.social has pointed out and they're starting within the administration.

A literal page out of Woodrow Wilson's playbook. #blacksky #news