When European colonists first arrived, 90% of New England was forested. By 1850, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island were all down to around 30%
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One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Could be. I wonder how much connection there is between Hindu nationalists and the white-run US schools of yoga

Many American yoga instructors still refer to aspects of the ancient Indian spiritual-medical system, something that seems potentially at odds with most practitioners’ understanding of modern science.
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The women's room graffiti at the district court, coming in with more nuance than most media coverage of violence and abuse

Pagabai's union card was her first state-recognized identification. It allowed her to enter the university through the main gate rather than sneaking in to pick trash and eventually got her an official contract with the institution.
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This part. Klein, like all of us, needs to figure out what his role is in the fight against fascism and then focus on that

blast from the past, but this "capitalism as AI" piece I wrote a few years back has been getting a second life for pretty obvious reasons

In one Star Trek ep, a god-computer keeps a society in idyllic conditions. Kirk destroys it, telling the locals that they’ll come to enjoy “what we call freedom.” The moral, per @gerrycanavan.bsky.social: communism “might make you happy, but it won’t make you good.”
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This is the abolitionist messaging we need www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMLtrGwt/

“the melodious strains of the instrument never failed to arouse the enthusiasm of the homesick, whilst the tricks of the monkey served to amuse the leisure of the rough miners who were incapable of entering into the feelings inspired by his music.”
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New South moderates still viewed segregation as crucial for cultivating the rising middle-class white communities of cities like Atlanta and Charlotte. They just wanted to achieve it without offending northern industry. Scapegoating poor whites helped.
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Calligraphy, a respected part of Islamic scholarship in Nigeria's Hausa communities, requires education in various scripts, color theory, and methods of producing certain inks from ingredients including charcoal, millet, and the bark of certain trees.
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make a band singular:

Them (singular)

This also counts as political violence.

fucking wild that a partisan program of, say, deploying state security to purge the nation of immigrants or legislate trans people to premature death can be pretensed as a contribution to salutary democratic debate and not as something that might cause us to reflect on the term “political violence”

Where Nazis used “the Jew” to represent the powers driving industrialization, @lebow.bsky.social argues, “the ‘illegal immigrant,’ who lacks human rights yet personifies the threat of globalized capitalism, is today’s indispensable outgroup.”
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Most newspapers positioned themselves as allies of working Americans. But some argued that the system would naturally work for them as long as they worked hard and conducted themselves in correct, patriotic fashion.
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Lopes writes that trust isn’t a matter of believing intellectually in the honesty or goodwill of another individual or institution. It's a “peculiar type of background existential feeling” that structures our thoughts and actions even if we rarely think about it.
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In the first years of the 1800s, Hamilton wrote that, while immigration had benefited the nation in earlier decades, there were now enough Americans
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The British described the king as the father of North American societies. The Shawnee turned this around, identifying rum as the milk of the royal parent. In 1795, two Shawnee leaders argued that the king’s “breasts” should be “full of milk” for their people.
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I'm also familiar with a middle school that banned phones last year. The whole staff expected evasion to be a huge issue, but it just... wasn't. Idk, I was also surprised. I also wonder if middle school has a different dynamic than high school around this.

Despite employing a narrow vision of economic and technological progress to allow players to “win” history, the game’s inclusion of cultures from around the world encourages some players to learn more about African, Asian, and South American history
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One economist suggested that national income should leave out spending on military weapons, which, he noted, were counted as “economic goods” even though they “might well be considered worthless and even harmful.”
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