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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here.
Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.
Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.
(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the D...
www.blackpast.org
July 4, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here.
Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.
Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.
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We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.
June 26, 2024 at 9:14 PM
We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.
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😍: "It Was Not the ‘News' [about the Emancipation Proclamation] That Traveled Slowly—It Was ‘Power'” [in the form of the US Army joining enslaved Texans in defeating Confederates to achieve it]. ~Christopher Wilson on #Juneteenth. Check out the Zinn Project’s www.zinnedproject.org/news/junetee...
![Graphic with image of Black men from Texas in the background. Text reads: It was Not the “News” That Traveled Slowly—It Was “Power” [to achieve it.] By Christopher Wilson, Curator and Chair, Division of Home and Community Life, Smithsonian National Museum of American History from https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/juneteenth/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fpwdt23oshkqyfnjkxm6gfz2/bafkreibu3qucpx2mr2qjtq5sdbozjron47cuurtebh4fu7vjqzvlvoabae@jpeg)
June 19, 2024 at 12:12 PM
😍: "It Was Not the ‘News' [about the Emancipation Proclamation] That Traveled Slowly—It Was ‘Power'” [in the form of the US Army joining enslaved Texans in defeating Confederates to achieve it]. ~Christopher Wilson on #Juneteenth. Check out the Zinn Project’s www.zinnedproject.org/news/junetee...
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Tuskegee Airmen won the 1st ever "Top Gun" competition in 1949 (flying older planes) but the United States Airforce didnt recognize the African American winners until 1995?!?
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June 1, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Tuskegee Airmen won the 1st ever "Top Gun" competition in 1949 (flying older planes) but the United States Airforce didnt recognize the African American winners until 1995?!?
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From one of my colleagues two weeks ago: “Legal cases against former heads of state are commonplace in healthy democracies.”
freedomhouse.org/article/us-i...
freedomhouse.org/article/us-i...
US: International Context for Prosecuting Former Presidents
Legal cases against former heads of state are commonplace in healthy democracies. The United States, with its strong rule-of-law tradition and independent judicial institutions, is entirely capable of...
freedomhouse.org
May 30, 2024 at 10:35 PM
From one of my colleagues two weeks ago: “Legal cases against former heads of state are commonplace in healthy democracies.”
freedomhouse.org/article/us-i...
freedomhouse.org/article/us-i...
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It isn’t the job of the New York Times to save democracy. The job of the New York Times is to tell us fascism and democracy both have problems, then vaguely intimate those problems are same in number and quality, because journalistic neutrality means manufacturing balance.
April 30, 2024 at 7:38 PM
It isn’t the job of the New York Times to save democracy. The job of the New York Times is to tell us fascism and democracy both have problems, then vaguely intimate those problems are same in number and quality, because journalistic neutrality means manufacturing balance.
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This is the review. It's by Sarah Jones who, like Alberta, grew up in the world of white evangelicalism. Unlike Alberta, she's left that world entirely and thus her assessment of it is more unsparing than Alberta's. nymag.com/intelligence...
America’s White Evangelical Problem
Tim Alberta traces the debasement of his church, which has revolutionized politics for the worse.
nymag.com
April 25, 2024 at 8:17 PM
This is the review. It's by Sarah Jones who, like Alberta, grew up in the world of white evangelicalism. Unlike Alberta, she's left that world entirely and thus her assessment of it is more unsparing than Alberta's. nymag.com/intelligence...
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Repeatedly encountering profs suggesting that chatgpt can help students “research.” But what’s never engaged is the fact that people doing research on a topic where they have little experience (as often happens in college) are the worst served by a tech that makes up information and citations.
April 17, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Repeatedly encountering profs suggesting that chatgpt can help students “research.” But what’s never engaged is the fact that people doing research on a topic where they have little experience (as often happens in college) are the worst served by a tech that makes up information and citations.
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Anti-Anti-Trump Conservatives Are Paving the Way for Authoritarianism
Highbrow conservative commentators are giving themselves and their readers permission to support Trump by portraying “liberal hysteria” as the real threat: A case study of National Review
A thread, based on my new piece:
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Highbrow conservative commentators are giving themselves and their readers permission to support Trump by portraying “liberal hysteria” as the real threat: A case study of National Review
A thread, based on my new piece:
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Anti-Anti-Trump Conservatives Are Paving the Way for Authoritarianism
Highbrow conservative commentators are giving themselves and their readers permission to support Trump by portraying “liberal hysteria” as the real threat: A case study of National Review
thomaszimmer.substack.com
April 10, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Anti-Anti-Trump Conservatives Are Paving the Way for Authoritarianism
Highbrow conservative commentators are giving themselves and their readers permission to support Trump by portraying “liberal hysteria” as the real threat: A case study of National Review
A thread, based on my new piece:
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Highbrow conservative commentators are giving themselves and their readers permission to support Trump by portraying “liberal hysteria” as the real threat: A case study of National Review
A thread, based on my new piece:
🧵1/
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Now's a good time to link this prescient piece by Sara Ahmed:
April 7, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Now's a good time to link this prescient piece by Sara Ahmed:
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ICYMI: What the Right Plans to Do With Power
All three parts of my series about “Project 2025” are out.
Almost 15,000 words on what these radical plans would do to America and how to explain the Right’s open embrace of state authoritarianism:
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All three parts of my series about “Project 2025” are out.
Almost 15,000 words on what these radical plans would do to America and how to explain the Right’s open embrace of state authoritarianism:
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What Makes “Project 2025” So Dangerous
Will the Right be able to implement these radical plans? Is Trump on board? What happened to traditional conservatism? Let’s tackle some of the key questions surrounding “Project 2025”
thomaszimmer.substack.com
March 30, 2024 at 12:04 PM
ICYMI: What the Right Plans to Do With Power
All three parts of my series about “Project 2025” are out.
Almost 15,000 words on what these radical plans would do to America and how to explain the Right’s open embrace of state authoritarianism:
🧵1/
All three parts of my series about “Project 2025” are out.
Almost 15,000 words on what these radical plans would do to America and how to explain the Right’s open embrace of state authoritarianism:
🧵1/
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This episode of the Amicus podcast is a smart and disturbing reflection on the limits of what a democracy can do to protect itself from a political movement built around a political culture of "alternative facts." Good propaganda backed by big bucks is hard to combat. slate.com/podcasts/ami...
Can the government help social media companies fight the spread of misinformation? SCOTUS will decide.
What can the government do to help stop misinformation online?
slate.com
March 16, 2024 at 3:39 PM
This episode of the Amicus podcast is a smart and disturbing reflection on the limits of what a democracy can do to protect itself from a political movement built around a political culture of "alternative facts." Good propaganda backed by big bucks is hard to combat. slate.com/podcasts/ami...
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Watch this right now. Sound on. Then share with everyone. The only good PSA folks fucking did it again (wildly complimentary).
youtu.be/9HpLhxMFJR8?...
youtu.be/9HpLhxMFJR8?...
ASSUME THAT I CAN | World Down Syndrome Day 2024
Our negative assumptions about people with Down syndrome can lead us to treat them in such a way that these assumptions become reality. In sociology, this is...
youtu.be
March 14, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Watch this right now. Sound on. Then share with everyone. The only good PSA folks fucking did it again (wildly complimentary).
youtu.be/9HpLhxMFJR8?...
youtu.be/9HpLhxMFJR8?...
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I don’t think they make it anymore but I got it from Philadelphia Printworks and they are constantly dropping new stuff
Philadelphia Printworks - Clothing Brand
A queer, black, and woman-owned independent clothing brand inspired by past and present social justice movements that seeks to create accessible apparel for activists, organizers, and allies.
philadelphiaprintworks.com
February 25, 2024 at 3:00 AM
I don’t think they make it anymore but I got it from Philadelphia Printworks and they are constantly dropping new stuff
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Indiana AG's new "report a teacher" portal is truly something else. Not only can people upload "supporting documentation", but there's a curated collection of those documents for users to browse. It's a state funded website to facilitate targeted hate campaigns.
www.in.gov/attorneygene...
www.in.gov/attorneygene...
Eyes on Education
www.in.gov
February 17, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Indiana AG's new "report a teacher" portal is truly something else. Not only can people upload "supporting documentation", but there's a curated collection of those documents for users to browse. It's a state funded website to facilitate targeted hate campaigns.
www.in.gov/attorneygene...
www.in.gov/attorneygene...
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You'll want to review Vol.44, No.1 of Historical Reflections, a special issue tearing apart Pinker. He has never acknowledged the existence of this special issue, which mercilessly tears his thesis apart www.jstor.org/stable/e4850...
Vol. 44, No. 1, Spring 2018 of Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques on JSTOR
Historical Reflections/Reflections Historiques has established a well-deserved reputation for publishing high quality articles of wide-ranging interest for over...
www.jstor.org
February 13, 2024 at 2:52 PM
You'll want to review Vol.44, No.1 of Historical Reflections, a special issue tearing apart Pinker. He has never acknowledged the existence of this special issue, which mercilessly tears his thesis apart www.jstor.org/stable/e4850...
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I thought this was quite good as a primer on liberal feminism- if you enjoy a video essay
how liberal feminism turns into fasc*sm
✨✨Go to https://www.squarespace.com/alicecappelle to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain and use the code ALICECAPPELLE !my book COLLAPSE...
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February 4, 2024 at 11:46 PM
I thought this was quite good as a primer on liberal feminism- if you enjoy a video essay
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Was it wise for Trump to subject the Carroll jurors to his manly presence during the trial?
No.
Were his lawyers wise to ape their client's obnoxious behavior?
Also, no.
Some thoughts on Trump's courtroom antics in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case —
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/trumps-pla...
No.
Were his lawyers wise to ape their client's obnoxious behavior?
Also, no.
Some thoughts on Trump's courtroom antics in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case —
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/trumps-pla...
January 31, 2024 at 2:47 AM
Was it wise for Trump to subject the Carroll jurors to his manly presence during the trial?
No.
Were his lawyers wise to ape their client's obnoxious behavior?
Also, no.
Some thoughts on Trump's courtroom antics in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case —
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/trumps-pla...
No.
Were his lawyers wise to ape their client's obnoxious behavior?
Also, no.
Some thoughts on Trump's courtroom antics in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case —
www.lawandchaospod.com/p/trumps-pla...
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I had the great privilege of speaking with Profs, Ankhi Mukherjee & Ato Quayson about their path-defining new edited volume Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum for New Books Network. Chk it out & read the book, free to download at the Cambridge UP website
newbooksnetwork.com/decolonizing-t…
newbooksnetwork.com/decolonizing-t…
January 28, 2024 at 3:51 PM
I had the great privilege of speaking with Profs, Ankhi Mukherjee & Ato Quayson about their path-defining new edited volume Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum for New Books Network. Chk it out & read the book, free to download at the Cambridge UP website
newbooksnetwork.com/decolonizing-t…
newbooksnetwork.com/decolonizing-t…
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I'm quoted in @TorontoStar by @richardwarnica but I'd be sharing if I wasn't. When I say we need a different campaign journalism, it's this. That it's gorgeously written isn't extra; it's part of what media needs to confront fascism. @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social www.thestar.com/news/world/u...
Donald Trump's New Hampshire victory gets him closer to dangerous fantasy of a golden age
The ex-president won the GOP primary on a wave of grievance and nostalgia for a past that never was.
www.thestar.com
January 24, 2024 at 2:43 PM
I'm quoted in @TorontoStar by @richardwarnica but I'd be sharing if I wasn't. When I say we need a different campaign journalism, it's this. That it's gorgeously written isn't extra; it's part of what media needs to confront fascism. @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social www.thestar.com/news/world/u...
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Really pleased to see that this edited collection on Men and Masculinities in C20 Britain is now available Open Access. I love the format which combines research chapters with more discursive reflections. Huge props to Matt, Ben and Katie for their work bringing it together!
www.manchesterhive.com
January 19, 2024 at 10:46 AM
Really pleased to see that this edited collection on Men and Masculinities in C20 Britain is now available Open Access. I love the format which combines research chapters with more discursive reflections. Huge props to Matt, Ben and Katie for their work bringing it together!
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I want to read it *all* instantly but @lottelydia.bsky.social 'Male Historians Explain Things to Me' has gone straight to the top of the pile.
Really pleased to see that this edited collection on Men and Masculinities in C20 Britain is now available Open Access. I love the format which combines research chapters with more discursive reflections. Huge props to Matt, Ben and Katie for their work bringing it together!
www.manchesterhive.com
January 20, 2024 at 10:29 AM
I want to read it *all* instantly but @lottelydia.bsky.social 'Male Historians Explain Things to Me' has gone straight to the top of the pile.
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My rebbe, @jeffsharlet.bsky.social:
“'Fascism is a dream politics. It’s a mythology. You can’t fact-check myth. You can’t arch an eyebrow and make it go away'.”
prospect.org/politics/202...
Full disclosure: Perlstein is a treasure, everything he writes is essential reading.
“'Fascism is a dream politics. It’s a mythology. You can’t fact-check myth. You can’t arch an eyebrow and make it go away'.”
prospect.org/politics/202...
Full disclosure: Perlstein is a treasure, everything he writes is essential reading.
Metaphors Journalists Live By (Part I)
One of the reasons political journalism is so ill-equipped for this moment in America is because of its stubborn adherence to outdated frames.
prospect.org
January 19, 2024 at 10:40 AM
My rebbe, @jeffsharlet.bsky.social:
“'Fascism is a dream politics. It’s a mythology. You can’t fact-check myth. You can’t arch an eyebrow and make it go away'.”
prospect.org/politics/202...
Full disclosure: Perlstein is a treasure, everything he writes is essential reading.
“'Fascism is a dream politics. It’s a mythology. You can’t fact-check myth. You can’t arch an eyebrow and make it go away'.”
prospect.org/politics/202...
Full disclosure: Perlstein is a treasure, everything he writes is essential reading.