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Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social · 2d

"As the Trump administration cracks down on both environmental policies and progressive activism, the Sunrise Movement, the youth-led climate justice organization that popularized calls for a Green New Deal, is widening its mission to fight authoritarianism."

Youth-led US climate activists widen focus to fight authoritarianism

Sunrise Movement, which led calls for a Green New Deal, will organize against Trump’s attacks on universities

www.theguardian.com

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 8d

Chicago residents are engaging in daily protests and community safety patrols to resist ICE's crackdown on the city.

Chicago Activist on Organizing Community ICE Patrols as Trump Escalates Immigration Crackdown

Tension between immigration agents and community activists is growing in Chicago, where ICE agents have deployed tear gas and pepper balls against ongoing protests outside Chicago’s Broadview ICE dete...

www.democracynow.org

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Massachusetts Historical Society @mhs1791.bsky.social · 5d

Join us on Oct. 7 for our next seminar on modern America, "Crisis Politics and Everyday Life in "Middletown."" Authors @patcollier.bsky.social & James J. Connolly, with comments by @thomassdavis.bsky.social. Register: www.masshist.org/eve...

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Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social · 9d

So pleased to be presenting our work to the excellent scholars at and around Mass Observation & with Ben Highmore, whom we so admire, hosting.
bsky.app/profile/mass...

Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · 9d

Our next event, 'Everyday Life and the Crisis Ordinary in Middletown, U.S.A.' is now open for booking! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/everyday-l...

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Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · 9d

Everyday Life in Middletown is inspired by the book 'Middletown: A Study of a Midwestern City' and Mass Observation. In this event, Project Director Patrick Collier and Director James Connolly will discuss the project with Ben Highmore

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Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · 9d

Our next event, 'Everyday Life and the Crisis Ordinary in Middletown, U.S.A.' is now open for booking! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/everyday-l...

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Peter Truitt @peter-truitt.bsky.social · 13d

"What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?”
― David Graeber

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Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social · 15d

Pleased to be engaging with accomplished scholars about my work, with Jim Connolly, about "Middletown" (i.e. Muncie, Indiana). Tuesday Oct. 7 at 5 p.m.
You can register for Zoom or in-person at the link.
www.masshist.org/events/crisi...

Massachusetts Historical Society: Crisis Politics and Everyday Life in "Middletown”

www.masshist.org

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 20d

Then and Now
The Little Street Delft c.1658, painted by Johannes Vermeer; now identified by archival research as 40-42 Vlamingstraat, Delft, photographed (right) in 2017.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 21d

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Sep 3

Were I the wind, I’d blow no more on such a wicked, miserable world.

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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · Aug 11

A DC crowd within sight of the White House calls for Free DC, not using the National Guard for a political ploy

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Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social · Aug 4

Disgraceful.
www.wthr.com/article/news...

Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility

Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

www.wthr.com

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Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social · Jul 28

Not only not weird: a productive exercise with a long history in therapy.

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Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social · Jul 21

Just to be clear, this ain't the liberal media reporting:
www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Why Israel’s Chaotic New Food Program in Gaza Has Turned So Deadly

A visit to one distribution site shows how a system designed to squeeze out the U.N. and Hamas continues to draw hungry Palestinians into deadly encounters.

www.wsj.com

Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social · Jul 21

awesome, Matt: congrats!!

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Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · Jul 21

Also, feel free to smash that preorder button.

Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · Jul 21

The New Old Style now has a page on the @univnebpress.bsky.social website! Stay tuned for updates.

The New Old Style - Nebraska Press

www.nebraskapress.unl.edu

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Emmaeli @emmaelie.bsky.social · Jul 17

Portrait of
Breonna Taylor🕯

Alexis Franklin
artist

cover art for Oprah magazine honoring Breonna Taylor, a young woman, 26 years old, with beautiful, expressive brown eyes - she was shot and killed in 2020 when police forced entry into her home

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · Jul 17

Free the Spokane 9

Largely ignored in a small market, this week's federal indictment of 9 anti-ICE protesters in Washington state, including a former council president, shows how far the Trump regime will go to crush dissent

This was always the plan. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

The Trump regime is arresting protesters now. This was the plan all along | Will Bunch

Federal felony charges against nine ICE protesters in Spokane reveal how Trump's secret police are expanding their web.

www.inquirer.com

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Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social · Jun 27

At our Everyday Life in Middletown archive, volunteer writers post one-day diaries of specified days, recording their activities, thoughts, and feelings. A new diary set is up on the archive, along with this blog post offering an overview.
bsudsl.org/edlmiddletow...

June 4 Diaries Are Live Now! - Everyday Life in Middletown

It’s coming up on a decade since we hatched the idea of Everyday Life in Middletown—an archive of one-day diaries and other accounts, written by…

bsudsl.org

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Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social · Jun 27

This was a nice distraction this week. My top 10.

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Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social · Jun 23

so sorry to hear that and glad H. is ok. That title is too good not to make it into fiction.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · Jun 18

I don't know about you...but I'm disturbed by the amount of hell NOT being raised by leadership about masked individuals jumping out of unmarked vans, refusing to identify themselves...and just shoving people into a Goddamn vehicle and whisking them away.

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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · Jun 14

Melissa Hortman was Majority Leader during the DFL trifecta and had a key role in getting free lunches for school kids in Minnesota.

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Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social · Jun 10

as a former copy-editor, I know this is about 'bruin' fitting in a narrow column, and not wanting to repeat 'bear.'

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