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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 1d

Check out my latest, this time for Time magazine’s Made By History series:

time.com/7318570/cbs-...

CBS Has Been in Conservative Sights for Decades

It was once deemed the "Communist Broadcasting System" by conservative activists.

time.com

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 1d

I learned so much from reading A.J.—on why capturing CBS in particular is such a coup for the right. Revenge indeed.

Please read and share:

A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 1d

Check out my latest, this time for Time magazine’s Made By History series:

time.com/7318570/cbs-...

CBS Has Been in Conservative Sights for Decades

It was once deemed the "Communist Broadcasting System" by conservative activists.

time.com

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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 2d

Trump relies on elite support — against majority opinion — more than any president in a century?

Has any president launched & escalated US wars, with less public support, than Trump?

Has any president launched & escalated attacks on US workers, with less public support, than Trump?

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Matt Nichter @mfnich.bsky.social · 4d

"At 100, Ms. Ginger was among the last of a generation of lawyers and activists who weathered McCarthyism and the Red Scare, and then helped train a new cohort during the 1960s and after." 🧵

Ann Fagan Ginger, Tireless Defender of Civil Liberties, Dies at 100

www.nytimes.com

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Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social · 17d

My book w/@profsorelle.bsky.social will be out in January! These ideas have brewed since I interned at Queens Legal Services 20 years ago. The book is for anyone who cares about people, justice, power & democracy. Much more to share more in the coming months!

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Uncivil Democracy

How the civil legal system undermines the political lives of marginalized communities

press.princeton.edu

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Kasia @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social · May 30

I wrote a very short book about book clubs, a kind of memoir/essay, and it’s coming out in October!

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Reading Together

A lively and thoughtful exploration of how book clubs change the way we read. In this engaging and vivacious memoir, college professor Katarzyna Bartoszyńska thinks back on various book clubs she has ...

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Bench Ansfield @benchansfield.bsky.social · Sep 5

BORN IN FLAMES is a NYT Editors' Choice title

Screenshot of the NYT website featuring Born in Flames by Bench Ansfield and Black Moses by Caleb Gayle

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LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social · Aug 25

Calling all recent Labor PhDs! Submissions are open for the Herbert G. Gutman Prize, honoring the best dissertation in U.S. labor & working-class history. Includes $1,000, travel support, & a publishing contract. Apply today!

University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · Aug 25

The Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in U.S. Labor and Working-Class History is now open for submissions!

Full details here: go.illinois.edu/UIPGutmanPrize

cc: @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social

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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · Aug 21

@long-haul-mag.bsky.social — issue #3

#1u — 📖

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Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · Aug 12

Read Liam Cain's remarkable account of his working life and the principles of leadership he has learned throughout:
longhaulmag.com/cain-at-leas...

At Least Three Layers | Long-Haul Mag

This piece is a distillation of a longer conversation with Liam Cain, whose eclectic itinerary includes various construction jobs on pipelines and in oil refineries and wildland firefighting. Liam’s a...

longhaulmag.com

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Long-Haul Magazine @long-haul-mag.bsky.social · Aug 13

Issue 3 is on its way to you now 👀 👀

Design by Sara Sukhun

Photographs by Gauri Gill

longhaulmag.com/subscribe/

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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · Jul 30

NYC — Schomburg Center — 100th anniversary…

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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · Jul 6

UK —

Reading Orientalism in Derbyshire

{ Jane Austen, Raymond Williams, Edward Said }

“Think it through as labour… Will you then think of community?”
— Raymond Williams

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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · Jul 6

London — Hackney

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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · Jul 4

in London —

— Lovely to be a guest in Ambedkar Hall, in Southall, right next to Saklatvala Hall 🔨

— Near to Engels’ house, is Ambedkar House 💙 featuring the suit Ambedkar wore when he spoke on Buddha and Marx

— And to Marx’s House, with trans flag waving proud… 🏳️‍⚧️ #1u

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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · Jun 25

from Schrader to Mann… 🎥

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 25

ask me to do this on a different day and at least half of this ballot changes

Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · Jun 16

In these times — reading biography can be enriching. How did people survive & work, across crisis moments & long-haul struggles?

Checkout these new books by Brian & Tourmaline & Garrett.

Each speaks to carceral & class struggles, Black & American lives, labor & sexual freedoms…

Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · Jun 16

Had a great time at the LAWCHA conference, connecting with good people.

I was privileged to chair+comment on the work of some awesome upcoming scholars. Altogether, their dynamic approaches are really inspiring.

Checkout these great topics — and stay tuned to their work...

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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · May 30

Bernard Kerik’s bio is THE exemplar of our morbid symptoms — NYC/USA, domestic/foreign, public/private.

Jersey, natch — military police — Saudi gig — NYPD top-cop — Iraq top-cop — Mideast chicanery w/ Giuliani+Witkoff — sex-cult crony — Trump pardon, natch

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...

Bernard Kerik, New York’s Police Commissioner on 9/11, Dies at 69

www.nytimes.com

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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · May 27

👀📖 — a new issue of ⁦‪Long Haul magazine — #1u

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Ben Mabie @yesnomabie.bsky.social · May 16

I think we put together a pretty cool second issue. Check it out: longhaulmag.com

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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · Apr 29

80 years ago, this week —

— Antifascists win the deaths of Mussolini, Hitler, Goebbels — Allies liberate Dachau and other Nazi camps — Prague and Sétif uprisings in Europe and Africa…

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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · Apr 18

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My chapter in “The Greater Second World War” — traces the links across labor & racial & imperial struggles — in the heat of the worldwide postwar moment.

Looking at what I consider to be a global uprising of “1946” — helps to shed new light on global politics then, and since…

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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · Apr 18

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My chapter in “The Greater Second World War” — traces the links across labor & racial & imperial struggles — in the heat of the worldwide postwar moment.

Looking at what I consider to be a global uprising of “1946” — helps to shed new light on global politics then, and since…

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David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social · Apr 5

Check out my new article: SOVIET AND US INVOLVEMENT IN THE COLONIAL WORLD, 1939-1945, published in ‘The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives’, ed. by R. Lawlor and A. Buchanan (Cornell University Press): muse.jhu.edu/pub/255/edit... via @lsehy.bsky.social @cornellupress.bsky.social

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