Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has proclaimed April 2026 as Confederate Heritage Month.
The proclamation does not mention racism or slavery—just the importance of gaining "insight from our mistakes and successes."
Historian Kevin M. Levin describes it as a sign of "a cause in retreat."
Opposing white supremacy is a crime in Trump’s America.
This feels a lot like southern states persecuting the NAACP during Jim Crow.
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Black-and-white chest X-ray image with overlaid text promoting an In These Times article. The headline reads, “After Decades of Quiet Rumbling, an Epidemic Is Erupting Among California Stoneworkers.” Smaller text below says the engineered stone industry is worth nearly $30 billion, but workers at its core are falling sick and dying from silicosis, and many—most of them young immigrants—are suing manufacturers. Byline: Kayla Yup. In These Times logo at bottom.
"When Hernandez and his coworkers transform slabs of engineered stone into the puzzle pieces of counters and shower walls, countless nanosized silica particles are released — so small they can penetrate respirators and pass directly into the lungs."
inthesetimes.com/article/deca...
Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”
It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.
The fact of the matter is that your racist uncle who hates Woke Studies ever since he heard about it on the drive back from the supermarket and the governing board that oversees your research institution are converging, and the results are exactly as monstrous and as stupid as you would have guessed
Fund Education Not War and Deportation MAY DAY
you know you gotta get in formation/
what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...
More higher ed discourse like this please
Cite your sources! It’s good for media literacy and allows people to check your numbers. Where’s the nearly released financial disclosure forms?
AI star symbol.
It's funny (not funny) how this ubiquitous symbol screams 'beware, incoming trash!' I have an instant reaction of revulsion whenever it pops up.
Lest we forget Matt Taibi, when he was good, on the vampire squid and the financial crisis
Racist Israeli and American politicians don't care about the Lebanese people- they are just in the way of the Zionist greater Israel project.
The Maah Daah Hey Trail name comes from the Mandan people. It means “an area that has been and will be around for a long time.”
https://www.cato.org/blog/trump-has-cut-legal-immigration-more-illegal-immigration
Trump has cut legal immigration more than illegal immigration, as I predicted. While illegal entries have fallen, they continued a prior trend, falling more before he came back. Meanwhile, Trump has drastically cut legal entries, reversing the prior upward trend. www.cato.org/blog/trump-h...
Just last week, at the top of this episode, @quinnslobodian.com, @bentarnoff.com, & I discussed the challenges facing historians in the internet era, which include planned obsolescence, slop tsunamis, austerization, etc. Internet Archive is one of the few orgs between us & archive death...
... healing Jeffrey Epstein.
Re-upping this 🧵 in re: this excellent piece:
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FOIA scoop (no paywall): The day Renee Good was killed, a Minnesota state police official repeatedly texted a FBI agent. He wanted to co-manage the crime scene & ensure his agents were included in interviews. For at least 2 days, maybe longer, the FBI didn't respond:
www.wired.com/story/the-fb...
The next administration must take the lesson of this one; every single immigration judge hired under Trump 2.0 must be fired on day one.
Cal State Channel Islands philosophy lecturer Jonathan Caravello has just been ACQUITTED of assaulting ICE/CBP last summer while protesting a brutal Ventura County cannabis farm raid! His defense argued he threw a tear gas canister away to protect protesters. The jury acquitted him in two hours.
Tonight in the ai reading group i was reminded of something that happened in 2006 after I dropped out of college, when I was living in a run-down old house next to jb alberto's in rogers park with a bunch of dudes.
it was, as you can imagine, not clean.
This is an easy one. The answer is no. Sam Altman cannot be trusted. He does not control our future though. We are giving it to him. That's a different thing.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
the onion can't even compete
Fortune should be mortified—"A story by Lichtenberg sometimes starts with a prompt entered into Perplexity or Google’s NotebookLM, asking it to write something based on a headline he comes up with. He moves the initial drafts into a content-management system and edits the stories before publishing."
"The day of no work, no school, no shopping on Jan. 23 was the culmination of all the work that the unions had been doing before..."
Marcia Howard, president of the teacher chapter of Minneapolis Federation of Educators Local 59 spoke to @lfelizleon.bsky.social
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