"The work of history is the work of retelling and revision," writes @kellyblack.ca who, in his latest piece, gets to the bottom of a decades-long mystery and explains the importance of fact-based storytelling in a world of AI slop.
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Current hostility (on the part of politicians and institutional leaders alike) to even looking at the past is strikingly blunt. It touches many disciplines, but denying history is the key issue.
The backlash against Bouie’s piece on Enlightenment and then the 1619 Project were public turning points
I witnessed a severe car crash earlier this week and was one of the first responders until professionals arrived and I'm still processing a lot of it but one thing I feel like I need to share is just how many people immediately jumped in to help. People are good. Don't let the darkness fool you.
#OtD 5 Apr 1932 in Newfoundland, a crowd of 10k protested price increases and pension cuts at the central government building. Police attacked, but the mob fought back and searched for the PM, who was punched in the face. The govt later collapsed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1048...
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One of my oldest and dearest friends' cousin and her 7 year old daughter with autism are being detained by ICE in one of the worst facilities in Texas. Please share widely and donate if you can. Our best hope is public pressure and raising money for a lawyer. www.gofundme.com/f/help-free-...
For years, Palestinian trade unions have been calling on global counterparts to stand in solidarity.
Now, activists are asking Canada’s largest labour body to do just that.
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I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”
Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"
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Rest in power Breonna Taylor. Today, we mourn six years without her, and six years without justice or accountability.
IRELAND: The 21-year-old Dunnes Stores worker who kicked off 3-yr strike over grapefruit www.thesun.ie/news/1663850...
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Everyone become communist by tomorrow morning
Its weird that spooning and forking are both generally pleasant experiences as a human, but knifing is a distinctly unpleasant experience
Day 5 no heat in my house and it snowed for the first time this year today and its March 10th. Cool cool cool cool cool
worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.
The Solidarity Mural is an invaluable piece of our union’s history. When we sold the building in Chicago, we knew we had to rescue the mural. There were technical difficulties including some pieces that crumbled.
Can we count on you to help us finish preserving this vital piece of UE’s history?
Brian Niccol of Starbucks took home the award for the most nonsensical disparity between CEO and employee income: He earns $95,801,676, while the median salary for a Starbucks employee was a mere $14,674. trib.al/EOv81eF
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“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me
we have to be showing up unexpectedly wherever he goes and demand that he resign
this isn't a distraction from epstein class pedophilia it's an expression of the epstein class worldview
When I saw the news story about the girls school being bombed, one of my first thoughts was about how unlike American physics, Iranian physics is 50% women at the undergrad level and how some of those girls who had been murdered were going to be physicists one day
I remember a bunch of ppl saying how good Carney is in response to my hockey post.
He may be more civil and polite. And yah I don’t think he’s a child abuser or rapist. But he’s constantly on board with violent imperialism. Just politely. Civilly.
Statement by Prime Minister Carney and Minister Anand on the situation in the Middle East "The Canadian government is closely following Iran- related hostilities throughout the Middle East and urges all Canadians in Iran to shelter in place. Canadians in the wider region should follow local advice and take all necessary precautions. Canada's position remains clear: the lslamic Republic of Iran is the principal source of instability and terror throughout the Middle East, has one of the world's worst human rights records, and must never be allowed to obtain or develop nuclear weapons. Canada and our international partners have consistently called upon the Iranian regime to end its nuclear program, including at the 2025 G7 Leaders' Summit in Kananaskis and with the United Nations' reimposition of sanctions in September. Despite diplomatic efforts, Iran has neither fully dismantled its nuclear program, halted all enrichment activities, nor ended its support for regional terrorist proxy groups. Canada stands with the Iranian people in their long and courageous struggle against Iran's oppressive regime. Canada has listed the lslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity, and has sanctioned 256 Iranian entities and 222 individuals in response to the regime's repression and its violence both against its own people, and persistently, beyond its borders. Canada reaffirms Israel's right to defend itself and ensure the security of its people. Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security. The Canadian government urges the protection of all civilians in this conflict. We will take all possible measures to protect our nationals and Canadian diplomatic missions throuahout the reaion.
Mark Carney is an imperialist.
If you're deep in a pit of self loathing and despair say hell yeah.... *whispers to self* hell yeah...
![Minneapolis does have an incredible history of organizing going back to the truck strikes of 1934 and co-op movements [of the 20th century].
I grew up on the West Bank of Minneapolis, which is now where much of the Somali community is, but used to be a super hippie community, and so the places around me were mostly anarchist-owned co-ops. It’s not the neighborhood that most American children grow up in. We have a different idea of what’s possible, because we have a city that kind of works a little differently and has a history of collectivism and taking care of each other.
I think also because of what happened in 2020 [with George Floyd’s police murder setting off protests around the world], and even before that, with Jamar Clark and Philando Castile [who were shot and killed by police in 2015 and 2016], we’re reflexive organizers. It’s easy for us to get together and figure out how we’re going to approach something.
But this has been totally different. Back then, people were putting a lawn sign in their yard that said Black Lives Matter. Now people are driving an immigrant person to work every day.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tabiejtbwtcxuc2vxmk63uwj/bafkreigt7tkfsv5gn77hgzgbb4nv7mrmzaqh7qga7zj34pmgayllecsx7i)
Minneapolis does have an incredible history of organizing going back to the truck strikes of 1934 and co-op movements [of the 20th century]. I grew up on the West Bank of Minneapolis, which is now where much of the Somali community is, but used to be a super hippie community, and so the places around me were mostly anarchist-owned co-ops. It’s not the neighborhood that most American children grow up in. We have a different idea of what’s possible, because we have a city that kind of works a little differently and has a history of collectivism and taking care of each other. I think also because of what happened in 2020 [with George Floyd’s police murder setting off protests around the world], and even before that, with Jamar Clark and Philando Castile [who were shot and killed by police in 2015 and 2016], we’re reflexive organizers. It’s easy for us to get together and figure out how we’re going to approach something. But this has been totally different. Back then, people were putting a lawn sign in their yard that said Black Lives Matter. Now people are driving an immigrant person to work every day.
also really loved hearing from @ziibiing.com about what makes Minneapolis's organizing legacy unique — going back to labor and coop organizing a century ago, to the last decade's racial justice and anti-policing organizing.
