I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

A cypher used by Reconstruction-era KKK members shows how a secret elite network helped seed dens in different parts of the Carolinas daily.jstor.org/a-secret-cip...

Wild how the pundit conventional wisdom is that "Biden open borders" polarized voters into a radical anti-immigration position when the low point was still way above 50% and pretty average for the past 25 years

I rolled my eyes as hard as anyone about The Argument's launch, but I have to admit this is refreshing and actually in line with the spirit of liberalism that they say they're all about www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-covid-...

From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte

It was a victim of its own success in a lot of ways. I was doing economic justice work pre-Occupy and the before/after was light and day. The previously-fringe discussion or wealth inequality became SO mainstream SO fast that folks kind of forgot it was new information to most in 2011.

It's wild how people dismissed Occupy as a total failure of anarchist/non-electoral organizing when it made inequality a central political issue and paved the way for the Sanders campaign. Similar to the way a lot of liberal pundits talk about BLM/2020 protests now. No long-term thinking whatsoever

I cannot say enough, there are places in your community that need help and one of the most personally empowering things you can do in this disempowering era is show up and ask humbly where you can slot in and contribute.

New Hampshire's two Senators are rumored to be part of the Charlie Brown with the football caucus, ready to cave to the Republicans for an illusory promise of a vote next month. Granite Staters should call @shaheen.senate.gov and @hassan.senate.gov & let them know how you feel about it. #NHPolitics

This kind of thing is why tiktok remains wonderful www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpXWCWT/

Researching my school board candidates. This guy is cool with trans people, I guess?

Yet another thing about the American meritocratic elite. People raised from infancy to value professional success above everything else simply don't have the temperament to risk anything no matter how much is at stake.

Men who worked in agriculture and forestry often retreated to the cities and towns of sunny southern California for the winter. Some joked that, during the offseason, they invested their summer earnings in “houses and lots”—houses of prostitution and lots of whiskey. daily.jstor.org/los-angeless...

I’m so confused by the wine moms discourse. It feels like people think that no one older than them can have radical politics. Like teenagers who can’t imagine their parents knowing about sex.

I don’t know if I buy the idea that the left or the Democrats need a special strategy to reach young men. But if I did, I would be thinking about how facing down bullies to protect other people is the kind of thing Charlie Kirk or Jordan Peterson would tell you is masculine and cool.

When European colonists first arrived, 90% of New England was forested. By 1850, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island were all down to around 30% daily.jstor.org/the-art-of-d...

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city. They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Many American yoga instructors still refer to aspects of the ancient Indian spiritual-medical system, something that seems potentially at odds with most practitioners’ understanding of modern science. daily.jstor.org/should-yoga-...

The women's room graffiti at the district court, coming in with more nuance than most media coverage of violence and abuse

Pagabai's union card was her first state-recognized identification. It allowed her to enter the university through the main gate rather than sneaking in to pick trash and eventually got her an official contract with the institution. daily.jstor.org/waste-picker...

This part. Klein, like all of us, needs to figure out what his role is in the fight against fascism and then focus on that

blast from the past, but this "capitalism as AI" piece I wrote a few years back has been getting a second life for pretty obvious reasons

In one Star Trek ep, a god-computer keeps a society in idyllic conditions. Kirk destroys it, telling the locals that they’ll come to enjoy “what we call freedom.” The moral, per @gerrycanavan.bsky.social: communism “might make you happy, but it won’t make you good.” daily.jstor.org/the-politics...

This is the abolitionist messaging we need www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMLtrGwt/

“the melodious strains of the instrument never failed to arouse the enthusiasm of the homesick, whilst the tricks of the monkey served to amuse the leisure of the rough miners who were incapable of entering into the feelings inspired by his music.” daily.jstor.org/miners-and-m...

New South moderates still viewed segregation as crucial for cultivating the rising middle-class white communities of cities like Atlanta and Charlotte. They just wanted to achieve it without offending northern industry. Scapegoating poor whites helped. daily.jstor.org/defining-whi...

Calligraphy, a respected part of Islamic scholarship in Nigeria's Hausa communities, requires education in various scripts, color theory, and methods of producing certain inks from ingredients including charcoal, millet, and the bark of certain trees. daily.jstor.org/islamic-call...

make a band singular: Them (singular)

This also counts as political violence.

fucking wild that a partisan program of, say, deploying state security to purge the nation of immigrants or legislate trans people to premature death can be pretensed as a contribution to salutary democratic debate and not as something that might cause us to reflect on the term “political violence”

Where Nazis used “the Jew” to represent the powers driving industrialization, @lebow.bsky.social argues, “the ‘illegal immigrant,’ who lacks human rights yet personifies the threat of globalized capitalism, is today’s indispensable outgroup.” daily.jstor.org/from-neolibe...

Most newspapers positioned themselves as allies of working Americans. But some argued that the system would naturally work for them as long as they worked hard and conducted themselves in correct, patriotic fashion. daily.jstor.org/demonizing-i...

Lopes writes that trust isn’t a matter of believing intellectually in the honesty or goodwill of another individual or institution. It's a “peculiar type of background existential feeling” that structures our thoughts and actions even if we rarely think about it. daily.jstor.org/what-did-the...

In the first years of the 1800s, Hamilton wrote that, while immigration had benefited the nation in earlier decades, there were now enough Americans daily.jstor.org/hamiltons-re...

The British described the king as the father of North American societies. The Shawnee turned this around, identifying rum as the milk of the royal parent. In 1795, two Shawnee leaders argued that the king’s “breasts” should be “full of milk” for their people. daily.jstor.org/colonialism-...

Despite employing a narrow vision of economic and technological progress to allow players to “win” history, the game’s inclusion of cultures from around the world encourages some players to learn more about African, Asian, and South American history daily.jstor.org/history-and-...

One economist suggested that national income should leave out spending on military weapons, which, he noted, were counted as “economic goods” even though they “might well be considered worthless and even harmful.” daily.jstor.org/where-do-eco...

Slightly diminish a band They Might Be Taller Than Average

For medieval Christians, fasting from meat might be appropriate, but only if you otherwise enjoyed it. daily.jstor.org/vegetarian-h...

When a dog dies, its owners prepare it for its next life as a human by putting butter in its mouth and cutting off its tail and placing it under its head as a pillow. daily.jstor.org/the-sacred-a...

Anyone else think Heretic is a perfect movie for this era? A babbling pseudointellectual fails to convince anyone of anything, but it doesn't matter because he has the power to inflict horrible suffering for no reason. Hugh Grant is much more fun to watch that Peter Thiel or Curtis Yarvin, but still

This Day in Labor History: June 23, 1855. A 19 year old slave woman named Celia murdered her master rather than allow him to rape her. She then attempted to burn his body, nearly succeeding in erasing all traces of the crime. Let's talk about the sexual labor of slavery, a huge part of slavery.

It's heartening to see legislators putting it on the line like this. If you're in a major city there are definitely court watching collabs like this in your area and I encourage those for whom it is safe to participate.

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

This is very revealing and extremely upsetting. A lot of these people aren't even hateful, they're just dumb as rocks. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

Reshare to scare the data bros and popularism acolytes

And planning for this sort of necessity is happening along parents in other cities across the country. As always: just because people aren't yelling about it publicly doesn't mean organizing isn't happening.

the Brazilian replies to this post will take you on a fucking journey