At a great session on women’s expressions of power, conformity, and resistance through dress. #shgape2026

Brilliant roundtable revisiting the 1877 strike at 150 #SHGAPE2026 @shgape.bsky.social @frelaine.bsky.social

It’s not strange. Grown Americans in positions of power & authority called the police on to campuses, and threatened the future work and livelihood of 20 year olds because they dared to stand against the mass bombing of women and children. And they will never forget it.

Mary Wollstonecraft AGAIN CONDEMNS the scourge of bro capitalists we suffer under today: “An ostentatious display of wealth without elegance, and a greedy enjoyment of pleasure without sentiment, embrutes them till they term…. anxiety about the welfare of others, a search after misery.” -1796

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

"As his post goes on, his language gets older. 100 years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words" Fascinating. So how far back in time can YOU go?

This one hits hard.

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday. They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

“Maybe the leaders of our nation’s wealthiest universities can’t think a generation ahead anymore, beholden as they are to board members who think in terms of the next quarter….” - François Furstenberg @publicbooks.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be

I think we are a little frozen in shock and so not responding to this situation we are in . It’s time to face it.

What we’ve just done is created the capability for the federal government to violently control cities even if the local (and state) government is willing to resist with force and even if our military and National Guard would refuse to implement the violence. That’s new.

If you’re in PA, Dem committee seats open this spring. Now is a good time to find your local democratic committee, run for a voting seat on it, and fight to make the party what it is not, and absolutely needs to be.

Sadly, the subject is always timely.

How Democrats Became the Party of the Well-to-Do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

CHICAGO…

Fascism encourages you to think it’s a spectator sport and when it’s too late you realize you’re also on the playing field and always have been.

The is a technical social science term for what @adambonica.bsky.social has laid bare here, and that is "absolutely fcking insane" Seriously. Read and weep.

Unpopular opinion: we were better off when American masculinity was defined in terms of stoicism and self-restraint then whatever the fuck the neofascists are peddling. And we should make a concerted effort to promote it.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you're interested in why American cities are *like that*, you need to get this book. Physically, even.

Authoritarianism 101-Detain educators & public servants; portray them as anti-American. "Retes was...driven to...LA's Metropolitan Detention Ctr, where he was held by...US Marshals Service... He was booked..& placed in a holding cell with a professor...detained that same day" shorturl.at/oQU1Q

You used to be able to google information and reliably get accurate info. Now you just have to swim through a soup of low quality websites (that also might be warped by AI) and try to figure out what's real

Update: We have now been at this for 22 hours and Republicans are still hard at work trying to kick 17 million Americans off their health care to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

I can’t believe this is my country. If we wonder “what we would have done” during the holocaust, now we know.

War. Peace. Food. Drinks. People. Labor. Politics. And more! Check out the Gilded Age & Progressive Era podcast, been around for a few years, doing some amazing stuff & now with new hosts! @shgape.bsky.social @oah.org @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @historians.org 🗃️ shows.acast.com/gildedageand...

Have national Dems, who claim to want to "win back" the working class, said anything yet about ICE injuring and arresting the head of the SEIU of California? truthout.org/articles/ice...

4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care - Los Angeles Times Don’t ever tell me that Christians support the GOP. There is nothing Christian or Christ-like about this. Just plain old cruelty and callousness:

Perfect day to head to the Valley Forge National Park. The rangers were so knowledgeable, and, seeing us coming w a wheelchair, grabbed a book to talk us through everything in the Washington’s HQ building. It was lovely.

I’ve taught the 14th Amendment but only today did I fully grasp how radically inclusive Birthright Citizenship really is. What makes you American? Not race, not religion, not lineage. You’re born here, you belong here.

Interesting how his racist & eliminationist EOs get framed as king-like declarations but when it comes to reining in drug prices suddenly "His Power Is Unclear," a real puzzler.

AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.

According to a congressman present, ICE arrested the Mayor of Newark in his own city while he was outside of an ICE facility. He wasn’t protesting or trespassing—he was serving as Mayor. This regime is lawless, reckless and trampling on the constitution.

Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.

Hope the hundreds of undergraduates who I caused to read Rerum Novarum over the years have a little flicker of recognition

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

Purported ICE agents raid a courthouse in Charlottesville in plain clothes without badges, ID or warrants, cart off two men without explanation. One of the three men was masked and the detainees were ushered into unmarked van. Video in the article. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

Everyone paying attention here, folks? Safety inspections of milk doesn't sounds like waste or fat to me. WTF?

I’ve done some volunteer organizing, and while I’ve met so many excellent humans this way, and plenty of well-meaning people with too much on their plate to do much, we need to talk about shitty volunteers. These volunteers are actually counterproductive to the organization’s purpose. Here’s a few:

On June 6 veterans will march in DC to demonstrate that our oaths to the Constitution still hold. This is not partisan; it’s about service, particularly the essential work of veterans in the government and those who care for them. Unite4veterans.org www.military.com/daily-news/2...

This is good news if you think our banking system is too secure.

Newly installed 20-something Nate Cavanaugh the so-called Acting President of the DOGE controlled-USIP is trying to transfer the USIP building to the GSA! But USIP building was built with private donations for USIP. Not ok. See details in the court filing today: www.courtlistener.com/docket/69754...

ICYMI. In response to the EO that conflates Confederate monuments with “history,” @uncpress.bsky.social is offering my book on the history of these statues for FREE until April 11th. Here’s the link! www.book2look.com/book/SO9q2ZB...

Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.

this district hasn't had a Democrat representing it in Congress since the 1960s

If you don't believe in civil liberties for people you dislike, you don't believe in civil liberties.

This contemplation of the nature of spectacle is worth slowing down and stopping for.

The Philadelphia Eagles were named, in 1933, to honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s National Recovery Administration, part of the New Deal—the NRA’s Blue Eagle stood for protection of labor and federal oversight of the U.S. economy (pic: Library of Congress)