#OtD 23 Aug 1966 200 Aboriginal workers at the Wave Hill pastoral station in Australia walked out on strike for equal pay with white workers. They remained out for an incredible nine years, and added return of the land to their demands, and succeeded stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9547...

Hey, you survived another week. Buy yourself a few books.

An episode rendered invisible by the ‘Lest We Forget’ fixation on the Second World War in Britain. In that telling, veterans are quasi-mythical heroes, not real people with politics, nor is class really allowed to enter into it beyond a teleological narrative about the founding of the welfare state.

German FAZ about the US economy: (...) around 50 percent of consumer spending is now accounted for by the top income decile. Whether the US economy avoids a recession depends heavily on these households with annual incomes of $250,000 or more. ... (1/2) www.faz.net/.../trumps-w....

Spending the summer in Brittany, a place to simply forget about the madness of the world. And it fills me with nothing but bewilderment that it seems impossible for humanity to simply enjoy the immense beauty that this world has to offer.

Happy Bastille Day! It's always important to remember the holiday's most important message: no matter how bleak things look, never stop standing up to Nazis.

What is wrong with people. Poisoning trees with glyphosat so they have to be cut down. www.faz.net/aktuell/rhei...

Teaching somewhat spontaneously about Rock Against Racism today. A reminder amidst the current fuck-up that fighting for, and creating, something better is possible--and beautiful, joyful, exhilarating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyGm...

I guess altering the climate it's ok if it's just by accident and not on purpose, or as a "negligible" side-effect of making profits...

Texas officials appeared to be almost entirely issuing vital emergency alerts about the deadly Kerr County flooding via Facebook and Twitter/X. Utter malpractice to restrict these alerts to social media platforms that huge numbers of people don’t use anymore.

A question for fellow historians on this platform: is there any place, any forum, you know of for sort of faster debate, a place to publish, without the long processes of peer reviewing, shorter thought piecess on more general issues of writing history (e.g., how history might speak to the present)?

Next heat wave in Berlin looks even worse. Maybe people will eventually take climate change seriously. Oh, and no rain whatsoever.

Habt ihr euch gefragt, warum so viele indische Kurierfahrer unterwegs sind? Viele werden von teuren Privatunis hergelockt, verschulden sich, landen in einem Teufelskreislauf aus miesen Jobs und überfüllten, möblierten Apartments. Meine ganze Recherche gibt's bei der @taz.de taz.de/Das-Geschaef...

Wenn Klimaschutz nicht mehr sexy sein soll, wie die FAZ meint (und die Regierung zum Handeln auffordert), ist dass die Klimakatastrophe sexy? (Kollabierende Geburtenraten sprechen nicht dafür.) www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...

‘Welcome America’ headliner LL Cool J is CANCELLING his Friday performance in solidarity with the striking DC 33 workers’! “There’s no way that I can perform, cross a picket line, and pick up money knowing that there’s people out there fighting for a living wage.” www.instagram.com/reel/DLqu8TU...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

One of the many issues humanity should spend its resources on: how to deal with droughts, floods, and water supply. A huge task that will require billions. But instead, immense resources are spent on armament. (And to be clear, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, 1/2) www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

There are so many urgent probelms, like how to change our cities in the face of climate change, & so many great ideas attesting to humanity's creativity in dealing with such challenges. But humanity is, well, busy f**king up. Because all that matters is, sure, migration. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

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Heute Mittag haben etwa 100 Leute v.a. der Johanna-Tesch-Schule in Frankfurt Bockenheim demonstriert, um an die Abschiebung von Gunit und Angad zu erinnern, die vor 77 Tagen gegen ihren Willen in ein fremdes Land verbracht wurden. Sie fehlen und wir wollen sie zurück!

on a day like this (heat wave in Berlin & across Europe; Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, and so on), it feels like humanity bascially decided to completely f**k itself, and that in a stunningly democratical fashion (Trump & Co got elected, after all), willfully ignoring just anything.

⚡️UK to fund joint drone production with Ukraine. Ukraine and the United Kingdom have reached an agreement to jointly produce drones, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov announced on June 24. kyivindependent.com/uk-to-fund-j...

when did The Onion become a serious news outlet, reporting absolutely plausible stuff?

This man is my hero because he’s a member of the United States Air Force and is standing by his #Oath to the #Constitution! I’m hoping that since he has taken the lead others will follow because this is what a true American Soldier looks like! Remember your Oath to the Constitution

Just so we're all clear: It's not a coincidence that the first senator they've used physical force against is Sen. Alex Padilla, a Latino man representing California.

just like on a national level I feel like you should really have to back up your emergency declarations with *something*

Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.

@pelosi.house.gov: "On January 6th...we begged the president of the United States to send in the National Guard. He would not do it...And yet, in a contra-constitutional way, he has sent the National Guard into California. Something is very wrong with this picture."

On the right to protest:

Dringend 🌈🍀🌸🌺

An absolute must read for anyone interested in how the past speaks to the present--and the present to the past, by @ludivinebantigny.bsky.social "History is the life of the dead"; writing history, then, might be resurrecting the dead for the present. www.editionsladecouverte.fr/la_commune_a...

Is AI responding to the calls for a general strike?

That is what makes protests in the streets powerful: they are sites of pride, even joy, when people (re-)connect across differences, when solidarity is forged; when there is music and dancing. It's also what makes protests in the streets beautiful. (Reading from far away, the best report I've seen)

State troops sent to Los Angeles by the Trump administration, without the approval of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, were expected to sleep on floors or outdoors, a source told the Chronicle.

Classssic! Reporter says, "Describe what happened to you." He says: "Oh, just tasted a little tear gas... tasted like fascism." Live reports are the best!

Now at Chicago's Daley Plaza - a rally led by the Service Employees International Union is underway to protest ICE raids nationwide, and to call for the release of SEIU California President David Huerta. Huerta was detained by ICE agents in Los Angeles on Friday amid the city's anti-ICE protests.

NEW: The Trump administration’s threats against international students represent a war on universities, a war on immigrants and a war on dissent. @johnkwilson.bsky.social examines this unprecedented assault for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/argument/wha...

if people had voted for the nice Black lady, the gays would be dancing with the First Gentleman on the white house lawn today while President Harris worked to get Medicare to cover home Healthcare aides for our aging parents. but this is fun, too, i guess.

Whenever police lawlessness is caught on camera: think about how much isn't being caught on camera.

That's what we should talk about. The courageous people of LA.

A simple lesson from history, from a historian of protesting: Taking to the streets can make a difference. Organizing matters. Action matters. Mobilization matters. Envisioning a better future matters. It's possible to fail, to be defeated; and then it's time to get up and try again.

That's where resistance forms: in the streets. Courageous indeed.

What should be making headlines (here and elsewhere): The amazing, courageous, inspiring things citizens of LA are doing right now. What dominates the headlines: what police do, what Trump plans, etc. Yes, that's important, too, but could there be more focus on protesters' courage, too?

I've heard so many people calling for Democrats to take the lead in resisting Trump. Now it's people in the streets leading the resistance and pushing leaders like Gavin Newsome to take a stance. It's in the streets where resistance happens. "We are not afraid!" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Love to see this. We have lots of 💙 Pendleton Marine vets on campus along work alums. I was hoping Pendleton Marines would know decline to fire on civilians & I’ll glad these vets are pointing the way.

What protestors can achieve (and why it's worth knowing their history): In 1969, students and apprentices in Hanover, Germany, initiated a protest against drastically increased public transport fares. Putting a big red dot (the "rote Punkt") onto their windshields, private drivers stepped in (1/X)