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Look at any part of the US immigration system and you’ll see baked in allowances for racism and abuse. Like Bill Ong Hing says, the system needs to be abolished. #AbolishICE
Podcast Episode · Pod and Country · 07/15/2025 · 1h 9m
The next time you hear conservatives use any of the following terms, ask for a definition.
"Woke" "DEI" "Critical race theory" "Socialism"
They won't have any.
They just want to stoke culture wars to divert attention from economic looting and oligarchy.
Howard Zinn believed that the work of telling US history shouldn’t be done by just one person. Each volume in our ReVisioning History series is written by a singular scholar, like Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz! @bklynlibrary.bsky.social
Don Dumas Without Zinn, I don't know what I would be doing right now.Adwoa Adusei This is Don Dumas. He lives in San Diego, California – and when he first came across Howard Zinn’s A People's History ...
At least 50 Texas Democratic state legislators fled the state on Sunday in protest to block a vote on proposed congressional redistricting pushed by Gov. Greg Abbott and Donald Trump. State Rep. and union organizer Lauren Ashley Simmons is one of them. She spoke with Teen Vogue about the move:
"It's one thing to fight against my community and try to silence us. It's a whole ‘nother thing if we just lay down and take it."
So stoked to see @melodyglenn.bsky.social’s MOTHER OF METHADONE in @debutiful.bsky.social’s July debuts roundup! 🙏🏼🤩
Here are the debut books that caught Debutiful’s eye this month. We think readers will find plenty to love among them. To see our curated list of standout titles, check out our “12 Noteworthy Debut…
Of the current 9 Supreme Court Justices, NONE would have been eligible to vote when the nation held it’s first election in 1789.
Why?
They're all are either Catholic, Female, Black or Hispanic.
History doesn't matter with this court. #VotingRightsAct darlenemcdonald.substack.com/p/voting-rig...
60 years of the Voting Rights Act
“It’s no wonder . . . that this pope . . . has used his seat of authority to call the world’s attention to #ClimateChange, which will disproportionately affect the poor.”—Andreas Karelas #PopeFrancis
![By Andreas Karelas | In 2015 Pope Francis released a papal encyclical—an urgent message addressed to all Catholics—entitled “Laudato Si’ [Praise Be to You]: On Care for Our Common Home.” It caught the...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s4fwgtj7xjxdmsrwzekkdjho/bafkreidxuwwcq62p55w24y67egmiyhh4dmrhlcenulhiquk344vsbjm7qu@jpeg)
By Andreas Karelas | In 2015 Pope Francis released a papal encyclical—an urgent message addressed to all Catholics—entitled “Laudato Si’ [Praise Be to You]: On Care for Our Common Home.” It caught the...
If protecting underage users from harmful content means increasing blanket surveillance, have you made the internet safer or less so? @chaykak.bsky.social writes about the risks that a new wave of online-safety laws brings to the digital landscape.
New safety rules require users to verify their identities before gaining access to sites. This spells the end of the relative anonymity that we’ve come to expect online.
The uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima 80 years ago on this day in history was never tested. And just 3 weeks later, the duplicate bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. #Hiroshima80
By Fred Pearce | Whatever its moral pitfalls, the production of the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan was a triumph of twentieth-century science. In the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the steam-...
Right-to-repair laws have now either passed or been introduced in all 50 states, forcing private equity–backed firms to allow DIY fixes.
State laws are forcing private equity–backed firms—which can make buyers wait months—to allow DIY fixes.
