Alyssa Ribeiro

When Democrats Won the Heartland

And just like that, it's real.

When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992, from @illinoispress.bsky.social. Due out 4/14/26.

Thanks to everyone who tolerated this dream and made it happen. Pre-order if you'd like: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

Some things are hard to do and can't be accomplished immediately, and, therefore, shouldn't be attempted at all.

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

I really believe that if you tell people the truth and say it with passion and without compromise, they will be receptive. Not everyone, but more than you’d think. It’s the same way I feel about teaching. Don’t act like people are stupid and incurious.

I did not know that!

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

Dems in ARRAY

Decisive victory for Democrats in my small town in NWPA (Meadville)!

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.

The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.

They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.

Wanna fix fraud and abuse?

Fix that.

Make our homes and streets safe! Vote Republican. A pair of large, older and possibly not white hands reaching for a white girl in a white dress and holding a toy

Teenie Harris took this photo of a billboard in Pittsburgh in 1949 and it’s wild to think how little has changed

Every member of the House of Representatives is being paid to sit at home and do nothing while every air traffic controller is being denied a paycheck while tasked with keeping the flying public alive.

That is really messed up.

Taking sage advice of @unlawfulentries.bsky.social I’m posting cover of forthcoming book Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis

through 25 years of working in 'tech', one thing I've learned is that literacy and linguistic mastery is THE SKILL. Not math, not anything related to formal 'logic'. Everything in any sort of office job is based on the ability to read and write. We're depriving students of the #1 thing.

Being historically illiterate costs us a lot.

Make Abhorrent Ideas Socially Unacceptable Again

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

This might be the dumbest thing I've ever heard

Police & the Empire City: Race & the Origins of Modern Policing in New York by Matthew Guariglia. The cover shows a small italian boy standing next to an NYPD officer in long blue wool uniform

Duke University Press has a massive sale. Use the code Fall25 for 50% off Police and the Empire City my book about how racism, fear of immigrant crime, deportation, imperial occupations, and new surveillance technologies created the modern police department.

www.dukeupress.edu/police-and-t...

While the top 1% control $54 TRILLION

(not a typo)

Don’t Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House? Asking for a friend.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Humanities and social sciences are being systematically gutted while STEM disciplines rediscover their half a century-old research insights and pass them off as their own

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

I was unaware it existed until moving to Northwest PA

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

If you're upset about what Trump's doing to the east wing of the White House, wait till you find out what he's doing to the Constitution.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

surely just a coincidence.

4,000 gone: Inside NASA’s brain drain In exclusive interviews, ex-NASA scientists speak out on the impact of the agency's mass departures.

"The secret sauce has been poured down the drain," says David Draper, former Deputy Chief Scientist of NASA, over the recent firing or departure of 1000s of NASA employees, which will be catastrophic for the legacy of the US🇺🇸😖🚀

www.planetary.org/articles/400...

h/t @floragraham.bsky.social 🧪