Caroline Lee

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Not beating the rap that university executives are self-serving leeches who’ve done more to destroy higher ed than Donald Trump & his fascists could dream.

“The library doesn’t own the archive. It can’t freely digitize it or put the images online. The intellectual property still belongs to Gannett… And yet… it’s hard not to feel that whatever the legal paperwork says, this archive belongs, in spirit, to the people of Poughkeepsie.”

The Poughkeepsie Journal Photo Morgue and the Fight to Save Local History The Poughkeepsie Journal photo morgue holds decades of unpublished images. Artists, scholars, and librarians are fighting to keep it from disappearing.

“In 2019, as [Gannett] began fully moving operations out of the bldg, the entire collection—by then scattered across the basement—was suddenly in limbo… The Poughkeepsie Public Library stepped in, agreed to pay rent on a dedicated storage unit + took on physical custodianship of the archive…”

“[James Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert said.

Potown represent!

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

our recommendations: 1) Connect Politics to Problems and Solutions Make it clear that there are (and can be) political and policy solutions to many of the real problems people face. 2) Recruit Political Practitioners from Low-Income and Working-Class Backgrounds Risk of social disconnection compounds across marginalized identities. Addressing these disparities fully requires prioritizing intersecting aspects of identity including age, race, disability, sexuality, and gender identity. 3) Increase the Frequency, Quality, and Duration of Contact with Low-Income and Working-Class Communities Meaningful progress requires moving away from individualizing approaches and instead prioritizing social solutions aimed at creating relational change.

If we're going to have a democracy, we need to include everyone - so we have recommendations for how to do that. The DNC today launching a listening campaign to have volunteers talk to people who voted in 2020 but not in 2024 is a good start - but it will need to be done right.

an American flag fading into a group of people (or rising out of it) and a quote from one of our respondents, talking about what she thinks about when she thinks about politics - "People in power have money and don't fully understand the struggles like being in debt, raising a child, or being on welfare — that's a disconnection."

The people we spoke to - across racial groups, and across geographies in Pennsylvania - told us they feel disconnected from our leaders and our political system, that politics looks like a game played by privileged people. They don't feel like politicians really care about them or their communities.

image of a report cover, with a US flag in the background, and the text "The Political Disconnect: Working-Class and Low-Income People on What Politics Means to Them and How They Might be Mobilized”

Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone.
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njs.libraries.rutgers.edu NJS: An Interdisciplinary Journal Summer 2025 The New Jersey Miscount: The 1860 Census and the Accidental Humanization of Enslaved Individuals By Luke Voyles DOI: 10.14713/njs.v1112.362 Abstract: The 1860 census is the only example in U.S. history when the U.S. government systematically recorded the names and ages of enslaved individuals of a state. Because government officials underestimated the number of enslaved people in New Jersey, there was no slave schedule in the state. Therefore, the names of enslaved individuals appeared within the households of their enslavers in the regular 1860 census. The official census statistics only listed 18 individuals as enslaved in 1860, but a close examination of every 1860 census page for New Jersey uncovers 64 names tied to slavery. This essay explores the context behind the census, and how the census accidentally humanized people whom it often marginalized.

Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865.

Y’all. He identified every one of them.
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And they want us to suffer. Because human care is incompatible with capitalism. As other sectors have profited from automation and outsourcing, care has remained too labor-intensive to be simultaneously profitable, affordable for all who need it, and paid well enough to avoid shortages of care. 2/

As care gets more expensive, and as shortages of human care increase, desperate people may be willing to buy the lie that AI is a reasonable substitute. But really, they'll just be getting, at best, a cheap knock-off, while the wealthy hoard what remains of human care for themselves. 1/

"In February 2026, AI agents began doing something unprecedented"

It is the second day of February 2026.

PA07!

Seven candidates and moderator for PA 07 Dem primary debate on a dais with name tags

Currently at a seven candidate Dem 07 primary debate with packed audience in the chapel at Lafayette College on a Sunday night.

I just saw a video of what appeared to be a 6 or 7 year old little girl in agony as someone flushed her eyes for tear gas. ICE is an evil abomination. This is authoritarian, failed-state shit and everyone who helped this along should be held accountable.

YES!!!

Y'all just do not understand Tarrant County. This is...oh well there are the tears. Great work by all the organizers!!

Tracking ICE's Profits ICE is extraordinarily costly to working people & grotesquely profitable for the worst among us

ICYMI @hebagowayed.bsky.social wrote about the companies profiting from ICE’s ethnic cleansing campaign and why a bipartisan consensus keeps the out-of-control agency funded for our newsletter Group Threat (please subscribe).

The Dept. of Appearing to Take Things Rather Seriously While Wearing a Navy Sport Coat and No Tie is actively searching for a Dean of Comfortably Ordering Wine in a DC Steakhouse Where Denny Hastert Used to Sit Right Over There. The position will pay $580,000. The history department is abolished

"In 2023, the “Minnesota Miracle” secured one of the strongest social safety nets in the country...None of it would have been possible without years of organizing that built a multiracial constituency prepared to stand together" - @hahrie.bsky.social for @hammerandhope.bsky.social, 2024

Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.

Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.

Even when they show signs of weakness or forced regret, we must not give an inch. Authoritarian governments still respond to public opinion, which is why sustained pressure matters. We have to keep making clear that these thuggish actions are unconscionable and will not be tolerated. Don’t let up.

ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.

The Second Winner of the 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitlesFrom the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second A…

Some folks could really benefit from reading Carol Anderson's book on the ways the Second Amendment has historically been a tool of white supremacy, become some of the takes are...lacking. (And I guess Dr. Anderson isn't on here?)

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Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c

1. continuing, not 1 off.
2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it
3. literally at hand of federal government, which is
4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.

ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record. Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...

This was something the Trump administration promised it would not do this time - separating kids from their parents. But of course they are doing it. Because cruelty is the point. And they believe they are above the law. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...