Terri E. Givens

I just did that in class today.

#BlackHistoryMonth - about the first Black doll I ever owned. I loved Barbie, but Mattel didn't produce a Black Barbie until 1980. Diahann Carroll played a nurse in the show Julia, another first. The doll that was made from that show was an important representation for so many young girls like me.

My generation grew up with a show that helped us see a beautiful image of our country…that’s why our hearts are breaking now. 💔

They are an important part of our country’s history and I’m very proud to be part of their legacy. I have learned so much from their lives and appreciate the work of advocates like @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social who work to educate us all about health disparities.

Rocelious and Leora lived through difficult times, growing up during the depression and the uncertainties of WW II, often having manage their way through the Jim Crow South and the intolerant North. My father died in 2001 and my mother in 2010, both as a result of cardiovascular disease.

Over 20 years of service, she raised seven children and moved too many times to count. Leora was part of the Great Migration from Louisiana to Los Angeles in the early 1950s where she went to work as a seamstress and met a handsome young soldier who swept her off her feet.

For #BlackHistoryMonth I will be focusing on people who have had an impact on my life, both those who have passed and those who are still very much with us.

To start, I want to honor my parents. Although my dad was the one who enlisted in the Air Force, my mom served, too.

Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE.

Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.

This is who runs this account

The guy on the right is New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, photographed at the Kennedy Center premiere of “Melania.” #GoSeahawks!

I'm skimming through mentions of Trump in the Trump-Epstein Files, and there's one thing that I'm thinking over and over:

All we had to do was believe the women.

There are dozens of stories in here that make me ill. Do you really believe these are all lies?

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

Definitely looking forward to this!

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How did we get here?

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Yup.

When we talk about people murdered by ICE, we shouldn't forget Keith Porter, a black man who was shot by ICE on new years eve

Minnesota is the best of us.

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My interview with @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social on Trump’s speech

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Go Hawks!

“There Is No Place for Us”: A Sympathetic, but Skewed, Portrait of the Working Homeless Brian Goldstone’s new book downplays the role of personal choices.

Positively shocked that the house magazine of the Manhattan Institute is upset that my book refuses to attribute America's record-high homelessness to "personal choices"—rather than, say, rents outpacing income gains by 325 percent since 1985.

California dreamin’

Made up BS

The year of elections: The rise of Europe’s far right After strong showings in recent elections, there are far-right parties in government in seven European countries. Global Insight assesses the threat to the rule of law and what can be done to protect ...

Sep 30, 2024 — After strong showings in recent elections, there are far-right parties in government in seven European countries.
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2005 - my first book, Voting Radical Right in Western Europe, is published, more people are paying attention, but the far right is still considered a "flash in the pan"

1999 - Far Right Freedom party takes second place in Austrian Parliamentary election - becomes the focal point of concern but many people are telling me that my dissertation will be irrelevent since the far right are just a "flash in the pan"

1992 - Read about the rise of the German Republikaner and decide to write about it for my grad school applications - I get admitted to UCLA
1995-1998 Spent time in France, Germany, and Austria learning about immigration issues and rise of radical right

To all those who told me my grad school research would some day be irrelevant...

1986 - First encounter with the radical right as the Front National enters the French Assembly the same month I start my study abroad program.

I’ve played around with it a bit, mainly Notebook LM, and it definitely takes up my time, particularly since you have to be careful about finding all the errors it makes, I haven’t found a way to use it that is helpful or saves me any time.

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

WELKER: Do you bear any responsibility to bring down the temperature?

FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.