Alyssa S.

The No Kings stuff on the 18th needs to be really big.

If it is too cringe for you, do therapy or deep breathing or something and then grow up

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

Rather than add on here with my own - let me just add to @jillmurray.bsky.social, who among us does NOT feel a little like Marat these days? 😭

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“I am living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil.”

From July 17th: m.facebook.com/share/p/16yL...

I went to the Broadview ICE detention center this afternoon/evening. The first 2 hours were pretty quiet. Several dozen protesters & occasionally some Fascism Enjoyers who shouted things but mostly lowkey. But then a violent Christofascist biker rolled up & that was not good. Everyone is OK. Thread:

Elon Musk and Stephen Miller both tweeted against judges today.

A South Carolina judge's house burned down and almost killed her family.

what an absolutely terrifying experience for the man in the video. But yes, amazing.

And so glad to hear that @romerojohnm.bsky.social!

My students love pop culture (as San Diegans do!) - but sometimes I spoil things for them forever and they pretend to be mad LOL.

Right?? They might be grumpy with me.... but I'm not the one that made the video LOL.

Things to consider:

Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter

Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed

You are a witness.
Expose it.

YouTube video by Taylor Swift Taylor Swift - Wildest Dreams

Wait til I blow their mind with TayTay enacting her fantasies of colonial romance & adventure in a few weeks - but first they have to see more images of early 20th C. colonialists so they see how she's self-fashioning! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idne...

Text: The illegitimate offspring of an Armenian Orthodox ex-pope turned an- archist, Alexandre Trophirnovsky, and an aristocratic German woman, Isabelle Eberhardt was raised in a wildlv eccentric household located in one of Geneva's sedate suburbs. Tutored at home by the nihilist Trophi- movsky, who within the family was as much an autocrat as the Russian tsars he conspired against, Eberhardt and her hapless siblings were raised to despise middle-class and Christian morals. She received an extensive ed- ucation at the hands of her oppressive father-classical and European lan- guages as well as Arabic, history, geography, philosophy, etc. -which pro-- . vided the only relief in childhood from the morbid atmosphere of the family compound. From an early age, she wore only male clothes and was taught to ride a horse as vigorously as any man, two formative influences that served her well later in North Africa but also mav have contributed to the "fluidity" of her own gender identification

Preparing for French colonialism class. We're in the Algeria unit. Don't you hate that woke people are using time machines these days to go back into the past & make people gender-fluid? 🙃 This is from Julia Clancy-Smith's article about Isabelle Eberhardt - the essay's 33 years old & still slaps!

"The strength of a people lies in its purity, not in its diversity."
—Tom Metzger, a white supremacist, neo-Nazi and Klansman

"Real strength comes from homogeneity, from people who share the same blood and values."
—William Pierce, neo-Nazi, author of the Turner Diaries

Is everything.

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You’re failing at life and work and humanity the day you zip tie a kid

The image is an X post by Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis ) from 19 hours ago, stating: "So let me get this straight: a Blackhawk helicopter and dozens of masked, armed federal agents roll up on a Chicago apartment building, cuff everyone—including kids—and then run checks for warrants and immigration status? What the hell is going on in this country? How is that not fascism?" The post includes a verified badge.

Narrator: This is fascism.

Keep taking videos of what ICE is doing. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is right, document what’s happening. This is why they hate journalists so much.

if jay is being harassed so much, she should simply use the same tools we're told to use when people harass us:

- limit responses to followers/no one
- close DMs
- adjust labelers

UNLESS these tools don't actually combat REAL harassment?!

if only a vulnerable community could have WARNED her!!

Just unfollowed 60 minutes - but in the meanwhile, check out the new & definitely not improved CBS...

Video shows blaze that injured 3 at Edisto Island home of SC judge, former SC senator Video shows an Oct. 4 fire that took place on Edisto Island, at Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein's home in Planters Retreat in the Jeremy Cay Community.

This is the home of a South Carolina judge who said no to the DoJ on voter rolls. Her prominent family attends the Charleston Temple Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim.

FREE LINK NOW

This is a Black person who has been on Bluesky forever and apparently just got banned for calling Jay transphobic.

We are at the "hurting the mods' feelings is a bannable offense" stage of Jay's meltdown, now

When New Yorkers remember him calling in on 9/11 to say his was now the largest tower around Ground Zero. People were incinerated & "John Baron" was bragging.

So say it, Hegseth.

President Truman desegregated the military in 1948. That would be when the “wokeness” began, huh?

Say it.

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

E Pluribus Dumdum

I had to check and see si vous faîtes réference à vous ou à nous! 😭