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One cool way to solve homelessness that isn’t an authoritarian take over of a city is to give everyone homes

Federal Workers Should Be Fireable At-Will, Trump HR Chief Says Government workers should be “at will” employees who can be fired for any reason, the Trump administration’s chief personnel officer said.

The Director of the White House Office of Personnel Management just said that all government workers should be “at will” employees.

This comment comes as the Trump administration attacks federal unions and tries to erode workers' rights.

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I reject fatalism [a form of moral disengagement]. What happens next is not predetermined and depends in part on us.

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Largest Veteran Affairs Employee Union Outraged After Secretary Collins Terminates AFGE Collective Bargaining Agreement American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest union representing 320,000 employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) expressed outrage after VA Secretary Doug Collins notifi...

News everyone should be talking about: The Trump administration just ripped up union contracts for HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of VA workers... targeting the unions that have been vocally fighting their illegal anti-worker actions with retaliation.

An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.

I wish as many people wanted to actually click on Teen Vogue stories as like a post about our work being good and important, because this post is almost at 20k likes and that would be pretty good traffic!

The nation's landmark voting rights law just turned 60. It may not survive Trump. “The long-term game is to repeal the Voting Rights Act.”

John Roberts has been trying to kill Voting Rights Act since he was young lawyer in Reagan DOJ. Now SCOTUS conservative justices appear set to dismantle what’s left of the country’s most important civil rights law, dealing a catastrophic blow to American democracy www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The way I want to throw everything right now...

“Making New History” with Old Tools: The Coloniality of Method in (Post-)Colonial Historical Commissions Even well-intentioned efforts at historical reckoning can reproduce epistemic harm when they rely on unexamined disciplinary assumptions.

How can historical commissions get it right? Often, as @cirapalliaspero.bsky.social explains, well-intentioned efforts reproduce harm when they rely on unexamined disciplinary assumptions.🗃️#academicsky

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In a league of her own 🏆

Team Visma | Lease a Bike rider Pauline Ferrand-Prévot wins solo for the second day in succession to seal overall victory at the Tour de France Femmes.

📸 Sprint Cycling

I can't be the only one who thought that the family in "The Witch" (2015) was just being racist against the goat because it's name was "Black Phillip" until the end of the movie

Don't ask me what strike one was. It'll just make me mad.

PSA: all y'all are still on strike two for not telling me how good Hall & Oates were. Yes this carries over from the bad place. Yes you should confess if there's any other delicious music you've hidden from me.

If you are a teacher K-12 and have a wish list for supplies for the school year for your classroom, please tag me so I can amplify your list. We used to do this on the old site and people usually responded very well.

Here Are the Top Recipients of AIPAC Money | Israel Palestine News The most complete, up-to-date view of AIPAC PAC donations to congressional candidates.

If you are a NYC Democrat, finding Gillibrand, Jeffries, Torres, and Latimer in the top 20 on this list will enlighten you. If you are a Mamdani supporter, finding them there will not surprise you. If you are a Democrat, the list will probably disappoint you.

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As a historian, all I ever think is that anyone who thinks you defeat fascism with better arguments has a very strange idea of history where all the atrocities within it could have been stopped by a good debater

New: After Gaza aid flotilla volunteer & US citizen Christian Smalls was taken into Israeli custody, seven uniformed individuals beat him, choking him & kicking him in the legs, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

Smalls is co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union.

Chris Smalls was profiled by every major media outlet when he lead Amazon victory on Staten Island.

Shocking that not one outlet has covered the IDF detaining him in the Gaza flotilla

Prayers up for Borghini.

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”

We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.

➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...

How Liberalism Sabotages Itself Our intentional blindness to bad faith is a loophole fascists use to gain respectability and power.

👍🏼 “… it does not follow that liberals must extend the presumption of good faith to everyone engaged in free speech. Right-wing operators in particular are groomed and trained to embrace bad-faith argument as a tactic.” JG - 👏 on shunning certain types, etc. www.offmessage.net/p/how-libera...

Hulk Hogan was a scab, brother.

I saw Air Bud trending and for a second I thought his name was in the Epstein files...

There’s a saying in wrestling: “every wrestler goes out on their back.”

IHO of Hulk Hogan’s passing, here’s a piece I wrote for @cliocontemporary.bsky.social about Terry Bollea’s longtime association with Republican Politics.

Hey all, I’m looking for grad students/historians to write advice pieces for @cliocontemporary.bsky.social ‬on comprehensive exams. Pieces could be on identifying a comps committee, prepping reading lists, what to do after comps, etc. Message me here if you’re interested.

That's fucking horrific. I'm sorry.

Thank you!

Hey all, I’m looking for grad students/historians to write advice pieces for @cliocontemporary.bsky.social ‬on comprehensive exams. Pieces could be on identifying a comps committee, prepping reading lists, what to do after comps, etc. Message me here if you’re interested.

I'd like to thank Tyler, the Creator for giving me the present of a new album on my birthday. A+ gift. No notes.