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As out turns out, the “civilization“ spread by the western powers was always repression, plunder, & mass death disguised under the language of universal rights.

How Libraries Are Standing Up to ICE Fandoms are trying to engage with activism that can make a difference, and your library is a great place to find those opportunities.

Fandoms are trying to engage with activism that can make a difference, and your library is a great place to find those opportunities. @comicslibrarian.com breaks down all the ways libraries are standing up to ICE.

Call for book review essays - book list C21 is inviting scholars and researchers to contribute book review essays for upcoming issues. We currently have a selection of titles published in 2025 available for review, spanning film and …

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This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

I like following lawyers because they’ll tweet something like “oh shit the judge went OFF on this one, he was PISSED” above a screenshot which reads “prosecution claims to be unaware of any memo”

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

"I asked Chat GPT and -" ok, I asked the exhumed corpse of Pope Formosus during the Cadaver Synod and he went "... ... ..." and then his jaw fell off and it was still a better answer

Episode 88: Sonya Bonczek Gives Us the Scoop on Book Publicity Kate Carpenter interviews Sonya Bonczek, director of publicity at UNC Press, about how book publicity works and what authors can do to promote their books.

Usually, I chat with historians about writing. But this week we're pulling back the curtain on book publicity! @sonyabonczek.bsky.social, dir of publicity at @uncpress.bsky.social, joined me to demystify the work of publicists and give some advice to authors. Listen: tinyurl.com/sonyabonczek 🗃️ 📚

FFS LET TRANS PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES IN PEACE

From Minstrelsy to Broadway, Part Two - Shoga Speaks At the turn of the 20th century, African American artists faced a fundamental question: how could they prove their citizenship and claim their place in American culture? Historian and musician David G...

Dave Gilbert, author of THE PRODUCT OF OUR SOULS: Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace, walks us through the first three chapters of his book in this two part podcast series on the Shoga Speaks podcast 🎶

Episode 2 is out now ⤵️

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Petition to make this a broadside or a poster ❤️

As far as I know, farm archives have never really been used to track queer histories before. Given they mostly record the financial ongoings on a given farm, you can understand why. However, my year of research at The MERL has proved their potential.

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CRITICAL RACE THEORY? BROTHER, EVERY RACE IS CRITICAL

Saw this in Discord and it’s amazing

Digital blackface flourishes under Trump and AI: ‘The state is bending reality’ From TikTok deepfakes to smears put out by the White House, fake videos modeled on Black archetypes are running rampant - putting Black users at risk

new read feat. thee @safiyanoble.bsky.social

I needed some good news today.

holy shit

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

UNC Power Brokers Roll Into Raleigh With Tuition Hikes And Speech Rules On The Line UNC System leaders will vote on tuition hikes and a new academic-freedom definition this week.

The UNC Board of Governors is trying to rewrite the definition of academic freedom, restricting what faculty can say & do in their classrooms & in public.

This is a broader effort to limit open inquiry & free debate in higher education.

We know what the aim is. We can’t let this happen.

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men.

This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries."

"Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife"

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Tech companies are trying to gaslight us into thinking AI is commercially viable (it is not), that its products are on par with human-made products (they are not), and that the singularity is imminent (far from it!). They do this to attract funding—I call it the vaporware-industrial complex.

They Built Stepford AI and Called It “Agentic” Women’s “ick” for AI isn’t technophobia or a gap to close. It’s wisdom to act on.

This is the AI critique I’ve been waiting to read, and WHEW open.substack.com/pub/abiawomo...

modern upton sinclair: it is difficult to get someone to recognize their bad take when their salary depends upon them having a bad take about it

“We Belong to Each Other Now”: Lessons from Minneapolis “This extreme closeness, togetherness and intimacy — you cannot infiltrate your way into a space where you'll understand that," says May, a rapid responder in Minneapolis.

After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.

Myth, monsters and making sense of a disenchanted world: why everyone is reading fantasy I have made the leap from literary fiction to fantasy – for those who think it’s mere wish-fulfilment, here’s why we need that thing with the dragons

"I’d argue that, as well as expressing our frustrations with the disenchanted world, [fantasy is] also our best means for capturing the ways in which the world remains enchanted, for all our strenuous buffering." - Francis Spufford

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Alabama is waving this Globe & Mail story like an Olympic gold medal today. But is it true? The answer: A big YES with a lot of buts. Some thoughts …

Find your next read in this dataset of international bestsellers. In most situations when I say “I need the data,” I’m referring to gossip, and it’s less of a “need” than what some would call a “messy curiosity.” But recently, I came across a Substack post analyz…

Compiled Sean DiLeonardi, Becca Cohen, and Dan Sinykin, the International Bestsellers Dataset gathers data about international bestselling books from 2013 to 2022.

Me finding out all the things my fellow citizens are doing: wow, we are going to win

Me looking at my representatives: it's in doubt

Excited for this one!!