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Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back by Joshua Clark Davis

A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence—& a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter & Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century later.

@joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social's Police Against the Movement is now available: hubs.ly/Q03Mp5Ss0

👇🎯 This is how governing works in literally every actual democracy around the world. If you don’t have the votes, it’s up to you to make concessions to the minority parties. It’s not their job to save you from your responsibility to govern by giving you things you don’t have the votes for already.

Gonna leave this here.

(However, I remember them complaining about Shakira too, though she was the guest to Jennifer Lopez - that was a good show)

It’s a great series.

I have used incarceration as well. I also use concentration camps in part to show the inhumanity and because I have quotes from those in the camps who used “concentration camps”

This does hit hard

It is why using the word “internment camp” for Japanese-descended people in WWII is just a bad euphemism to cover the atrocity

And it is yet another parallel from the fascism of Germany to the US today

Due process is for EVERY PERSON in the United States without exception

Just because a person says 2+2=5 doesn’t make it true. It just makes that person wrong and, if they keep repeating it insisting it’s true, makes them idiotic & dangerous

Trump has 'determined' “ U.S. is in 'armed conflict' w/ cartels, administration tells Congress www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

No, it was racist. It was imparting cultural appropriation and playing it for laughs (it would be similar to posting a fake image of a white person donning blackface). That is racist, plain and simple

He may have been trying to “be funny” with it but that doesn’t make it any less offensive & racist

Historian here. No, it was racist. It was imparting cultural appropriation and playing it for laughs (it would be similar to posting a fake image of a white person donning blackface). That is racist, plain and simple

This is literally what every apocalyptic Book of Revelation evangelical movie/book from the 90s warned us about - a one world government leader declaring he alone can bring peace whole his followers wear his mark on their foreheads

I remember thinking no one could be so stupid as to believe him 🙄🤬

Trump directs defense secretary to deploy troops to Portland In a post on Truth Social, the president said he was authorizing the use of "full force" to protect ICE facilities in Portland, Oregon, if necessary.

I remember in the 90s during the rise of the militia movement - all those white dudes stockpiling weapons and shouting that Democrats would send the military against them…Rush Limbaugh decrying Janet Reno was a femi-nazi

No, its the Republicans doing it

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Simply amazing how all these type of stories are always ICE detaining/arresting a person of color. It’s like they just assume a person of color doesn’t belong and deserves to be harassed/removed 🙄🤬

The white supremacist playbook hasn’t changed (certainly not since Reconstruction).

This post certainly seems especially relevant now

Trickle-down economics continue to work as they always have & how they have always been intended: to make the wealthy wealthier while offering false hope to the rest under the guise of freedom/less govt

Psst. It’s always meant to be less taxes for the rich w/ the govt always ready to bail them out

Between this, Jimmy Kimmel back on air, and Trump suffering 2 self-inflicted malfunctions at the UN, this is the best news week in quite awhile.

Pretty sad when it would better to go back to Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth where the .1%res built libraries and universities than to have this crap.

I mean, Carnegie was bad, but at least he didn’t buy The NY Times

Trump rant about continuing resolution budget bill and slamming Democrats

Does Trump know his party has the majority in both chambers and could pass this without Democratic Party votes (if they could unify all the Rs)?

Book: MAKING MICHIGAN HOME MEXICAN AMERICANS BRIDGING THE RURAL-URBAN EXPERIENCE BRETT T. OLMSTED

Hello to all. I study US Latinx history and have a book coming out Dec 23, 2025 from Illinois Press:

Making Michigan Home: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience

It examines placemaking via leisure and labor (available @illinoispress.bsky.social and Amazon)

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I’ve found connecting Boston Massacre to other “massacres” like the Massacre of 1622 or the Reichstag Fire helps. It’s about the narrative those impacted wanted to sell

Boston to stoke flames against British troops

Germans to push the enabling act

Chesapeake to demonize N. Americans/take land

Love oversimplified. I use a number of clips for undergrad courses

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Homeland security asks for people to call to snitch on “foreigners”

This is an iSnitch to call when you see someone in a place you think they don’t belong based on skin, language, or wealth, OR someone with different political beliefs (Trump has said repeatedly he hates Dems and they are destroying the country)

It’s McCathyism witch hunts 2.0

The White House Press Secretary, the official spokesperson for the Trump administration, told reporters in an official briefing that the president wants to invade "every Democrat-run city" with troops.

Any media still pretending that this is about "crime" is making a conscious choice to lie to you.

Instead, fund the programs actually stop crime and provide programs to lift people out of poverty. Programs that uplift the lower and middle classes actually make America safer

Wanting to send the military into US cities means one of two things: 1) that you want to be a dictator and show that you’re a tough guy or 2) you want to provoke a violent response so you can be a dictator

The military should not be sent into any US city. Doing so is dangerous and unconstitutional.

Sending the military into US cities creates an occupied America and colonialism (settlements) within America in American cities.

“There were drugs on board” is the new “they have weapons of mass destruction”

Sure sounds like the “worst case” that was argued in SCOTUS that presidential immunity meant a president could order seal team six to assassinate a political enemy and it would be an “official act”

Can’t believe I agree with Rand Paul

To all my “Christian” friends on here, remember Jesus was once a refugee hiding in a foreign country for fear of his life. His parents took him to Egypt because of a tyrant (Herod) doing just like Trump is acting.

This is gross, disgusting, ugly, immoral, and disgraceful

This is fascism.

If any other president had even alluded to this, there would have been immediate impeachment proceedings and wall to wall coverage on Fox “News”

FFS 🤬

First we bomb a boat in international waters killing 11

Now we are going to rename the dept to portray what is now the goal - WAR - killing people, not to defend our nation but because Trump wants to

And this douche bag wants a Nobel peace prize????🙄

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