Brendan Lee, M.A.

Passing on a note from a colleague: People with federal student loans should download their files IMMEDIATELY. These files are currently on the studentaid.gov website, which may get deleted if Trump follows through with his EO to shut down DOE

Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump Anybody that's against Tariffs, including the Fake News Wall Street Journal, and Hedge Funds, is only against them because these people or entities are controlled by China, or other foreign or domestic companies. Anybody that loves and believes in the United States of America is in favor of Tariffs. They should have never ended, in favor of the Income Tax System, in 1913. The response to Tariffs has been FANTASTIC! 1.04k ReTruths 3.73k Likes Feb 02, 2025 at 6:37 PM

As someone who speaks “far right wingnut,” I feel obligated to point out that the creation of the federal income tax in 1913 has been an obsession with such folks since the1950s. They mark it as the moment America went off track and started careening toward socialism, and they want to get rid of it.

Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas A tribal collaborative project that seeks to understand settler colonialism and its legacies through the lens of Indigenous enslavement and unfreedom.

(1/8) Welcome to the official Bluesky account for Stolen Relations (indigenousslavery.org)! We are a digital humanities project housed at Brown University that centers on and works collaboratively with tribal communities in our local region.

Tulsa Massacre Was a ‘Coordinated, Military-Style Attack,’ Federal Report Says The Justice Department’s conclusion follows an investigation of the 1921 atrocity in Oklahoma in which up to 300 Black residents were killed.

The Tulsa Race Massacre was not committed by an uncontrolled mob but was the result of “a coordinated, military-style attack” by white citizens, the Justice Department said in a report. It was the first time the U.S. government has given an official account of the 1921 massacre of Black residents.

I've been interviewing lots of conservative Republicans in Texas about rising opposition to vouchers on the right and so many of the rural Texans I've talked still remember the one room school house - and they do not want to return to that era...

Retain faith in our democracy

Authorities said a second-grade student called 911 to report the Wisconsin school shooting.

"I'm going to let that soak in for a minute," Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said. "A second-grade student called 911 at 10:57 a.m. to report a shooting at school."

Final grades submitted 🎉 so long Fall 2024 ✌🏻

How a shifting definition of 'white' helped shape U.S. immigration policy The definition of "white" has changed over time, but historians say it has always influenced immigration policy in the United States.

You wanna know how different groups got to be considered white? PBS already did the hard work making this article & TWO docs (& even interviewed a bunch of racists)

The Irish, Germans, all of Eastern Europe, had to basically beat & murder a ton of POC to be welcomed

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Colvin said: “It felt as though Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder, and Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on the other.”

Happy Rosa Parks Day 🙏🏼 Also want to give Claudette Colvin her flowers. At age 15, she refused to move to the pack of the bus 5 months before the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955.

Illinois Students Who Protested Gaza Genocide Are Facing Felony Mob Charges The state's attorney is prosecuting University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students over last April's encampments.

The University of Illinois is charging student protests with felony mob action.

Felony. Mob. Action.

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Fabulous work by @jenjennings.bsky.social to show what the Texas 'optional' curriculum squeezes out/erases from MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in 5th grade lesson.

Never forget this. The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

This statement perfectly captures the politics of my great-grandfather—a super racist and misogynist lower middle class son of Jewish immigrants who faced a lot of antisemitism and responded by trying to stake a claim on whiteness. He cut ties with his less racist relatives, calling em “Communists.”

If trends continue, Starbucks is probably going to get an acknowledgement in my dissertation 😂

My Saturdays this semester are occupied by thoughts about space and place, historical monuments, and history curriculum.

Taught my six year old daughter about Ruby Bridges tonight 🙏🏼

Anti-Semitism goes respectable. SPOTLIGHT ON THE HILL Lobby, bills itself as "The Paper You Can Trust." It claims to report the news the other papers miss and to uncover the conspiracies the other papers dare not expose. The Spotlight never lets its readers forget that it was first to rip the lid off the world-conquering intentions of the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission. More recently, the Spotlight has been exposing other conspiracies against American free-dom, including plots by the Internal Revenue Service to harass tax protesters and conspiracies by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to arrest stalwarts of the Ku Klux Klan, the Christian-Patriots Defense League, and the American "Nazi" party (quo-tation marks are one of the Spotlight's many stylistic idiosyncracies). But the Spotlight's fundamental editorial obsession is with the "Zionists" and "dual loyalist" friends of Israel who conspire to take over the US government and to propagate the malicious fiction that the Nazis killed six million Jews. In recent months, the Spotlight seems to have become a veritable cheering section for the Institute for Historical Review in Torrance, California. This is the organization whose pseudonymous director Lewis Brandon in reality a British professional racist named David McCalden) recently offered $50,000 to anyone who could prove Jews were gassed at Auschwitz. The Institute organizes annual conferences on why the Holocaust didn't happen and publishes a quarterly, Journal of Historical Review, which features the works of such enlightened savants as Robert Faurisson, the French literature professor recently found guilty of falsifying history and given a 3-month suspended prison sentence. The astuteness of the institute's scholarship can be discerned in the title of a few of the Journal's recent articles: "The Mendacity of Zion," "The Holocaust and the Myth of the Past as History," "The Fake Photograph Problem," and "Human Soap." The Spotlight maintai…

hate Jews and only took a job at the Liberty Lobby for the money. After leaving the Liberty Lobby, Richardson became a private lobbyist for various new right causes and a member of an informal circle of right-wing political strategists known as the Six-Pack because it meets under the auspices of the Heritage Foundation, which Joseph Coors helped to found and finance. But more alarming than the easy entrée afforded an ex-Liberty Lobbyist into the salons of what passed today for mainstream conservatism is the mass exposure the Liberty Lobby now seems to be able to obtain for its bizarre doctrines. I SPOT CHT circulation figures are to bebelieve —even if they are discounted by half-the newspaper has a large readership. Last winter the Spotlight held a gala at the National Press Club to celebrate its achievement of a circulation goal of one-third million. That's more than The New Republic, the National Review, and the Nation combined. The Spotlight claims paid circulation; that means all those 333,334 subscribers pay up to 50 cents each week to read its rantings. Furthermore, the Spotlight regularly publishes a list of around 400 radio stations that it says carry a five-minute daily "This is Liberty Lobby" broadcast. (I've heard them in Washington on WEAM-AM at 6:30 pm daily.) Twenty TV stations are listed as carrying a weekly Liberty Lobby TV program, "Spotlight on the News," hosted by Liberty Lobby board-of-policy chairman Robert Bartell, a jovial man who resembles Captain Kangaroo. The Spotlight's credibility is greatly enhanced by the casual way in which some Congressmen use the Spotlight and related media to publicize their views and themselves. During the past year or so, Senate Majority Whip Ted Stevens, Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, and Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Alan Simpson all have been featured guests on the Spotlight's TV show. One Spotlight article has appeared under Hatch's byline and two have appeared un…

In 1981, Ronald Reagan tried to appoint a guy to HHS who worked for a Holocaust denying outfit called the Liberty Lobby that published a popular conspiracy rag called The Spotlight that sold quack cures to its credulous readers who they scared into distrusting all medical advice except theirs.

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Colonizers get real mad when they can’t ranch on stolen land

Uranium mining threatens our home, the Grand Canyon Since time immemorial, the Havasupai have lived inside the natural wonder. We face yet another peril.

If anyone is curious about why Biden designating ~1M acres around the Grand Canyon as a national monument is a big deal in some parts of Indian Country, you could do a lot worse than read this piece by Havasupai councilwoman Ophelia Watahomigie-Corliss:

Pac-12 Softball Players Rip Conference Realignment, Mental Health With conference realignment changing the landscape of college sports, Pac-12 athletes are upset with the toll it will take on their careers.

Big changes to college athletics and conference realignment will certainly be an adjustment for student athletes. Good questions that highlight the tug of war between higher education and the “business” of college sports, which too often goes unnoticed.

Thinking tonight about the conscious difference between integration and desegregation —

Kenneth Clark: "Integration, as a subjective and individual process, involves attitudinal changes and the removal of fears, hatreds, suspicions, stereotypes and superstitions."
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