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The new season of our podcast is accompanied by a series of pieces published in partnership with KCET.
Today's is by Erika Bsumek at UT Austin about the work of botanist and suffragist Ellen Powell Thompson.
www.pbssocal.org/ellen-powell...
What just happened in Dallas County is one of the most blatant voter suppression operations I've ever seen—and it happened in a *primary*.
In March. Imagine November.
I broke it down here:
open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
Justice sure took a long while…
apnews.com/article/henr...
Henrietta Lacks
Henrietta Lacks was a Black woman whose (ovarian) cancer cells were used wo her/her family’s consent. Her cells are what would become the HeLa cell, the first immortalized human cell line & one of the most important in medical research.
#BackHistoryMonth
"Always, always, always concentration camps are an end run around the existing legal system. These people that are getting rounded up because whoever’s in power wants to do something that they can’t do using the letter of the law..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?
Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards
My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The worst figures on campus arguing that campuses had become overrun with wokeness were all best buddies with Epstein. Quelle surprise.
www.salon.com/2026/02/19/j...
Diese Form der Einladung als Experte ist alles andere als „informed consent“.
These are concentration camps.
This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.
Sorry: men and Soon-Yi Previn lol
This is excellent & draws out something the rest of the media is ignoring: among other things, the Epstein files have made it super, super clear that the entire "anti-woke" cultural hysteria was engineered by powerful men averse to accountability.
»Wenn Spanien eine halbe Million Menschen legalisiert und die Auswirkungen positiv sind, wie kann dann Migration die Mutter aller Probleme in Deutschland, Frankreich oder den USA sein?«, fragt Pablo Castaño.
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
These Scandinavians with their unions and progressive politics turned Minneapolis into a socialist hotbed!
Yes, migrant community members are consumers. Shops, restaurants, and restaurants will have to close if people are deported or in hiding.
The exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park have been removed amid pressure from the Trump admin www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
Trump is threatening Norway because he did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize. If Trump is the symptom, what is the societal malady?
The American dream in a nutshell.
And this is what makes it different from 1930s Germany. The resistance comes from the middle of society.
Fascinating portrait of Tooze and his view of modern history: “My basic wager in interpreting modern history is to bias toward the thought that it might be unprecedented (…).”
Mit Kulturzeit @3sat.bluesky.com.de habe ich über Philosoph:innen reden dürfen, die die Tech Industrie beeinflussen — und warum das, was das Valley Denken nennt, zutiefst kompatibel ist mit Faschismus urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
I wrote about ICE’s execution of Renee Nicole Good. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Lesenswerter Text zu Crans-Montana und dem Wallis: “Die hochalpine Umgebung und ihre Überhöhung machen die Walliser erhaben. Sie deuten ihr Leben am Berg als höchste spirituelle Erfüllung der zivilisierten Welt. Kritik von aussen vereint sie.”
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
