How many people serving in the US military come from countries shaped by US empire, war, and intervention

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 6h ago

President Donald Trump’s administration has detained more than 50 spouses and parents of U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families, an AP investigation has found.

There’s been a bipartisan commitment to the idea of immigrant labor without immigrant people or immigrant rights, which in its way is as corrosive to meaningful democracy as ethnonationalism imo

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · yesterday

Don't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...

He spent more than half his life in the US, he’s been here for 2 decades, he was as American as anyone. The nation’s first naturalization act in 1790 made you a citizen after 2 years of residency—but then that was only for free white persons.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d ago

ICE has killed another person.

What do you mean I have to figure out and then prepare meals for my family multiple times a day for the rest of my life didn’t we just do that?

From huddled masses to huddled asses

Bryan Quinn@bryanquinn1981.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s a proud American tradition for its immigrant groups to move from huddled mass to pulling up the ladder behind them and decrying all those dirty invaders.

It’s 19th century nativist cartoons’ moment to shine, as today’s assholes try to run through every nativism of the last 200 years

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d ago

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

Anyway, in conclusion, their baking is still weird too: flaminghydra.com/the-tradwive...

The Tradwives Are Making Incredibly Weird Bread

The light of the home makes goopy-ass bread

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Read her excellent book: uncpress.org/978146966932... and remember that you have a role in shaping the present.

The Young Lords

Against the backdrop of America’s escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla...

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I am stunned to hear of the passing of the fierce, brilliant and principled scholar activist Johanna Fernandez. Johanna's scholarship will endure. She was a gem and the world is worse for her no longer being here. Rest in power, comrade.

does anyone have a good reading or guide on how to incorporate oral history as a source into historical scholarship? Not oral history as scholarship, but how, as a writer or exhibit creator, to think about weaving transcripts into the work?

Ghost writer and Doogie Howser tricked us into thinking computers were cool but they aren’t

I’ve been rereading coverage of Peter Brimelow from 1995 and it is shockingly racist (and he was pulling from the same camp of the saints playbook)—and he too frequently got a pass, which tells us something about the invisibility of antiblackness to largely white institutions

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last wk.

Great piece from @jamellebouie.net on the most prominent white supremacist influencer in the world, who is also the richest man in the world www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

The US is torturing this man and his family www.inquirer.com/news/ice-imm...

ICE wants to deport a Philly man who has lived legally in the U.S. for 20 years. He fled Guinea after being jailed by the government.

Mamadou Fadel Cherif had been jailed in his native Guinea for protesting the 1998 presidential election, then fled to the U.S.

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Rendering hundreds of thousands of people “illegal,” out of status, overnight, makes it obvious that illegality is produced by policy, an event version of something that has taken place over years and decades

Philly’s (now former) managing director makes $300k but also $500k from these other consulting gigs and he had 13 weeks of paid leave last year? Idk my life is really different from this

Can we have a society if I selfishly take the newer milk from behind the front row at the store? Probably not, probably I’ve destroyed another thread

Can’t believe we let the internet drive everyone insane

Did u know they have stuff with a baby Phanatic on it for kids? I love it here

Restrictionists have two audiences, one that wants and relishes blood and one that wants to think deportation can be bloodless and fair and out of sight, so I guess we see what happens when the blood lust people run the show.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w ago

The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.

I love this tourism ad for Maryland because it looks like it’s trying to say to all the horse families out there: visit Maryland for a nice weekend away, enjoy the site, horse couples and young babies

I got kale for BLTs because it’s hard to do risk assessment with all this organized abandonment

cars up and down my block are all honking, people are screaming "LEBRON JAMES IS A SIXER" this is baffling and insane

so many people's lives would be improved by living in philadelphia

A really lovely piece on the history of earthquakes in Latin America, where the physical fault lines always always reveal and reflect political ones. Gift link: share.inquirer.com/y7o42f

Earthquakes shatter lives—and reveal existing fault lines

Recent earthquakes have devastated Venezuela. The longer sweep of Latin American history shows how often earthquakes have uncovered existed crises and sparked new mobilizations.

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History of surfing at the Jersey Shore, written by one of my students 🎁 share.inquirer.com/MVD6DX

How surfing came to the Jersey Shore

Surfing was initially seen as too Californian and countercultural for the shore. But avid surfers organized to change its image.

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Child just asked if they had melatonin toothpaste and I think this is a million dollar idea

One way you can tell this is a bad timeline is that they’d never make Mamma Mia Here We Go Again today

I hate when I watch a video and then get served a billion more videos just like it and have to reckon with everyone everywhere encountering a different more insane internet

I've never been a supervillain but I simply would not create a product that does crimes