Here is a contemporaneous account of school closing in Charlottesville: drive.google.com/file/d/1dbMP...
SchoolDesegregationGastonHammond.pdf
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Deborah Baker
@deborahbaker.bsky.social
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist. Guggenheim, Cullman, Whiting Fellow. Charlottesville: An American Story June 2025 Graywolf Press. www.deborahbaker.net
With the support of the vast majority of its white residents, Charlottesville closed its schools too.
Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social · 20h agoSo much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
Excellent piece on Andri Snær Magnason in yesterday’s Observer
‘Israelis branded Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham as traitors, not Jews, “Kapos”. There were calls for violence against them, for them to be ostracised, sent to Gaza or exiled elsewhere.’ Alona Ferber on the frenzied response to the documentary 𝘕𝘈𝘡𝘈, new on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
Alona Ferber | Layers of Denial
The frenzy in Israel surrounding the documentary NAZA is fundamentally undemocratic. That is what happens after years of...
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America’s longest-running paternity dispute has seemingly come to an end: Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings, his enslaved chambermaid, and the Smithsonian has the DNA to prove it. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9tkTEI
A key point: you do need a theory of communication, alongside a theory of politics, to be an effective operator I think the centre and left struggle, generally, with "playing the game" - it's not enough to just have policy prescriptions you think will work
If European countries & other signatories to the International Criminal Court have any self-respect, they'd sanction Rubio & Trump for obstructing investigations of Netanyahu's war crimes.
Exclusive | Trump Ramps Up Bid to Dismantle International Criminal Court
The U.S. administration is preparing sweeping sanctions that would cut the court off from much of the global financial system.
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Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson’s Hair to Hemings’s Children www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/a...
Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson’s Hair to Hemings’s Children (Gift Article)
A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.
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New for @talkingpointsmemo.com: Marshall Rawson, GOP nominee for Florida legislature, marched w/ Nazis in Charlottesville, condoned slavery, & called for execution of gay people. Does GOP even care? Is there a limit to MAGA's "never punch right" ethos? talkingpointsmemo.com?p=1558029&pr...
We Asked 28 GOP Officials If They’d Denounce the GOP Nominee Who Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville
This week I asked 28 current and former Republican Party officials in...
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Florida’s Marshall Rawson joined the “Unite the Right” rally—and was even spotted with the man who drove his car into counterprotesters. trib.al/YRaForf
Republican Nominee Marched at Violent Neo-Nazi Rally
Florida’s Marshall Rawson joined the “Unite the Right” rally—and was even spotted with the man who drove his car into counterprotesters.
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This Wednesday, September 16th at 6pm at the Jefferson School, PHAR and community partners are hosting an event called “Whose City? A Community Panel About Luxury and Affordable Housing.” This promises to be an engaging and informative event - please consider attending!
7am at the Amtrak station in Baltimore. The glamour! Our new book comes out tomorrow -- get a copy and come see us on the road. naomiklein.org/end-times-fa...
NEW: @talkingpointsmemo.com can reveal GOP nominee for Florida legislature: -marched at deadly Charlottesville Nazi rally w/ white supremacist group's flag -has *many* white supremacist donors -appears to advocate lynching He is expected to win Nov. election talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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This is a very interesting new resource, The Register of British Slave-Traders. 'The Register focusses on the individuals who sought to profit from the enslavement of over 3 million African men, women, and children, whose identity was – for the most part – erased from the historical record.' 🗃️
The Register of British Slave-Traders
The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.
britishslavetraders.org
It’s alarming how much influence Hasan Piker may potentially one day have in the Democratic Party. by Laura Loomer, Nick Fuentes, David Duke, Thomas Rousseau, James Fishback, and Alex Jones
*How he research and writes There are some great tips for finding stories and documents from Radden Keefe, as well as some killer lines on writing compelling stories Be “like a duck floating on the crystalline surface of a pond!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTvo...
Trump's America, Coming to Britain | Patrick Radden Keefe
YouTube video by Democracy for Sale
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Leading Palestinian writer Raja Shehadeh has documented Israel's occupation of the West Bank since day one. Fearing the occupation might consume his archive, he secretly moved it to Scotland n.pr/4yyXSmn
The secret quest to preserve Palestinian writer Raja Shehadeh's diaries
Leading Palestinian writer Raja Shehadeh has documented Israel's occupation of the West Bank since day one. Fearing the occupation might consume his archive, he secretly moved it to Scotland
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“An Exception in World Affairs”: a must-read essay by Aryeh Neier in @nybooks.com, reflecting on the institutional success of the ICTY and why it may have been just what the title says: an exception in world affairs.
An Exception in World Affairs | Aryeh Neier
Ratko Mladić’s death last week at eighty-three in The Hague—where he was serving a life sentence for committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and
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Gift link foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/31/t...
Trump Has Peaked
The U.S. president will remain disruptive on the global stage, but he is losing his coercive powers.
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Foreign Policy@foreignpolicy.com · 3w agoWhen the primary strategy is flooding the zone and sowing chaos, there is rarely a plan for what comes next. foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/31/t...
Still waiting: —for evidence Mitch McConnell is alive. —Republicans to confess how batshit crazy Trump is. —John Fetterman to announce he’s become a Republican. …Supreme Court supermajority to admit they really don’t care about upholding the Constitution. …Americans to prove enough is enough.
Oh my gosh, the best political video on YouTube just got updated after a decade and a half and it's still just perfect! It visualizes something that I've talked about a lot since the first video came out: The real problem is the billionaire class. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gxl...
Wealth Inequality in America (Updated 2026)
YouTube video by politizane
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Craig Harrington@craigipedia.bsky.social · 2mo agoI’m not saying we should shed a tear for the financial impositions faced by multimillionaires. It’s just an illustrative point that the billionaires have *so much* money. They have so much more wealth than you imagined. This visualization has gotten much worse since 2012: youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM?...
JON STEWART: “They began covering their ass 3 weeks after 9/11… There was poison in the air, on the ground, on your pets/clothes… THE CITY KNEW. Rather than limit the damage, they covered it up… After 9/11, business will never be usual again.” (From @mamdanibulletin.bsky.social )
BUNCH: “.. Americans are an amazingly brave people .. They’ve got to be brave enough to face their own history. .. And I will stand against wind and tide to prevent history from being erased ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/a...
We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...
Power to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]
Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...
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