The memes haven’t been this good since the queen died
Nora Flanagan
@noraflanagan.bsky.social
Union organizer, English teacher, horror dork, derby enforcer, book glutton, rabid Chicagoan, coffee junkie, metaphorical nazi-puncher
Marjane Satrapi to a group of students in Chicago, including my own, shortly after CPS tried to ban her book: “When we stop thinking of people and make them abstractions, it becomes easier to bomb them. We bomb abstractions. I wanted us to be people again.”
Cartoon Brew@cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 2mo agoMarjane Satrapi, whose acclaimed graphic novel and animated adaptation 'Persepolis' brought the realities of revolution, exile, and identity to audiences around the world, has died at 56. www.cartoonbrew.com/rip/marjane-satrapi-persepolis-creator-co-director-dies-at-56-262120.html
The fun part about this is I can’t tell if it’s real. He has become a caricature of himself at this point.
Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀@bebopott.bsky.social · 3mo agoAlderman Napolitano: "If you do this [vote to remove white supremacists from the Chicago Police Department] than I hope I hope my brothers and sisters on the street in blue, don't want to be the police for YOU. I hope they want to be the police for ME and whoever else votes no for it."
This gif has never been more fitting than now
a man and a woman are dancing together in a room .
Alt: Miss Rachel and Zohran Mamdani going 'wah wah wah' like a baby, mockingly, gleefully
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Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 3mo ago“What Mamdani just did to me, and more broadly is doing to the city of New York, is triggering of the trauma I went through in Chicago." - Ken Griffin, worth $50.3 billion, triggered
Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”
If you want to poke your eyes out before 9am: Behold, the Department of Education using Ms. Frizzle from The Magic School Bus to celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week while they dismantle public education and PBS.
The "great replacement theory" bullshit that is now ubiquitous in Republican Party discourse was Klan shit in the 1990s when David Duke was saying it, it was Klan shit in the 1960s when George Wallace said it, and it was Klan shit in the 1920s when the Klan said it. bsky.app/profile/seth...
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6mo agoIn 1963, Governor George Wallace complained in his inaugural address that liberal globalists were doing to oppressed white people in Alabama, America, & around the world what Hitler had done to the Jews. This was Great Replacement Theory 1.0. The author was Asa Carter, a White Christian Nationalist.
The missing context is Rufo’s whole mission statement: that leftists marched through institutions like public schools & higher ed the last 60 years to politicize youth against America, so conservatives much now counter-march back through to restore the nation. Fantasy, but politically useful.
Florida Creates a More Conservative U.S. History Course to Rival A.P.
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Not to take away from his recent Pulitzer Prize for fiction, but @danielkraus.com also wrote a combination deep dive and personal memoir around Night of the Living Dead that I kept needing to close and put down just to absorb a particular sentence or two. Best read this year and it’s not even close.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's no mention of far-right terrorism (neither white supremacist nor anti-government) in the Trump administration’s new national counterterrorism strategy. Instead, the domestic focus is on "violent left-wing extremists" and "cartels and gangs."
Been waiting for this episode FOREVER — at least since the podcast started, but in my own way I’ve waited since the author of Grit spoke in my urban school district about how poor kids (& their teachers) just don’t WANT success enough. If you see me yelling & cackling in my car today, no you didn’t.
If Books Could Kill@ifbookspod.bsky.social · 3mo agoEpisode 51: Grit In 2013, education reformers decided to fix America's schools the old-fashioned way: By consulting the 16th most popular Ted Talk. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
Why are they all so stupid on top of everything else
anyway YOU WOULD NOT HAVE LABOR RIGHTS WITHOUT NEW YORK CITY'S FEMALE GARMENT WORKERS, AND TO HAVE THE BEZOSES AT THE MET GALA IS A DARK STAIN ON THE HISTORY OF APPRECIATION FOR WOMEN'S LABOR, ORGANIZING, AND THE ART OF TEXTILES AND NEEDLEWORKING
Had a great day with Alderperson Fuentes and Commissioner Vásquez talking to so many of our neighbors about the importance of electing Jason Dónes to the Chicago Board of Education this November. We need Jason on the Board as someone backed by community and ultimately accountable to our community.
it only took seven months from the time bari was announced editor-in-chief of cbs news to 60 minutes started doing nyt-style puff pieces on understanding the nazi next door.
60 Minutes@60minutes.bsky.social · 3mo agoRobert Rundo is trying to soften the reputation of white nationalist groups like his fast-growing Active Club, which has been described by hate group watchdogs as anti-semitic, anti-democracy, and anti-immigrant.
Josh Weiner spent most of May Day with Nate Friedman, the brave sunglasses wearing YouTube pest who is sure all protesters get paid. (Guess who he often implies pays them. Come on. Guess.) I know Friedman has no shame, but Weiner appears to feel awkward chasing children around, as he should.
Nora Flanagan@noraflanagan.bsky.social · 3mo agoAfter railing against May Day as ‘coercion’ at a CPS board meeting, NAVI’s Josh Weiner was creeping on students as they marched into Union Park on May Day. He is not a CPS parent or an educator. His org targets teachers, seeks to ban curriculum, and demonizes LGBTQ+ resources, ethnic studies & DEI.
The Republicans control all three branches of government, the J6ers were all pardoned, right wingers own Twitter, Facebook, the Washington Post, CBS and CNN…right wing donors exert unprecedented influence over the nation’s universities, but sure, we’re on the verge of a Cultural Marxist revolution.
I will not STOP being upset about how close this race was until we beat her
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 3mo agoIn the nation’s capital for wrongful convictions, you’d think public officials would want to do their best once someone is exonerated and released. Not so: a new investigation shows how Chicago prosecutors fight tooth and nail almost every time an exonerated person wants a certificate of innocence.
After railing against May Day as ‘coercion’ at a CPS board meeting, NAVI’s Josh Weiner was creeping on students as they marched into Union Park on May Day. He is not a CPS parent or an educator. His org targets teachers, seeks to ban curriculum, and demonizes LGBTQ+ resources, ethnic studies & DEI.
Amisha Patel, former ED of Grassroots Collaborative and lifelong organizer, has passed away. Last month, she penned this essay about her cancer fight as an analogy for organizing struggles: "...how do we build a long-term vision that we can strive toward together, even in the hardest of times?"
Fighting Cancer Has Given Me New Insights on the Anti-Fascist Challenge We Face
To resist authoritarianism, our work must be deeply relational. We must act even in uncertainty. Nurturing builds power.
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Every school in America is going to need to build a ballroom.
I just feel like I have read enough history books to know that you don’t really want your society to be at this point.
Unsure. Does Reese Witherspoon think I need these?
KTLA 5@ktla.com · 4mo agoSnapchat bets on smart glasses as the future
"'When we began working with informants, we were living in the shadow of the height of the Civil Rights Movement, which had seen bombings at churches, state-sponsored violence against demonstrators, and the murders of activists that went unanswered by the justice system,' Fair said."
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4mo agoBREAKING: The Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces investigation by Justice Department over past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.
#OtD 24 Apr 1976 the far-right National Front organised a march through the main Asian area in Bradford, England. Politicians held a rally but 100s of young Asians broke away, fought through police lines and attacked the racists. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2019/09/18/e...
fuuuuuuck
ProPublica@propublica.org · 3mo agoWhen DOGE arrived at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the operatives had no real background in nuclear issues. They boxed out experienced hands, forcing resignations and massive exodus of talent. Over 400 people have since left or been forced out. Our full story: https://propub.li/3OBQMwk
That's *exactly* what Miller was about to say.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoStephen Miller almost says that Trump is seeking a "final solution" in Iran but then catches himself
