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Brent Staples

@bstaples.bsky.social
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for writing on the legacies of slavery “with extraordinary moral clarity.” The New York Times Editorial Board, 1990-2025. 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿History is the only education; everything else is just training.

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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 1h
Squibnocket
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 2h
U. Texas would become a hollowed out backwater without these students
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4h
Yeah the thing about white elite obsession with rule by eugenics is they have to constantly caretake the power required to bend institutions to their will when their eugenics inevitably fail to be great:
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 16h
Evening music
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 17h
Makes it all the more significant that traditional media is disinclined to call resurgent, naked racism by its rightful name.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 06/10/2026
“Rather than facilitating political change in China, the Internet and the associated world of the mobile phone have become formidable tools the government uses to maintain tight control over the society.” —@hofrench.bsky.social
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Let a Hundred Websites Bloom | Howard W. French
The Internet and the smartphone have become formidable tools for the Chinese government to maintain tight control over society.
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Tuesday Arrangement #1
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Quite a guy
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A great man who was always very kind and gracious to me. I always looked forward to talking to him and his wife at events around the City. The City Leader Who Revived Central Park Dies at 85 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/a...
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The City Leader Who Revived Central Park Dies at 85 (Gift Article)
Gordon J. Davis was New York City’s first Black parks commissioner and one of the most effective. He also led Lincoln Center.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Focus groups are indeed highly overrated - as insights into voter thought and behavior
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The craven Ken Paxton goes after pediatricians - for vaccinating children www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“We’re alone, cousin, on our own, cousin”
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have seen the Gambon and Atkinson versions - but not the others you mention
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/10/2026
As wildfires raged across eastern Australia in 2019, the small coastal town of Narooma lost power and internet. The only connection to the outside world was a handful of old-school pay phones. Now, one of them has now been given historic status.
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Pay Phone, a Lifeline During 2019 Australia Wildfires, Gains Heritage Status
Hundreds lined up to call loved ones as the internet went down and the flames closed in on the Australian town of Narooma in 2019.
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
No love for Atkinson?
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
so: Iran forces US retreat from UK? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats
The withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fresh from a friend’s backyard (highly delicious)
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Were you a fan of earlier Maigrets?
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Haints
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The (3rd) Maigret remake is well done. Yes?
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Drawing on nostalgia and franchise cache
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Aquinnah
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A slow poison
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Race and Class Over History
This chapter examines the historical development of race and class from primitive communalism to slavery. Drawing on anthropological insights, it argues that race ideology emerged alongside the develo...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He really could have sat this one out. What an odd choice. Going to file this away in the “Accidental Racist” files.
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Squire of Ye Olde Dominion
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
List of people enslaved in the White House (or associated with the White House), organized by President: www.whitehousehistory.org/index-of-ens...
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Index of Enslaved Individuals
Below you will find a list of all known enslaved people who were associated with the White House. This list is not complete because some individuals were not recorded, and...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026
this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Folks have insulted:  My Southern drawl.  My loc’d hair.  My clothes.  My shoes.  My intelligence.  I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... The Battle for White Male Supremacy The Hydra Reshaping Right-Wing Politics Mary McThomas
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sayeth Greta Garbo
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They arms too short to box with God
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 I think back fondly on our dialogue during The Times ideas festival all those years ago.
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Amen, good sister, amen.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In light of all the horrible sexual assault in the news, this from my conversation with Kate Manne in February at Princeton still sums up my thoughts. Power =\= Good Men(tm). Power = Power.
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Probably get an Emmy dedicated…”
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thursday arrangement #1
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Agreed
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: Renee Good’s family sues the U.S. government and immigration officials over her killing in Minneapolis.
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Renee Good's family sues US government and immigration officials over her killing in Minneapolis
Renee Good’s family has sued the U.S. government and several immigration officials, alleging wrongful death and other violations of federal law in the 37-year-old woman’s killing by an immigration officer during a federal crackdown in Minnesota.
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It am just beginning in New England
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Compared to Xi, Trump looks like a rank amateur: an incurious and ill-informed improviser who is guided by his own gut and whims, writes columnist @hofrench.bsky.social
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Shoes = 🌟🌟🌟🌟
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@antheabutler.bsky.social Are the Eagles about to fire someone?
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