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Carolyn Pedwell

@carolynpedwell.bsky.social
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Professor in Digital Media @Lancaster University. Affect, intuition, habit, digital media, AI, culture, politics; Affect Theory Reader 2: tinyurl.com/36zdbeak; Revolutionary Routines: tinyurl.com/mtkehm62

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Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org · 24/09/2026
The program for our Critical AI Studies? conference, happening Oct. 9&10 at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social, is now online: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Hope to see you there!
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Feminist Media Studies @femmediastudies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Big news from Feminist Media Studies: we’re looking for our next Editor-in-Chief!
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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
As promised/threatened, I'm doing the self promotion thing describing the chapters in my new book, Bridging Design and Fandom! I'll start with my introduction - it explains the fields of design research and fan studies, and how they come together as a whole new thing. doi.org/10.1108/978-...
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Introduction: Bridging Design and Fandom
Abstract. In this introduction, the author introduces the fields of design research and fan studies and discusses how they have prior under-explored synerg
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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In the following series of posts we are showing some love to the older books in our catalogue. Moving on to: Inventing the Social (2018) Edited by Noortje Marres, Michael Guggenheim and Alex Wilkie. #openaccess #scienceandtechnology #social
Book cover: "Inventing the social (2018)"
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
You know it's a strange political moment when @naomiaklein.bsky.social and I are on the cover of the Financial Times. Our piece explores how climate change is fueling a new form of futureless fascism, and the public investments needed to shift course. Gift link: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm so excited to be able to help host the next Fan Studies Network conference at @lancasteruni.bsky.social, as supported by our School of Arts! Looking forward to seeing all you #FanStudies folks next year... (do complete the survey to help planning!)
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stilllife @stilllife0.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Today is official publication day for Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe, edited by @ajsecor.bsky.social @mikkojorge.bsky.social and myself, and published by @edinburghup.bsky.social. You can DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE TEXT FOR FREE via the EUP web page edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-cultura...
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Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe
Cultural Geographies of Love and Catastrophe
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Check out all our terrific new titles releasing this month, including "Archives of the Anthropocene" by Yuriko Furuhata @underground259.bsky.social. buff.ly/K8edBHO
Cover of Archives of the Anthropocene: Visual Grammars of Deep Time by Yuriko Furuhata. The cover is a mixed media graphic featuring different textures and colors such as maps, photographs, text, and images. The top half of the cover features a black fuzzy image. The bottom half features tan paper with a diagram on it. The title is written in all caps in a sans serif font. The letters in ‘ARCHIVES’ show a map and text. The subtitle is written in a bright teal. The author’s name is in yellow.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@alondra.bsky.social's fantastic recent piece "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool." I highly recommend reading this, regardless of what field you're in. It walks through many dimensions that we should all be thinking about. 2/2. www.amacad.org/publication/...
Artificial intelligence is more than just another tool of modern life. It reorganizes labor, governance, knowledge, and culture, unsettling categories that once seemed stable, and compelling the social sciences to confront perennial questions of freedom, inequality, and meaning anew. The specifics will change; the models that dominate today will be superseded, the policy debates will shift, the applications we now find novel will become infrastructural and invisible. But the underlying challenge–of understanding how technologies remake the
conditions of social existence–will persist, as will the need to remain attentive to who benefits, who is harmed, and what possibilities are opened and foreclosed.
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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I've realised that technically my new book isn't 'out' until 16th September, which is why I was taken a bit on the back foot when it went up just over a week ago. But! If you click the 'Open Access' tab here, you can already download the whole thing as a PDF. bookstore.emerald.com/bridging-des...
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 15/08/2026
So I’m supposed to be comfortable with people talking about “race science” claiming there shouldn’t be a single Black faculty member and less than 1% of Black students at Harvard?? These are the “anti-elite”, “non-woke” talking points I have to contend with in 2026 🫩🫩🫩? Exhausting stuff!
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of Professor Jason Arday. As a former Trustee, we knew him as a caring colleague who expressed his gentle kindness in every interaction, and who was passionate about creating more inclusive spaces and opportunities. 1/2...
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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Looks like my Faculty is hiring a Lecturer in Sociology (indefinite post!) Focus on STS - "digitalisation, data, artificial intelligence, automation, sustainability transitions, and/or changing relationships between science, technology, policy, and society" hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Lecturer in Sociology
Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Lancaster University (Full-time, indefinite post) The School of Social Sciences seeks to appoint a full-time Lecturer in Sociology.You will join the Sociology tea...
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is extremely good. So, so good.
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Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org · 23/06/2026
Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.
Poster for the conference "Critical Artificial Intelligence Studies?" at the University of California, Santa Barbara, October 9&10, 2026. The subtitle says "An interdisciplinary conference on a field in formation."
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Looking forward to being part of this conversation on Wednesday 8th July!
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
It was great to do this interview for a special issue of Moment Journal on "The Spirit of the Time and Emotions" with Burcu Senel Alpugan and Gökçe Zeybek Kabakci .... who asked some very thoughtful and quite challenging questions! dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/momen...
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
We are now moving from the chronic to the acute phase of the university crisis. The next few months will be vital in seeing what can be saved and what is too far gone. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme...
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British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage
As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...
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Jasmine Fledderjohann @jfledderjohann.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
If you missed the #ReproNorth participatory photography exhibition at the #Gregson in #Lancaster in May, good news: A selection of the boards will be on display in the downstairs bar through the end of July! #ReproductiveJustice #PAR #community Online gallery: www.repronorth.com/we-re-tellin...
Picture of ReproNorth photography display at the Gregson community centre in LancasterPicture of ReproNorth photography display at the Gregson community centre in LancasterPicture of ReproNorth photography display at the Gregson community centre in Lancaster
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🇨🇦 Tradition decrees that on #CanadaDay my Maple Buttercream Cupcakes with Bacon Sprinkles are #RecipeOfTheDay! Look, I get that this all sounds weird, but they certainly don’t taste weird. Far from it: they are, indeed, deeply rewarding to eat. www.nigella.com/recipes/mapl...
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Maple Buttercream Cupcakes With Bacon Sprinkles
As someone who has happily come up with a bacon brownie recipe, I was only too enthusiastic about the idea of bringing bacon to a maple-syrup cupcake. I use very thinly sliced rindless streaky bacon ...
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I say this very gently, but no one should think they are 'safe' if they work in UK HE today. There might be 10-15 people working at a university who are safe by dint of the fact their job involves seeing redundancies through. Everyone else must understand the fundamentals here, and then organise.
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‘I thought we were safe’: shock at Exeter’s humanities ‘gamble’
Leading department being in the firing line shows how changing student preferences are fundamentally reshaping universities
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.
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Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026
When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...
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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Yuriko Furuhata’s brilliant follow up book to Climatic Media is out in Sept! Archives of the Anthropocene is on environmental media and the empires of Japan and US in the 20th century. Also snow crystals & much else. The Intro is now out here! Please read & share: dukeupress.edu/archives-of-...
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Archives of the Anthropocene: Visual Grammars of Deep Time
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GSEJ-For Better Knowledge @gsej.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
🎉We’re hiring!🎉 Four exciting opportunities for ECRs interested in the good governance and constructive communications of synthetic genomics and genetic technologies in general. research.kent.ac.uk/global-scien... #AcademicJobs #PostdocJobs #ResearchJobs #STS #Governance #RRI
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 24/06/2026
There were those who doubted us, but a new independent report shows major reductions in air pollution in our city are linked to an estimated 40% fewer annual premature deaths.
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Where are we now?? A sociological take on the past year 🤯 🌎 🤖 🎙️ Looking forward to being part of this Sociological Review conversation on 8th July 2026: www.thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
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Where are we now? A sociological take on the past year A Conversations event
Join Carolyn Pedwell, Siniša Malešević and Mariam Motamedi Fraser, chaired by Miranda Iossifidis, for a sociological reflection on the major themes and developments of 2026.
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Job! Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Humanities & Publishing at Carnegie Mellon - cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CMU/de...
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Humanities and Publishing - CMU Libraries and CMU Press - UEIS
The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and Carnegie Mellon University Press invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Humanities and Publishing. This is an exciting opportun...
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It's great to have a chapter in this super-pertinent new collection: 'Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions'! www.upress.umn.edu/978151792005...
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Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions
Exploring the influence of AI technologies on theories of reason, cognition, learning, and educationLearning Under Algorithmic Conditions presents twenty-sev...
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Looking forward to giving a talk on intuition, computational histories and 'the quantum' as part of the international 'Digital Emotional Governance Seminar Series' in October: ☣️ 🔬 ⚡ 🖥️ 'Quantum Intuitions: Affective Histories of the Future of Computing' events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f6e09e...
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I fear there’s a hot weekend coming up, but help is at hand! #RecipeOfTheDay offers blissfully suitable sustenance in the refreshing form of a Watermelon, Feta and Black Olive Salad. www.nigella.com/recipes/wate...
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Watermelon, Feta and Black Olive Salad
As improbable as it might sound, this combination is utterly fantastic, both savoury and refreshing at the same time. You can pare it down to the essential contrast, and serve no more than a plate of ...
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.
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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 18/06/2026
Cooling the planet by scattering reflective particles seems simple, but researchers are only beginning to untangle the practical challenges involved in pulling it off at scale.
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Geoengineering still faces major practical challenges
There’s a lot to figure out about the controversial climate tech.
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Society for the Study of Affect @affectsociety.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
#SSAMAKE 2026 Conference will have 77 panels, 306 papers, and 26 workshops, performances, and art installations! Acceptance emails are out, check your submission status: affectsociety.com/make/confere... Register, grab the early bird rate, limited dinner ticket: affectsociety.com/make/confere...
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Six years ago I published a book that engaged machine learning in terms of the politics of text, language & the impossibility of definitive authorship. Are any of the men writing now on LLMs, authorship, and text citing my 2020 work?…. No, reader, they are not.
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gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I just wrote a very enthusiastic review of Sarah Sharma's new book. @dukepress.bsky.social @dgrgrgs.bsky.social
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Insufferable Tools and critical tactics
I just finished reading Sarah Sharma’s new book Insufferable Tools: Feminism Against Big Tech. It’s a sustained and wonderful piece of feminist technoscience writing, from a media studies scholar determined to forge a structural/strategic analysis of the white patriarchy that surrounds so much of contemporary digital tech and its hype. In one way, that white patriarchy is all too obvious.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This by @gsoh31.bsky.social captures a great deal, especially the sadness
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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
was a blast to chat with Adam about physics, computing and how the tech state emerged from the cold war state among other things
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 25/05/2026
Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈
A map of the UK showing a temperature of 34.8 degrees Celsius, recorded in Kew Gardens, London on Monday 25 May 2026
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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
the FT has two pieces on the slow-motion collapse of UK higher ed. 4/5ths of unis are doing voluntary layoffs; 38% are doing compulsory. Meanwhile Britain and its flatlined productivity growth sleepwalks through its unprecedented loss of advanced capabilities www.ft.com/content/8097...
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Tech Policy Press fellow Petra Molnar highlights the AI Resist List: a global database documenting acts of resistance to the AI industry. From legal challenges and worker organizing to artistic interventions, the project seeks to challenge the “scale at all costs” development of AI.
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The World Is Already Resisting AI. Now, There is a List to Prove It.
Petra Molnar spotlights the launch of the AI Resist List, documenting global challenges to AI expansion.
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Mercedes 🤦‍♀️ Bunz @mrsbunz.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
In London Wed, 3 Jun and no plans for 5pm? My wonderful colleague @joannazylinska.bsky.social ◼️ is presenting her film 📽️ on collapse 🫠 🤖 supported by @slehuede.bsky.social, @eleonoralima.bsky.social + me (not that she needs support). Join us! 👇https://www.tickettailor.com/events/dfistory/2193124
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Select tickets – Collapse: A Story – S-2.23 - Strand Building
Collapse: A Story – S-2.23 - Strand Building, Wed 3 Jun 2026 - Collapse – a state of events in which multiple systems fail at once, without the promise of repair – is one of the key terms used today t...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Wes Streeting would be the final nail in Labour's coffin. More neoliberalism, more privatisation, more austerity, more grovelling to economic power, when we desperately want change.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/05/2026
Starmer appears to be doing exactly the same (false) equivalence between Reform and the Green Party that has previously utterly enraged people who have switched their vote from Labour to Green. Spectacularly counterproductive.
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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 07/05/2026
Obviously sure you shouldn't do fraud HOWEVER I do feel "create a fake award to give to myself in order to get a promotion at work" is the kind of go-getter hustle that deserves a promotion at work anyway
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Dr Rachel Gregory Fox @rgf26.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I find myself spread a bit thin across different socials, and have never been that great at updating Bluesky, but if you’re coming up to the end of a writing project, and looking for a #copyeditor, #proofreader, or #indexer, I have availability from mid-June. Find me here: foxtales-editorial.com
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Dr Rachel Gregory Fox | Fox Tales Editorial
Proofreading, Copyediting and Indexing Services
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
If you are the editor of a journal and you have received a submission from me that looks a bit weird (weirder than usual) please assume it is a LLM-generated paper from a ghost author. This has happened four times in recent weeks. In each case it is possible to see how a genuine published paper 1/2
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
So excited to listen to this! #hps #histsci
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Carolyn Pedwell @carolynpedwell.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Deadline for conference abstracts is TODAY! ⚡️
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Racism is over says the Supreme Court, which you can tell because it took literally a matter of minutes after they gutted the Voting Rights Act for Republicans in the South to start moving to make sure Black people in their states get no representation in Congress
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