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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 18/12/2025

"If the masses cannot govern, then nobody ever can." - CLR James

Image of Substack post with photo of a portion of a page from CLR James' "Notes on American Civilization."

Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 12/11/2025

What do you think of this 2025-2026 community college data? 67 full time faculty 12 part time faculty 342 adjunct faculty Total: 409 Non-Instructructional Professional/support staff: 156

Table listing data for the number of full time, part time, and adjunct faculty data at a community college.

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 21/10/2025

DOJ: "as those terms is" is grammatically incorrect. This indictment could not be more problematic, but you'd think it would have been proofread 👀

Excerpted text from DOJ indictment with grammatically incorrect language, "as those terms is defined," circled in red.

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 17/10/2025

Washington Gladden described the "morally" incapable poor as "diseased social tissue," who "must be separated from society and the sexes from each other, so that the race...shall not be propagated, and so that those segregated may be reclaimed and fitted for social service!" (Social Salvation 1902)

Image of excerpt from Washington Gladden's 1902 book Social Salvation, referring to the apparently immoral unemployed poor as a social disease.

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 13/10/2025

"It would have to abolish 'institutional units'- presumably university programs and departments-that 'belittle' conservative ideas."

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 12/10/2025

With other former graduate students, I stand in solidarity with Black Studies at @universityoftexas.bsky.social + Mexican & Latino Studies, Women's & Gender Studies, faculty & students across UT #saveUT @utaustinaaup.bsky.social #academic #freedom #education #UT #atx #blackstudies

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 09/10/2025

"...the world around us is in social and spiritual torment precisely because of the abandonment of the idea that the proletariat is the only part of society which can give the impetus to the reorganization of society... To the realization of that truth humanity must come or perish." - CLR James 1962

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 22/08/2025

The Liberator Boston, Massachusetts Sat, Jul 23, 1836 Beecher and the Atheists. - William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator dragging Rev. Lyman compromise with slavery Beecher is 🔥🔥 #abolition

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 20/08/2025

"I'm wondering if you have reflections on this issue about the role that labor plays in thinking about um the Israel Palestine issue" The question itself reflects both ignorance and unacceptable cowardice of an institution claiming "religion and justice."

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 14/08/2025

not actually...just the vibe atm

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 17/07/2025

"Faithful Shepard's of the flock! to wait til wolves are driven away, before showing their heads to protect the defenseless lambs!" "The Clerical 'Time' and Aim," Anti-Slavery Bugle, Ohio, 14 July 1849

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 15/07/2025

Currently reading: EP Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (1966). #books #marxism #history #workingclass

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 20/06/2025

Tinker is pretty clear on what he thinks. It is not an "enigma."

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 16/06/2025

New blog post featuring a letter on women's suffrage published in The Progress, an African American newspaper in Omaha, NE, by Rev. Annie Woodbey (1855-1901). #nebraska #suffrage #blackwomenshistory #politicalthought #blackpolitics #history

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 26/05/2025

"Nihilism in Russia, Communism in Germany, and in France, Irish contention in Great Britain and Abolitionism (another term for Communism) in the United States, are only synonyms for resistance by the people to the tyranny and corruption of the Government."

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 26/05/2025

"The parasite of Russia is not Nihilism but the tyrant Czar, who stands between the people and the Reforms demanded by the Nihilists, who are the oppressed struggling under the accumulated burdens of a thousand years of misrule and tyranny."

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 26/05/2025

Editorial by T. Thomas Fortune in the New York Globe, 16 February 1884, criticizing an editorial on "Nihilism in Russia" published by the Detroit Plaindealer, another Black run newspaper. Source: chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83027...

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 26/05/2025

Please consider donating or sharing to Afnan's fundraiser . This is the sister of a dear friend and brother of mine from Gaza. www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-co...

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 26/05/2025

New post on "Woodbey Speaks" newsletter, on Rev. George Woodbey, Col. Allen Allensworth, and the Allensworth community, a Black agricultural colony founded in California in 1908. Link below.

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 16/05/2025

Haven't read this ruling yet, but the problem is getting to the courts in the first place. If the local and state police, county attorney and state attorney general (as in Iowa) all work in collusion to fake an independent "investigation" , then where is the possibility for justice?

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 05/05/2025

Happy birthday comrade Marx.

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 01/05/2025

Image Source: Hans V. Kaltenborn "An Interview with Hitler, August 17, 1932," Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 50, No. 4, Unpublished Documents on Nazi Germany from the Mass Communications History Center (Summer, 1967), pp. 283-290, www.jstor.org/stable/4634275

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 27/04/2025

The first image is about the death of my great great grandfather, Pope Searcy. In the same issue of the Grenada Sentinel, I just discovered the editorial in the second, in favor of the "Anti-Pistol" law, referencing the shoot out that killed him. #mississippi

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 09/04/2025

#poetry month #poem #8 love liberates letting go but lingering remains... in the traces you leave

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 08/04/2025

#poetry month day 7 #poem #2 another #haiku unsung song sickness lumps stuck in sore throats muted masses silent kill

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 07/04/2025

Day 7 poetry month poem post.

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 07/04/2025

An oral history of Jewish left organizing and Occupy. jewishcurrents.org/what-the-jew...

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 03/04/2025

A #poetrymonth #poem day three At 2am after grading reading responses "write a poem, dream of the reader."

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 03/04/2025

Forgot to post day one here, but trying to share or write a new poem everyday for poetry month. The poems won't be very good, but that's not the point. "To sing you must first open your mouth... The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing." -Henry Miller

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 01/04/2025

Missionaries "rarely benefited" seems not to be the point...This sounds like some "police are workers too" type missionaries "are the 99%" level analysis of the relationship between missionaries, colonialism, and their "often-unwitting"[?] support for genocide.

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 31/03/2025

How things at Casino Capitalism are looking at the moment.

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 28/03/2025

Got to hear Erik McDuffie discuss his new book The Second Battle for Africa with some of my main mentors & teachers tonight. Special shout out to my MA adviser Jeannette Jones who assigned me Sojourning for Freedom & sent me off to Black Studies for a PhD. 🙏

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 26/03/2025

"Not all jazz improv sessions are created equal, nor are all barbershop conversations." -Vincent Lloyd, Black Dignity: The struggle against domination (2022). Currently reading. Soon hopefully sleeping.

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 24/03/2025

Currently reading and regretting I didn't read this earlier. Clyde Woods, Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta (2017 edition). @versobooks.bsky.social

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 08/03/2025

All is But a Beginning is a #book by John G. Neihardt. Family lore is my great grandfather Elmer Holm taught him how to drive. They were definitely friends.

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 08/03/2025

Clara Zetkin's proposal for a "special Women's Day" at Second International Conference of Socialist Women held in Copenhagen in 1910. archive.org/details/Inte...

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 08/03/2025

Whitehouse claims "firms are reshoring production & positively responding to President Trump’s trade policies" citing the latest S&P Global US Manufacturing survey, which says growth likely "short lived" & driven by fears of expected "price hikes and supply issues caused by tariffs" 🤦

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 06/03/2025

This is why you always question what you read, especially when it comes from the police or is based (or allegedly based on) police provided information.

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Charles @charlesholm.substack.com · 27/02/2025

Today, at least two separate incidents of ICE agents in the Siouxland were reported on social media. 3/7

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