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Catherine @caevans.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Curating “Solidarity Forever: A Radical Pop-Up” @haymarkethouse.bsky.social has been an absolute pleasure. Go see it, Chicago, tonight and tomorrow only! Kipp and her daughter will meet you there :)

A hard hat, lunch bucket, pieces of coal, and jack rock on a black table cloth

A white tshirt on a standing hanger that reads “A woman’s place is in her union” with an image of a woman wearing a hat. A red bandanna is tied around the neck

A purple tshirt that reads “if I can’t dance I don’t want to be a part of your revolution Emma Goldman.” There is an mage of Emma Goldman in the center

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Sarah Milov @allofmilov.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My comments on why this isn't Meta's "Big Tobacco moment"--in short, reckoning with Big Tobacco wasn't a moment, it was a movement. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/t...

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Social Media and the Myth of the Big Tobacco Moment

Smoking used to be everywhere, the way Facebook, TikTok, Snap, YouTube and Instagram are now. Society decided to break the habit, but it took a long time.

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Longreads @longreads.com · 25/08/2026

"Maybe she’s not for you, even though she’s for everyone." Revisit Alison Fishburn's 2021 collection of seven #longreads on singer-songwriter Dolly Parton: longreads.com/2021/01/19/h...

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I Will Always Love You: A Dolly Parton Reading List - Longreads

Happy birthday, Dolly Parton! Here are seven longreads about the American singer-songwriter.

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Jessie Wilkerson @jessiew.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Tressie sees Appalachia and why it matters that Dolly was from here.

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LAWCHA: Labor and Working-Class History Association @lawcha.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This Wednesday, May 6, 7pm EDT: (Re)Defining the American Working Class Scan the QR to register.

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Jessie Wilkerson @jessiew.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Don’t miss a timely and smart conversation in @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social with a group of brilliant folks about the past, present, and future of higher ed. “What Universities Can Be: Strategizing amid the Crisis in Higher Ed” is free to download this month. read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...

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What Universities Can Be: Strategizing amid the Crisis in Higher Education | Labor | Duke University Press

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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @thefinancenewsletter.com · 05/04/2026

JUST IN: Maine is about to become the first US state to ban new data centers. And 10 other states are right behind it. Maine wants to freeze massive construction projects until late 2027.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Well, that’ll wreck you. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

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Opinion | ICE Took Their Classmate. They Started Writing Letters.

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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

What happened in the Twin Cities that made it possible for organizations to pull off such a successful strike? And what can be done to make such actions succeed in other parts of the country? labornotes.org/2026/01/how-... 1/3

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How to Spread the General Strike Beyond the Twin Cities

On January 23, Minnesota unions and community organizations seized the public imagination with “a Day of Truth and Freedom,” an economic blackout that drew perhaps 100,000 marchers to downtown Minneap...

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Sarah Milov @allofmilov.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

This close reading of weapons is good. They also should have analyzed the message below the mailbox and where it originated and why. The Height of Close-Combat Weaponry Is on This Woman’s Doorstep www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

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The Height of Close-Combat Weaponry Is on This Woman’s Doorstep

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age drops tomorrow! Also means I’ll be giving away some of these copies. Just wanted to take a picture with all of them 😂 You can still preorder at the link in the comments, your local bookstore, Bookshop, or wherever you buy books. Also included the Library Journal review!

Image of me standing behind three stacks of Living in a DAISY Age. The stacks of books sit at the back end of a white table. I'm standing in front of a TV, bookcases filled with books and vinyl records, and a couple of speakers sit behind me to my left and right.

Imagine of the first page of a review of Living in a DAISY Age from Library Journal. The lettering is black and set on a white background.

Imagine of the second page of a review of Living in a DAISY Age from Library Journal. The lettering is black and set on a white background. The last paragraph is bolded in black.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

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Jessie Wilkerson @jessiew.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Morgantown folks! Join us this evening for a screening of "King Coal" and conversation with award-winning director Elaine McMillion Sheldon. Doors open at 6:30pm and screening at 7pm in G20 Ming Hsieh Hall on the downtown campus. Free and open to the public. No tickets required.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

Along w/ @rosecasey.bsky.social & @jessiew.bsky.social, I’m honored that our open letter was the second most read piece @bostonreview.bsky.social in 2023. We’re grateful for everyone’s support. I hope you’ll support BR. They don’t have a paywall: that’s why why our letter could be so widely read.

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Donations - Boston Review

Make a tax-deductible donation to support our commitment to collective reasoning and imagination of a more just world.

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Jessie Wilkerson @jessiew.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

I'll be giving the keynote this evening at the exhibit opening of "Women Making History," which includes the stories of women coal miners and how they organized. You can tour the exhibit starting at 5pm, remarks at 6pm. exlibris.lib.wvu.edu/news/2023/10...

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

The Waffle House is so much more than a chain of diners in the South. It’s an ad hoc social support system and a beloved institution. That labor organizing has come to Waffle House feels like real social change to me. Remarkable.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

🚨ACTION ALERT🚨 ⭐IF YOU HAVE ANY CONNECTION TO WEST VIRGINIA OR WVU⭐ Will you send our open letter directly to the WVU Board of Governors? Help it get to them! We want them to see it. Email it to Special Assistant to the WVU BOG, Valerie Lopez at valerie.lopez@mail.wvu.edu

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Please read our open letter to the WVU Board of Governors published in the Boston Review today. @jessiew.bsky.social , @rosecasey.bsky.social and I wrote it together and we mean every word.

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An Open Letter from Faculty at West Virginia University - Boston Review

The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.

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