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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 6h

We are watching in slow motion the things that happen before ethnic cleansing happens. People get that, right?

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 6h

Yep. 👇🏽 bsky.app/profile/sora...

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 7h

Not an easy thread to read, especially for someone like me, whose parents were alive when this happened. My father was about Clarence's age. 👇🏽

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 15h

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 17h

The missing pages of the Das Kapital have been found

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 17h

Yes! The intangible losses would be just as severe.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 17h

💯 Losing the tuition, room, & board paid by foreign students would be a big blow to US colleges & universities, big & small, elite & non-elite. 👇🏽

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 17h

Some context that isn't usually spoken about in US media. (Obviously, it's by no means the full context.) bsky.app/profile/aueu...

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 19h

Bad news from France. Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen continues to lead the polls, despite her conviction this summer. 39% of French people believe she is capable of making the decisions the country needs," according to a new Verian survey for Le Figaro Magazine.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 19h

On social media, these North American "tradwives" championed submission, motherhood, and a return to the role of homemaker. Today, many of them are renouncing this lifestyle and revealing the dark side behind the scenes.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 19h

If true, the institutional rot is deep & severe.

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 20h

“Slow Down. Let Our Children Live.” Generations before us fought for walkable streets. They set for us the example we need today. Cleveland 1961: Along a road with no sidewalk, a human wall of volunteers protected children walking to and from school.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Indeed. And a shameless opportunist.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You're taking a late night post way too seriously.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

San Diego Symphony, welcome to the resistance!

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Listening now, prompted by the quoted post. Much to my dismay, they have nothing to do with Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade. They are, however, very beautiful. tidal.com/album/244878...

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Mayumi Hirasaki - Biber: Mystery Sonatas

Listen to Biber: Mystery Sonatas on TIDAL

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Kathleen Kelly @kathleenkellymusic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Actually I think the adults need it taken away.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thinking about some of the work I saw on a 24-inch screen on, say, the NYT website not to long ago. Great stuff. But I haven't been to any newspaper or magazine site on a desktop in two or three years. I use the desktop only for writing, editing photos, & studying French.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Bias toward Modernism makes it hard to perceive how little public things—like designing postage stamps or National Park Service photographer stipends or spending the pittance of pre-DOGE NEA dollars on public programming—did something to cohere a nation." Terrific piece.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It took three years for these thugs to release the body cam footage. Now we know why. bsky.app/profile/al.c...

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Surprisingly, Google Translate handles this sentence quite well.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bagayoko is a fascinating and potentially very important figure. It’s been a long while—a generation at least—since the French left has embraced a non-white politician the way they have Bagayoko

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Of all of the monuments to Trump that will need to be torn down in 2029 and beyond, the 450 years’ imprisonment meted out to the Prairieland 8 has to be one of the most obscene. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/m...

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Inside the Group of Texans Accused of Being Antifa Terrorists

The strange story behind the first federal terrorism prosecution of American protesters.

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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Happy #pubday to "The Island of Bound Masters: Slavery and Construction Labor in Mauritius" by Dwight Carey! How enslaved workers provided the labor as well as the architectural expertise needed to build and sustain Mauritius upress.virginia.edu/title/10224/ #booksky #readUP

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The riot police in question, the dystopianly name Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité (CRS), have always been paramilitary. Technically under civilian control, they are a national force, living under barracks conditions and equipped to “defend the Republic” against its own citiizens

Photo of a young man and young woman walking in front of a billboard advertisement for a French insurance company, which has been plastered with smaller posters that read “CRS/SS”

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Like many of the students barricading their schools, Bachir wanted to draw attention to the widening socio-economic gulf between Paris & its sprawling suburbs. “Conditions are terrible in the suburbs. There aren’t enough resources, there aren’t enough teachers, and the class sizes are too large."

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Here's a good overview of the student protests in France, which began in Paris suburbs, in working-class schools attended by many black & brown students, & have spread nationwide. The government has tried to end the protests through violent repression. It hasn't worked. f24.my/CCfu

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'We're fed up': Paris students rise up in a movement that shows no sign of slowing

Hundreds of thousands of students and their supporters took part in nationwide protests across France on Tuesday after weeks of student barricades protesting school conditions.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Americans, don't be confused by the word "suburbs." The poorest parts of the Paris metro area are some of its suburbs.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

US & UK media are doing a poor job of covering the student protests in France. The network France24, however, has excellent English-language reporting with no paywall. This story from 2024 will help you understand why the protests began with working-class students of African descent. f24.my/AI4Q

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Paris suburbs get spanking new Olympic venues while teachers and pupils seethe in decrepit schools

Teachers and parents in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris have staged several weeks of strikes and protests in the run-up to the Paris Olympics, leveraging the Games as they call for urgent measures…

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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026

The federal Civil Rights Data Collection, for the first time in decades, tells us about the teacher workforce and reminds us racial disparities are still stark in American public schools. n.pr/4hMPsBq

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5 things civil rights data says about public schools

The federal Civil Rights Data Collection, for the first time in decades, tells us about the teacher workforce and reminds us racial disparities are still stark in American public schools.

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WTJU @wtjuradio.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Media producer Michael Moxham will teach a series of podcasting workshops, free & open to all. No previous experience is required. Workshops will be held in the GLab of Robertson Media Center, in UVA’s Clemons Library at 164 McCormick Rd. Learn more about each workshop at shorturl.at/jATNc

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've encountered very few of those.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is cool. A series of five programs from @francemusique.fr exploring the connections between jazz & classical music. In this episode, Gottschalk, Satie, Bill Evans, Milhaud, Poulenc, Stravinsky, Gershwin, & more. There's some gorgeous music here. www.radiofrance.fr/francemusiqu...

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Jazz et classique (2/5)

Oeuvres de Gottschalk, Satie, Bill Evans, Milhaud, Poulenc, Honegger, Roussel, Stravinsky, Gershwin et Georges Antheil.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tomorrow, back to the practice room. 📯

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You know what feels good? Walking into a rehearsal, knowing that you've played your horn just three times in the last three weeks. And walking out knowing that you didn't humiliate yourself & got no dirty looks from the conductor. That, friends, feels good.

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