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Karen Majewski

@panikarenka.bsky.social
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Former mayor of Hamtramck Michigan, historian of American Polonia,, Hungarian folk dancer, owner of Tekla Vintage; Ph.D. American Culture, University of Michigan; President, Polish American Historical Association

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Mayday Marin (SF Bay) @maydaymarin.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
We’re doing this. It’s long past time.
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
My review of Bruce Harkness's book, Photographs from Detroit, 1975–2019, has now been published in the most recent issue of Polish American Studies. This author's link, good for 3 months, will take you to the review. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas/arti...
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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Happy #CulinaryArtsMonth! To celebrate the culture behind cooking, check out Polish American Studies 81.1, a special issue on Polish American foodways 🥟https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas/issue/81/1
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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
In Polish American Studies Vol. 82, No. 1, Martin J. Hershock discusses Detroit's Federal Screw Works Strike of 1938, in which Polonia's working-class women played a major but unrecognized role. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas/arti...
Cover of Polish American Studies, Vol. 82, No. 1, Spring 2025
White and red color block background with photo: St. Peter and Paul Church, formerly St. Stanislaus Kostka, the first Polish church in the Pacific Northwest, Tacoma, WA.
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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Check out Polish American Studies for scholarship related to all aspects of the history and culture of Poles in the Western Hemisphere. Accepting submissions from all humanities/social sciences disciplines, with 70 volumes already published. www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/?id...
Cover of Polish American Studies, Vol. 81, No. 1, Spring 2024
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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Polish American Studies 82.2 is available online! Article contributors include Anna Podciborska, Marek Skurski, Silvia Dapía ( @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ), David J. Jackson, and Izabella Kimak (whose article is OPEN ACCESS!). scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas
Cover of Polish American Studies, Vol. 82, No. 2, Autumn 2025
White and red color block background with photo: 1966 United States Post Office stamps commemorating Poland’s Millenium—a thousand-year anniversary of Christianity in Poland.
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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
✨🆓 In honor of the #AHA26 conference, this article from Polish American Studies 75.1 is free to access through March 31, 2026! "The Other Diaspora: Measuring Assimilation Among Polish Gay Men in Chicago" by Hubert Izienicki scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas/arti... cc: @historians.org
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"The Other Diaspora: Measuring Assimilation Among Polish Gay Men in Chicago" by Hubert Izienicki 

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/02/2026
More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes. Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted. Beautiful and devastating all at once.
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
BREAKING: ICE to Be Deployed with DOJ Election Monitors in Latino Communities — Here’s What They’re Not Telling You open.substack.com/pub/levremem...
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BREAKING: ICE to Be Deployed with DOJ Election Monitors in Latino Communities — Here’s What They’re Not Telling You
A coordinated federal operation is being activated under Project 2025 to intimidate Latino voters, suppress turnout, and quietly federalize state elections ahead of 2026.
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
SEEKING co-authors to help comb IPN archives in Poland and Piłsudski archives in the US. The topic is an understudied 20th-Century Polish-American leader, with primary research well developed. (Part 1)
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
SEEKING co-authors to help comb IPN archives in Poland and Piłsudski archives in the US. The topic is an understudied 20th-Century Polish-American leader, with primary research well developed. (Part 1)
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
This should be illegal. It's outrageous that the government would do something like this!
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Bob’s my uncle @bobdabalina.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Trump turned the DOJ into the Dept of Revenge while Peter Thiel is building phase 2, a Christo-Fascist-Oligarchy. Gee wiz, I just thought they would stop illegals from eating my pet. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
A couple of days ago my post mentioned the murder--most likely a hit job--of Communist activist Thomas X. Dombrowski of Detroit/Hamtramck. Here is more on that 1956 murder.
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
In 1940, Hamtramck's Communist newspaper Good Neighbor/Dobry Sąsiad accused the "Underworld" of running Hamtramck, and argues for the Communist Party to be allowed on the ballot.
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
George Kristalsky ran for City Council as a Communist several times, including 1940. Here he is with Thomas X. Dombrowski, well-known Detroit & Hamtramck Communist Party activist. Dombrowski was murdered in New York in 1956. Clipping from the Hamtramck Communist Party newspaper, Good Neighbor.
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
1940 Hamtramck election campaign wishful thinking: "The citizens cannot be bought nor fooled with a smokescreen of noise, evasions and lies."
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Leading up to the 1940s primary election, candidate Joseph Lewandowski continues his mass meeting blitz, this time sponsored by the Ladies' "Lewandowski for Mayor" Club.
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Multiple candidates in the 1940 election, including mayoral candidate Lewandowski, held events at 8944 Jos. Campau, an address that doesn't seem to exist anymore. It may have been a UAW headquarters when Leo Krzycki spoke there in 1936, while serving as Chairman of the Socialist Party of America.
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
In his 1940 campaign for Hamtramck mayor, Joseph Lewandowski held multiple "mass meetings." The one on February 24th was at the Polish Army Veterans Association (PAVA) hall at 2238 Holbrook, now Pleasantrees cannabis dispensary.
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Joseph Lewandowski's 1940 mayoral campaign focused on the ever-present issue of city finances, including (you guessed it) parking meters.
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Dujring Hamtramck's 1940 municipal election, the equivalent of modern day campaign social media accounts were short-lived newspapers devoted to one candidate or another, like the mayoral hopeful Frank Matulewicz's Hamtramck Worker, its name reflecting his focus on labor and union issues.
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Deep fakes in the 1940 Hamtramck mayoral campaign
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Hamtramck 1940: Mayoral candidate Matulowicz seems to have a pretty good platform.
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
1940 city election: mayoral candidate Matulewicz accused mayor Kanar of colluding with state Republicans. In exchange for Kanar's support of Republicans in the presidential election, existing charges of corruption against city officials would be put on hold.
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Here's a fun one from the 1940s campaign, when Barney Nowicki testified in court to paying Mayor Kanar a $1,500 bribe for his appointment as Hamtramck's "first Polish police chief." From mayoral candidate Frank Matulewicz's campaign newspaper, The Hamtramck Worker/Robotnik Hamtramicki.
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Here it is an election year in Hamtramck & I completely forgot I've got a pile of stuff from the 1940 campaigns. So here's one to start, from Frank Matulewicz's unsuccessful run against Walter Kanar for mayor.
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Things get crazier and crazier in Hamtramck. Here's the latest. www.metrotimes.com/news/suspend...
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Suspended Hamtramck police chief told volunteer to point loaded gun at someone’s head, according to audio recording
The new evidence adds to mounting allegations of misconduct and retaliation by Chief Jamiel Altaheri
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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'Like a James Bond novel': Explosive lawsuit against Hamtramck mayor, police chief
“This is like a James Bond novel. It’s chock-full of the craziest things, all in one case," said attorney Jon Marko.
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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How a flag on a pole became a turning point for Hamtramck
A cultural dispute came to symbolize a growing divide in Hamtramck. And it brought about a seismic power shift.
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Mayor says he wants an FBI investigation. Normally, I'd agree. But do YOU trust Trump's FBI to investigate, among other things, allegations of plans to buy a Trump pardon by Trump supporters & the city of, as Trump says, "the best mayor in the world" who is also nominated to be an ambassador?
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Hamtramck is in disarray. I say this as someone who has seen the best & worst of the city over the decades. I've seen the memo alleging misconduct by Police Chief Altaheri, & despite leaving out a few important details, this is it in a nutshell. arabamericannews.com/2025/05/23/h...
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Hamtramck turmoil: Police chief placed on leave amid explosive misconduct allegations as city manager warns against political retaliation
Hamtramck City Manager decision to place Police Chief Altaheri on temporary administrative leave pending investigations into serious misconduct allegations.
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Hamtramck City of Immigrants Deportations on My Mind Post #11 Detroit Free Press 6 March 1932
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Homicidal Narcissism - Fascism & Fear of the Feminine open.substack.com/pub/denisesi...
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Homicidal Narcissism - Fascism & Fear of the Feminine
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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Ukrainian Catholics pack Hamtramck church to celebrate Easter as war continues back home
Parishioners packed a 9:30 a.m. Easter mass at the Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic Church in Hamtramck.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/04/2025
This is some scary shit—and everyone needs to pay attention because it could affect any one of us. Rachel Maddow & NPR just blew the lid off Musk’s DOGE team. A whistleblower at the NLRB says they accessed data without authorization and breached security. The potential motive is pretty shocking. 🧵
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Hamtramck City of Immigrants Deportations on My Mind Post #10 Detroit Free Press 1931
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Family fears for safety of Venezuelan makeup artist deported to Salvadoran megaprison www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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Family fears for safety of Venezuelan makeup artist deported to Salvadoran megaprison
Andry Hernandez Romero was deported to El Salvador based on the government's contention that his tattoos linked him to a Venezuelan gang. Friends and family say the tattoos are merely a symbol of his ...
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Hamtramck City of Immigrants Deportations on My Mind Post #9 Detroit Free Press 4 July 1931
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Any questions? www.rawstory.com/book-censors...
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Hamtramck City of Immigrants Deportations on My Mind Post #8: When women lost their citizenship for marrying non-citizens Detroit Free Press 14 November 1925
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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Ewa Stańczyk, "Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland" (U Press of Mississippi, 2024)
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Antisemitic caricatures had existed in Polish society since at least the mid-nineteenth century. But never had the devastating impacts of this imagery been ...
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Hamtramck City of Immigrants Deportations on My Mind Post #7 Detroit Free Press 19 February 1953
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Jacqs @fooyoo2.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
There is no Justification for this. NONE!
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Reuters @reuters.com · 10/04/2025
Exclusive: Researchers at the US National Institutes of Health were told they can't attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their way and go during time off, current and former NIH scientists told Reuters reut.rs/4j7rFLT
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Exclusive: US NIH scientists barred from attending conferences on their own time and dime
Researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health have been told they cannot attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their own way and go during time off, three current and former NIH scientists told Reuters.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Make no mistake, the so-called “Save Act” is yet another attack in the never ending Republican war against women.
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Karen Majewski @panikarenka.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Hamtramck City of Immigrants Deportations on My Mind Post #6: Detroit Free Press 12 March 1952
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
MAGA, Trump voters, Non-voters: Is this what you thought he meant when he said he was going to deport criminal illegal immigrants? Welcome to Nazi American. Your 1939 dream come true. #ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue
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