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Patrick Collier

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Associate Dean (I know...), professor, writer, trying to put my best love out into the world

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“A republic, if you can keep it.” @silverliningunited.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The president cannot: • Make laws • Declare war • Control elections • Run the civil service like a CEO • Ignore court orders • Stay in office without elections • Decide which laws apply to them • Use the military for domestic political control Those were king powers, and the framers rejected them.
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Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Dozens of unions, community and faith organizations are calling on every Minnesotan to take a stand on January 23rd. On January 23rd there will be a unified, statewide pause in economic activity. maydaystrong.org/iceoutmn
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ICE OUT MN — MAY DAY STRONG
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Following David's lead, I also posted on FB and was surprised by the positive response. Spread the word about what's happening here. People want to know.
I don't post much on here anymore but I need everyone to understand what it's like in Minnesota right now.

It's terrifying here. Our communities are under attack.

ICE is pulling people out of cars, rolling up to business and child care centers, detaining people based on the color of their skin, the language they're speaking, or the simple act of filming ICE. There are "guardians" stationed outside my daughters' schools to make sure kids and families are safe when they're just trying to attend classes. We should not fucking have to do this.

I do not have the words to properly express my fear, anger, and heartbreak. Every day brings new scenes, new horrors that should not be tolerated even once, let alone on an ongoing basis, all encouraged by the president and his supporters, which I know includes some of the people reading this.We are just a normal city trying to do normal things, but instead we have to worry about federal agents-from the party that claims to support "small government" and "safety"-invading our neighborhoods and making everything more dangerous. Not one person I know in Minneapolis-not a single person, not even my most conservative local acquaintances-supports this or thinks it's anything other than an actual attack on our beautiful city.

Many of our neighbors are immigrants. Doctors, nurses, teachers, the teller at the bank, the Uber driver getting you to the airport-the everyday people who make up the fabric of our city. These are the people being harassed and kidnapped and worse. Good people, not "bad guys." Some families just aren't sending their kids to school right now; some parents aren't going to work.

I logged on and the Facebook algorithm served up a NY Post story about the murder of Renee Good. The algorithm showed me that people I know had liked it. Honestly, shame on you. Shame on you for buying the propaganda. Shame on you for feeding the machine of hatred. Have some empathy. I'm begging you.
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Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Honored to be in the inaugural issue of Rust Belt Studies and grateful to the team behind this exciting new journal. www.rustbeltstudies.org/rust-belt-fe...
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Rust Belt Feelings | Rust Belt Studies
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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Page One in Cincinnati: “.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.” #ICE
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Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Sunday after Thanksgiving. Singing for my supper (of gin).
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Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Spotify is doubling down on decision to run ICE ads ‼️ Help us spread the word to #BoycottSpotify | boycottspotify.com
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Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
For those that weren't able to make our webinar with @patcollier.bsky.social and Jim Connolly, you can now catch up on YouTube! Learn more about the Everyday Life in Middletown archive as well as how the writers in archive write about comprehend crisis www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... 🗃
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Everyday life in Middletown - YouTube
Find out more about the Everyday Life in Middletown project here: https://bsudsl.org/edlmiddletown/. Cover image: A photo submitted to the Everyday Life in M...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Protesters have blocked the westbound side of Canal. They are chanting "ICE out of New York now!" and "Liberation, not deportation!"
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Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
We'll be talking about our Everyday Life in Middletown book with some amazing English scholars, including the brilliant Ben Highmore, tomorrow at 9 a.m. EDT (2 GDT). Free, but register at the link. Hope to see you there! universityofsussex.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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“A republic, if you can keep it.” @silverliningunited.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The wannabe dictator and his cabal think they’re a tidal wave, crashing to wash everything away. But they’re just rough waves on the shore — noise and foam. The real tide is us steady and rising.
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Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
"As the Trump administration cracks down on both environmental policies and progressive activism, the Sunrise Movement, the youth-led climate justice organization that popularized calls for a Green New Deal, is widening its mission to fight authoritarianism."
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Youth-led US climate activists widen focus to fight authoritarianism
Sunrise Movement, which led calls for a Green New Deal, will organize against Trump’s attacks on universities
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 30/09/2025
Chicago residents are engaging in daily protests and community safety patrols to resist ICE's crackdown on the city.
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Chicago Activist on Organizing Community ICE Patrols as Trump Escalates Immigration Crackdown
Tension between immigration agents and community activists is growing in Chicago, where ICE agents have deployed tear gas and pepper balls against ongoing protests outside Chicago’s Broadview ICE dete...
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Massachusetts Historical Society @mhs1791.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Join us on Oct. 7 for our next seminar on modern America, "Crisis Politics and Everyday Life in "Middletown."" Authors @patcollier.bsky.social & James J. Connolly, with comments by @thomassdavis.bsky.social. Register: www.masshist.org/eve...
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Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
So pleased to be presenting our work to the excellent scholars at and around Mass Observation & with Ben Highmore, whom we so admire, hosting. bsky.app/profile/mass...
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Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Everyday Life in Middletown is inspired by the book 'Middletown: A Study of a Midwestern City' and Mass Observation. In this event, Project Director Patrick Collier and Director James Connolly will discuss the project with Ben Highmore
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Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Our next event, 'Everyday Life and the Crisis Ordinary in Middletown, U.S.A.' is now open for booking! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/everyday-l...
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Peter Truitt @peter-truitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
"What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?” ― David Graeber
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Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Pleased to be engaging with accomplished scholars about my work, with Jim Connolly, about "Middletown" (i.e. Muncie, Indiana). Tuesday Oct. 7 at 5 p.m. You can register for Zoom or in-person at the link. www.masshist.org/events/crisi...
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Massachusetts Historical Society: Crisis Politics and Everyday Life in "Middletown”
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Then and Now The Little Street Delft c.1658, painted by Johannes Vermeer; now identified by archival research as 40-42 Vlamingstraat, Delft, photographed (right) in 2017. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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David Taylor @davidataylor.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
A DC crowd within sight of the White House calls for Free DC, not using the National Guard for a political ploy
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Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Disgraceful. www.wthr.com/article/news...
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Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility
Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.
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Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Just to be clear, this ain't the liberal media reporting: www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Why Israel’s Chaotic New Food Program in Gaza Has Turned So Deadly
A visit to one distribution site shows how a system designed to squeeze out the U.N. and Hamas continues to draw hungry Palestinians into deadly encounters.
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Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Also, feel free to smash that preorder button.
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Emmaeli @emmaelie.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Portrait of Breonna Taylor🕯 Alexis Franklin artist
cover art for Oprah magazine honoring Breonna Taylor, a young woman, 26 years old, with beautiful, expressive brown eyes - she was shot and killed in 2020 when police forced entry into her home
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Free the Spokane 9 Largely ignored in a small market, this week's federal indictment of 9 anti-ICE protesters in Washington state, including a former council president, shows how far the Trump regime will go to crush dissent This was always the plan. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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The Trump regime is arresting protesters now. This was the plan all along | Will Bunch
Federal felony charges against nine ICE protesters in Spokane reveal how Trump's secret police are expanding their web.
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Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
At our Everyday Life in Middletown archive, volunteer writers post one-day diaries of specified days, recording their activities, thoughts, and feelings. A new diary set is up on the archive, along with this blog post offering an overview. bsudsl.org/edlmiddletow...
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June 4 Diaries Are Live Now! - Everyday Life in Middletown
It’s coming up on a decade since we hatched the idea of Everyday Life in Middletown—an archive of one-day diaries and other accounts, written by…
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Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This was a nice distraction this week. My top 10.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I don't know about you...but I'm disturbed by the amount of hell NOT being raised by leadership about masked individuals jumping out of unmarked vans, refusing to identify themselves...and just shoving people into a Goddamn vehicle and whisking them away.
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Pat Thompson @pattho.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Melissa Hortman was Majority Leader during the DFL trifecta and had a key role in getting free lunches for school kids in Minnesota.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 2466: Writing takes resilience. You will sometimes be afraid. You will sometimes be rejected, criticized, disappointed. Don’t try to avoid those things. Feel them. Learn from them. Use them. Tell yourself that you have already done the hardest part. You have begun.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 31/03/2025
France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 28/03/2025
The most serious Nazi shit in this extremely Nazi shit executive order may be the idea, just slipped in there, that one of the "divisive narratives that distort our shared history" is that "race is not a biological reality but a social construct." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
All of these can be true: 1. A small contingent of Gaza protestors have antisemitic views. 2. The protests overall are driven by opposition to mass murder, not antisemitism. 3. Conservatives are using "campus antisemitism" as a cudgel to imprison protestors & delegitimize universities
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Fred Biesecker @biesecker1.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The link below is to my letter to the editor of the IndyStar, published today. Senate Republicans abdicate responsibility. www.indystar.com/story/opinio...
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Senate Republicans abdicate responsibility | Letters
Many of their public statements consist of meaningless platitudes coupled with misleading half-truths and crucial omissions.
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Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @disavowtrump20.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
REPOST if you stand with AOC!
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/
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Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Anthropologist Ruth Benedict notes, in 1934, that while cultures punish or isolate those who don't pursue the cultures' central values, they reward those who practice them to an extreme.
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Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I'm on vacation!
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
There’s a lot of art that captures modern Americas whole deal but since we are a cynical and insensitive nation most of it is cynical and insensitive. Lynch managed to capture something real about this place while remaining almost beatifically loving and empathic about it
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
A girl I knew in college saw David Lynch speak at an event. When it ended, she found a way to get to the front to tell him how much his films and shows meant to her. His response was “Thank you. And remember, the universe is in your basement.”
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Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Very excited to see this article up and to be in good company in the latest issue of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies! If you're interested in how "experimental" poetic forms get linked with whiteness in the modernist era, this article tells one part of that story. doi.org/10.5325/jmod...
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Whitewashing Poetic Form in Poetry Magazine
ABSTRACT. This article revisits the gender politics of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse during founding editor Harriet Monroe’s tenure (1912–1936). Although Poetry is often lauded for achieving gender pari...
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Jill Christman @jillchristman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Mark’s new book is in the world 🔥🔥🔥
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 04/12/2024
I like the term “loanword” because it implies the word will need to be returned at some point. “Café” is due back to the French in three days. The fines on “raccoon” have really been piling up with the Algonquin so make sure to return that this week
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
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