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Camille Walsh

@redheadmenace.bsky.social
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Author “Racial Taxation” (UNC Press), professor at UW Bothell. 20th c US legal historian researching and writing on race, tax and education. Primary teaching areas are sourdough, gardening and vegan cooking. Currently in a pre-career crochet fellowship.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Okay thanks. As student loan debt becomes racialized, it is more associated with deservedness — i.e. welfare queen narratives of taxpayer citizenship Liberalism likes taxpayer citizenship — bucket of rights purchased by exercising individual freedom to acquire “good” or “bad” debt
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
BREAKING: By an evenly divided vote, the Supreme Court affirms an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision blocking the creation of a Catholic charter school. Barrett recused, allowing for the deadlock. We don't know which conservative joined the liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Nos. 24–394 and 24–396
OKLAHOMA STATEWIDE CHARTER SCHOOL
BOARD, ET AL., PETITIONERS
24–394 v.
GENTNER DRUMMOND, ATTORNEY GENERAL
OF OKLAHOMA, EX REL. OKLAHOMA
ST. ISIDORE OF SEVILLE CATHOLIC VIRTUAL
SCHOOL, PETITIONER
24–396 v.
GENTNER DRUMMOND, ATTORNEY GENERAL
OF OKLAHOMA, EX REL. OKLAHOMA
ON WRITS OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT
OF OKLAHOMA
[May 22, 2025]
PER CURIAM.
The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court.
 JUSTICE BARRETT took no part in the consideration or decision of these cases.
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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
disparate impact might be the closest legal acknowledgement of structural racism we have. so, of course they're going to attack it because denying structural racism is at the core of colorblindness, white innocence, victimhood, and nostalgia, racism, resegregation, and whitewashing history
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Our EEPA paper on the media's role in shaping our understanding of student loans, race, and racism is here! Email me if you don't have access & want a copy. One of my fav papers for a few reasons but, most of all, it's my first paper with my husband 😍 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
Screenshot of the top of the article published in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. Title is Race below the fold: The absence of race in the news media's coverage of student loans. Written by me, Lauren Shook, Jaime Ramirez-Mendoza, and Christopher Bennett. Abstract reads: The media discourse on student loans plays a significant role in the way that policy actors conceptualize challenges and potential solutions related to student debt. This study examines language that explicitly indicates race and racism in student loan articles published in eight major newspapers from 2006 to 2021. We found that 18% of articles use any of this language, though use has accelerated since 2018. This increase appears driven by terms that denote groups of people instead of structural problems, with 8% of articles mentioning “Black” in a racialized context but less than 1% mentioning “racism.” These findings emphasize the importance of treating the media as a policy actor capable of shaping the salience of racialization in discussions about student loans.
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History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Why do so many voters assume that “running a government like a business” will lead to beneficial outcomes, even with very little historical evidence? Read @redheadmenace.bsky.social on the history of promising an “efficient” government. www.hnn.us/article/how-...
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How to Succeed in Government Without Really Trying
The long history of promising an “efficient” federal government.
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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
What the plaintiffs and the GOP want is a world where religious parents can object to anything and everything in public school they find offensive with the end game of destroying public schools.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/04/2025
The message is: crowd large. Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift. Events like this puncture that delusion.
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You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.
People poured out to protest not only what Trump has done—and what they fear he will do next.
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Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.
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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 18/03/2025
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 14/03/2025
Columbia University’s immediate submission & betrayal of the core mission of higher education reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that appears intent on destroying US higher education. Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson: www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...
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Cowardice and Capitulation: Columbia Has Sacrificed Its Own Students to Authoritarianism
The AAUP condemns in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. Columbia University’s decision to punish students ...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
A Supreme Court Justice who rules that President Biden can’t forgive student loan debt without an act of Congress, and rules that President Trump and Not An Official Position Musk can cancel any Congressionally-enacted spending they personally dislike, that Justice clearly isn’t ruling based on law.
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Raúl Carrillo @raulcarrillo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
"taxpayer money"
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is a really good analysis. The Department of Education's Dear Colleague Letter on Title VI rests on an overbroad and ultimately unsupportable interpretation of the law. Educational institutions shouldn't let themselves be intimidated.
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Marissa Jackson Sow @marissaesque.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I was going to wait until this was ready, but as we’re publishing unfinished far-right-wing SCOTUS primers these days, I guess this is fine. This repository, based on my Race & the Constitution course, is a pedagogical resource & archive. It’s also a digital sit-in. padlet.com/lawandlibera...
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Race, Law, and Power in the United States
A digital repository, anthology, and reading room from the Law and Liberation Lab
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I am really outdone. The Maryland National Guard cannot celebrate Frederick Douglass, the state’s native son and perhaps the greatest American this nation ever produced, because he’s Black and his chosen birthday happened to fall during Black History Month. (Ask me why he had to choose is b-day)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2025
i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.
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Vanessa Williamson @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I spend a lot of time writing about many of the horrors of American history, but one consistent bright spot, something about which it is right to be proud, is that we've never had a king.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
We have a lost child alert. Yale Law School, your child is at the manager’s office. Please come pick him up before he burns it down.
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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Now *this* is how you tell the public what's happening. Democratic party, please take note.
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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I mean, it couldn't be more obvious that this is a threat to leverage government power to retaliate against people who report critically on DOGE. An emergency for the future of free speech/free press.
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Bruce D. Baker @schoolfinance101.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
3 fed gov't spending areas that seem less efficient (& lower ROI) than federal educ spending: 1) shipping troops to the border to solve an imaginary problem; 2) using military transport to export hard working, low wage immigrants to other countries; 3) contracts to SpaceX for exploding rockets.
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.
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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
It’s a shame they turned universities into landlords & pharmaceutical companies, cuz it would be nice if institutions devoted to learning might speak up about the value of knowledge in a time when 22-year-old edgelords from 4chan have been given carte blanche to erase data from every federal agency
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Matthew Gardner Kelly @mgardnerkelly.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Reminder to the education policy crowd: download all the publicly available federal data you could ever need today
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/02/2025
They're going to illegally dismantle the Department of Education and strip millions of students of student loans, funding for students with disabilities, etc. They want to destroy public education. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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Trump preps order to dismantle Education Dept. as DOGE probes data
Closing the agency would require congressional approval, so the new administration hopes to diminish it in the meantime.
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Camille Walsh @redheadmenace.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
He needs a news break
White cat hiding his face in his paws
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Vanessa Williamson @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I keep thinking of this cartoon from the end of Reconstruction, when former Confederate Wade Hampton seized the SC state treasury. Personal control of the treasury is personal control of the state.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Worried about a fascist takeover? This sheet-pan paella will make you feel like you’re in 1930s Spain.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Let’s all say what our favorite public goods are. Mine are schools and not dying of treatable illnesses.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 23/01/2025
This is effectively a snitch on women, people of color, and LGBTQ folks policy. White men can just baselessly accuse any minority of being DEI and get them fired. They created a permission structure to bring back segregation as a matter of policy by calling it anti DEI.
"Screenshot of an article by Erica L. Green, titled 'Federal workers were given 10 days to report on attempts to ‘disguise’ D.E.I. programs.' The article discusses the Trump administration's directive to federal employees to report colleagues who defy orders to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, with warnings of 'adverse consequences' for non-compliance. Employees were given a 10-day deadline to report violations via email without facing disciplinary action."
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Chris Yarrell @chrisyarrell.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Finished these two remarkable works today. Highly recommend, especially for my school finance folks. #EduSky @schoolfinance101.bsky.social @redheadmenace.bsky.social
A picture of two books on a kitchen table. The first is “Educational Inequality and School Finance: Why Money Matters for America’s Students,” by Prof. Bruce D. Baker. The second is “Racial Taxation: Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869-1973,” by Prof. Camille Walsh.
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Kris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Amazingly, there's still resistance within some liberal organizations against pointing out the basic truth that Republicans want to dismantle public schools
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Imagine laws, but for rich people.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/11/2024
this is literally the future republicans want: public funds for segregation academies and religious private schools that actively discriminate against LGBT students or students with special needs
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
“I have received some guidance to avoid terms, like ‘camps,’” because “some people think it makes us look like Nazis”
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