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eustace tilley

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The original ET. Still glossy at 100 with a few staple sags. Did Nuzzi that coming. Death to the Oxford comma. Diaeresis mandatory. No. 3 pencils only. Cartoons rule.

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eustace tilley @rgf.bsky.social · 4h
Suggestions as to where they can go and how to get there will be taken in another thread! ⚾
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#FridayReport: This week 153 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Los Angeles, CA; Mt. Airy, GA; Detroit MI; Shoreview, MN; Aberdeen, NC; Cincinnati, OH; Milwaukee, WI; & more cities. #TeachTruth Some reasons why. ⬇️ 🧵
Teacher testimonials explaining why they joined the Zinn Education Project, for units on the U.S.–Mexican War, the Haymarket Affair, Kindred, and teaching movements, with a torn-paper collage of vintage protest photos and the ZEP logo.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Vote for the Freedom to Read Live now with a wonderful collection of authors, comedians, activists speaking for just two minutes each. Co-sponsors: @ncacensorship.bsky.social, @redwine.blue, @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social, @leeandlow.bsky.social, ZEP, & many more. Join here: www.nobookbans.org
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Vote for the Freedom to Read
We made it easy to take these four actions against book bans. Take action and vote for the freedom to read today!
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eustace tilley @rgf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
>Source: I literally live there. Condolences My own thought is that reintegrating northern provinces with the Republic will resemble the sort of difficulties Germany had with absorbing East Germany - with more explosives in play.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
(1/X) I more certain of the following than I am that the sun will tomorrow: (a) Trump will leave the US (and GOP) in shambles. (b) Neither Trump nor anyone who facilitated him will pay price. (c) Ppl who accurately predicted how bad Trump2 would be will continue to be portrayed as hysterical...
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eustace tilley @rgf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Wonder if Ken Howard (nee:Popehat. nee: a dozen other nees) has seen this, she's in his geographic backyard. Needs some work on public speaking technique but looks to have a real public policy future. Be great if we could find a lure that would get the 'hat' back on BS.
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BabylonBros @babylonbros.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
White Fright
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#FridayReport: This week 137 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from San Francisco, CA; Santa Fe, NM; New York, NY; New Bern, NC; Philadelphia, PA; & many more cities. #TeachTruth Some reasons why. ⬇️ Donate to support more teachers: www.zinnedproject.org/donate/
Why I Signed Up at ZEP This Week:
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I want to teach my kids about redlining. — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
To teach students about the labor movement. — New Bern, North Carolina
I want my students to feel empowered to make change. — San Francisco, California
The Zinn Education Project has been highly recommended by colleagues. — New York, New York
ZEP offers unique perspectives that allow my students to think critically. — Santa Fe, New Mexico
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eustace tilley @rgf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Tibet
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
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Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
📌So, MSM, are you even living in the same country we are??? How is it the most serious homegrown attack on America since the Civil War STILL isn’t grabbing every headline, every day??? Because here’s the thing, you self-important clowns, if this attack continues apace, we are done. DO YOUR JOBS.
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eustace tilley @rgf.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Monitored some Zinn lectures at BU as a 20 yr old - no idea what I was witnessing at the time.
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eustace tilley @rgf.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Susan Collins loses a few more votes.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
East Tennessee folks have been sending us pics of this sign… Sign of the times?
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Want to know how “Teaching for Black Lives” study groups are changing education? One group coordinator said their goal is to “create spaces to nurture mutual support and resistance in the midst of attacks on teaching honestly about U.S. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.” Find out more: ⬇️ 🧵
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Meet the 2025–2026 Study Groups - Teaching for Black Lives
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Wonkette @wonkettemedia.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Republicans Livid As Missouri And Kansas Vote For Democracy And Abortion AGAIN by @evanhurst.substack.com follow him! www.wonkette.com/p/republican...
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Republicans Livid As Missouri And Kansas Vote For Democracy And Abortion AGAIN
Democracy for Missouri and abortion for Kansas, to be specific.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
It’s pretty clear that’s not what happened at all and this is like the 3rd different outlet I’ve seen saying as much
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Pull a standard U.S. history textbook off the shelf and you’re unlikely to find more than a paragraph on the 1919 riots; what you do find downplays both racism and Black resistance, while distorting facts in a dangerous 'both sides' framing." Read more ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-o...
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Remembering Red Summer — Which Textbooks Seem Eager to Forget
By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca Confronting a national epidemic of white mob violence, 1919 was a time when Black people defended themselves, fought back, and demanded full citizenship in thousands of acts of c...
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eustace tilley @rgf.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
MLB players are overwhelmingly pampered from early years and vote MAGA - those who bother voting at all.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 03/08/2026
🇺🇸 Satirical gold trophy mocking Trump appears in New York Laughing and taking pictures, New Yorkers stop by a mysterious 10-foot-tall golden trophy awarded to Donald Trump for his "enthusiastic involvement in the Iran war", designed by the anonymous art collective Secret Handshake.
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eustace tilley @rgf.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
What a wingman to have
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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I learned this from growing up in Los Angeles around older folks who were around when it happened & still talked about it. But it’s also a subplot in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and people are shocked when I tell them that part of the movie is a true story.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/08/2026
Colin is right: We must exercise our power to change the course of history. For his lifetime achievements advocating for racial justice and empowering youth, we are proud to recognize Colin Kaepernick with our new Ralph Ellison Award for Defenders of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"We are living through a very dangerous time. . . The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated." — James Baldwin (born #tdih 1924) "A Talk to Teachers" ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ja...
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Aug. 2, 1924: James Baldwin Born
James Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Absolutely had to check this one because it couldn’t be real. It’s real.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 31/07/2026
LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
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LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday are expected to charge an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues' racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job.
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John Piermatteo @jpiermatteo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Damnit! I'm not buying it then. Any chance you'd like to volunteer for a good cause? I challenge you not to cry. youtube.com/shorts/_5EW3...
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#lgbt #lgbtq #pridesandiego #pridefestival
YouTube video by Alliance LGBT
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/07/2026
Bernie Sanders: "People are sick and tired of the Democratic establishment and the Republican establishment ... the American people are tired of a rigged economy, a corrupt campaign finance system. They want real change. They don't want Rahm Emanuel and the establishment maintaining the status quo."
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PEARLS BEFORE SWINE®™/BLUESKY EDITION 💙 @ol-doc-j-d.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The Crux* of the Doublethink Biscuit iS Truman's last sentence, of this Moving Democratic Vitriol! *~"Socialism is THEIR name, for almost anything that helps people." §•DIVISION POLITIC•§ Everything he said prior was seemingly 💯 NONE of those SOCIAL PROGRAMS were REQUIRED in the prosperous USA ⤵️
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The vast majority of our outlets are owned by right-wing billionaires and last night our most prominent political reporters spent an hour chuckling along with a clearly senile Republican president as he insulted them incoherently. Here's why our media has a liberal bias problem.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Sports Illustrated caught the boos for Trump.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"If you can't stand up now, you're just going to be next on the list." - 'Bear-tifa' tells @AndrewMercado on the need to PROTEST ICE and Trump in Maine and nationwide. FULL STREAM ⬇️
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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Unironically, America needs a Honey Huan:
Doonesbury from 1970s where mao's translator ignores his more insane pronouncements.
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eustace tilley @rgf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
...and Dresden - not at all.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Read about Red Summer of 1919 -- a critical period in U.S. history that is left out of or misrepresented in most textbooks. Domestic white supremacist terrorism -- and stories of how African Americans fought back across U.S. #TeachOutsideTextbook ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-o...
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Remembering Red Summer — Which Textbooks Seem Eager to Forget
By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca Confronting a national epidemic of white mob violence, 1919 was a time when Black people defended themselves, fought back, and demanded full citizenship in thousands of acts of c...
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
#tdih 1954, democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz was deposed in U.S. CIA-sponsored coup to protect profits of United Fruit Company. Arbenz was replaced by decades of brutal U.S.-backed regimes who committed torture & genocide. 💔#TeachOutsideTextbook Art by Diego Rivera Read ⬇️
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June 27, 1954: Elected Guatemalan Leader Overthrown in CIA-Backed Coup
Democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was deposed in a CIA-sponsored coup.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/06/2026
No One At Bar Aware World Cup Game Rerun From 2018
No One At Bar Aware World Cup Game Rerun From 2018
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eustace tilley @rgf.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
ICE is already abandoning up to 8 previously contracted for sites - with public help we can and should shut down ALL ICE operated US concentration camps. Don't accept official lies that they aren't all like Delaney - they are.
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auntyr.bsky.social @auntyr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A world-class education is now completely free — MIT has opened its entire vault of more than 2,500 courses to the public online. source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2026). About Us: MIT OpenCourseWare. MIT Open Learning. 😊
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eustace tilley @rgf.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Men in skirts - more of an attraction than the team
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eustace tilley @rgf.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Canonization to burning at the stake - Knick fans are a trip.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/06/2026
The move comes after ProPublica revealed how former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández was pardoned by Trump and then escorted six hours from West Virginia to a posh NYC hotel instead of being turned over to ICE.
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Lawmaker Pushes for Ban on Special Treatment for Convicted Drug Traffickers After ProPublica Report
When Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, prison officials had the former Honduran president's ICE hold lifted and he was driven to a posh New York hotel. That “can never be allowed to happen ever a...
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This is August 4, 2025. C-SPAN has the 1 min. 34 sec. video clip. (And I assume the full town hall too.)
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Public education belongs to all of us. If you’ve used a ZEP lesson, article, or resource this year, we invite you to help another teacher do the same. Keep the Zinn Education Project resources free and accessible. We rely on you. Donate today: www.zinnedproject.org/donate/
"The Zinn Education Project stands as a reminder of what learning is meant ot be: inquiry-driven, honest, and rooted in truth." Keep people's history lessons free and accessible for educators.
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eustace tilley @rgf.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
As a native of Maine I'm exercising the prerogative to exclude any mention of Platner, Collins or Maine from my timeline for the next week or so. Feel free to mention Paxton or Texas because the RNC quite assuredly will not - not as long as they can still help Dems with their circular firing squad.
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Read the Open Letter from President Zelenskyy to Putin www.president.gov.ua/en/news/vidk...
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Aibo - Zonny @aibo-zonny.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🇺🇸.........👇
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
STATUS SCOOP: Scott Pelley has been terminated from CBS News. More in @status.news shortly. Subscribe here: status.news/subscribe
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Press TV footage: Footage allegedly shows US base in Kuwait's Ali Al- Salem, being under attack.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Oh, MAGAs are surprised and angry about self-mythologizing, shirt-rending, taxpayer-compensated grifter and ersatz America Firster Michael Flynn turning out to be a highly paid foreign agent for a Kremlin ally? My eyes just *rolled out of my fucking head*
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MAGA Freaks Out After Trump Ally Registers as Foreign Agent
It looks like Michael Flynn isn’t all that America First.
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