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Terri Friedline

@terrifriedline.bsky.social
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I’m not disengaged, I’m trying to practice better labor politics | Not an asshole (or, sometimes an asshole) | Opinions my own

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...
One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anyway, yall know all this stuff. The real point is that we all know this stuff but they keep making this AI thing that pretends we don’t know this stuff. the word for that is power.
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Terri Friedline @terrifriedline.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Does anyone have good recommendations for conferences on history, finance, and civil rights, please? Can be academic leaning or not
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 19/09/2026
Rep. Rashida Tlaib says Capture Systems has “no place in our state and should not be receiving a dime of public funds.” buff.ly/6enmhe0
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Arab Americans Feel Betrayed After Michigan Grants $1 Million to Israeli Military Contractor
Rep. Rashida Tlaib says Capture Systems has “no place in our state and should not be receiving a dime of public funds.”…
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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 16/09/2026
🌏 CFP: Global Political Economy in the Age of AI 🌍 Through the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab at the Institute for Advanced Study, @alondra.bsky.social, Taberez Neyazi, Ayesha Omer, Lucas Pinheiro, and I are organizing a June 2027 workshop, edited volume to follow. Abstracts due 11/1!
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CFP: Global Political Economy in the Age of AI
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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I am humbled and ecstatic to share an early blurb for PRISON: Incarceration and the Making of America, coming from @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social in March 2027 and available for preorder now: 1/ www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dan-b...
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Prison
A sweeping history of American prisons, showing how they have shaped the US from the founding to the present.The land of the free is the home of the pr...
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 15/09/2026
we are all macklemore* *kind of cringe, morally righteous
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Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My research over the last several years has convinced me that organized tenants can transform our broken politics. But some folks don't yet discern the possibilities of tenant power. This piece offers insights on the real possibilities of power from the margins. www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...
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Why more tenants are forming unions
Tenant unions are becoming more common across the country as tenants struggle to afford rent.
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Terri Friedline @terrifriedline.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Fetterman began his political ascent in Western PA in the wake of 9/11" where "red-white-and-blue paraphernalia amplified an already-present nationalism by appearing on... broad-sided barns, ascending flag poles, and joining assemblies of lawn ornaments" terrifriedline.medium.com/how-media-ov...
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How Media Overlooks Political Candidates’ Racism and Islamophobia: The Case of John Fetterman
John Fetterman, the Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania, continues to make news headlines about his increasingly horrendous politics and…
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Terri Friedline @terrifriedline.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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The U.S. government is going after a Michigan labor union over its Palestine activism
The U.S. government is criminalizing a campus labor union at the University of Michigan for supporting Palestine. We are calling on fellow labor organizers to resist this dangerous act of repression
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of any particular crime We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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Terri Friedline @terrifriedline.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Academics put so many unreasonable expectations onto each other
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My colleague @jeffsharlet.bsky.social has been asking his students to tell him about their AI usage anonymously. www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
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Opinion | My Students Hate AI. But They Can’t Stop Using It.
Big Tech has gotten them addicted to cheating, and they’ve internalized the blame.
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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A very good letter in the @chronicle.com by @lsiraganian.bsky.social & other JHU AAAUP members debunking the fake crisis of declining public trust in higher education and highlighting a real one: university administrators willing to collaborate with authoritarians. www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
Excerpt from article: Compact 2.0 relies on misleading rhetoric citing a lack of public trust in higher education. Ironically, public trust in higher education, including medical and scientific researchers, ranks higher than in all three branches of government, including the President, Congress, and the Supreme Court, as well as tech companies, according to Gallup data. Although polls show trust has declined over the past decade, this is part of a larger trend affecting all US institutions — not just universities. The mistrust in US institutions is, in part, a symptom of the Trump administration’s erosion of democratic norms and the rule of law and use of anti-university, “adaptable authoritarian rhetoric” from Russia and Hungary. As the Brookings Institution notes, “targeting higher education is an essential tool in the autocratic playbook.” Beyond polls, data tell a different story. College enrollment is stabilizing or rising despite demographic decline and the unaffordability crisis. Most high school students want to attend college. Globally, students trust our universities to provide unparalleled educational and research opportunities. International student enrollment continued to rise until the Trump administration’s anti-immigration measures caused a decline. In the U.S. and around the world, millions of students and their families work hard to earn a spot in our classrooms and to save money to pay for it.
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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Disappearance Machine: ICE’s jail boom By @jacknorton.bsky.social @nplusonemag.com “the money — every single day, every moment — follow the money. That money tells the truth about everything, everything, and about what has happened.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-54/pol...
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The Disappearance Machine | Jack Norton
As I listened to Ahern in his small office, I was struck by how much he knew about, and how much time he spent thinking about, immigration detention. He was a competent and civic-minded public servant...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
All of the family surveillance tech is really trying to occupy ever ounce of mothers’ brains, just consume it with a thousand management tasks until it leaks from their brains.
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Terri Friedline @terrifriedline.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Seven years in Dorothy’s Kansas with zero tornado warnings and zero power outages
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AAUP @ UMich-Ann Arbor @umichaa-aaup.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Today!
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Cost of Borders is finally under contract! Thank you to my incredible agent @sarahburnes.bsky.social to @naomischneid.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social for believing in this project & to all the people from Palestine to Haiti to Cameroon to Iran who shared their stories with me!
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Category: Non-fiction: Politics/Current Affairs
THE COST OF BORDERS By Heba Gowayed
Imprint: University of California Press
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August 31, 2026
Carnegie Fellow and CUNY sociologist Heba Gowayed's THE COST OF BORDERS, revealing the nature of global frontiers through the stories of people who journey across them, challenging lay and legal conceptions of borders, showing them as for-profit enterprises of state and private industry, whose costs are borne by everyone, not just in smugglers' fees and tax dollars, but also in lives, freedoms, and the very safety they are alleged to protect, to Naomi Schneider at University of California Press, at auction, by Sarah Burnes at The Gernert Company (world).
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
It’s not suicide it is social murder. It is the result of policy that is explicitly designed to Inflict maximum pain & make a class of people feel as life isn’t worth living.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wendell Berry passed away today. I love and return to the Peace of Wild Things at least every couple of months. A gorgeous work of art. He lived a long life and I hope it was a good one. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...
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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and LIS Data Center are hiring a 3-year postdoc for work on public policy, welfare and socio-economic inequality. Open to economics, sociology, pol sci and related disciplines. Apply by Sep 15th: jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur...
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It was a pleasure to chat with the great @hypervisible.blacksky.app about the backlash to Meta's AI glasses, and to luxury surveillance in general. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-revolt...
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The revolt against Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’ is part of a growing storm
AI. Data centers. Flock cameras. Now Meta’s “pervert” glasses. Breaking down the latest stage of a mass resistance to big tech with Chris Gilliard, privacy scholar and author of Luxury Surveillance.
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AAUP @ UMich-Ann Arbor @umichaa-aaup.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
And come out to our Welcome Back Gathering at Dominick's next week - current and prospective members (and anyone curious about the AAUP) welcome!
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AAUP @ UMich-Ann Arbor @umichaa-aaup.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Welcome to campus, new Michigan faculty! Our UM-AAUP chapter spent the afternoon at today's campus-wide New Faculty Orientation. Learn more about us (and join!) here: umaaup.org
Table with information on University of Michigan chapter of the American Association of University Professors, including flyers, sign-up sheets, stickers, and buttonsTerri Friedline, 2026-27 president of the University of Michigan chapter of American Association of University Professors
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
but making data centers more sustainable misses a lot of the points of criticism about what logics and industries they serve
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AAUP @ UMich-Ann Arbor @umichaa-aaup.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A new year is here, Ann Arbor! 📚 Join members from our UM-AAUP chapter at Casa Dominick's on Wednesday 9/2 (3-5pm) to kick off the school year with colleagues and new friends. Bring a +1 who wants to learn more about AAUP! 🧑‍🏫
Event flyer with back-to-school items, including books and a backpack, drawn in white chalk on a black chalkboard. 

The flyer reads:

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor AAUP chapter:

Welcome Back Gathering

Casa Dominick's

September 2, 2026
3pm-5pm

Join your AAUP chapter!

812 Monroe St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
And if you're not a member? Well you should be. Dues scale with income and they fund the national lawsuits and the local organizing (like the lunch we ordered for new organizer training!). What are you waiting for?
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Joining the AAUP says that you’re concerned about academic freedom, and about the way that basic freedom protects your teaching and research. Join today.
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Terri Friedline @terrifriedline.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I know researchers complain about the clunky, tangential ideas that peer reviewers make them add to manuscripts. There's also researchers with clunky approaches to reviewer feedback, plopping in ideas without trying to integrate them into manuscripts
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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
thank you, @victorerikray.bsky.social, for stating so plainly why we academic freedom needs a structural analysis. if you only focus on individual-level censorship (even if done responsibly), you don't even see the industrial-level destruction of depts & disciplines. bsky.app/profile/vict...
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Accrediting body considers changes to racism curriculum standards for public health schools Explicit mention of structural bias and racism would be removed under proposed rewrite www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/p...
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Accrediting body considers changes to racism curriculum standards for public health schools
The accrediting group for schools of public health is weighing the removal of language that specifically requires programs to teach about structural bias and racism.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I regret to inform you that these traditional college courses in AI are indistinguishable from the classrooms I sat in at for-profit colleges 15 years ago. Centralized curriculum & branding, technological control, “virtual” libraries, & bureaucratic alienation of labor.
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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Conservatives, from fellow students to the Governor of Texas, ruined this 18-year-old's life for rejecting Charlie Kirk hagiography, and now he's trying to start over. Help Devion Canty start over at a new school after his old one threw him under the bus! www.givesendgo.com/help-devion-...
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Help Devion Continue His Education at JCSU | GiveSendGo
Devion Canty needs your support to continue his college education after being coerced by the administration into withdrawing from Texas State University (TXS…
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AAUP @ UMich-Ann Arbor @umichaa-aaup.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Hello Bluesky! 👋 We are the official @aaup.org chapter of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Our mission is to advance academic freedom and shared governance. You can learn more about us at umaaup.org.
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AAUP @ UMich-Ann Arbor @umichaa-aaup.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Whether you're a current or prospective member, we would love to hear from you. You can find a list of this year's UM-AAUP officers below, with contact info. Some of our officers are also on Bluesky! @terrifriedline.bsky.social @leilakawar.bsky.social @sbagen.bsky.social @motorres.bsky.social
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President Terri Friedline Professor of Social Work School of Social Work tfriedli@umich.edu Vice President Leila Kawar Associate Professor of American Culture and in the Residential College College…
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“.. Pay-later loans are becoming the “working capital for the modern middle class ..” #GoldenAge 🥇 @nytimes.com #BNPL www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/b...
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“Obsessing over whether a person of color deserves a spot prevents everyone from noticing that white people get and keep positions without needing to be impressive at all.”
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
In which I identify the concept of “authoritarian entrepreneurs” to explain why some campus executives might see the administration’s agenda as an opportunity, even if they don’t fully subscribe it. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/is-the-com...
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Is the Compact 2.0 the Work of Authoritarian Entrepreneurs?
Academic status seeking might drive some campus executives to work with the Trump Administration.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 13/08/2026
you have to learn to live with the reality that you do not have privacy. especially when you are organizing. especially when you are challenging this regime. there is no place safe to disclose anything that might be construed as illegal by the worst actors.
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U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....
Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist. 

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.
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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Regent Paul Brown calls U-M’s not-a-data-center location what it is: environmental racism. It takes guts to call out your own institution in such clear terms, and I applaud him for it.
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Radical means to grasp at the root.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I will also say this. There is a real, authentic cohort of poor and working class people in higher education. They can speak to the complexities of being in and not of a class position without making broad, provocative generalizations. One day, someone should publish those people.
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
new course up (on the relation between family policing abolition and family abolition), it's quickly selling out though, so act fast if you want to participate: thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
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Family Policing: Welfare, Surveillance, and Abolition - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Nowhere—as the women’s liberation movement used to relentlessly point out—is more dangerous for a child than the family. In the ’70s, a wave of feminist, child-liberationist consciousness-raising blew...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
You will be surprised to learn that I do not believe there is a “moral imperative“ to teach educators about AI.
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Terri Friedline @terrifriedline.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Biking lets you observe community routines: the places where turtles cross, the bus driver skips over people waiting at the stop, the cop cars gather for violence
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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Welcome to Bluesky @umichaa-aaup.bsky.social! 👋
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Dr. Johanna Fernández was writing a book on the historical roots of U.S. fascism. An article related to the book is here: manifold.umn.edu/read/ces0701... BTW, George Jackson, in an interview about writing in prison, noted he was working on a detailed study of fascism sweeping the Western world.
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On the Historical Roots of U.S. Fascism | On the Historical Roots of U.S. Fascism | Manifold@UMinnPress
The University of Minnesota Press is known for its boundary breaking editorial program in the humanities and social sciences.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/08/2026
BREAKING: Capital One bank closed Trump’s accounts in 2021 over money laundering, per a new court filing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Capital One Cites Money Laundering Review in Trump-Related Suit
Capital One Financial Corp. said in a court filing late Friday that it closed accounts belonging to President Donald Trump’s sprawling real estate company in 2021 for legitimate reasons after an inter...
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