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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 1h
Amazon and Google are building hyper-scale data centers up water from St. Louis, and now the state's monopoly power company says it needs to build more gas power plants to meet demand www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1h
you are mistaking the epoch marking their growth in popularity with their historical roots. this is a categorical mistake.
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KPD Max von Sydnow @mpdeejay.bsky.social · 2h
"The method of force which hides itself in secrecy is a method as old as humanity. The kind of thing that men are afraid or ashamed to do openly, and by day, they accomplish secretly, masked and at night."
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1h
Dread it. Run from it. Blansas arrives all the same.
Graph.

Title: Kansas Gen Z Registration: Monthly Democratic Minus Republican Share

X axis: democratic advantage in registration baseline by percentage points.

Y axis: Dates, by month and in increments of two, from Jan '25, Mar '25, May '25, ..., Jan '26, Mar '26, May '26, Jul '26

It shows a big ass spike from a -10pt low in Nov '25 to a +15pt high in July '26
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LAISSEZ LES BON QUESO ROULER @thequeso.bsky.social · 2h
Ok, cool. Hook ‘em!
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h
lol
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h
Grandin is a modern author I generally recommend, Walter Johnson is another good one. Du Bois himself did good work on the study of post-reconstruction with his seminal text, of course.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h
I actually have an answer for that, as does much of the literature for the reconstitution of the American elite post-Civil War bsky.app/profile/utop...
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h
A lot of it is hit dogs hollering but the part that makes me squint my eyes is when it is from people who never did greek life. A very suspicious defense of perceived cultural affinities—solidarity, if you would allow me to go as far to say—with things they see as part of their identity/culture.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h
Knights*. I am going to actually do it this time.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h
Do you know how fucking annoying it is to be right? Does anyone think I actually take pleasure in this? I am going to paint the ceiling of my new apartment with my brains at this rate. Annoying.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h
You will not believe what was an obsession of the southern officers who made up the leadership of the confederate cavalry, a job that was basically designed for insane racist warrior poets who saw themselves as modern nights. As in, their personal journals are filled with this stuff.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2h
'The Victor’ Winsor Mccay, 1914
skeleton holding a sword aloft as it stands on a corpse strewn field
a bat flies past the moon behind
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h
i knew they were gonna make it when they specialized into juarez style burritos
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h
shout out to my favorite slightly overpriced local immigrant owned restaurant for successfully engaging in cuisine diplomacy
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Otto DeFay @speedmariachi.bsky.social · 2h
J Edgar Hoover’s membership in and reliance on Kappa Alpha (a VA frat started in 1865 👀) to staff the newly developed FBI significantly informed its racial politics through the 70’s.
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short king simp↙↙↙ @yeospaceman.bsky.social · 2h
yeee i did a whole thread on the specific frat that interfaces with the ruling class of Alabama. prestigious southern frats are elite producing institutions
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h
Fuck.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h
I cannot believe I have to do this. Just say you’re fine with greek life or whatever. Who cares. We’re not changing its existence today. You’re just going to drive an actual history nerd insane by needing to contextualize their off handed hyperbole that is, to quote somebody, ecstatically true.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h
I have been reading volumes of 19th and 20th century histories that keeps crossing paths with fraternal orders and secret societies. The reason? A system of racialized capitalism that was born in the United States, a system that went on to define our entire civilization for over 160 years.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h
So when I say “the confederacy created Greek life”, I am describing an incredibly well documented socioeconomic history of around a century and a half that requires opponents to grab on to mendacious specifics as some kind of counterfactual disproving the whole. It does not.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h
… industrial north bonded itself with the chivalrous aristocratic norms of the south. Racialized conquest was the pact that healed American society post-Civil War, and this was *****universally***** reflected in fraternal orders, secret and academic alike.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h
… an honored caste in the new American aristocracy, a hereunto unseen phenomenon (ie the plain clothed reinvention of a social hierarchy in a civilization that did not have the origins of a feudal society like Europe). This is where, to paraphrase the scholar Grandin, the immense power of the…
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h
Fraternal orders are a fundamental social tool for asserting social control, reifying hierarchies, and for social reproduction. You must understand that fraternal orders, inside and outside of the university, were fundamentally reshaped by civil conflict at a time when military officers became…
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h
… traditional bonds, associations, and civil organization of the US. This includes those nascent fraternal orders. After the war, there was an immense trauma, in particular, in the South’s aristocracy. Similarly, in the North, was the prospectus of white labor’s equality with the freed black man.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h
… a juncture in American society where military officers took on an increasingly prestigious role in civil society, particularly after the Mexican American war. Just as Quincy predicted, however, that war spelled the death of the union as we knew it, The Civil War destroyed and remade the…
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h
As the Freemason panic ran itself through the US (with participation heavily falling off through the mid 19th C), alternatives began to form in the lead up to the civil war across the geography of the US, but all bearing a close cultural heritage of freemasonry. Critically, this occurred at a…
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h
The most amicable and charitable contextualization of the discussion for a microblogging website is as follows: secret societies, and the derivatives born in institutions of higher learning, were fundamentally remade at the advent of the American Civil War in multiple ways.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 18h
NEW: H-2A worker Carlos Vargas Moreno experienced a catastrophic heat stroke when his employer, Florida Orange Gold, subjected him to unsafe working conditions. The same company was cited two years prior for the heat-related death of H-2A worker Carmen Sebastian Hernandez Mosqueda.
prismreports.org
Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields
Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 3h
fit check
Godzilla (1954) says PROTECT YOUR NEIGHBORS ABOLISH ICE
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4h
Honestly? Best retort
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4h
is now a good time to plug the Veiled Prophet by @devintoshea.bsky.social? Not strictly about greek life but oh buddy you’re not going to believe what other fraternal secret societies post-civil war were about
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4h
“Why was the divine nine a thing” is also one of those obvious freebies that some of us need a remedial education for ig nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...
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The Historical Legacy of the Divine Nine
Black students, whether studying at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or predominantly white institutions, came together to create these organizations, forging familial ties to one ...
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4h
It’s pretty simple, actually bsky.app/profile/utop...
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uncpress.org/978080785931...
uncpress.org
The Company He Keeps
Tracing the full history of traditionally white college fraternities in America from their days in antebellum all-male schools to the sprawling modern-day co...
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4h
www.propublica.org/article/ole-...
propublica.org
We Found Photos of Ole Miss Students Posing With Guns in Front of a Shot-Up Emmett Till Memorial. Now They Face a Possible Civil Rights Investigation.
Three students were suspended from their fraternity house, Kappa Alpha, after we shared an Instagram photo one of the men posted that was taken in front of a sign commemorating the murder of the 14-ye...
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4h
www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2...
insidehighered.com
Sigma Alpha Epsilon: 5 Other Chapters Knew Racist Chant
At least five other chapters of Sigma Alpha Epsilon also knew of the racist chant heard at the University of Oklahoma last year, an investigation by the national office found. The fraternity, however,...
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4h
You won’t believe what type of organization was a common source here www.usatoday.com/in-depth/new...
usatoday.com
Blackface, KKK hoods and mock lynchings: Review of 900 yearbooks finds blatant racism
In one of the most extensive searches of college yearbooks ever, we found blackface and Ku Klux Klan photos like Ralph Northam's far beyond Virginia.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4h
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
chronicle.com
The Campus Confederate Legacy We’re Not Talking About
I knew Kappa Alpha had direct ties to the Confederacy and the “Lost Cause” social movement. I wasn’t going to apologize for saying so.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4h
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2009/05/13/o...
sandiegouniontribune.com
‘Old South’ frat targeted over Confederate event
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —  A white fraternity that traces its roots to the Civil War and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is again facing complaints over its antebellum-themed events. This time, University of ...
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4h
mississippitoday.org/2019/02/08/b...
mississippitoday.org
Blackface, Confederate reverence a decades old tradition at Mississippi universities and colleges - Mississippi Today %
The two frontrunners for governor answered questions about racist photos on their fraternity yearbook pages…
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4h
yalelawandpolicy.org/do-fraternit...
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Do Fraternities Violate the Fair Housing Act? An Empirical Study of Segregation in the Greek Organizations | Yale Law & Policy Review
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4h
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Sororities as Confederate Monuments
In this Essay, I argue that sorority houses are a type of Confederate memorial. I make two claims. First, sororities have clearly announced their allegiance to
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 5h
honor societies predate the confederacy but greek life as we know it was born in the south
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 5h
“that’s a bit dramatic don’t you thi—“ yes that’s why it’s necessary
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 5h
destroying Greek life would be useful for stemming an entire mode of social reproduction which, as I must remind everyone, was born of the confederate south. Greek life prides itself on keeping the tradition of rape alive in more than one form. Sometimes literal.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 21h
Do not remind me that the junior senator from my state is a stupid evil fucking moron. I am well aware of the fact that the junior senator from Missouri is a stupid evil fucking moron. I am not in need of reminder that the junior senator from Missouri is a stupid evil fucking moron.
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gabbs @girlboss.capital · 19h
my dog learned roberts rules auuuuuuugh fuck my life
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