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The Mirror @mirror.co.uk · 19h

On Monday, I will be honoured to walk into Parliament as the first woman in the UK to do so as a British-Somali MP.

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'After fleeing Somalia I want to repay kindness to place that gave me a home'

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 3h

All these accounts of Black and Brown authors being accused of using AI is throwing me back to Bhabha on mimicry. And the earlier case of Yambo Ouologuem. (Whose work might have been labeled postmodern experimentation, but racism.)

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Dr. Marcia Chatelain @drmchatelain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Harrisburg-St. Louis-Madison! Next week on the book tour for HOW BRIGHT THE PATH GROWS is giving Midwest energy.

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SLCL @stlcountylibrary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marcia Chatelain shares the little-known story of the pioneering Black women artists and activists at the 1963 March on Washington in her new book "How Bright the Path Grows." Meet the author next week at the Clark Family Branch. www.slcl.org/authors

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 11h

Once more before this holiday Sunday ends, here's my 297th thread of great public scholarship from the past week. These #ScholarSunday threads take a lot of time & effort to assemble & feature so much important work, so please share if you're able, thanks! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 13h

Happy Eleanor Roosevelt Day! Lots to commemorate & celebrate in her iconic life & legacy, but I would put her March 1941 solo private flight with Tuskegee Airmen founder Charles Anderson at the top of the list: americanstudier.blogspot.com/2022/05/may-...

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May 18, 2022: Aviation Histories: Eleanor Roosevelt and Tuskegee

[On May 20-21, 1932 , Amelia Earhart became the second person, and the first woman, to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic . So for the 90 ...

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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD @learothawms.bsky.social · 21h

I’m always grateful for the opportunity to find a piece of art that I love (and can afford) and introduce folks to my Promise Land family. 😍 #booksky #art

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Brad Holkesvig @bradjholk.bsky.social · 22h

Some artists are gifted spray can painters. #spraycanart #photography #art #barcelona

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 17h

“On this desecrated shoreline, we queerly commune with the dead and move against the profane order of things that requires forgetting” Rereading Dr. Hugo ka Canham’s beautiful intro now @riotousdeathscapes.bsky.social

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Intellectual Publics @intellpublics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Please join us on Mon 26 Oct @6.30pm ET for an exciting event featuring Prof Deborah Paredez speaking with Prof Arlene Dávila about Dávila's brilliant new book 'Visualizing Latinx: Creative Practices in Fashion, Film and Beyond' (forthcoming with DUP, Oct 13). Register: tinyurl.com/visualizingl...

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Diego Millan @diegom.bsky.social · 19h

My thanks are evergreen for Professors Deborah McDowell (@dem8z.bsky.social) and Kevin Quashie--for their own scholarship and for how each navigates this profession with unflinching integrity and brilliance. Thrilled their praise of Laughing at the End of the World will accompany the book.💜

“Laughing at the End of the World is ambitious and impressively researched. The book surveys theories of laughter across the historical spectrum while drilling down into its relationship to racial politics and anti-blackness in the U.S. Its insights into the ways in which laughter, for Black people, has been disciplined, policed, and regulated across space and time will likely generate much discussion and debate.” - Deborah E. McDowell, Alice Griffin Professor Emerita of English, University of Virginia

"Laughter erupts, irrupts, interrupts—it satisfies and signifies and mystifies. It also gets put to ideological use, corroborating the worst inclinations to demean and harm. As such, laughter becomes a dilemma for black critical thought. Diego Millan wrangles this trouble. He reads laughter as technology and rhetorical device, as racial ideology, exploring affect, embodiment, performativity, creativity, and literary genre. This is a fantastic book." - Kevin Quashie, author of Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being

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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 9h

More art, literature, and history here: bsky.app/profile/walt...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Rebecca Vincent, Kenojuak Ashevak and Olesya Dzhurayeva, just 3 of the many artist printmakers featured in the newest womensart book!! ❤️ REFRAMING WOMEN PRINTMAKERS www.waterstones.com/book/reframi... Or a bookshop of your choice 📚

Advert for the Reframing Women Printmakers book with 3 images from the printmakers featured and one of the cover of the book

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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 9h

For late night readers, folks in China, and early risers in London… #booksky

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 11h

Reupping: The ST&SV Lab at the Institute for Advanced Study invites chapter proposals for a volume exploring the relationships between digital technologies, especially AI, and the artifacts, structures and power dynamics of the global political economy. Abstracts due 11/1 www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/cfp...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10h

“There’s an extended portion of the film that—while explaining the rise of Black Americans in politics and civil life following the end of slavery—features black-and-white, archival photos that have been ‘brought to life.’”

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Ava DuVernay explains why AI was used in new documentary ‘14th:’ “People should see this”

DuVernay was asked about the use of AI at a New York Film Festival press conference.

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 21h

“Texas Tech’s censorship policy does not just affect the humanities. According to the AAUP lawsuit, medical students at the campus in El Paso are no longer permitted to learn about racial disparities in medical care or how to treat underserved populations.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

UPDATE: After hearing from friends in the DMs, we’re gonna make this a cohosted gathering. So after my censored remarks, we’ll hear about people actually doing the work that so many of our institutions pretend to. If your org wants to cohost, DM me.

Black & white photo of “Black Community Survival Conference: Serve the People Body & Sold” —a banner hanging above a group of people standing on a platform. This is a photo depicting the work of the Black Panther Party.

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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Demonic Grounds at Yale…

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

After 12 years of seeming invincibility, the Modi regime is showing cracks due to widespread youth protests. This is the story to watch!

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 22/09/2026

OH. AND ANOTHER THANG: Barbara Chase-Riboud and Annette Gordon Reed BEEN had Jefferson's number. Saw the DNA heds and I honestly shrugged because congratulations, Black women were telling the truth the whole time????

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Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Epic Vision

With a monumental new exhibition in Paris, the influential artist looks back on a creative life spent thinking big

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.

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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'

J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Plan of Saint Gall in black and white. I couldn't find one that I thought was good for students to write on, so I made this. I took some liberties with the size of some spaces (to allow for text) and few descriptions, but overall I'm happy with the result.

A plan for the layout of a monastic community that was never built. The document is a copy of the famous Plan of Saint Gall. It shows what buildings would be in a monastic community and the layout of the community.

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Dylan Gottlieb @dygottlieb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Submit your diss for the @businesshistoryc.bsky.social Krooss Prize! (And not just because I'm on the committee and selfishly want to read it.)

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There is virtue, I believe, in the protection of the collective. Safeguarding the community is so much harder than lifting the ego. Anyways, join a union, fight inequality & reject the idea that any 1 is better than the health of the many. You know who taught us that? Plato (and later Rousseau).

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 23h

“Democracy, freedom, human rights have come to have a definite meaning to the people of the world which we must not allow any nation to so change that they are made synonymous with suppression & dictatorship.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt, 1948. Eleanor Roosevelt was born OTD in 1884. Image: Public domain.

This black and white photo shows a woman in a dark dress, Eleanor Roosevelt, sitting with her hands folded in front of her.

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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 14h

She would have LOVED #ScholarSunday. bsky.app/profile/amer...

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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 14h

Thread cleanse. A serious collection for the holiday weekend. bsky.app/profile/amer...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 14h

Dang. We need to start reading again. bsky.app/profile/amer...

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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

So happy to see the always fabulous Sarah Sharma! Here with her super-smart and needed new book “Insufferable Tools: Feminism Against Big Tech” at the @dukepress.bsky.social booth at #4S2026

Author in grey jacket and black skirt holding their book at book display at 4S conference.

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Hello! I am Nathan Ellstrand, a historian of transnational politics and religion between the United States and Latin America during the twentieth century. I am passionate about social justice and education. Learn more about me and my work here: nathanellstrand.com

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Theresa Kaminski @theresakaminski.bsky.social · 21h

It's time for #ScholarSunday. 🗃️

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 22h

#tdih 1972 DC prisoners led jail uprising. Demanded: -- juveniles be housed separately from adults -- decent food -- overcrowding addressed. At their request, U.S. Rep Shirley Chisholm, D.C. School Board Pres. Marion Barry, & others met with them. See ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/dc...

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Oct. 11, 1972: D.C. Jail Uprising

An uprising took place at a Washington, D.C. jail to protest conditions.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Octavius V. Catto: teacher, scholar, & civil rights leader in Phila., Penn. On day that Catto could finally vote (due to 15th Amendment he'd fought for), he was murdered by one of white vigilantes attacking Black voters on #tdih 1871. 💔 #TeachReconstruction ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/oc...

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Oct. 10, 1871: Octavius Catto Killed on Election Day in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Black educator, baseball player, and civil rights activist Octavius V. Catto was murdered by a white supremacist on election day.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

David Walker published An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in pamphlet form in 1829. It's one of the most important and influential abolitionist texts in U.S. history. Yet, very few people have actually read it and many people don't know who Walker was especially among young people.

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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 21h

ENOUGH ALREADY! Processing Cornell. The Shining Light on Shadows podcast discussed the importance of destroying places that produce and shelter cultures of sexual violence. #HealthSky www.neilparekh.org/shininglight...

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Shining Light on Shadows

A Candid Conversation about Mental Health. Hosted by Neil Parekh and Dawn Helmrich the second and fourth Thursdays of the month at 7pm ET / 6pm CT.

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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 22h

Vital reading for every legal scholar. #LegalSky

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 22h

+ & the 452nd episode of @lizcovart.bsky.social’s Ben Franklin World’s podcast is a fascinating conversation with Timothy Compeau, Bonnie Huskins, & @kacytillman.bsky.social about everyday Loyalists in the Revolution. + benfranklinsworld.com/episode-452-...

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Episode 452: How Everyday Loyalists Experienced the American Revolution - Ben Franklin's World

Understand the American Revolution through Loyalist eyes and explore how everyday Loyalists experienced the Revolution.

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