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Claudia Calhoon

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Immigration/health advocate, health policy professor, CUNY York College, NYC/NC.
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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · a day
Read this and listen to people from Appalachia on how to fight back against grifters like JD Vance
Hillbillies Need No Elegy — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERbittersoutherner.com In the new book “Appalachian Reckoning,” dozens of mountain voices combine to talk back to J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” arguments. Today, an exclusive story from its co-editor and a powerful essay...
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Anna O Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 3 days
From Bernie Sanders...
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www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/o...
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Fatima Ayub @thecynicist.bsky.social · 3 days
This was just 10 days ago. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Avatar Fatima Ayub @thecynicist.bsky.social · 3 days
Stop telling us the political rhetoric is becoming too violent if you’re too cowardly to mention who, exactly, is making it so.
Trump-Endorsed Candidate for Governor: ‘Some Folks Need Killing’www.rollingstone.com North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson declared "some people need killing" during a Sunday sermon.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 3 days
A reminder of how Trump responded when a supporter broke into Nancy Pelosi's home and brutally attacked her husband with a hammer:
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Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 3 days
Opposition to authoritarianism is *not* “violent rhetoric.” Authoritarianism implies violence: uses of state violence against the people and political opponents without due process. A passionate defense of democracy is the *opposite* of violent political rhetoric.
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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 4 days
Inviting people over for dinner so I’ll hang my pictures up.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 4 days
“With just over 100 days until the election, ‘we each face a question,’ Harris said. ‘What kind of country do we want to live in? … Do we want to live in a country of freedom, compassion, and rule of law, or a country of chaos, fear and hate?’”
Avatar Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 4 days
“If implemented, Project 2025 would be the latest attack in Donald Trump’s full-on assault on reproductive freedom,” Vice President Harris said in Greensboro: cardinalpine.com/2024/07/11/i...
In Greensboro, Kamala Harris denounces Project 2025, Trump’s call to ‘terminate’ the Constitutioncardinalpine.com Harris highlighted Trump’s intentions to further restrict reproductive rights and make healthcare more expensive.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 4 days
SCHOLARSHIP for GAZA STUDENTS The University of Padua (one of the best in Italy) is offering 5 scolarships for students from Gaza. Deadline July 15th www.unipd.it/en/students-... If you know someone who might be interested, please let them know
Students at risk: scholarships to support students A.Y.2023/24 | Università di Padovawww.unipd.it UniPD
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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 4 days
I escaped death from a warship that fired a shell on the seashore
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🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪 @chateaucat.bsky.social · 6 days
This fundraiser is for a friend of a friend who needs money to keep himself and his family alive in the north of Gaza. Please share and donate if you can the situation is only getting worse www.gofundme.com/f/northern-g...
Northern Gaza family needs our support to survive, organized by Rania Hammadwww.gofundme.com My name is Rania and I am trying to raise funds for my friend Ahmed and… Rania Hammad needs your support for Northern Gaza family needs our support to survive
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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 6 days
Hello, I am Jamal from Gaza. Unfortunately, everything was destroyed in Gaza. My university, my studies, my beautiful city, my dreams, and everything is beautiful. Our lives are also in danger and the destruction is still continuing. You can help us by repost or donate if u can gofund.me/2f77e0ba
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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 4 days
I am also a plaintiff in this case! Perhaps a happy hour Tecate beer
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legal cat 🐾 @legalcat.bsky.social · 6 days
A friend in Milwaukee texted me today to ask if I heard about Dvontaye Mitchell. I hadn’t, and I want to know why the whole country isn’t talking about him. Dvontaye was murdered by Hyatt Hotel SECURITY GUARDS on June 30th. They pinned him to the ground until he died, despite his pleas for help.
A Black man died after he was pinned to the ground by security guards at a Milwaukee hotel. Now his family wants answers | CNNwww.cnn.com The death of a Black man after he was pinned to the ground by security guards at a Wisconsin hotel last month is being investigated as a homicide, as members of his family and their attorneys on Wedne...
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 13 days
Their inability to focus on the stakes of this election is just dumbfounding
Avatar Bart Bonikowski @bartbonikowski.bsky.social · 13 days
An aspiring dictator & convicted felon w history of treason may win the presidency. Profoundly corrupt SCOTUS justices undermined the constitution and gave him immunity from prosecution for past & future crimes. This is all political journalists should be writing about 24/7. We’re at the precipice.
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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 11 days
Fair!!
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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 11 days
Very curious what book you’re reading 😁
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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 12 days
[uninformed speculation incoming] This totally is a staffer though right? He doesn’t really talk like this….
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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 12 days
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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 12 days
Ok so reading the thread maybe not such a great thing but I’ll take signs of dysfunction where I can get them.
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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 13 days
I did unsubscribe once before (over the reporting on the Iraq war lol that was quant) but they sucked me back in
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Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 13 days
“I love America like Anthony Bourdain or Woody Guthrie did” is the phrasing I’ve settled on
Avatar Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13 days
Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸
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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 13 days
Seriously considering. I keep it because I tend to need to access their health care reporting periodically for teaching and having my own subscription is more reliable than relying on CUNY but if there was a time it’s now
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13 days
Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 13 days
Despite the abolition of #slavery, laws from that era persist in the US legal system – and courts are still citing precedents involving those laws. A law professor calls for these historical roots to be acknowledged in citations to confront and understand the legacy #BlackSky
US laws created during slavery are still on the books. A legal scholar wants to at least acknowledge that history in legal citationstheconversation.com Since 2020, a team of legal researchers has collected more than 12,000 cases involving enslaved people and more than 40,000 cases that cite those cases.
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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 13 days
Happy My-Dad-the American Revolution-historian-might have-been-wrong-about-everything Day
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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 13 days
He would read the Declaration of Independence to us every July 4th.
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Korean Fury @liberationma.bsky.social · 13 days
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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 13 days
I am so sorry. I did not know this. Sending lots of comforting vibes.
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Claudia Calhoon @claudiacalhoon.bsky.social · 14 days
Oh oh got it. That’s amazing and I remember that feeling!!