So if you're looking at the US & thinking "This isn't the country I know," you're 100% right. It's not. We're actually fighting back in real time for once.
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I know it doesn't feel like much to be proud of right now, because we're nowhere close to done. But you deserve to know- in the middle of all of this, we ARE making history right now.
jul 4, 2025, 5:21 pm • 701 54 • view
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jul 4, 2025, 5:36 pm • 464 30 • view
The 1980s sanctuary and solidarity movements with Central American refugees from the US-backed Dirty Wars was actually pretty powerful.
jul 6, 2025, 5:36 am • 36 0 • view
*were. Sigh.
jul 6, 2025, 6:24 am • 14 0 • view
Do either of you know a book about that, by chance? Or another good resource? Maybe a history podcast? It's been coming up a lot lately but I don't know much about it.
jul 6, 2025, 10:45 am • 1 0 • view
TYSM, Dr. Taber! Looking forward to voting for you again.
jul 5, 2025, 9:19 am • 1 0 • view
Thank you!
jul 5, 2025, 1:31 am • 1 0 • view
Thank you. This helps.
jul 4, 2025, 9:43 pm • 7 0 • view
Least not forget the Italians. Presidential Proclamation 2527 targeted the Italians and lead to deportations, being sent to concentration camps or registering as enemy aliens and forced to move to certain areas.
jul 4, 2025, 7:26 pm • 101 5 • view
We also did German-Americans during WWI. A lot of peoples' ancestors got post-hoc "dutched," including some of mine. Country just looooves its prison camps.
jul 5, 2025, 1:35 am • 40 2 • view
Not to mention during that time Woodrow Wilson resegregating the federal government that previous presidents had spent decades slowly and surely integrating, plus promoting Lost Cause propaganda (showing Birth of a Nation in the White House) leading to the KKK 's revival that Grant outlawed before.
jul 5, 2025, 2:44 pm • 16 0 • view
Yes, proclamations 2525,2526, and 2527 targeted the germans, japanese and Italians. Being of Italian decent, it amazes me how many do not know that part of italian american history.
jul 5, 2025, 1:47 am • 10 2 • view
I have been reminding paisanos I know that they were only "white" within the last 2 or 3 generations...I say "they" since I'm both Sicilian and Jewish which puts me a little on the outside.
jul 5, 2025, 2:38 pm • 3 0 • view
They rounded up some German Americans in WWII, too.
jul 5, 2025, 3:53 am • 8 2 • view
Most of them were members of the Nazi Party or pro-Nazi organizations like the German American Bund... i.e. active enemies of the United States.
jul 5, 2025, 9:07 pm • 0 0 • view
There were MORE German-Americans who sided with the Nazis, than there were Japanese-Americans who sided with the militarized Japan.
jul 5, 2025, 4:14 am • 3 0 • view
Please don't confuse Deutsch (German) with Dutch (Netherlands). Two different countries, both Europe, neighbouring.
jul 5, 2025, 1:49 am • 1 0 • view
Yes, my great-grandparents did that on purpose. "Oh no, we weren't GERMANS..."
jul 5, 2025, 1:59 am • 6 0 • view
But they were 😂
jul 5, 2025, 2:17 am • 3 0 • view
My maternal grandfather was called Dutch. Although he was a swede 😂. (With my mother, he loved western shows lol)
jul 5, 2025, 1:57 am • 3 0 • view
Well, we're all Europeans now, so.. doesn't really matter anymore, but in the 50s...
jul 5, 2025, 2:18 am • 2 0 • view
Keep running the damn ball. pace @edsbs.bsky.social
jul 5, 2025, 7:36 pm • 31 0 • view
Thank you for this. It’s really encouraging!
jul 5, 2025, 2:04 pm • 1 0 • view
I LOVE YOU SARAH TABER
jul 5, 2025, 12:26 am • 3 0 • view
jul 5, 2025, 12:50 am • 4 0 • view
Thank you for this critical & timely reminder 🔆
jul 4, 2025, 11:46 pm • 1 0 • view
as well as making me feel a whole lot better, this is academically fascinating. do we know what changed? what other countries are also doing this? did the internet actually do something good?
jul 4, 2025, 11:53 pm • 3 0 • view
Exactly. 🙌
jul 5, 2025, 8:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I just came across this thread and thought it was wonderful. Wanted to mention that last Sunday I posted that I was watching "Harlan Co USA" for my weekly Documentary Sunday feature. We've been here so many times over the last couple hundred years. Thank you for the perspective.
jul 5, 2025, 3:47 am • 2 0 • view
Holy crap YES!!! This is amazing info to put things into context. Thank you Sarah!!
jul 4, 2025, 5:36 pm • 10 0 • view
Goddamn, this was the thread I needed. Thank you.
jul 5, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you. We need this.
jul 4, 2025, 5:29 pm • 7 0 • view
Thanks muchly, ma'am. I've been sick of people saying that this country (and the ideal it's founded on) isn't worth saving or fulfilling. Thanks for balancing the proverbial ledger.
jul 4, 2025, 6:25 pm • 6 0 • view
Excellent points. Thank you.
jul 5, 2025, 6:39 am • 1 0 • view
I appreciate this list. Thank you. It is a good reminder and, in some ways, encouraging though I am still sorry for the harm being caused.
jul 6, 2025, 6:04 am • 0 0 • view
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jul 5, 2025, 7:18 am • 1 0 • view