The sinking of the Titanic is fundamentally a working class disaster, a working class tragedy, and every element of that journey, that night, and the aftermath is formed by and dripping with class dynamics.

Did some paddling today before the start of Rare Book School and it was a lovely way to start the week.

A Crete, Nebraska, English teacher was pressed to resign after a lesson turned to discussions of slavery and racism. From Zach Wendling nebraskaexaminer.com/2023/09/13/it-…

Hey @ARLD_MLA folks, check out our session tomorrow! sched.co/1Ps3m #deepcollaborations

Hope everyone in the cities for #MLA2023 is enjoying their evening in St. Paul @ARLD_MLA

Joyce Fienberg Melvin Wax Irving Younger Rose Mallinger Richard Gottfried Cecil Rosenthal David Rosenthal Jerry Rabinowitz Bernice Simon Sylvan Simon Daniel Stein May their memories be a blessing.

Join me and make a gift to Give to Macalester Days 2024 givecampus.com/55uwet #MacWomensRugby

How much did Woody Guthrie loathe his racist landlord Fred Trump? Four exhibits at his museum. If you’d told me that one of this vast nation’s greatest singing poets would, 70 years prescient, foresee the *name* of our full fascism ascendent, I’d’ve said, “too on the nose.”

Championship = Parade. Them’s the rules. Stay tuned.

BIDEN: (stumbles through smart, thoughtful answer) TRUMP: LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE MODERATORS: Next question.

Remember when the whole point of the internet was that it was a Cold War hedge against attacks against our communications infrastructure because it was sufficiently distributed to avoid major outages?

University of Minnesota researchers have mapped the entire genome of the endangered Przewalski’s horse, aiding its conservation. This achievement will help protect the species, which now has about 2,000 individuals after being once extinct in the wild. z.umn.edu/9mn0

I would encourage anyone wondering about election integrity to become an election judge in their community.

Our billboard went live in WI. The billboard highlights Trump’s: - Penchant for crime - Provocation of the January 6th attack - Weird admiration for dictators Can you chip in today to help us raise the money to put more up in swing states? Lets remind voters that Trump is

In Tim Walz’s new video explaining how to use the manual to fix a 1979 IH Scout—and warning that Trump and Vance would use Project 2025 as a manual to rig America for the rich—an interior shot reveals a Cars tape in the vehicle’s 8-track player. Yes! 1/3

This video is incredible. Everyone should RETWEET it so the whole *world* sees it.

Happy May Day! ✊

"On May 1, 1890—May Day—workers across the country would strike for a new, radical demand. This demand would affect workers across society, and across the world, and transform daily life for millions of people. That radical demand? The eight-hour workday."