Historical sociologist studying labor and politics in North America, especially the Great Lakes region.

Joined September 2022
Aaron Toliver, 1897-1965: a biographical sketch of a black radical in a Great Lakes city open.substack.com/pub/mbille…
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Michael Billeaux-Martinez retweeted
Lula literalmente dando vuelva el resultado
🇧🇷‼️ | URGENTE — El director de la encuestadora AtlasIntel anticipa que Lula da Silva será reelegido presidente de Brasil, según declaraciones recogidas por Reuters. La proyección llega mientras continúa el conteo de votos de la segunda vuelta frente a Flávio Bolsonaro.
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This is the Port Huron Statement we get in 2026 smdh
Donald Trump says Nicki Minaj has a “beautiful a**” in Port Huron, Michigan.
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Brother, I’ve barely even met a socialist who’s read the first two
Replying to @iamjourjean
I’m a liberal and I’ve read Marx, Engels, Mises, Hayek, Schumpeter etc. I’ve never met a socialist who has read the last three.
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Benjamin Moser, author of Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, told Rashid Khalidi that his 80-year-old mother, who had all but called him a Hamas member, apologized after reading his book: “I’m ashamed I ever said I was a Zionist.” His book traces Jewish opposition to Zionism over the past century and challenges their exclusion in discussions over Palestine. “No, you don’t get to set the rules anymore. We’re setting the rules now,” Moser said. Khalidi added that he had never seen so many people change their views so rapidly, noting that major publishers are now embracing books on Palestine that would have been virtually unpublishable just three or four years ago.
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BREAKING 🇧🇷 The Supreme Court of Brazil has recognized Bolsonaro’s widespread effort to suppress the popular vote by shutting down public transit – and extended the vote by 2 hours. But scores of stations have already closed – and cannot now reopen to the public.
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Midcentury dormitories on the Fox River at St. Norbert College in De Pere, WI
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“The brewers are cheating!!!!!!” What the brewers are actually doing:
they’re siphoning baseball energy from ashby’s head. they’re replenishing their game with its healing powers
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Tenant showing his landlord the Paris Commune's decree that 3 months of rent have been cancelled. Landlord literally doing the crying soyjack face. Political cartoon from 1871
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not to alarm you but your friend may be lauded Italian medievalist and cultural critic umberto eco
one time i showed casablanca to a friend for the first time, and when it was over, he said it was good, but it was distracting how many cliches they used. “i think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” lines like that. anyway this tweet reminds me of this
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And now the important stuff. #WorldSeries
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Anyone recognize who’s sitting next to Jared Kushner? Oh that’s just Leon Black. The one who’s suing to avoid testimony after he was served a subpoena from the Oversight Committee…regarding Jeffrey Epstein. No biggie. I’m sure it’s nothing.
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Michael Billeaux-Martinez retweeted
the reason moby-dick remains such a vital piece of human art is that it addresses what is probably one of humanity's greatest collective atrocities, the genocide of the whales, with an ambivalence it cannot itself fully articulate. melville is distraught, but he can't explain why
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Ironically most of the gas stations and liquor stores in Detroit are owned by Chaldeans who really have nothing to do with Arabs and would be mad if you called them that
Replying to @samueljrob
Haynes is critical of Arab owned businesses in Detroit: “I know some good Arabs, my issue is with (El-Sayed). He knows what his community has done. They own all the gas stations, now they’re buying soul food restaurants. Everything is in a Black, urban community.”
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I can't get over this photo. It's the kind of thing that would launch a thousand schizo tracts in the 1990s and vindicate countless more in the years following. You'd see it on posters declaring Trump the Antichrist. Maybe the defining image of Trump II?
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Milwaukee owes its life to Venezuela. The Caracas of the North. Viva!
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Another astonishing admission from a pro-Israel MP
“I didn't know that.” After defending Zionism, @MikeTappTweets is challenged by @ShehabKhan on Jewish people abroad being able to obtain Israeli citizenship while displaced Palestinians cannot return. His response: “That doesn't sound equal to me.” Watch more👇
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Whatever happens tonight, we all have to do our part to make sure Barrelman doesn’t get obliterated again.
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Imagine an authoritarian and his allies exploiting the design of the Constitution. Could such a thing really happen? Without Gödel around, we can only speculate.
When will someone use an agent swarm to discover this
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Imagine being this racist on national tv
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