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Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging

Evan Gorelick The New York Times
A flurry of posts from the White House, Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security have included images, slogans and even a song used by the white nationalist right. The posts have referred to neo-Nazi literature, ethnic cleansing...

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

Ta-Nehisi Coates Vanity Fair
"Burying the truth of the Confederacy, rewriting its aims and ideas, and ignoring its animating words allowed for the terrorization of the Black population...and the destruction of democracy."...are ignoring and sanitizing Charlie Kirk's legacy.

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Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe

Peter Conrad The Guardian
Historian Noel Malcolm’s survey of gay life in the 15th to 18th centuries debunks many myths, but mostly catalogues the extreme violence perpetrated against those judged to have broken religious doctrine.

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Union and Queer

Jim Grossfeld The American Prospect
The growing solidarity between unions and the LGBTQ+ community is key component of the revitalization of the labor movement.

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The Writers Who Went Undercover To Show America Its Ugly Side

Samuel G. Freedman The Atlantic
In the 1940s, a series of books tried to use the conventions of detective fiction to expose the degree of prejudice in postwar America. Their books — along with Sinatra’s song and film; Richard Wright’s memoir, coincided with a surge of activism.
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