“[Public execution] has nothing to do with innocence or guilt; it's rooted in lynching, genocide & a white supremacist societal impulse that treats open killing as entertainment.” Public killings are an everyday American reality—livestreamed or not, writes columnist @williamcson.bsky.social.

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It's #PrisonBannedBooksWeek October 19-25! Raising awareness of this most pervasive practice of censorship in the US, the 3rd annual Prison Banned Books Week brings together over 60 organizations working for free expression. For more info, check out prisonbannedbooksweek.org

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Here is the book - The Future of the Wild: Radical Conservation for a Crowded World by Jonathan S. Adams. Thrilled it's still in print.

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Years ago, I worked acquired and edited a book at @beaconpress.bsky.social on this topic. It's amazing to see these projects come on line and work so successfully. I hope the momentum is there to keep them going despite... everything.

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On this day in 1870, a Black politician named Wade Perrin was assassinated by a white mob one day after he was re-elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives.

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