Keri Leigh Merritt
@KeriLeighMerrit
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Writer. Historian (PhD). Labor & Inequality. Books: #AfterLife #MasterlessMen. NEW: Lillian Smith bio. Film @thecivilwardoc1. IG @kerileighmerritt
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There it is, everything (single spaced!) except the last chapter and the introduction, which I am finishing over the next few days. This project has been an absolute beast but I *think* - I hope - I have done her justice. Out next year with St. Martin’s Press. #LillianSmith
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Final title for the Lillian book, out 9/29/26 from @StMartinsPress (will reveal the author of the Foreword soon!): AN INCONVENIENT WOMAN: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America
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Fantastic speech by Joel Mokyr on why economics needs economic historians - and history.♥️ https://t.co/tJy7wmJW4w
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Who the fuck do these politicians think they are, talking to people like this? The sense of entitlement, the unearned self-righteousness, the sheer lack of self-reflection … it’s utterly fucking insane
Harris slams protestor during book tour. “You want to talk about legacy? Let’s talk about the legacy of mass deportations, of not voting, and Donald Trump.”
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Happy to announce that after my Lillian Smith bio comes out in Sept 2026, a new 10 year anniversary edition of #MasterlessMen - edited down with a new introduction - will debut spring 2027 (@CambridgeUP). It will also have a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Hahn!!!
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Harris said she predicted much of what has happened with Trump’s return to power, save for one major exception: “I still always believed, perhaps naively, that if push came to shove at some point, the titans of industry would in some way be a backstop to this kind of
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Winner of Nobel Peace Prize Maria Corina Machado is not just pro-Israeli, she is pro Likud: signed a cooperation deal in 2020 with Netanyahu’s Likud party. She fully supports Netanyahu’s war on Gaza and would revive cut ties between Israel and Venezuela if she became president
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Happy to announce that after my Lillian Smith bio comes out in Sept 2026, a new 10 year anniversary edition of #MasterlessMen - edited down with a new introduction - will debut spring 2027 (@CambridgeUP). It will also have a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Hahn!!!
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A retired U.S. veteran has just been removed from a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing after standing up to demand the Senate stops funding Israel's genocide. "I demand that you stop lying to the American people!"
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A Palestinian whose family was ethnically cleansed from Gaza in 1948 won the Nobel Prize. He was lucky 1srael did not kill him, as they routinely do with skilled Palestinians.
“My parents could barely read or write. It’s been quite a journey, science allows you to do it.” New laureate Omar Yaghi was in the middle of changing flights when we reached him, just after he heard that he had been awarded the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry. In this interview
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A bold face lynching in 2025 and it didn’t even really crack the mainstream news. America is always going to play to its true nature, every time.
Former #49ers Colin Kaepernick paid for an independent autopsy of Trey Reed, a 21-year-old student from Mississippi who was found dead hanging from a tree. The autopsy reportely revealed extensive blunt force trauma. He was beaten before they lynched him.
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You are not seeing this slaughter live-streamed to your devices because Israel has murdered most of Gaza’s most prominent journalists in targeted assassinations.
BREAKING: At least 53 Palestinians killed in Israel attacks on Gaza since dawn 🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/nkQQyTTFQY
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The ship that Israel is using to illegally transport their hostages was given to them by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris last year...
Israeli navy landing ship INS Komemiyut returns to Ashdod with kidnapped crew of the flotilla onboard. The ship was delivered from the US in June 2024. (Search the name on my profile)
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It is honestly incredible, you get cases where every tiny detail of the data has been analyzed, yet 0 time is actually spent talking to people in the real world actually working on the industry in question
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CNN bars their own reporter from covering the news. Can’t make this shit up
At a Columbia Journalism School panel on press freedom in Gaza, moderator Azmat Khan revealed CNN editors barred one of their reporters from joining the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla. Drop Site’s @SharifKouddous explained the risks and reasoning behind sending our editor Alex
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Italian dockworker Romeo Pelliccaria tells @DropSiteNews that Genoa workers are now coordinating with dockworkers from around Europe for a full-scale blockade of arms shipments to Israel. He recalls that in the 1970s, his father, also a dockworker, joined a humanitarian
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Israel continues its relentless bombardment across the besieged Gaza Strip as Israeli PM Netanyahu is set to meet with US President Trump, following a US proposal to stop the war on Gaza. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: https://t.co/8VkcrulX6m
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ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
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We could literally end homelessness and hunger with this amount of money. Instead it'll go to making slop on Instagram
Zuckerberg acknowledges that in this AI race Meta could " end up misspending a couple of hundred billion dollars..."
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I don’t think DWB has ever left a conflict. This is incredibly bad.
Horrific: Doctors Without Borders is suspending medical work in Gaza City due to Israel's violence, including airstrikes & tanks less than 1KM from their facilities. Comes same day Netanyahu used his UN speech to scold dozens of nations for accusing him of committing war crimes.
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