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  1. Hype for the Future 172O: Baldwin and Wilkinson Counties, Georgia

    Introduction Within the State of Georgia, Baldwin and Wilkinson Counties are associated with the Piedmont region of the State of Georgia, with the Fall Line located nearby to the south. Overall, communities within the region include Milledgeville, Ivey, Gordon, McIntyre, Irwinton, and Toomsboro, with a disproportionate Scots-Irish influence on many of the Piedmont communities historically associated especially with settlers from South Carolina’s Upstate region near Abbeville. City of […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  2. Hype for the Future 169A: Baldwin County, Alabama

    Overview Within the State of Alabama, Baldwin County is located along the eastern shore of Mobile Bay at the northern end of the Gulf of Mexico. Today, Bay Minette serves as the county seat; however, additional communities in the area include Fairhope, Daphne, Spanish Fort, and Gulf Shores, just to name a few. The Perdido Beach Resort represents one of the signature places to stay within county limits, facing the Gulf to the south. Within Fairhope are the Fairhope Museum of History at the […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  3. "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and l am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality!"
    - James #Baldwin

    #endtheiranwar #filesintotrials #warcrimesdonotcoverupsexcrimes #trump #epsteinfiles

  4. In 1920, Charles Garland,
    the wealthy heir to a banking fortune, made newspaper headlines for doing the unthinkable:
    he declined to accept an inheritance of more than a million dollars from his late father’s estate. 
    Garland was disillusioned by the era’s gross #inequality
    — the top 10 percent of American income earners took in half the country’s annual national income.
    Garland saw his refusal to add to that problem as a way of standing up to systemic economic inequality. 
    But #Upton #Sinclair,
    author of “The Jungle,” the 1906 novel that exposed the brutal working conditions in the Chicago stock yards,
    read about Garland’s decision and thought he had a better idea.
    In a letter to Garland, Sinclair urged him not to refuse the money, but to instead give it away.
    He put him in touch with #Roger #Baldwin, a Harvard-educated labor advocate who had just founded the
    American Civil Liberties Union.
    Garland and Baldwin met and came up with a plan.
    Garland would bequest nearly a million dollars
    (the rough equivalent of $18 million today)
    to endow a philanthropic foundation called the "American Fund for Public Service".
    Baldwin would run the foundation with a board of directors comprised of people who were actively involved in efforts to create a more just society
    news.yale.edu/2026/01/12/radic

  5. If it were not for the mundane responsibilities of my life that cannot be shirked, I would be attending this one.

    Incidentally, #Baldwin is a *small* town. <1k people embedded in public forest. Just west of the historic Idlewild resort area. I expect that it would be a marginally less vehemently white crowd than in most similarly rural areas. And the leaves have got to be spectacularly colorful there around now.

    #Michigan #Frogtifa #NoKings
    beige.party/@QueenOfTheCroneAg

  6. Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs

    Drawing on new archival material, original research, and interviews, this spellbinding book is the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, revealing how profoundly his personal relationships shaped his life and work.

    @bookstodon
    #books
    #nonfiction
    #biography
    #Baldwin

  7. « Le paradoxe de l'éducation réside précisément dans le fait que, dès lors qu'on commence à prendre conscience, on commence à examiner la société dans laquelle on est éduqué·e. Le but de l'éducation, finalement, est de donner à une personne la capacité de regarder le monde par elle-même, de prendre ses propres décisions, de se dire que ceci est noir ou que cela est blanc, de décider par elle-même s'il y a un Dieu au ciel ou non. Poser des questions sur l'univers, puis apprendre à vivre avec ces questions, est la façon d'acquérir sa propre identité. Mais aucune société n'est vraiment désireuse d'avoir ce genre de personne. Ce que les sociétés veulent vraiment, dans l'idéal, c'est une population qui se contente d'obéir aux règles de la société. »

    James Baldwin s'adressant à des enseignant·es en 1963 (en) : richgibson.com/talktoteachers.

    #éduquer #obéir #obéissance #croyances #école #éducation #imagination #performance #classement #méritocratie #formation #mérite #lesInstitutionsMentent #apprendre #enseignement #enseigner #Baldwin #réforme #adultisme #enseignants

  8. So here is more for you @geriruth

    At the end of this speech to teachers, #Baldwin restated the thesis in these words, more frequently quoted:

    "I began by saying that one of the paradoxes of education was that precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience, you must find yourself at war with your society. It is your responsibility to change society if you think of yourself as an educated person."

    #teach #learn #class #society #obey #obedience #teaching #learning #control #school #education #imagination #performance #ranking #meritocracy #practice #training #merit #institutionsDeceive #JamesBaldwin #reform #teachers

  9. "The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around. What societies really, ideally, want is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of society."

    James Baldwin to teachers in 1963: richgibson.com/talktoteachers.

    #obedience #adultDomination #growth #willingness #control #merit #personalDevelopment #school #education #imagination #performance #ranking #meritocracy #practice #training #merit #institutionsDeceive #learning #teaching #Baldwin #reform #adultism #teachers

  10. Ich wünsche heute dem #CSD in #Stuttgart viel Spaß und Erfolg. 🌈😃

    swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuertt

    Und an alle hater dieser Menschen sei gesagt:
    >Ich vermute,einer der Gründe, warum Menschen so hartnäckig an ihrem Hass festhalten, ist, weil sie spüren: wenn der Hass einmal verschwunden ist, werden sie gezwungen sein, sich mit Schmerz zu beschäftigen.
    James #baldwin

  11. Today on #Lemmy I came across this interview of #Baldwin ...

    youtube.com/watch?v=9jXwWCyMJy

    ... and it reminded me of this small essay of his I recently found:

    mishathings.org/quotes/white-m

    "... people who imagine that history flatters them (as it does, indeed, since they wrote it) are impaled on their history like a butterfly on a pin and become incapable of seeing or changing themselves, or the world."

  12. huffpost.com/entry/milwaukee-j

    #Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan arrested for allegedly helping escape from #ICE custody.

    #Baldwin: “…we have a system of checks and balances and separations of power for damn good reasons. The President’s administration arresting a sitting judge is a gravely serious and drastic move, and it threatens to breach those very separations of power. Make no mistake, we do not have kings in this country and we are a Democracy governed by laws…”

  13. #baldwin also pointed out that the price of segregation (and i believe the entire constructed purpose for it by looking at Palestine alone) is apathy and ignorance.

    ...if we build the wall high enough..."out of sight, out of mind. what genocide, holocaust, mass deportations?"

    this is also why they kill anything that moves between worlds sharing information and decreasing ignorance.... it weakens their impunity for hidden actions taken beyond the wall they built ...to hide their actions

  14. #baldwin had it dead on in 2words

    "moral monsters"

  15. Just tuned this Baldwin grand piano in Los Angeles. It was really out so it took longer than usual. Sounds good. Still never feels like work. #piano #grandpiano #baldwin #tuning #service #grateful #meditation #notes #music #pianostrings #harmony #losangeles #california

  16. Just tuned this Baldwin grand piano in Los Angeles. It was really out so it took longer than usual. Sounds good. Still never feels like work. #piano #grandpiano #baldwin #tuning #service #grateful #meditation #notes #music #pianostrings #harmony #losangeles #california

  17. Just tuned this Baldwin grand piano in Los Angeles. It was really out so it took longer than usual. Sounds good. Still never feels like work. #piano #grandpiano #baldwin #tuning #service #grateful #meditation #notes #music #pianostrings #harmony #losangeles #california

  18. Just tuned this Baldwin grand piano in Los Angeles. It was really out so it took longer than usual. Sounds good. Still never feels like work. #piano #grandpiano #baldwin #tuning #service #grateful #meditation #notes #music #pianostrings #harmony #losangeles #california

  19. Just tuned this Baldwin grand piano in Los Angeles. It was really out so it took longer than usual. Sounds good. Still never feels like work. #piano #grandpiano #baldwin #tuning #service #grateful #meditation #notes #music #pianostrings #harmony #losangeles #california

  20. 3 new books on remarkable men in our library!
    Ralf Webb's book "Strange Relations - Masculinity, Sexuality & Art in Mid-Century America" reads 4 bisexual #AmericanWriters (#TennesseeWilliams, #CarsonMcCullers, #Cheever & #Baldwin) with #WaltWhitman

    #AmericanStudies #MasculinityStudies #QueerStudies

  21. Senator #Tammy #Baldwin here.

    Our campaign just made a difficult decision.

    Republicans have taken the lead in TV reservations through Election Day.

    They're launching attack ads against me to mislead voters and drum up support for my right-wing opponent.

    The bad news is, their strategy may be working.

    Countless polls show me statistically tied with my opponent,
    and RealClearPolitics just downgraded our race to a
    "Toss Up."

    To fight back, our campaign just launched new ads to set the record straight.

    Let me be clear:
    this was a risky decision.

    The money wasn't originally in the budget for September,
    but I gave the green light anyway

    because I knew I could count on this grassroots team to step up.

    So friend, can you chip in to help us keep our campaign ads on the air?

    Here's a secure link:
    secure.actblue.com/donate/stb-

  22. Hey friend, it's
    Senator #Tammy #Baldwin.

    I know it's pretty late, so I'll get straight to the point.

    My team just informed me that we're not on track to reach the 105k donor goal we set this month ahead of our end-of-quarter deadline.

    Look, I won't tell you that the sky is falling because we're behind
    - it's not, and that's not how we do things.

    But these goals do matter in an expensive race like ours.

    If we fall short, our campaign must start making difficult decisions about where to cut our budget.

    I'm hoping you can help us get back on track.

    This is our last end-of-quarter public reporting deadline before Election Day,
    and if my self-funding Republican opponent outraises us once again, that could send a bad signal to voters in the final weeks of this race.

    If you can, please chip in $5, $10,
    or whatever works for you
    to help us reach our donor goal and build the resources it'll take to defend this seat and our Democratic Senate majority:

    secure.actblue.com/donate/stb-

    Thank you!
    - Sen. Tammy Baldwin

  23. Crew Member for movie “Rust” found guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter
    twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/st

    It was a Hollywood Prop, a gun we thought was safe. It was a a movie about the Wild West, good guys with guns, bad guys with guns. There was a major star in cowboy clothes shooting the supposedly fake
    newsviews.online/2024/03/07/cr
    #crime #Baldwin #Gutierrez #Hutchins #PropGun

  24. New School contingent faculty are on strike and The Illuminator project joined them on the picket line. What, indeed, would James Baldwin do?

    #Baldwin #newschoool #ContingentFaculty #adjuncts #academicmastodon