You don't need to look to Nazi Germany to understand that the people firing professors who don't teach the "right" ideas & threatening librarians do not believe in democracy.
Democracy is grounded on debate, compromise, & electoral contests for power. And it's being savaged, step by step.
🎉Very exciting news!🎉 Now & Then has won the Gold & Listener's Choice awards in the
@signalawards
Best History Podcast category! Congratulations to our inimitable hosts @HC_Richardson & @jbf1755.
Head here to listen to the pod:
http://cafe.com/now-and-then
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How can the past help inform today’s most pressing challenges? Every Tuesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to bring the past to life. Together, they make sense of the week in news by discussing the people, ideas, and events that got us here today. From CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Another thing I'd love Mastodon to try and improve is discoverability.
I deleted the Twitter app and I'm all in on Mastodon for the next few days at least, so I'd love to find more people with similar interests.
Searching for things like "apple" and "f1" or "games" in hashtags returns basically nothing, but I know these people exist on the platform.
My first impressions of Rewind.ai !
This app tracks everything you do on your Mac…
Joanne Freeman
Matt Birchler