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A pair of U.K. scholars discovered the mislabeled document in Harvard Law School's digital archives. The university bought it for just $27.50 in 1946. It turned out to be an authentic copy dating to 1300.

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The state of Georgia is keeping a deceased Black woman’s corpse hooked up to machines against her family’s wishes because she was 9 weeks pregnant and they cannot let them shut off the machines b/c it violates their anti-abortion laws “ITS TORTURE,” says her family www.11alive.com/article/news...

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Civics classes need to teach applied constitutional knowledge. Political science classes need to emphasize how identity shapes constitutional application. Democracy works when we’re not apathetic and we become apathetic when we don’t see a reflection of ourselves in our founding documents/history!

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Not a mama, but raising children all the same. Happy Mother’s Day to those committed to being part of the village!

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Free link www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...

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Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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If we make it through this dark period with democracy intact, it may be because the administration's incompetence was greater than its depravity.

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38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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If imprisoning citizens abroad is new to you, read Benjamin Weber’s American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration. James Monroe and Thomas Jefferson wrote about the concept on January 15 and November 24, 1801.

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You will know when you’ve challenged the status quo. Yesterday was cute and a great first step in exercising privilege. It will not stop fascism. It was good, but nowhere near “good trouble.” 1/3

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One of the greatest comebacks in NCAA basketball history was led last night by Kelvin Sampson, a member of the Lumbee, an Indigenous and Black North Carolina tribe. His father helped fight off the Klan in the Battle of Hayes Pond. He’s the first Native coach to ever go to Final Four. DEI, baby! ✊🏽

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Be like Rosemary #HandsOff #April5

submitted 43 days ago • 211 comments

So proud of American Resisters today! #Handsoff

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THIS IS TERRIFYING‼️ Dr. Peter Marks, former head of vaccines at the FDA, just had his last day—forced to resign or be fired because he wouldn’t lie about vaccines. He gives a chilling warning: the U.S. is unprepared for biowarfare—because the response team has been gutted.

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My basement flooded AGAIN, due to record-breaking weather, AGAIN.

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Red Wave

submitted 43 days ago • 195 comments

So eager to dig in! Thank you @beliso-dejesus.bsky.social for this incredible work. www.dukeupress.edu/excited-deli...

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So, how long will it be before Black teachers aren’t safe?

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You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

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Clyburn: "People better get serious about this. When he says he's not joking about throwing away the Constitution, which is what he'd have to do to have a third term, and we are not gonna rise up in opposition to that? I think it's time for us all to wake up."

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merit is back baby

submitted 49 days ago • 718 comments

First Trump removes any reference of diversity from the present — now he’s trying to remove it from our history. Let me be PERFECTLY clear— you cannot erase our past and you cannot stop us from fulfilling our future. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 51 days ago • 299 comments

Must read: The Guardian spoke to nine children whose parents were members of the Black Panther Party — and explored how their lives were forever changed What happens when the United States declares war on your parents? The Black Panther cubs know

submitted 52 days ago • 28 comments

From Russian state media to Trump’s lips 👄

submitted 55 days ago • 51 comments

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

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Before everyone arrives from that other app, I want to make a confession: I'm planning a robbery I already have a target, a crew & a blueprint, I just need 1 more thing: Will you help me recreate the greatest Black on Black crime in US history? A story An announcement A (final) thread

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András Pethő is an investigative journalist from Hungary. He witnessed prime minister Viktor Orbán build "his own media universe while simultaneously placing a stranglehold on the independent press." And he says "the MAGA authorities have learned Orbán’s lessons well." 👇🏼

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"Until this weekend..." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

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Thanks to 60 Minutes for covering this remarkable concert, and the work of Chicago’s Equity Arc. youtu.be/lhwS06U1SnA?...

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It looks like a person fleeing Venezuelan terror has been subjected to American terror.

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Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field. By @arthurallen202.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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NYT: “The White House did not comment on why the group had altered the contracts data or why it’s now harder for the public to scrutinize it.” The savings have been changed and altered — and are nowhere near what @MarshaBlackburn claims they are. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

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Have you read the 1776 Commission? It’ll be the basis for Drumpf’s education rollout.

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South African ambassador 'no longer welcome' in US, Rubio says

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Teaching world history right now is… 😭

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Agents from the Trump administration arrested a Palestinian graduate student who played a prominent role in last year's pro-Palestinian protests at New York's Columbia University reut.rs/3XFtZAT

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Every lawyer should be required to read this. commons.stmarytx.edu/cgi/viewcont...

submitted 69 days ago • 306 comments

I want the t-shirts, the posters, the sepia prints, the velvet portrait, the trapper keepers, the lunch boxes, the I-phone covers. Rep @algreen.house.gov is an American patriot.

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House Republicans plan to remove dozens of Democrats from their committee assignments to punish them for singing "We Shall Overcome" when Speaker Mike Johnson tried to read the House censure resolution on Rep. Al Green today.

submitted 72 days ago • 15 comments

Universities are changing their stance on speech tolerance. What does that mean for the future of higher education? nyer.cm/8J100eW

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