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Irish immigrants in the 19th century Midwest, local history museums, not-for- profit boards, historic preservation, cooking, vegetable gardening, golden age Hollywood, omnivorous reading.
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The coalition that the Democratic Party is searching for was on the streets today. The demonstrations were planned as non-partisan events. They should stay that way. Party leaders need to read the writing on the wall. In this case, the writting on the signs. The people have provided the script.

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About 2,000 turned out demanding No Kings in Bloomington Illinois.

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Now you know

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Watch this on loop.

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The other historians who are to speak or attend should withdraw in protest.

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Even US Senators are being assaulted for speaking out.

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OOPS: Attorney for Proud Boys in their lawsuit against DOJ may not be allowed to practice law because of a prior felony conviction he appears not to have disclosed, according to the magistrate judge handling the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.

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Looking for new #folklore reads? Reviews in Journal of American Folklore Vol. 138, Iss. 547, cover THE SPIRIT OF SOUL FOOD: RACE, FAITH, AND FOOD JUSTICE by Christopher Carter, plus books from @umissouripress.bsky.social & @nyupress.bsky.social . @projectmuse.bsky.social : muse.jhu.edu/issue/54387

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Pay attention - ICE attacked bystander witnesses.

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Occupying armies in armored cars always fail.

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By the way a military parade when we’re not celebrating a war victory is something a dude who never served would do.

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stoked for swim ignorant fire to kick things off saturday night for BCMC... be here! doors 6:30, music 7~ swimignorantfire.bandcamp.com/track/cloudy #blono #livemusic #swimignorantfire #BCMC #reverberationvinyl #recordstore #bloomingtonillinois

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American Unions need to respond.

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Banana Republicans

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Existing buildings are greener than new buildings.

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Border Czar Tom Homan recently appeared on Fox News to talk about ICE coming to Nashville to "flood the zone in the neighborhoods to find the bad guy." @betsyphillips.bsky.social has an open letter to Homan.

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I think this may mean the people are fighting back.

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Excellent issue on public historians who are developing interpretative connections to people and places where self emancipated blacks found freedom.

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I have a long passage in The Sirens' Call about spam, and understanding spam as the central form of pollution in attention capitalism. AI is already making spam creation way cheaper and easier. www.semafor.com/article/05/2...

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Bluntly put the MAHA report is bullshit. If this is to guide federal health efforts, we are in serious trouble.

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I spent ten years attacking universities as illiberal and overly woke. Now that the Trump administration is using my rhetoric to destroy American science and higher education, I am horrified but not horrified enough to apologize.

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I’ll say this and then I’m gonna step back b/c 2026 IS THE ONLY NATIONAL ELECTION THAT’S IMPORTANT NOW. No Dem presidential candidate wins w/o high Black turnout & vote. So stop making it like Black voters are expendable or that you can serve up any candidate chosen by Pelosi, Clooney or MSM & win.

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