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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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BREAKING: The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering". It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #MAGAKidnappers

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Second lines will save us!! youtu.be/jhBaJpzAR2k?...

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society Membership Discount for Graduate Students Membership comes with many benefits, including opportunities to serve on IEHS committees and be part of IEHS programming. Continuing student members pay $15 per year. order.press.uillinois.edu/jaeh/order.h...

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publication day. the history of racial violence against immigrants in the early 20th c. remains as important to history as it does to our present academic.oup.com/jah/article/... With many thanks to those who supported me on this journey.

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In honor of the 15th anniversary of Journal of Animal Ethics, all of the scholarship in Vol. 1, Iss. 1 will be completely free to access for the rest of the year! Check out our blog post to learn more about the journal and all the free content: www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/15...

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Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

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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