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Historian of all sorts of things in the US South, particularly the history of Jim Crow and Louisiana. Author/Editor. Night owl. Feral cat wrangler (TNR). Living in TX 20+ years. Native of MA.
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Includes Texas State and UT San Antonio. www.tpr.org/public-healt...

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Black and white college students went to MISSISSIPPI in 1964 to register people to vote. They got shot at, bombed, beaten and killed. These pampered fucks need to take accountability and act.

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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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This was 61 years ago today! I'm teaching early Beatles this week in my 1960s class. m.youtube.com/watch?v=yqrY...

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Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

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This isn’t real. This CANNOT be real. (It is. It’s real.)

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I believe he is translating

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Tuna sold at Trader Joe's, HEB, Safeway, Costco, Harris Teeter and Walmart is being recalled because of the threat of botulism (food poisoning). wapo.st/3Ew6NP4

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Opinion: Government controls over classroom discussion proposed by Ohio Senate Bill 1 are more fitting to the Soviet Union than the United States of America by David W. Blight and Joan E. Cashin ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/02/10/o...

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Angola will join Parchman, Holman, and Oklahoma State Penitentiary using "nitrogen hypoxia" on death row. "Nitrogen hypoxia" is an invented term. www.wwno.org/local-region...

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Timeline cleanse. #wintercat

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NYT list of government programs in the memo. Which Federal Programs Are Under Scrutiny? The Budget Office Named 2,600 of Them.

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Been nice knowing y'all

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Today in class I showed this 1951 instructional film showing what to do in case there is an atomic bomb! As a kid I remember the same anxiety in the 1980s (think The Day After). It occurred to me that today's kids have to worry about guns and do mass shooting drills. m.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqX...

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In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

submitted 27 days ago • 81 comments

Before Betsy DeVos in 2017, there had *never* been a vice presidential tiebreaker on a Cabinet nominee.

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This is happening to thousands of people fighting for their lives because in real life, government does a lot of good and important shit.

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Dying in a mental asylum in 2004 because I went back in time to tell people that The Apprentice would lead to the end of medical research, the Civil Rights Act, and birthright citizenship.

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