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Babies with cancer. Please.

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Seriously?

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Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.

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This campaign has been going on for the past thirty years. I haven’t seen anyone stand up and try to stop it.

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Happy Independent Bookstore Day 📚 Not everyone can always get to their library. It’s important for kids, for people to build their home libraries. To discover books they love so much they reread them over and over and over again. Enter one of the library’s greatest friends… the indie bookstore 💛

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They’re detaining US citizens, arresting judges, and subpoenaing journalists because they want to scare us into silence about their authoritarian agenda. It’s not going to happen. Let’s show them what we’re made of.

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Amplify this: Social Security and Medicare are NOT entitlements. They are EARNED BENEFITS. We paid taxes to Social Security and Medicare for decades. Our employers paid in. Self-employed workers paid DOUBLE. Take the cap off for those earning above $176,000. Make it fair, and solvent.

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The AHA encourages Oklahomans invested in quality history education to contact their state legislators and ask them to return the newly revised Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies to the State Board of Education for further review. Read our action alert for more information 🗃️:

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Today we honor the flippered citizens of our icy nation. Whether you celebrate whilst eating a democracy sausage in Oz, doomscrolling in America, pulling maple taps in Canada, or elsewhere, we appreciate the support! #worldpenguinday

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Once you disregard the legal rights of immigrants, everything is on the table Today, they are arresting judges Tomorrow it could be Democratic members of Congress

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Senator Tammy Baldwin's @baldwin.senate.gov statement on the arrest of Judge Dugan (posted elsewhere):

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Trump first.

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Let’s keep the context up front. In early April masses of NEH grants were terminated as “an urgent priority.” Those included grants that fund 50 state humanities councils, which do community-based work all across the country. And rigorously peer-reviewed grants to individual scholars & orgs.

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Science is what made America great. But our nation’s top scientist just had to resign because of Trump. There is no such thing as a tariff on Chinese opportunism in the face of American concession. www.science.org/content/arti...

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🎺JOB ALERT👀: We (@LMU Munich) are hiring a postdoc (full-term) for the coordination of META-REP, a metascientific research consortium (www.lmu.de/psy/de/forsc...). Application deadline May 15, 2025. See full job ad here: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/3.... Contact me if you need more info!

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An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse. It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.

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🚨🚨🚨 Join our DIGITAL RALLY now! Social Security isn’t the government’s money. Seniors earned their Social Security benefits over a lifetime of hard work. Hands Off My Social Security Toolkit ➡️ social.demcast.com/toolkit/trum...

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A fascinating PhD opportunity! I grew up in Moneyrea...a village so tiny that most people in Belfast (c.7 miles away) have never even heard of it. Extraordinary to think that we have such an important poet in our history 😀 #phd #humanities #poetry #postgrad

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Call me old-fashioned, but I don't think people should be required to carry their 'papers' with them at all times to avoid being illegally and unconstitutionally detained by government agents and at risk for extraordinary rendition to a foreign gulag. newrepublic.com/post/194303/...

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Trump has announced that his adminstration will no longer be enforcing the civil rights act because "merit" is when you can discriminate on against non-whites and get away with it www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Here's Trump unilaterally attempting to repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Love the MERL.

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JOB KLAXON 4.5 year post-doc at University College Cork for someone with expertise in Old Norse Studies, Medievalism, and the Digital Humanities: my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...

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📢 An exciting opportunity for conservators & archivists! UCD Library is seeking a Book and Paper Conservator to establish a Conservation Laboratory, part of a new Cultural Heritage Centre to be developed in the James Joyce Library. Full job description➡️ buff.ly/IqKpdP6 Apply by 19 May #jobfairy

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Support our colleagues at Wellesley, where the NTT faculty are on day 28 of striking for better working conditions.

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Trump is deliberately building a country that is more violent, less educated, more racially segregated, less prosperous, and with no social safety net. Mainstream media doesn’t name that or examine who benefits from it. So we have to. #MomSky

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As a French historian of race in the 19th century, I’d begin by saying… #ForgetIt

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Good news! The deadline for submissions has been extended until April 28th. You have another week to get your submission together!

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Funded

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Very, very important piece about a part of the CECOT story that's gone barely discussed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

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PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week. They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions. Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.

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Insane.

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Heartening to see more than 180 univ prez on letter of solidarity vs "unprecedented govt overreach." Letter from @aacu.org here: www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c... Among many names glad to see: S Coley, C Eisgruber, A Garber, K Newkirk, L Patton, M Roth, K Schmoke, E Spina. Even McInnis of Yale

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Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

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👇🏽🎯

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As a cancer survivor, I have a dog in this fight. But forget that. As an American, I find all of this anti-immigrant nonsense infuriating. I am. So. Angry.

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Drop some BUNNIES 🐇🖤🐰

submitted 7 days ago • 365 comments

Impeach them.

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Reminder: If a president has immunity for official actions and swears an oath to uphold the Constitution then violating the Constitution can't be construed to be an official action and as a consequence the president does not have immunity to protect him from prosecution for such actions.

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Friendly reminder. In the United States, criminals are entitled to due process. Even if you pay hush money rig an election, steal top secret documents, or incite a mob to overthrow the government; no matter how egregious your crimes, you’re entitled to due process.

submitted 7 days ago • 694 comments

this is always the thoughtcrime

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#NoKings

submitted 7 days ago • 330 comments

Last Night ⛪️ Old North Church in Boston (the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride on April 18, 1775)

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Any politician or pundit telling us to stop advocating for due process for the men in CECOT because it's not "politically expedient" needs to go,

submitted 7 days ago • 383 comments

A class action lawsuit filed Friday asks a federal court to reinstate the legal status of international students caught up in a Trump administration crackdown that has left more than a thousand fearful of deportation.

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Whitney Plantation grant pulled, exhibit on African American history in limbo www.wwltv.com/article/news...

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