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Participatory music is my life. Very active Sacred Harp/Shape Note & church choir singer. Started learning piano during COVID. Also politically active in liberal causes.
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Between the layoffs at FEMA and now the ones at the National Weather Service, we’re losing both advance warnings of weather events and help recovering from them. We are being thrust into a world where we’re all on our own.

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I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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I am a history nerd, particularly of the Tudor period, and right now is hauntingly similar to the point when Henry VIII, the richest man in England, seized the monasteries, stripped them of their assets to further enrich himself, and destroyed the social structure in the process.

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Embarrassing. They're going to feel so stupid in 10 years when nobody's wearing dead salmon hats anymore.

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