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Co-founder Nashville Conference on African American History & Culture, TSU Alumna. Pub. Admin, Editor, Author, Preservationist, Pub. Historian & former history & public administration prof at Fisk Univ. #DST #HBCUAdvocate

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Atlanta Black Star @atlblackstar.bsky.social · 10h
Memphis City Hall erupted into chaos after the council kicked the data center vote down the road again protesters clashed, tempers spilled into a lobby brawl. atlantablackstar.pulse.ly/iue8upmuer
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Memphis City Hall Erupts Into Chaos as Council Kicks Data Center Vote Down the Road Again, Protesters Clash, and Tempers Spill Into a Lobby Brawl
A Memphis City Council meeting descended into chaos Tuesday after council members again delayed a decision on a proposed data center moratorium, sparking
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Atlanta Black Star @atlblackstar.bsky.social · 5h
The lead FBI agent who held an innocent Black family at gunpoint in a botched raid just lost his immunity shield and the legal breakthrough that produced is the reason this case is no longer heading toward the outcome federal agencies usually count on. atlantablackstar.pulse.ly/nwd0lvtsdt
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Innocent Black Family Held at Gunpoint in Botched FBI Raid Gets Major Legal Breakthrough as Lead Agent Loses Immunity Shield
At 5 a.m. on an October morning in 2017, at least seven FBI agents busted down the front door of a Black couple’s Atlanta home. Agents detonated a
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 2h
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The Disturbing New Christian Nationalist Argument for Subjugating Women
How right-wing podcasters are leveraging a tragic Massachusetts case to push for patriarchy, end no-fault divorce, and repeal the 19th Amendment.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 13h
Right-wing Christian nationalist podcasters are using the tragic Massachusetts case of Lindsay Clancy to make a radical argument: women should lose the right to vote, end no-fault divorce, and live under strict male supervision. Here is a breakdown of what they are saying on video 🧵👇
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 2h
Insiders spill on the Millers' 'over-the-top' MAGA bashes – and reveal an ugly truth www.rawstory.com/stephen-and-...
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Insiders spill on the Millers' 'over-the-top' MAGA bashes – and reveal an ugly truth
Stephen and Katie Miller’s parties have become some of the hottest invitations in Donald Trump’s Washington, but not every guest who says yes is a fan.Vanity Fair talked to regulars at parties hosted ...
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Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
America, they are trying to desensitize you to violence. They want us to dehumanize one another so we become numb to their attacks on our liberty. They wish to normalize total state control thru visual terror. Attention is currency. Don’t invest it in evil. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed
Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 December
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Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Artist Laura Wheeler Waring was a renowned portrait painter during the Harlem Renaissance. Her mother, Christiana Freeman, was an Underground Railroad agent & the daughter of Philip Livingston (grandson of a Declaration of Independence signer) & Barbara Williams, an enslaved woman from Jamaica.
Waring made this oil portrait, "Girl in a Green Cap,” in 1948. Her portraits generally depicted well-known Black American figures, however, the identity of this young woman is unknown. She is seated, wearing jade jewelry and white gossamer sleeves, looking past the viewer.
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 21h
Notes on a Blacklash: When a Black Woman Goes Viral a.co/d/0ce4FeAv
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 08/10/2026
Supreme Court justices have lifetime appointments. For most of the Court’s history, that translated to a median of 15 years of service, but in the past 60 years, that number has ballooned to 25 years. bit.ly/3VmxQ7X
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How Supreme Court Terms Have Changed over Time
This interactive data visualization shows how justices are serving longer terms than ever before.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 08/10/2026
On this day in 1953, a Birmingham police commissioner banned an interracial All-Star baseball game organized by Jackie Robinson since it was a "mixed athletic event."
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Oct. 8, 1953 | Jackie Robinson and Others Banned From Playing Interracial Baseball in AL
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 08/10/2026
Imposing 18-year term limits for justices would improve the Supreme Court by ensuring no single person has generational power, by giving each president two appointments per four-year term, and by lowering the stakes of the confirmation process. bit.ly/47DWAuZ
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3 Charts that Show the Need for Supreme Court Term Limits
Interactive data visualizations analyzing changes in Supreme Court tenure, unequal numbers of presidential appointments, and narrowing Senate confirmation votes make the case for reform.
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Colored Women Sittin’ on High: Womanist Sermonic Practice in Literature and Music by Melanie R. Hill www.amazon.com/Colored-Wome...
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Amazon.com: Colored Women Sittin’ on High: Womanist Sermonic Practice in Literature and Music: 9781469685090: Hill, Melanie R.: Books
Amazon.com: Colored Women Sittin’ on High: Womanist Sermonic Practice in Literature and Music: 9781469685090: Hill, Melanie R.: Books
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 08/10/2026
The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday proposed a $70,000 fee for international students seeking to work in the United States, the latest effort from the Trump administration to crack down on foreign enrollment. to.pbs.org/4hAy7N3
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Trump administration proposes a $70,000 fee for international students to work in the U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday proposed a $70,000 fee for international students seeking to work in the United States, the latest effort from the Trump administration to crack down o...
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Department of Fate: The Promise, the Power, and the Collapse of America's Most Consequential Institution by @maddow.bsky.social www.amazon.com/Department-F...
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Department of Fate: The Promise, the Power, and the Collapse of America's Most Consequential Institution: Maddow, Rachel: 9780593444542: Amazon.com: Books
Department of Fate: The Promise, the Power, and the Collapse of America's Most Consequential Institution [Maddow, Rachel] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Department of Fate: The P...
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Diasporic Connections: How Afro-Brazilians Use African American Culture to Challenge Racial Exceptionalism by Reighan Gillam a.co/d/0gENS5H1
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Diasporic Connections: How Afro-Brazilians Use African American Culture to Challenge Racial Exceptionalism (Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future): Gillam, Reighan: 9780231210737: Amazo...
Diasporic Connections: How Afro-Brazilians Use African American Culture to Challenge Racial Exceptionalism (Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future) [Gillam, Reighan] on Amazon.com. *FREE...
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Patty Murray wants to know: What comes after Trump and Kennedy? She's plotting a future for public health. I talked to her last week. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
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A Public Health-Minded Senator Asks: What Comes After Trump and Kennedy?
Senator Patty Murray, a former chair of the Senate health committee, is forming a group of experts to examine how to insulate the C.D.C. from political interference.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 07/10/2026
The shock gloves immigration agents could soon use to control detainees & protesters worked so powerfully during a military exercise that participants felt intense pain, stopped fighting immediately & feared additional exposures, according to an Army study. to.pbs.org/4y5BUqs
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Shock gloves purchased by ICE cause pain, compliance and fear, Army study found
The shock gloves immigration agents could soon use to control detainees and protesters worked so powerfully during a military exercise that participants felt intense pain, stopped fighting immediately...
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A Shot Rang Out. M.L.K. Went Down. And a Reporter’s Instincts Kicked In. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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A Shot Rang Out. M.L.K. Went Down. And a Reporter’s Instincts Kicked In. (Free Access)
Earl Caldwell was staying at the Memphis hotel where the civil rights leader was killed.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The future of four large research networks that test vaccines and treatments for HIV, TB and emerging infectious diseases is in limbo after weeks of delays from the Trump administration in launching the process to renew their funding. 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/h...
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Trump Administration Delays Threaten Funding for HIV Research (Gift Article)
The networks also develop treatments and preventions for other infectious diseases and were instrumental in testing the Covid vaccine.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/10/2026
Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, has died.
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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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NAACP Sues DOJ For Records As It Investigates Plan To Send Election Monitors To 2026 Midterm Polls - Blavity
As the Trump administration plans to send an unprecedented number of federal election monitors to polls across the country, the NAACP is working to monitor these monitors. Specifically, the civil righ...
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 06/10/2026
About 60% of people enrolled in the Arkansas Medicaid program that Sarah Huckabee Sanders' ad promoted are white, and about 18% are Black. That didn't stop conservative critics from insisting she was wrong to cast a white man as her Medicaid freeloader.
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MAGA's frothing demands for a Black 'welfare queen' ad collapse under red state's own data
Conservatives who blasted Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders for casting a white man as her Medicaid freeloader ran into a problem, as a new report pulled her own state's numbers.About 60% of people enrolled in ARHOME, the Arkansas Medicaid program covered by Sanders' new work requirements, are wh...
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alternet.org @alternet.org · 07/10/2026
The Trump era is getting to witness the death of an American steel-making legend.
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Trump sees closure of steel facility that survived the Great Depression
The Trump era is getting to witness the death of an American steel-making legend.
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Libraries of Barcelona is hosting a program on Catalonia and the Legacy of Slavery this month. So excellent to encounter local scholars & work that I didn’t know about. Also very nice to see a familiar face - so to speak - at the library. @marcusrediker.bsky.social
Cover of Marcus Rediker's book, "The Slave Ship: A Human History," translated into Spanish. The cover image features the horrifying stowage plan for the slave ship "Brooks" from Liverpool that was commissioned by abolitionists in 1788. The image is extremely disturbing, but the sight of an important and familiar book was most welcomed when I saw it last night.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 06/10/2026
Scenes from outside tech billionaire Peter Thiel's second Anti-Christ lecture in Nashville. I bet you recognize a face or two! 1/
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children: Patton, Stacey: 9780807016206: Amazon.com: Books share.google/0miJ4Evln5rQ...
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Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“At Monticello, descendants of enslavers and descendants of the enslaved are attempting to fashion a family from a fractured past.”
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"The Untold Stories of American Race Riots" www.illinoistimes.com/news/the-unt...
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"The Untold Stories of American Race Riots" - Illinois Times, the capital city's source of news, politics, arts, entertainment, culture
The Springfield and Central Illinois African American History Museum held a screening of I Bear Witness: The Untold Stories of American Race Riots on Saturday, Sept. 19. Tiffany Lee, an educator, hist...
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"The Untold Stories of American Race Riots" www.illinoistimes.com/news/the-unt...
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"The Untold Stories of American Race Riots" - Illinois Times, the capital city's source of news, politics, arts, entertainment, culture
The Springfield and Central Illinois African American History Museum held a screening of I Bear Witness: The Untold Stories of American Race Riots on Saturday, Sept. 19. Tiffany Lee, an educator, hist...
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Atlanta Art Fair spotlights the city’s hard-working artists
The fair’s third edition, its largest yet, saw a bevy of sales in its opening hours, primarily in the four- and five-figure range
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
These Hoosiers are stuck in the past — on purpose mirrorindy.org/indiana-hist...
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These Hoosiers are stuck in the past — on purpose
Meet six historical reenactors who bring Indiana history to life.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 03/10/2026
A court in Tallahassee, Florida, found more than 100 Black students guilty of contempt of court after they were arrested for singing and clapping outside a “white-only” theater.
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Oct. 3, 1963 | Florida Court Convicts Students After Peaceful Protest of Segregated Theater
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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The African American Civil War Museum Invites Us To Remember
The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Historic African-American Cemetery Restored by Boy Scout in Temple
YouTube video by KWKT FOX44
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alternet.org @alternet.org · 03/10/2026
A receipt-free reimbursement program let taxpayers foot a $6.7 million bill for politicians' D.C. housing and food last year—a 21% spike over 2024.
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Your congressman is quietly supplementing his $174K salary on your dime
A receipt-free reimbursement program let taxpayers foot a $6.7 million bill for politicians' D.C. housing and food last year—a 21% spike over 2024.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The agency appears to regard the change as a customer experience improvement — as if interacting with a TSA agent who has been forced to stand in a crowded airport for hours on end will definitely be positive..." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
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Trump Administration Makes Life Worse For TSA Agents
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NPR @npr.org · 02/10/2026
Democratic lawmakers, veterans and concerned citizens gathered in Memorial Circle to protest the arch Trump wants to build there. Their hopes lie primarily in a lawsuit and next month's midterms. n.pr/472XAIX
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As Trump's proposed arch looms over D.C., protesters pin their hopes on the midterms
Democratic lawmakers, veterans and concerned citizens gathered in Memorial Circle to protest the arch Trump wants to build there. Their hopes lie primarily in a lawsuit and next month's midterms.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 02/10/2026
The Trump administration quietly removed an option on a form overseas voters use to request mail ballots, making it harder for some to vote. In a new lawsuit, Democrats say the GOP's goal is to disenfranchise voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic: demdock.com/4djBJR1
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 02/10/2026
The Justice Department's demands for sensitive voter information are “part of a broader...fishing expedition" for evidence of noncitizen voting, which prior investigations have shown are "vanishingly rare," @wendyweiser.bsky.social told @inewsource.org. #[bit.ly/4i0Vhw4
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San Diego voter records accessed by federal prosecutors
San Diego County disclosed the existence of grand jury subpoenas in response to inewsource questions about federal requests for voter information.
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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The Overlooked Black Architect Who Shaped a Landmark Smithsonian Museum
Max Bond Jr., who lobbied for and co-designed the National Museum of African American History and Culture in DC, deserves a larger place in history.
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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The Wake-Up Call: White People
ContrabandCamp Editor-In-Chief Genetta Adams joins Michael Harriot for a discussion about journalism, politics and why it’s important to call a thing a thing.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 02/10/2026
On this day in 1930, white neighbors attacked the Colorado home of seven Black women while they were inside. The women had recently integrated the area but were forced to flee and relocate after the attack.
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Oct. 2, 1930 | Seven Black Women Attacked For Moving into White Neighborhood in Colorado
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“For $45 you can start a school and charge $7000 per student — no background checks, they weren’t teachers — and taxpayers foot the bill… SCHOOL VOUCHERS ARE A SCAM.” @GovBillLee (H/T @piper_for_missouri) Pro Publica’s expose: www.propublica.org/article/prop...
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
JD Vance Tells Angie Nixon to Get the Hell Out of America share.google/ckKq3WNuZKGp...
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JD Vance Tells Angie Nixon to Get the Hell Out of America
JD Vance told a Florida rally that Angie Nixon, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, should get out of America because she calls herself a socialist.
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Throwback Thursday: Megan McArdle Can’t Tell Me Shit About White Supremacy open.substack.com/pub/michaelh...
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Throwback Thursday: Megan McArdle Can’t Tell Me Shit About White Supremacy
Before Jeff Bezos hired her, the whitest white woman who ever whited dedicated an entire column warning me to “be careful” who I called a white supremacist.
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
MAGA senator targets Jack Smith with legal sanctions: 'Most serious remedy possible' www.rawstory.com/jack-smith-d...
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MAGA senator targets Jack Smith with legal sanctions: 'Most serious remedy possible'
A Republican senator has filed a formal complaint asking Tennessee's attorney disciplinary board to investigate former special counsel Jack Smith and pursue his disbarment.Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) sen...
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