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Jerry Mitchell @jmitchellnews.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
#OnThisDay in 1963, when a National Guardsman poked his bayonet at Gloria Richardson in Cambridge MD, she pushed it away, refusing to back down during racism protests. Her stand inspired change. Two days later, she and others signed the Treaty of Cambridge. mississippitoday.org/2024/07/21/1...
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1963: Gloria Richardson pushes bayonet - Mississippi Today
On this day in 1963, Gloria Richardson pushed away a National Guardsman's bayonet he poked at her.
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Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
How do you help pupils build knowledge across your history curriculum? Sequencing? Revisiting key ideas? Strong enquiry questions? We’re seeing lots of different approaches across the community – what’s working well for you right now?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
In 2018, a famous lawyer won a $289M verdict for a man who got cancer after using Monsanto's glyphosate weedkiller for years. Today, that same lawyer works for Trump, who signed an EO expanding glyphosate production and whose DOJ defended Monsanto in court. His name? RFK Jr.
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murderedbybluesky.bsky.social @murderedbybluesky.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
"NO TOUCH!" Trump has deployed the military to stop people from touching the Reflecting Pool & taking pieces of the failed paint job.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It's the anniversary of the meeting of Constitutional Convention:
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.
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Kelli Refer @kellireef.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The people who say, “Food is expensive, just garden” have perhaps not been to a garden store.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Trump hearing "cisgender" and thinking its "six genders" then getting all mad about it, thus forcing other Republicans to agree that the libs are now demanding there be six genders, is a perfect encapsulation of our Golden Age of Dickishness and Stupidity.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
These are actual Freedom Riders, now elderly, sitting together decades after risking their lives to challenge segregation in the American South. On May 4, 1961, they rode buses south to defy illegal segregation in terminal facilities.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 05/05/2026
anyway here's me at the art-themed Met Gala
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watertigernyc @watertigernyc.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
No lie detected.
There is a direct line, a frozen rope, a bullet train, connecting the moment she was not believed to today. So clear you can see it from space.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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Liberal arts fields like
History English and the arts are becoming more relevant in the AI era not less
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 14/04/2026
haven't had the time to watch this but I have the utmost confidence that it goes incredibly hard
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 13/04/2026
Let’s just acknowledge that this kind of attack is foundationally antisemitic at its core
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 11/04/2026
First Amendment Troop returns to the Lincoln Memorial with “ResistDance vs Redaction” — A protest with young dancers blindfolded, with Epstein Files printed on their leotards to symbolize redacted survivors. The piece reinterprets 13-yr-old Jane Doe 4’s testimony about Trump through movement. ❤️‍🩹
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This is so well done. 👌
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Everyone *does* need to watch this, but most importantly, Democratic leaders still obsessing over centrism, bipartisanship and reaching "middle America" need to watch it
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Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter @realbachscore.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...
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WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate
Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/03/2026
It’s time for the UN to formally recognise the transatlantic slavery trade as a crime against humanity | John Dramani Mahama
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It’s time for the UN to formally recognise the transatlantic slavery trade as a crime against humanity | John Dramani Mahama
This is not about assigning collective guilt to present generations. But injustice does not simply fade with time – it requires deliberate effort to address and redress, says Ghana’s president, John Dramani Mahama
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
NEW: This new report, from BBC, is the best takedown of the insanity of Trump you will see anywhere. Calm, coherent and repeating only Trump’s own words. Devastating. Brilliant work once again from Roz Atkins. (🎥 BBC News)
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#BLM/#NMP/#ANTIFA🇲🇽 @sinnu1.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
What he says…
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14/03/2026
Trump's words mean whatever he wants them to mean at the moment. But with this Trump War Glossary compiled by @saletan.bsky.social, you might be able to figure some of it out: lnk.thebulwark.com/4loslyi
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The Trump War Glossary: What He *Really* Means About Iran
Keeping up with Mr. ‘I Have the Best Words’ as he twists the English language.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2026
down with slopulism youtu.be/MXZvHsem5OU
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Yeah, We're Going to Have to Tax the Middle Class
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Imagine a world where Americans were smarter and didn’t applaud when reactionary idiot Ronald Reagan made a show out of removing the solar panels Jimmy Carter had installed on the White House. We wouldn’t now have to worry about affording to fill gas tanks next month.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
“More than anything, it shows up — in its grounded flights, shuttered refineries and intercepted missiles — the fallacy of Fortress America.” 💯 & global interconnection present since the founding. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Fantasy Is Crashing Down
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
No votes on ANYTHING untill we vote on the War Powers Resolution.
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Jerry Mitchell @jmitchellnews.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
#onthisday in 2003, a federal court jury in Mississippi convicted Ernest Avants of murder. Avants received a life sentence for joining other Klansmen in killing Black handyman, Ben Chester White, near Natchez in hopes of luring MLK to the area. The plot failed. mississippitoday.org/2025/02/28/2...
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2003: Ernest Avants convicted of murder - Mississippi Today
Ernest Avants received a life sentence for joining other Klansmen in killing an African-American handyman, Ben Chester White, near Natchez.
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Grace Panetta @gracepanetta.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
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Thomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Get this woman to Congress immediately.
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Andrea Joy Campbell @ajcampbellma.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 04/02/2026
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I mean, there *are* a few other things going on. But this should be a good show on February 17: www.shakespearetheatre.org/events/mock-...
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Mock Trial 2026 - Shakespeare Theatre Company
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Almost 256 years ago, when British soldiers were occupying a city that was restless in their presence but still firmly part of the empire, a confrontation ended in the shooting death of five people, with 6 more wounded. This offset image of the Boston Massacre is so evocative. 1/
Eighteenth century print, not colored, of soldiers on the right shooting toward a crowd, one man already on the ground. A version of Paul Revere's famous "Boston Massacre" print from the collections of the John Carter Brown Library that is offset so you see some images multiple times.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Interested in the history of enslaved people, Black history, and George Washington? Download this report, which is still on the NPS site (for now). My research team spent 3 years collaborating with descendants of people enslaved at the Washington's Headquarters site and the wonderful NPS staff:
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Black History at the Vassall Estate Special History Study (U.S. National Park Service)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
This IS indeed very much worth reading. [Gift article] www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
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Opinion | An Old Theory Helps Explain What Happened to Renee Good
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/01/2026
How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’?
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How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’?
Big tech treats our attention like a resource to be mercilessly extracted. The fightback begins here
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Daryl Surat @darylsurat.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
RFK Jr is doing a modern-day Tuskegee study, where by he uses taxpayer money to intentionality infect African children with Hepatitis B and deny them treatment. You know, just to see what happens newrepublic.com/post/205330/...
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“Another Tuskegee”: Leaked Docs Reveal CDC Is Funding Deadly Study
The CDC is funding a horrific hepatitis experiment on babies.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
If ICE murders me, a billionaire will give him $10,000. Noted.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
When you aren't supposed to talk about gender in class but want to explain how the US and Russia went from probe and drogue space docking to a 50/50 system where the first word in its name is literally "Androgynous", because neither country was willing to be the, er, receiver
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
He shot her in the head, then called her a “fucking bitch.” That isn’t self defense, it’s an angry execution.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Here’s some more comparative math making this point:
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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 08/01/2026
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Worth a listen about the legal technicalities that the Trump admin is using to justify their zealous redactions-/
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