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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 2d

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 7d

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 15d

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.

I just don't know what to say anymore.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21d

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 22d

This moment is disturbing even in the mundane: I’ve started taking screenshots of historical sources I’m using in research from the national park service, the smithsonian, and the national archives, just in case they get taken down. It’s now a part of my process and takes time I have to plan for.

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Jacqueline Hidalgo @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social · 23d

If you missed the ISS seminar on Sept. 5, you can catch up with #scriptures everywhere via podcast. And then join us on Oct. 3 at 10am PT to continue the conversation, this time about place and spin in scripturalizing memory. signifyingscriptures.org/podcast/

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Scriptures Everywhere: A monthly (virtual) seminar and podcast What are scriptures? What is the work people make scriptures do? Join us monthly on the first Friday at 10am Pacific US Time (via Zoo…

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 24d

#tdih 1850, U.S. Congress passed draconian Fugitive Slave Act which required that people who'd escaped from slavery to anywhere in U.S. be captured & returned. 💔 Punished those who did not comply.

Undoes claim of concern for "states rights."

Lessons + more ⬇️
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Sept. 18, 1850: Fugitive Slave Act Passed

The U.S. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

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Jacqueline Hidalgo @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social · 26d

J. Kameron Carter on a murder that is only perceived as martyrdom within that special US religion of whiteness “Kirk’s martyrdom is not a parable about expression. It is a revelation of authoritarian America’s ongoing attempt to sanctify itself.”: religionotherwise.substack.com/p/murdered-n...

Murdered, Not Martyred

Another Response to NY Times Columnist Ezra Klein

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 29d

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · Sep 13

there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him

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Jacqueline Hidalgo @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social · 29d

“We can mourn Kirk. We can send prayers to his friends and family. We can take stock of the gravity of this event. We can — and should — do all of this and more without pretending he was something, as a public figure, that he was not.”

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Jacqueline Hidalgo @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social · 29d

“Kirk’s first act on the national stage was to create a McCarthyite watchlist of college and university professors, lecturers and academics.” I know people on this list who suffered for it. Murder is not the answer. Truth is. Bouie remembers Kirk honestly as the hateful, white supremacist he was.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29d

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

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And-BOO 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · Sep 11

thanks to @janetspittler.bsky.social for "shouting out" my translation of/intro to the LIFE OF THECLA here—still available for pretty cheap from Wipf & Stock (40% off if you sing up for their newsletter!)

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · Sep 11

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

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Byron @johnnyboyapril.bsky.social · Sep 11

Kirk spread hate and disinformation for a dozen years and wasn’t shot at until after he called for the release of the Epstein files.

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Jacqueline Hidalgo @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social · Sep 9

Sotomayor anticipated this. I think a lot of Latines in #HigherEd are thinking about this today. Thanks @professorjvh.bsky.social for writing it up so quickly. cloakinginequity.com/2025/09/09/s...

Supreme Court is Colorblind in Classrooms and Color-Conscious for Cages

You’ve probably heard about the Supreme Court’s latest decision: being visibly Latino (and working at a car wash, speaking Spanish, etc.) can now count as a legally “relevant factors” for harassmen…

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Jacqueline Hidalgo @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social · Sep 7

Hoping to see people this Friday for off-script’s first conversation of the semester with Dr. Rachel Schwaller about unscripted unsettlement. Register at sowingtheseed.org/off-script

Off-Script

Off-Script is a monthly Zoom conversation for graduate students and scholars interested in the critical comparative study of scriptures. Think of it as a get-together for our subfield to conne…

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 7

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

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Cory Brown @localmustard.bsky.social · Sep 5

Seen out and about in Chicago.

A poster with an image of a woman in a black balaclava holding a tire tool with the text “The government is abducting your neighbours are you going to let them?”

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · Sep 6

Gov. Pritzker enlists the public's help: "What we've asked is that people pull out their iPhone or their Android phone and film what they're seeing. Take a video of everything so see so that we can know if, in fact, laws are being broken by these federal officials coming into our state."

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Jacqueline Hidalgo @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social · Sep 5

Happening tomorrow!

Jacqueline Hidalgo @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social · Aug 29

Please join me a week from today for a monthly free and open seminar discussion about #scriptures and #memory. Get the zoom link by signing up at signifyingscriptures.org/podcast/ and listen to episodes of scriptures everywhere on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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Jacqueline Hidalgo @jaxhidalgo.bsky.social · Aug 29

Please join me a week from today for a monthly free and open seminar discussion about #scriptures and #memory. Get the zoom link by signing up at signifyingscriptures.org/podcast/ and listen to episodes of scriptures everywhere on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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scary tall bart @tallbart.com · Aug 26

I love how the "everybody had slaves back then" argument is so instantly revealing, because without knowing any history, anyone can easily think of a group of people who without a doubt owned zero slaves

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 24

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