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If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
This is absolutely what will happen. Teachers already fear the perception of their choices in the classroom. In a time of sky high cost of living and attacks on education in general, self preservation will unfortunately win for many, especially if there is no support for risk taking within schools
Sotomayor, in dissent, correctly says that today's decision in Mahmoud will lead public schools to simply censor books featuring LGBTQ characters and themes, creating "chaos" and stigmatizing children with LGBTQ families. This decision will lead to book bans.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This is absolutely what will happen. Teachers already fear the perception of their choices in the classroom. In a time of sky high cost of living and attacks on education in general, self preservation will unfortunately win for many, especially if there is no support for risk taking within schools
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If you need a reminder of what we're fighting for, here are a bunch of authors reading short excerpts of letters sent to them by grateful readers. Recommend having tissues handy.
June 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
If you need a reminder of what we're fighting for, here are a bunch of authors reading short excerpts of letters sent to them by grateful readers. Recommend having tissues handy.
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The National Archives belong to We the People. These records are used by historians and other researchers, but also veterans, Native nations, genealogists, students, and so many more people.
June 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The National Archives belong to We the People. These records are used by historians and other researchers, but also veterans, Native nations, genealogists, students, and so many more people.
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While bombing Iran is bad for Trump’s poll numbers, starting a war and creating chaos is good for Trump as an authoritarian. Authoritarians exploit chaos to claim emergency powers, deploy the military domestically, and undermine free and fair elections.
These attacks must be viewed from this lens.
These attacks must be viewed from this lens.
June 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
While bombing Iran is bad for Trump’s poll numbers, starting a war and creating chaos is good for Trump as an authoritarian. Authoritarians exploit chaos to claim emergency powers, deploy the military domestically, and undermine free and fair elections.
These attacks must be viewed from this lens.
These attacks must be viewed from this lens.
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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
Want to feel seen? Read this amazing poem about our desire to let go of our glowing overlords, our phones: open.substack.com/pub/quirineb...
all my friends and i talk about is getting rid of our phones
our phones as the tiny gods we are trying not to worship
open.substack.com
June 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Want to feel seen? Read this amazing poem about our desire to let go of our glowing overlords, our phones: open.substack.com/pub/quirineb...
I am calimaxxing this summer babes
after growing up in California i lived in some places where it's bad to be from California, so i downplayed that part of myself for a while. but this week has turned me back into a California evangelist. i'm Calimaxxing. certified Calihead. we got a fuckin' bear on our flag bro
June 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I am calimaxxing this summer babes
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BREAKING NEWS: This video will likely improve your day.
June 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
BREAKING NEWS: This video will likely improve your day.
We've been here before and the ability to come back was a lie
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May 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
We've been here before and the ability to come back was a lie
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As a teacher of seniors in high school the anxieties about going to college are so different now. Instead of being nervous of moving to a new place, they worry about being ostracized for wanting to learn at all. Thank you to the student that wrote this incredible piece.
She just got into Harvard (as well as West Point, Brown, Stanford, and other incredible universities)
When she told her MAGA grandparents, they had six devastating words for her
Today on @HuffPost Personal, a powerful new piece from a high school senior who has a message for the adults of America
When she told her MAGA grandparents, they had six devastating words for her
Today on @HuffPost Personal, a powerful new piece from a high school senior who has a message for the adults of America
I Just Got Into Harvard. My MAGA Grandparents’ 6-Word Reaction To My Acceptance Devastated Me.
“This was the first time in my life that I had ever truly gotten mad at my grandparents.”
www.huffpost.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
As a teacher of seniors in high school the anxieties about going to college are so different now. Instead of being nervous of moving to a new place, they worry about being ostracized for wanting to learn at all. Thank you to the student that wrote this incredible piece.
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I wrote about why Republicans - and Trump specifically - often beat Democrats on messaging because they understand the politics of schemas and how to use them more effectively, while Democrats search for the best facts, but often lose the battle of perception: www.forkingpaths.co/p/schemas-an...
Schemas and the Political Brain
The neuroscience and psychology of why better facts don't make winning arguments in politics.
www.forkingpaths.co
April 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I wrote about why Republicans - and Trump specifically - often beat Democrats on messaging because they understand the politics of schemas and how to use them more effectively, while Democrats search for the best facts, but often lose the battle of perception: www.forkingpaths.co/p/schemas-an...
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I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning
April 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
April 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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Q: What distinguishes a prison from a concentration camp?
April 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Q: What distinguishes a prison from a concentration camp?
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“Mommy, no. Mommy.”
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“Mommy, no. Mommy.”
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
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SCOOP: Elon Musk's DOGE is getting audited.
The General Accountability Office's audit examines DOGE’s handling of data at a number of federal agencies, according to sources and records reviewed by WIRED.
from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social:
The General Accountability Office's audit examines DOGE’s handling of data at a number of federal agencies, according to sources and records reviewed by WIRED.
from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social:
Elon Musk's DOGE Is Getting Audited
The General Accountability Office's audit examines DOGE’s handling of data at a number of federal agencies, according to sources and records reviewed by WIRED.
www.wired.com
April 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
SCOOP: Elon Musk's DOGE is getting audited.
The General Accountability Office's audit examines DOGE’s handling of data at a number of federal agencies, according to sources and records reviewed by WIRED.
from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social:
The General Accountability Office's audit examines DOGE’s handling of data at a number of federal agencies, according to sources and records reviewed by WIRED.
from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social:
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I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
March 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
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“Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable, but, as the Columbia case suggests, it’s not working. Columbia’s leadership made repeated concessions to right-wing critics, only to be the first to come under attack.”
March 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
“Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable, but, as the Columbia case suggests, it’s not working. Columbia’s leadership made repeated concessions to right-wing critics, only to be the first to come under attack.”
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Start loudly reciting the oath of office as a group over and over and over and over until you get arrested
If you were in Congress, what would you do for the State of the Union? What do you think Dems should do?
March 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Start loudly reciting the oath of office as a group over and over and over and over until you get arrested
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"What our profession most definitely does not believe is that the primary purpose of history is to instill a single notion of 'patriotic education' in our youth about 'our incredible Nation,' as the order demands."
Correct. Trump wants propaganda, not history.
newrepublic.com/article/1912...
Correct. Trump wants propaganda, not history.
newrepublic.com/article/1912...
Trump May Wish to Abolish
the Past. We Historians Will Not.
Commentary from the heads of two prominent historical associations on Trump’s recent executive order on “radical indoctrination” in schools.
newrepublic.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
"What our profession most definitely does not believe is that the primary purpose of history is to instill a single notion of 'patriotic education' in our youth about 'our incredible Nation,' as the order demands."
Correct. Trump wants propaganda, not history.
newrepublic.com/article/1912...
Correct. Trump wants propaganda, not history.
newrepublic.com/article/1912...
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Seems like a good time to point out that you can download from the library of congress, and it would be worthwhile to download probably as much as you can while you can
January 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Seems like a good time to point out that you can download from the library of congress, and it would be worthwhile to download probably as much as you can while you can
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Archivists, historians, scribes: your time is now. Yours is among the most urgent work needed.
January 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Archivists, historians, scribes: your time is now. Yours is among the most urgent work needed.