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History. Church. Loving on People. Fighting for 🇺🇸 Always.
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🇺🇸 has to fight this everyday & every way.
Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American history.
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Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump
Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American…
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February 15, 2026 at 7:44 PM
🇺🇸 has to fight this everyday & every way.
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Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
academic.oup.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
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Beth Rubin, 67, said she attended because she sees ICE on a path toward what her family fled in the 1930s.
"What is happening today to immigrants, to citizens, to innocent people...to the undocumented and the documented is very similar to what happened then."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
"What is happening today to immigrants, to citizens, to innocent people...to the undocumented and the documented is very similar to what happened then."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
'An affront to God.' Rabbis and Jewish leaders protest outside ICE headquarters
More than 150 rabbis and cantors protest outside ICE's headquarters in Washington, DC, criticizing the Trump administration's immigration enforcement.
www.usatoday.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Beth Rubin, 67, said she attended because she sees ICE on a path toward what her family fled in the 1930s.
"What is happening today to immigrants, to citizens, to innocent people...to the undocumented and the documented is very similar to what happened then."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
"What is happening today to immigrants, to citizens, to innocent people...to the undocumented and the documented is very similar to what happened then."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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“Historians are vampire hunters.”
— @hcrichardson.bsky.social
What does that mean?
We talk Lincoln, Reconstruction, and why some American myths refuse to die.
— @hcrichardson.bsky.social
What does that mean?
We talk Lincoln, Reconstruction, and why some American myths refuse to die.
February 12, 2026 at 2:22 PM
“Historians are vampire hunters.”
— @hcrichardson.bsky.social
What does that mean?
We talk Lincoln, Reconstruction, and why some American myths refuse to die.
— @hcrichardson.bsky.social
What does that mean?
We talk Lincoln, Reconstruction, and why some American myths refuse to die.
“The struggle after 1945 was not simply competition for power among nations. It was also about ideas, ideals &, yes, compassion.The belief that individuals & nations best thrive when the poor, no less than the rich, live within the safety of civilized rules.”
www.startribune.com/ww2-veterans...
www.startribune.com/ww2-veterans...
Opinion | The Greatest Generation fought fascism. Let’s not forget their lessons.
"Listen to the people of Minnesota, whose actions would make the Greatest Generation, like those buried at Fort Snelling, so proud," Steven Andreasen writes.
www.startribune.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:22 PM
“The struggle after 1945 was not simply competition for power among nations. It was also about ideas, ideals &, yes, compassion.The belief that individuals & nations best thrive when the poor, no less than the rich, live within the safety of civilized rules.”
www.startribune.com/ww2-veterans...
www.startribune.com/ww2-veterans...
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No child should be behind bars.
Yet hundreds of kids are being detained at Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas—some of them for months. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Yet hundreds of kids are being detained at Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas—some of them for months. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
www.propublica.org
February 11, 2026 at 5:55 PM
No child should be behind bars.
Yet hundreds of kids are being detained at Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas—some of them for months. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Yet hundreds of kids are being detained at Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas—some of them for months. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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Wednesday morning RVA weather brief:
Steady in the 50s today, then cooler into the weekend.
Saturday looks good, but soaking rain likely Sunday. Probably enough to wash away most of the salt and sand on roads and sidewalks.
More at:
subletteweather.com/river-city-w...
Steady in the 50s today, then cooler into the weekend.
Saturday looks good, but soaking rain likely Sunday. Probably enough to wash away most of the salt and sand on roads and sidewalks.
More at:
subletteweather.com/river-city-w...
February 11, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Wednesday morning RVA weather brief:
Steady in the 50s today, then cooler into the weekend.
Saturday looks good, but soaking rain likely Sunday. Probably enough to wash away most of the salt and sand on roads and sidewalks.
More at:
subletteweather.com/river-city-w...
Steady in the 50s today, then cooler into the weekend.
Saturday looks good, but soaking rain likely Sunday. Probably enough to wash away most of the salt and sand on roads and sidewalks.
More at:
subletteweather.com/river-city-w...
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"History is really not intended to provide us with a comforting fairy tale. It's intended to help us understand how things happened the way they did, and how we ended up where we are."
From @iankarbal.bsky.social
From @iankarbal.bsky.social
As a fight over the legacy of slavery brews in Pa., a historian tells how it shaped the commonwealth • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
While Pennsylvania and Philadelphia have become focal points in the fight over America’s history, the Pennsylvania Capital-Star spoke to historian Kathleen Brown, a University of Pennsylvania professo...
penncapital-star.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:03 AM
"History is really not intended to provide us with a comforting fairy tale. It's intended to help us understand how things happened the way they did, and how we ended up where we are."
From @iankarbal.bsky.social
From @iankarbal.bsky.social
One of the arrestees, Michael Woolf, said the charges were “always egregious..the fact was that [we] were acting from a standpoint that what was going on..was a moral emergency & spiritual emergency, & we were met with pretty intense violence & then we were prosecuted for that.” #Broadview
Prosecutors have dropped charges against nearly two dozen people arrested during a clergy-led protest outside the Broadview ICE facility last fall.
Cook County prosecutors drop charges against 19 arrested during clergy-led protest at Broadview ICE facility
chicago.suntimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:55 AM
One of the arrestees, Michael Woolf, said the charges were “always egregious..the fact was that [we] were acting from a standpoint that what was going on..was a moral emergency & spiritual emergency, & we were met with pretty intense violence & then we were prosecuted for that.” #Broadview
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Join Lawfare, @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social, and the @gtowntechlaw.bsky.social on Friday, March 6 for a event featuring leading scholars, practitioners, and former government officials marking the 40th anniversary of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
RSVP here: lawfaremedia.org/ecpaevent
RSVP here: lawfaremedia.org/ecpaevent
Installing Updates to ECPA
Join us on Friday, March 6, from 8:30am to 2:00pm for a one-day convening marking the 40th anniversary of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). Enacted four decades ago, ECPA continues to ...
lawfaremedia.org
February 9, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Join Lawfare, @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social, and the @gtowntechlaw.bsky.social on Friday, March 6 for a event featuring leading scholars, practitioners, and former government officials marking the 40th anniversary of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
RSVP here: lawfaremedia.org/ecpaevent
RSVP here: lawfaremedia.org/ecpaevent
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The demise of the CIA World Factbook is “part of a broad war on information being waged by the Trump administration,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.
The Trump Administration’s War on Data
A series of recent steps have erased the shared facts that help uphold democracy.
bit.ly
February 9, 2026 at 1:15 AM
The demise of the CIA World Factbook is “part of a broad war on information being waged by the Trump administration,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.
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"'The pastors’ group that I’m in, we got together, and we agreed that if violence breaks out in Springfield, we have a duty to go right to the front of it and to call for peace,' he said..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
Opinion | In Ohio, I Caught a Glimpse of the New Resistance
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:31 PM
"'The pastors’ group that I’m in, we got together, and we agreed that if violence breaks out in Springfield, we have a duty to go right to the front of it and to call for peace,' he said..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
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Rep. Rebecca Balint (D-VT) with her whole chest out says ‘it didn’t have to be like this I want to remind everyone who supersized the ICE budget, it was Trump and MAGA Republicans in Congress, they are who did this.’ Go off Becca, speaks that truth to power‼️💥🔥💥
February 6, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Rep. Rebecca Balint (D-VT) with her whole chest out says ‘it didn’t have to be like this I want to remind everyone who supersized the ICE budget, it was Trump and MAGA Republicans in Congress, they are who did this.’ Go off Becca, speaks that truth to power‼️💥🔥💥
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What an incredible story-
13 year old saves his whole family.
After swimming with a life jacket 2 hrs, ditched it and swam 2 more hours to shore.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
13 year old saves his whole family.
After swimming with a life jacket 2 hrs, ditched it and swam 2 more hours to shore.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Teenager makes 'superhuman' swim to save family swept out to sea
A 13-year-old boy has been hailed a hero after swimming four hours through rough seas to get help for his mother and two siblings, who were swept out to sea on an inflatable paddleboard in WA's South ...
www.abc.net.au
February 2, 2026 at 5:27 PM
What an incredible story-
13 year old saves his whole family.
After swimming with a life jacket 2 hrs, ditched it and swam 2 more hours to shore.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
13 year old saves his whole family.
After swimming with a life jacket 2 hrs, ditched it and swam 2 more hours to shore.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Good read 👇🏼👇🏼
Via NCR Opinion - A wealthy pair of Catholic brothers are making a Kansas City ICE facility possible. Will the non-profit institutions they support care?
#ICE #Missouri #Trump #Catholic
www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...
#ICE #Missouri #Trump #Catholic
www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...
Catholic brothers are making a Kansas City ICE facility possible. Will institutions they support care?
Two Kansas City brothers are big Catholic donors. But now that they're also making a vast ICE detention facility possible, will the institutions they support look away?
www.ncronline.org
February 4, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Good read 👇🏼👇🏼
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ICE has scaled down in Maine. But they ARE still here.
Please continue to report ICE activity to 207-544-9989.
That so many people are calling my office about this means no one's taking anything for granted. They're continuing to protect their neighbors.
Be vigilant, be safe and KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!
Please continue to report ICE activity to 207-544-9989.
That so many people are calling my office about this means no one's taking anything for granted. They're continuing to protect their neighbors.
Be vigilant, be safe and KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!
Maine immigration enforcement appears to have slowed since surge, but effects linger
Observers say 'normal' enforcement during the Trump administration is far from normal.
www.pressherald.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:37 PM
ICE has scaled down in Maine. But they ARE still here.
Please continue to report ICE activity to 207-544-9989.
That so many people are calling my office about this means no one's taking anything for granted. They're continuing to protect their neighbors.
Be vigilant, be safe and KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!
Please continue to report ICE activity to 207-544-9989.
That so many people are calling my office about this means no one's taking anything for granted. They're continuing to protect their neighbors.
Be vigilant, be safe and KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!
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"The Trump administration is working overtime to create intimidation, chaos, and confusion. This is exactly how we lose our country: erode trust, normalize lies, and intimidate voters and election officials."
www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...
www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...
League of Women Voters Condemns President Trump’s Call to “Nationalize” Elections | League of Women Voters
“President Trump’s continued rhetoric is a calculated effort to dismantle the integrity of the electoral system as we know it. This is not political theater: it’s a direct threat to the very fiber of…
www.lwv.org
February 4, 2026 at 6:19 PM
"The Trump administration is working overtime to create intimidation, chaos, and confusion. This is exactly how we lose our country: erode trust, normalize lies, and intimidate voters and election officials."
www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...
www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...
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FWIW the enrollment at VMI is just a hair above that of the Corps of Cadets at Virginia Tech, and the commissioning rate at VT is substantially higher! @cardinalnews.org
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Pentagon warns it could take ‘extraordinary measures’ in fight over VMI’s future
Democratic state lawmakers have introduced two bills that could substantially alter how the Lexington military college operates.
cardinalnews.org
February 4, 2026 at 12:10 PM
FWIW the enrollment at VMI is just a hair above that of the Corps of Cadets at Virginia Tech, and the commissioning rate at VT is substantially higher! @cardinalnews.org
cardinalnews.org/2026/02/03/p...
cardinalnews.org/2026/02/03/p...
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@oversightdemocrats.bsky.social held a shadow hearing today to amplify the voices of American citizens who were made victims by this administration. We won't let them be silenced or their experiences brushed under the rug.
February 3, 2026 at 11:28 PM
@oversightdemocrats.bsky.social held a shadow hearing today to amplify the voices of American citizens who were made victims by this administration. We won't let them be silenced or their experiences brushed under the rug.
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