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December 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Barack Obama posted a sweet message for his wife, Michelle Obama, as they celebrated their 33rd wedding anniversary.
Barack and Michelle Obama's sweet anniversary post - 'Best decision I ever made'
www.irishstar.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Rolling Stone Deep alive on Stephen Miller. Know thy enemy, Democracy & Equality.
September 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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This typifies the callous arrogance and casual cruelty of a man consumed with a dark heart. It was his choice. Now, it is our time to choose.
September 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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If there is a government shutdown, Republicans will own it.
September 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Jerry Greenfield says he could no longer ‘in good conscience’ continue working for a company that had been ‘silenced’.
Ben & Jerry’s cofounder leaves firm amid dispute with Unilever over Gaza
Jerry Greenfield says he could no longer ‘in good conscience’ continue working for a company that had been ‘silenced’.
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September 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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So many of you have been asking about A RESISTANCE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES that Barnes & Noble put it up months early.

Preorder now through tomorrow for 25% off (paperback, audiobook, or e-book) with code PREORDER25.

#BNPreorder #resistancehistory

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A Resistance History of the United States|Paperback
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September 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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It's just a “swarm of fish" following a duck.
July 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Increased access to community-based doulas and midwives is one of several effective strategies identified by medical groups and health advocates in recent years to potentially stem a persistently high and rising national Black maternal mortality rate buff.ly/g3BkH8h
Doulas, midwives and lawmakers challenge erasure of Black women in maternal health care • Ohio Capital Journal
Increased access to community-based doulas and midwives is one of several potentially effective strategies identified by medical groups and health advocates in recent years to potentially stem a…
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April 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Over the next decade, advances in artificial intelligence will mean that humans will no longer be needed “for most things” in the world, says Bill Gates.
Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers—humans won't be needed 'for most things'
A new era of "free intelligence" powered by AI will change the way humans work, says billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
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April 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Maps and satellite imagery reveal the exponential growth of Musk's empire.
Satellite images reveal scale of Elon's empire
Maps and satellite imagery reveal the exponential growth of Musk's empire.
www.businessinsider.com
April 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Utah Sen. John Curtis is spearheading efforts to provide financial assistance to countries being squeezed economically by the Chinese government over their ties to Taiwan, according to new legislation introduced this week.

www.ksl.com/article/5128...
Sen. John Curtis leads effort to financially assist Taiwan allies amid Chinese pressure
Utah Sen. John Curtis is spearheading efforts to provide financial assistance to countries being squeezed economically by the Chinese government over their ties to Taiwan, according to new legislation...
www.ksl.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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In books: While “restoring the rule of law” to the U.S.-Mexico border has been a resonant and repeated talking point for successive administrations, it is the border walls that they have built, not the border itself, that are lawless.
The Lawless Border Wall
The application of waivers and the interpretation of their scope has repeatedly expanded, such that border walls are now privileged over all potential legal constraints short of the U.S. Constitution.
www.texasobserver.org
April 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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The U.S. Senate confirmed Harmeet Dhillon, a veteran lawyer with a history of attacking voting rights, to lead the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.
Fox in the Henhouse: Senate Confirms Anti-Voting Lawyer Harmeet Dhillon to Top Voting Rights Post
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
April 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Almost 2,000 container ships carrying illegally harvested timber from the Brazilian Amazonian state that will host this year's UN climate summit has reached Europe and the US in recent years, showed an investigative report by an environmental NGO reut.rs/4i9EnbO
Illegal luxury timber from Brazil's COP state makes its way to US and Europe, investigation finds
Almost 2,000 container ships carrying illegally harvested timber from the Brazilian Amazonian state that will host this year's U.N. climate summit has reached Europe and the U.S. in recent years, showed an investigative report by an environmental NGO.
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April 3, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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'Slavery and The Dutch State: Dutch Colonial Slavery and Its Afterlives', the English translation of "Staat en slavernij: het Nederlandse koloniale slavernijverleden en zijn doorwerkingen' is now available. #openaccess www.jstor.org/stable/jj.27...
Slavery and The Dutch State: Dutch Colonial Slavery and Its Afterlives on JSTOR
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
www.jstor.org
April 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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ICYMI. In response to the EO that conflates Confederate monuments with “history,” @uncpress.bsky.social is offering my book on the history of these statues for FREE until April 11th. Here’s the link!

www.book2look.com/book/SO9q2ZB...
No Common Ground (full reading copy) : The University of North Carolina Press
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March 31, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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🗃️ Free virtual conference alert, #skystorians! The annual Lincoln assassination conference is April 5 from 2-4 EST. Frank Gorman will talk on his book, Confronting Bad History: How a Lost Cause and Fraudulent Book Caused the John Wilkes Booth Exhumation Trial. lincolnconspirators.com/2025/03/30/s...
March 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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🏳️‍⚧️ "For most Trans+ people, changing what we wear and how we style ourselves is one of the first steps we take into expressing our gender identity after coming out."

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/how-top-surgery-gave-me-the-confidence-to-reclaim-clothes/
How top surgery gave me the confidence to reclaim clothes
Reclaiming my gender expression and not caring what people think about the way I dress has been one of the many joyous effects of my top surgery
www.wearequeeraf.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Approximately 31 families’ children no longer have a spot in a care facility on the Davis County base. The shuttering of one of two child development centers was triggered in part by a civilian hiring freeze for the Defense Department.
After DOGE-ordered hiring freeze, Utah’s largest military installation is losing child care
Dozens of Utah families are searching for new child care options after a facility on Hill Air Force Base closed last week.
www.sltrib.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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#OpEd Because the U.S. was the bedrock of the system that positioned Ukraine as a bastion of Western civilization, it was easy for them to take it away, argue @storyevtime.bsky.social and Olgierd Schmidt.
"Big Men" See Everyone Else As "Small." That's How Washington Sees Europe and Ukraine - The Moscow Times
Opinion | For decades, European security policy rested on the idea of omnipresent U.S. power.
www.themoscowtimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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“Breaking The News,” an award-winning documentary about The 19th’s early triumphs and challenges, is available to stream for free on the PBS App and PBS website through March 30.

Here’s how you can watch ⬇️
Independent Lens | Breaking The News | Season 25 | Episode 11
Women and LGBTQ+ journalists launch startup The 19th* to buck a broken news media system.
www.pbs.org
March 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Raphael Glucksmann, a member of France's Place Publique political party, has called for the return of the Statue of Liberty to France, arguing that America no longer embodies the values the statue represents.
French politician demands Statue of Liberty back as US no longer deserves it
www.irishstar.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM