TheTerminalAdjunct
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Dad. Historian of recent American [Media] History. Not a lover of current events these days.
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Happy Mother's Day, Rochester!
Today we celebrate the love, strength, and dedication of mothers and mother figures across our city. Thank you for the care you give, the values you teach and the communities you help build.
Wishing you a day filled with joy, appreciation, and well-deserved rest.
Today we celebrate the love, strength, and dedication of mothers and mother figures across our city. Thank you for the care you give, the values you teach and the communities you help build.
Wishing you a day filled with joy, appreciation, and well-deserved rest.
May 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Happy Mother's Day, Rochester!
Today we celebrate the love, strength, and dedication of mothers and mother figures across our city. Thank you for the care you give, the values you teach and the communities you help build.
Wishing you a day filled with joy, appreciation, and well-deserved rest.
Today we celebrate the love, strength, and dedication of mothers and mother figures across our city. Thank you for the care you give, the values you teach and the communities you help build.
Wishing you a day filled with joy, appreciation, and well-deserved rest.
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#tdih 1905 Robert Abbott founded "Chicago Defender."
Goal: “American Race Prejudice Must Be Destroyed”
Paper had a nat'l audience & major influence on Great Migration, culture, & struggle for civil & human rights.
Read ⬇️& see @blackpastonline.bsky.social 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ch...
Goal: “American Race Prejudice Must Be Destroyed”
Paper had a nat'l audience & major influence on Great Migration, culture, & struggle for civil & human rights.
Read ⬇️& see @blackpastonline.bsky.social 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ch...
May 5, 1905: Chicago Defender Founded
Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded the highly influential newspaper, the Chicago Defender, with the tagline “American Race Prejudice Must Be Destroyed.”
www.zinnedproject.org
May 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
#tdih 1905 Robert Abbott founded "Chicago Defender."
Goal: “American Race Prejudice Must Be Destroyed”
Paper had a nat'l audience & major influence on Great Migration, culture, & struggle for civil & human rights.
Read ⬇️& see @blackpastonline.bsky.social 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ch...
Goal: “American Race Prejudice Must Be Destroyed”
Paper had a nat'l audience & major influence on Great Migration, culture, & struggle for civil & human rights.
Read ⬇️& see @blackpastonline.bsky.social 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ch...
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Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, has died at 104.
Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104
Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her family.
www.nytimes.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, has died at 104.
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ICE is now asserting it's a federal crime for bystanders to request that masked people in plain clothes show identification as they're handcuffing folks and stuffing them into unmarked vans.
ICE says they will bring charges against the two Immigration Rapid Response Hotline volunteers who demanded that agents show their badges before seizing two men from the Charlottesville courthouse. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
ICE promises bystanders who challenged Charlottesville raid will be prosecuted
After ICE raided a downtown Charlottesville courthouse and arrested two men, the federal agency is promising to prosecute the bystanders who challenged their authority.
dailyprogress.com
April 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
ICE is now asserting it's a federal crime for bystanders to request that masked people in plain clothes show identification as they're handcuffing folks and stuffing them into unmarked vans.
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Hadn’t really thought before about you HAVE TO end of birthright citizenship if you want to argue in favor of fetal personhood, otherwise any US visitor who happens to be pregnant is carrying a little tiny citizen who deserves all the rights and privileges thereof (not that they will get them)
April 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Hadn’t really thought before about you HAVE TO end of birthright citizenship if you want to argue in favor of fetal personhood, otherwise any US visitor who happens to be pregnant is carrying a little tiny citizen who deserves all the rights and privileges thereof (not that they will get them)
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Indiana state legislature just staged a hostile takeover of IU, functionally eliminating tenure, promising to close smaller (hum) majors, taking over the IU board, and cutting the IU budget. This is so bleak
April 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Indiana state legislature just staged a hostile takeover of IU, functionally eliminating tenure, promising to close smaller (hum) majors, taking over the IU board, and cutting the IU budget. This is so bleak
Commitment to the rule of law doesn't seem to be as popular as you would think anymore...
NEW: Statement from attorney for Judge Dugan.
"Hannah C. Dugan has committed herself to the rule of law and the principles of due process for her entire career as a lawyer and a judge. Judge Dugan will defend herself vigorously, and looks forward to being exonerated."
"Hannah C. Dugan has committed herself to the rule of law and the principles of due process for her entire career as a lawyer and a judge. Judge Dugan will defend herself vigorously, and looks forward to being exonerated."
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan charged with 2 felonies in ICE case
Brady McCarron, spokesman for U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, D.C., confirmed Dugan was arrested at about 8 a.m. at the Milwaukee County Courthouse and is in federal custody.
www.jsonline.com
April 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Commitment to the rule of law doesn't seem to be as popular as you would think anymore...
And it means your freedom will always be at risk too.
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
And it means your freedom will always be at risk too.
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Say. This.
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Say. This.
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Want to know why due process is such a big deal?
Tonight, Heather and I discussed its history & significance.
Give a listen.
m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Tonight, Heather and I discussed its history & significance.
Give a listen.
m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
What the Heck Just Happened, With Joanne and Heather - YouTube
m.youtube.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Want to know why due process is such a big deal?
Tonight, Heather and I discussed its history & significance.
Give a listen.
m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Tonight, Heather and I discussed its history & significance.
Give a listen.
m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Please comment your art! Feel free to use the hashtag #CreateToLiberate wherever you post your protest art.
April 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Please comment your art! Feel free to use the hashtag #CreateToLiberate wherever you post your protest art.
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Jonathan Swan, of the NYT, asks Ms Leavitt (all paraphrased) "The President said that it was a terrible abuse of power for the prior Admin to prosecute him. How is it not then an abuse of power when he directed his own DOJ to investigate two people he doesn't like?"
Leavitt: "That's his policy."
Leavitt: "That's his policy."
April 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Jonathan Swan, of the NYT, asks Ms Leavitt (all paraphrased) "The President said that it was a terrible abuse of power for the prior Admin to prosecute him. How is it not then an abuse of power when he directed his own DOJ to investigate two people he doesn't like?"
Leavitt: "That's his policy."
Leavitt: "That's his policy."
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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
April 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
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The US Department of Education froze $2.3 billion in federal funding for Harvard University, just hours after the school rejected President Donald Trump's demands that it make deep policy changes on diversity reut.rs/4ie41w1
Harvard rejects Trump demands, gets hit by $2.3 billion funding freeze
Harvard on Monday rejected numerous demands from the Trump administration that it said would cede control of the school to a conservative government that portrays universities as dangerously leftist.
reut.rs
April 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The US Department of Education froze $2.3 billion in federal funding for Harvard University, just hours after the school rejected President Donald Trump's demands that it make deep policy changes on diversity reut.rs/4ie41w1
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"What we are seeing is a purge—of the administrative state, of the universities, of expertise—that is consistent with events like the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and ’70s, or the dismantling of the tsarist civil service after the Bolshevik Revolution"
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Trump and RFK Jr. Are Destroying a Generation of Knowledge
The gutting of the administrative state, of the universities, and of expertise is like something out of the Cultural Revolution.
www.thenation.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"What we are seeing is a purge—of the administrative state, of the universities, of expertise—that is consistent with events like the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and ’70s, or the dismantling of the tsarist civil service after the Bolshevik Revolution"
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens.
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
April 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens.
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
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The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.
www.ft.com/content/8459...
www.ft.com/content/8459...
April 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.
www.ft.com/content/8459...
www.ft.com/content/8459...
Are we really entering an era of relative sovereignty, where only some countries have it, and only when it benefits the goals of the administration?
April 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Are we really entering an era of relative sovereignty, where only some countries have it, and only when it benefits the goals of the administration?
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On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter, launching the four-year Civil War—a national conflict that would ultimately force the abolition of slavery in the United States. 130 days to Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountdowntoSRD
April 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter, launching the four-year Civil War—a national conflict that would ultimately force the abolition of slavery in the United States. 130 days to Slavery Remembrance Day. #CountdowntoSRD
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If this administration can pluck random people off the street and deport them without due process — none of us are safe.
April 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
If this administration can pluck random people off the street and deport them without due process — none of us are safe.
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Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.
April 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.