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Melissa Johnson
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 3h
Hey folks:

On my podcast "History Matters" on Friday, I discussed "The Piggy Problem" -- and what that comment shows about the vital role of the press in serving US -- American citizens.

We forget that fact at our own peril.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMUF...
The Piggy Problem
YouTube video by National Council for History Education
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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 3h
🤯🤯🤯🤯

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 8h
New classroom activity: Pope Rave youtu.be/YINw_Zce1iI?...
Critical Thinking with AI Mode #45: Pope Rave
YouTube video by Mike Caulfield
youtu.be

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 9h
Hey folks:

For those who missed it, here's a link to this morning's "What the Heck Just Happened? With Heather and Joanne"

AND NO I DIDN'T GO FOR A RUN

www.youtube.com/watch?v=etZz...
What the Heck Just Happened? With Heather and Joanne
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
www.youtube.com

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 19h
November 21, 2025
November 21, 2025
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people today.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Melissa Johnson @moolissap.bsky.social · 23h
Excited to test this out in the classroom!

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 23h
Lest we forget: Here Are All Of Marjorie Taylor Greene's January 6 Text Messages With Mark Meadows
hunterwalker.substack.com/p/here-are-a...
Here Are All Of Marjorie Taylor Greene's January 6 Text Messages With Mark Meadows
"They just want to welcome Biden in peacefully. ... I will not be quiet. I will not go along to get along. And I’m coming out swinging against these evil Democrats!"
hunterwalker.substack.com

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 1d
I did it, I wrote it. The thing I think (?) some educators have been waiting for for quite a while. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/sift-for-a...
SIFT for AI: Introduction and Pedagogy
Once I thought more deeply about what people had been asking for it made a lot of sense
mikecaulfield.substack.com

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 1d
New: Alt5 Sigma, one of Trump's key business partners, told the SEC that it suspended its CEO in mid-October.

An internal email, though, says he was placed on “temporary leave” more than a month earlier.

me, for @forbes.com

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Trump Crypto Partner Alt5 Sigma May Have Violated SEC Rules With Filing On CEO
One of Trump's key business partners told the SEC it suspended its CEO in mid-October. Internal records suggest he was on “temporary leave” more than a month earlier.
www.forbes.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d
Reporting from @kylegriffin1.bsky.social: Sen. Elissa Slotkin tells NBC News that Capitol Police are now with her 24/7.

"We've had hundreds and hundreds, if not closer to 1000 threats come in to our phones, our emails" since Trump’s threat. joycevance.substack.com/p/sorry-geor...
Sorry, George Washington Would Not Have Hanged Them.
This week, Donald Trump continues to use his claimed power to kill people who have received no due process, in international waters, based on his administration’s assertion that they are narcoterroris...
joycevance.substack.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d
Page One:

@wsj.com

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d
November 20, 2025
November 20, 2025
Trump spent this morning calling a group of military veterans in Congress traitors and saying they “should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL.” Their crime, in Trump’s eyes, was their release Tuesday of a v...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2d
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2d
November 19, 2025
November 19, 2025
Yesterday the House of Representatives passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2d
Was the first gay kiss in film history in the 1927 film Wings? It depends on what you mean by that question. We use AI Mode explore both the evidence and definitional concerns, and come to better understandings of the issues involved with such assertions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vxM...
Critical Thinking with AI Mode #41: First gay kiss in film history?
YouTube video by Mike Caulfield
www.youtube.com

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d
tl;dr:

The United States
House of Representatives has unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution effectively declaring Senator Lindsey Graham to be a ridiculous twit

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d
Breaking: The House voted unanimously, 426-0, to strip a provision in the funding bill that allowed senators to sue the government for $500K if their phone data was searched without their knowledge.

The provision was designed for GOP senators to sue over the Jack Smith investigation.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 3d
This Texas woman developed preeclampsia, leading to still-birth. She DIED, leaving her young son behind.

This happens while an all-male panel in South Carolina is deciding whether women should be charged w/ murder for their pregnancies.

Abortion is healthcare.

How many more women have to die?
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“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3d
In a remarkable and deeply unconventional dissent, U.S. Circuit Judge Jerry E. Smith unleashed a blistering and bizarre attack on his fellow judges after a federal court struck down Texas’ unconstitutional racial gerrymander. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
In Unhinged Dissent, Texas Judge Attacks Colleagues — and George Soros
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 3d
November 18, 2025
November 18, 2025
For three hot days, from July 1 to July 3, 1863, more than 150,000 soldiers from the armies of the United States of America and the Confederate States of America slashed at each other in the hills and...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 4d
November 17, 2025
November 17, 2025 (Monday)
President Donald J.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 5d
November 16, 2025
November 16, 2025
On Thursday, November 13, Michael Schmidt reported in the New York Times the story of the 17-year-old girl the House Ethics Committee found former representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) likely paid to have ...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Melissa Johnson @moolissap.bsky.social · 7d
“When we vote, we belong to democracy, and democracy to us.”

Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy by Joyce Vance

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#JoyceVance #CivilDiscourse @joycewhitevance.bsky.social
American flag painted on bricks with book quote overlaid

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 7d
New: A site licensing Trump's name is selling merch with the presidential seal — including a $20 beer-pong set with “Presidential themed balls.”

Federal law says you can’t manufacture or sell likenesses of the seal without authorization.

me, for @forbes.com

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Trump-Licensed Presidential Seal Beer Pong Set Could Violate Federal Law
A site affiliated with Lee Greenwood sells merchandise with the seal—such as a $20 beer pong set with “Presidential themed balls”—and pays licensing fees to a Trump LLC.
www.forbes.com

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 7d
November 14, 2025
November 14, 2025
In a transparent attempt to distract from the many times his own name appears in the documents from the Epstein estate members of the House Oversight Committee released Wednesday, President Donald J.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 8d
November 13, 2025
November 13, 2025
We are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Melissa Johnson @moolissap.bsky.social · 9d
The Pushy Pixies Are Going Down (Hopefully) by Michele Notaro

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#MicheleNotaro #ThePushyPixiesAreGoingDownHopefully #CarryAFaerie #ParanormalRomance #MMRomance #FoundFamily

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“He kissed me back like I was the light he needed to shine, the air he needed to breathe, like he wanted to ingrain himself into my memory, like he wanted to ruin me for all other men—he had.”

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 9d
November 12, 2025
November 12, 2025
It turns out Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and House Democrats were right to call it the “Epstein Shutdown” for the last several weeks on social media and in interviews.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 10d
November 11, 2025
November 11, 2025
In 1918, at the end of four years of World War I’s devastation, leaders negotiated for the guns in Europe to fall silent once and for all on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10d
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

(Published October)
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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