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🔥Volcanic lightning - an electrical discharge caused by colliding particles of ash and ice rather than from a thunderstorm.
March 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"The question the embattled university president asked [me], in effect, was how a university fights an authoritarian regime."

"I told him to frame his fight to gain as many allies as he can."

Note FIGHT. Universities must act. Keeping their heads down won't work. 1/4

www.chronicle.com/ar...
March 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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These powerful and poignant stories will give young readers a new appreciation of the rights afforded to them within a democracy -- and a deeper understanding of why it is so essential to protect democracy by becoming an informed and engaged citizen.

www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=32426
The Fragility of Freedom: Mighty Girl Books About Life Under Authoritarianism
These powerful stories for tweens and teens explore the grim realities of life under dictatorships, and why protecting our democracy by becoming an informed and engaged citizen is more important than ...
www.amightygirl.com
February 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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A Mighty Girl Pick of the Day: "All The Frequent Troubles of Our Days" tells the powerful true story of a young American who witnessed the swift rise of the Nazi party firsthand in the 1930s and became a major resistance leader in Berlin. Age: Adults

www.amightygirl.com/frequent-tro...
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
At 26, Mildred Harnack went to Germany to enroll in a PhD program — and got a front seat to the rise of the Nazi party. By 1932, she started holding secret meetings for anti-Hitler activists in her ap...
www.amightygirl.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM