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Grateful for every chance to let history speak a little louder.
Catch my 2025 History Teacher of the Year interview on C-SPAN 2 | American History TV
We talk teaching, truth-telling, and staying committed to students and stories in a moment that asks a lot of educators.
#NHTOY #NCHTOY
Catch my 2025 History Teacher of the Year interview on C-SPAN 2 | American History TV
We talk teaching, truth-telling, and staying committed to students and stories in a moment that asks a lot of educators.
#NHTOY #NCHTOY
December 27, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) is FINALLY sworn in and is now officially a member of Congress.
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) is FINALLY sworn in and is now officially a member of Congress.
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DC's hottest new club is Acropolis. This place has everything—
🎇 a sexual matador
🎇 billionaire tech bros muttering about the antichrist
🎇 burst ketchup packets dripping down the walls
🎇 a dungeon staffed by the House GOP
🎇 Rudy Giuliani
🎇 a sexual matador
🎇 billionaire tech bros muttering about the antichrist
🎇 burst ketchup packets dripping down the walls
🎇 a dungeon staffed by the House GOP
🎇 Rudy Giuliani
CBS got their hands on a rendering of Trump's big White House ballroom. We'll let you pass judgement in the replies here.
September 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
DC's hottest new club is Acropolis. This place has everything—
🎇 a sexual matador
🎇 billionaire tech bros muttering about the antichrist
🎇 burst ketchup packets dripping down the walls
🎇 a dungeon staffed by the House GOP
🎇 Rudy Giuliani
🎇 a sexual matador
🎇 billionaire tech bros muttering about the antichrist
🎇 burst ketchup packets dripping down the walls
🎇 a dungeon staffed by the House GOP
🎇 Rudy Giuliani
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We badly need a coherent policy for otherwise-law-abiding illegals who've been in the U.S. for years.
Needed U.S. Immigration Changes
We badly need a coherent policy for otherwise-law-abiding illegals who've been in the U.S. for years.
www.forbes.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
We badly need a coherent policy for otherwise-law-abiding illegals who've been in the U.S. for years.
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Yes, release the Epstein files!!!
September 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Yes, release the Epstein files!!!
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Hiding the truth.
September 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Hiding the truth.
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It is impossible to overstate the inanity of the vapid and stupid stunt of renaming the Defense Department, and Congress should step in and put a stop to it immediately.
Gift link:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Gift link:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Pete Hegseth’s Department of Cringe
Renaming the Defense Department is a pathetic stunt.
www.theatlantic.com
September 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It is impossible to overstate the inanity of the vapid and stupid stunt of renaming the Defense Department, and Congress should step in and put a stop to it immediately.
Gift link:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Gift link:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
“It has a good beat, but it’s kinda hard to dance to” (with apologies to American Bandstand and Dick Clark)— open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
Our new ad has MAGA big mad.
Tireless resistance to autocracy.
open.substack.com
August 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
“It has a good beat, but it’s kinda hard to dance to” (with apologies to American Bandstand and Dick Clark)— open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
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🚨NEW: This is what all networks should do!
MSNBC fact checks Trump live during his press conference.
The REAL crime stats are put on screen as he reads out his made up figures.
MSNBC fact checks Trump live during his press conference.
The REAL crime stats are put on screen as he reads out his made up figures.
August 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🚨NEW: This is what all networks should do!
MSNBC fact checks Trump live during his press conference.
The REAL crime stats are put on screen as he reads out his made up figures.
MSNBC fact checks Trump live during his press conference.
The REAL crime stats are put on screen as he reads out his made up figures.
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Good grief.
July 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Good grief.
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The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.
July 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.
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Amid all of this hilarity, there’s rarely a mention of the detainees as human beings who have been plucked from their lives, sometimes without cause. | Opinion
The joke’s on us as DeSantis, Trump make light of deporting people | Opinion
Amid all of this hilarity, there’s rarely a mention of the detainees as human beings who have been plucked from their lives, sometimes without cause. | Opinion
bit.ly
July 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Amid all of this hilarity, there’s rarely a mention of the detainees as human beings who have been plucked from their lives, sometimes without cause. | Opinion
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From coast to coast, city streets to small town squares, you showed up. And it mattered.
Honored to announce: 12.1 million in attendance.
Honored to announce: 12.1 million in attendance.
June 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
From coast to coast, city streets to small town squares, you showed up. And it mattered.
Honored to announce: 12.1 million in attendance.
Honored to announce: 12.1 million in attendance.
substack.com/@ellenmitche... P T Barnum was right!
Ellen Mitchell on Substack
substack.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
substack.com/@ellenmitche... P T Barnum was right!
substack.com/@lynnsauvage... Chunky Monkey is yummy…
Lynn on Substack
substack.com
May 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
substack.com/@lynnsauvage... Chunky Monkey is yummy…
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Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"
May 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"
Trump’s Orwellian Erasure of Women - TIME
Poof! Where are all the accomplished women being disappeared to?
Poof! Where are all the accomplished women being disappeared to?
May 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Trump’s Orwellian Erasure of Women - TIME
Poof! Where are all the accomplished women being disappeared to?
Poof! Where are all the accomplished women being disappeared to?
open.substack.com/pub/statusku... a timely, important read for lawyers and citizens alike
An Opinion for the Ages
Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the Fourth Circuit just weighed in on Trump. Welcome to the Resistance, your Honor.
open.substack.com
May 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
open.substack.com/pub/statusku... a timely, important read for lawyers and citizens alike
How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?
www.nytimes.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
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Paul Krugman out here spitting one of the most facty of facts of Trump II:
May 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Paul Krugman out here spitting one of the most facty of facts of Trump II:
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The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate.
It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders.
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, with @tennesseelookout.com
It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders.
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, with @tennesseelookout.com
This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.
The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending…
www.propublica.org
May 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate.
It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders.
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, with @tennesseelookout.com
It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders.
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, with @tennesseelookout.com
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I know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.
May 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I know your goal is to try to make life as hard as possible for immigrants.
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