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🧵NEW: In 2023, I wrote about Tamara Lanier’s quest to get daguerreotypes taken of nude enslaved people at the behest of a @harvard.edu scientist - and still housed at its Peabody Museum - moved.

She wanted them sent to @iaamuseum.bsky.social

It would mark a "homecoming," she told me then.
A Racist Harvard Scientist Commissioned Photos of Enslaved People. One Possible Descendant Wants to Reclaim Their Story.
The images are among the oldest known photographs of enslaved people in America. Tamara Lanier’s fight to gain control of them shows there is no clear system in place to repatriate remains of captive ...
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May 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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About half of all births are covered by Medicaid.

Over a third of all children are covered by Medicaid.

More than half of all nursing home residents are covered by Medicaid.

Republicans in Congress are making a big mistake targeting these families’ health care to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
March 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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March 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Congress is considering a bill that would hold critical federal funds hostage unless states comply with Trump's agenda.

Tell your representatives to vote NO on this bill by texting SANCTUARY to 82623.
February 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM