Christine Sepcie

Historian here it’s Hannah Arendt’s death anniversary and she was of course prescient.

We beat the NRA when President Biden signed the most significant gun safety law in nearly 30 years. It’s time to beat the NRA again. President Biden is demanding Congress ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and pass universal background checks.

Moms For Liberty's rhetoric - anti-teachers union, misleading stats about proficiency, etc. - is exactly what "liberal" education "reformers" have pushed for decades. MFL got their talking points from Students First, 50CAN, DFER, TFA, etc. Tell me I'm wrong, I dare you...

Glamour, Travel, Sexism. nytimes.com/2024/02/19/tra…

Seinfeld's New York is the best New York...

This. nytimes.com/2024/02/01/opi…

At 2 AM on July 11, 1958, newly married couple Richard and Mildred Loving were abruptly awakened in their bedroom by a Virginia sheriff. The sheriff questioned Richard, a white man, asking, "What are you doing in bed with this woman?" Mildred, a woman of both Black and Indigenous American heritage, responded, "I'm his wife." The sheriff retorted, "Not here, you're not." During that era, Virginia still had laws against interracial marriage, and the Lovings were taken into custody for their unlawful cohabitation. For nearly nine years, the couple was forced to live away from their hometown, but they eventually boldly decided to challenge the state's discriminatory laws in the Supreme Court. In 1967, the groundbreaking Loving v. Virginia ruling effectively decriminalized interracial marriage throughout the entire United States.

Tommy DeVito, Aaron Rodgers turning NJ neighborhood into quarterback haven nypost.com/2023/12/16/spo…

Yes! nytimes.com/2023/11/29/opi…

European coastal lowlands most vulnerable to sea level rise. In red areas that would be affected with a 5m sea level rise.

Today the world marks 105 years since the end of WWI. Map shows the % of populations killed during the conflict.

Tracy Chapman just made country music history: She’s the first Black songwriter to win the CMA Award for Song of the Year More: trib.al/RFxLPvP trib.al/RFxLPvP

Christie's first act as NJ guv was to cut teacher pensions after he explicitly said he wouldn't. He then cut taxes on the very wealthy while demanding teachers take a pay cut. How much do you think he really cares about helping children?

One prep a day is not enough. 🫳🏻 🎤

NY/NJ history (and possibly English) teachers, don’t forget to register for the best content-focused PD of the year! Less than a month away. #sschat

via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2023/10/16/sty…

Parisian history through a single building. Source: buff.ly/45yPgNY

Chart shows life expectancy and health expenditure across different nations. Took me a while to find the US to be honest... Source: buff.ly/3QjFCdu

Reminder: The El Paso hate crime mass shooting that killed 23 and injured 22 at a Walmart was perpetrated by a white man who drove 10 hours to kill Mexicans and Mexican nationals because of a so-called “Hispanic invasion of Texas” he posted about in a racist screed.