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MelissaElliott retweetou
NEW: A Texas Supreme Court justice didn't recuse from a sex abuse lawsuit against Southern Baptist leader Paul Pressler and Jared Woodfill despite working at their firm for years – and while the plaintiff, a former employee, was allegedly abused.
texastribune.org/2024/02/13/tex…
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I started a book YouTube channel called Time Travel Reads. I'm reading American history from the colonial period to the present. I'm in the colonial period. I'd love to incorporate scholars' monographs.
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@YouTube Esoterica is having their videos demonetized because a fraudulent company is copyright claiming a public domain song they use in their intro. Please fix this.
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@AdamHDomby Hey. I'm finally reading your book. It's great. I've never read much about the civil war. What should I start with?
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Drinking my Friday martini, thinking of a peep, and toasting the Newbie Nation. You’re the best.
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I woke up at 4:30 am. I was dreaming about yelling at Thomas Jefferson that slavery was systemized raping and pillaging.
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Border walls don’t just block wildlife migrations — they block the flow of water, the dispersal of seeds & other natural processes.
The border is 2,000 miles long, most of it rugged, wild & beautiful. This is no place place for destructive, useless, wildlife-killing barriers.
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1. 61 activists appeared in court yesterday on RICO charges related to their protest of Atlanta’s "Cop City"
It's an extraordinary indictment
Only a handful are accused of violence
Others face 20 yrs in prison for non-violent protest & expression
Here's how it works
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@jbf1755 If you were to time travel to Hamilton and show him music from the future, what would you show him? I figure patriotic and holiday (especially wartime) music, a little rock. What else?
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@HistoryNewbie Rest in peace little bird. Good night Newbie. Goodnight Joanne. Goodnight history friends.
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…and that’s the Newbie News…
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@jbf1755 I'm so sorry about Newbie Joanne. I didn't hear until this morning.
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It’s my 50th Birthday!
I am now an old, Southern, Black woman.
Got me a man, some land, some kids, an AARP discount, a front porch & plenty of hard earned wisdom.
All f**ks for my lifetime have been given & I’m expanding into the fullness of my y’all-bet-not-try-me self.
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@jbf1755 Last night Heather Said that scholars are leaving Twitter en masse as soon as another platform gets direct messages. Apparently another one is about to get them. Do you know which it is?
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For crying out loud.
Yes.
People who were outraged by rioters storming the Capitol to overturn an election don't feel the same way about someone wearing a hoodie and shorts on the Senate floor.
Get a grip.
The Intellectualist@highbrow_nobrow
These are neither equivalent or comparable things.
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It is actually happening. A history book is being hyped on YouTube. Everyone get on the book channels talking about The Wager and recommend more history!
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@DanaherCorp Lower the price of your TB test cartridges to $5 so that the poorest countries can access them. Your machine is amazing but only if it can be used.
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Religion is now an official excuse for sexism, bigotry, and discrimination in higher ed. This is unconscionable. @usedgov Have you seen this @SIfill_ ?
Religious Exemption Accountability Project@REAP_LGBTQ
The U.S. Department of Education just granted Baylor University a Title IX exemption for sexual harassment. This is the first time that a university has requested a religious exemption to permit sexual harassment and the first time the DoED has granted such a request. (🧵)
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Just sent my new book "Illiberal America: A History" to press at Norton. Due out early 2024
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