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Aaron Coleman is dropping out of the race, but not before accusing his critics of betraying feminism.https://twitter.com/Aaron4KS37/status/1297413515863625728 (Donatism was an early Christian heresy that deemed those who had renounced their
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John Lewis was the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington—where MLK gave the "I have a dream" speech—and the speech Lewis wrote that day was so incendiary that
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This is a really good, really concise summary of how the lines are drawn regarding that open letter. (Quick thread.)https://twitter.com/mattbc/status/1280544086689267712 Many of the signatories of the letter would no doubt
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That the guy who set up the Harper's letter approvingly linked to a Freddie deBoer blogpost arguing that the only reason to disagree with the letter is because you hate
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"Whatever the arguments around each particular incident" carries a lot of freight here. If the signatories don't agree about the specific cases under consideration, how can they make a shared
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One more thing about the Texas mail-in voting case I mentioned in this thread.https://twitter.com/studentactivism/status/1276662879727554565 In the first sentence of her note, Sotomayor says that the Texas mail-in ballot case "raises
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Wow. The Teddy Roosevelt statue outside the main entrance to the American Museum of Natural History is coming down—at the AMNH's request.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/arts/design/roosevelt-statue-to-be-removed-from-museum-of-natu
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There's a zillion people on Twitter, including a bunch of high-profile conservative blue-checks, who think this thread is practical advice for toppling the Washington Monument.https://twitter.com/indyfromspace/status/1267271817439346689
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Police attacking protesters and press without cause tonight in cities around the country. Over and over.https://twitter.com/AliVelshi/status/1266911534963478532 Reporter attacked by cops, NYC.https://twitter.com/DGisSERIOUS/status/126692244
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Okay, I guess today is the day I talk in a bit more detail about grading and professors' expectations of students as this semester starts to enter its home stretch.
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The post office is my go-to example in class of stuff that the government does because (1) we all know and understand that it should exist and (2) capitalism will
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"Many people ask, 'When will this end?' There is only one answer to that. It will end just as soon as we make it end, by our combined efforts, our
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