Amy Laura Hall
@ProfligateGrace
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Now, don’t have me break this thing down for nothing.
Durham, NC
Joined August 2011
These words by Michael Schwalbe counter any notion that academic freedom is a niche or quaint concern.
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Should working people exist?
Phillip: Do you think trillionaires should exist? Mamdani: I think the better question is whether working people should exist… What we're seeing right now is amidst this incredible wealth, we have people who are keeping the city running that have to now live outside of the
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it’s funny to see Klein and Yglesias try to position themselves as the intellectual leaders of a shutdown fight that is happening because of pressure from the base that they clearly resent. where were they in the spring when the fight actually mattered and party leaders caved?
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Faith isn’t something the government can force on kids in a classroom. This ruling is temporary as the legal battle continues, but it is a victory for the religious freedom of students in the school districts covered by it, which include Houston and Austin.
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Today, a federal judge blocked a Texas mandate to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms from taking effect in a few school districts. Families from a variety of religious traditions challenged the law, saying it violated their First Amendment rights. The judge agreed.
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Whenever there’s a conversation about players wielding too much power, what people are talking about are a very small percentage of superstars. The rest really don’t get to decide much. They’re at the mercy of the club whose strategies change year by year, manager by manager.
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According to our Garden by the Moon Calendar, the following dates in September are good days to transplant. What are you growing? See more dates here: https://t.co/BqyAp8WU60
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September’s Full Corn Moon will reach peak illumination in Pisces (15 degrees) on Sunday, September 7, 2025 at 2:09 p.m. EST (11:09 a.m. PST). Many people use the Full Moon to focus on yourself. Here's what we suggest: https://t.co/EVgAbzkqVI
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More news breaking at Bounces about Donald Trump's visit to the US Open men's final. The US Open sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance. Read more here: https://t.co/NbiSGuH8aE
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The message is clear: solidarity with Palestine will be punished. When you threaten imperialism and capitalism's interests, your rights become disposable. This is how the system maintains itself.
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Every time there is a new post by the Sameer Project, it is a little bit of light in the darkness. Support these people in their efforts to respond to the genocide in Gaza.
We built a water pipeline!! Some people are not able to go to the water, so we made the water come to them! https://t.co/naUewmmH9f. People have to walk miles each way to fetch jerrycans of water and carry them back the same distance in the heat. The elderly, the injured, women
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Saturday's big #freedc street protest in Washington is another indication that Trump's mission to militarize American cities is deeply unpopular.
motherjones.com
Thousands demand the "immediate withdrawal" of federal troops from the District of Columbia.
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Department of Ed’s partisanship is so petty that it is not even partisan. Hard to imagine there is any constituency for cancelling awards for our nation’s most outstanding schools. Maybe they just can’t stand to admit there are good public schools.
chalkbeat.org
Many schools took enormous pride in receiving federal Blue Ribbon recognition, which began under President Ronald Reagan. A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Education said ending the program...
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A fine way to begin one’s weekend.
Somehow I missed this important correction in the Times two weeks ago
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The Department of War was created in 1789 and presided over the removal, extermination, pacification, and genocide of the continent’s first peoples. It changed name to Defense in ‘47, two years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Bari Weiss is getting $150M from a multi-billionaire military contractor for her substack, got millions to start the bullshit school from Silicon Valley billionaires and spends most of her time inciting genocide against Palestinian kids living in tents. What a rebellion!
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There’s been no release date or updates on I Love Boosters. What’s up with that? @BootsRiley @neonrated
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What a dynamic duo.
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Premeditated murder. The logic of Gaza imported into the Caribbean. Summary execution of 11 people.
The deadly U.S. boat attack in the Caribbean is “bringing the logic of Gaza into the Caribbean in terms of unaccountability, impunity and an expansive notion of national defense to justify what is, in effect, just extrajudicial killing,” says historian @GregGrandin.
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