The Heritage Foundation is run by Opus Dei Catholics Kevin Roberts and Roger Severino. More than 50% of the 100 orgs behind Project 2025 were funded by Opus Dei affiliated Leonard Leo. Miss the faith driven politics and you miss the story. jesspiper.substack.com/p/give-them-...

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And they'll take away women's sports...

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A sweet little girl with autism brought her stuffed puppy to the dog show. One of the judges noticed her, came over, and asked if she’d like to show her dog too. What followed was pure magic. Original post

You know what would actually make Americans actually lose their minds? This E-Mart idea from South Korea of "eat a banana a day pack" so you don't buy a bunch that goes bad if you don't eat it all in time.

LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍@lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 8h ago

Dying at this

Christina Bohannan lost by 800 votes last time. 800. Meanwhile her dad’s own insurance company canceled him the moment he got sick, and Washington shrugged. This time we close that gap, we flip IA-01, and we do it for every family insurance companies threw away. #BlueWaveIn90Days #USDemocracy

🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw

The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Give Them an Inch...

And they'll take away women's sports...

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Russia just used a cluster bomb in Kyiv Cluster bombs used against civilians is a war crime This has to end Putin has to be “put away” People can only take so much and there is absolutely no reason for this other than Russia are blood thirsty criminals

BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.

Hey, Congress? Think before you confirm.

I’m glad the President has his priorities straight.

We got some quotes from @wyden.senate.gov about his wild report yesterday about banks withholding suspicious activity reports about Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking empire because they wanted to keep the lucrative relationship. Crazy conduct and Wyden has some good solutions for it.

Sen. Wyden Report: Banks Systematically Ignored Jeffrey Epstein’s Crimes - The American Prospect

The report shows how employees at Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan helped to hide Epstein’s activities because he was a load-bearing part of their ‘wall of cash.’

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Epically, ecstatically, and sublimely Black: A reflection on Amy Sherald’s mid-career retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art baltimorebeat.com/epically-ecs...

Epically, ecstatically, and sublimely Black: A reflection on Amy Sherald’s mid-career retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art

Standing before Amy Sherald’s work, you must learn to stretch; many of her canvases require the reorientation of your perspective, inspire you to become more flexible about your vantage, crane your…

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My new book is officially here! UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY looks at what oligarchy actually is, and how we got here, and where we're going—and how wealth inequality in the US threatens both democracy and national security alike, and has led directly to the resurgence of empire. Pick up a copy now!

#GA Did you know that Jon Ossoff spent years exposing corruption as an investigative journalist? Now in the Senate, he refuses corporate PAC money & is leading the fight to ban stock trading by members of Congress. When you don't take checks from special interests, you're free to work for families.

Alright here's my syllabus for this year's American Legal History course. I might make a few tweaks but it's basically done. It also doubles as a great readings list if you're doing a PhD field in American Legal History

Noah Rosenblum@narosenblum.bsky.social · 3w ago

Share your syllabus??

Kash Patel invited Chinese officials to FBI facilities in the U.S. while still conceding that the nations remain “adversarial.”

Keystone Kash Slammed for Rolling Out Red Carpet to U.S. ‘Enemies’

Kash Patel has strengthened ties with China and Russia.

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Nearly 40 orgs joined us to demand Meta stop using people's faces, voices, & biometric info as free AI training data. Meta killed one creepy feature after backlash — but it’s not enough. It's time for Big Tech to realize people's privacy protections aren’t optional.

A 4th data center? WTF? This is why Elon targeted Memphis for xAI — he knew local officials would let him do whatever he wanted regardless of the community’s health/input. @mayorpaulyoung 🤔 (Even after canceling the promised water facility) More: www.instagram.com/p/DblVyoMgKO...

Michael Flynn got paid by the Russian government to do anti-American propaganda, got paid by the Turkish government to conspire to break US laws, and now got paid by the US government for helping cover up a hostile anti-American foreign intelligence operation, ensuring perpetrators got away with it.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 10h ago

🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵

Families are bracing for change as the Third Future charter network takes over more struggling Texas schools. The Waco school district is one of the latest to partner with the network as a last-ditch effort to stave off state intervention. bit.ly/4wHDfEk

Waco families brace as charter network takes over schools

The Waco school district is the latest to partner with Third Future charter network as a last-ditch effort to stave off state intervention.

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“But it’s the way this was done... ..FEMA threw out all of its workforce planning principles that it had been using for years, and these principles were designed to make sure it’s ready to respond to what happens in the country if there are multiple events.” federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-overs...

GAO: FEMA staffing cuts lacked strategy, hit regional staff hardest | Federal News Network

FEMA lost roughly 4,500 staff over the past 18 months, with many regions losing 9% or more: "None of this was done with a thought behind the mission needs."

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Learn how the US Secret Service tracked James Comey and his wife to their son's grave site - and more: substack.com/@weissmann/n...

Andrew Weissmann (@weissmann)

Callous and Lawless: Learn how the US Secret Service followed James Comey and his wife even to the grave site of their son, watching them put flowers on his grave, and then obtaining a photo of the ...

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One-minute lesson narrated by @sifill.bsky.social on the significance of the 14th Amendment in the @250to250.bsky.social series by @hcrichardson.bsky.social Learn more by following The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social at Howard University Law School. youtu.be/l347V4pJF5E?...

Fourteenth Amendment, Narrated by Sherrilyn Ifill

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Trump's heartless dismantling will reduce the quality of this essential program, removing the key parts that have made it a strong early childhood education program for children from low-income families.

For decades, Head Start has ensured millions of children nationwide are given the resources they need to thrive.

Trump overhaul could gut Head Start preschool standards, leaving states to set the rules

President Donald Trump's administration is planning to overhaul the Head Start program. Two people familiar with the deliberations tell The Associated Press the Republican administration's proposed ch...

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NEW: An ICE flight headed for Moldova turned around over the Atlantic Ocean yesterday and flew back to an ICE hub, returning 15 hours after it left. We don’t know why. Video I obtained from the scene shows 11 exhausted and shackled people disembark. gillianbrockell.com/why-did-this...

Why did this ICE flight turn around over the Atlantic Ocean?

Video shows 11 exhausted and shackled people arrive back at ICE camp airport 15 hours after they left.

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AG nominee tells faith leaders he will take action to restrict abortion drug access. Via @kelciemmorris.bsky.social of our national reproductive rights & healthcare team. buff.ly/EpKIKof

AG nominee tells faith leaders he will take action to restrict abortion drug access • Wisconsin Examiner

Trump's pick for Attorney General, Todd Blanche, told anti-abortion leaders he is working to achieve "total victory" on stamping out abortion

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About 100 courses in women's, gender and sexuality studies are slated to be removed from the core curriculum at the University of Houston, as colleges around the state try to appease the right-wing culture war. It will never be enough to stop the next attack.

University of Houston Nixed Its Gender and Sexuality Classes. That Won’t Stop Texas’ Crusade Against Higher Ed

College administrators wrongly hope that anticipatory obedience will satisfy a GOP-run Texas Legislature that is increasingly hostile toward education.

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Coming to YOUR city/town in 2027, via GOP & Trump Administration: SLASHING of SNAP by BILLIONS. SLASHING of Medicaid By 1 TRILLION. LISTEN to Rep. Jim McGovern: They're turning America into "A Tale Of Two Cities". UNCONSCIONABLE! (Please REPOST for AWARENESS!)

Between being wrongly fired from my job and losing my father within 6 months, 39 was a brutal year. Taking an enforced time out and will spend some time in southern Spain for a reset, to do some writing, and to welcome my 40th birthday (8/12).