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Prominent school photography company Lifetouch under scrutiny amid Epstein files rumor: What to know Lifetouch, one of the most prominent school photography companies in the country, is facing district investigations and canceled school photo days over Jeffrey Epstein files rumors. Here's what parents and students should know.

Prominent school photography company Lifetouch under scrutiny amid Epstein files rumor: What to know

@barackobama.bsky.social praises those who protest ICE "with the truth and with cameras and with peaceful protest and with shining a light on the behavior that, in the past, we've seen in authoritarian countries and dictatorships, but we have not seen in America."

You really really REALLY have to read the whole thing.

Sesame Street educates its followers on iconic Black hairstyles in honor of Black History Month.

UH professor refuses to sign indoctrination memo, calling it a ‘red line’ The memo was issued as a result of Senate Bill 37, an overhaul of the public higher education system passed by the Texas legislature that took effect in September. UH is one of several large state institutions imposing increased authority over course curricula in an attempt to comply with the law.

A UH history professor is speaking out after the school asked honors college professors to sign a memorandum certifying that their course curriculum does not “indoctrinate” students, calling the request a “red line” for many faculty. 

A high-tech server room featuring rows of illuminated server racks with colorful cabling, under bright overhead lighting with text that reads, “UH Professor Discovers AI Data Center Cooling Method That Removes Heat 3x Better.”

Artificial intelligence systems demand enormous power and produce intense heat. A University of Houston professor has identified a cooling approach that dramatically improves how that heat is managed.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3ODYaGV

This dog is being called a "real-life Lassie" after helping find a missing 3-year-old boy in Kentucky. “I don’t know where the dog came from,” one officer said. “But it was a blessing from God that day.” We think the dog deserves some credit too, so we're awarding him our highest honor, a 15/10

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

i say this as a former student of the texas education system. the quality has just dwindled since i was in school

the texas education system is so unbelievably disappointing. its no wonder we're at the bottom of the nation. just producing airheads

good to know! i'll keep my eye out! thanks for your response 😊

how pre-modern is pre-modern? (genuine question)

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Bad Bunny closed out his #SuperBowl performance with a billboard behind him saying:

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Puerto Rico stops for 13 minutes to applaud history and bask in Bad Bunny's glow This was Puerto Rico's moment, a spotlight on a collective son who quit bagging groceries a decade ago and became the world's most streamed artist on Spotify last year.

This was Puerto Rico's moment, a spotlight on a collective son who quit bagging groceries a decade ago and became the world's most streamed artist on Spotify last year. n.pr/4aqPqeL

How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.

"TikTok’s Terms of Service now explicitly include tracking of location and citizenship status (among other identity markers, such as sex)." newrepublic.com/article/2059...

Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”

me finally owning a home in a walkable neighborhood when im too old to walk

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of January!

Bad Bunny condemns ICE during his #GRAMMYs speech for Best Música Urbana Album:

“Before I say thanks to god, I’m going to say, ICE out. We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we are humans and we are Americans.”

Disrupting American culture “Trump’s most consequential first-year action may be his deliberate disruption of the cultural sector: canceling and redirecting federal cultural grants, undermining the independence and integrity of institutions like the Smithsonian and National Park Service, and imposing an ideologically distorted approach to the nation’s 250th anniversary. At a moment when the United States could have used the once-in-a-generation opportunity of the semiquincentennial to invest in museums and foster thoughtful engagement with the nation’s history, Trump instead reduced or eliminated funding, reshaped agency priorities and politicized the work of cultural institutions. The effects of this interference continue to reverberate nationwide, creating challenges for the cultural sector that will long outlast his presidency. That these actions occurred during the lead-up to the semiquincentennial will forever leave me wondering what might have been.” — John Garrison Marks, vice president of research and engagement at the American Association for State and Local History and author of “Thy Will Be Done: George Washington’s Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory”

From Jan 30: "Trump reshapes US historical and cultural institutions"

Me on Jan 20, on Trump's most consequential actions from first year back in office: "Disrupting American Culture"

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Why did I spend over 20 years reading, researching, and writing Civil War history when I could have just hopped on social media and have perfect strangers explain this history to me for free? 😂😆

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

If you need a historian to talk about the removal of the slavery exhibit in Philadelphia in the context of Americans’ long struggle to come to terms with Washington and Slavery *and* the lead-up to our nation‘s 250th, I’m an expert in both. DMs open.

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‘Sinners’ DP Autumn Durald Arkapaw Makes Oscar History as First Woman of Color Nominated for Best Cinematography "Sinners" cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw made Oscar history, becoming the first woman of color to be nominated in that category.

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Why was the slavery exhibit removed from the President’s House? A historian gives context. Historian and author John Garrison Marks discusses George Washington's relationship with slavery in light of exhibits about it being removed from the President's House.

I spoke with @inquirer.com about how the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site fits in within a much longer history of Americans remembering, forgetting, and fighting over slavery's place in George Washington's legacy.

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