Champaign County Indivisible 📎

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel

Hard mode

(alongside photos of Trump pointing) (checkmark emoji) Defunding public radio and television stations (checkmark emoji) Removing data and information from government websites (checkmark emoji) Firing prosecutors who won't target his opponents (checkmark emoji) Blocking press access to the White House (checkmark emoji) Launching assaults on colleges and universities (checkmark emoji) Suing news outlets (checkmark emoji) Firing agencies' inspectors general (checkmark emoji) Censoring media platforms (checkmark emoji) Erasing topics from museums (checkmark emoji) Altering public data and information (checkmark emoji) Firing staff for reporting the truth (checkmark emoji) Banning books (checkmark emoji) Banning DEl This is the authoritarian playbook.

bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it

Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯

They are running the government according to the logic of right-wing grievance media. I cannot emphasize that enough. The point is to create content, and they don't see an actual difference between dunking on Sabrina Carpenter, passing legislation, and bombing other countries.

Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.

Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.

Behind every Starbucks drink are baristas who are struggling.

While workers are striking nationwide, support us and DON'T BUY STARBUCKS at ANY location ✊💚

#NoContractNoCoffee

According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information.

Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.

Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.

Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.

Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?

What did minimum wage get you each decade? In 2025, it buys you nothing but exhaustion.

There’s not a single place in America where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford even a modest 2-bedroom. Not one. That’s the economy we’re living in. #TrumpAffordabilityCrisis

Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.

One last salute for The Colonel. 🫡😢

Steve Cropper, Legendary Guitarist for Booker T. & the MG’s, Otis Redding and the Blues Brothers, Dies at 84 Steve Cropper, guitarist for Booker T. & the MG's, Otis Redding, the Blues Brothers and many more, has died. He was 84.

One of the all-time greats - guitarist, songwriter, producer, icon. Rest easy, Steve. variety.com/2025/music/n...

If you have a student, anywhere in the world, who would like and entomological society membership please have them come on over to our entopoc.org website to sign up for up to three free memberships per student!

Descendants obtain works of enslaved Edgefield County potter in landmark restitution deal A historic agreement is bringing closure and connection to a family, as two nearly 175-year-old jars, crafted by an enslaved Edgefield, South Carolina potter, are returned to his descendants.

Great read. History you’ll want to know
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Call 1-833-DEM-VOTE if you have any problems.

Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Gone" and "NCSA.UIUC.EDU/SDG/SOFTWARE/MOSAIC". Below is a Wayback Machine capture of the NCSA website for the Mosaic browser from December 20, 1996, alongside a stylized computer window featuring a pixel art frowning face representing that the website is gone labeled "Now".

🧵 The first popular web browser was Mosaic, released in 1993 by NCSA at the University of Illinois. 🌐

Most people today have never heard of it, but its original site is preserved on the #WaybackMachine ⤵️ web.archive.org/web/19961220...

#Wayback1T #InternetHistory

Reminder General Lloyd Austin had a emergency hospital visit but failed to alert his staff.. was berated by press and congress he was a man about it took full responsibility for his mistake
I never forget that hearing he didnt throw anyone under the bus even offered to resign..thats a real commander

Tennessee polls close at 7 PM CT. If you’re in line when polls close, stay in line. Your vote will count. LFG!

We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals We created the database in order to challenge assumptions about the lack of professionalism of everyday soldiers.

A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.

An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️

Lesbians of Berlin Lesbians of Berlin [Hammer, Wilhelm, Lombardi-Nash, Michael] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Lesbians of Berlin

🌈 Lesbians of Berlin is here! Wilhelm Hammer’s 1906 underground classic—now in English for the first time. Desire, defiance, and queer history from imperial Berlin. #lgbtqHistory #GenderStudies www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJRRJ24K

National Guard member in DC shooting shows 'positive sign' West Virginia governor says West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey on Monday said he received word from Andrew Wolfe's family that the 24-year-old was responsive to a nurse and wiggled his toes.

West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey on Monday said he received word from Andrew Wolfe's family that the 24-year-old was responsive to a nurse and wiggled his toes. n.pr/48KM06N

Kids Can Press company logo and logo and image of Franklin character with statement text,”Franklin the Turtle is a beloved Canadian icon who has inspired generations of children and stands for kindness, empathy, and inclusivity. We strongly condemn any denigrating, violent, or unauthorized use of Franklin’s name or image, which directly contradicts these values.”

We all should start saying that Trump is an illegitimate president due to the 14th Amendment’s plain text and his pardons are null and void

Statement from Kids Can Press publisher of Franklin the Turtle

🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.