Abigail Swingen

Werthering Heights

Finally one of the Dem Senate candidates is coming to Lubbock! I hear Crockett might be making plans, too.

Well now it's a story.

This is the first thing I thought of this morning.

Screenshot of AccuWeather daily forecast for Pasadena, CA showing rain and chilly temperatures in the 50s for the rest of the week.

I am heading to Pasadena later this week and would like to file a complaint. It will be in the 70s and sunny here in Lubbock.

UT Regents To Vote on Sweeping Course Restrictions FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

🔔PRESS RELEASE: UT System Board of Regents to vote on new course content restrictions just days after UT Austin collapses ethnic and gender studies departments. 👇

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Memorandum and/or Opinion – #53 in CITY OF PHILADELPHIA v. BURGUM (E.D. Pa., 2:26-cv-00434) – CourtListener.com MEMORANDUM AND/OR OPINION. SIGNED BY DISTRICT JUDGE CYNTHIA M. RUFE ON 2/16/2026. 2/16/2026 ENTERED AND COPIES E-MAILED.(kp) (Entered: 02/16/2026)

Fed judge: As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed, this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims—to dissemble & disassemble historical truths. It does not."

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It has some moments. Especially toward the end of the series.

it’s breathtaking to see how this country is in decline by every possible metric

The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported

Defunding the BBC World Service & shutting it down would be an incredible loss & very shortsighted indeed. The BBC has broadcast for nearly 90 years in foreign languages, battlind disinformation & propaganda globally. Serious journalism is more needed than ever.
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Bold of him considering her track record with old people.

Maroon blank notebook labeled Petty Vendettas

Bought for a friend, I swear

I like the tree idea. The new Charter Oak!

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There's still a state surplus, right?

luke and leia kissing HARD while chewie and han watch, because that is their space kink.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY

A week full of One British Archive! Check out these two new additions to the series!

📗“Burning Archive”: The Barbados Department of Archives by Tara Inniss

Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

There is a lawsuit moving very slowly through the courts.

I was relatively lucky because I had already received the money. Others were counting on but it was cut off mid-stream or before it even started.

Including mine on (checks notes) England's Financial Revolution.

How Far Back Were Africans Inoculating Against Smallpox? Really Far Back. When I looked at the archives, I found a history hidden in plain sight.

Happy Black History month! Here’s a thing I wrote about the Black history of inoculation a while back! Remember it wasn’t just Onesimus! Legions of Black men and women shared and shaped the practice in the Americas!

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The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.

Well this is sad.

Well cross her off then.

That's reassuring 🙄

At Barnard College, dozens of faculty_circulated an open letter calling on the college to investigate & publicly address trustees’ past connections to Epstein,& urging the removal of Francine A. LeFrak’s name from campus buildings as well as her resignation from the board.
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At the urging of my office, the FAA is rightfully lifting the Temporary Restricted Airspace.

I will again reiterate there is no threat to El Paso or the surrounding areas.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

FIRE Letter to Texas Tech University, February 10, 2026

I know that FIRE isn't the best organization, but so far they are one of the only ones publicly trying to hold the Texas Tech system to account in terms of course content review. www.thefire.org/research-lea...

Dear Ms. Wolfe, Petitioner-Appellee Rümeysa Öztürk submits this Rule 28(j) letter to advise the Court that on January 29, 2026, the immigration court held that the Department of Homeland Security had not met its burden of proving removability, and the immigration court thereby terminated removal proceedings against Ms. Öztürk.' This development underscores the dangers of the government's interpretation of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Under the government's view, it could punitively detain any noncitizen in retaliation for her speech for many months, so long as it simultaneously institutes removal proceedings—no matter how unmeritorious—all without any federal court review of the lawfulness of detention at any time. To be clear, the termination of Ms. Öztürk's removal proceedings does not moot her habeas case. (By contrast, as Ms. Öztürk has argued, this appeal is moot. Br. 18-20.) Without habeas jurisdiction and the bail order that is currently in place, any government appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals would again subject Ms. Öztürk to re-detention. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.6(a). For that reason, she continues to suffer the threat of continuing "now-or-never" First and Fifth Amendment harms. Br. in Opp. 55-57.

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...