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Trump Administration Scraps Plan to Mint Quarters Featuring Abolition, Suffrage The move comes as a controversial $1 Trump coin for the nation’s 250th birthday is also being considered.

one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states

Justice Department again fails to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James The Justice Department also tried and failed last week to secure a new indictment against James in Norfolk, Virginia.

i think what we're learning is that grand juries return indictments almost all the time not necesssarily bc a good prosecutor can get a jury to indict a ham sandwich but bc a good prosecutor can identify cases in advance where a grand jury will not indict someone

brb buying a xmas tree on klarna

oh no, we’re doing credit default swap explainers again

wild

Indiana Republicans reject effort to redraw voting maps in rebuke to Trump Measure to redistrict, which would add two GOP-friendly seats, failed 19-31 after 21 Republicans joined 10 Democrats

In a stunning blunt rebuke to Trump and the national Rep leadership 21 Indiana Republicans cross the aisle to join Dems in rejecting a redraw of the state’s congressional map, with the measure failing 19-31-- not even close.

Drip, drip, drip...

i for one am enthused by this book

Olivia Nuzzi’s Much-Hyped Book—With RFK Revelation—Sells Just Over 1,000 Copies “American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.

oh word that's fewer than my novel, which i crowdfunded and had exactly zero paid marketing for. interesting www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

on tweeter, used to be you'd see everybody grousing about some dumbass and next thing you know you're poking around to figure out what happened, who blocked who, and you were distracted away from whatever else you went on there for

here, the nuclear block makes that impossible

ty nuclear block

Our most-read poems of the year. yalereview.org/article/most...

Ornate Grievance: Monstrous Beauty at the Met - ASAP/Review Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie, exhibitionThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkMarch 25, 2025 — August 17, 2025 The circular show Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chin...

"Monstruous Beauty advances a practice of relational grievance—a mode that exposes the buried histories of Asian labor sustaining global beauty & fashion, that weaves feminist solidarities across the uneven geographies of racialized desire..."

— Yunning Zhang

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Student at his desk. Melancholy. It must be exam week, and Pieter Codde is here to show you what it felt like in 1633.

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Additionally, this post includes @lawyers4goodgov.bsky.social's new fact sheet on passport gender markers!

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Do Human Rights Extend to Transgender Americans? — Lawyers for Good Government Written by: Allison Chapman, Civil Rights & Health Equity Project Fellow ––– At Lawyers for Good Government, we aim to help this country do better by all of its residents – and part of doi...

On this Human Rights Day, I explore how the Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Orr–that prevents gender diverse people from obtaining accurate passports–violates our obligations under international human rights law and court precedent.

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Emily Dickinson Public Domain Project Tracking copyright on the poetry of Emily Dickinson

In honor of Emily Dickinson's birthday today, I'm proud to announce the launch of the Emily Dickinson Public Domain Project!
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What the Warner Bros. Sale Means for the Art of Movies The competition between Netflix and Paramount Skydance to acquire the studio is haunted by the ghosts of mergers past.

“It’s not hard to see why Netflix would want to buy Warner Bros.: it needs movies to put on its streaming service, and the studio is a great producer of movies,” Richard Brody writes. “What’s in it for Warner Bros. Discovery is also clear: cash.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/fdFf6u

Famously (in my mind, at least) the other great piece that Kaleb Horton wrote about Merle Haggard, written earlier this year, was about this appearance.

you will have a better life if you don’t assume everyone is playing 4D chess all the time. you will get taken advantage of sometimes and other times you’ll just be plumb wrong and embarrassed as shit about it. small price to pay for fending off the most deranging paranoia

splitting hairs but the youngest boomers are 60

JK Rowling tweet: Are you even human if you don't have a good deep sniff of a Sharpie before writing with it.

Perfection.

NorCal’s largest hospital to end gender-affirming care for kids Sutter is the latest clinic to bow to federal pressure and stop treatment, leaving Bay Area families in medical limbo.

10 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- Northern CA's biggest provider of GAC, Sutter Health is apparently bowing to administration pressure and ending its pediatric care program Dec 10th, leaving hundreds of parents and their kids across the Bay Area medically stranded.

Museum Grants Terminated by Trump Reinstated After Court Order But the ripple effects of the abrupt fund withdrawals are still being felt, organizations say.

Following a court ruling late last month, the Institute of Museum and Library Services will reinstate federal grants previously cancelled under the Trump administration.

YouTube video by Paul Lockhart Glad To Be Gay - Tom Robinson Band (Revolver 1978)

Want a peek into the time in which Jarman’s The Tempest was produced? Check out the song “(Sing if you’re) Glad to be Gay” by Tom Robinson Band, which touches on the stigma surrounding homosexuality at the time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfNb...

Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.

For decades, Parkinson’s research has focused on genetics, on finding the rogue letters in our genome that cause this incurable disease. But researchers are looking at another unsuspecting cause: environmental factors.

Grid of 11 academic journal covers: American Literature, CL, GLQ, HAHR, History of Political Economy, Journal of Asian Studies, JHPPL, Philosophical Review, Public Culture, Small Axe, and TSQ.

Librarians: 60 journals. 11 field-defining titles. One essential collection. Discover the 2026 e-Duke Journals collection and start a free trial: buff.ly/xt0rGFX

Leviathan 26.3 is now online @projectmuse.bsky.social! "Melville's queer afterlives" special issue collects case studies that highlight the range of queer Melvilleana and in the process contribute to an understanding of the aesthetic shape assumed by queer creative impulses. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56015

Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights HUMAN RIGHTS DAY A READING LIST FROM HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY Selected by Editor Bert B. Lockwood and Deputy Editor Ryan Thoreson What Are Human Rights? Four Schools of Thought by Marie-Bénédicte Dembour 1999 National Magazine Award Nominee “The Rape of Dinah” by Kenneth L. Cain A Question of Narration: The Voice in International Human Rights Law by Joseph Slaughter Women's Human Rights: From Progress to Transformation by Shreya Atrey A Special Section on the Holocaust from Nov. 1996 Top three most-read HRQ articles of 2025 (so far) and more! FREE THRU 31 DECEMBER Find them all at the Hopkins Press Newsroom Blogpress.jhu.edu/newsroom/hrq-reading-list

Happy #HumanRightsDay!

We collaborated with the editors of Human Rights Quarterly on a decades-spanning reading list celebrating the work of human rights labor around the world

All articles will be free to read on @projectmuse.bsky.social thru the end of the year:
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The Sundance Film Festival 2026 Lineup The 2026 Sundance Film Festival will be the last one in Salt Lake City. Say goodbye to Utah with a Jon Hamm and John Slattery reunion in ‘Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass’ and Gregg Araki’s ‘I Want Your Sex,’ featuring Charli XCX.

The 2026 Sundance Film Festival will be the last one in Salt Lake City. Say goodbye to Utah with a Jon Hamm and John Slattery reunion in ‘Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass’ and Gregg Araki’s ‘I Want Your Sex,’ featuring Charli XCX.

So honored that "Clean Slate" has been named FIFA's Best Series of the Year!!! If y'all wanna laugh your way through a joy bomb, full of love and heart, check it out on Prime and whatnot.

Chatbots are struggling with suicide hotline numbers Almost all chatbots The Verge tried failed our test of mental health safety features.

“In a time of purported crisis, the AI chatbots needlessly introduced friction at a moment experts say it is most dangerous to do so.”