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Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England Newly reunited manuscripts by Alice Thornton show how she navigated personal crises during tumultuous events such as the civil war

"One [volume] was handed by a descendant of Thornton to Beattie’s father in a pub in Ludlow, Shropshire, and the second was unearthed in the library of Durham Cathedral. They have been reunited online with two other volumes that were acquired by the British Library."

TX Dems have left the state to break quorum to fight the redistricting scam. Rep. Crockett has thoughts...

JUST IN: Crowd LOUDLY BOOS Trump at WWE SummerSlam

via @jasonselvig.bsky.social

'I fixed that for you': Why mainstream headlines keep failing Plus: one journalist's brave plunge into independence; and my rant about a supposedly positive article about Buffalo

Margaret Sullivan writes today about news headlines "that deliver a soft-focus, missing-the-point, safe-as-milk version of national politics." She cites a 2023 piece I wrote when I was just starting my Stop the Presses newsletter, headlined: "The New York Times Has a Serious Headline Problem."

Jacob Soboroff: “The American People Are Being Lied To” The Best People with Nicolle Wallace · Episode

loved joining @nicollewallace.bsky.social so much on her pod, out today. way deeper and more personal conversation than we've ever had on TV.
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Work in Progress: The Voting Rights Act Work in Progress is a recurring feature on CAMPAIGN TRAILS, in which I share some of the more interesting materials I’ve uncovered in my book-in-progress on the work of John Doar and the Civil Rights ...

Today marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act's passage in Congress.

Here's what happened next:

This is what you call being asleep at the wheel? bsky.app/profile/pier...

On July 29, 2024, Joe Biden released this regarding Democrats bailing out the Teamsters. 600,000 workers & retirees had their pensions saved. web.archive.org/web/20250109...

On August 13, 2024, the Teamsters National Black Caucus endorsed Kamala Harris for President. thehill.com/homenews/cam...

My statement in support of the principled opposition by Democrats in the Texas state legislature.

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This is incredible! 😁 I’m in a NY state of mind 🎶🎼

Louis performing “When the Saints Go Marching In” on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1959! 🎥: CBS

🎂🎉Happy Birthday to the late Legendary Jazz trumpeter Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong. Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901 on in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Padilla: "Let's understand why Trump is asking for 5 more seats out of Texas. It's bc his policies, especially his economic policies, has been so bad ... if Rs were confident of their policy agenda, they'd be eager to defend, but they know they're in trouble. They're trying to rig the system."

Kelly Yu is a long time AZ resident that did nothing wrong. She followed asylum laws, is no a gang member, no criminal record, & employs other Arizonans. She deserves to remain, but shitty humans Noem, Homan, Miller, & Trump decided she can’t stay because she’s not white.
This has to STOP.
#OneV1

The harsh reality of ‘extreme morning sickness’ | Letters Letter: Dr Wendy Bryant responds to an article by Abi Stephenson about hyperemesis gravidarum

The harsh reality of ‘extreme morning sickness’ | Letters

Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’ The long read: The Victorians called it ‘pernicious vomiting of pregnancy’, but modern medicine has offered no end to the torture of hyperemesis gravidarum – until now

My new Guardian Long Read. The one in which I talk about medical misogyny, my favourite Napoleonic battle, a handsome US civil war surgeon, cocaine pessaries, the terrors of Victorian medicine, punk icon Patti Smith, and lots (and lots) of vomiting.

If genocide isn't your redline, then you have no redlines.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge was closed temporarily as tens of thousands of Australians made their voices heard against Israel's genocide in Gaza. #FreePalestine #3E

Gerrymandering matters 100%, BUT there are only a handful of races that can actually be gerrymandered. Please don’t stop voting no matter how gerrymandered your district is, your Mayoral race, your judicial races, your school board WILL NEVER BE GERRYMANDERED

The question isn’t how do you convince ppl that someone deserves their vote, it’s how do you teach ppl that being able to vote is a privilege we have bc we live in a democracy; maintaining our democracy takes work, & one aspect of that work is voting. It’s a personal responsibility.

Biden’s economic legacy: Historic wage gains, investment and job growth but marred by inflation | CNN Business President Joe Biden will leave the White House with a strong economy, historic gains in the job market, a foundation for future manufacturing growth, and having brought down decades-high inflation wit...

Fact check: Biden left the strongest economy in the world.

www.cnn.com/2025/01/19/e...

This is such a painful story to hear, but it’s just one of the thousands that must be heard.

Israel iis committing genocide in Gaza & ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.

If the world’s democracies continue to do nothing, they will fail Palestinians the same way they failed Jews in the Holocaust.

“This young boy that traveled 8 or 9km from his home to get aid, a very small amount of aid, thanks us, [shows us] gratitude & ends up dead.”

Anthony Aguilar, a former aid contractor, recounts the painful story of an emaciated young boy w/ @premthakker.bsky.social.

Watch: zeteo.com/p/ghf-gaza-a...

MUST WATCH: A Texas voter just burned Trump and the GOP to ash.

Trump cheated on golf, his taxes, his wives, and the Constitution — Now he’s pimping out the Republican Party like a brothel.

And every last coward in that room is lining up to get fucked — Not sexually. Philosophically.

andrew chen of 3sixteen explaining why you may not feel the tariffs yet

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Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy

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Republicans have enough votes to pass or confirm whatever and whoever they want.

Attacking democrats instead of electing them will only make matters worse.

Voting with the opposition when it won’t change the outcome is a part of politics. It’s often done to secure votes on a future topic.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it will shut down after Congress cut money Currently, the CPB helps support more than 1,500 locally owned NPR and PBS member stations.

After firing tens of thousands of federal workers and cancelling funding to damn near everything, of course the fucking job numbers are shit.

The Corporation For Public Broadcasting has been a mainstay for 60 years. I wish it would outlive this president.

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YouTube video by Tennessee Brando Kamala Just Said What MILLIONS of Us Feel

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