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Teen mothers were silenced in 1960s maternity homes. Could it happen again? Kate Schatz’s novel "Where the Girls Were" revisits an era of secrecy, shame and girls pressured to give up their babies.

More than 1.5 million girls were sent to maternity homes during the Baby Scoop era, where they were kept in seclusion, told they didn’t deserve to be mothers, and returned to their lives to pretend none of it happened.

This is the America the GOP wants to make great again.

Have you seen the scenes coming out of Tehran?

OMG

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

It's impossible to tell the Selma and Bloody Sunday story if you erase Jimmie Lee Jackson.

It's literally sanitizing the story.

There's also the story of Amelia Boynton. Famously photographed beaten unconscious.

She would reprise her Selma March with President Obama at the age of 109

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.

They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

The Greenville Eight and Library Discrimination, Then and Now: Book Censorship News, March 6, 2026 The Greenville Eight protested library discrimination in 1960. Their fight and others like them are a legacy that continues to play out now.

The Greenville Eight protested library discrimination in 1960. Their fight and others like them are a legacy that continues to play out now.

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61 years ago today at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama.

FFS, @seananmcguire.bsky.social's "Kingdom Of Needle And Bone" was supposed to stay fiction.

Stop implementing Torment Nexus, please!

GOP lawyer who headed Texas redistricting wins congressional primary Gober is one of the only Texas Republicans known to have played an instrumental role in last year’s redistricting scheme, a process conducted so secretively that even the Texas House and Senate’s Repu...

NEW: Chris Gober — a Republican attorney who played a key role in the GOP’s effort to redraw Texas’ congressional map mid-decade — is now the party’s nominee to represent one of the very districts he helped redraw.

This November, he will face Democrat Caitlin Rourk in the GOP-leaning district.

Every police beat reporter in America has quoted officials saying things at least as disingenuous and never batted an eye. "We took action and thus declare victory," despite no evidence of anything being better or any problem being solved, is THE recurring public safety narrative of our time.

“I feel like I’m grieving my mother” Damaris Bello’s mother attended a green card interview—and was deported less than 24 hours later.

“In a single moment, nearly 30 years of my life were taken away from me."

A mother attended a green card interview—and was deported less than 24 hours later.

The American Library Association’s workers have formed a union. Workers at the American Library Association have announced that they’re forming union with AFSCME Council 31. When the new union is certified, American Library Association Workers United/AFSCME wil…

Workers at the American Library Association have announced that they’re forming union with AFSCME Council 31.

100 girls are dead because of generative AI

Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives As two pubs in Newcastle ban AI art, artists discuss the impact it can have on creatives.

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world."

#AIslop #refuseresist

PETITION: Don't Let the Federal Government Regulate Your Reading Not one country's freedom and liberty has ever been increased by banning books.

We told you that book-banners wouldn't stop at the states.

They're now trying to give the Federal Government the right to regulate your reading.

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#library #libraries #read #reading #book #books #lit #literature #author #authors #write #writing

CNN: Three US fighter jets accidentally shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses, military says By Haley Britzky , Helen Regan Helen Regan , Eyad Kourdi , Isaac Yee , Teele Rebane , Lucas Lilieholm Updated 13 hr ago

Reuters: Fire at US embassy complex in Riyadh after blast heard, sources say By Reuters March 2, 20266:23 PM CSTUpdated 13 mins ago

New York Times: U.S. military death toll rises to 6

CNN: State Dept urges US citizens to "DEPART NOW" from countries throughout Middle East

Two days into the war:

- three F-15s shot down

- U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia in flames

- six U.S. service members confirmed dead; more wounded

- State Department tells Americans to flee the entire Middle East

Local and State Police Can Investigate Federal Agents, But Rarely Do It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable w...

“Unfortunately, because Congress is not taking any steps to rein ICE officers in, there really is no option other than states protecting their constituents’ rights," said Joanna Schwartz, a law professor at UCLA.

How do we wrap up the 100th Black History Month? For me Black History is every day, but February is the BLACKEST history month.

So I guess I wanna talk Black self-determination throughout our sojourn here.

Believe or not, it starts in 1526.

Sure, 1619 is the year we acknowledge but...

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world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

Here We Are LET'S GET THE FEMINIST PARTY STARTED! Have you ever wanted to be a superheroine? Join a fandom? Create the perfect empowering playlist? Understand exactly wh...

It's March, so it feels appropriate to promote my anthology HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. This young adult collection of 37 essays, lists, comics, and art explores the angles and nuances of feminism.

Grab a copy from your favorite retailer: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kelly...

They are literally trying to convince you that starting a war is ending a war.

Credit where it's due, first Democratic senator I've seen talk about it.

MAGA Media Control: The Dangerous Consequences of a Paramount Merger w/ Warner Bros

The Ellisons are poised to take over Warner Bros & create a media empire that serves at the pleasure of Donald Trump and functions as state propaganda.

thelefthook.substack.com/p/maga-media...

historical detail I can't help but bring up: by some accounts, the event that instigated the British soldiers to open fire on Crispus Attacks and the rest of the crowd in the Boston Massacre was a soldier being hit by a snowball

He's saying a Trump account for a newborn with $1,000 in it could turn into $100,000 by the time that kid is 18? What are they investing in? Cocaine?

Incredible shot of Rep. Al Green holding up a "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES!" sign with Trump in the foreground from photographer Kenny Holston (Getty)

The virus killed my uncle in just four days during the initial wave. He died alone in the ICU on a ventilator because nobody was allowed in the room. These trolls want to make a “comedy” out of it.

Evil. Fundamentally evil.

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

ICYMI:

Voter fraud found in Georgia by America PAC. This is the one that belongs to Elon Musk. When will the FBI raid be⁉️