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HAPPENING NOW: Kristi Noem testifies before House Judiciary Committee. MS NOW's congressional reporter Kevin Frey has the latest.

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If you're a military veteran at risk of foreclosure, NPR wants to hear from you The VA has abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. We want to hear your story.

Last year the VA abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. If you're a veteran who's been struggling because of this, we want to hear your story.

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#OnThisDay in 1985, @newyorker.com published this stunning illustration by Eugene Mihaesco titled “City Walkways in the Sky,” depicting Hunter College’s iconic Skybridge over 68th Street and Lexington Avenue. #TheMoreYouKnow #HunterPride 💜 ✨️ 🌟

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This is not a pipe! Excellent!

Telehealth abortion is in the courts. Share your experience. Mifepristone is facing another major legal challenge.

Mifepristone is facing another major legal challenge. n.pr/4rkfYVy

precisely

Meanwhile. Let's walk and chew gum at the same time.

Truly hateful

I love that!

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Legal Madlibs The latest Main Justice podcast with Mary McCord and me

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I mean when has a hopeful moment of popular uprising against a despised regime ever given way to a new revolutionary government that came to be just as corrupt and repressive and sclerotic as the one it replaced. Certainly never before in Iran.

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a fox news sign ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a fox news sign

Watching Marco Rubio press conference and man is it a train wreck

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This class went great, btw. They were into it and very curious about how to apply it. Shakespeare Survey and critical thinking for the win!

Looking to organize a panel on #WilliamBlake at #MLA2027. Any Blake scholars interested in a "Blake at 200" to mark the bicentennial of Blake's death send me a note!

No decency; no sense of decency.
How hard is it to show basic humanity and apologize?

Trump and Netanyahu have been funnelling weapons to Kurdish volunteers in Western Iran for months. They’re expected to begin an armed uprising in days, ITV reports.

"You should know better!"

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) blasts Sec'y Kristi Noem for past animal killings, compares to 'bad decisions' in Minneapolis

Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

So good!

Foucault, The Government of Self and Others.

Teaching Foucault today: "...parrēsia is the ethics of truth-telling as an action that is risky and free."

US to Americans abroad: Good luck with that

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Just putting it out there, while I still have the privilege of a Fellowship for next 6 months, that if early modern ECRs need me to read cover letters, funding apps, article drafts, book proposals, etc, I am happy to take some of these on (with the proviso that I will reach capacity at some point!)

When Trump came to power, he ripped up the peace deal that Obama had made, and used the uncertainty he created as an excuse to bomb Iran, insisting he had ended the problem he had created once and for all, except now he's bombing them again to solve the problem he created and previously solved?

“President Violates Constitution by Monetizing His Hotel & Launching an Illegal War Without Congressional or UN Security Council Approval” was also readily available as a purely factual, entirely accurate headline