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Just some dude trying to find his way in the world.
#tdih 1986 Iran-Contra conspiracy began to unravel when Hasenfus was captured by Nicaraguan troops.
U.S. gov't used proceeds from illegal weapons sales to Iran to illegally support Contras.
Bill Barr assisted with cover-up.
Read ⬇️ 🧵#TeachCentralAmerica
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#tdih 1919 #RedSummer Black sharecroppers met in Elaine, Arkansas to organize for fair pay for cotton.
More than 100 of them were massacred by a white mob.
Twelve Black men were sentenced to death for "riots." #Terrorism #TeachOutsideTextbook 🧵
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#veterannoiseprotest
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Calling all #veterans
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Local Clark County school districts are raising concerns about the future of replacement and emergency levies after the Ohio House overrode one of Gov. Mike DeWine’s vetoes on property tax reforms earlier this year.
by Brooke Spurlock
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ICE has erected a gate to keep protesters out. They are blocking a public street, despite the Broadview Fire Department ordering ICE to tear it down.
Join us at 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM. Tell Broadview to tear this fence down.
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White culture doesn’t exist.
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#tdih 1830
Forty African Americans, elected by communities in nine states, met in Philadelphia.
They founded the National Colored Conventions movement.
Read ⬇️, follow @ccp-org.bsky.social, and visit digital collection with essays here. 🧵
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When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
#tdih 1837 African American abolitionist and businessperson William Whipper outlined & published his commitment to non-violent activism.
Hotly debated at time, this was 12 years before Henry D. Thoreau’s now more famous civil disobedience treatise.
Read ⬇️
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History really does rhyme.
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#tdih 1858, 18-yr-old John Price was arrested by a federal marshal in Oberlin, Ohio under Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
Group of local residents (Black & white) stormed hotel, found Price, & took him to freedom in Canada.
Abolitionists were arrested. Read ⬇️
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This was coming no matter what happened, because you can’t debate fascists. You have to deplatform them and chase them back to their holes.
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A mass exodus of school bus drivers
There are a few leading causes for the labor shortage. The first is that the workforce is aging.
The second major contributor to the school bus driver exodus is low pay.
The sporadic nature of the job only compounds the pay gap
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I get it
04.09.2025 00:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As central Ohio law enforcement adds drones, civil liberties experts worry about abuse
by Shahid Meighan
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