Sophia Nimlo

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History PhD candidate at Georgetown.

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Really excited about this one! 📚

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Journalists from the Gondor Times reporting that Sauron has "turned over a new leaf."

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Happy birthday to Assata Shakur and Ida B. Wells!

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this is kind of bleak, but it's interesting to be in Kenya and see people discuss police brutality without ever blaming the victims. there isn't a contingent of loud white people saying Black people deserve it. and it's a relief and allows folks to be focused on the true enemy

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The Hillbilly Elegy movie is like they made "The Rural Juror" for real

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“This is what death by incarceration looks like. No matter how oppressive the conditions are in this hell, all you can do is endure… until you can’t” truthout.org/articles/i-w...

I Watched My Neighbor Die a Preventable Death Due to Scorching Heat in Prisontruthout.org Breathing was hard for all of us in the heat. I screamed for help when he collapsed but it didn’t come soon enough.

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we were now in that enchanted calm which they say lurks at the heart of every commotion

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Teddy Roosevelt was shot while giving a speech 3 weeks before the 1912 election, was so fucking tough that he *stayed to finish the speech* and then lost to Woodrow Wilson 435 electoral votes to 88

George Wallace was literally put in a wheelchair by his attempted assassination and he still lost

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He was only thirteen years old. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/n...

Police Kill a Boy, and a Refugee Group’s Young Lead the Call for Answerswww.nytimes.com A Utica, N.Y., officer’s fatal shooting of a 13-year-old provokes anger among the city’s Karen residents, members of an ethnic group from Myanmar.

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An apt meme making rounds

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Zora Neale Hurston to Posthumously Publish New Novel, Inspired by Biblical Figure Herod the Great, in 2025 (Exclusive)people.com Zora Neale Hurston, a prominent figure within the Harlem Renaissance, will posthumously publish a new novel, 'The Life of Herod the Great,' next year.

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A commenter on TikTok asked Imani Barbarin if there is a way to call someone stupid for not voting without being ableist. Imani: Why do you feel you need to be able to call someone stupid? If your goal is actually to get them to vote, why do you need to insult them? And do you think it will work?

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Check out "Robert Hemmings's Signature," a new Monticello podcast episode I'm featured in. My colleagues and I discuss a recently recovered document confirming Hemmings's literacy. Learn more at the link and thread below. www.monticello.org/exhibits-eve...

Every now and then, a document stops me in my tracks. That happened today, with a document that bears the signature of Robert Hemmings, an enslaved valet to Jefferson who was in Philadelphia during the writing of the Declaration of Independence. 1/5

Robert Hemmings's Signaturewww.monticello.org Videos, podcasts, and livestreams about Thomas Jefferson and his world, Monticello and its enslaved community, and the work of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.

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Anna Robinson-Sweet's article "Caring for Archives of Incarceration: The Ethics of Carceral Collecting at University Archives" is 🔥 "ethical incarceration archiving demands a liberatory approach. This approach begins by asking if and how incarceration archiving can help get people free." 📜

files.cargocollective.com

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lol. lmao

Imagine thanking this guy for your writing abilities

Unko Sensei (a poo-headed teacher) teaches Japanese kids how to write.

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If they’re comfortable killing other people, they will eventually be comfortable killing you. You can learn that lesson the easy way or the hard way.

American Shrek

Remake a movie with Shrek and make it better The Shrexorcist

And great news to come home to

The DC Water and Sewer Authority has just issued a Boil Water Advisory for all customers in DC www.dcwater.com/about-dc-wat...

Great to be back in WA 🌲🏔️

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Before SCOTUS' ruling, here's our historian's brief which argues there is no basis in founding era history for the idea that presidents should enjoy immunity. In fact, the founders believed that presidents should be accountable under the rule of law. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

<p>Historians' Amicus Brief in <em>Trump v. United States</em></p>www.brennancenter.org A group of 15 founding era historians represented by the Brennan Center and Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman LLP have filed a brief challenging Trump's claim of immunity.

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If you take a book, is that Godzilla Minus One?

Godzilla free library Spokane, WA

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Surely all this is not without meaning.

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"I’d barely made it out of the parking lot before I passed six different signs describing the same kind of reed, and each one was more detailed than the last."

Ambitious Nature Center Squeezes 25 Informational Placards Out Of Sad Little Marshwww.theonion.com PETALUMA, CA—Noting that whoever was in charge clearly took the assignment and ran with it, sources told reporters Friday that an overly ambitious nature center had squeezed 25 informational placards ...

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Anyway, as I've said before, it's going to get worse before it gets even more worse.

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After months of public outcry and pressure from the City Council, New York City’s libraries are poised to have their budgets fully restored so that branches may resume seven-day-a-week service, including Sundays. gothamist.com/news/nyc-lib...

NYC libraries to get budget funding back — and reopen on Sundaysgothamist.com In November, the mayor's budget cuts forced libraries to close on Sundays. The issue has been a thorn in his side ever since.

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Essential and exciting work is happening in the Northeastern Archives and Special Collections reading room! We are proud to be supporting the research for the Boston Reparations Task force being taken on by leaders including Margaret Burnham, Deborah Jackson, Ted Landsmark, and Richard O'Bryant. 📜

A ‘tremendous opportunity.’ Northeastern researchers dig into Boston’s past in support of Boston’s Reparations Task Forcenews.northeastern.edu The research team, which is focused on the years 1940 to the present, is led by distinguished Northeastern professors.

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what are his demands?