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brianstelter.bsky.social
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.
May 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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joycewhitevance.bsky.social
This is the official White House account.
May 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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hillaryclinton.bsky.social
Update: The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don't match their birth certificates.

Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.
hillaryclinton.bsky.social Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · Apr 9
Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?

Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.

Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates
April 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
April 4, 2025
April 4, 2025
The stock market rout continued today.
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April 5, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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April 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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jerasikehorn.bsky.social
I don't want Canada or Greenland…

I want PBS, Social Security, and The Smithsonian.

CAN YOU SAY THE SAME?! 🤚
March 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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nikobowie.bsky.social
From 91 professors at Harvard Law School: a letter to our students.

tinyurl.com/letter-to-ou...
A LETTER TO HARVARD LAW SCHOOL STUDENTS March 29, 2025 To our students: We are privileged to teach and learn the law with you. We write to you today—in our individual capacities-because we believe that American legal precepts and the institutions designed to uphold them are being severely tested, and many of you have expressed to us your concerns and fears about the present moment. Each of us brings different, sometimes irreconcilable, perspectives to what the law is and should be. Diverse viewpoints are a credit to our school. But we share, and take seriously, a commitment to the rule of law: for people to be equal before it, and for its administration to be impartial. That commitment is foundational to the whole legal profession, and to the special role that lawyers play in our society. As the Model Rules of Professional Conduct provide: "A lawyer is ... an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice." The rule of law is imperiled when government leaders: • single out lawyers and law firms for retribution based on their lawful and ethical representation of clients disfavored by the government, undermining the Sixth Amendment; • threaten law firms and legal clinics for their lawyers' pro bono work or prior government service; • relent on those arbitrary threats based on public acts of submission and outlays of funds for favored causes; and • punish people for lawfully speaking out on matters of public concern. While reasonable people can disagree about the characterization of particular incidents, we are all acutely concerned that severe challenges to the rule of law are taking place, and we strongly condemn any effort to undermine the basic norms we have described. On our own campus and at many other universities, international students have reported fear of imprisonment or deportation for lawful speech and political activism. Whatever we might each think about particular conduct under particular facts,…
March 30, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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@desertangelina.bsky.social
Hi Angie! It’s Joan.
February 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM