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future public historian, current grad school applicant, UHD alumni, just married!💙🐊
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For Presidents’ Day, I thought I’d put together a thread of *other* Presidents talking about George Washington and slavery. Away we go! 🧵/1
February 16, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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Given that it’s Presidents’ Day and the court just ordered the NPS to restore this exhibit, now seems as good a time as any to re-up this piece I wrote about Americans’ centuries-long struggle to reckon with slavery’s place in Washington’s legacy. time.com/7357382/geor...
February 16, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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Prominent school photography company Lifetouch under scrutiny amid Epstein files rumor: What to know
Prominent school photography company Lifetouch under scrutiny amid Epstein files rumor: What to know
Lifetouch, one of the most prominent school photography companies in the country, is facing district investigations and canceled school photo days over Jeffrey Epstein files rumors. Here's what parents and students should know.
abc7news.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:20 AM
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@barackobama.bsky.social praises those who protest ICE "with the truth and with cameras and with peaceful protest and with shining a light on the behavior that, in the past, we've seen in authoritarian countries and dictatorships, but we have not seen in America."
February 15, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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You really really REALLY have to read the whole thing.
February 13, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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Sesame Street educates its followers on iconic Black hairstyles in honor of Black History Month.
February 12, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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A UH history professor is speaking out after the school asked honors college professors to sign a memorandum certifying that their course curriculum does not “indoctrinate” students, calling the request a “red line” for many faculty. 
UH professor refuses to sign indoctrination memo, calling it a ‘red line’
The memo was issued as a result of Senate Bill 37, an overhaul of the public higher education system passed by the Texas legislature that took effect in September. UH is one of several large state institutions imposing increased authority over course curricula in an attempt to comply with the law.
www.houstonpublicmedia.org
February 12, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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Artificial intelligence systems demand enormous power and produce intense heat. A University of Houston professor has identified a cooling approach that dramatically improves how that heat is managed.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3ODYaGV
February 12, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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This dog is being called a "real-life Lassie" after helping find a missing 3-year-old boy in Kentucky. “I don’t know where the dog came from,” one officer said. “But it was a blessing from God that day.” We think the dog deserves some credit too, so we're awarding him our highest honor, a 15/10
February 11, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
the texas education system is so unbelievably disappointing. its no wonder we're at the bottom of the nation. just producing airheads
February 11, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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Bad Bunny closed out his #SuperBowl performance with a billboard behind him saying:

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
February 9, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
VC, founder, dumbass
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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This was Puerto Rico's moment, a spotlight on a collective son who quit bagging groceries a decade ago and became the world's most streamed artist on Spotify last year. n.pr/4aqPqeL
Puerto Rico stops for 13 minutes to applaud history and bask in Bad Bunny's glow
This was Puerto Rico's moment, a spotlight on a collective son who quit bagging groceries a decade ago and became the world's most streamed artist on Spotify last year.
n.pr
February 9, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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"TikTok’s Terms of Service now explicitly include tracking of location and citizenship status (among other identity markers, such as sex)." newrepublic.com/article/2059...
How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE
In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.
newrepublic.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”
February 9, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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me finally owning a home in a walkable neighborhood when im too old to walk
February 3, 2026 at 3:31 AM
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of January!
February 3, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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Bad Bunny condemns ICE during his #GRAMMYs speech for Best Música Urbana Album:

“Before I say thanks to god, I’m going to say, ICE out. We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we are humans and we are Americans.”
February 2, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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From Jan 30: "Trump reshapes US historical and cultural institutions"

Me on Jan 20, on Trump's most consequential actions from first year back in office: "Disrupting American Culture"
February 1, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
January 30, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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Why did I spend over 20 years reading, researching, and writing Civil War history when I could have just hopped on social media and have perfect strangers explain this history to me for free? 😂😆
January 30, 2026 at 1:25 PM