Charlotte Canning
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Performance historian. Reader. Teacher. Feminist. Views my own and represent no one else. She/hers
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The Scopes Trial began 100 years ago today. Why do we even remember it? The power of theatre. Live performance makes things real and relatable.
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Theater Helps Us Remember the Scopes Trial 100 Years Later
'Inherit the Wind' changed how people understand, and remember, the legendary Scopes trial.
https://time.com/7294045/theater-scopes-monkey-trial-100-years/
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CREW
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Jared Kushner has FOUR days left to file his public financial disclosure revealing any conflicting assets, now that he's been appointed as Special Envoy for Peace.
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White House must reveal and resolve Jared Kushner's financial conflicts of interest - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Jared Kushner must file his legally required public financial disclosure report within 30 days of his appointment as Special Envoy for Peace.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action/letters/white-house-must-reveal-and-resolve-jared-kushners-financial-conflicts-of-interest/
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Michael Hobbes
about 23 hours ago
Weird how every journalist writing ‘balanced’ feature stories on this issue turns out to be a deranged conspiracist and ideologue the second you hear them speak off the cuff
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Brian
about 1 hour ago
If you’re interested in understanding why American culture is blowing in the wind, you need to be reading Derek on Substack. 🎯🔥
#culture
#culturaltheory
#democracy
#liberalism
#nokings
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Chad Loder
about 21 hours ago
They don't build prisons to keep them empty.
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Philip Gourevitch
about 1 hour ago
the usual circular firing squad of loathsome Trump apparatchiks
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Justin Levitt
about 3 hours ago
DOJ should be required to post this transcript with its hiring announcements. “Hey, 3Ls with no practice experience! Do you want to be publicly castigated for being soft on child porn and forcibly removed from courtrooms because your bosses don’t know what they’re doing? Come join the DOJ!”
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Judge Zahid Quraishi Ejects New Jersey Federal Prosecutor From Court, Orders Testimony on Office Leadership Structure (Gift Article)
Judge Zahid Quraishi of U.S. District Court ejected a federal prosecutor from his courtroom and ordered the three leaders designated to run the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey to return to court ...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/17/nyregion/judge-quraishi-hearing-transcript.html?unlocked_article_code=1.T1A.77pB.732HlDu0MoEm&smid=bs-share
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Researching at the Library of Congress today. This quotation from James Madison seemed to be speaking to today’s struggles.
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The history of The Merchant of Venice alone is enough to make you ill
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These are painful to read
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Karin Wulf
about 10 hours ago
An important thing to know about these civics/ western civ centers. They have faculty lines and are hiring historians - regularly without any input from or even knowledge of their history departments.
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Loukas Christodoulou
about 13 hours ago
Universities are dismantling the humanities at the same time as the most powerful empire in world history is being brought down by a lack of understanding of geography.
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AAUP
1 day ago
Oscar-winner Ryan Coogler recalling how a college writing professor pushed him to become a screenwriter & the possibility of
#Sinners
being taught in film curriculums someday: “I have so much respect for professors…for dedicating their life to future generations & making sure their minds are solid.”
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Carl Quintanilla
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
about 20 hours ago
speaking of political essays, "never escalate the level of violence in a fight that you are losing" seems like one somebody should write
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Dr. Todd Arrington
1 day ago
“The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.” ~Ida B. Wells, 1892. Image: Public domain.
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Guardian US
1 day ago
There was scant data behind ending the Covid vaccine recommendation for pregnant people and children, according to internal memos made public because of a lawsuit against the US Department of Health and Human Services
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Officials ‘missed 99% of data’ before ending Covid vaccine recommendation, memos reveal
Internal memos ignored Covid safety studies and pushed vaccine changes based on ideology, critics say
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/16/covid-vaccine-recommendation-kids-pregnant-people-data?CMP=us_bsky&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1740769161-1
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The Desert Veteran
about 20 hours ago
Kristi Noem has been referred by Congress to DOJ for Perjury investigation for lies she gave to the Senate & House on March 3 & 4. One of the major lies was the role of Corey Lewandowski at DHS. But unfortunately Bondi's DOJ won't investigate the Perjury.
youtu.be/HXQj_7EzWY4?...
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Kristi Noem Referred to DOJ for Criminal Investigation!
YouTube video by Glenn Kirschner
https://youtu.be/HXQj_7EzWY4?si=Z0XrWIOFbjDyCzvQ
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
about 20 hours ago
My sources say it was former president John Barron
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Aaron Black
about 22 hours ago
Seniors on fixed incomes face impossible costs under the SAVE Act. Birth certificates from seventy years ago cost money to replace. Passports cost $165. They built this country. Republicans want to charge them for the right to participate in it.
#SaveActIsPayToVote
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Kelly Gray
about 21 hours ago
Oscar-winning screenwriter
#RyanCoogler
: “I’m standing here” because, when he took a creative-writing course in college, the professor “read something that I wrote … and said, ‘I think you should go to Hollywood and write screenplays.’”
#Humanities
#Academia
#LiberalArts
#Oscars
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Bluesisu
2 days ago
We need to quit believing this post. Because if it was true to happen, it would have happened
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Marisa Kabas
1 day ago
bye, bitch
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gwen howerton
1 day ago
"'I love Texas but right now, it doesn’t feel like they love us back,' Jones-Radtke said."
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Kashana
1 day ago
thank god some judge was like what if we didn’t kill the children
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Don Moynihan
1 day ago
This is a lie on a scale of Elon Musk saying he would cut the deficit to zero. Just insane. Not just untrue, but the opposite of the truth, which is that immigrants are lowering the deficit.
www.cato.org/white-paper/...
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Me neither
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Gibberish. Where does he plan to take Cuba? For a walk? To the movies?
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock
1 day ago
Good news. A judge has just BLOCKED some of Sec. Kennedy’s disastrous attacks on vaccines. This is an important victory for science and for our health, but the fight continues. Keep up the pressure.
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Sarah Hörst
1 day ago
LFG
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg
1 day ago
BREAKING: All Kennedy vaccine changes and all ACIP decisions are blocked by a federal court, and the panel cannot meet as planned this week.
@apoorvanyt.bsky.social
“This is a significant victory for public health, evidence-based medicine," a lawyer for AAP said.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...
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Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/health/childhood-vaccines-lawsuit-kennedy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TlA.Ks4Z.OcroG0wGgxzL&smid=bs-share
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Sahil Kapur
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Netanyahu has long been very confident in his ability to influence U.S. policy. From 2001:
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/201...
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Finishes what job?
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Joanne Freeman
1 day ago
Because the majority of Americans are against them. Period. And they know it.
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Julianne McShane
1 day ago
BREAKING: Border Patrol official Greg Bovino to retire, reports say He has been one of the most visible — and staunch — defenders of Trump's mass deportation agenda.
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Border Patrol official Greg Bovino to retire, reports say
The 55-year-old Border Patrol official will reportedly retire this month, capping off about a year of highly visible enforcement of Trump's deportation agenda.
https://www.ms.now/news/greg-bovino-to-retire-reports
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera
1 day ago
Willing to bet my life that none of this is true and I'll never understand why he's the first and only US president who's just allowed to blatantly lie continuously and carry on as if nothing happened cos no one expects him not to lie constantly
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Ron Filipkowski
1 day ago
These are the things that have historically led to revolutions. Not sustainable.
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Laurel Davila
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Call your senators to vote NO on the “SAVE America Act” IT’S A POLL TAX 🎧 The bill would require a photo ID that proves U.S. citizenship, like a birth certificate or passport, in order to register to vote. ‼️ Senate Democrats are firmly opposed to the bill.
#Pinks
www.npr.org/2026/03/16/g...
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Senate prepares to vote on Trump's SAVE Act. And, takeaways from last night's Oscars
Senate Republicans are gearing up to vote on President Trump's controversial voting overhaul, the SAVE America Act. And, key takeaways from the 2026 Oscars.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/16/g-s1-113909/up-first-newsletter-middle-east-war-trump-voting-act-academy-awards?fbclid=IwdGRleAQk_FpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeXCv6dCWs1T3J_0uLNtUDGBxAtBb9DT4dvB4iHOE22hnIh0cwqyRwJe5fHkk_aem_6zZ5PxgFEuj5zRwd2vhnRQ
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Dr. Vaughn Joy
1 day ago
We have a page of places to pitch on our website. Not sure of where is best for your piece, but maybe this can help you get a sense?
blackwhiteandread.com/pitchables/
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Pitchables - Black and White and Read All Over
Resource list of sites, blogs, magazines, and podcasts open to accepting pitches for public scholarship, essays, reviews, and expertise.
https://blackwhiteandread.com/pitchables/
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Michael Hobbes
1 day ago
Impossible to overestimate the damage this guy caused. His book was based on a laughably false premise and the movement he inspired led immigration crackdowns and forcible sterilization campaigns. Glad the population got one Ehrlich smaller today.
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Monica L. Mercado
1 day ago
So thrilled to see this--Barbara Smith's collections include the records of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, handwritten drafts of the Combahee River Collective Statement, and Smith’s own electric JCPenney typewriter. (Maybe some Albany, NY records too?)
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ide...
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Schlesinger Library Acquires the Papers of Groundbreaking Black Feminist Barbara Smith | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
Barbara Smith is a Black feminist trailblazer, author, and literary pioneer whose literary and political activism connects with key 20th-century cultural and political movements.
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ideas/schlesinger-library-acquires-the-papers-of-groundbreaking-black-feminist-barbara-smith
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Scott Horton
1 day ago
NYT suggests that Sen Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Trump's new pick to head DHS, grew fantastically rich with stock trades placed on insider information, and they produce the receipts.
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How Trump’s Homeland Security Pick, a Prolific Investor, Got a Lot Wealthier in Congress
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/us/politics/trump-markwayne-mullin-homeland-security-stocks.html?smid=bs-share
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McJulie
1 day ago
I cannot quite believe, in 2026, that I’m seeing a writer in the Atlantic make the argument “sure, they’re slaves, but they’re happy and content! So it’s okay!”
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Lupita Nihongo
1 day ago
The whiplash effect from Hegseth saying 'Maximum lethality, not tepid legality' to 'Please world we're baby please carry us through the strait' should be on the first page of The Big Book Of FAFO
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Michael Hobbes
3 days ago
Powell has been running these bad-faith attacks since Mamdani won the primary. It's embarrassing to run yet another piece that can't justify its own existence
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404 Media
1 day ago
NEW: An insolvency judge in England tossed out testimony after discovering a witness was being coached on what to say in real time through a pair of smartglasses. When the voice of the coach started coming through the cellphone after it was disconnected from the glasses, the witness blamed ChatGPT.
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Witness Caught Using Smartglasses in Court Blames it all on ChatGPT
A judge in London tossed out witness testimony after discovering the man was receiving coaching through a pair of smartglasses.
https://www.404media.co/witness-caught-using-smartglasses-in-court-blames-it-all-on-chatgpt/
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Julia Rose Kraut
1 day ago
The Chilling Effect
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This is a terrible idea
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Howard French
1 day ago
This gets funnier by the hour. By this point, Trump seems like a helpless and distressed motorist standing by the roadside waving desperately to the passing traffic for assistance.
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