4. But that second indictment was never presented to or voted on by the grand jury Instead, the foreperson and Halligan signed it, and it was handed up in open court. The result is that the operative indictment in the Comey case is one that the grand jury did not actually vote on.

Criminal practitioners don’t astonish easily. This is astonishing.

I’m Whit, a historian and on-staff K-12 expert at the American Historical Association (AHA). I was on the team that produced AMERICAN LESSON PLAN, the AHA’s landmark report on K-12 US history education. Texas was one of our nine “deep-dive” states. Check it out: www.historians.org/teaching-lea...

Good morning! Texas is revising its K-12 social studies standards (TEKS) for 5.5 million kids, & the State Board of Education (SBOE) is meeting today to discuss their progress today. I will be live-tweeting (posting?) about anything that concerns social studies. Follow this thread for updates!

Just realized (from reading @hcrichardson.bsky.social 's post) that I'm teaching Gettysburg & emancipation on the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. #HATM

Florida’s laws allow open carry, permitless carry and “stand your ground” are a potentially deadly combination. A historian points to a 31.6% increase in firearm homicides after the ‘stand your ground’ law passed in 2005. buff.ly/7LPIFNn

Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy

🙋🏻‍♀️ independent fact checker here! Yes there are many freelance fact checkers and editors. But fact checking is not a priority for pubs. We were the first to be fired as the industry imploded So there’s no desire to hire us, even independently I work on books and am hired* paid directly by authors

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Whoa: A federal court just barred Texas from using its new congressional map, drawn by the GOP to target Dems. "Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map." Court says the old map must be used in 2026. Appeals are certain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

And there we go—Trump threatens ABC News:

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation. The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate. The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia. Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer. A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro www.propublica.org/article/andr...

BLOOMBERG REPORTER: “If there’s nothing incriminating in the Epstein files why not…?” TRUMP: “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.” 😕

What’s significant about this is that it’s in People Magazine, which a lot of people who are not online all the time read

Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

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This is all the data that Elon and the DOGE criminals stole from us in January/February. Also, only citizens can have voter registrations.

Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:

Bonus points if we get a shout out to the German Coast uprising in it. It's the largest slave rebellion in US history and rarely covered.

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it's almost like tariffs increase prices

This thread. I think it's incredibly important to remember that the TERF fragility/rabidity started to take off right around the height of me too, and the main message they had was "men are inherently violent." They targeted trans WOMEN, while at the same time excusing actual violence from cis men.

Trump policies and extortion tactics against universities produce a drop of 17% in foreign students at US universities. www.ft.com/content/7a48...

The tribune of the poor, the downtrodden? Studies clearly indicate that Trump’s most ardent supporters, especially in poorer areas, are, by local standards, quite wealthy / financially stable. Economic anxieties are mostly downstream from anxieties over racial and cultural status.

Ideas of a populist revolt against ignorant liberal elites, a backlash against “woke” radicalism are stubbornly persistent – as is the idea that Trump emerged from the election with a broad mandate to correct course and impose his radical agenda. But it’s just not true.

i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Also at least one occasion where it was just text on a screen. I've been yelling at PBS etc for excluding visually impaired people for years.

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Historians at the Movies #HATM watched the 1st episode of Ken Burns' American Revolution on PBS last night. Some good stuff. Some less so. Here's my thoughts:

The New York Times obit for Alice Wong doesn’t mention Covid or Gaza It ignores two of her biggest causes because of political bias Alice fought tirelessly for Covid mitigations She fought for the people of Gaza She rightfully reminded us that the genocide in Gaza is a disability justice issue

This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead. Trans People Deserve Better. "Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right open.substack.com/pub/wellread...

Imagine writing a policy that required you to be explicit that you would not forcibly confiscate refugees’ wedding rings

Full house for the premier, with Serena asking everyone to support their local PBS station and lobby for the restoration of federal funding, followed by episodes 1 and 2, and a Q&A later. Also: pizza and cookies. 🗃️

Post of the night! #SoTrue #hatm

I was asked to participate in a documentary but by people who clearly had never seen a picture of me. They were noticeably shook by what I looked like and encouraged the makeup artist to not glam me up. It was... awkward. #HATM

And unfortunately also the anniversary of the end of the Waco Siege, the Oklahoma City Bombing and then a day later because they couldn't get the guns they wanted fast enough, the Columbine shooting. #HATM

A little bit of reference to slave-owning, but so far, I have not heard much about that. More a "little guy" against "the man" sorta tone. But aren't most wars wars between competing aristocrats in which the poor are made to die? #hatm

My favorite voice in the #AmericanRevolution documentary is Amanda Gorman’s voice as she reads the words of Phillis Wheatley. It’s powerful. #HATM #RevWar #KenBurns

Here you go. More info on Sibyl Ludington, the female midnight rider. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/did-... #HATM

An event that millions of New England children can regale you with in verse. Thanks to Mainer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His grand-father was a general in the Revolutionary army. He wrote it as a warning about the Civil War. #HATM

No, Hancock & Adams didn’t flee into the night as soon as Paul Revere arrived at the Lexington parsonage. Hancock wanted to stay and fight, and it took hours to get him into a carriage. #HATM Furthermore, he could have stayed in the parsonage, and the redcoats would’ve marched by half a mile away.

"Promiscuous shooting." What a turn of phrase. #HATM

I know I've read about more midnight riders than just the 2 included in the film. #HATM

The British Lexington/Concord raid really was very ambitious and aggressive. #hatm

Yes, London told Gen. Gage to arrest rebel leaders. Yes, Hancock and Adams were in Lexington. But Gage aimed for provincial artillery and other military supplies in Concord, beyond Lexington. The narration fudges the difference. #HATM

Oh, Phillis Wheatley! During the shut down, my Associate Pastor put together an excellent series on figures in Christian history and he did one on Wheatley - I had never heard of her before that - #hatm www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Ys...

So far there seems to be no real hint of dissenting voices among colonists in the pre-war period. Even Ann Hulton isn't recognized in the doc as the sister of Boston Customs Commissioner, and her letters make plain she is horrified by the rabble. #HATM

Oddly enough this makes me think of Robert Gates' argument about Soviet communism committing suicide, but crucially Reagan & HW Bush giving it the room to do so. #HATM