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    Jun 26

    Martin Luther King Jr. understood civility could be a tool for change. He also understood it could be a weapon for oppression. My latest for Vox:

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  2. 1 hour ago

    If you’re struggling with anxiety, flashbacks, nightmares, or other trauma as a result of a sexual assault, please check out and the resources at :

    It's , a good day to re-up this piece I wrote about women and PTSD. You wouldn’t know it from the news or film or television, but women experience at twice the rate of men. The #1 cause of PTSD is sexual violence.
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    It's , a good day to re-up this piece I wrote about women and PTSD. You wouldn’t know it from the news or film or television, but women experience at twice the rate of men. The #1 cause of PTSD is sexual violence.

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  4. 6 hours ago

    Keep in mind that every claim to logic, procedure, precedent, morality, or ideology McConnell makes is just window dressing for his actual belief, which is “I have power and can do whatever I want."

    McConnell on Kennedy retiring: "It's imperative that the president's nominee be treated fairly."
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    7 hours ago

    Kennedy punted on extreme partisan gerrymandering, affirmed racist gerrymandering, ok'd voter roll purges aimed at minorities, & acquiesced to religious bigotry. Knowing he was leaving, he still fell in line and couldn't summon the courage to defend democracy. What a legacy.

    Kennedy handing his seat over to Trump is the most perfect example *ever* about how it is all the party of Trump. All of it. Kennedy looks down from SCOTUS and sees the man in the White House and says “Yes. Him. I want him to be the one to choose my replacement.”
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    7 hours ago

    Trump's shortlist of Supreme Court nominees: -Rudy Giuliani -Alan Dershowitz -Judge Jeanine Pirro -Literally just a Constitution superglued to a bible -Ted Cruz

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  7. 9 hours ago

    The NYT comments on Refinery29 et al is related to the surprise about Teen Vogue’s sharp political coverage. There's still a cramped view of women’s writing, women’s publications & women’s issues that will seem increasingly out-of-touch the further we get into 2018 (and beyond).

    Imagine being this disconnected. R29, Elite Daily and Mic ARE national publications. Maybe the Times should learn something from us. They didn’t bother to profile ’s campaign once because they wrote her off as nosy Brown girl with impossible dreams. We knew better.
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  8. 10 hours ago

    With Janus, the Supreme Court guts the modern labor movement. on how public-sector unions became the cornerstone of American labor — and how the right worked to dismantle them:

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    Jun 26

    Oh my. is on fire. Righteous teaching here about civility and power. As put it, read on.

    I wanted to expand on this final paragraph in my Vox piece on the civility debate — particularly a historical blindspot plaguing that debate. /1
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    14 hours ago

    “not only were King and nonviolent activists regularly denounced as too uncivil, stirring up trouble in an otherwise peaceful society, but King in particular saw calls for civility as the wily weapons they were” by ⁦⁩

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    Jun 26

    Students of history know that more often that not, the hasn’t been on the side of civil rights, that it has a much longer history of upholding discrimination than it does of vindicating the rights of racial & other minorities. This is America and we’re in the 2nd nadir.

    In the travel ban case, the Supreme Court's 5-4 majority turned a blind eye to racism by invoking legal rules that give the president vast power over immigration.
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    24 hours ago

    Quite an ad

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is up 16 in her primary with more than half of precincts in. This was her message. Make this your message
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  13. Jun 26

    Absolutely. In fact, as Margot Canaday argues in her brilliant book “The Straight State,” the mid-20th century was a period in which gay men and women faced even greater discrimination and state restriction than in the decades prior.

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    Great thread. Don’t forget LGBTQ people weren’t allowed to live openly and were criminalized.
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    Jun 26

    The Lepage Center is proud to be a founding sponsor of

    A year ago today, we launched at the Washington Post. In a year when historians' voices were needed more than ever, we published 560+ pieces from 460+ historians. /1
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  15. Jun 26

    The wife of First Lieutenant Garlin Murl Conner, who received the Medal of Honor today, spoke about his struggles with PTSD. explains how doctors came to understand the effect of war on the human psyche:

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  16. Jun 26

    From to the trans ban to the NFL to immigration to tariffs, we’ve covered a lot. And we’re still at it. Pitch us at madebyhistory@washpost.com and catch up on every post here: 2/2

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  17. Jun 26

    A year ago today, we launched at the Washington Post. In a year when historians' voices were needed more than ever, we published 560+ pieces from 460+ historians. /1

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    Jun 26

    Right. Roberts, in formally repudiating Korematsu, made exactly the same mistake that Court did.

    Like, the argument in Korematsu was specifically that it *wasn’t* “solely and explicitly” about race and that it’s wrong to use our retrospective knowledge to conclude that it was.
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  19. Jun 26

    “Oceans 9” should be Sandra Bullock and the gang stealing back Merrick Garland’s seat.

    The theft of Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court seat is legitimately the greatest heist in world history.
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    Jun 26

    Plenty of lower courts deemed the unconstitutional. But as these articles remind us, this type of exclusion also has deep roots in American history. Via

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  21. Jun 26

    “History has its eyes on you” has rarely sounded more ominous.

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