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Posts by Tim Seiter
This the type of energy I need white women on.
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If you're a PhD and Master's student, simply write one page describing the Texas history research guide you plan to contribute, and submit it to me.
The thing I want folks to understand abt the cuts in the GOP budget is that they are IDEOLOGICAL, NOT FISCAL. This is not abt "saving money" by cutting essential services (the budget actually operates at a substantial loss). Rather, it is abt destroying the infrastructure supportive of democracy.
I'm no lawyer but the text of the Enemy Alien Act says it applies only in "a declared war between the US & any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion ... against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government." None of these conditions exist.
Bingo
"The insurance company has an army of people who are very concerned about paperwork and precise wording ... My kindness and patience has shifted to fury."
I don't think that there has been any press coverage of the matter yet, but a recent lawsuit in Texas History has huge implications for academic freedom, free speech more broadly, and disciplinary associations. /1
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