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BREAKING: Donald Trump melts down, saying he shouldn’t be charged because he “got more votes than any sitting President in history” and threatens that there will be “death & destruction” if he’s indicted. RT IF YOU STILL SUPPORT ARRESTING HIM!
We just bought an induction stove WITH glass top. The designated cleaner for that might solve your problem. We’ve had very good luck with it.
Enka and Women’s Culture: Sorters, Jolly Farmerettes and Female Couples ashevillejunction.com/enka-w…
David E. Whisnant retweeted
Today, I filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump for engaging in years of financial fraud to enrich himself, his family, and the Trump Organization.
There aren't two sets of laws for people in this nation: former presidents must be held to the same standards as everyday Americans.
David E. Whisnant retweeted
BREAKING NEWS: CBS News drops bombshell, reveals that the Mar-a-Lago security video that was seized by the FBI proves that multiple people “had access to the storage areas” where Trump stashed the highly classified documents. RT IF YOU THINK THAT TRUMP MUST BE CHARGED!
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BREAKING: Bombshell emails reveal that Trump's Secret Service learned of a threat to Speaker Pelosi days before Jan. 6th but failed to deliver the info until AFTER the Capitol was attacked — making their deletion of texts even more suspicious. RT TO DEMAND A FULL INVESTIGATION!
Duke physicians express worry about the new abortion restrictions - and those to come ncpolicywatch.com/2022/08/17… #ncpol via @ncpolicywatch
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BREAKING: Donald Trump panics after it's revealed that the FBI was looking for nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago — insists that the "nuclear weapons issue is a hoax" and "sleazy people" were "involved" and the FBI may have been "planting information." RT IF YOU THINK HE'S GUILTY!
David E. Whisnant retweeted
LOSER!
#TFG hates the word, but he just LOST again!
Appeals court rules he MUST turn over tax returns to #House panel!
No one has lost more court cases than #TFG More losses on the way! AG #Garland will see to that #LockHimUp
#ProudBlue22
#OurBlueVoice
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Spinning, Twisting, Reeling, Marketing and Basketball: Women Workers at American Enka ashevillejunction.com/spinni…
I just subscribed to The Ruffian ianleslie.substack.com/?utm_… I did it in the process of reading his "Seven Varieties of Stupidity" piece, which (including the links within) is excelIent. I took the free option, which actually gives you a lot, to see how it is.
Shameless!!
OH MY GOODNESS. CNN IS ALLOWING INSURRECTIONIST KATHY BARNETTE TO SPREAD LIES ABOUT DEMOCRAT JOHN FETTERMAN -- COMPLETELY UNINTERRUPTED LIES! WHY IS CNN DOING THIS?! WHY IS CNN SMEARING JOHN FETTERMAN?!? THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS! SHAME ON YOU, @CNN!
Ben Franklin's American Instructor textbook included an abortion recipe. slate.com/news-and-politics/…
David E. Whisnant retweeted
They are all against cancel culture until you say something they don't like...
And she got one for me, too. I love it especially because in my _Rascally Signs in Sacred Places: The Politics of Culture in Nicaragua_ (UNC 1995) I wrote a chapter (“Looting the Past: The Removal of Antiquities in the Nineteenth Century”) about the wholesale theft 1/x
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by the time I happened across some of Flint’s letters in the Peabody’s archives and 3-digit numbers for some of his filched artifacts in the Smithsonian’s accession records, they had also been amply documented. 4/
Scanning my chapter, I recall vividly that, having published a nearly 40-page, profusely illustrated chapter on this, I felt that I had barely scratched the surface. Whether anyone has expanded the narrative since, I do not know. Read more here uncpress.org/book/9780807845… 5/end