Prof. Emerita; Historian/Evidence Pro/SCOTUS Bar; JD Harvard; Independent; Slave Descendant; WD Carter’s daughter; also @wddaughter.
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Author of Sexism in the 'Bathroom Debates': How Bathrooms Really Became Separated By Sex. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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🚨WRITING THEIR AGENDA INTO AI
Three influential leftist groups are attempting to pull the strings behind AI, and one of them wants to influence how the code is written. These groups each use a different strategy.
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Eighth Circuit holds that "Missouri's current plan to sue the 2022 map in the November 2026 general election violates the Constitution," and mandates that the 2025 map be used. It remands to the district court for the entry of a permanent injunction. (Link below).
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Men aren't women and I'm perfectly comfortable being judged on the fact that I refuse to parrot a fashionable lie doing provable harm to some very vulnerable people.
🇺🇸 A federal judge has temporarily blocked UC from punishing members of Defending Education for using names and pronouns based on sex, finding the policy likely “compels speech and is viewpoint-based.”
The LA Times calls this a “conservative win.” But since when did free speech become a conservative issue? Plenty of Democrats have concerns about gender ideology too.
A conservative win: UC temporarily blocked from enforcing transgender name and pronoun rules
latimes.com/california/story…
You are incompetent if you are in government service, have the ability to threaten adverse action, and threaten that action without knowing or heeding that Americans have a First Amendment right to criticize the government.
The US Department of Homeland Security may not take adverse action against a New York man based on its threat to prosecute him if he didn’t stop criticizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement. news.bloomberglaw.com/litiga…
Calling this the “most anatomically accurate” while key parts are missing? Look at that chest, those hips, and the waistline, body fat, to start. “Political correctness” effort at so-called gender neutrality (impossible here and not scientific) aside, it is clearly a male (who would move differently than a female.) And it is not a pregnant woman whose anatomy would be different.
Deceptive Bloomberg: “a strict process.” It required them to presume than men should be in women’s prisons.
A panel of Trump-appointed judges overturned a lower court ruling that mandated a strict process for determining where transgender women in Oregon should be incarcerated. news.bloomberglaw.com/litiga…
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There are so many grotesque examples like Bill Maher: people who don't just champion free speech and rail against cancel culture but build their careers on that branding -- UNTIL:
It all comes to a grinding halt when it comes to speech about their group: "oh, you can't say that: it's inciting violence against us" (the standard argument always used to censor speech or for "cancel culture" in every case).
Bari Weiss is of course the Queen of this self-absorbed dynamic. Ben Shapiro, too. But Bill Maher is probably the most blatant illustration of this fraud because few have exploited and profiteered from these free speech and anti-cancel-culture values more than he, only to instantly turn into the ADL and start policing and trying to suppress speech when he thinks it endangers his group:
"Normally, I'm a free speech guy all the way, and maybe here, too, BUT...."
“Full disclosure: I’m friends with Robert Kraft.”
Genocide-denying @billmaher attacks Macklemore for “inciting violence” 🤔against Jews (who he called his “brothers and sisters”), while ignoring attacks on Muslims and calling those who support Palestine “useful f*cking idiots”
Such dishonest foolishness. Bring out all the videos of politicians celebrating Steven Tyler of Aerosmith.
Chris Brown is rejecting a now-controversial honor from a Dallas-area politician. The singer accused State Rep. Venton Jones of “tap dancing” after he apologized to Black women and domestic violence survivors over the recognition.
Read more #OnTheGrio: thegrio.com/2026/09/15/chris…
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University of California students who do not wish to call someone by their preferred pronouns may do so without fear of punishment thanks to a court ruling this week.
U.S. District Court Judge Fred Slaughter granted a preliminary injunction against a UC system policy that could punish students for “dead-naming” peers.
Citing precedent that “there is no categorical ‘harassment exception’ to the First Amendment’s free-speech clause,” Slaughter — a Biden appointee — ruled that the students “have demonstrated a credible threat of enforcement.”
thecollegefix.com/university…
S.D. v Reese (2026). Three judge panel of Ninth Circuit grants emergency request for stay and overturns district court order certifying a class action for about 100 trans identified male individuals and requiring Oregon Dept of Corrections to house trans id’d males class-wide in state’s female prison. Agrees order based on clearly erroneous assumption that Oregon sent such males to male prison as a default and also on outdated statistics, and unreliable assumptions. Court does not address whether a default assignment would be appropriate, but rather states Oregon did not follow that approach though magistrate based ruling on claim that it did. Plaintiffs have not shown likelihood of success on merits and their “allegations of harm, even assuming its irreparability, reflect
individual harm and do not justify class-wide relief.”
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A federal appeals court restored @DefendingEd’s right to challenge restrictive school speech policies, allowing its lawsuit against Croton-Harmon Union Free School District to move forward.
Schools should be held accountable when their policies restrict students’ speech. defendinged.org/lawsuits/maj…
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This is why a lot of Black Americans don't support the Democrats. Instead of bringing tangible resources & reparations to the table, they send us rappers. They're so disrespectful & detached.
They would never go to the Hispanic or Asian community with Cardi B or Jackie Chan. FOH
At 87, Cecil Williams is preserving Black history in Orangeburg, SC. His 1958 “Whites Only” fountain photo and JET Magazine work belong in the museum he and his wife built at home. Thank you to 668 donors helping after state funding was pulled. Share the GoFundMe page to help finish construction and exhibits. #BlackHistory gofund.me/fc3da2f8f
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#OnThisDay in 1870, two days after Mississippi was readmitted to the Union, Hiram Revels became the first Black American elected as a U.S. senator.
“All men are created equal, says the great Declaration,” Republican Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts said, “and now a great act attests this verity. Today we make the Declaration a reality…. The Declaration was only half established by Independence. The greatest duty remained behind. In assuring the equal rights of all we complete the work.”
Born free in North Carolina, Revels became a national force in an office once held by Jefferson Davis, the former president of the Confederacy.
A minister by trade, Revels sought to improve the education of others, working with Black Americans in Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky and Tennessee.
In 1854, he was imprisoned for preaching to the Black community. After that, he moved to Baltimore, where he served as principal of a Black school. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, he helped recruit two Black regiments from Maryland and later served as chaplain for Black soldiers fighting in Mississippi.
After the war ended, he worked for a church in Kansas. On the train, the conductor asked him and his family to move to the smoking car. They refused, and the conductor relented. Not long after, he and his family settled in Natchez, Mississippi, where he was elected as an alderman. Winning over both Black and white with his calls for cooperation, he was elected to the Mississippi State Senate, one of more than 30 African Americans to serve in the Legislature during Reconstruction.
“We are in the midst of an exciting canvass,” he wrote a friend in a letter. “We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality.”
He drew attention as soon as he arrived with his moving words. After Mississippi lawmakers appointed him to the U.S. Senate, a few tried to block him from taking office. Revels remained steadfast and took office.
“I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase,” he went on to say. “If the nation should take a step for the encouragement of this prejudice against the colored race, can they have any grounds upon which to predicate a hope that heaven will smile upon them and prosper them?”
He supported universal amnesty for former Confederates, requiring only their sworn loyalty to the Union.
“I am in favor of removing the disabilities of those upon whom they are imposed in the South,” he said, “just as fast as they give evidence of having become loyal and being loyal.”
After the end of his Senate term in 1871, he became the first president of Alcorn University, the first land-grant school for Black students. He later taught theology at Rust College and died of a stroke in 1901.
mississippitoday.org/2024/02…
Another settlement to stop law from being made.
The Reverend Dr Bernard Randall — the school chaplain who was sacked, barred from ministry and referred to Prevent after telling pupils they did not have to believe in “LGBT ideology” — has reached a legal settlement with the school that dismissed him.
After losing his unfair-dismissal claim, Dr Randall’s case was due to return to the Employment Tribunal amid concerns about possible bias involving a member of the original panel. According to court documents, Trent College has now agreed to pay him £20,000.
Dr Randall had opposed parts of a programme introduced by the school to promote LGBT inclusion, describing them as “Marxist”, “revolutionary”, “atheist” and incompatible with Christian values.
In the sermon at the centre of the case, he told pupils that they did not have to accept every claim made by LGBT activists and explained the Church of England’s teaching on marriage. At an Anglican school, you might have thought that would be uncontroversial.
He delivered the sermon in June 2019 to pupils aged between 11 and 17 after a sixth-form student asked him: “Sir, how come we are told we have to accept all this LGBT stuff in a Christian school?”
Dr Randall says “seven years have been taken from me” and that the ordeal tested his faith and loyalty to the Church to their limits.
He told the BBC: “I encouraged pupils to think, to debate, and to love their neighbours whatever they believed.
“No minister, teacher or chaplain should be punished for upholding Christian teaching in a Christian setting.”
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They always adopt a policy that they know is illegal, require the victims to spend money and time suing for their rights and then settle to stop the case from moving forward. In this way they drain the opponents of resources and avoid disclosure of the activists and money behind them. This is strategy. They are hoping enough time will pass for them to win an election —by hook or crook—and to allow them to put the same policies back in place —the same policies that they know offend the Constitution but use government money to fight the public. If they must settle, in addition to money and cessation, a public pronouncement by these school districts to all students should be required so all students will know their Constitutional rights AND the school district should not be allowed to later renege on the deal without some additional repercussions or compensation.
In fifth grade, Shea Encinas was forced to teach his kindergarten buddy a gender ideology lesson that violated his faith. After a long legal battle, we have officially secured a victory for the Encinas family!
The Encinitas Union School District in California has agreed to allow parental notification and opt-outs when promoting gender ideology or other materials that may interfere with a family’s religious beliefs.
We couldn’t have fought this battle without your faithful support of First Liberty. Thank you!
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This is amazing. The single most comprehensive register of investors, profiteers and legacies left by those that took part in Britains enslavement of African people. The level of research that must have gone into this is mind blowing.
britishslavetraders.org
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On this day in 1963, Klansmen planted a bomb inside the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four young girls and blinded a fifth. ow.ly/nQG350ZGeMw
