Ellen Powell Thompson: How Women’s Suffrage Benefitted from the Work of a Botanist in the Nineteenth-Century American West
Ellen Powell Thompson’s life illustrates how environmental exploration and women’s reform were deeply interconnected.
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The new season of our podcast is accompanied by a series of pieces published in partnership with KCET.
Today's is by Erika Bsumek at UT Austin about the work of botanist and suffragist Ellen Powell Thompson.
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06.03.2026 19:58
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Sen. @warren.senate.gov and Sen. Josh Hawley have introduced a bill to break up companies that own health insurers and medical providers.
"Love it," says @mcuban.bsky.social.
"They control everything. Literally what those companies do defines the cost of healthcare in this country."
02.03.2026 01:21
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Mark Cuban | Full Episode 2.27.26 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS
YouTube video by Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS
Heres proof of the type of person & leader @mcuban.bsky.social is.
youtu.be/UzMDJEXcFCI?...
01.03.2026 02:29
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Like clockwork.
06.03.2026 17:30
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Heartbreaking 💔
04.03.2026 04:17
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By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
07.02.2026 03:38
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OH PLEASE LET IT BE TRUE!!!
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BREAKING: Rumors are swirling in DC that Bill Clinton will spill the beans on EVERYTHING he knows about Epstein & tRumpstein, leading not only to impeachment, but prosecution!!
This might be why tRumpstein is suddenly so nice to the Clintons... 🥲
06.02.2026 13:55
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www.palmerreport.com
Bill Clinton comes out swinging in Trump-Epstein scandal
Bill Clinton comes out swinging in Trump-Epstein scandal
07.02.2026 14:12
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Redirecting...
I stand with County Executive Calvin Ball as he signs emergency legislation today prohibiting privately owned buildings from being used as ICE detention centers.
Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
bit.ly/4a2VtHw
06.02.2026 16:18
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You may recall that in January of 2025, artist Ann Telnaes announced that she had quit The Washington Post after editors killed a cartoon that depicted owner Jeff Bezos, among others, genuflecting to Trump.
This cartoon feels even more relevant this week.
07.02.2026 00:01
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ICE was flawed from day one... born out of post-9/11 fear and built on policies that blurred national security with domestic control. Some systems don’t need reform. They need to be abolished.
#AbolishICE #ICEtapo #FDT
07.02.2026 05:14
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OBAMA: “People make excuses for him. They say he’s not serious. Everything a president says is serious!”🔥
07.02.2026 04:23
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Judge denies DHS bid to rush removal of Liam Ramos and his family
Kristen Stenvik, superintendent of the district where Liam goes to school, said the ruling provides both “additional time” and “continued uncertainty.”
Breaking MS NOW:
The Department of Homeland Security *unsuccessfully* sought to expedite deportation proceedings against the family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, according to a local school official.
At an asylum hearing Friday, the family was granted a continuance.
www.ms.now/news/dhs-rep...
07.02.2026 00:25
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Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade
The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.
NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
06.02.2026 18:35
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Alex Pretti died as he lived — protecting his neighbors.
Not hiding behind a mask.
Not shooting a man in the back.
Not lying to cover it up.
In a country run by cowards, be like Alex Pretti.
27.01.2026 23:04
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It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.
31.01.2026 21:22
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Thank you! The fact that the bloody bodies of people they see as liberal is a celebration is beyond disgusting.
25.01.2026 14:21
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I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
24.01.2026 16:04
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nursesonja • 7h
& Threads
Let us not forget, it was the same administration that reduced us to wearing trash bags as protective gear while we watched the hospital go up in flames around us during the pandemic that just murdered one of our own on the streets in broad daylight. As a nurse & as a person, I will never forgive. I will never forget. I will never back down. This was never about border control.
This is about total control.
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The nurses are pissed
25.01.2026 04:48
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
25.01.2026 12:28
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a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
22.01.2026 03:05
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Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.
22.01.2026 00:55
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A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child
This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
22.01.2026 02:13
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SEEING IS BELIEVING
DHS claims the car being chased rammed the ICE vehicle. The video shows the opposite.
📌 A father and son, a US citizen, are chased. The teen is beaten and seriously injured. The father is deported.
DHS lied. The video tells the truth. Excellent reporting by Antonia Hylton.
22.01.2026 04:44
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“Lifeless… foam around his mouth. Nobody wants to see their kids like that.”
ICE attacked a family trying to LEAVE the besieged neighborhood and hospitalized a 6 month old baby that couldn’t breathe.
16.01.2026 14:14
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BREAKING: The state of California is launching an investigating into Elon Musk's AI company, xAI (maker of Grok chatbot) over the creation and spread of non-consensual sexual deepfakes on the X platform. A step that will most likely lead to a lawsuit.
15.01.2026 04:02
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