Author: The Oldest Vocation; Mystic & Pilgrim #MargeryKempe. Fmr Assoc Dean @HarvardDivinity. Alumna @BCHistoryDept @SmithCollege. Now: #1950s all over again ↩️
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In 1898 my great-grandfather argued #WongKimArk @ SCOTUS #BirthrightCitizenship as a requirement of #14A 14th Amendment. He prevailed despite the xenophobia of the era. In the face of Trump's threats & deportations, we must insist on that same argument: oldestvocation.com/2024/01/0…
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In 1898 my great-grandfather argued #WongKimArk @ SCOTUS #BirthrightCitizenship as a requirement of #14A 14th Amendment. He prevailed despite the xenophobia of the era. In the face of Trump's threats & deportations, we must insist on that same argument: oldestvocation.com/2024/01/0…
2 years ago I wrote about my great grandfather, who argued for #BirthrightCitizenship at #SCOTUS in 1898. As I reread it while Trump sat & smirked in the courtroom, I am appalled, if not really surprised, at how far we have fallen @amyyqin @AbbieVanSickle oldestvocation.com/2024/01/0…
For over a century, Wong Kim Ark’s case has served as the definitive interpretation of the 14th Amendment: All children born in the United States are automatically US citizens.
That is, unless President Donald Trump gets his way. motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20…
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I co-led w/@AdyBarkan a campaign to fund the future opponent of Susan Collins during Kavanaugh.
We raised $4.3 million. Gideon got it
In honor of Ady, this money should fund the referendum on universal healthcare & build capacity for healthcare & disability justice in Maine.
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Historian here unlawful and unconstitutional searches and seizures.
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Historian here January 6, 2021 a day that shall live in infamy in American history.
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Happy Margery Kempe Day. The book from the 1430s,
sometimes termed the first autobiography in English, tells of medieval life, travel, local politics, gender, gossip, piety, heresy, pilgrimage and much more. For my Masters and did an essay ‘The Madness of Margery Kempe?’
Happy Margery Kempe Day! #MargeryKempe #MargeryKempeDay
After 5 days #pilgrimage, I have arrived in #Norwich, at the anchorite’s cell where Mother Julian wrote her ‘Revelations of Divine Love’ (rebuilt post WW2).
I arrived on Mother Julian’s birthday, and today is the feast day of Margery Kempe.
All manner of thing shall be well.
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Now would be a good time for Dems to run wall-to-wall national ads about the fact that Republicans are destroying the nation's social safety net while enriching themselves...
Good Trouble Lives On in Ellsworth, Maine: John Lewis Day of Action July 17, 2025 #GoodTrouble #GoodTroubleLivesOn #JohnLewis #JohnLewisDayOfAction #EllsworthME cc @DFADCoalition @DemCastUSA @IndivisibleTeam @popdemoc @MarieFollayttar @ThirdActOrg goodtroubleliveson.org
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Mainers kayaked to the island summer home of Chief Justice Roberts this morning to protest the extremist agenda & demand resistance to tyranny.
By land and by sea Mainers get it done!
#MEpolitics
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Jared Golden has sworn off town halls but if you slip $100 his way he'll let you chat him up at the home of a Boston-based banker who's hosting alongside a defense attorney for Wall St firms accused of wrongdoing. #MEpolitics
Seriously, @LLBean @LLBeanFreeport? You supported @SenatorCollins w/$11,600 yet she votes for #MAGAMurderBill to strip health care & food assistance from millions? Call #SusanCollins NOW 207-945-0417 to demand she do the right thing! cc @CollinsWatch @AreMaine @MarieFollayttar
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Only in America would the press treat the opposition party getting arrested as a "symbol," rather than as a concrete sign of descending authoritarianism.
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Today @sfc_opinions: What are the parallels between WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans and Trump’s immigration crackdown? @sfchronicle sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti…
“About ten years ago [I began] blogging, and for the first couple of years, it was fun… Then came 2016… Eight years later the horrors are no longer threats… During this terrible fall & winter, stupidity & ignorance have made way for terror & treason.” oldestvocation.com/2025/03/2…
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LISTEN: Prof. @amanda_frost1 discusses Wong Kim Ark, the Chinese American whose #SCOTUS case affirmed birthright citizenship in the U.S. @UpFirst podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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New York public schools having more spine and strength than multibillion dollar Ivy League institutions… makes perfect sense actually. 💪🏽
New York public schools tell Trump administration they won’t comply with DEI order cnn.com/2025/04/05/us/new-yo…
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Hands Off! NYC is massive and growing #FreeAmerica Trump-Musk #Project2025 is STEALING FROM YOU!!! #HandsOff #HandsOffNYC #ImpeachTrump #StopMusk #TeslaTakedown
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If you are allied with autocrats who have dreamed for years to take down US economic scientific and other power this is what you do. It's sabotage for the benefit of foreign interests.
