A Maker Be ✡️ @adiweiss2023 on Threads

Editor, author, poet, historian, researcher, LGBTQ+ ally. On Substack:

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@JoyceWhiteVance @PaulaHa41205181 I believe that you are right.

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Report that describes five cases of a rare lung infection, PCP, in young, otherwise healthy gay men in Los Angeles. The article describes what becomes known as AIDS.

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History Notes

June 5, 1968: Senator Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated after winning the California presidential primary.

June 5, 1981: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publishes an article in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly

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I love this!

[Tyler McBrien @TylerMcBrien]

NEW: A stunning new project from @lawfare's Katherine Pompilio finds that 97 Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the Capitol riot then got arrested, charged, and/or convicted with subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.

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So sad.

Marjane Satrapi, creator of Persepolis and acclaimed French-Iranian artist, dies aged 56 https://t.co/xmaP3OE0UF

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

They have something to hide. We need to find out what it is.

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A court found Alabama's maps were drawn with "intentional race-based discrimination." The Supreme Court said: use them anyway. This is what the end of the Voting Rights Act looks like in practice. https://t.co/ZX42bXZ4WP

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June 4, 1919: The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, granting women the right to vote, is passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification.

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June 3, 1965: Major Edward H. White II opens the hatch of the Gemini 4 and steps out of the capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to walk in space.

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June 3, 1889: America’s first electric power line carries energy 14 miles from Willamette Falls to Portland, Oregon, pioneering modern electrical transmission.

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June 2, 1954: Senator Joseph McCarthy charges that communists have infiltrated the CIA and the atomic weapons industry. His claims were quickly dismissed as just sensationalism from someone whose career was coming to an end.

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June 2, 1924: With Congress’ passage of the Indian Citizenship Act, the US government confers citizenship on all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the country.

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June 1, 1980: CNN launches.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Judge Cannon has been sitting on the Jack Smith report for over a year. But the 11th Circuit looks like it's running out of patience. Here's what's happening and why it matters. https://t.co/k9eDX8Lg76

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May 31, 1921: The Tulsa Race Massacre begins when thousands of white citizens in Tulsa, Oklahoma, descend on the city’s predominantly Black Greenwood District, burning homes and businesses to the ground and killing hundreds of people.

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May 30, 1942: Fred Korematsu is arrested in San Leandro, CA, for resisting internment under President Franklin Roosevelt’s EO 9066, which calls for the incarceration of most Japanese Americans in the United States following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.