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Lisa Graves @thelisagraves.bsky.social Leads True North. Co-founded Court Accountability. Find me @ LegalAF/MeidasTouch, the Five 8 1/2 + Substack:Grave Injustice/Courier. Wrote: Without Precedent—How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social New role to be announced soon!
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Religion in late antiquity/early Islam etc
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