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The History of the Americans

Podcast · [object Object] · The history of the people who live in the United States, from the beginning.

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@CBHeresy Great exercise. Also impressed you can get away with a Gadsden flag on the wall…

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1/Drake is actually a redemption story. Yes, as a very young man on board his cousin's ship, he was along on a slave trading mission. But that changed in 1573, when he was only 25, and allied himself with escaped formerly enslaved Blacks in Panama.

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He got close to 100 without going over. Good for him.

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Bob Barker, the iconic host of ‘The Price Is Right’ has died at 99, @TMZ reports.

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5/ The "cancellation" of Drake is a great example of the problem with the whole idea -- how much better off would the students have been if they had learned the story of his redemption? Isn't the possibility and *reality* of personal change in the 16th C. inspiring for us all?

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@BradWilcoxIFS Having raised a son and a daughter, even twenty years ago it was obvious that most of the books assigned in schools would make most boys tune out.

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@yaelbt Catherine Fisk is a college classmate of mine, and I knew her fairly well back in the day. I'm quite sure she behaved appropriately. And, no, that was not assault. For it to be assault and/or battery, it needs to be wrongful. One is allowed to eject someone from one's house.

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My favorite Memorial Day cartoon, from Cox & Forkum in their heyday. Consider reposting, if you find it as affecting as I do.

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@samhaselby @profbobadilla Also food and beverages. It is almost impossible to comprehend how bad American food was before the boomers. And coffee, and beer.

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2/After that, Drake went out of his way to free enslaved Blacks. They served as crewmen on his ship, and he paid them the same as English seamen. And the only time we know that he truly lost his temper was when the Spanish killed a Black boy who Drake had sent as a messenger.

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4/ Over his career, Drake freed well over a thousand enslaved Blacks and Indians. Yes, that hurt the Spanish enemy, but if Drake was a slaver he would have sold them for profit. After his redemption in 1573, he refused to return any Black to the Spanish unless they requested it.

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3/Drake insisted that the Spanish execute the murderer, and when they refused he said he would hang a Catholic priest every hour until they did. The Spanish relented.

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Sigh. We need national memory, folks.

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Thomas Jefferson statue removed from New York City Hall after 187 years.

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@wil_da_beast630 Most of the "right wing" guests on that list aren't right wing at all. They just aren't proudly left. @bariweiss and @BridgetPhetasy are not right wing, for example. They are politically homeless, decidedly non-partisan. But this is "right wing" now, in some circles.

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The under-covered story of the year, it seems to me, is the stabbing of Salmon Rushdie. It was a savage attack on freedom of expression prompted by our enemies, and yet it has mostly been memory-holed.

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This sort of thing does not actually help the country. It polarizes it. In fairness, stoking rage and anxiety is the business model of the corporate media, but that doesn’t make it right.

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The Buffalo shooter isn’t a “lone wolf.” He’s a mainstream Republican.

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@ggreenwald If I understand this, the ACLU is proposing to *compel* speech. Not your parents' ACLU, that's for sure.

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Big news! At least to me. I could not be more honored, and look forward to helping to advance our culture of free speech in any way I can. FIRE welcomes Jack Henneman to board of directors via @TheFIREorg

FIRE welcomes Jack Henneman to board of directors

FIRE is excited to announce that former healthcare executive and attorney Jack Henneman, a longtime supporter of our organization, has joined our board of directors.

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@asymmetricinfo It’s pretty organic. I had an interesting conversation with the Molson-Coors (competitive) distributor at a cigar bar in New Orleans a few weeks back. He (gleefully) thought the market share move was permanent, because beer share is impossible to move ordinarily. Black swan.

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@iowahawkblog Bequeathing “homeland” as a thing is one of Bush 41’s more annoying legacies, and the bar isn’t low.

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@DavidVeevers1 I know, and yet it is also a missed opportunity, which was *my* main point. You will see elsewhere further down that I’m not at all dogmatic on renamings and such. I just think this one is a miss, and the BBC story did a poor job of explaining the context.

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@bariweiss @SnoozyWeiss @FrancescaABlock @TheFP Teenage rebellion, which now goes much later along with the rest of childhood, is about doing the transgressive thing that will most upset the olds. I do therefore wonder how many of these TikTok conversions will stick.

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It seems wasteful to spend billions to wire everywhere with cable by 2030. We're on the brink of global internet by satellite. It would be almost certainly cheaper just to give the rural poor a Starlink receiver.

WATCH: Biden announces $42.5 billion plan to expand high-speed internet to communities with no or...

President Joe Biden on Monday said that high-speed internet is no longer a luxury but an “absolute necessity,” as he pledged that every household in the nation would have access by 2030 using cables...

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The robust trade in beaver testicles is an under-appreciated aspect of the Atlantic commerce in the 17th century. They were used to make “musk.” I think about these whenever I see “Beaver Nuggets” at Buc-ees. This is how my mind works.

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I walked into a liquor store, and there’s a craft vodka lady giving free samples. She claims the water comes from “an ancient spring in Bastrop (TX) discovered by conquistadors in 1610.” Me: “I don’t think so. Possibly 1542, but no way 1610.” The vodka lady had nothing.

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@devjpow @jmjafrx My father was a medievalist, professor of history at a Big Ten school. He told me that academic historians were often critical of Barbara Tuchman (speaking about “A Distant Mirror”). His reason: “She can write the pants off of almost all of them.”

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@jessesingal @TheArmedLiberal Yesterday, mass shooting in New Orleans. No national coverage. I think we know why.

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@simongerman600 I suspect GOP skepticism about the Weather Channel has to do with stories that connect bad weather events to climate change.

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@walterkirn The best way to build a huge audience on this website has been to pander repetitively to one tribe or the other. But that is boring. The truly influential people are, over the long haul, credible because they remain unpredictable and therefore interesting.

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On this day 84 years ago, the Soviet Union began mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia. I don't recall this coming up in the history lesson a couple of days back.

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Call me a crank if you will, but this business of naming rando blizzards as if they were hurricanes is the straight up promotion of weather anxiety.

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@samhaselby Yeah, who would want to put their families through public life? In the new media world, only people who absolutely redline narcissism. Politicians always had that tendency, but today you really need to be an extreme case to want that for the people around you.

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This is, actually, the path back to institutional credibility. He doesn’t realize how right he is. When Enron blew up, all of corporate America had to live under Sarbanes-Oxley. It was deemed necessary to rebuild confidence. Why not do the same for higher ed?

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If we’re going to start scrutinizing every detail of college presidents’ past writings for technical attribution issues, then let’s do it. Let’s go look at everyone’s past writings, not just Claudine Gay at Harvard. Let’s put them all under a microscope and see how they hold up.

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@sam_d_1995 @alt_historian We know from the California experiment that the costs will be such that flying will be cheaper and faster for the vast majority of those routes. The wonks who like trains can't bring themselves to see that very few Americans will ride them over long distances.

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Do not piss off @walterkirn ! "Social media missile gap" is the classical liberal scorn-heaping line of the week. Halfway through this, so far it is awesome.

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Could the TikTok ban become just another way to exert “executive control over what we consume in America”? @WalterKirn argues yes: “If we have any view of history, we know that these exact sorts of legislation and legal precedents have been bent out of all recognition

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There are 9,552 breweries in the United States, per the latest data. In 1980, there were 101. Measured by impact on the national culture, this is the greatest contribution of Jimmy Carter's presidency. Carter deregulated home brewing, which in turn set off the craft revolution.

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@JamesRosenTV @exjon @POTUS @WhiteHouse @toddgillman @dallasnews Especially weird for such a proud Irish-American. Unless, of course, he means some Queen other than Elizabeth II, whom God has, presumably, recently saved.

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@robbysoave I wonder how much of this is generational. My wife and I (born early to mid sixties) don't remember our teachers *ever* talking about their personal lives. Maybe about their dogs (my debate coach gave his dog beer). Is this an artifact of more "sharing" in general?

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This was an inflection point. When VP Joe Biden argued that freakin’ *Mitt Romney* was out to reinstate slavery, GOP primary voters decided that *all* attacks on GOP candidates did not deserve credence. This moment led to Trump. There has been too little discussion of it.

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2024: ugh those old republicans were so reasonable, not like today’s 2012: Mitt Romney will actually reinstate slavery

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On this day in 1836, after a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, were killed and the fort was captured. We remember.

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@wil_da_beast630 Exactly. Latinos are descended from the most powerful European empire to exist before the 19th century.

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Promoting @TheFIREorg and free speech just by walking around #SXSW ! #SXSW2024

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⁦ @walterkirn ⁩ Exciting airplane reading! (Good picture, by the way.)

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@ellencarmichael My contempt-o-meter for both parties is pinned to 11. I agree with neither of them far more than either of them, and I'm not a crank. I'm basically a Gerald Ford Republican. Might vote for the Kennedy just to poke the duopoly.

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I had a thought this morning while doing a gigantic pile of dishes: The biggest change I've seen in this country in this century is its loss of optimism, at almost every level. That is more costly than most of the stuff that people on both sides complain about. We need it back.

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It seems to me that the videos of campus demonstrations in support of Hamas have exposed university political life to ordinary Americans in much the same way that Zoom school illuminated classrooms to parents during the pandemic.

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On this date 160 years ago, the Emancipation Proclamation took effect in territory still held by the Confederacy. Enslaved people who escaped their masters, either by their own guile or because of the advancing Union Army, would be immediately free as a matter of US law.

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@wil_da_beast630 The question is, what is the control? The right way to do these studies is to longitudinally compare the charter kids with kids in the regular schools *who applied for the charter lottery but didn't win.* That controls for parents who want their kids to get ahead academically.

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I admit, I'm a little put off that there isn't more widespread celebration of Lawrence Welk's birthday today.

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I admit, I'm a little put off that there isn't more widespread celebration of Michael Caine's birthday today.

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@JeremiahDJohns @AlmostPOTUSpod @whstancil The sentiment chart above bears a close resemblance to the DJIA. Which is the chicken, and which is the egg?

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@NateSilver538 If you ran the same poll for journalists only, Trump would run north of 80%.

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This is a cultural loss. I had my first Anchor Steam on a visit to Seattle in the summer of 1986. I thought I had died and gone to heaven, because I had only known bad beer until then. Anchor Steam shifted my tastes for the better. Hat is tipped.

SF's Anchor Brewing Company says it's ceasing operations

Anchor Brewing Company, a historic San Francisco craft brewery, is ceasing operations and...

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@woodyholtonusc Respectfully, truly, the moral binary you assert in this tweet is not necessary, or even true. Such false binaries are the realm of polarized politics, but betray the life of the mind. Live in a world with dials, not switches!

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@nickgillespie "Bad facts" almost always mean "inconvenient facts." But maybe that is just the lawyer in me...

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Stevie Ray Vaughan, for all y’all music fans. #Austin

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We had to say goodbye to our sweet old doggie Eli today. I’m going to miss him terribly, even though he had begun to fade from our world in the last few months.

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@fawfulfan Mine are about $2400/month for just me and my wife.

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Volodymyr Zelensky has in four days become the most lionized Eastern European leader since Lech Walensa and Vaclav Havel. And as deserved or more so. Astonishing.

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@fakehistoryhunt @historyinmemes The AI image is, it must be said, beautiful.

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@mikeduncan We've made it so onerous and freakishly intrusive to go into national politics that we are left with candidates who became public figures before it was so onerous. So our younger national politicos are basically all social media influencers, not capable legislators or executives.

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@CHSommers @Harvard It would take a lot to “finish” Harvard.

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I fly a lot, on my roughly 55th flight of the year so far as I write this. Almost all of it is domestic. Every time I look out the window, I am reminded that we live in an astonishing country. That is all.

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I admit, I'm a little put off that there isn't more widespread celebration of Milton Friedman’s birthday today.

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@DivineBiba I have no clue, but California, which also has a lot of things named after Drake, has been busily renaming those things on the same ground. I think for many people the fact that he served on a slaving mission is enough, and only Drake fans - I am one - know the longer story.

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On this day 175 years ago, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published *The Communist Manifesto.* There would be consequences.

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Say what you will about the Puritans of 17th c. New England, their devotion to Scripture as the foundation of faith and law meant that everyone had to read. You broke the law if you didn’t teach your children to read. That was astonishing for its time, and made New England rich.

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Something to this…

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The Seven Deadly Sins

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This is insane, especially as an official position of a presidential campaign.

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Fourth of July under Trump’s Project 2025

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@mattyglesias @HistoryBoomer It is a peculiar feature of post-modern leftists that they do not believe there has been any progress on any question of justice, because to do so would undermine their thesis that there can be no justice while capitalism endures. This leads them to some strange places.

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@libsoftiktok @ConceptualJames Nobody knows how to stay in their lane anymore.

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@mattyglesias Here's a more controversial speculation: Malaysia, like Singapore, had the advantage of, shall we say, "learning" from the British in commercial and legal matters. The other countries didn't. Contra argument: Burma.

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Iowa has been a State for 175 years. There is no settled term for the 175th anniversary, but among the alternatives I prefer "quartoseptcentennial," which seems to mean "1/4 of 700 years." @iowahawkblog

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If you have progeny applying to college and you want him or her to have a rigorous and classically liberal education, you might look into the @uaustinorg , which is enrolling its first class this fall. Disclosure: I'm funding a full scholarship for one of these lucky students!

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The University of Austin. Apply:

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At no time will enough Americans ride this thing to justify the cost, which we know from the California experiment will take absolutely staggering amounts of money (no matter what the wonks claim) and take far longer.

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time to pass the law and ~build the map~

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@oaklandzoo22 @SamRamani2 Zelensky got it to happen, more like it.

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@derekahunter @RitaPanahi @Twitter @elonmusk @paraga Nah. But they probably do need to shop the company to other bidders or they will pay a lot to settle the lawsuits.

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Great piece from @uberliner on the descent of NPR into a progressive monoculture. I wish I could say I was surprised. I used to listen to NPR because it was interesting, but drifted away some years ago because it seemed incredibly predictable.

I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.

Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says the network lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think.

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Good piece, by ⁦ @MattWelch ⁩. I have seen less than an hour of Carlson in the last decade, so no expert. But a good rule of thumb is to never believe “super competent conspiracy” explanations over bad incentive explanations.

Tucker Carlson is lying to you

Carlson consoles people by recognizing discomfort at holding values contrary to those of cultural elites, flatters them, and then stokes their paranoia.

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There has been a lot of concern, especially on the right, that the United States might creep its way toward a system of "social credit" such as in China. If the GOP had two brain cells to rub together, it would propose a Constitutional Amendment to prevent precisely that. To

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The History of the Americans Podcast is telling the history of the people in the lands now constituting the United States, from before 1492. No, presentism, politics or moralizing in any direction. Making history fun again!

The History of the Americans Podcast

The Story of the American People

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@iowahawkblog “Made men.” Hard-drinking ad execs get into financial trouble with the local mob, which agrees to take repayment in trade. Execs invent guerrilla marketing promoting the numbers racket, boxing, and trash collection.

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I admit, I'm a little put off that there isn't more widespread celebration of Mel Brooks’ birthday today.

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On this day 70 years ago, Joseph Stalin suffered a stroke, and would die four days later. Tens of millions had died on his word, and no doubt some thousands lived longer because of that stroke.

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Less than an hour after his death, Henry Kissinger is already a tribal marker. He is so polarizing, a comprehensive reckoning now will be difficult. My guess is that a brilliant biography will be written about him around 2050 by somebody who is no older than 20 today.

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@RandyEBarnett Whatever one thinks of the first Trump term, the second one will be far worse because nobody of any competence or relevant experience would work for him now, having seen him turn on Mike Pence and others. There will only be sycophants, and that is always disastrous.

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You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

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@ElizaSudd @lizzywol @dannybarefoot There are tens of millions of Chinese people who are testing your proposition as we speak.

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The best one so far.

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SHE’S GONNA WRITE A SONG ABOUT US IF WE LOSE. DO SOMETHING!

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@AGHamilton29 @ChicagoOcean Yale secret societies aren't, apparently, enforcing the "secret" part the way they did back in the day.

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This isn't even remotely a "victory for democracy." It is a victory for fundamental rights we have *even if a democratic majority votes against them.* Which is precisely as it should be. Too many people have forgotten that we have rights *notwithstanding* "democracy."

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Judge rules against LGBTQ+ book ban, orders titles to be returned to library shelves in ‘ringing victory for democracy’

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That’s the Mississippi in SE Arkansas and northern Louisiana. Hernando de Soto died down there on the West Bank exactly 483 years ago today.

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@mattyglesias Missing, because they are always missing: The "Insular Cases," which held that the rights of Americans do *not* extend to people in our overseas territories.

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In 1959, at age 69, Dwight Eisenhower became the oldest POTUS ever. This was seen as a problem.

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@iowahawkblog Lawyers, Guns, Money

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@eyeslasho A sense of humor predicts intelligence and, some of the time, emotional stability, so it is important for more than one reason.

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Why do local voters expect their city officials to have a foreign policy? These huge fights over resolutions condemning or supporting Israel or Hamas strike me as ignorant and ludicrous. Why don’t politicians just say “not our job, tell us about your potholes”?

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@mattyglesias The French navy beat the English at sea only once, I believe, during the 18th century: Off Yorktown. We were on a knife’s edge, and the French came through.

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Everybody's all "Battle of New Orleans" today, but also on this date, 20 years later, then President Andrew Jackson announced a celebratory dinner after having reduced the United States national debt to zero for the only time. That seems like an even greater miracle today.

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8 Jan 1815: Major General Andrew Jackson becomes a national hero as he leads a small, poorly-equipped army to victory against 8,000 #British troops at the Battle of New Orleans. It occurred after the war ended but before word reached the two sides. #ad