I was thinking about the careful evaluation and documentation of mineral outflows.
All the more qualifications for mine inspector. This should go on a glossy door hanger.
“That’s a mighty fine mine, yessir. We done here?” ::chugs Coors Lite::
The idea that historians only of a particular identity should be allowed to write or speak about that identity’s history seems kinda dangerous.
Been meaning to send an email. Stay tuned!
This book is outstanding.
This was exactly the approach that made LARB great.
RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
And she doesn’t split her infinitives!
I done got throwed off that site.
Honored to have been a guest on the most thoughtful history podcast in digital-land, Richard Kreitner's Think Back. www.thinkbackpod.com/p/how-slaver...
It is a well-known rule of journalism that the subject of a profile is granted absolute power over the content.
No one who is at all concerned with the national security of the United States can possibly support Trump. This is simply a hideous betrayal of the country and its future in exchange for a bribe.
$1.5T military budget
$170B on ICE & Border Patrol
$100B on tax cuts for the 1%
$20B from Treasury for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$500M sending National Guard into cities
$250M on Kristi Noem's jets
$100M+ on Trump's golf outings
$75k for Kash Patel's Olympic trip
Priorities.
Thst is a sub-Constitutional office
Badly written, too. Full of bromides and generalizations.
Perfect
Trump's dictatorship coup is now fully in the open. Wake up America.
That misses the point of serving as a landmark.
This is not the first time you’ve made that reference
Some context… Bezos is killing the Post by choice, not by necessity…
Your spirit Muppet here seems to be one of those cranky old codgers up in the opera box.
Kermit wears a raincoat when he covers the news.
Antagonists like to slam @radiofreetom.bsky.social for decrying the fascist characteristics of Trump while refusing to call it such. But they should point out a worse hypocrisy: labeling 1970s music "a horrid stew of disco and wimp-rock hits" in The Atlantic while rocking out to #AT40 in private.
Good reporting by The D, though.
The cruelty is big business
What the Trump Admin is telling you.
-Don't record ICE
-Don't carry a gun around ICE
-Don't ask ICE for a warrant.
So that takes out the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Amendments.
“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”
ChapmanU Professor Tom Zoellner (English) published his new book, The Road Was Full of Thorns: Running Toward Freedom in the American Civil War.
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@tomzoellner.bsky.social
Alan Watts discussing why poets are so often at their best when speaking of change.
