Chris Graham, Journeyman Buzzkill

My grandmother told me once that she was so upset with the DAR for this that she would have resigned her membership... if her father hadn't talked her out of joining because we don't rest on ancestral laurels in this country lol.

checking in with my man Henry Laurens...

I heard that (Pillsbury...) and I'm still laughing

Jessica Fletcher giving an Ewok a piggyback ride.

Yub Nub, She Wrote

… on a farm upstate

done

Is this ... from... 2017?

Turns out I was a rube to think we'd return to "normalcy" after 2020. This nation lost its ever-loving mind instead. So I'm on the mostly "half fear" with "uncertain tone" side of it this time.

adding a second trepan hole to get a cross breeze going

Founding Father Charles Pinckney of South Carolina, delegate to the Constitutional Convention: "considering all circumstances, we have made the best terms for the security of this species of property [enslaved people] it was in our power to make."

South Carolina infantryman, a modern illustration

Feb. 22, 1776: The South Carolina Provincial Congress resolves “that a considerable body of regular forces be kept up for the service and defence of the colony in this time of imminent danger.” It creates the 5th South Carolina Regiment, which will later be merged into the Continental Army.

You are in a museum Evergreen Review

I don’t know if I’m any good at going to museums anymore...

With so much quiet it's hard for me to block out the part of my brain that’s operating in the background going you are in a museum.

You are in a museum and it is time to be moved by art.
evergreenreview.com/read/you-are...

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

It's the freakin weekend

So now we're going to get Kavanaugh Tariffs in addition to Kavanaugh Stops?

hell yeah this is my jam right here

Thank you.

Behind the scenes of the Internet Archive's race to save deleted federal webpages The SF-based nonprofit gained newfound fame when the Trump administration began purging federal websites en masse.

Cousin Mark doing his thing...

ouch... he's *relatively* a good dude.

Who was that congressman?

THE PATRIOT and I am STILL MAD

In beans, no less

All on one show??? Well *I* will be there

lol I just watched that episode two nights ago

This rules

If you see this, post a #StarTrek

I have a fun story about this block from about this time that I need to tell, but unfortunately, it's about 6th or 7th on my list of next projects

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

Even without an on-campus voting site, NCAT students still marched to the polls. 💙💛 Students at North Carolina A&T showed that barriers won’t stop their voices. When access isn’t easy, they organize. ... TikTok video by HBCU Student Action Alliance

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

The Port of Charleston

Feb. 14, 1776: The South Carolina Provincial Congress, many of whose members are eager for Charleston to reopen as a trading port, take note that the Continental Congress’ ban on imports only lasts through March 1. 1/2