George Dillard

We shouldn’t permit the President to get away with professing to know nothing about the consequential decisions he’s making.

Once again, LLMs can’t believe reality is real.

Gordon Chang's Ghosts of Gold Mountain is a great book. During the winter, the Chinese workers built caverns under the snow to live in while they tunneled through the Sierras. Unbelievable courage.

From Pearl River to Gold Mountain How Chinese immigrants helped create the West

So what can we know about the experiences of these people whose work was so crucial to the development and mythology of the American West?
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The Chinese workers were paid worse than their white counterparts, but they managed to accomplish impressive feats of construction in very difficult terrain. Their exploits and the conditions of their work were mostly ignored; we have very few photos or records of their lives.

It’s a famous photo — driving of the “golden spike” that connected the final segments of the transcontinental railroad. But the image mostly omits one of the groups that was most crucial in making that moment possible — Chinese railroad workers. 🧵🗃️

The FIFA trophy for Trump, gold hands reaching up to a gold planet....

The desperate hands of the global south seek to take back an overheated world. Seriously, what's next? The McHamburglar trophy in gourmet cooking? The Pol Pot Human Rights medal? The Jeffrey Epstein childcare grant? The Vladimir Putin democracy fellowship? The Weinstein-Cosby feminism prize?

This is the most horrific trophy I’ve ever seen. It looks like a cursed object found in a desert crypt.

Funny someone seems to have clipped the "Therefore I will...." portion of this tweet.

This is the story tonight. Every Dem who was in that room should be telling us what they saw.

the entire point of what they're doing now is try to make you forget that the first strike and in fact all strikes on boats with alleged drug traffickers on them ARE ILLEGAL IN THE FIRST PLACE

Who among us hasn't pulled the "suddenly realize we dozed off so quickly look to the side to pretend we were awake the whole time" move?

Yes, this is worth listening to.

In my very long memory of public affairs, have never heard a public statement by a "president" (a) more alarming in mental health terms, and also (b) more overtly racist and hate-filled.

Watch carefully the sycophants around Trump as he rants. They *all* know...

I've been saying for the better part of a year that Trump is on a mission to decriminalize corruption. To make it the legal equivalent of jaywalking.

I feel that more strongly now than I ever had.

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Sir, how could you not know what you got an MRI for?

It does not seem difficult...

One must imagine Ulysses S. Grant dreaming of his ballroom

Wonderland, Incorporated Marketing the national parks

This week, a look at the very American merger of art, nature, and commerce that boosted the national parks (and the railroads that delivered people to them). worldhistory.substack.com/p/wonderland...

an ad for visiting Yellowstone national park

Advertising, that’s what!

A painting of the grand canyon of the Yellowstone

What would convince Americans that it was necessary to preserve faraway lands that they’d never seen (and likely never would)? And what would persuade people to actually visit these remote locations?
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Imagine showing a petrol engine to someone who had only known electric vehicles, and trying to convince them to switch to petrol. No-one would choose the dirty, noisy, less efficient, more expensive vehicle. This isn't 1910, hostage to gender insecurity. We can just choose the better tech.

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.

If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Poorest man in the world

Man, whatever's in those files, it must be pretty horrible

They haven't looked great so far, even in winning, but the level of complaining about a new coach 10 games into his tenure comes across as whiny and entitled, IMO.

I don't see why we need to have a "should we sack the coach" conversation every after every disappointing result. home form of the squad is very weird but we're still top ten in the Premier League and unbeaten in the Champions League, some of y'all sound like we're still points away from relegation

Only to the White Man Was Nature a Wilderness Native Americans in the national parks

So what was it like for the people who lived in these “wildernesses,” what happened to them, and what evidence is left of their lives?
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