Peter Hegseth tweet announcing reinstallation of Arlington Confederate Monument
photograph of the Arlington Confederate Monument before removal
Peth Hegseth has announced that the Arlington Confederate Monument - or, as I call it, the Monument to the Myth of the Loyal Slave - will be reinstalled after its 2023 removal. Here's why that's a huge insult to Black Americans, past and present.
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Dude has been listening to too much Pavement (jk it’s impossible to listen to too much Pavement).
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Sponsored by DudeWipes?
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Armchair quarterbacks 🙄
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AI can’t do this.
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His editor must *despise* him.
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🤮
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I used to try “Have some dignity!” on our goldendoodle. It didn’t work either.
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#Itsmarta
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a man with his mouth open and the words you can 't handle the truth
ALT: a man with his mouth open and the words you can 't handle the truth
He played the colonel in the first broadway play I ever saw (in 1991), something called “A Few Good Men,” so he was the first actor I heard say,
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Woohoo! I just venmoed you a margarita. Please drink it or its equivalent tonight.
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“To Easy LOL” is the city motto
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I had that card! I learned the hard way in 1992 that you were supposed to make a payment each month.
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Can a Great Museum City Survive the Censorious Right?
Fear and reticence spread in Fort Worth as Sally Mann’s nude photos of her children were held as police evidence.
Featured story: It was a police-led art heist. Their target were some of the most controversial, but best-studied and most-discussed works in U.S. contemporary art.
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This morning, out of nowhere, I remembered that Billy Bush got fired because Trump said “grab ‘em by the pussy” in his presence. I wonder who’ll get fired as a result of this story.
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The History of Eugenics in Texas Isn't What You Think
A new book unearths a chapter of the state’s story when anti-intellectual fundamentalism was put to good ends.
From @gusbova.bsky.social, in our magazine: The majority of U.S. states enacted forced-sterilization laws that targeted the non-white and the disabled, leading to more than 60,000 coerced operations.
But Texas, perhaps surprisingly, never passed such a law.
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Citing scripture, Todd Moye is ordering his go-to Friday burrito from Salsa Limón.
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Solution: Smoke tariffs.
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Year 43 for me.
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I wish I could have met your great-grandmother. She sounds like a badass.
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I’ve done that. I had just signed the papers and was silently high-fiving myself for outsmarting the universe and finding the chillest dog in Texas when the guy at the adoption center said, “Her painkillers from her spaying surgery will wear off in a couple of hours.” 5000 rpm ever since.
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No. (I assume it’s Huey Long by T. Harry Williams).
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what athlete’s expression will stay with you the rest of your life?
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Could this be why Elon invented tunnels?
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George wasn’t wrong.
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DO NOT CONGRATULATE.
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