Adam Rothman aced his cognitive test

You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you sit back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
While the young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

They should rename it War-a-Lago.

While American troops were in harm’s way, Trump was wining and dining political donors at Mar-a-Lago.

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

Been watching the Studio & it's very funny but I especially love Kathryn Hahn's complete and total over-the-topness.

Seth Rogen accepting Catherine O’Hara’s posthumous award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for The Studio #ActorAwards

I've been called worse!

I think we all know that "freedom isn't free." The question is who pays for it, and how.

You can't break eggs without making an omelette
--That's what they tell the eggs.

- Randall Jarrell, "A War"

"How is the Interest of France and Spain affected, by the dispute between B[ritain]. and the C[olonies]? Is it the Interest of France [to] stand neuter, to join with B. or to join with the C. Is it not her Interest, to dismember the B. Empire?"
- John Adams diary, March 1, 1776

Leap Day 1776 bonus!

"The Pamphlet called Common Sense is read with great Avidity. The Doctrine it holds up is calculated for the Climate of N. England and though some timid pidling Souls shrink at the Idea 99 in 100 wish for a Declaration of Independence from the Congress."

Yeah, that's hubris.

This looks terrific!

Read the book and find out!

I'm afraid this is a slippery slope. I'm not falling for it.

I fell for it!

Hidden in other people's books.

There is a place for books like this but I really wish the marketing departments of trade presses would stop with the "hidden history" and "untold story" framing when it's so patently absurd.

The "hidden heroes" like [checks table of contents]... Eleanor Roosevelt?

@rjhartigan.bsky.social is going to clear up what happened to Amelia Earhart once and for all ;) Join us for a conversation at People's Book on Mon. 3/2 @7pm about her new book, Lost. She'll be in conversation with @roncharles.bsky.social - I promise, we'll all learn something!

If you want info on Iran, follow @rezahakbari.bsky.social. A brilliant doctoral student working on a commensurately brilliant dissertation on modern Iranian politics. He knows what he’s talking about and tells it like it is.

2 Fast 2 Furrious

“Rutherford Statement on Operation Epic Furry” “Furry” highlighted by me http://rutherford.house.gov/media/press-releases/rutherford-statement-operation-epic-furry

Google result showing the presser for Rutherford’s statement on “Operation Epic Furry” was posted 11 hours ago

What a time to be alive

It's about time they got some recognition.

“It’s part of this larger landscape of how the Trump administration is manipulating history to advance their own particular ideology,” said Adam Rothman, director of Georgetown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies. “It’s a whitewashed patriotic history.”

Anyway, I'm fine with the quotation they went with.

I told the Times that if Trump installs the statue of Rodney at Freedom Plaza then they should rename it the Freedom For Some Plaza but they didn't run that quotation.

Washington's reply to Wheatley was appreciative and respectful. Imagine that!

"If you should ever come to Cambridge, or near Head Quarters, I shall be happy to see a person so favourd by the Muses, and to whom nature has been so liberal and beneficent in her dispensations."

Caesar Rodney statue to get place of honor in Washington Caesar Rodney, whose statue was placed in storage amid racial injustice protests in 2020, will be honored in Washington this summer.

A founding father and slave owner whose statue in Delaware was removed in 2020 will be honored in Washington by the Trump administration as part of celebrations of the nation’s 250th birthday, internal Interior Department documents show.

Founders Online: Enclosure: Poem by Phillis Wheatley, 26 October 1775 Enclosure: Poem by Phillis Wheatley, 26 October 1775

Wheatley's ode to Washington
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Founders Online: Phillis Wheatley to George Washington, 26 October 1775 Phillis Wheatley to George Washington, 26 October 1775

Washington was responding to an ode in his honor that Wheatley wrote and sent to him.
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