Patrick Wyman

I hadn’t even realized that was Bridges, holy shit that makes it so much better

Wu Tang, Triumph

This has to become a meme. I need this GIF.

Good point

We have to get members of Congress inside these facilities to report on what’s happening. It’s essential for human rights reasons - this surely isn’t good - and it’s also good politics, because whatever they find is going to be bad enough to further tank support for immigration enforcement.

Didn't realize McDaniels was the Pats' offensive coordinator (again) until gametime and then instantly felt better about the Seahawks' chances

My dad lived his entire life under the shadow of two alcoholic brothers and it took me decades to realize that I was also living in that shadow. There are plenty of people who can have fun with a drink or two; that's not alcoholism.

I had this exact conversation with a 40-something conservative guy at a party - he just couldn’t wrap his head around that

I’m talking Austin Powers in the bathroom stall levels of strain written all over their faces

I’m at a Super Bowl party and the amount of strain it’s taking for every conservative man here to ignore Bad Bunny is breathtaking to behold, especially while all their wives are LOCKED in

Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin La date du 16 juin avait été dans un premier temps pressentie pour son entrée au Panthéon, mais la cérémonie a dû être décalée de quelques jours en raison du G7 à Evian-les-Bains.

Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin

Yes I’m aware, the individual I’m writing about in the episode was exported, hence my focus

Liking "Sapiens": Epstein Class

Oh, wow, great call.

Wild that you got to see that

No, worth it?

This is the most cursed sentence I’ve read in a while

Very much same, a heartbreaking place

Ours was normal until we were on our way out of the city and passed a full military convoy roaring off to, we learned later, suppress a protest and arrest enemies of the state

Entirely believable, how many of the soldiers were smoking while slamming into the bar

What was your experience of it? So curious

Gadsden lived a bit after the high point of the trade in South Carolina but his father had been a customs collector in Charleston right during its heyday

Gonna need somebody to make this meme happen, because it's literally perfect Mattie

Going to Rome for the first time in decades later this year and I'm really curious as to whether I'll feel that same vibe there, knowing what I know now but didn't 23 years ago

Still have nightmares about Tuol Sleng and the killing fields pretty regularly, it had rained the night before we went and human bone and clothing were poking up through the surface

Not AS much but yes it was still exploitative and often brutal; the line between indentured servitude and slavery was also a lot thinner than the distinction makes it seem

We were walking through the city and stopped outside the Emanuel AME Church, it took me about two minutes of wondering where I'd heard that name before I remembered Dylann Roof

Most of the scholarship I've read has drawn a direct line from the the up-to-their-necks-in-slaving early years of South Carolina to its godawful antebellum political culture, not hard to get from there to the present state of the Republican Party

I'm writing a Past Lives episode on the Indian slave trade in Colonial America and I didn't realize that Charleston was the entrepot for exporting tens of thousands of enslaved indigenous people everywhere from Boston to Barbados, not just importing enslaved Africans

I've been to lots of cities around the world and the most "haunted by the spectres of their pasts" vibes I've gotten were in Phnom Penh (where you can still see ex-Khmer Rouge hanging out) and Charleston, where it feels like slavery's evils are in every single cobblestone and grand old structure