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If you can get past the weird confederate shrine for the sailors in the museum, the wreck of the thing in Charleston is actually pretty cool.

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

I mean come the hell on…

The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

Franklin uttered the phrase on this very date (September 17), the last day of the Constitutional Convention, in 1787

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

Report: Disney to execute Lisa Simpson for insufficient respect shown to Charlie Kirk.

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments

this is quite genuinely insane, and I want to believe the backlash to this will be severe

What’s incredibly frustrating is that NPS rangers and staff are generally incredibly conscientious historic interpreters who are aware of the importance of history

The right wing billionaires are soon going to control almost every single major media outlet.

Liberals say that the United States has gone from being a democracy to being a dictatorship. They're wrong—it's gone from being a republic to being a dictatorship.

Auburn claiming 2004 here would be like NC State claiming the 2021 College World Series. Just because your fans loudly complain that you got screwed doesn't actually mean you have any standing lol

I'm just struck by this because man, nothing says "your state is failing" quite like "no one appears to be in charge of dealing with rotting human body parts strewn around"

We are in a deeply dangerous, illiberal place in America when the federal government will deploy law enforcement to force state legislators to act on legislation that's contrary to their conscience and an attempt to undermine free elections.

looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out

Everything about this story is horrific:

1. The student never mentions Jews
2. The university is going to expel a student for criticizing a country over genocide
3. A Republican congressman is taking credit and implying the student is a Muslim terrorist
4. The U.S. Justice Department is involved

The Trump administration's insinuation that George Mason University is some liberal hive of wokeness is utter horseshit. GMU's Mercatus Center is one of the leading free-market think tanks around D.C. Its law school is named after Antonin Scalia!

OTOH, GMU hired a Black man as its president.

No exaggeration, this is Declaration of Independence-level tyranny. It's indistinguishable from other "injuries and usurpations" listed by Jefferson in the document. Many don't come close to this level of arrogant hostility.

Far from the most important point, but it's embarrassing how poorly written this letter is. It's bad enough that you can tell it wasn't even written by AI. Someone in that White House is borderline illiterate. You wouldn't expect work this bad from a 7th grader.

hi, newspaper expert here. this isn't funny, newspapers only do this when they're in extreme distress

We are, and this is very literal, in a war for the human spirit. That is the framing of how the other side already sees it. And this is their vision.

Just voted! 😃 I do not live in New York City, so my local polling place was very confused, but after a lot of threats they took my ballot and put it in some kind of trash can-shaped ballot box, so I can say I did my duty. Punched an old person on my way out to stop them from voting for Cuomo.

i was promised no more history

Headline juxtaposition doesn't get much more Orwellian than this