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History teacher, dad, writer, cook. Loves to build long bridges. I write a history newsletter for my generation of folks who got not great history at school - https://badanalogytheater.beehiiv.com/
FIFA's first ever Peace Prize winner has become the first person to bomb a country out of participating in the FIFA World Cup.
CONFEDERATE RECKONING by Stephanie McCurry, 2010. Turns the Civil War inside out to look at what was happening to the non-slaveholders (esp women) in the Confederacy as they kept a society on life support, virtually by themselves, without representation or voice in the madness of a failed society.
Holy shit this! Every movie - every single one of them kills a parent or both parents and treats it like it's normal, CREATES a normal out of it. All life needs processing and discussion, don't act like you're neutral here or you CAN be neutral. - Signed, High School History Teacher
Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
There are two kinds of people in the world:
People who suffered, and think because of that, everyone else should suffer the way they did because otherwise it's not fair.
People who suffered, and think because of that, no one else should have to suffer either.
Be the second.
As silly as it sounds, I think this is one of those places where sports culture fails us - pundits and analysts are SO wrong SO often, and we almost always just do a collective shrug. Tons of them are former coaches and players aka "great men" so yeah.. we just never call them on their bullshit.
It's exactly this. Musk never gets called on the fact that he's been 10 years out from a moon colony for the last 16 years; Republicans never get called on anything; why wouldn't CEOs start testing out this new accountability-free zone and just say whatever's convenient to manipulate the moment?
Bad Bunny “together we are America”
So I was really curious why Bad Bunny wore a #64 jersey - is that a shot at the complete BS official death toll of 64 after Hurricane Maria or is that just a totally obscure connection?
Also, that show fucking ruled. How are you not moving to the beat, or getting misty eyed at God Bless America?
I've reread this like 3 times. Freed herself from slavery by running away, *went back a week later bc the slaver was talking shit, set his house on fire, and then escaped again is absolutely incredible queen shit
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"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
Goddamnit the accuracy.
Keep calling, folks.
Let me be the first to say that with Kai back... We're gonna need a bigger boat.
You can't reform this. It must be abolished.
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together.
The same nurse that they shot and killed would've been a nurse that would have worked endlessly to take care of them or their loved ones in the ICU.
This is the thought that I can't get out of my head right now.
nothing smacks of professional-grade logistics like FREE scrawled on a cardboard box in bubble letters
Absolute banger of a comment on r/military:
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NEW: Another declaration you have to read! Alex Pretti was shot near the apartment of a doctor, who saw the shooting occur and rushed to provide emergency aid as he lay dying on the street.
They describe what they saw: "The victim had at least three bullet holes in his back."
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
At this point, even by the strictest Hobbesian standards, this government has abandoned its duty to serve the public, and is illegitimate.
WTF is she talking about? Our country opposed the creation of a national police force into the 20th century, largely for the reasons we are seeing now. Congress didn’t even give the FBI arrest powers or the ability to carry firearms until 1934 (it was created in 1908)
This is what your cult leader told his cult followers they wanted. The rest of us said no. Fuck off.
Historian here, “The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitution and machinery, to politicians and statesmen for the safety of its liberties never will have any.” Abolitionist Wendell Phillips
I was a senior in high school when the bombing occurred, wound up working in a local TV newsroom on the day of his execution, it's just a part of my "growing up" phase.. and Oklahoma NEVER confronted who and what McVeigh was, and they would be the most stubborn supporters today if he had a MAGA hat.
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.