Anthony Alaniz

I just graduated high school in 2007 and was making $5.15 an hour a year later when gas was $4.50 a gallon.

These prices are still cake by comparison.

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

The Myth of the ‘Loyal Black Confederate’ and the White Soldier Who Knew Better As a historian, I believe our first obligation is to understand the past on its own terms.

The Myth of the ‘Loyal Black Confederate’ and the White Soldier Who Knew Better #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

I am always puzzled by Christians who are so willing to lie. Do they not recall who their scriptures say is the father of lies? Are they sure they want to give birth to his children?

the Constitution explicitly states that the Framers were forming a "more perfect Union."

implicit in that wording is that they did not form a perfect Union.

it is, rather, for each succeeding generation of Americans to pursue the unending task of perfecting it, just a little bit more.

Ann Telnaes

Between Reagan's "welfare queens" and MJ singing "if you can't feed your baby, yeah yeah... then don't have a baby!" on Thriller, I KNEW I wouldn't have kids without resources before I left elementary school.

It is beyond gaslighting to ask young folks to have babies in a soft dictatorship. Please!

I did two back-to-back Google searches of the same question within seconds of each other and got two different answers…how!?!

I recently had Gemini hallucinate names when summarizing a YouTube video. If Google can’t even accurately summarize Google’s own content and data, how can you trust it for anything else?

This sounds like anti-American terrorism to me.

"may this Land continue to Embrace with her wonted Cordiality, every Oppress’d Subject from every other Quarter of The Globe"

- Horatio Gates to Benjamin Franklin, 23 February 1776

founders.archives.gov/documents/Fr...

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The reason these people have been attacking scholars and universities is that they stand in the way of the ahistorical bullshit they need to spew in order to construct white Christian nationalism

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

Little ol’ me, but I didn’t come up with the phrasing. I can’t recall where I heard it tho :(

About damn time

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

If a brown singer at a halftime show offends you enough to protest but white men raping young girls doesn’t, then it isn’t family values you defend it’s white supremacy and sexual abuse.

As is so often the case with this administration, it’s not the what, but the how. And then they pretend that critics are attacking the former rather than the latter. Don’t fall for it.
The rule of law does not permit the ends to justify the means. When you’ve lost Joe Rogan…

Cucks for Capitalism gathered in California today in desperate search of meaning not even their money can buy.

go off jack white

If you can't stand up for a fellow journalist when she's being ridiculously bullied and demeaned for asking a basic question of a public leader, you sure as hell aren't going stand up for anything as abstract as a national principle or ethos.

American journalism is dying. And with it, our republic.

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

In the mind of ICE, to be nonwhite is to be illegal. Anything short of total rejection of that abomination is playing along with it. Moderate Democrats take note.

Republicans Fear Freedom The alarming number of anti-trans bills highlight the party’s distaste for Liberty.

“But in reality, it’s their spitefulness and bigotry, wielded for centuries to deprive Liberty to countless Americans, that’s in direct contradiction to this country and its values.”

hopefulnihilist.substack.com/p/republican...

It’s been obvious for years. In 2021, I wrote: “To the GOP, to be American is to be white, Christian, and heterosexual, and any deviation is an affront against America itself.”

U.S. Reaches Trade Deal with Pedotopia

Not sure how @theonion.com stays on top of breaking news like this but the print edition just showed up at my house with this:

What the heck??