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Historian: ritual and culture, fraternal groups, symbolism. Writer of textbooks, college educator.
It is an absolute necessity that Democrats redistrict this way. Every state legislator Democrat who gives up the slightest bit of "fairness" on redistricting is inexcusably assisting the Republican party's assault on democracy.
Dog if we’re playing the gerrymandering game we need to go big or home. I want every district in New York State running into New York City so that every single one is blue. Not a single Republican from California. Every seat in Illinois runs through Chicago.
An intelligent president would invite important historians like Doug Irwin to the WH to discuss interplay of tariffs, capital accumulaion, immigration. Without massive immigration 100+ yrs ago, business/industrial expansion would've happened much more slowly. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
Doug Irwin, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, on Trump’s trade war, the myth of protectionism, and what history teaches us about tariffs
one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules
For $5/month or $60/yr you get access to PBS Passport and the entire Masterpiece library plus Great Performances, etc. Defunded but not defeated. www.pbs.org/passport/lea...
Watch full episodes of your favorite PBS dramas, find in-depth news analysis and explore documentaries on history, science, art and more!
Wonder if there’s a way to use these without sounding like a bot.
Hate sells. See George Wallace, Lester Maddox, Ronald Reagan (cheerful hate), Richard Nixon, Newt Gingrich. and most of the current Republican members of congress and all of MAGA, etc. etc.
Almost like it was coordinated with our adversaries.
"Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?" (spoken aloudⓘ; is a quote attributed to Henry II of England preceding the death of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170. It prompted four knights to travel to Canterbury, where they killed Becket..." en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no...
A lot of it is laziness. To fight for what you think is right is to not be lazy. To surrender, to be supine and diffident & to make lame justifications to preserve one's imagined "influence" on a wannabe dictator is the definition of laziness.
King Donnie I: “Will no one rid me of this troublesome labor statistician?”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no...
