Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
Christopher Jones
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Historian of religion + race in North America + the Atlantic World. Editor, Journal of Mormon History. Also #BHAFC / #RSL.
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I'm not reflexively anti-technology. I was always that guy at my uni who was eager to try out some new thing that might be a cool new way for students to learn. But those new things were just tools we could choose to use, they weren't the entire ocean in which we had no choice but to swim.
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“Higher ed should make us more fully human. And more fully human people are better. They’re better engineers. They’re better scientists. They’re better mothers. They’re better fathers.”
Utah Valley University President Astrid Tuminez to Utah state legislators.
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This is so wholesome.
allow me to introduce you to Kent from Houston, who has a TikTok account dedicated to trying restaurants from cultures he hasn’t experienced before, anywhere his commenters tell him to go:
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Yep.
I spent a week in DC last month. Far from being a crime-ridden and dangerous city, it mostly seemed dead. Unlike any other time I’ve visited. Comparatively few tourists and a general malaise seemed to hang over downtown. It was weird.
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I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
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(I'm not saying this site has one-to-one replaced my Twitter feed -- nothing has -- but the version of Twitter I found useful and informative in 2018 has vanished and continuing to use it would be like trying to keep up with my friends on Friendster, if Friendster were also full of Nazis now.)
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I remember very clearly that Mark Steyn had - maybe still has - a talking point about how conservatives are more healthy than liberals because they have hobbies and a whole life outside politics.
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Huh?
