#AmeriCAN

James 🏄🌊🇺🇸

nixw20

A veteran's perspective on a civil disruption: the thread.People are saying the big W word and worrying it could happen. It won't happen because it cannot happen. this thread is

Dan Bowen

bowendc

1/ Some thoughts about this NYTimes article on evangelicals and Trump. As background, I grew up in Iowa in a fundamentalist, non-denominational church, although not in the community highlighted in

two flames

msjenniferjames

Fascinating story. Small investors may yet bankrupt the hedge fund billionaires: by uniting to buy and hold stock in the US version of the high street’s Cex - it’s called

Arlen Parsa

arlenparsa

On 9/11 we didn't just lose 2,977 people. We lost our minds.Nobody knew it at the time, but within days the CIA started disappearing people and illegally torturing them. When

Barry Friedman

barryfriedman1

NYT reports on law firms abandoning the Trump election litigation, leading me to want to elaborate on something I tweeted a bit ago about Jones Day. 1/ I believe people

DING DONG THE RUSH IS DEAD

tonygoldmark

My biggest takeaway from living through the last two elections is, I NEVER in my life wanna hear anyone try to tell me voting doesn't matter.If anything, voting has proven

Sean T at RCP

SeanTrende

Crazy to think that Thurmond's strategy of throwing the election to the House in 1948 where Dixiecrats could play kingmaker came 10k voters in OH/CA away from working. 1/ I

train advocacy account

tirentu

i miss magic for every single reason except playing magic i miss drawing into top 8 of a showdown and going to the butcher shop to get a sandwich with

SteelKRAKEN! Ann Vandersteel

annvandersteel

1/ Hat Tip to my good friend Cheryl Irwin for this:In God we trustNot open for debate. I have listened to everyone else’s hatred and rhetoric for months, so now

N.R. Elliott

writeronabike

"Gee, Nate, you sure seem cynical about higher education these days! Why so bitter and angry?"https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/virtually-normal-montreal-student-tries-to-contact-his-online-prof-only-to-learn-he-s-dead-1.5288640 1. Univ

AlbanyMuskrat

albanymuskrat

1/1853 cover Scientific American featured design for electric railway by William Deitz, a Black man fr. #Albany. He was son of people enslaved in Hill Towns. Deitz started out as

Ross Douthat

DouthatNYT

Let's do a thread on my Sunday column, which provoked some understandably strong reactions:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/opinion/sunday/covid-19-trump.html Some of those reactions were misreadings, so it's worth emphasizing:I t

WarNuse

WarNuse

"What If I Told You That You Will Have A Black President Very Soon And He's A Communist?" she said. "This Is Not Some Idle Talk. He's Already Born, And

Rise of the Alien Queen

rise_alien

Before Trump (BT): Repubs acted upset about deficits. Now we have the largest deficit in historyThey used to say they were the party of family values; Then they elected a

G O L D I E.

goldietaylor

Woke up this morning to even more anchors and pundits putting platitudes about “working class Americans” and how troubled they are about Dems losing tight races for Senate and the

William Hogeland

WilliamHogeland

We seem to have confused the peaceful transfer of power between political parties--they were already doing it in England before we even were a country--with a) something fundamentally American and

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