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Restaurant owner. Aspiring amateur historian. Flaming liberal. Packer, Nuggets, Badger, Bucks fan.
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The Epstein grand jury records that were unsealed today contain some entirely unsurprising revelations
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"Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?" W.E.B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, 1935
HAHAHA the W. E. B. Du Bois chair and Dean of social sciences wants you to know that faculty should be punished for encouraging students to protest www.thecrimson.com/article/2024...
Faculty Speech Must Have Limits | Opinion | The Harvard Crimsonwww.thecrimson.com Faculty Speech Must Have Limits | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
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This is a New York Times op-ed about Netanyahu, suggesting that the U.S. government's patience with him should come to an end. It was published twenty-six years ago.
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Great interview with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, with sharp observations about the "political correctness in comedy" discourse www.nytimes.com/2024/06/08/m...
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Copyright vs. Shakespeare A #PoliCartoon by me and Rachel Swirsky. Link to blog post & transcript in the replies!
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Making emancipation a US war aim transformed the Civil War, James A. Garfield declared in 1868 on Decoration Day (the precursor to Memorial Day). It "made the soul of John Brown the marching companion of our soldiers," he said. "The struggle consecrated...every man who bore a worthy part.” 🗃️
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Dawned on me awhile ago: Donald Trump: inherited 8-figure business from dad, billionaire RFK Jr: wealthy lawyer and basically a trust fund Kennedy kid Cornell West: Harvard prof with tax issues Jill Stein: perennial Green candidate/grifter Joe Biden: actual middle class guy
A broad coalition of the Kennedy family will endorse President Biden on Thursday at a campaign rally in Philadelphia, rejecting one of their own in Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose independent bid has worried some Democrats.
Kennedy Clan to Endorse Biden, in a Show of Force Against R.F.K. Jr.www.nytimes.com More than a dozen members of the storied political family will appear with the president in Philadelphia, rejecting one of their own as he worries Democrats with an independent bid.
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if there’s one thing i’ve learned it’s that the following is true more often than not, and that people also will refuse to accept all three can be true simultaneously
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What’s the best episode of television you’ve ever watched? youtu.be/q2Z0VDDhC-M?...
What's the best episode of television you've ever watched?
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