Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם)

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Award-winning community college prof, writer, editor, historian of Texas Jews and the Galveston Movement. Edited a memoir about Eagle Pass, coming in October 2024. Alte kaker in training.

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Outstanding viewpoint from Tressie McMillan Cottom. "What a nation like Greece shows is that Jan. 6 is an anomaly only once before it becomes routine." www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/o...

Opinion | Whoever the Democratic Candidate Is, Americans Have Already Lostwww.nytimes.com The American Republic feels fragile.

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If leadership of your org is more concerned with accelerationism than preventing fascism, then you’re not leftist or progressive in any meaningful sense. You’re a wrecker who wants to see a lot of people die unnecessarily.

The view that Trump is bad but Biden is worse is not liberalism, progressivism, leftism, or socialism. It's insanity or corruption, probably both.

As a hurricane is headed to the Texas Coast, concern is rising that Governor Abbott will preemptively shut off our power.

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This photo is pure 2024.

The view that Trump is bad but Biden is worse is not liberalism, progressivism, leftism, or socialism. It's insanity or corruption, probably both.

Looking forward to forgetting the name of another British prime minister.

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😳😳. This is why business need DEI…. Geez.

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

A few months before he was reelected overwhelmingly, it was widely reported that Ronald Reagan napped during cabinet meetings.

President Biden told a gathering of Democratic governors that he needed to sleep more and to work less at night, but said he was staying in the race.

Biden Tells Governors He Needs More Sleep and Less Work at Nightwww.nytimes.com The president’s opening remark to a group of key Democratic leaders — that he was in the race to stay — chilled any talk of his withdrawal, participants said.

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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

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Happy Independence Day. This song always makes me cry, but now more than ever, because we actually have a king and lost our independence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R1t...

No More Kings - Schoolhouse Rock Boston Tea Partywww.youtube.com This song teaches about the pilgrims settling in America up to the Boston Tea Party (excluding the Boston Massacre). This song was voted #13 on the 30th Anni...

Trying to buy groceries for all Beryl scenarios: a) We have power, roads are fine, all is well; b) Roads are fine, we don't have power, leave for somewhere that does; c) Power's on, roads flooded, cook everything in the house; d) No power, no roads, dry cereal for a week.

Here are some happy American workers enjoying the benefits of Project 2025.

The Long Progressive Era, 1895-2025. www.businessinsider.com/clarence-tho...

Clarence Thomas takes aim at a new target: Eliminating OSHAwww.businessinsider.com Justice Clarence Thomas argued that OSHA's authority was unconstitutional. He dissented from the court's decision to reject a challenge to the agency.

As if the threat level wasn't already high enough, now my grocery store has gone and sold me blueberry bagels in a bag labeled cinnamon raisin.

Trump provided three justices to the Court's radical majority, but the Presidents Bush provided the other three -- a reminder for those who still think there are different kinds of Republicans.

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Is there a name for the law by which gallows humor gets less funny in direct proportion to how close the actual gallows are?

Man, it's been a busy and stressful hurricane season. What letter are we up to? Like S, T?

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There is an American exceptionalism embedded in the idea that y'all think you can just pick up and leave and go wherever you want. It's cute you think you'd be welcomed. Americans aren't exactly popular in the world.

I will be straight up, considering the United States’ behavior towards refugees fleeing persecution, I’m not sure that Americans who try to do the same shouldn’t have their passports flagged and be asked to leave. But ESPECIALLY if you try to flee to a country USA has interfered with.

With fear for our democracy, I [everything].

It can take years to ratify a constitutional amendment, often decades, occasionally centuries. Congress should start today.

"My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. And I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution." Barbara Jordan during the congressional Watergate hearings, July 24, 1974.

She should say the gun was necessary for an official act.

GOP Rep. Victoria Spartz was charged on Friday with a weapons violation at Washington Dulles International Airport, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Airports Authority told CNN.

Rep. Victoria Spartz charged with weapons violation at Dulles Airport | CNN Politicscnn.it GOP Rep. Victoria Spartz was charged on Friday with a weapons violation at Dulles Airport, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Airports Authority told CNN.

Is there any legal reason that a president should be immune from prosecution but members of Congress shouldn't?

Going to get a lot of use out of my historian superpower today -- retreating into the past. 🗃️

American protesters who want ceasefire, Palestinian sovereignty, and an end to the Netanyahu regime should explicitly align themselves with Israeli protesters who want the same things. The fact they don't is ... curious. www.cnn.com/2024/05/25/m...

Police and protesters clash in Tel Aviv as rallies across Israel demand Gaza ceasefire | CNNwww.cnn.com Police and protesters clashed in Tel Aviv on Saturday night after a day of rallies calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and the return of all hostages, according to several videos posted on social media.

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The neighborhood I grew up in. If you're doing this on Shabbat in a heavily Jewish neighborhood in the middle of the night, we get the message, and it ain't simply a pro-Palestinian one. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Neighbors remain on edge after overnight protest outside Rep. Brad Schneider's home in Highland Park, Illinoiswww.cbsnews.com The City of Highland Park said officers arrived on the scene within minutes and saw around 40 protesters, carrying banners and shouting "pro-Palestinian and antisemitic chants" using loudspeakers and ...

Let's not forget that if Biden loses in November, he'll still be eligible to run again in 2028.

Biden 2024: Eat Your Vegetables.