Charles Louis Richter

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Historian: of American religion/irreligion by training; of science & conspiracy by trade

Podcast research/factcheck: SNAFU with Ed Helms; The Reason We're All Still Here; My Fugitive, more

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Gave proof through the night That our flag was still there 🫡

NYT Opinion | Why I Don't Drink From Our Only Canteen While We're Stranded in the Desert by A Completely Quenched Guy

he's upset that they are entitled to a vote

And the Telegraph winds up its election coverage with one last ‘fuck all of you’.

onde-onde for the holiday

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I don’t know how to explain to our nation’s top editorial boards that the Democratic Party is an actual organization with a lot of rules and history to it, not just a store that distributes team jerseys, and it has already selected delegates to its nominating convention.

Cannot emphasize enough how pathetic these editorial boards are revealing themselves to be.

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I can think of no reason the Capitol treason should ever be forgot.

It really is a weird symmetry that this year the UK elections are the 4th of July and the US elections are the 5th of November.

gentle reminder that the holiday celebrating *freedom* was a couple weeks ago

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someone tell the economist about FDR

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

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Happy fourth

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Happy

sorry, Merlin bird app, but I sat there and watched one single bird fool you with most of these

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I don't think Confederate monuments belong anywhere, let alone at Gettysburg This is what happens when sites/monuments/holidays/names are decontextualized

www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

Opinion | Gettysburg’s Lost Cause Problemwww.nytimes.com The site of the battle is hallowed ground, but it is littered with Confederate propaganda.

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the times had *art* made for this, but they didn't bother to fact check the whole "i don't vote" claim

One thing about the “Why I don’t vote” guy that may be especially interesting to journalists from the Washington Post and other outlets is that according to the public Michigan voter file, apparently he does vote

celebrate the fourth with this piece i wrote several years ago about why tetanus was a common side effect of independence day:

When real patriots got Tetanusamericanhistory.si.edu By the beginning of the 20th century our love of colorful explosions and loud bangs brought with it a scourge: a deadly infection that became known as "patriotic tetanus."

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If you have the Vichy Twitter mobile app on your cell phone at this point you are a sucker. Trusting Elon Musk with the permissions that app requires is insane bsky.app/profile/jedg...

Chrome extensions like blue blocker make the desktop version workable, but lack of the same on the app or mobile browser make it much worse. The blue check prioritization ruined the usage for me.

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It's a propaganda site. By going there you are absorbing propaganda chosen by an evil billionaire. Maybe you think you are a very special boy who, unlike other human beings, is immune to being influenced by propaganda so it's okay!

real twitter you could pretty tightly curate what you saw and vichy twitter it’s like being stuck on your dipshit uncle’s facebook page

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So DC water is out, which sucks, but on a positive note I got really into the DC water supply in 2022 and this is a great time to bring out fun facts The water's out because they found turbidity at Dalecarlia Reservoir west of the city, where DC has gotten much of its water supply since the 1850s

the gaiman allegations are pretty unsurprising to me, and their specific details dovetail neatly with the vibe he's given off for decades. his fanbase is devoted in a very particular way, and his kindly solicitousness has always made them feel a part of his world--a situation ripe for abuse.

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The two genders

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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 3,1961

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When you’re coming out of anesthesia and someone asks if it’s 6:30 or 6:50

this little buddy

this asshole

we can't stop here--this is cat country!

nobody: my cats at 3am: get in loser, we’re doing zoomies

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Please read this thread

1/ I'm agnostic as to whether Biden should withdraw from the race. It's a genuinely tough question IMO. But I have clarity on one thing: He should absolutely not step down as president. If Harris becomes President, the Vice Presidency is empty. Under the 25th Amendment ...

there is nothing in the text of this comic that indicates sluggo has not in fact created an enormous and catastrophically deadly pipe bomb

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 3,1947

check out these royals from the Robot Kingdom

Some more Frank R Paul cover art from 1929/1930. The 1st is his artwork for the September 1929 Science Wonder Stories:

the heritage foundation is a bunch of hijackers standing over the bodies of the flight crew and telling the passengers that no one else needs to get hurt if everyone just stays seated and does as they say

sure it’s heritage being heritage, but their continued escalation of the violent rhetoric and threats is not to be taken lightly. especially not after j6

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I do not regret analogizing these people to the men who took photos of themselves at lynchings www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

this asshole