Yes

Stand by it!

Trump Will Participate in a Marathon Bible Reading

Instant cosmic wedgie: "Pride goes before a fall—Proverbs 16:18" 

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The night before: I went to Ohio, and Miami University’s archives handed me chills: Sojourner Truth’s carte, back scrawled 'I heard her'

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Primary Source, Live: In Conversation with Sarada Peri, former speechwriter for Barack Obama Monday, 8:30pm.

Excited to talk to @saradaperi.bsky.social, who was a Senior Speechwriter for Obama, on Monday at 8:30pm EDT

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Subreddit mods, the lot of them

Such a lively crowd at the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati—and the Cincinnati Museum Center brought me pre-keynote delights, including Thomas Jefferson puzzling through hot air balloons!

If Joe Biden had said/done xyz, Republicans would have already launched a full-spectrum offensive—outrage everywhere, message discipline absolute, no nuance, no grace, total obstruction.

That’s the playbook. Follow it.

They love merch so

Citations, citations, citations

The Art of the Dollar: Trump Wants to Be the First President to Put His Signature on U.S. Currency Most Americans aren’t tracking who signs the dollar.

When money carries a leader's name, the country starts to read as an extension of that person. Criticism risks sounding like disloyalty; institutions look secondary.

We've never had it for good reason. Trump wants it for all the wrong ones.

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Doing a close read of ChatGPT's response only makes it worse.

"Keep the blade clean" 😳 Jesus the word choice is terrifying

AI Told Me to Drop the Bomb. On Easter, Trump Made the Same Argument. I Tried AI: Part V.

In December, I gave AI a war-ending bomb scenario.
One system chose to drop it. In February, it wobbled, so I sat on it.

Then, on Easter morning, the President of the United States threatened to bomb civilian infrastructure. I got up 👇:

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And yet, my mind will immediately return to its preferred state.

AI Told Me to Drop the Bomb. On Easter, Trump Made the Same Argument. I Tried AI: Part V.

In December, I gave AI a war-ending bomb scenario.
One system chose to drop it. In February, it wobbled, so I sat on it.

Then, on Easter morning, the President of the United States threatened to bomb civilian infrastructure. I got up 👇:

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Volunteer — Lindsey Boylan for City Council District 3

It’s my birthday 🎉 and I have one wish!
Come knock doors with us.

Best gift I could ask for. lindseyfornyc.com/volunteer

I still fear no one will sign up, let alone come, so these little notes in the itinerary really mean a lot

No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In

Idk feels like a missed biopportunity, like Richard Fausset reports from the American South, covering federal disaster response and claims of divine relocation to Waffle Houses

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Congress Is Betraying America’s Founders by Ceding Power to Trump The Constitution gives Congress the power to check the president. Lawmakers have punted on their duty since Donald Trump retook office.

Historian Alexis Coe blasts Congress for building the modern presidential monster, arguing they’ve abdicated their Article I powers through drift and partisanship, leaving only courts to enforce the lines they refuse to draw.

StoryGraph review of You never forget your first: a biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe, 3.75 stars Nonfiction. Biography. History. Challenging. Informative. Medium-paced.

Saw this being talked about on this app and glad I checked it out. You may have read other GW biographies, but this succeeds in offering something new.

You never forget your first: a biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe

#Booksky #BooksMark

A desk has a laptop open on it, showing a baseball game, next to a stand holding up YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR FIRST, by Alexis Coe. A desktop computer is visible in the background.

Taking my lunch hour with the Phillies and @alexiscoe.bsky.social in the office today.

#PHIvsWSH

Second part of my Q&A with @alexiscoe.bsky.social! We really get into the heart of the book in this one.

Part II is out today! alexiscoe.substack.com/p/a-new-wash...

Part II out tomorrow!

Wordy Wednesdays: A Q&A with Rebecca Traister “How could you not have told these stories?”

I revisited a Q&A I did with @rtraister.bsky.social on writing public history as a journalist in 2021—and it struck me as too good not to resend!

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Right, both those things can be and were true. Check out Mount Vernon, who is pretty conservative, for all of what has been said re enslaved people, as well as most works on Washington.

At the time of his death in 1799, George Washington owned 123 people at the time of his death. That does not include the enslaved people owned by the Custis family.

A New Washington Book That Doesn’t Look Away: A Q&A with John Garrison Marks (Part I) Upcoming Events

Washington freed the people he enslaved. That’s the story we’re told. The reality was something different.

A Q&A with @johngmarks.com on his great new book—the first of two. It’s that important.

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I had to look up everyone but myself—which is, I gather, confirmation!