Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. March 3rd 1861

A photo of Earth taken by the crew of Artemis II.

Born in fire, battered by the wreckage of colliding worlds, covered for eons in magma, wracked by volcanoes, frozen and thawed again and again, and after everything went just wrong and right enough, here it is: our home. The rarest gift in the known universe.

Happy Earth Day.

I still think polls mask how significantly former Republicans are shifting toward identifying as independents. In places where voter tallies are relatively low, this has some potential to be a substantial lever against trumpist/maga candidates.

The Army of Northern Virginia is under new management

terminal Billionaire Brain

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The word “commercially” is more generous here than anyone realizes.

google Murc’s Law

this mindset was also instrumental to the rise of the third Reich. There was a very widespread belief in post WWI Germany that internal divisions, primarily from ethnic subgroups, were the primary driver of the Kaiser’s failures in rallying the nation near the end of the war.

Dershowitz is a waiver wire pickup for the GOP

One of the best GMs in recent history was Scot McCloughan, whose own humanity was his greatest strength and greatest weakness. He was personable enough with players that he could build a team on the backs of little known and/or undrafted players but got fired for being an alcoholic.

the fact that the most effective argument against ranked choice voting is “voters are too dumb to understand it” really explains a lot about this electorate.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

Every generation of arms merchants has its own version of this claim: someone else will do the bad thing, so it's not bad when we do it. "Theatrical debates" is meant to contrast thinking about the appropriate use of violence as mere performance art, whereas killing people is sober realism.
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Conservatism is performative, not functional. It’s a political expression of grievance and discontent.

There should be an option for muting any account that follows over 200 people.

Anyone who believes trump at this point simply *wants* to, despite the near perfect record of being made to look foolish for doing so. I have to wonder if this sort of thing is some sort of genetic bug that he has completely hijacked. Seeing this happen consistently and at scale is remarkable.

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It’s hard, nay impossible, to understand Milam’s (extremely common for the time) thought process here without understanding that Americanism for many people was, and remains, a mere tentacle of white supremacy.

death to political boomerism

This type of thing is so much more effective than podcasting if you want to run for office.

Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine,

July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.

Incredible work

American sculptor Daniel Chester French, creator of the marble masterpiece in the Lincoln Memorial, working in his studio “Chesterwood” in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

The problem with originalism is that there are differing histories, diametrically opposed in many cases, defining what is/was quintessentially and traditionally American. To be originalist is to play a historical matching game that makes jurisprudence more of a clerical exercise than a logical one.

I’ve been making an ongoing thread about this because the right has been disguising their sins as concerns about grooming children, especially girls -

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I’ve been making an ongoing thread about this because the right has been disguising their sins as concerns about grooming children, especially girls -

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