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History called it weakness. But it was paralyzing grief.

28 days until her story is finally told. An Inconvenient Widow — May 19. Preorder: tinyurl.com/yc5uud3s

Black-and-white archival photograph of Lincoln's funeral train at a station, labeled "Lincoln's Funeral Train" in the bottom-left corner. A large locomotive draped in mourning decorations sits alongside passenger cars at a brick station building, with a crowd of onlookers gathered on the platform. April 1865.

A color map showing two train routes: the red line marking Lincoln's inaugural train route from Springfield to Washington, D.C. in 1861, and the black line marking the funeral train route from Washington, D.C. back to Springfield in 1865. The funeral route passes through Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, and Chicago before reaching Springfield, Illinois. Map credit: Kalmbach Publishing Co., TRAINS magazine, Rick Johnson, 2015.

On this day in 1865, Lincoln's body left DC on an 11-car funeral train bound for Springfield.

300 people were on it. So were the remains of his son Willie, who had died in the White House.

Mary Todd Lincoln was not. She stayed behind, drowning in her sorrow, while the nation mourned around her.

Opinion | The Truth About Mary Todd Lincoln

Good piece from @loisromano.bsky.social. Two things I think are helpful for understanding Mary Lincoln: 1) She was *exceptionally* well-educated for her time — one man watched her translate Victor Hugo on the fly, keeping the power of the original French — which may have had an alienating effect.

Opinion | The Truth About Mary Todd Lincoln

Thank you @loisromano.bsky.social. "Perspective shapes narrative. . . . Ultimately, who tells the story matters often as much as whose story is being told." @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social #academicsky www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/o...

Opinion | The Truth About Mary Todd Lincoln

My New York Times piece about when men write women's history, they often get it wrong.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/o...

Sad little 5"4' bully driven out of Minnesota.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Imagine what the real numbers are if this is what they're allowing to be published.

Federal judge appears skeptical that Trump has legal authority to proceed with White House ballroom | CNN Politics A federal judge expressed deep skepticism Thursday that the White House has legal authority to construct President Donald Trump’s massive new ballroom without express authorization from Congress.

A federal judge expressed deep skepticism that the White House has legal authority to construct President Donald Trump’s massive new ballroom without express authorization from Congress.

Mark Carney Says Firmly That ‘Canada Doesn’t Live Because of the United States’

Davos elevated Mark Carney to a global star. He'll be fine without Trump's little peace board. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/w...

We're in a very sad place.

An Inconvenient Widow A revelatory new biography of one of the most misunderstood and vilified First Ladies in American history: Mary Todd Lincoln.Mary Lincoln was at th...

Today would have been Mary Todd Lincoln’s 207th birthday — a woman history has too often misunderstood, minimized, or dismissed. I wrote An Inconvenient Widow to correct the record. The book arrives May 2026, and I’m excited to share it with the world! Preorder now: bit.ly/aninconvenie...

An Inconvenient Widow A revelatory new biography of one of the most misunderstood and vilified First Ladies in American history: Mary Todd Lincoln.Mary Lincoln was at th...

Today would have been Mary Todd Lincoln’s 207th birthday — a woman history has too often misunderstood, minimized, or dismissed. I wrote An Inconvenient Widow to correct the record. The book arrives May 2026, and I’m excited to share it with the world! Preorder now: bit.ly/aninconvenie...

We are so far off the playing field here we can't even see the stadium.

Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.

Rep. Nancy Mace threatens legal action after report accuses her of berating airport police | CNN Politics CNN’s Jake Tapper reports.

tinyurl.com/ysyepzum

Federal judge says border patrol chief admitted he lied, in ruling limiting federal agents’ use of force in Chicago | CNN A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction restricting the use of force by federal agents in Chicago, finding the Trump administration’s version of recent events involving agents was not credible...

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

UnitedHealthcare drops remote monitoring coverage in defiance of Medicare policies UnitedHealthcare will no longer pay physicians to remotely monitor the data that patients collect at home.

UnitedHealthcare drops remote monitoring coverage in defiance of Medicare policies www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/u...

Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

“The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues. “Who’s responsible for these choices? Your mother, apparently”: https://theatln.tc/LNqNkLuT

They're paying half the month, not half the payments.

What a nasty thing to say about a professional colleague. Norah asked tough questions and made news. As we know, he's a notoriously difficult interview, and she picked her spots skillfully.

‘Orwellian’: Current and former prosecutors alarmed after DOJ scrubs mentions of Trump and January 6 from court records | CNN Politics The Justice Department’s decision to sideline two US attorneys and remove mentions of Donald Trump and the US Capitol attack from court papers before the sentencing of a pardoned January 6 rioter is b...

We watched it happen in real time. We will remember
www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/p...

AOC: There was a day before his presidency, and there will be a day after — and it belongs to us.

Bessent on Trump bailing out Argentina: "It is America first because we are supporting a US ally."

Someone want to tell Mikey here that 86% of all SNAP benefits go to households that include a child, an elderly person, or a person with disabilities?

Or that almost 40% of SNAP recipients are children?

And that Whites account for 37% of SNAP recipients?

So the new head of Post editorials fires the copy editing staff, and then this....

Page One.

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