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Remembering Tom Paine Readers might like to sample the following birthday toast in honour of the English political writer Thomas Paine (1737 – 1809). It was prepared for a dinner hosted by Graham Allen MP, Chair of the Pol...

Happy belated birthday to the forgotten Founding Father and true Revolutionary #TomPaine theconversation.com/remembering-...

29/01/1736 (n/s 09/02/1736): Birthday of #TomPaine

29/01/1736 (n/s 09/02/1736): Birthday of #TomPaine

29/01/1736 (n/s 09/02/1736): Birthday of #TomPaine

29/01/1736 (n/s 09/02/1736): Birthday of #TomPaine

29/01/1736 (n/s 09/02/1736): Birthday of #TomPaine

29/01/1736 (n/s 09/02/1736): Birthday of #TomPaine

29/01/1736 (n/s 09/02/1736): Birthday of #TomPaine

29/01/1736 (n/s 09/02/1736): Birthday of #TomPaine

29/01/1736 (n/s 09/02/1736): Birthday of #TomPaine

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Paine, the Revolution’s voice, was an immigrant with a British accent. National myth erases his outsider origins to serve present identity. We crown prophets after scrubbing their passports. His foreign lens saw hypocrisy; we forgot that for a cleaner legend. (Foner; Keane) #TomPaine #Mythmaking

The Trump administration pushed out a university president – its latest bid to close the American mind | Robert Reich Demanding that the University of Virginia’s president resign is taken from the Viktor Orbán playbook of authoritarianism

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‘Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.’ by @robertreich.substack.com.web.brid.gy could come from the pen of my fellow Thetfordian Thomas Paine.
#uspolitics #TomPaine #Thetford

Tom Paine’s Bridge - Commonplace We do not often think of Paine as a revolutionary inventor. But in a very real sense, that is what he believed himself to be.

#TomPaine saw in bridge design a handmaiden of social and political change. In encouraging freedom of movement, bridges could free individuals to better themselves to prosper and become true citizens with a vested interest in the political nation.
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Remembering Tom Paine Readers might like to sample the following birthday toast in honour of the English political writer Thomas Paine (1737 – 1809). It was prepared for a dinner hosted by Graham Allen MP, Chair of the Pol...

Today (and every day for the next four years) is a very good day to remember America's forgotten Founding Father #TomPaine, thank you for the reminder
@professorjkeane.bsky.social theconversation.com/remembering-... via @theconversation.com

29/01/1736 (n/s 09/02/1736): Birthday of #tompaine

29/01/1736 (n/s 09/02/1736): Birthday of #tompaine

29/01/1736 (n/s 09/02/1736): Birthday of #tompaine

29/01/1736 (n/s 09/02/1736): Birthday of #tompaine

29/01/1736 (n/s 09/02/1736): Birthday of #tompaine

29/01/1736 (n/s 09/02/1736): Birthday of #tompaine

29/01/1736 (n/s 09/02/1736): Birthday of #tompaine

29/01/1736 (n/s 09/02/1736): Birthday of #tompaine

29/01/1736 (n/s 09/02/1736): Birthday of #tompaine

29/01/1736 (n/s 09/02/1736): Birthday of #tompaine