Cameron Zinsou

There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.

Me, minding my own business, getting ready to go to Wisconsin tomorrow for a wedding.

Also me, a DFW native and lifelong Cowboys fan.

Jersey Jones, *exists*

🤦🏽‍♂️

The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery.

Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.

The horrors ‘12 Years a Slave’ couldn’t tell | Al Jazeera America What a Civil War soldier’€™s diary tells us about Solomon Northup’s ordeal

I wrote an essay a few years ago about a U.S. soldier during the Civil War who visited the plantation where Solomon Northup (of 12 Years A Slave fame) was enslaved. The soldier wrote in his diary that the horror of slavery was even worse than what Northup had written.
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I can't believe how many tall people shop at CostCo

I love to go to Chat GPT 5 with its alleged “PhD level expertise” and an ask it about my MA thesis work and see that it really cannot do that level of academic work whatever. It can do a SIMULACRUM of that work, which might fool you if you did not have any expertise.

Yes we did! Which is also so so crazy

And yes see Megan Koreman "Expectations of Justice" if you haven't already! Also have French titles to recommend if you or anyone else looking for more on épuration legale (ou sauvage😏😏)

I was thinking about this just the other day and came to a similar conclusion. Crazzzzzzy

25 for me

And you didn't give me any😒😒

This fucking corn sweat

It's me. I'm people.

Oh no Terminator is to me what No Country for Old Men and There Will be Blood and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford are to the y0uths

Oh god

Kansas City is still the frontier and I am living in it. Behold, my near death experience

Palestinian man detained at TX airport for 10 days despite valid visa, lawyer says He arrived in the U.S. on July 5 and has been detained in the airport without a change of clothes or access to legal counsel, according to a civil rights group.

He arrived in the U.S. on July 5 and has been detained in the airport without a change of clothes or access to legal counsel, according to a civil rights group.

Damn.

It's fit for every occasion

Oh to achieve the melodrama of revolutionary actors in their correspondence.

I shall henceforth begin all my text messages with, "crippled and dying as I am..."

-H.R. Kedward, 'In Search of the Maquis: Rural Resistance in Southern France 1942-1944,' pg. 5

... but it would be a falsification of the situation to say that French people…were as horrified as they should have been. The corrosion of exclusive nationalism and dehumanizing legislation had severely weakened many people’s willingness to identify racism and resist it.

The savage round-up and deportation of immigrant Jews in August and September 1942 provoked impassioned objections from individuals, and gave a new moral urgency to Resistance…The deportation of Jews revealed the essence of Nazism and the moral degradation of Vichy...

*Cowboys* level of embarrassing?

Your favorite musician @ashleyrattner.bsky.social

From Smithsonian description: "This ambitious chart presents U.S. political history on a single page. Moving from left to right, a timeline of parties, policies, persons, and events courses like a river through graphic space marked in four-year intervals. The analogy between politics and springs and rivulets (that jump and rejoin their banks) is the most conspicuous feature of the timeline. The parties appear in different colors. The ascendance of a party is gauged as its stream rises above the centerline, and above the streams of other parties. The thickness of a stream indicates the party’s strength. The diagram is meant to dramatize U.S. political history in a more accessible shape for educators and to offer a ready reference for scholars, statisticians, and statesmen. The chart itself, titled “Diagram of the Rise and Fall of American Political Parties, from 1789 to 1880, inclusive,” is from the Conspectus of the History of Political Parties and the Federal Government, by Walter R. Houghton, 1880"

Absolutely incredible graphic from 1880 tracing the history of political parties in the United States.

Damn this Halfrican gonna get up to some nonsense

Always wonder if I've ingested the same atom twice. Would be crazy

Still a genuine act of altruism to do. Even the b@ck the blu3 crowd do it

I will never lose faith in America so long as drivers continue to flash their lights to warn oncoming cars about nearby cops

Hell yeah let's go Beloit