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Historian, Nature and Culture, author of Orange Empire and Wild Men and editor of A Companion to American Environmental History https://sites.google.com/view/douglassackman/home
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No means no. (As someone said).

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"Hands UP" OMG, what a tell. Next up: "Our spirit is high—we put the Frisky in Stop and Frisk"

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The 24 dollar question is if in Miller's eyes things went bad with the Dutch, or after them?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I for one am tired of Humanities academics pushing their elitist agenda of basic literacy, independent thinking and an elementary knowledge of human history

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

All of us who urged the Dems to run on Constitutionally expanding SCOTUS knew this was in the cards. To Alito, this is a war, and they are happy to provide the ammunition, and pull the triggers, to kill Democracy.

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You first Robby!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

It's called the "spoiled system"

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Essence of bullshit, perfectly captured. 🤌

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Don't take it from me Take it from a neocon (and fine historian)

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How it started. How it finished. Cool showery day for a pb on the marathon down the Cascade Trail. (Including the tunnel where Sinema broke her foot, remember her?) (Not shown: pain, especially miles 21-25)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

Boom.

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

Beverly Hillbilly Elegy

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God bless Canada!

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

This woman is a wonder

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Great that they contextualized this with the Chavez Ravine removals, and the fraught history of the Dodgers' and their Latino/a fans. My immigrant grandmother used to take us out to this ballpark (in the days of Steve Garvey, now a GOP politician).

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

My leftist position is that living in a safe environment is a right.

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“When the battle’s playing out on a hundred fronts at once, we have to remember that there’s no single court ruling, no existential moment, no single referendum on ‘transgender rights’ that’ll decide how this struggle will go,” says Jules Gill-Peterson www.wired.com/story/histor...

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