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When asked how he worked out gravity, Sir Isaac Newton replied, “By thinking on it continually.” Magis studeo, magis revelat Deo est.
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Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

submitted 10 days ago • 1151 comments

Harvard University Press has published the definitive history of habeas corpus.

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

This isn’t a good idea even if the plane was being donated to the U.S. government. But Trump GETS TO KEEP THE PLANE??? It’s simply a cash payment to Trump in exchange for favors. Just wildly illegal.

submitted 25 days ago • 697 comments

The editing of the NYT fails America on a daily basis. Even when the reporting is good, which it often is, the framing of breathtaking news fails.

submitted 25 days ago • 16 comments

And not one Signal leak from the Conclave too.

submitted 28 days ago • 21 comments

1. How great is it to be elected Pope? 2. Will your team play hard this season or sulk? 3. Are you looking for a contract extension or is your agent advising holding out for a new deal?

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Habemus Papam! www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

If the Trump administration truly cared about the real problem of antisemitism (and not just as a ruse to bludgeon universities to curb academic freedom) how about starting by condemning the violence against PA Governor Shapiro and his family on Passover.

submitted 52 days ago • 65 comments

The United States Supreme Court, as packed by the Federalist Society, as supported by the Randy Barretts and Ilya Shapiros and Jonathan Turleys of America, is suited to squabble over what “facilitate” means but not to achieve justice or protect or defend the United States Constitution.

submitted 54 days ago • 59 comments

Historian of slavery and abolition here and I approve of this message you could add federal marshals hauling fugitive slaves to this meme

submitted 54 days ago • 5 comments

A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:

submitted 54 days ago • 217 comments

We often forget that the best government is the one we don’t think about much at all. Biden and Obama gave us years of competence and made all of this look much easier than it is.

submitted 60 days ago • 23 comments

BREAKING: Md federal Judge Paula Xinis GRANTS preliminary injunction, rules from the bench that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was apprehended "without legal basis" and removed to El Salvador illegally, "without any legal process." He's to be returned to the U.S. by 11:59 on Monday, 4/7.

submitted 62 days ago • 130 comments

NORTH CAROLINA!!!!! After five months The North Carolina Court of Appeals has decided to decide with Griffin and will be throwing out votes. HOWEVER MOST PEOPLE WILL HAVE 14 DAYS TO CURE THEIR BALLOT thegriffinlist.com 1/2

submitted 62 days ago • 31 comments

NC voters please do this. you can prevent your own disenfranchisement

submitted 62 days ago • 12 comments

So everybody just accepts now that the president can somehow push pause on a law he doesn't like?

submitted 62 days ago • 11 comments

Imagine complaining that the opposing candidate was "bought and paid for" when your guy *literally* had the richest man in the world handing out checks for a million dollars for your guy.

submitted 64 days ago • 825 comments

Good man. Good trouble. 25 hours of fighting back. John Lewis would be proud. Strom Thurmond can kick rocks.

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submitted 65 days ago • 2738 comments

Buying votes. Absolutely illegal.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

The White House Correspondents Association deems speaking truth to power to be “the politics of division.” They’ve joined the growing regiment of submission.

submitted 68 days ago • 287 comments

Learned from a newspaper ad woman in upstate NY and a bookshop owner in Montreal what this trade war could do to words. Much or most newsprint comes from Canada, soon subject to U.S. tariffs. & Canada is putting 25% on U.S. books. Which includes, get this, Handmaid’s Tale.

submitted 68 days ago • 72 comments