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ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A. After realizing he’s American, they just slink away. Their only explanation: “Why were you running?” Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.

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You can win an award from your university for arguing that people of color don’t deserve rights and then go on a rant about how the Jews should be destroyed but if you say Palestinians are people you can have your university destroyed for supposedly being anti Jewish

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Prompted by that UF paper: I think we're going to see more "mainstream" rightwing voices claiming that the 14th and 15th amendments are illegitimate.

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there was a concerted elite effort over the past five years to make America as bigoted as possible, conducted so openly that Chris Rufo was simultaneously tweeting "i am going to be lying about this subject" and being quoted on the precise subject he declared that he was lying about in the NYT

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Remember all those pundits that mocked @jamellebouie.net for saying that anti-DEI in the GOP simply was pro-segregation?

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wait what? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

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Fundamentally, American media culture places more prestige on being wrong cleverly than being right simply. They’ll spend 50,000 words sucking off a Nazi with a polysyllabic vocabulary before they interview the nice lady who volunteers at the animal shelter because she likes dogs.

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Well this is bonkers. And I once again believe truly in my heart that the overwhelming majority of Americans (even white Americans) find this kind of stuff abhorrent.

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Well, if Israel denied it who are we, as journalists, to say?

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what are you supposed to do when the "good" political party doesn't treat a dozen credible sexual harassment claims as disqualifying for a political candidate. how are you supposed to ignore that

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Are American men okay? (No, no they are not.)

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The Cuomo storyline is dark and getting darker all the time. Even if he loses, it really reveals that a lot of the Democratic Party is irredeemable. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/n...

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hottest day of the year

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"That misconception is common.... But in reality, there is no guaranteed path to citizenship for undocumented military family members." So much of our immigration politics arises from the public thinking we have a reasonable and humane system. thewarhorse.org/military-fam...

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Does anyone know of any recent books on early America (broadly defined; I've gone as far as 1860 and throughout the western hemisphere) that we should have reviewed for H-Early-America? Please recommend your own book if you have one out.

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And, of course, that narrative is far more accurate to the reality than most other available narratives. While it's not really why I started studying slaver, one reason I'm really happy I did was that it exposed me, very deeply to that counter-narrative.

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Many people in the past are hard to like for a lot of reasons. Lincoln is hard NOT to like.

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Tennessee's youth transition ban is straightforwardly discriminatory. It bans puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries only when they are used to affirm a trans identity www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bi...

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Fossilized Footprints - White Sands National Park: New dating confirms White Sands footprints in New Mexico are 23,000 years old - pushing the date of human arrival in the Americas earlier, more on our page..

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this means that he doesn’t want to do anything and is hoping that it will resolve itself by then, or at least become normal enough that he can ignore it

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Bush et. al. so successfully muddied the water and kept real information under wraps that I feel like this is not only as big a lie but a far more blatant one than anything they said.

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I don't think Tyler Austin Harper is stupid, I think he's malicious

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New H-Early America Review: Florian Wieser on Andrew Lipman, "Squanto: A Native Odyssey," networks.h-net.org/group/review... @yalepress.bsky.social

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I said something once in a class (nope, not saying what) that made me want to slink away and never teach the class again. Obviously I didn't do that but a couple of students helpfully reminded me of it in their course evaluations.

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I have died of secondhand embarrassment watching this video

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Even through the narrow lens of polling, discriminating against trans people is unpopular. People who say they want bathroom and sports bans in the abstract don’t want cops outside concert restrooms checking IDs or schools appointing gender inspectors. Similar dynamic on many issues!

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Happy Juneteenth, all of us need to know what the holiday is for and how the legacy of slavery touched so many policy areas and aspects of American life creating inequalities that persist today. nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...

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Does anyone know of any recent books on early America (broadly defined; I've gone as far as 1860 and throughout the western hemisphere) that we should have reviewed for H-Early-America? Please recommend your own book if you have one out.

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Is there a better time to read and review books than summer? I don't think so - and I'm looking for reviewers for lots of titles for the Journal of Contemporary History. We now do review articles of up to 4,000 words, covering three books. These and many more are up for grabs:

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Always, not just for #juneteenth, this exceptional work of Texas history is American history, family history is American history, Black history is American history!

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I take this as a personal attack.

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I love the naked mole-rat for similar reasons: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_m...

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At some point the penny has got to drop that "free speech" rhetoric in the US nowadays is about 1) elites being able to say whatever they want with no (typically social) repercussions and 2) the protection of conservative and reactionary speech. That's it.

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The thing about this is that you can DO this! If it’s legal then you can do it! What you can’t do is express these views without facing social consequences. So what he’s really saying is that students should be able to be assholes and still have other students be forced to go on dates with them

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Again: the free speech stuff has never been about your freedom. It is always and only ever about theirs, and about forcing you to accept their behaviour in respectful silence, no matter how horrific it is. This is entirely compatible with e.g. the Met kettling you at a protest.

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It's amazing that so much of American animosity towards Iran is driven by events that happened when I was around 4 years old. I'm nearly 50. And of course the US never reckons with why Iran might have grievances against the US (the coup, the Shah, arming Iraq, flight 655, etc.).

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I know this is hopelessly naive, but everyone in Congress should oppose Trump making war on Iran b/c doing so without Congressional approval would be plainly unconstitutional and yet another erosion of Congressional authority. The merits of the war are irrelevant in this calculation.

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There's nothing that Congress loves more than forfeiting its warmaking powers to the president. Doing so has been a longstanding bipartisan project, and the country deserves a better opposition party than one ready to go along with an Iraq War redux. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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an important difference is 9/11 was a real thing that happened and now it's just "we elected trump" but yes it was completely fucked up and insane in a way it is hard to explain

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Yeah, we did this in the US. Years of telling students that they need to be ready to listen to all sides and then a swift transition to locking them up for writing op-eds in the student newspaper.

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