I only found out recently that when Jefferson went to France, the nobility was asking him about his deadline to end slavery while he was hiding his slaves (including the child “bride” he assaulted for years) in his hotel room like a sitcom dad hiding his collection of car magazines in the closet.

one reason this is important is that it makes so much about the period more emotionally legible. when lafayette is asking washington why he won’t just free his slaves, it isn’t an abstract thing; dude is literally at mount vernon and seeing all of these human beings in bondage!

Feel-good update via @emptywheel.bsky.social: None of the responses submitted to the Trump censorship request hotline have demanded that history be bowdlerized www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/20/n...

It’s the NYT trying to cover their own asses for helping to diminish trans people’s rights, by trying to paint themselves as just going along with “normal gay” interests. It’s a crock of shit. Cis gay people overwhelmingly support trans people and overwhelmingly also vote Democratic