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inability? or unwillingness? it's been 12 years and they haven't changed how they cover Trump. at this point, there's no lack of knowledge on their part
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why would they?
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We had the historian Jaco de Swart in for a lecture recently where he talked about a brief period in the early '80s when suddenly everyone was pretty sure it was massive neutrinos. Then that fell apart, so it was on to WIMPs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xKI...
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this is just a thermobaric weapon
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there you go assuming they're looking at things in context and holistically instead of fixating on unverified stories told by people who don't themselves understand vaccines, physiology, or medicine
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So just to recap, the Transportation Secretary is scared shitless of public transport. The Education Secretary is being sued for enabling child sex abuse. The Health Secretary is bringing back measles. And the Defense Secretary is texting classified war plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic
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I've always wondered how the shift to digital will affect historical research in the future. Even before the days of short-lived chat apps, the life spans and anonymity of message boards, email, and texts have significantly reduced the ability of historians to get first hand words of their subjects.