charlescmann.bsky.social
Author of "1491, "1493," and, most recently, "The Wizard and the Prophet." Working, inefficiently, on another book.
The background image is pretty old by now, but I like the pig. The avatar photo is only a couple years old, though, so that's something.
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The airline pilot's wife!
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Hard to answer, 'cuz it depends on the definition of "assimilate." But German/Scandinavian immigrants had German/Scand-language schools/churches/newspapers/etc for nearly 100 years, esp. in the plains, stopping only in WWII. In TX, there were 250 Czech villages ca. 1940. Many more stories like this.
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I just looked and he's getting quite a bit of flak. There is a proposed Community Note that isn't quite accurate, but good enough.
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Someone just told me that Walsh is of Irish descent, which is backed up by his Wikipedia entry. Chances are good that the floods of foreign-born people polluting New York City in the 1850s included some of his ancestors.
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Caveat: The percentage in 1880 was 39.6%, so technically not all the 1850-1900 period was more than 40%.
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I'm bewildered why you think that I, a freelance writer, employ David Frum.
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"First as tragedy, then as..."
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He truly is turning into George W. Bush.
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Here's the actual decision, which a pal over there sent to me:
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Yes, but thank you anyway.
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@azteclady.bsky.social reminds me that I forgot the alt-text. Images reposted here with it. By
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Oh, sorry! I usually do, but forgot. I'll append it.
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In any case, I'm looking forward to reading your history. Oregon history is interesting and bizarre.
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Statements about the future are always speculation, because we don't know what's going to happen. But by the same token this means we can't rule out a positive outcome (or, anyway, what I would regard as one). /rant :)
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The lower Snake has 13 native nations who have loads of lawyers, some of them the same people who got the CSTK bison range returned a little while ago. The Yakama, Umatilla, Warm Springs and Nez Perce are in it for the long haul, and I'd bet they're going to win eventually.
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The Klamath project, inspired by the Elwha, had the advantage of having bigger, better organized native nations behind it. The main Indigenous force behind the Elwha removal was the Lower Elwha Klallam, w/ fewer than a thousand members, whereas the Yurok are the biggest native group in CA.
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Agreed. The Elwha dams are in the Olympic Peninsula. Ownership was a tangle--they were in the national park, but privately owned. The utilities fought removal for decades, fearing that the Elwha project--then the world's biggest dam removal--would open the door to more. They were correct.
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It's wholly reasonable to be cynical in the short run, but the history of both the Klamath and the Elwha suggests that these doors, once opened, do not get shut, esp if the tribes keep pushing, which they are. The Klamath had multiple setbacks and took 15 years longer than expected, but here we are.
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Obviously it didn't resolve all the massive snarl of issues in the Columbia basin. But it was the biggest step forward since the Sup Court decisions in the 1980s. It was a big deal, and scuttling it makes everyone worse off, including BPA and the PPC, which for good reasons hate the status quo.
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Equally important, it forced the BPA to recognize tribal sovereignty--something it had been fighting since the days of Judge Boldt.
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For the 1st time, after 30 yrs of adamantly refusing to consider alternative power sources, the Biden deal agreed to make Bonneville consider them. And, also for the first time, they agreed to be sued if they failed to do so. That was why the PPC fought the deal--it opened the door to dam removal.
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Actually, many more than five: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvkE... The hidden-camera interviews with Boeing's assembly line workers half an hour in are something.
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Whistleblower John Barnett warned specifically of issues with engine assembly before his death.
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Five whistleblowers have emerged over the past few years warning about the Dreamliner (four if you discount Vince Weldon) and arguing that the same post-Stonecipher corporate culture that led to the 737 Max debacle will show up in this plane, too.
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I hope you're right. I grew up in Boeing country and the 737 Max debacle revealed that my old friends there are correct, and that Boeing today is nothing like the company that it was.
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Initial reports make it seem that particular scenario was unlikely. But you're quite correct that we don't know the cause. I was making the point that whistleblowers have been warning about Dreamliner issues showing up like this.
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Wonderful!
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All via @ramez.bsky.social , a very good follow in this area (energy developments in general, not Texas in particular).
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Good question. I'm not a LinkedIn member. I know about these odd images only because cousins and friends who are avid Facebook and Instagram users stumble across them and send them to me.