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History teacher in Philadelphia. APUSH, AP Govt, AP Euro. Dogfather. Irish dance dad. STL Cards, Blues, and STLCity fan. Army vet (Gulf War). Notre Dame alum. Gen X. "It’s a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought with speaking the truth.”
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I was at a veterans' event and the guest of honor was Dolly Parton. I was part of the welcoming group--she was awesome, though a very tiny person--and took pictures with all of us.

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Back in downtown Lancaster I’m sitting at Thaddeus Steven’s grave. Lots of Union Army veterans buried here, including his nephew,TS jr. I wonder what they would say about today…

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1/Hannah Arendt QOTD from The Gap Between Past and Future: "When the thread of tradition finally broke, the gap between past and future ceased to be a condition peculiar only to the activity of thought and restricted as an experience to those few

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1/I spend a large part of the year in Lancaster, PA (I'm there now and will be at the No Kings protest tomorrow downtown). I like to visit Thaddeus Steven's tomb every so often---I was just there as it is down the street from our vet.

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Here's the table of Contents and names of the chapters. I learned don't name chapters for time periods; names should be about the argument in each. One colonial, one Revo War era, one founding, 4 19th century chapters. Into and Epilogue.

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you malign our senators for that They are not such as you.

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SMU would like their death penalty rescinded @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social

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1/Hannah Arendt QOTD from The Gap Between Past and Future: "The trouble, however, is that we seem to be neither equipped nor prepared for this activity of thinking, of settling down in the gap between past and future. For very long times in our history, actually throughout the thousands of years

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Aspiring actress engages eccentric group to save theater. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...

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A terrifying escalation:

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Remarks on the origins of presidential tariff authority, Roosevelt and the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934, at @historians.org Congressional briefing today 🗃️

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1/Hannah Arendt QOTD from The Gap Between Past and Future: "This small non-time-space in the very heart of time, unlike the world and the culture into which we are born, can only be indicated, but cannot be inherited and handed down from the past;

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Biden at Ft. Bragg in 2021 vs Trump today--notice the difference?

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🚨 PHILLY VS. ICE 🚨 Five of our neighbors were kidnapped by ICE today. Folks have called for an *emergency protest* at the Federal Detention Center at 700 Arch St. beginning at 4pm. Come prepared, mask up, stay safe, raise hell. Let’s give these fascist monsters a real Philly welcome 🧊

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1/Hannah Arendt QOTD from The Gap Between the Past and the Future: "Whereby it would be of some relevance to notice that the appeal to thought arose in the odd in-between period which sometimes inserts itself into historical time when not only the later historians but the actors and witnesses,

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