grodzins.bsky.social
Historian of American religion and democracy; husband and dad; believer in the brotherhood of man and the neighborhood of Boston; quondam cartoonist
www.deangrodzins.com
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Good meme but the alt text is wrong: that’s Cate Blanchett, not Kate Winslet
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Four! (When they became famous, they were aged 10-15. Now they’re 14-19.)
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Well, the Linda Lindas did do a circus-themed video some months back (“Yo me estreso”).
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He’s even, with the tariffs, taken over taxation by another name.
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If this is 1923, then wouldn’t they now be Turkish men?
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I think, based on reports, that the proposed law is meant to call attention to how antiabortion laws only police women.
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Ha! I was beaten to the punch!
But the important point is—Congratulations!
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I did not know about this! Thank you for the insightful post. But “wonderful” is not the adjective I’d use.
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My wife’s middle school showed it c. 1980. The kids were told it was “important.” This was in a Chicago suburb.
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Plus the moon
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OK, but it’s also Martin Luther King Day, so some of us have better things to do.
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The opposite of this
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I found the letter you showed in another post very interesting. He’s evidently a doctor who had started, in late career, treating morphine and opium addicts, and liked the work because the patients came to him (in a sanitarium?) rather than him having to ride through woods and over hills to them.
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As others have noted, it must be a dance, and this is confirmed by the context; the author says he doesn’t feel old because he can still “keep his feet warm” by “shuffling” to this song—or at least he could if he were not now member of a church (one that seems to disapprove of dancing).
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Looks like it’s having fun.
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Coski’s book on the Confederate flag opens with the story of a Southern white Marine raising it over Iwo Jima.
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Unfortunately, I was wrong about the election, although I can at least say that I was not an outlier. Some very smart people who know a lot more about politics than I do were also wrong.
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They took their name from both the song (which they’ve covered) and the movie!
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I just ignore, unless they’re heinous. But I don’t post much, either. If I got negative replies from them, I’d block.
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I should read that. I’m interested in the subject, and besides, I knew his Dad.
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JQA had only post presidency I would rank as more historically important than Carter’s. William Howard Taft had a historically important post-presidency, too, but I’d rank him third.
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Isn’t that the old saw about acting? “Sincerity—if you can fake that, you’ve got it made!”
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Just watched it! I started following you on X when you were writing your book, and I’m now looking forward to reading it!
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Making Lincoln a symbol of the Underground Railroad is certainly most weird. Until the outbreak of the Civil War, Lincoln always insisted that Northerners had a constitutional obligation to return fugitives from slavery.
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I got chicken pox at 30. Severe. Do not recommend. I’ve had three attacks of shingles since, but fortunately they were mild, I had access to antivirals and now am vaccinated.
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That’s reckless parenting and appalling behavior.
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I think many of these clowns won’t last long.
As for Harding, I think Charles Evans Hughes, Herbert Hoover, and maybe Henry Cantwell Wallace had some redeeming qualities. But the rest of them—yikes!
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I once ate clam chowder ice cream. I do not recommend.
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See you there!
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I‘m so sorry you and your family are having to deal with this awful situation. My heart goes out to you.
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There’s also one hanging out in our garden, about a mile from there.
Anf a decade ago, I saw a white squirrel in Cambridge. I kept looking around for a three-legged dog named Ahab.
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That was my first presidential election as a voter. Reagan’s big victory, and Republicans winning the Senate (a first for me) shocked me and many others. I remember going around my college campus the next day, and everyone greeting each other with, “We’re all gonna die.”
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Very interesting! What nationality/ies were they?
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Glad you like the Linda Lindas! But the first time they played together (they already knew each other) was in 2018, with a bunch of other kids, at an event organized by Kristen Control and featuring Karen O. They had so much fun, they decided to form their own band. www.instagram.com/reel/CjWirw9...
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As the disappearance of local papers shows, news circulation is often not cost effective. In the early 19th century US, newspapers were all pervasive in part because the postal system subsidized them. They could be mailed for free, because everyone realized how important news was for democracy.
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I got tickets for the Paradise show, too!
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He quite possibly knew my great grandfather, who was 33rd degree Mason from Oklahoma. I still have his watch.
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Their story is one of the happiest of the last several years.
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Yep. Speaking of this, I was wondering if there’s interest in a new vigilance committee?
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This kind of thing (offering something non-monetary in exchange for a vote) was outlawed at the state level in the 1880s and 1890s. These are considered the first campaign finance laws. (Paying directly for votes was already illegal.)
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Yes. Other big antidemocratic episodes in American history include the Cherokee Removal, the Secession Crisis, Black disenfranchisement, the 1917-1925 period (100% Americanism, Red Scare, Prohibition, Tulsa Massacre, Mine Wars, Second Klan, Immigration Restriction), and McCarthyism.
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When news broke about Robert E. Lee’s Charlottesville statue being melted down, and the bronze to be repurposed for more inclusive public art, I was reminded of his statue in DC being made from the bronze of melted Confederate cannons.
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I think in this context, “That was close!”