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1. Senior Editor, The New Republic 2. Work found here: 3. Twitter Essayist. 4. Profile drawing by Joe Ollmann

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  1. 2 hours ago

    It's interesting how often crappy pizza makers have reactionary politics.

    Mediocre pizza chain blames slumping sales on NFL National Anthem protests
    24 replies 38 retweets 310 likes
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    3 hours ago

    Oh, I can think of a policy that has hurt African-Americans more.

    Tucker Carlson: Has any policy in American history hurt African-Americans more than our immigration policy? Mark Krikorian: No
    43 replies 260 retweets 1,035 likes
  3. 3 hours ago

    Now would be a pretty good time for the Washington Post or NY Times to snatch some topnotch reporting talent from the Wall Street Journal

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  4. 4 hours ago

    "Once the rockets are up who cares where they come down that's not my department," says Wernher von Braun. -- Tom Lehrer,

    Replying to @kumailn
    "We're not making it for that reason but the way ppl choose to use it isn't our fault. Safeguard will develop." But tech is moving so fast.
    11 replies 56 retweets 191 likes
  5. 4 hours ago

    Like Dante, Jason McBride has descended to Hell and returned with a story.

    Everything you wanted to know about Paw Patrol but were afraid to ask your kids—my piece for
    5 replies 6 retweets 46 likes
  6. 6 hours ago

    Always worth reading on how to solve problem of tech monopolies.

    My sense is that there are only two ways to deal with dominant platforms and free speech. Break 'em up, or accept private censorship.
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    7 hours ago

    “No serious and unbiased student can be deceived by the fairy tale of a beautiful Southern slave civilization.” W. E. B. Du Bois

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  8. 9 hours ago

    Da, tovarishch! ... oops, did I just let something slip out?

    Replying to @HeerJeet
    We will soon find out Heer Jeet & The New Republic are Putin funded Kremlin operatives
    6 replies 1 retweet 72 likes
  9. 9 hours ago

    Bin Laden's video collection is interesting (CIA is apparently not going to release his porn).

    Replying to @jseldin @CIA @POTUS
    Not all info is being released. says sensitive material, pornography & the following copyrighted material has been withheld:
    15 replies 19 retweets 66 likes
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    10 hours ago

    I remain mystified by the notion that we should treat terrorists as enemy combatants and not as criminals. Why buy into the ISIS narrative

    27 replies 200 retweets 694 likes
  11. 10 hours ago

    Um, can I get a fact check on this?

    Replying to @desiderioDC
    McCain: “There’s no miranda rights for someone who kills Americans.”
    23 replies 141 retweets 664 likes
  12. 10 hours ago

    The costumes are the super-structure, the industrial production of candy is the base.

    "Sugar is the opiate of the people." -- Marxist Halloween candy.
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  13. 10 hours ago
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    10. I go into power of Compromise Myth and why we need to keep fighting it here:

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  14. 10 hours ago
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    9. The Compromise Myth dominated education well into 20th century & via Ken Burns & Shelby Foote given new life in our time.

    9 replies 21 retweets 88 likes
  15. 10 hours ago
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    8. At the heart of Compromise Myth was belief in black inferiority (because slavery not so bad). Here is bestselling 1930 textbook

    5 replies 38 retweets 98 likes
  16. 11 hours ago
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    7. Outlines of Compromise: Slavery not so bad, abolitionists were extremists, Reconstruction was corrupt. White elites should've made a deal

    6 replies 29 retweets 104 likes
  17. 11 hours ago
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    6. As developed by scholars like Ulrich B. Phillips, William Dunning & Avery Craven, Compromise Myth dominated USA understanding of past

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  18. 11 hours ago
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    5. Compromise Myth emerged out of not just Civil War but especially divisiveness of Reconstruction, which ended in Compromise of 1877.

    3 replies 27 retweets 106 likes
  19. 11 hours ago
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    4. The core of Compromise Myth is there is no deep division in USA society that can't be solved by white elites making a deal.

    3 replies 65 retweets 203 likes
  20. 11 hours ago
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    3. Key to Compromise Myth is its not just about origins of Civil War but a larger narrative of American history.

    1 reply 22 retweets 107 likes

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