You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable
You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month
Yes, but the concern is a bruising primary full of sound bites of Janet Mills using the same line of attack on Platner that Collins will / would (he’s too inexperienced).
Yes, The Other Slavery by Andres Resendez is a good examination of that side of it. Not sure I would say Mann ”ignored” anything though, as I don’t think 1491 was really intended to be a history of everything.
This is interesting, but I’ve definitely read other accounts where there was initial, very early contact that reported much larger, more intact societies than existed when large numbers of Europeans arrived. This could definitely be downstream from narrative reliability issues though.
And the same could happen to TikTok if they surrender to their worst / best impulses and try to flood users with agitprop. If people get bored they’ll just use Instagram.
Michael C. Mann’s 1491 does the best job of addressing this that I’ve observed. His section on the Northeastern US has settlers stumbling upon huge caches of corn and manicured orchards, thinking it divine provenance. Euros’ first look at the Amazon was bustling, their second look…nothing.
Bro what do you mean it’s literally their jobs. They’re politicians. They’re supposed to make policy. If my car doesn’t work I can say “do something” to the mechanic, even if I’m not sure what needs done, bc I expect they’ve studied it more than I.
It’s not just you. I’ve developed a bad habit where I’ll pick up the first book in a sci fi series prior to vacation, love it, and download subsequent book(s) on my phone out of desperation to read on, only to retain nothing and think the subsequent books were mid.
I actually do care about the hostages - to the point that I’ve lost friends over it - and you don’t see any watermelons here. But all of Gaza has been held hostage with a death toll far higher than 10/7, which she makes a vague secondary reference to. Not helping her beat the allegations.
Given we are no longer in campaign season I might have led with the genocide stopping over 20 Israeli hostages being returned, but I am not the former Vice President.
This is a big part of the value of getting involved in local politics. There isn’t some magic threshold where you go from city councillor to mayor to US rep where suddenly you’re a different person. Engaging at the bottom can give you a better understanding of the folks and process at the top.
My favorite is ”The only housing we should be building is public housing!” Me - “Okay, so what does the operating model look like if we do that? Because we don’t have a great track record and the GOP will immediately defund it.” Response - “You’re moving the goalposts with all these details!”