But you shouldn't be too surprised when they say stuff like this:

"You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today."

Federal government shutdown could be the longest ever, House Speaker Johnson warns

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

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Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

The National Museum of American Diplomacy has several diplomacy simulations with great primary sources and instructions. I tried the Suez Canal crisis simulation today in US Foreign Relations and it went really well! It seems workable for a range of levels, too. diplomacy.state.gov/teacher-reso... 🗃️

I feel similar about Chaucer. The tales that involve flatulence on hands and in faces, and the reasons for such things, are some of the funniest things to me. The juxta of high stuff with low brow just rubs it right.

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

fwiw @jsweetli.bsky.social and i did this story about a park police officer working alongside ICE. www.thehandbasket.co/p/parks-offi...

i believe we don’t hear more of these stories because ICE agents are the truest believers in this administration. we’re not seeing cracks bc there aren’t many.

He and my other international connections don't need me to tell them. They know more about America than most Americans know about themselves and their own country.

If you've been thinking "How are they gonna run their farms after Trump arrests their workers?"

don't worry, they planned ahead for that 💀

youtu.be/zdWrHb8b-c0

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The friend has pointed that out, and indicates it adds to what he perceives as the arrogance of Trump and those like him.
He also has expressed concern, sadness, sorrow over the complexities of his home region, which he knows, of course, Trump cannot comprehend.

At first I said "that's a weird halloween pumpkin contest entry."

Get 'em, Marimar Martinez
🕯️Wide Awake

www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/shad...
"A lot of attention has (appropriately) focused on the Supreme Court’s virtual reversal of Humphrey’s Executor on the shadow docket. ... It is doing the same to Clinton v. City of New York, the 1998 case that struck down the Line Item Veto Act ..." 1/

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I saw the Whoopee! on Broadway and heard the song "Makin' Whoopee!" and knew what it meant, but only who we younguns called "oldsters" ever said it. This was near the end of the phrase as mainstream.

Appreciate this fairly fugitive landscape brought to the fore. It led to quotas & Sacco + Vanzetti & were fueled by anti-Catholic + anti-Socialist (anti-immigrant) sentiment. Wan Lee & other Chinese also suffered mob assaults. First daylight Klan march is Milo (Catholic, industry) MAINE, 1920s.

oh, wow. I was curious if this happened in New Orleans with our Sicilian population, and yep.

never forget that monolithic whiteness is a recent invention, and certain nationalities were initially excluded.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891_Ne...

In knowing this person online for four years, I've never heard about the disgust with Russians.
In the last four months, it's a lot of "Trump needs to stay the fuck out of our business" and "not happy with America."

I'm hist and spec fic, so topics inform my narratives, and it sparks him to speak.

What Bessent is saying, then, is Kings = paychecks.
Huh.
That's not in any of the history I've studied and taught my entire life.
Also, I can't think of one Dem or liberal I've heard/I know who "plays down" this current shutdown.
For a man of few words and no inspiration, he sure lies a lot.

Someone in my writer's group Zooms from Thailand. He reports that citizens there are very upset with Trump for thinking he has a right to be involved in SE Asia disputes to use as antecedent padding for awards--pretty much the words the writer/friend said. People in his country hate Trump & say so.

Folks:

There are going to be a LOT of inflatable animal costumes marching on Saturday. 🙃

The Battle of Valcour Island took place on Lake Champlain from 11 Oct - 13 Oct 1776 and was one of the first naval battles of the American War of Independence. (1/4)🧵

#history #OTD #militaryhistory #navalhistory #maritimehistory #skystorians