No worries, I didn't take it that way - just affirming your point!

(I mean also a good day to educate yourself about both histories of the holiday, and Lincoln's actual views and actions as regard to slavery and racial equality—but Lincoln can neither vote nor call the cops because he's super dead. We've gotta fix the hearts that are still beating)

Oh yes, I had to double check that the Thanksgiving Proclamation happened after the Emancipation one (it did) to confirm its practical effects - and even then I was verrrry intentional about using "white supremacist" as the adjective instead of the noun.

My pleasure! It was such a pleasant surprise when I learned how literal that "tell an internal story" seems to be.

Yes! I look forward to it!

This comes from studies on deaf children born to hearing parents, who unfortunately sometimes go through early childhood without language, and end up with deficits/delays to that executive function srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I love this story because I think its neuroscience is actually wrong/impossible - but nevertheless you will leave this story understanding the (real) science better than you did at its start.

It's the alternative to melting them down! They ain't collecting a rando pile of jewels.

I also can't help but think about how the only real alternative to this is the jewels moving from a public museum to a billionaire's private collection.

I was revising a story for an editor last night and I found a spot where I'd done exactly this (turned a 3-character 100-word fight into 9 words). But now I wanna find my own source!

I wouldn't be surprised if I heard it from him!