Adam Rothman aced his cognitive test

It's going great!

Live Updates: U.S. Employers Cut Jobs in Sign of a Shakier Economy

Trump II: Higher prices, fewer jobs, terrorizing of immigrants, and more wars.
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Just lobbing pronouns indiscriminately at civilian populations.

Álvaro Enrigue on 'Now I Surrender' It's a new translation of a book first published in Spanish in 2018.

I loved You Dreamed Of Empires. This one looks amazing too.
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Guns, Gems, & Steel could be a good name for an eclectic antiques store.

A bookstore/grocery called Publish or Perishables.

Storefront and black awning of antique store named the end of history

Didn’t know Francis Fukuyama was into antiques. They specialize in mid century glassware. That might be dangerous for me. Photo credit: C Peterson

Montana Republican U.S. Sen. Steve Daines drops reelection bid minutes before filing deadline Montana U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme, who is also a Republican, entered the race shortly before the deadline.

Sneaky!
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If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

This is curious because the GAR was an organization of (U.S.) veterans of the Civil War.

“This is an argument about semantics,” Mr. Fine said. “I haven’t seen the Grand Army of the Republic storm the beaches yet. We’ll see what happens.”

🤔

I'm pretty sure Thor had a hammer, not an axe.

(Fyi, I'm a historian of 19th-century America.)

I'm so multi-talented that I just got invited to contribute to a volume on thoracic oncology.

I will miss Kristi Noem's inimitable constitutional insights, as when, asked by Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H. at a Senate hearing to define "habeas corpus," she replied, "Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country."

a man with a mustache wearing a top hat stands in a crowd of men ALT: a man with a mustache wearing a top hat stands in a crowd of men

Gangs of New York, mostly for

As well as aching aggrieved agonized battered bleeding buffeted burned contused crushed cut damaged disfigured...

This story contains scenes worthy of Kafka.

[Throws book]

"Mr. Harrison reported, that the Committee have had under their consideration the Letters and Papers to them referred, but have come to no resolution thereon."

- March 5, 1776, from the Autobiography of John Adams

(Slow news day, Revolution-wise)

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What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?

this move will simultaneously increase the average intelligence of the Trump cabinet and the U.S. senate

Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.

Headspinning

They keep saying that boots on the ground is on the table, and one way or another we really need some new metaphors

This whole thread is a tragedy.

Priam not going to back down.

Stop hectoring me!