The people who most violated Lincoln's vision, who showed the most malice and the least charity, were the former Confederates.
It's so often framed and perceived as being prescriptive to the North, and especially the radicals. Which of course it was. But. We need not perceive it as forgiveness.
You know, for all that I've read and thought about the address, it's only Stephen's thread that makes me wonder if we might also perceive the "malice toward none, charity for all" as being addressed *to* former rebels and not only about them.
Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs
Unbelievable Tracy Chapman show just preserved by the Aadam Jacobs Collection project.
Hey, you! Are you a bit of a weirdo? I promise you you'll fit right in, including if the thing that makes you weird is that you're a normie in an abnormal world.
Pretty sure nearly every student at Evergreen is in one way or another countercultural. And most faculty and staff tbh
Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.
I did see the Gin Blossoms in college in 2002, and it was a fantastic show despite/because they recognized they were a little washed up.
This is Spin Doctors erasure
He did explicitly call the war on terror a "crusade", which had a very direct and clear meaning given his public evangelicalism.
I just keep thinking of that line from M*A*S*H where Klinger says “ if it’s a police action, why didn’t they send the cops?”
Today's essential reading about history.
Henry IV Part 1, As You Like It, The Tempest, Macbeth
anyway, certainly Gertner or Platner or people who know them can correct if this is wrong but Peter Brimelow (who you may recall is the professional racist behind VDARE) has as evidence identified that a different Amy Gertner is Jewish, and I don't think Platner's wife is
This is the risk with using “partisan” as a stand-in for “black.” Maybe the Texas electorate really is too racist for a statewide candidate like Crockett. But that has very little to do with whether Texans will be ready to check Trump in eight months.
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We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)
This is awful on many respects but does Huckabee know what bugger means????
When asked on gay dating apps if I was "masc" it was hard to say "Uh, I was bullied for being weak and my abusive band director liked call me a pansy, but I like some sports and know how use power tools and never had an inkling of gender dysphoria or non-conformity as others have described it?"
Gender is so fucking weird and all the people trying to police it are gross
100000%
Abolish ICE has a +11 approval — which means it is *32 points* more popular than Donald Trump
Ask yourself: does corporate media portray that accurately?
Oceans are now battlefields
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
(I always think this "If people had tried to trans me as a teenager, I MIGHT HAVE TAKEN THEM UP ON IT" argument says more about the unexamined inner life of the person making the argument than trans people, but I suppose I would think that.)
Yeah, *"I got mine fuck you" pulling up the ladder behind* is quite common
Given the day's discourse, I am thinking back on conversations I had with friends in certain social sciences who wondered why I a) didn't have a research assistant to go to the archives for me *while I was a grad student* and b) why I recoiled at the idea of it even if it had been possible.
I say with sympathy and solidarity,
