Cannot recommend this book, Thy Will Be Done, highly enough. Not just about Washington's relationship to slavery, which is fascinating, but how we have remembered, debated and used that relationship through the centuries.

On this day in 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed legislation creating US Department of Justice. Two primary reasons for DOJ’s creation: protection of formerly enslaved people’s civil rights & to oppose domestic terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan. Image: Thomas Nast, “Halt.” Public domain.

Excellent and informative thread. Expertise matters. #thankyou

Moving special education to the Department of Health and Human Services will not help students with disabilities. It will not help families. It will not help teachers. It will send us back, 50 years if not more. This will re-segregate students with disabilities. www.aapd.com/ed-transfer-...

Amazing coverage of the One-Third Project in @rollingstone.com If you're 83 or older--and a lot of our Third Act members are--then you've been around for 1/3 of America's official history. And you might have some...opinions www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I'm just so, so happy for Tom. Thunderbolts DO strike! Second cousin once removed is plenty distant, right? #HATM

I always feel sorry for Duckface. But not nearly as much as I do for Fiona. #HATM

Quoting that David Cassidy line is no small part of why my wife fell in love with me, and has been a regular part of our 30+ years of marriage. #HATM

A song for the day.

I’m looking forward to joining @jamestalarico.bsky.social for a conversation about American history, public service, and the responsibilities of citizenship. Hope you can join us on Monday, June 8.

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

Being at the table is great, Senator @alsobrooks.senate.gov, but voting to advance a bill that will further enable fraud and abuse while calling it "opportunity" is disingenuous, if not disgraceful.

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has taken roughly $5 million in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry over the course of his career. Now he’s pushing a federal bill that would shield Big Oil companies from any laws or lawsuits seeking to hold them accountable for fueling the climate crisis. 🙄

@planetmoney.bsky.social, I look forward to an update to your episode!

Delightful mystery conversation tonight with authors Lori Rader-Day (@loriraderday.bsky.social), Catriona McPherson (@catrionamcp.bsky.social) and Jennifer J. Chow. Thanks, @peoplesbooktakoma.com, for hosting! #BookSky

"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life." Jackie Robinson, who became the first African American to play major-league baseball on this day in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers

Happy Victory in Virginia Day! The US Army defeated the slavers and traitors, saving democracy, freeing 4m from bondage, destroying slavery, and saving the USA!

Song for today.

When Ellen left Alex Keaton, & he's sitting at the kitchen table after writing her a farewell letter with Billy Vera's "At This Moment" in the background, it just crushed me. Still useful whenever I just want to wallow in my sadness. (Minimal consolation that they're still married in real life.)

HAPPY FIRST CONTACT DAY! #StarTrek #FirstContact

"The founders knew this type. They built the mechanisms specifically for him. The question isn’t whether the charge is fair. It’s whether the mechanisms still work."

Ever Grateful. Ever True.

RIP Robert Mueller. By me. No paywall. fallows.substack.com/p/one-man-a-...

Cam Heide!! #NCAA

Inside the mind of Braden Smith, college basketball’s new assist king www.nytimes.com/athletic/713...

#Purdue's Braden Smith breaks Bobby Hurley's NCAA career assists record with #1,077. His first assist, eight minutes into his first game as a freshman, as to fellow freshman Trey Kaufman-Renn. The recipient of the record-breaking assist fellow senior Trey Kaufman-Renn. Full circle. #NCAA #BoilerUp

Purdue is in the WSJ!! Purdue’s Braden Smith leads the country’s top offense and is about to break a 33-year-old record for career assists. Strangest of all, he’s done it by staying at one school in the transfer portal era. www.wsj.com/sports/baske... via @WSJ

What Would Jesus Do? "We ... are called to do more than charity. We are called to challenge the systems that make charity necessary."

We've all been there. On both sides.

Indiana University's football crown was the feel-good story of the year. Off the field...not so much Ranked last for free speech, DEI cuts, slashing the humanities while paying its coach $13M under MAGA trustees My column on how IU ranks No. 1 in moral bankruptcy www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

"We must not see how the rest of the country is living. We must not allow ourselves to suspect that they are America too."

"Trump administration officials have suggested that the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery create a section in the museum to display multiple images of the president in addition to his official portrait."

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Here is how you can stand with Minnesota. This is a giant list with dozens and dozens of ways to donate and help people in Minnesota from personal GFM to mutual aid to grocery delivery and pet food groups. www.standwithminnesota.com#gofundme

Song for the Day: Ohio - Crosby Stills Nash & Young youtu.be/MN_9VqfVQ9c?...

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

Try.

I am in awe of this woman, of these women. May we all aspire to their level of strength and grace. "there are people building a better world for him. ... the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way."

I continue to be enraged by everything the secretary of health and human services is doing www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

is there some way I can quickly unlearn all of history so as to feel better about recent events

In this New Year, May our aspirations overcome our anger; May brotherhood overcome bigotry; May hope overcome hatred; May peace overcome prejudice; May our faith in each other overcome our fear. Onward.

I haven't done a thread on here in awhile Let's do one about governmental decision-making, priorities, and morality I'm looking at you, Indiana Here we go, a quick thread 1/

Hey @peoplesbooktakoma.com, Lori is amazing and would be a great guest author when she's in town next Spring! #BookSky

Twenty-five days of Christmas music. Day 25: "You Gotta Get Up," by Rich Mullins #Christmas #ChristmasMusic #25DaysofChristmasMusic