Comment on how interesting my music taste makes me. I mean, post an album you've listened to 100 times.

I saw someone assert that they only want to get the "white devils out of America" and I do not believe that to be true of them.

I was born and raised here. Countless brave Sikh soldiers died for Britain, proudly wearing their turban and kirpan. Thankfully, Rupert and Restore don't get to decide what is British. Beware … today they’re coming for me, but tomorrow it could be you!

Milton Wright June 3, 1857 I went to William Nichol's, I had my horse shod. I went by Andersonville home. #wrightposting

I just can't enjoy Mission: Impossible because of how much the 60s cast was annoyed by it. I know this is weird. I have no particular brand loyalty to the 60s show! But here I am.

"we'll smoke the Communists just like I smoke this cigarette" Cornelius Ryan, 1950 (allegedly, by me.)

everyone sharing 'we're all going to die' - yes, didn't you know?

Milton Wright June 2, 1857 We had a pretty good morning meeting-I dined at Sutton's. I preached at 4:00 Isaiah [sic] 52.1. #wrightposting

the year we get what we deserve

Pride is a good name for it because I feel a lot of pride in my LGBT friends and family.

okay randomizer give me imaginary Dem tickets in 2028: John bel Edwards - John Hickenlooper (much more likely if were in the Bicentennial rather than the 250th) Jon Ossoff - Michelle Wu (now there's a ticket) Mary Peltola - Michelle Lujan Grisham (good. too many Y chromosones these days)

The United States has had several Jewish candidates for President but none of them have (yet) pulled it off - however, there have been several who might have plausibly won - either as a nominee or as a VP, where after all you just need one thing to make you POTUS. 🧵

On Pride Month: The men and women who might most plausibly have been our first LGBT Presidents (remember that VP gets you there):

Milton Wright June 1, 1857 I went back to Greene's. P.S. Cook preached, Ps. 117. I go to Crowell's, and preached, I Cor. 16.22. I lodged at Crowell's. #wrightposting

I have decided to select a random song from an album I own personally. I'll go with the middle song in the middle album on my Apply Playlist. We have... Huh, well, it's "Immigrants (We Get The Job Done)" from the Hamilton Mixtape. That's actually pretty good!

I really have to praise @quoproquid.bsky.social's election of 1800 campaign on thecampaigntrail.net - there's good history content there and I love the palpable anxiety their writing gets across about the time and the place.

I like what good news this is for Europe's microstates.

Milton Wright May 31, 1857 Rev. T.J. Connor preached, Rev. 15.2. I dined at Recompense Murphy's. I preached at 3:00 from Hebrews 3.15. I supped at Samuel Fry's. Rev. T.J. Conor preached at night, Rom. 9.25. I staid at Recompense Murphy's. #wrightposting

dacb.org/stories/sier... Milton knew him personally and wrote approvingly of his appointment to West Africa in the 1870s. An interesting story about culture and its clashes there.

you cannot have a beer with me. (beer tastes bad)

Milton Wright May 30, 1857 I visited a little. Bro. Cook preached. I dine at Greene's. I went afternoon to Daniel Fry's, near Franklin Church, where I saw F.J. Connor and W.H. Dougherty. #wrightposting

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huerfan... ah yes, Huerfano, the smallest US state by size and population, peeled off when FDR supported its secession from California to provide compliant votes in the Senate. a purple state that has recent voted red but not by very much.

The babies are getting bigger

media tycoons. found it interesting that Gannett was known as the "Great Hyphenator" because one of his biggest business tricks was to go into a town with two struggling newspapers, buy them both, and then mash the two together.

people talking amendment stuff - There was a very serious attempt (the Clayton-Works Resolution) in 1913 to create a Constitutional amendment that would limit the President to one six-year term in office. It even had a carve-out for the incumbent POTUS and so wouldn't kick in until 1920. 🧵

flipping through comments elsewhere - oh jeez, Keanu Reeves _would_ have been great as Quincey Morris in Dracula.

introducing impeachment against Trump wouldn't do anything of consequence. no, it wouldn't do the thing you're writing below it would do. can't rebut that reasoning can you. game set match.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/202... everyone's like "oh we must bar the old from office" but consider specifically barring people between 45-64 instead. "aren't you catching up to that one soon?" "you don't see me running for office, do you?"

a strange thought - if you wanted to create a mashup of Dem 'types', you might well hit Cory Booker, and his struggle to pass the invisible primary maybe suggests why that doesn't work.

Milton Wright May 29, 1857 I went to John Melone's and dined. I got my saddle mended, and went to Osborne's. Rev P.S. Cook preached from Ps. #wrightposting

my kind son, when cramming about the Iranian Revolution, commented that it was very recent, just in 1979. he's a good kid.

Bigger

luckily many things I like are ridiculous

Milton Wright May 28, 1857 I came home, and remained all day. My mother yesterday was much affected about my going to Oregon, but was resigned. She said she had prayed that her sons might be ministers, and she ought not to complain. #wrightposting

with Xavier Becerra possibly about to be the next governor of California (maybe) let's talk about the game I play when I have a pen and paper and too much free time, trying to fill out the alphabet with people who never became President but plausibly could have. 🧵

Come And See Singin' In The Rain Requiem For A Field of Dreams Never Let Me Go, Princess Bride Menace II Birth Of A Nation The Fault In Our Stars Is Born Paddington's Notebook

come on, man.

Ready to spring

the DNVP mod for the Social Democracy game has a lot of content but no thank you.

it might be a little Much to have Republican Henry Kissinger as Johnson's first ambassador to the new German regime (or rather, the one we choose to recognize), but on the other hand it's a good way to show Berlin who the big dog is and Hank can be trusted not to succumb to sentiment.

okay #wrightposting fans, here it is, the moment that at least one of you has probably been waiting for:

a scenario I ponder - the most accurate "Nazis win" scenario is Robert Harris's book FATHERLAND, because it's a scenario where the Nazis haven't really won anything at all. Germany is going bankrupt and losing a long war in the east; Hitler is dying and desperate to normalize with the US, etc.

love it or leave it

Milton Wright May 26, 1857 We had a love-feast. I preached on Baptism, I Pet. 3.21. I baptized Eli Myer, his wife, and her brother, Mr. Talbert, in Blue River, near Bilman's. I went home with P.S. Cook. It was my first baptizing. #wrightposting

it turns out the man consciously choosing to argue for evil is personally untrustworthy and professionally dishonest? imagine that.

the publisher's note in the last volume of Oz stories has a note telling readers that Baum has gone to tell Oz stories to those children who never got a chance to read them because they were born too early. man!

I definitely am in a Bluesky bubble, and that's fine, that's what I craft my feed for.

if you pin me down, the answer is fundamentally good luck for post-Tudor Britain and bad luck for Song Dynasty China, but that's not an answer that satisfies anybody.

Pick a Bond villain from pictures you have on your phone

Fustication among kittens