J. L. Bell
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History, analysis & unabashed gossip about Revolutionary New England.
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When I joined Twitter years ago, I created multiple accounts for my separate interests and activities. Each account followed different groups and attracted different followers. 1/
about 1 year ago
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David
about 17 hours ago
Meanwhile, I saw an article a little while back saying that going forward, flu shots may not be as effective because the research needed to identify the strains currently in circulation is no longer being sufficiently funded.
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Kyle Clark
about 3 hours ago
COMMENTARY: It seems an increasing number of Americans, including elected leaders and journalists, are afraid to tell the truth about what happened on January 6. That's dangerous.
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Jennifer Senior
about 15 hours ago
No better metaphor for this man’s narcissism than the two gilded mirrors he’s put in there — mirrors! — each the size of the framed Declaration of Independence.
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‘He’s a Maximalist’: Inside Trump’s Gilded Oval Office
Take a 3-D tour of the president’s office, where he covered a third of the wall space with gold.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/23/us/trump-white-house-oval-office-gold-decor.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Robert Reich
about 12 hours ago
What do these companies have in common? -Cigna -Comcast -General Mills -Allstate -Marriott -Hilton -Walmart -Amazon -Microsoft -Meta All promised after January 6, 2021 to stop funding lawmakers who tried to overturn the 2020 election. And all have broken that promise.
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Jon Shaffer
about 3 hours ago
Trump & RFK Jr.'s coterie of bootlicking doctors are real pieces of shit, we argue in the British Medical Journal, essentially. Link:
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davidrlurie
about 2 hours ago
Trump is engaged in another coup attempt from the White House. Appropriately, on January 6.
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Anthony Michael Kreis
about 5 hours ago
The president is not entitled to operate slush funds outside the operation of law. Let’s turn to the Glorious Revolution: Revenues “of Prerogative without Grant of Parlyament for longer time or in other manner then the same is or shall be granted is Illegall.” 1 W. & M., 2d sess., c.2 (1688/9).
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We’re Going To Keep The Popehat
about 7 hours ago
Never let a single goddamned person on the Right ever claim again that they’re the party of law and order without laughing in their lying face.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
about 5 hours ago
This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.
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Snopes
about 4 hours ago
❌ No, U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries didn't attempt to contact Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro before he was captured by the U.S. military. Here's the real story:
www.snopes.com/fact-check/h...
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Did Hakeem Jeffries attempt to contact Venezuela's Maduro prior to his capture? Not so fast
According to users' social media posts, Newsmax reported about the House minority leader's alleged attempt to reach the Venezuelan president.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hakeem-jeffries-venezuela-contact/
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Jim Ambuske
about 5 hours ago
"By which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America the law is king."
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and I dive into the origins and meanings of Thomas Paine's Common Sense at 250 for
@inpursuitusa.bsky.social
Watch Now:
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Jonathan Ladd
about 5 hours ago
“No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law" Article I, Section 9.
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Leon Jackson
about 6 hours ago
Sometimes a case just stops you in your tracks, like this 1816 Boston investigation of “a Woman personating a Man, by being dressed in Men’s apparel and parading the Streets.” The case never made it to trial, & I can find nothing else abt her. Not the only crossdressing case I’ve seen but rare! 🗃️
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Stan Oklobdzija
about 5 hours ago
This man has done more for academic freedom than the entire Ivy League put together.
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Adam Parkhomenko
about 6 hours ago
“The money will be controlled by me”
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KatherineHawkins
about 5 hours ago
Need to start carrying a pocket constitution to keep up with each days list of violations
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Aaron Rupar
about 5 hours ago
If Trump is really stealing spending power from Congress then it would be insanity for Democrats to vote to fund the government later this month. Shut it down until the president stops wiping his ass with the Constitution.
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Gary Legum
about 5 hours ago
Someone let me know when we find out he jumped the gun on announcing this and there isn't any sort of deal or plan.
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Ron Filipkowski
about 5 hours ago
This is blatantly illegal. A president can’t go into the oil business and then decide where to spend the money. We are completely untethered from our founding document with a lawless president and a Republican Congress which has abdicated all Constitutional authority.
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Joshua R Greenberg
about 10 hours ago
If George Washington was the model for the presidency, what happened once he was gone? Ethan Healey probes this issue and others in his new Commonplace review of Lindsay Chervinsky's Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic.🗃️
commonplace.online/article/john...
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John Adams and the Making of the Presidency - Commonplace
In Making the Presidency, she shows how Adams made decisions when no structure or precedent offered guidance.
https://commonplace.online/article/john-adams-and-the-making-of-the-presidency/
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Pittsburgh-Santa
about 8 hours ago
I have to say, I really cannot even see the strings. The mouth movement is in perfect sync. Job well done white house.
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Dean Baker
about 8 hours ago
Just to remind everyone, Hillary Clinton had a larger victory margin in 2016 than Trump did in 2024. But as Republicans always say "math class is hard."
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Scott MacFarlane
about 8 hours ago
WHOA: Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) stands next to image of Jan 6 plaque on Senate floor.. and is noting the pardoned rioters who have been arrested again Tillis: "We let bad people go" Re: plaque Tillis says he'll seek unanimous consent to get approval for THIS version of plaque to be hung
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PolitiFact
about 8 hours ago
From President Donald Trump's claim he "stopped six wars" to rumors someone fainted in the White House, here are PolitiFact's most read 10 fact-checks from 2025.
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Here are PolitiFact’s top 10 fact-checks of 2025
From President Donald Trump's claim he "stopped six wars" to rumors someone fainted in the White House, here are PolitiFact's most read 10 fact-checks from 2025.
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emptywheel
about 8 hours ago
Both Maduro and his wife have submitted filings to get medical attention for injuries suffered during their capture (these filings are sealed). Also Bruce Fein is joining Maduro's team.
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Robert Reich
about 9 hours ago
Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
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Scott Horton
about 9 hours ago
A perfect parallel to the approach the Nazis took in 1933 to the recharacterization of the beer hall putsch of Nov 1923.
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Scott MacFarlane
about 9 hours ago
For whatever it's worth... we've reached the statute of limitations on most Jan 6 crimes today Trivial.... because Trump Admin shuttered the Jan 6 investigations and prosecutions, after the pardons were issued
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Robert Reich
about 9 hours ago
Paul Singer, whose firm owns the US subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, spent millions in 2024 to re-elect Trump. Now, after Trump's invasion of Venezuela on behalf of Big Oil, he's set to cash in on his investment. A government of, by, and for the billionaires.
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Venezuela raid enriches MAGA billionaire
The ouster of Maduro is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.
https://popular.info/p/venezuela-raid-enriches-maga-billionaire
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The Tennessee Holler
about 10 hours ago
Sickening — the White House has put up a site about 1/6 painting himself as a hero and Pelosi, The Capitol Police, and Mike Pence as the villains. An attempt to rewrite history before our eyes.
www.whitehouse.gov/j6/
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Matthew Gertz
about 8 hours ago
The bad news is this exists on the White House website. The worse news is that President Trump replaced Pence on the ticket with someone he fully expects would carry out this deranged scheme if he has the opportunity, instead betraying the Constitution.
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Aaron Rupar
about 10 hours ago
Crockett: "Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6, I do want to be clear: somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful."
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Gerald Howard
about 8 hours ago
THE BOOK OF DANIEL, RAGTIME, WORLD'S FAIR, BILLY BATHGATE, an honorable lifetime of political activism -- this was a man. Plus guy was a working book editor for years, which I love about him.
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AAUP Texas A&M-College Station Chapter
about 9 hours ago
From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
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Raphael Satter
about 9 hours ago
A lot of attention rightfully being focused on sexually charged images of children and women, but Grok is also being used to bloody up images of women, for example by adding bruises, cuts, or burns. Like non-consensual sexual imagery, these violent "morphs" can be threatening.
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MeidasTouch
about 13 hours ago
Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn was on the front lines of January 6. Five years later, he warns the greatest threat isn’t just what happened—but the lies rewriting it. “January 6 was not legitimate political discourse.” Read his powerful piece:
www.meidasplus.com/p/history-be...
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Ed Hawkins
about 13 hours ago
Published today: Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century Defining pre-industrial to be 1750, rather than 1850, produces different (simulated) historical climate changes after 1850. Pre-1850 volcanoes & land use matter.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Home of the Brave
1 day ago
Officer Harry Dunn: "People are trying to rewrite history and what happened, to tell us, and tell you all, that you didn't see what you saw and that we are lying about what we went through."
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Elizabeth Warren
about 13 hours ago
Five years ago today, Donald Trump ignited a violent mob to attack the Capitol and disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. Last year, Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 of those insurrectionists. It's an assault on American democracy.
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mtsw
about 14 hours ago
If ilhan Omar had a "favorite philosopher" who said something like this, the media would literally hound her into resigning. But they don't even report on the fact that the sitting vice president loves this guy, a disgusting anti-semite
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Essential Network
about 13 hours ago
5 years ago today, the U.S. Capitol was breached by a mob of Donald Trump supporters.
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about 13 hours ago
New for
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: Drug-testing cutoff levels (the amount that triggers a "positive" result) vary from lab to lab. Kaitlin tested "positive" for Codeine at a hospital in New Jersey, but she would have tested "negative" if she were in the military.
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Don Moynihan
about 13 hours ago
I don't know if you need much evidence that Ackman has no principles but he led the charge to remove Claudine Gay from President of Harvard on *much* weaker evidence of academic misconduct. Then he threatened to pursue plagiarism accusations of anyone who pointed to his wife's alleged plagiarism.
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Aaron Rupar
about 13 hours ago
Scarborough on what Trump told him during a phone call yesterday: "Joe, the the difference between Iraq and this is that Bush didn't keep the oil. We're going to keep the oil. To underline his point, Trump said his comments were no long on background."
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Kyle Clark
1 day ago
GOP Rep. Gabe Evans is touting $200M in new health care funding for Colorado after voting for the Republican budget which cuts an estimated $1B to $2.5B in annual health care funds for Colorado.
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Jonah Blank
about 13 hours ago
It's "not believable" because it isn't true.
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O. Rose Broderick
about 13 hours ago
Experts warn that RFK Jr's new vaccine schedule will worsen health outcomes for children. Great story from
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www.statnews.com/2026/01/06/w...
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New vaccine schedule adds near- and long-term risks for children, experts warn
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pledged to improve children’s health. But his sweeping changes to the nation’s childhood vaccine schedule will do the opposite, health experts warn.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/06/what-new-vaccine-schedule-means-doctors-parents-kids/
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The BMJ
about 13 hours ago
Physicians in the Trump administration are aligning themselves with anti-public health interests and policies. High profile physicians should be resisting Trump and RFK Jr’s damaging policies, not collaborating with them,
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Marisa Kabas
about 13 hours ago
"In extraordinary moments such as this, too many journalists behave as if they have more in common with billionaires destroying journalism than the 80 or so people killed in Venezuela by Trump’s airstrikes. If we’ve learned anything this past year, it’s that proximity to power does not equal power."
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Call Trump's power grab in Venezuela what it is
Corporate media must recognize they're being openly lied to—and report accordingly.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-venezuela-power-grab-corporate-media-coverage
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American Philosophical Society
about 13 hours ago
18th century newspaper carriers sometimes delivered New Year’s poems to their customers to garner tips. This 1784 poem suggests readers loved the drama of the revolution, stating “The More that’s kill’d, the more you’ll read.”
https://bit.ly/48UPIuM
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