Some perspectives on the Declaration and the meaning of American independence from the early American left, ~1820-1900 (Philip Foner, We, the Other People)

This is wisdom — our task is not to distinguish which events convey the “meaning” of history and which were merely incidental. We inherit the glory and the shame of the whole story, and we should ask not what parts we’ll overlook, but what parts we’ll write next.

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He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners… He has… sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

The Declaration’s grievances offer a portrait of political domination, teaching us what it feels like to be subjects rather than citizens. Can we recognize the predicament it describes? New from Charlie Tyson:

PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND

Last year there were fewer MAGA flags on the Jersey Shore than 2024, and this year there are hardly any at all. At the very least, the enthusiasm is gone.

They made an Oath In Favor Of Modernism…

one of the problems that's leading to a lot of anger/upset here is that some of the long contested arguments of very annoying leftists (there is a policy ratchet, biden lied about the ceasefire, israel is the bad guy, many democrats would rather fight leftists than republicans) turned out to be true

Bluesky-coded.

The DSA tendencies that people on here love to denounce aren't entirely fictional, but by virtue of running for office as Democrats, the DSA candidates aren't guilty of them.

New York has discovered that politics can be about political ideas instead of donor coalitions.

Since I’ve taken some heat for my stance that a lot complaints about “conspiratorial thinking” are in bad faith, let me be clear that it’s fine to denounce this particular line of attack as conspiratorial thinking.

not for nothing the “warnock is a fake christian and black christianity isn’t real” gambit they tried back in 2022 almost certainly helped the good reverend win his full term. bsky.app/profile/samd...

when the infographics are bad and useful only for memes but also the infographics are bad and useful only for memes

Unclean, unclean!

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Jewish groups, like the *checks notes* Catholic League??

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DO NOT ASK LLMS TO CRITICIZE THE ANTI-“AI” ENCYCLICAL

Cory Booker is summed up by his “filibuster” which he expects to be praised for but which did not actually block or even hold up any Senate business.

i think you have to understand an argument like the one in this book as fundamentally about stitching together an electoral coalition because as an analysis it falls painfully short, i.e. at what point in our history were americans ever united in “common purpose?” bsky.app/profile/chri...

Sure why not

as far as I am aware Cory Booker has said nothing so far about the latest confrontations at Delaney Hall, confrontations which included his junior colleague taking a round of pepper balls, his governor being denied access, and a sitting rep chasing ICE kidnappers from Newark to Elizabeth

I’ll have more to say about this, but I do think I read the tea leaves correctly here:

They should do that Jubilee show with the Pope. Like "1 Pope vs 20 Conservatives Catholics Who Just Converted."

Et hoc omnes dicunt socialismum.

May— 2026

Again, straight from Delaney Hall in Newark NJ: ICE just tear gassed Senator Andy Kim.

Imagining Bertie Wooster addressing someone as “my B in C”

«Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective.» MH 51

Leo fixed this problem in the latest thing — not a word about the Meaning of Gender

"A litmus test for social justice today is the treatment of migrants, refugees and those forced to move due to poverty, violence, climate change and environmental disasters" (Magnifica Humanitas).

Goes to show the type of day job you need in order to make it as a writer these days

The next encyclical has got to be about migration.

I like that he clearly shoehorns in some of his favorite texts, too — The Lord of the Rings and Augustine’s Pentecost sermon for children aren’t really necessary for the argument, but nobody can tell a pope what he can’t cite

Well would you look at that 😍

That one mufo of mine who is frantically asking Claude how to cook up a Dolchstoßlegende

You 🫵 have the time and capacity to create home-cooked meals.

Mr Abundance himself no longer wants to celebrate the entrepreneurial opportunities created by lighter regulation.

It’s funny to imagine a MAGA guy for whom insufficient deference to Netanyahu might be the last straw.

Another of Wojtyła’s crimes…

“Vivek Ramaswamy belonged to Cory Bookers secret society at Yale” seems like a similar fact

Nipples protruding 🫡🪦

They invited Itamar Ben Gvir to campus! In the year 2025!!!