Hunters in the Snow https://www.wikiart.org/en/pieter-bruegel-the-elder/hunters-in-the-snow-1565

Glenn Beck was drinking from the same well. Fox News, January 2010: "Woodrow Wilson, this is an evil S.O.B. Man, you need to read about Wilson. Bad dude. He passed the Revenue Act of 1913. Blatantly unconstitutional, but people let it slide..." www.mediamatters.org/glenn-beck/s...

Dem gains in this week's elections erased the inroads Trump made with non-white, young, and low-income voters in 2024. In fact, the R-to-D shift from 24 to 25 is double Trump's gains from 20-24. Claims of a GOP political realignment have been highly exaggerated www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...

Charlie Kirk hired Candace Owens when TPUSA was under scrutiny for racism and violating its non-profit status. www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...

Bill Buckley, an expert on the subject, reprimanded Coulter as "much, much more extreme in her judgments than McCarthy ever was" but also praised "her adroit wit in treating of political correctness." claremontreviewofbooks.com/tailgunner-a...

In Putin’s Russia, in August 2012, Garry Kasparov was acquitted by a court after being charged with a felony of attacking a police officer. Everyone had a good laugh. When did they stop laughing?

Abby Spanberger will now be governor of Virginia, Mikie Sherrill governor of NJ. I wrote about both of them, and their friend group, last year www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"Hope may seem a flimsy thing to wield against autocracy, but it is the secret weapon of resistance... The opposition’s optimistic slogans ‘Joy is coming’ and ´Happiness is a rainbow’ helped to lessen fear and fatalism. A March for Joy, held days before the election, attracted hundreds of thousands"

New Jersey, it is the honor of my life to earn your trust to become this great state’s 57th Governor. I promise to listen, lead with courage, and never forget who I serve.

Eric Edelman, a loyal Cheney guy, pointed the finger at Liz. "She called me and said, ‘You know, I’m really worried about this. What should we do?’ ...Liz was a prime mover of the whole thing, really.” But we don't really know who told them about the plans to involve the military.

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Con qué tristeza miramos Un amor que se nos va Es un pedazo del alma Que se arranca sin piedad youtu.be/Ugm0wEa32bw The classic song by María Teresa Vera popularized the habanera, a Cuban dance and music style based on an African rhythm pattern.

Epic... Thank you, Nancy Pelosi.

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Never forget.

Kevin Roberts uses a simpler language when asking Heritage donors for money.

Zbigniew Brzezinski clearly explained in 1994: "Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both... It cannot be stressed strongly enough that without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire."

When Tucker Carlson was a voice of reason. "As it happened, Mr. Carlson was concerned that the president was not taking the coronavirus seriously enough and talked with him about it during the evening, according to a person informed about the conversation."

Yo sé que no hay en el mundo Amor como que el que me das Y sé que noche con noche Va creciendo más y más youtu.be/RycUr1WzunI Pedro Infante exemplified the richness of Mexican culture. His untimely death in a 1957 plane crash at the age of 39 caused an outpouring of grief across Latin America.

The picture on the cover of the first issue of Ebony was related to the cover story by Rev. Ritchie Low about his program to bring Black children from Harlem for a summer vacation in Vermont. Rev. Low died in 1948 at the age of 49. www.nytimes.com/1948/12/25/a...

As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. youtu.be/e4Xz7WV_qJs Julia Ward Howe wrote new lyrics to the song "John Brown's Body" in November 1861 after meeting Abraham Lincoln. Judy Garland sang it on television in December 1963 in memory of John F. Kennedy.

The late Charlie Kirk, who co-hosted his podcast with Tucker Carlson’s Nazi speechwriter, made his choice because of his inability to debate the Nazis. Vance is no wiser.

For context, it's helpful to know that Vance thought all Christians were dumb dupes until he met his sugar daddy, Peter Thiel, and had to act differently.

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I think of Mezhyhirya. The former Russian puppet’s residence is now a museum of corruption www.usatoday.com/picture-gall...

Tu as tous les défauts que j'aime Et des qualités bien cachées Tu es un homme, et moi je t'aime Et ça ne peut pas s'expliquer youtu.be/zxt00tlPtYw Love is irreducible to simpler explanations.

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Robert Putnam in Bowling Alone clearly distinguishes between bonding and bridging. "In a diverse society like ours, we need a lot of bridging social capital. And some forms of bonding social capital are really awful. The K.K.K…" Bridging made America great, but Vance supports K.K.K.-style bonding.

Ten years ago, Anna Krylov was fighting against gender discrimination in science. Trump’s arrival turned her into an asshole. dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

Fuentes about his victory over Charlie Kirk: "You know, six years ago, they said it was racist to say that we should have a whites-only immigration policy or that we should have an immigration policy that is intended to sustain our white demographics… Now [Kirk and Walsh] say no more nonwhites…"

Not yet settled, but it is clear in which direction the wind is blowing. "Kirk — while assuring his audience that he remains ‘very pro-Israel’ — wondered aloud…" Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, and other influencers spare no effort in promoting conspiracy theories about Israel and Epstein.

"We're gonna end all forms of bigotry... BUT..." That was a pretty telling BUT, you old fuck.

Another branch of the Mellon family financed organizations that gave us Trump-1 and Trump-2. Sarah Mellon Scaife, Richie's and Cordy's mother, was a cousin of Paul, Timothy Mellon’s father. Sarah and Paul each inherited 1/4th of the Mellon fortune.

Reagan seemed unbearably woke in his Farewell Address to the Nation, when he said that the doors to America "were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here." www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe... He noted that American strength came from "our capacity to welcome those from other lands."

Yesterday, the moon was blue And every crazy day Brought something new to do And I used my magic age As if it were a wand And never saw the waste And emptiness beyond youtu.be/GTtde0qBOMQ One’s sense of time shapes all other perceptions of reality.

"An extensive review of Ms. Mitchell’s effort… reveals a loose network of influential groups and fringe figures. They include election deniers as well as mainstream organizations such as the Heritage Foundation’s political affiliate… The effort… is a project of the Conservative Partnership Institute

The fear of Saul Alinsky is fittingly Putinesque. In a 1972 Playboy interview, Alinsky predicted the arrival of a "guy on horseback promising a return to the vanished verities of yesterday." scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/saul-...

Dictator’s envy. Being more skilled politically, Putin tried to hide his corruption until he gained complete control.

A 2019 congressional testimony about the FascistForge: "The forum emphasizes violent tactics… Forum moderator D. Aquillius writes: ‘I think disrupting the food supply would be a good bet.’ His avatar includes a figure of a Nazi soldier with a cartooned Totenkopf face…" docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/...

While on Fox News, Glenn Beck introduced his viewers to Soros-bashing and the "color revolution" scare, effectively echoing the talking points of Russian propaganda, which has kept Putin in power for 25 years.

Has he ever apologized for supporting Tulsi Gabbard?

In 2020, Stephen Miller’s fantasy of deploying troops on the streets was rebuffed by both the DOJ and the DOD. He didn't forget.

The very first reference in JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy is to Razib Khan, a pseudoscientific racist. "Vance has told me that some of my writing on the historical origins of the Scots-Irish made him aware that he was not just a white American, that he had a very particular ethnicity…"

The media, including the NYT, were complicit in making the Tea Party protests seem larger and more organic than they actually were.

"Our Constitution is different, and the difference is in three words; it almost escapes everyone. The three words are, ‘We the people.’ Our Constitution is a document in which we the people tell the Government what its powers are. And it can have no powers other than those listed in that document."

"He was zealous in his defense of democracy and his condemnation of autocracy. His passion sometimes gave rise to his famous temper. But that temper was always directed at those who threatened what he held so dear—the freedom, liberty, and humaneness denied him for over half a decade in a POW camp."

Supporting the Tea Party propaganda's victory in the 2010 midterms doomed the comprehensive immigration reform, along with other Obama initiatives. We are reaping what was sown back then.

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states. See if you can spot it! /s Then you can find today's story on p A23

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings