#Confederate

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

America's history has been intentionally and maliciously scrubbed clean of ugly, necessary truths.Let's talk about the Civil War, the Confederacy, Lincoln, and why certain truths have been hidden.Here's what I

Adam Waxman

awaxman

I'm going to do a little threat celebrating all the #philanthropy supported journalists across @mcclatchy's southeast markets. Many of them started amidst earth-shaking events and have been working tirelessly to

Harrison 🎷🐋

harrisonmw27

NEW VIRGINIA LAWS THAT TAKE EFFECT TOMORROW, JULY 1ST, SORTED BY TOPIC: A THREAD Gun Control (1/2)-Universal background checks-Red flag laws “to temporarily take guns away from people deemed to

David Frum

davidfrum

Karen Hughes tells a story in her memoirs that down-ballot Republicans would do well to remember in 2020 ... 1/xhttps://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1279657317315772417 Walking on a bench on holiday, she saw a small

Pete Davis 🌱

PeteDDavis

One of my favorite twists of American history is that John Brown’s raiders took George Washington’s great-grandnephew Lewis Washington hostage. The whole episode is cinematic: Colonel Lewis Washington was a

Alison Flynn

aflynn42

This is possibly one of the bigger tells for Liberalism vs. Leftism* as coherent** philosophies*not all leftism**definitely not all leftismNo but seriously: Liberalism has symbols. Federal architecture, with grand rotundas

Jon 🔬

JonnyMicro

Every time I see someone clutch their pearls over Trump putting kids in cages I remember that Obama and Biden built those cages and the press and Congress knew about

Mike Harris

DrMikeH49

A thread for my friends in Israel. בוקר טוב חבריםMany of you have probably wondered at times over the past few years why American Jews didn’t support Trump. After all,

Gordon Emmanuel

EmanThinks

THREAD: I waited to truly have time before reading this article from @TJGordonIV1 (Colonel Gordon USMC) and I was not disappointed. It is great to see leaders thinking about all

Amy's ready to play the music and light the lights

spooloflies

CW: Beck's virulent antisemitism.I know exactly why i'm mad about this but trying to figure out how to frame it. In short: this manages to simultaneously make him the victim,

Joshua Potash

JoshuaPotash

Proud Boys and other fascists just attacked a random guy on the DC mall Main Proud Boy group (led by Enrique Tarrio) are rallying near the Washington Monument A bit

Ben Railton

AmericanStudier

What a week to be an AmericanStudier (or an American). But so many folks rose to that challenge & produced great public scholarly writing. To wit, another #ScholarSunday thread on

Hugh OGILVIE

Hugsutd01

After reading @greeborunner 's upset at the mindless, hateful rantings of JHB, I thought I would inject some much-needed POSITIVITY into the mix, with some inspiring facts about @DollyParton, culled

Kevin M. Levin

KevinLevin

Robert E. Lee had represented Virginia in Statuary Hall since 1909. Last night it was removed.https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/virginias-statue-of-gen-robert-e-lee-removed-from-us-capitol/2020/12/20/07cb9c18-432a-11eb-

Tinker'tricity ⭐️⭐️⭐️

TinkerTricity

THREAD: Part1 > FF Comms Decode > ETA > 12/10/2020This is tag team decode with @corkyjones2 on FF comms that fit my "13 Day Marker" for FFs.I will post a

Christopher M True

RealChrisTrue

I, honestly, didn’t know much on this topic, but after some research, the expulsions were a result of the escalation of the Civil War and the members had already stopped

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