Ambrose Grant

@ambrosegrant.bsky.social

👁️ MIND YOUR EYE 👁️ ★ E PLURIBUS UNUM ★ 🗽 UNION FOREVER 🗽

“Liberals will always choose fascism over socialism” is one of this website’s conventional ways of saying “I am stupid and I prefer reading the opinions of other stupid people”. It is good when stupid people self-identify, so we should not complain when they do so 

1)My favorite part of the Revolutionary New York exhibit was Occupied New York -- a dreadful time for just about anyone not a Brit officer or very well off. Death from cold, starvation, disease and violence was rife. Nowhere to live! So much NYC had burned.

Contemporary but imaginary view of the Great Fire of 1776 that destroyed so much of NYC. 

Whether the fire was the result of arson or was just an accident that had been waiting to happen, is another question that will no doubt also remain forever in doubt, but General Washington had orders from the Continental Congress not to burn the city, and neither the British occupiers nor the resident Loyalists had any reason to burn it, so an argument can be made that it was an accidental fire, possibly even a very minor one to begin with, minor enough that under ordinary circumstances a team of fire fighters working one or two of the city’s hand-pumped fire engines might have brought it under control before even one building was totally destroyed.

The revolutionary communist larp is so tiring, the delusion that they'll be revolutionaries tomorrow when they can't even vote today I just hope most of these accounts are from literal children attaching themselves to an extreme political identity for the novelty and that they'll grow up one day

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1/ I looked at 20 years of Supreme Court decisions and found that for the first time, all nine justices decided more cases by secret ballot — aka the “shadow docket” — than it did for cases argued in open court last term. 🧵:

A line chart shows the number of Supreme Court decisions on the merits docket versus the shadow docket from the 2003-04 term to the 2024-25 term. The merits docket decisions trend downward over time, ending at 56 decisions, while the shadow docket decisions rise sharply in the 2018-19 term and surpass the merits docket in the last term at 63 decisions.

Beautiful gesture from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, illuminating the Mother Ukraine monument in Kyiv in Stars & Stripes of the American flag. May the world continue to stand firmly alongside the resilient, courageous people of Ukraine in their fight for freedom & liberty. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🕊️ #4thOfJuly

The Mother Ukraine monument in Kyiv illuminated with the projection of the American flag's Stars & Stripes. Photo via the Embassy of Ukraine in the USA.