Wonk_arama
@wonkarama.bsky.social
I am not confused. I am deeply committed to a range of mutually exclusive positions on many topics. All my opinions are meh. Consternated in the extreme and knee deep in the hoopla. Words putting into sentences making guy.
So when on the night of 3 Nov Trump says “Stop the count” or begins railing against mail-in voting, journalists at the press conference better ask how he voted and if he again voted by mail, whether he thinks his mail-in vote shouldn’t be counted.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6d agoTrump voted by mail in Florida's Republican primary, according to local voting records — even as he continues to rail against mail-in voting with lies of fraud.
When this gets to court—and it will- it’s going to be entertaining seeing how the government defends as neutral and not viewpoint based. U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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One of the most common tropes in Trump world has been a never ending series of people who were utterly convinced he would never throw *them* under the bus … right up until the moment the bus ran them down.
Raw Story@rawstory.com · last wk.Senior staff was furious with President Donald Trump as more information surfaced about the jet plane swap in Turkey last month, a White House insider said on Thursday.
My commute is 50-60mins each way in a car on my own. Today I had the distinct pleasure of listening to Sam Neil regale me with stories from his life. If you have to spend that much time in traffic I can’t think of a better way to do it. I smiled all the way. Vale Sam.
The official Mister Rogers YouTube channel has been posting full episodes recently, and believe me when I tell you that watching one is a great way to take a break from the general state of things. www.youtube.com/@MisterRoger...
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Welcome to the official Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood YouTube channel! For more than 30 years, Mister Rogers created a relationship with millions of children, each of whom felt like they were visiting ...
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never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
Just because the Trump administration and the DOJ are hilariously inept at the abuse of power doesn’t mean they aren’t guilty of abusing their power. It’s definitely not ‘no harm, no foul’ when the case is thrown out or abandoned as the defendants will have spent serious money defending themselves
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 3w agoBREAKING: Pirro has dismissed the case against Davey Hearn for vandalizing the reflecting pool, saying that there's no way vandals could have caused the damage.
A book on Greek antiquities has been returned to an Australian public library about 150 years late, with water damage from years bricked into a fireplace. https://cnn.it/4hIQ9wV
This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
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The morning after the assault on Fort Wagner, the 54th Massachusetts counted its dead, learned the fate of its colonel, and discovered what its sacrifice had already won. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
A Glorious Death
The morning after the assault on Fort Wagner, the 54th Massachusetts counted its dead, learned the fate of its colonel, and discovered what its sacrifice had already won.
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🗃️ It's a memorable moment in the movie GLORY. The 54th Massachusetts is lined up on Morris Island prepared to lead an assault on Confederate Battery Wagner #OTD in 1863. Shaw walks through the regiment and takes a position at the front. He turns and address pointing to the regimental flag bearer:
Some thoughts on this 163rd anniversary of their famous assault on Battery Wagner. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Robert Gould Shaw, the 54th Massachusetts, and the Story We Wanted
From Burchard's biography to Glory, we remade Battery Wagner into a redemption tale. The history is more interesting.
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What a lovely thought from someone who, by all accounts was a lovely man. Vale Sam Neil.
Cinephilia & Beyond@cinephiliabeyond.org · last mo.Rest in peace to one of cinema’s most outstanding artists; the legendary actor Sam Neill (1947–2026)
Prices for Apple products are rising. You can now buy a MacbookPro for $10,000—and it’s all because of the AI boom, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports.
America Is Having MacBook Sticker Shock
Apple is charging you an AI tax.
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The lovely @mirandamaybe.bsky.social and I fell down a Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox rabbit hole. If you’re needing a serotonin hit these brilliant singers and musicians fully commit and absolutely blow the doors off any song they’re performing. It will be good for whatever ails you
PostmodernJukebox
Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox: Bringing you "Today's Hits, Yesterday" since 2010 🕰 (Vintage style covers, new music for Old Souls, etc. etc.). Welcome down the PMJ Rabbit Hole! Check out our lin...
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The people who built the case for the Fourteenth Amendment never saw citizenship as a zero sum contest between Black Americans and immigrants. They understood their own freedom as bound up with a universal principle. 🗃️ #CivilWarMemory #America250 kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/the-long-m...
The Long Memory of the Fourteenth Amendment
Justice Jackson's concurrence in Trump v. Barbara shows how the historical record, not selective memory, settles the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment
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One hundred sixty-three years ago today, as the light faded over the first day’s field at Gettysburg, an enslaved man from Lexington, Virginia walked out to the unfinished Railroad Cut west of town. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
The Slave at the Railroad Cut
163 years ago tonight, an enslaved man fed Confederate officers with food pulled from the Union dead. Gettysburg still doesn't know what to do with him.
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We are never neutral observers. We are always reading history through the lens of right now. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
The Past Doesn't Need Us, But We Need It
On Hazlitt, monuments, and a week of teaching Civil War memory in Washington
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When they said, "wear a suit," I just assumed… Find a public pool near you at nycgovparks.org.
For my current book project, I am rethinking every aspect of the Gettysburg Campaign from the perspective of the thousands of enslaved laborers that traveled with the Confederate army. Here are a few thoughts about the Confederate march north in June 1863. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
In the Direction of Freedom
What enslaved laborers in the Army of Northern Virginia saw and heard on the march to Gettysburg.
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genuinely crazy to watch these people freak out over what is essentially 21st century new dealism
Mediaite@mediaite.com · 2mo ago‘I’m Done, I’m Not in That F*cking Political Party’: James Carville Freaks Out After Progressives Win Big in Democratic Primaries
The announcer actually said: “The English, historically, do not do well in Massachusetts” That might be the line of the World Cup⚽️✨
