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Historian. Islanders/Yankees fan. Opinions are my own. Has it ever been otherwise?

Brooks Donohue Simpson is an American historian and an ASU Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University, specializing in American political and military history, especially the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras and the American presidency. .. more

Political science 51%
Business 21%

It's Sunday. Having helped someone prepare to take the US citizenship test several months ago ... I know how cringe worthy it is.

PS: They passed with a perfect score. I still got it.

So Harry Truman and George C. Marshall were woke?
Trump: "We won the first world war, second world war -- I always say, everything before and everything in between -- and then we got woke and we said, 'Well, let's call it Defense.'"
Trump: "We won the first world war, second world war -- I always say, everything before and everything in between -- and then we got woke and we said, 'Well, let's call it Defense.'"

Appomattox Court House.

The coup continues.

In its way, it's entirely fitting to destroy the American republic and the rule of law as we prepare to celebrate a revolution meant to secure those things.

Especially if you like neat numbers.

The threat was always from within. We have met the enemy, and it is us.

One would hope that one's work makes the reader engage with the past with empathy and insight. It's left to them to decide what to feel about what the historian has said. Intent is not impact.

What makes one person feel good (or understood) may not hold for someone else.

Sheridan was a year away from becoming a thing of the past when he said this.

Grant made that trip via Panama in 1852. Harrowing experience. As president he advocated building a canal.

Quite the obsessed fan.

Fugitive Slave Law vibes.
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

But Democrats get in their own way.

Note: Donald Trump preferred a coin featuring himself to a coin bearing the likeness of Charlie Kirk.

How soon they forget.

Someone get JD Vance a couch.

Escalators are not the problem.

Fire the person responsible for hiring this person.

Abe's aged.

Did Jesse Watters actually say this?

"Fact checking the president's remarks is a plot to bring down our political institutions by the rabid left."

What an interesting time to recall that it is Constitution Day.

That Charlie Kirk was just interested in promoting free speech and open debate is open to debate.

So Roy Cohn's disciple is now an FBI informant?

The controversy over the Epstein files once again reminds us ...

It's the coverup that gets you.

So Trump was an FBI informant about a hoax that the Democrats set up, failed to investigate, and which implicates Clinton ...

You're trying too hard, Mikey.
Trump administration officials are perplexed by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case against Jeffrey Epstein. More:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
'What the Hell?' House Speaker Confuses White House With Claim Trump Was an FBI Snitch
Trump admin officials are perplexed by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case against Jeffrey Epstein.
www.rollingstone.com

So people are out of work just to spite Trump?

Haverford Howie reaches a new low ... difficult to believe but true.
Lutnick says the jobs numbers "will get better because you'll take out the people who are just trying to create noise against the president ... this is gonna be the greatest growth economy six months from now, a year from today"
Lutnick says the jobs numbers "will get better because you'll take out the people who are just trying to create noise against the president ... this is gonna be the greatest growth economy six months from now, a year from today"

JD Vance's nightmare is that cabinet members will laugh when asked to extol his virtues.

It's a photograph.

Ulysses S. Grant.

Has President Trump ever visited any of the Smithsonian museums?