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The prevailing myth is only a few, wealthy families owned slaves. While that myth surely makes some neo-Confederate, treason apologists feel better, the reality of slaveholding in the South is mind-numbing.
Ask a Confederate
In their own words: The Civil War and Slavery
medium.com/armedwithrea...
Ask a Confederate
In their own words: The Civil War and Slavery
medium.com/armedwithrea...
October 20, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The prevailing myth is only a few, wealthy families owned slaves. While that myth surely makes some neo-Confederate, treason apologists feel better, the reality of slaveholding in the South is mind-numbing.
Ask a Confederate
In their own words: The Civil War and Slavery
medium.com/armedwithrea...
Ask a Confederate
In their own words: The Civil War and Slavery
medium.com/armedwithrea...
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"He could be heard quoting Bible passages almost as much as he could be heard quoting from other texts written by historical figures. Mr. Duke himself was highly quotable, although in the interest of space, none of his famous quotes will be shared here."
The Last Remaining Newspaper’s Obituary for David Duke, ca. 2033
The following message has been approved by the FCC, Louisiana Commissar’s Branch. - - -David Ernest Duke, devoted father, community leader, and pas...
buff.ly
September 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"He could be heard quoting Bible passages almost as much as he could be heard quoting from other texts written by historical figures. Mr. Duke himself was highly quotable, although in the interest of space, none of his famous quotes will be shared here."
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I am 42, feel great, and have normal cholesterol and blood pressure measures.
I do have a family history of heart disease and after a discussion with my PCP, I received a coronary calcium CT study today.
It helps looks for evidence of coronary artery disease and is underutilized in the US
I do have a family history of heart disease and after a discussion with my PCP, I received a coronary calcium CT study today.
It helps looks for evidence of coronary artery disease and is underutilized in the US
September 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I am 42, feel great, and have normal cholesterol and blood pressure measures.
I do have a family history of heart disease and after a discussion with my PCP, I received a coronary calcium CT study today.
It helps looks for evidence of coronary artery disease and is underutilized in the US
I do have a family history of heart disease and after a discussion with my PCP, I received a coronary calcium CT study today.
It helps looks for evidence of coronary artery disease and is underutilized in the US
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Four Black girls were murdered in a church for daring to exist in a desegregated America.
Decades later, justice came, because people refused to let the story die.
Watch Sen Doug Jones and historian Heather Cox Richardson break it down.
History isn’t past. It’s a warning.
youtu.be/bccqUo0mZvQ?...
Decades later, justice came, because people refused to let the story die.
Watch Sen Doug Jones and historian Heather Cox Richardson break it down.
History isn’t past. It’s a warning.
youtu.be/bccqUo0mZvQ?...
American Conversations: Senator Doug Jones
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
youtu.be
September 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Four Black girls were murdered in a church for daring to exist in a desegregated America.
Decades later, justice came, because people refused to let the story die.
Watch Sen Doug Jones and historian Heather Cox Richardson break it down.
History isn’t past. It’s a warning.
youtu.be/bccqUo0mZvQ?...
Decades later, justice came, because people refused to let the story die.
Watch Sen Doug Jones and historian Heather Cox Richardson break it down.
History isn’t past. It’s a warning.
youtu.be/bccqUo0mZvQ?...
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ChatGPT and other LLMs aren't about to produce superintelligence, but if this is it, it's still changed the world. Not necessarily for the better.
I did a big picture look at AI, comparing it to search and social media, On business, politics, education, misinfo, ability to grasp reality, and more.
I did a big picture look at AI, comparing it to search and social media, On business, politics, education, misinfo, ability to grasp reality, and more.
The Third Algorithm
ChatGPT and other generative AI isn't about to create superintelligence, but even if what we see now is it, the impact is on the scale of Google search and algorithmic social media, except maybe worse
www.arcdigital.media
August 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
ChatGPT and other LLMs aren't about to produce superintelligence, but if this is it, it's still changed the world. Not necessarily for the better.
I did a big picture look at AI, comparing it to search and social media, On business, politics, education, misinfo, ability to grasp reality, and more.
I did a big picture look at AI, comparing it to search and social media, On business, politics, education, misinfo, ability to grasp reality, and more.
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Even critics of tariffs just don't get it: It doesn't matter who pays the tariff, or even if no one pays it (because they forego imports). The existence of the tariff raises the market price for both foreign and domestic goods, at the expense of consumers. That is its entire function.
August 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Even critics of tariffs just don't get it: It doesn't matter who pays the tariff, or even if no one pays it (because they forego imports). The existence of the tariff raises the market price for both foreign and domestic goods, at the expense of consumers. That is its entire function.
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1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s
This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely.
Here's why.
This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely.
Here's why.
Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s
An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year.
popular.info
August 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s
This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely.
Here's why.
This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely.
Here's why.
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I am honored to announce the release of groundbreaking @freepress.bsky.social research & analysis with our inaugural "Media Capitulation Index" which examines how major corporate media companies are bending the knee to Trump & those in power. Check out the rankings & @timkarr.bsky.social analysis:
Who Owns the Media
Who owns the 35 most powerful media companies in America? Learn how these giants came to dominate the U.S. media landscape through mergers, acquisition and manipulation. Free Press rates their ability...
www.freepress.net
July 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I am honored to announce the release of groundbreaking @freepress.bsky.social research & analysis with our inaugural "Media Capitulation Index" which examines how major corporate media companies are bending the knee to Trump & those in power. Check out the rankings & @timkarr.bsky.social analysis:
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The news outlet that chased the criminal Nixon from office is helping keep the criminal Trump in office. Owned by an oligarch who pays protection money to Trump, the Washington Post can no longer be trusted. I’m done with it.
My free Stop the Presses newsletter.
My free Stop the Presses newsletter.
Why the Washington Post is dead to me
And why I haven’t canceled the NY Times despite its flaws
www.stopthepresses.news
July 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The news outlet that chased the criminal Nixon from office is helping keep the criminal Trump in office. Owned by an oligarch who pays protection money to Trump, the Washington Post can no longer be trusted. I’m done with it.
My free Stop the Presses newsletter.
My free Stop the Presses newsletter.
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Trump's AI action plan and executive order on "anti-woke AI" is doomed to fail and will destroy America's lead on AI technology.
www.thedissident.news/state-sponso...
www.thedissident.news/state-sponso...
State-Sponsored Stupidity: The Inevitable Failure of Trump's AI Strategy
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the spectacular and predictable implosion of Elon Musk’s “anti-woke” AI, Grok.[1] When prompted to be “politically incorrect,” Grok did not become a witty contrarian; it...
www.thedissident.news
July 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Trump's AI action plan and executive order on "anti-woke AI" is doomed to fail and will destroy America's lead on AI technology.
www.thedissident.news/state-sponso...
www.thedissident.news/state-sponso...
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DARVO—Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender—is a documented manipulation tactic identified by Dr. Jennifer Freyd. Common among abusers, it involves denying wrongdoing, attacking the victim, and recasting oneself as the true victim to evade accountability.
July 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
DARVO—Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender—is a documented manipulation tactic identified by Dr. Jennifer Freyd. Common among abusers, it involves denying wrongdoing, attacking the victim, and recasting oneself as the true victim to evade accountability.
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why destroy the department of education?
would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it?
today's column:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it?
today's column:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Who Benefits from Destroying the Department of Education
This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration can go ahead with its ambitious, ruinous plan of gutting the Department of Education, firing...
buttondown.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
why destroy the department of education?
would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it?
today's column:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it?
today's column:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Masked Terror
At this point, we have all seen the videos.
open.substack.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about." ~Mark Twain
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about." ~Mark Twain
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After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.
The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
www.forkingpaths.co
June 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.
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Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
June 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
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can’t remember where I saw it but someone realized you could get google’s AI to hallucinate elaborate explanations for fake proverbs by just typing them into search and i just checked and google still hasn’t fixed it and now i can’t stop doing it
May 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
can’t remember where I saw it but someone realized you could get google’s AI to hallucinate elaborate explanations for fake proverbs by just typing them into search and i just checked and google still hasn’t fixed it and now i can’t stop doing it
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Trump Admin actually JOINING FORCES with your medical debt-slavers to make sure your credit never recovers.
Medicaid legislation is changing the definitions of able-bodied and age dependency.
The elderly and infirmed are textbook victims under fascist regimes.
www.npr.org/2025/05/26/n...
Medicaid legislation is changing the definitions of able-bodied and age dependency.
The elderly and infirmed are textbook victims under fascist regimes.
www.npr.org/2025/05/26/n...
The CFPB wanted medical debt to be left off credit reports. That's changed under Trump
Under the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule barring medical debt from appearing on credit reports. Now, the agency is siding with the credit industry grou...
www.npr.org
May 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Trump Admin actually JOINING FORCES with your medical debt-slavers to make sure your credit never recovers.
Medicaid legislation is changing the definitions of able-bodied and age dependency.
The elderly and infirmed are textbook victims under fascist regimes.
www.npr.org/2025/05/26/n...
Medicaid legislation is changing the definitions of able-bodied and age dependency.
The elderly and infirmed are textbook victims under fascist regimes.
www.npr.org/2025/05/26/n...
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FULL DISCLOSURE, MAGA Murder Budget is the messaging that I suggested and while I wanted to just ignore this new testing, now that it's out there, feels like I gotta wade in. Here goes - adventures in everything wrong with Dem message testing, a case study. /1
"House Majority Fund, a Democratic group aligned with House Democratic leadership, issued talking points for members on the bill."
Avoid Hyperbolic Rhetoric
punchbowl.news/hmf-releases...
Avoid Hyperbolic Rhetoric
punchbowl.news/hmf-releases...
May 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
FULL DISCLOSURE, MAGA Murder Budget is the messaging that I suggested and while I wanted to just ignore this new testing, now that it's out there, feels like I gotta wade in. Here goes - adventures in everything wrong with Dem message testing, a case study. /1
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If you think Biden’s administration was complicit in hiding his cognitive decline, take a look at those who work for Trump.
www.salon.com/2025/05/22/f...
www.salon.com/2025/05/22/f...
Forgetting Joe Biden
Trump's problems today are more important than Biden's problems yesterday
www.salon.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
If you think Biden’s administration was complicit in hiding his cognitive decline, take a look at those who work for Trump.
www.salon.com/2025/05/22/f...
www.salon.com/2025/05/22/f...
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Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars.
Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses. Real buttons are sooooooo back baby!
Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses. Real buttons are sooooooo back baby!
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its sen...
www.wired.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars.
Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses. Real buttons are sooooooo back baby!
Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses. Real buttons are sooooooo back baby!
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Malcolm was right about a lot of stuff. It cost him his life.
May 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Malcolm was right about a lot of stuff. It cost him his life.
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Sesame Street had him pegged back in 1988.
May 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Sesame Street had him pegged back in 1988.