MLT
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MLT
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Just a guy from Tennessee, who likes comic books and politics.
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April 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Key history as Trump attempts to abolish the Department of Education: Andrew Johnson established the first Education Department in 1867 but faced backlash from white southerners who saw it as an effort to educate formerly enslaved children.

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February 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
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January 31, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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The opposite of 'warmth' is coolth.'
January 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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"He delights in the fact that those around him fear his power—and that they perceive he will wield it arbitrarily. He loves that they know the old ties—treaties, laws, norms—will not protect them. If they are to prosper, they must pay obeisance to the king"

www.thebulwark.com/p/take-trump...
Take Trump’s Greenland Obsession Seriously
Trump’s thirst for expansion isn’t a sideshow. It’s the foreign-policy expression of his core political impulse: bullying.
www.thebulwark.com
January 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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“The right’s comprehensive revisionism about the “Stop the Steal” period in 2020 and 2021 is proof of concept about what modern populist propagandists can achieve…The lesson will not be lost on them over the next four years.”

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Written by the Victors
How will Americans remember January 6?
thedispatch.com
January 7, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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‘Auld lang syne’ comes from Scots and is literally “old long ago.”
January 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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For all intensive purposes, what idioms or colloquialisms do people seem to constantly get wrong?
December 30, 2024 at 2:12 PM