Tim Evanson
@timinthecle.bsky.social
Writer, political scientist, historian, photographer. My treeing Walker coonhound is Ellie Mae. I live in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. I'm from Montana.
Three decades old, and still the best book on the American Revolution that I've ever read.
November 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Three decades old, and still the best book on the American Revolution that I've ever read.
The best part of researching history is when you get stuck because something doesn't make sense. So you go to bed. And the next day, you push and push and push and then you discover a treasure trove of buried information that makes the "it's commonly known" line junk.
It's thrilling.
It's thrilling.
November 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The best part of researching history is when you get stuck because something doesn't make sense. So you go to bed. And the next day, you push and push and push and then you discover a treasure trove of buried information that makes the "it's commonly known" line junk.
It's thrilling.
It's thrilling.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Plans to Resign in January
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM
#Ukraine banned from NATO, Russia readmitted to the G8, and territory ceded.
Less a peace plan for Ukraine, and more of a complete surrender to #FascistRussia.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Less a peace plan for Ukraine, and more of a complete surrender to #FascistRussia.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Ukraine banned from Nato, Russia readmitted to the G8 and territory ceded: what’s in Trump’s draft plan
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he expects to discuss the plan – which was reportedly drafted by Russian and US officials – with Trump
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
#Ukraine banned from NATO, Russia readmitted to the G8, and territory ceded.
Less a peace plan for Ukraine, and more of a complete surrender to #FascistRussia.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Less a peace plan for Ukraine, and more of a complete surrender to #FascistRussia.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Attacking transgender people is the first thing the Nazis did. Look it up.
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apnews.com/article/libr...
Alabama board votes to remove books about being transgender from public library youth sections
The board overseeing Alabama public libraries on Thursday voted to remove books that discuss being transgender from the teen and children’s sections of public libraries.
apnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Attacking transgender people is the first thing the Nazis did. Look it up.
apnews.com/article/libr...
apnews.com/article/libr...
November 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Trump said that Democrats who urge soldiers to obey the law should be executed.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
White House walks back Trump’s suggestion of executing Democrats who urge military to disobey illegal orders – live
Karoline Leavitt says Trump doesn’t want to execute Democrats after president’s earlier social post suggesting their behavior is ‘punishable by DEATH’
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Trump said that Democrats who urge soldiers to obey the law should be executed.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Wisconsin Historical Society archaeologists have found 16 canoes submerged in the bed of Lake Mendota near Madison, Wisconsin.
Radiocarbon dating shows the oldest of the 16 canoes dates back 5,200 years ago.
more...
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Radiocarbon dating shows the oldest of the 16 canoes dates back 5,200 years ago.
more...
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Wisconsin archaeologists identify 16 ancient canoes in a prehistoric lake 'parking lot'
Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a prehistoric parking lot along a Wisconsin lakeshore.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Wisconsin Historical Society archaeologists have found 16 canoes submerged in the bed of Lake Mendota near Madison, Wisconsin.
Radiocarbon dating shows the oldest of the 16 canoes dates back 5,200 years ago.
more...
apnews.com/article/anci...
Radiocarbon dating shows the oldest of the 16 canoes dates back 5,200 years ago.
more...
apnews.com/article/anci...
#BoycottStarbucks until they come to the table and negotiate in good faith.
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Starbucks union says 30 more US stores are joining week-old strike
Starbucks’ union is expanding its week-old strike against the company. Starbucks Workers United said baristas from 30 more stores in 25 U.S. cities planned to join the strike Thursday, including store...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#BoycottStarbucks until they come to the table and negotiate in good faith.
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Heavens to betsy, how can this be?
Frequent, reliable mass transit gets cars off the road. Air pollution plummets.
Gosh! Who'da thunk it?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Frequent, reliable mass transit gets cars off the road. Air pollution plummets.
Gosh! Who'da thunk it?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Heavens to betsy, how can this be?
Frequent, reliable mass transit gets cars off the road. Air pollution plummets.
Gosh! Who'da thunk it?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Frequent, reliable mass transit gets cars off the road. Air pollution plummets.
Gosh! Who'da thunk it?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Personally, I doubt there's any smoking gun about Trump in the #Epsteinfiles. Anything truly egregious was "accidentally lost" in the last nine months.
November 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Personally, I doubt there's any smoking gun about Trump in the #Epsteinfiles. Anything truly egregious was "accidentally lost" in the last nine months.
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
A discharge petition to force a House vote on a bill to protect federal workers' collective bargaining rights got its 218th signature this afternoon.
The bill would nullify Trump's executive orders stripping collective bargaining rights from federal workers.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
The bill would nullify Trump's executive orders stripping collective bargaining rights from federal workers.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
Lawler, LaLota back bill to restore federal workers' bargaining rights
The New York Republicans provide the margin to force a House vote on the Protect America's Workforce Act after a partisan dispute stalled the discharge petition last week.
www.politico.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
A discharge petition to force a House vote on a bill to protect federal workers' collective bargaining rights got its 218th signature this afternoon.
The bill would nullify Trump's executive orders stripping collective bargaining rights from federal workers.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
The bill would nullify Trump's executive orders stripping collective bargaining rights from federal workers.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
Yes, and no. Republicans in the House were adamant against impeachment.
The "smoking gun" tape made it clear that Nixon faced a felong indictment, and would be convicted in a court of law.
Only then did SOME Republicans vote for impeachment.
more...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The "smoking gun" tape made it clear that Nixon faced a felong indictment, and would be convicted in a court of law.
Only then did SOME Republicans vote for impeachment.
more...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Trump Gets Away With It
The institutional checks that got the country through Watergate are far weaker now.
www.theatlantic.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Yes, and no. Republicans in the House were adamant against impeachment.
The "smoking gun" tape made it clear that Nixon faced a felong indictment, and would be convicted in a court of law.
Only then did SOME Republicans vote for impeachment.
more...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The "smoking gun" tape made it clear that Nixon faced a felong indictment, and would be convicted in a court of law.
Only then did SOME Republicans vote for impeachment.
more...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 17, 1979 – Salem's Lot premieres on CBS.
November 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
November 17, 1979 – Salem's Lot premieres on CBS.