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@jbf1755.bsky.social what? No 3 am club tonight? just when I need it most post-minor surgery. Rereading “The Impact of Nazi Law,” 1944, by Friedrich Roetter, Thaelmann’s lawyer after Reichstag Fire, imprisoned by Gestapo in 1935; refugee; my dad was his PhD adviser at UW, 1942-43. Google it!
September 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM
@jbf1755.bsky.social what? No 3 am club tonight? just when I need it most post-minor surgery. Rereading “The Impact of Nazi Law,” 1944, by Friedrich Roetter, Thaelmann’s lawyer after Reichstag Fire, imprisoned by Gestapo in 1935; refugee; my dad was his PhD adviser at UW, 1942-43. Google it!
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American Struggle
Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
By Jon Meacham
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Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
By Jon Meacham
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733910...
American Struggle by Jon Meacham: 9780593597552 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of America offers an empowering lens to understand our national debates and divisions from 1619 to the present, with his signature commentary on th...
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August 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
American Struggle
Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
By Jon Meacham
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733910...
Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
By Jon Meacham
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733910...
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has there ever been an episode like today with a sitting US senator? Of course, Charles Sumner, but not by Executive branch.
has there ever been an episode like today with a sitting US senator? Of course, Charles Sumner, but not by Executive branch.
June 13, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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has there ever been an episode like today with a sitting US senator? Of course, Charles Sumner, but not by Executive branch.
has there ever been an episode like today with a sitting US senator? Of course, Charles Sumner, but not by Executive branch.
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Liberals lean on the wrong argument in Trump’s prison deportations: This case is about the rule of law vs. what amounts to a lynching.
April 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Liberals lean on the wrong argument in Trump’s prison deportations: This case is about the rule of law vs. what amounts to a lynching.
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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
April 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
What years at Berea? JBS gave commencement address there 2 or 3 times.
That’s when my mother graduated Maynardville High and got a job in a Knoxville shoe plant. She wanted more and went to Berea, got a degree in home economics, worked at Pine Mountain Settlement School and for the WPA to build school lunchrooms, then the health-insurance office at Oak Ridge, 1942-52.
April 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
What years at Berea? JBS gave commencement address there 2 or 3 times.
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Great read at a fitting moment, and I like Jon Meacham as a historian.
I meant to buy a used regular print copy, but did not notice it was a large print copy
I meant to buy a used regular print copy, but did not notice it was a large print copy
April 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Great read at a fitting moment, and I like Jon Meacham as a historian.
I meant to buy a used regular print copy, but did not notice it was a large print copy
I meant to buy a used regular print copy, but did not notice it was a large print copy
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At the annual Gridiron Dinner, where guidance for jokes is to “singe, not burn,” a coldness marked the moment ...
“Nobody went because either we were busy working or we just don’t care to be recognized by that crowd,” one White House official said. It's the latter.
At the annual Gridiron Dinner, where guidance for jokes is to “singe, not burn,” a coldness marked the moment ...
“Nobody went because either we were busy working or we just don’t care to be recognized by that crowd,” one White House official said. It's the latter.
Trump gets a cold shoulder from elite DC media
For the first time in its history, the Gridiron Club did not toast the sitting president at its annual dinner.
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March 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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At the annual Gridiron Dinner, where guidance for jokes is to “singe, not burn,” a coldness marked the moment ...
“Nobody went because either we were busy working or we just don’t care to be recognized by that crowd,” one White House official said. It's the latter.
At the annual Gridiron Dinner, where guidance for jokes is to “singe, not burn,” a coldness marked the moment ...
“Nobody went because either we were busy working or we just don’t care to be recognized by that crowd,” one White House official said. It's the latter.
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America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
March 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.