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We stopped expanding the House in the 1920s, decided the Supreme Court should freeze in the 1930s, added the last states in the 1950s, amended the Constitution only once in the last fifty years. The USA and its government continued to grow, but almost all that growth came in the executive branch.
i really think the only reason we haven't created new states — which was a common political tactic in the 19th century, see nevada and the dakotas — is that 50 is a round number
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Like many NCO/USM folks in Naples I used to live in Castel Volturno; my stepdad was occasionally mistaken for a Nigerian immigrant there by locals. The 2008 mass shooting (which killed victims that had no ties to the Nigerian mob) turns my stomach & helps me realize the Pinetamare I knew is no more😢
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Replying to @atrupar.com
Mike: Oh Lord, I am your most devout servant, why hast Thou forsaken us in this time of flooding in Texas? God: I guided your brethren to build the most sophisticated weather monitoring and notification system ever. What happened with that? Mike: Uh... God: Dipshit. Can I plz speak to an adult?
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Perhaps Newsom should have spent less time chumming around with authoritarian buffoons on his podcast and more time preparing and strategizing for the entirely predicable thing that is happening in his state right now.
Washington just took the reasonable step of not allowing the National Guard of other states to operate here without our agreement. It’s not the Guard personnel we are concerned about, it’s other governors in the Trump cult. katu.com/news/local/g...
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Shoutout to my cuz Edda Fields Black for her well deserved Pulitzer on this topic www.cmu.edu/dietrich/new...
"Harriet Tubman, along with Black soldiers, took part in a daring Union raid of Combahee Ferry near Beaufort, South Carolina. She became the first American woman to lead a major military operation when she and at least 150 Black soldiers helped to rescue more than 700 Black Americans..."
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RIP Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o--I sat in for a couple of his classes when he was teaching at NYU and even those 2-3 classes were masterclasses in literary brilliance. Another genius one of one who we can never replace.
The Kenyan writer and perennial Nobel runner-up Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has died. In 2022, DW Gibson drove through Southern California with him—and discussed what living among strip malls meant for a writer whose work centers on particularity:
No other scholar has ever helped me understand quite to the degree he did how colonialism and colonization starts in the mind, and in the culture: before it ever gets to the point of stealing land, stealing histories, stealing resources--it first steals self-respect, language, traditions and culture
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Public Enemy stormed Hip Hop in 1987, igniting a revolution that reshaped the genre’s soul and sound. Emerging from Long Island, New York, they fused searing political commentary with sonic innovation, becoming a cultural force whose influence endures. hiphopgoldenage.com/list/top-15-...
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Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ