Director, Nationhood Lab, @PellCenter.bsky.social - Salve Regina University. Author, American Nations, American Character, Union, Republic of Pirates, and others. www.colinwoodard.com and www.nationhoodlab.org
Colin Strohn Woodard is an American journalist and writer known for his books American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (2011), The Republic of Pirates (2007), and The Lobster Coast (2004), a cultural and environmental history of coastal Maine. He is known for his writing that examines how the historically distinct regional cultures of America shape its current politics, society and health status. .. more
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Note the final line of the story: "The exhibition on the American presidency includes information about the impeachments of former Presidents Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton."
The Smithsonian officials who didn't resign over this––how ashamed do they feel?
But I would insist that they are in fact successfully recruiting the exact sort of person needed to carry out the mission: reactionary, angry, violent people who don’t believe in democracy.
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The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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We are united as a people.
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We do not want to be Americans. We do not want to be Danes. We want to be Greenlanders.
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The future of Greenland must be decided by Greenlanders.
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25 days. TWENTY-FIVE DAYS they kept this woman after kidnapping her.
So embarrassing.
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So embarrassing.
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An American citizen in a peaceful neighborhood gunned down by masked agents sent there to make people afraid.
The Vice President’s lies are despicable.
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- file impeachment articles every day in the House
- withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee
- be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
Already finding it harder than they imagined.
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Already finding it harder than they imagined.
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