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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
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in this moment of universal pleasure over the shellacking of Jake Paul I’m finally agreeing to run for office. My platform:
1. return boxing to network tv & basic cable
2. promote lower weight divisions. return to the glory Pipino Cuevas & Danny Lopez days
3. public money for boxing journalism
1. return boxing to network tv & basic cable
2. promote lower weight divisions. return to the glory Pipino Cuevas & Danny Lopez days
3. public money for boxing journalism
December 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
in this moment of universal pleasure over the shellacking of Jake Paul I’m finally agreeing to run for office. My platform:
1. return boxing to network tv & basic cable
2. promote lower weight divisions. return to the glory Pipino Cuevas & Danny Lopez days
3. public money for boxing journalism
1. return boxing to network tv & basic cable
2. promote lower weight divisions. return to the glory Pipino Cuevas & Danny Lopez days
3. public money for boxing journalism
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So many northeastern libs in elite circles are sooooo squishy and embarrassed by themselves, which was a strange thing to encounter after spending the first 25 years of my life in the South, where being left of center requires you to at least have the courage of your convictions
i was especially struck by these paragraphs, which rang very true to me. libs who grew up around conservatives aren't embarrassed to be liberals--or confused about what conservatives want. there's a certain kind of elite media man, on the other hand--
December 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
So many northeastern libs in elite circles are sooooo squishy and embarrassed by themselves, which was a strange thing to encounter after spending the first 25 years of my life in the South, where being left of center requires you to at least have the courage of your convictions
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dont say things like this to people
December 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
dont say things like this to people
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The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won
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This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball
October 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball
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i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
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Los Angeles: hundreds of square miles of land with an incredible variety of terrain, unimaginably great weather, gorgeous native flora and fauna
Los Angeles Officials: Let's cover it in concrete
Los Angeles Officials: Let's cover it in concrete
LA is building a new $1.5 billion freeway into LAX.
The very same airport where we just spent $2 billion on the people mover — actually, more like $3 billion, plus another $900 million if you count Metro's investment in the LAX station; so let's just say $4 billion — to make cars go away
The very same airport where we just spent $2 billion on the people mover — actually, more like $3 billion, plus another $900 million if you count Metro's investment in the LAX station; so let's just say $4 billion — to make cars go away
Air traffic control
The LAX-pressway must be stopped
www.torched.la
October 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Los Angeles: hundreds of square miles of land with an incredible variety of terrain, unimaginably great weather, gorgeous native flora and fauna
Los Angeles Officials: Let's cover it in concrete
Los Angeles Officials: Let's cover it in concrete
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People hate feeling like they're being manipulated or patronized, and the poll-tested, focus-grouped, incessantly right-shifting position of the mainstream Democrat produces that feeling much more reliably than it produces votes.
October 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
People hate feeling like they're being manipulated or patronized, and the poll-tested, focus-grouped, incessantly right-shifting position of the mainstream Democrat produces that feeling much more reliably than it produces votes.
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He’s going the hell off
The hare was on his fourth bowl of spring salad with mountain cheese and hazelnut and almond bread. Between salads he had demolished a number of blackcurrant tarts, a carrot 'n' turnip pasty with gravy, and a huge portion of woodland trifle topped with meadowcream.
October 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
He’s going the hell off
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That's why you pay for all those guys: defector.com/thats-why-yo...
That's Why You Pay For All Those Guys | Defector
By now the rhythms of a typical Dodgers season are familiar: An offseason spending spree induces hysterics; a rash of longterm injuries and poor individual seasons puts a bit of a damper on the 162;…
defector.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
That's why you pay for all those guys: defector.com/thats-why-yo...
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<sitting on my couch with an apple cider> you've gotta let that pitch hit you in the kneecap man
October 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
<sitting on my couch with an apple cider> you've gotta let that pitch hit you in the kneecap man
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the prospect of an American World Cup actually celebrating our immigrant/diasporic communities as they support the teams of their homelands would be so cool. Unfortunately FIFA has buddied up with the xenophobia administration and every ticket is going to be $8000
October 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
the prospect of an American World Cup actually celebrating our immigrant/diasporic communities as they support the teams of their homelands would be so cool. Unfortunately FIFA has buddied up with the xenophobia administration and every ticket is going to be $8000
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the WNBA stars are well-equipped to take on management in a way other major athletes usually aren't. they've had to figure out how to do their own marketing, how to make money outside of the league, how to advocate for themselves etc. they've had to fight for so much that it comes naturally to them
Napheesa Collier's full statement at the beginning of her exit interview.
She directly quotes conversations with Cathy Englebert that legitimately call into question how the WNBA is being led. (Part 1/2) #WNBASky
She directly quotes conversations with Cathy Englebert that legitimately call into question how the WNBA is being led. (Part 1/2) #WNBASky
September 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
the WNBA stars are well-equipped to take on management in a way other major athletes usually aren't. they've had to figure out how to do their own marketing, how to make money outside of the league, how to advocate for themselves etc. they've had to fight for so much that it comes naturally to them
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ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
September 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
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The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.
“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.
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To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.
September 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.
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I said for years that the only way to permanently reduce migration to the United States was to destroy the vision that the world had of this country as the land of opportunity.
That wasn't a goddam suggestion!
That wasn't a goddam suggestion!
"'My main takeaway is that America is not a safe place to work,' Mr. Park said. 'I don’t think I would go there again to work.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/w...
South Koreans Describe Fear and Anger After Georgia ICE Raid
Some of the workers arrested this month at a Hyundai-LG factory said that although they had entered the United States under murky circumstances, they had always planned to return home.
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I said for years that the only way to permanently reduce migration to the United States was to destroy the vision that the world had of this country as the land of opportunity.
That wasn't a goddam suggestion!
That wasn't a goddam suggestion!
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and our stupid culture doesn’t even have a Swan Lake
September 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
and our stupid culture doesn’t even have a Swan Lake
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Beyond the sheer bad legal reading of all of this, the use of "speaks Spanish" in Los Angeles to demand papers is insane. Los Angeles County is more than 40% Latino.
🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.
September 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Beyond the sheer bad legal reading of all of this, the use of "speaks Spanish" in Los Angeles to demand papers is insane. Los Angeles County is more than 40% Latino.
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SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
September 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool