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Read this article today, awesome read on a fraught subject.

Some background on Central Asian steppes people can had reading David Caffetz's book "Raiders, Rulers and Traders", a history of horses of the Central Asian steppes. Uyghurs are of this area.....

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/10/m...
He Made a Daring Escape From China. Then His Real Troubles Began.
He fled brutal repression — only to discover, as so many Uyghur refugees have, that China’s power stretches far beyond its borders.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Fabulous HCR history lesson today. For me, its what I admire most about her, the ability to statch together the many threads and moving parts of history into a cohesive, easy to grok context.

Great read.

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heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-1...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 17, 2024 at 11:06 AM
"The first time I ever met this guy he walked up to me and Kristi Noem was at the podium. We were just elected so we were going through orientation. And he walked up to me and said, 'Man, she's a fine b*tch!'"

-- Sen. Markwayne Mullin on Matt Gaetz, adding that Gaetz later apologized to him
November 16, 2024 at 12:08 PM