Minor White's Twilight Zone System
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• the long nineteenth century in the Far West
• 50mm Summilux @ f/1.4
• vinyl spinning @ 33 1/3 rpm
• 50mm Summilux @ f/1.4
• vinyl spinning @ 33 1/3 rpm
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Someone asked me to comment on the anniversary of Jan 6. I will consider having comments on it….should it ever end. We are very much still reaching for the nadir of this reclamation. No time yet for historicizing it. Still trying to survive it.
January 6, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Someone asked me to comment on the anniversary of Jan 6. I will consider having comments on it….should it ever end. We are very much still reaching for the nadir of this reclamation. No time yet for historicizing it. Still trying to survive it.
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One common theme throughout history is that empire often isn’t straightforwardly profitable the way you’d expect
TRUMP: MAY SUBSIDIZE OIL COMPANIES REBUILDING IN VENEZUELA: NBC
January 5, 2026 at 11:09 PM
One common theme throughout history is that empire often isn’t straightforwardly profitable the way you’d expect
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Anytime some yahoo says, “all serious historians agree…” I want to say:
1. What is a “serious” historian?
2. Have you ever actually been in a room with more than one historian? We can’t even agree with how long the 19th century was.
1. What is a “serious” historian?
2. Have you ever actually been in a room with more than one historian? We can’t even agree with how long the 19th century was.
January 1, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Anytime some yahoo says, “all serious historians agree…” I want to say:
1. What is a “serious” historian?
2. Have you ever actually been in a room with more than one historian? We can’t even agree with how long the 19th century was.
1. What is a “serious” historian?
2. Have you ever actually been in a room with more than one historian? We can’t even agree with how long the 19th century was.
It's like having that digital photo of the Library of Congress reading room and thinking it can search every book there.
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.
December 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It's like having that digital photo of the Library of Congress reading room and thinking it can search every book there.
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January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
Same argument used by slaveholders 175 years ago.
The Great Replacement conspiracy theory has become the central organizing principle of the new right. Without it they have almost nothing to say.
*Chris Rufo* warns X is making the right too conspiratorial:
"Americans can stick to...empirical reality or...follow conspiracy theories... For the Right, the danger is that an increasingly large fraction of our political coalition is choosing the second path"
christopherrufo.com/p/how-the-me...
"Americans can stick to...empirical reality or...follow conspiracy theories... For the Right, the danger is that an increasingly large fraction of our political coalition is choosing the second path"
christopherrufo.com/p/how-the-me...
December 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Same argument used by slaveholders 175 years ago.
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"The wind moves across the ridge, brushing the flags and passing across the graves. And if you stand there long enough, you can almost hear his words carried back through time—not as history, but as instruction." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-great-...
‘The Great Task Remaining Before Us’: Lincoln’s Vision at Gettysburg
On the anniversary of his address, a reminder that democracy requires dedication.
www.thebulwark.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
"The wind moves across the ridge, brushing the flags and passing across the graves. And if you stand there long enough, you can almost hear his words carried back through time—not as history, but as instruction." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-great-...
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What a terrible day to know how to read
November 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
What a terrible day to know how to read
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Please, current events, stop making things happen that force me to explain things to old people that neither I want to explain, nor do they want to know.
September 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Please, current events, stop making things happen that force me to explain things to old people that neither I want to explain, nor do they want to know.
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It's so weird how all the private swimming pools in the Alexandria area were built between 1954 and 1958
As I detailed in WHITE FLIGHT, segregationists in Atlanta absolutely loved public services -- buses and trolleys, parks and pools, golf courses and tennis courts, etc. -- right until they were forced to desegregate and "stolen" from them. They abandoned them and built up private alternatives.
July 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
It's so weird how all the private swimming pools in the Alexandria area were built between 1954 and 1958
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come for the extended intro where i call jd vance a loser, stay for my analysis connecting vance's argument to the most reactionary antebellum views of citizenship
Opinion | JD Vance Claims One of Our Worst Traditions as His Own
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
come for the extended intro where i call jd vance a loser, stay for my analysis connecting vance's argument to the most reactionary antebellum views of citizenship
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Du Bois on what these assholes were really like
July 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Du Bois on what these assholes were really like
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I am in my 10th hour of editing my book manuscript - my eyes are blurry - I'm losing focus. And so, I bring you these quotes from W.E.B. Du Bois' "Black Reconstruction in America" (1935) I have also been thinking about all day:
July 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I am in my 10th hour of editing my book manuscript - my eyes are blurry - I'm losing focus. And so, I bring you these quotes from W.E.B. Du Bois' "Black Reconstruction in America" (1935) I have also been thinking about all day:
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Looking back at screenshots and this was a keeper quote from @adamrothman.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Looking back at screenshots and this was a keeper quote from @adamrothman.bsky.social
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As any good originalist can tell you, they call it "Mr. Jefferson's University" because Jefferson believed that the President of the United States should have the discretion to get rid of any UVA President he decided he didn't like. s/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
As any good originalist can tell you, they call it "Mr. Jefferson's University" because Jefferson believed that the President of the United States should have the discretion to get rid of any UVA President he decided he didn't like. s/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
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Just imagine the lessons of today that people will ignore in 20 years!
June 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Just imagine the lessons of today that people will ignore in 20 years!
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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
June 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
April? as in the month Confederates surrendered and lost?
Mississippi Governor Declares April Confederate Heritage Month
www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...
www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...
Mississippi Governor Declares April Confederate Heritage Month
Gov. Tate Reeves declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive a 32-year-old tradition that began in 1993.
www.mississippifreepress.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
April? as in the month Confederates surrendered and lost?
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I forgot how much I love this place.
April 19, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I forgot how much I love this place.
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For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
April 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
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i am actually delighted by the fact that there are scientists hard at work trying to develop ever more delicious apples
April 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
i am actually delighted by the fact that there are scientists hard at work trying to develop ever more delicious apples
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Hundreds of thousands seized opportunities to free themselves during the Civil War. On the back of this painting, artist Eastman Johnson, a founder the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who was traveling with Union troops in northern Virginia, wrote “A veritable incident as seen by myself in Centerville.”
April 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Hundreds of thousands seized opportunities to free themselves during the Civil War. On the back of this painting, artist Eastman Johnson, a founder the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who was traveling with Union troops in northern Virginia, wrote “A veritable incident as seen by myself in Centerville.”
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Among the grants canceled was one helping fund a documentary about the Underground Railroad in southern Ohio. Defunding NEH is a devastating blow to local history societies, museums, colleges, and universities. Our cultural heritage is being sacrificed to provide tax cuts for American oligarchs.
Ohio Humanities receives notice its federal grant funds are 'terminated'
State humanities councils were established by Congress about 50 years ago to make sure National Endowment for Humanities funds made it to smaller communities and organizations.
www.wosu.org
April 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Among the grants canceled was one helping fund a documentary about the Underground Railroad in southern Ohio. Defunding NEH is a devastating blow to local history societies, museums, colleges, and universities. Our cultural heritage is being sacrificed to provide tax cuts for American oligarchs.