Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he started in creeping on 14-year-old Sally Hemings. And Sally, who was enslaved, shared a father with Martha Wayles Jefferson—Tom's wife.
He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he started in creeping on 14-year-old Sally Hemings. And Sally, who was enslaved, shared a father with Martha Wayles Jefferson—Tom's wife.
He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness
You will never go broke pretending to fight the power while going to the powerful set's cocktail parties & fluffing their egos a lot. There's a whole subcategory of "journalism" that consists of telling the very rich what they want to hear. (Irony! The rich don't actually respect those who do this.)
November 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
You will never go broke pretending to fight the power while going to the powerful set's cocktail parties & fluffing their egos a lot. There's a whole subcategory of "journalism" that consists of telling the very rich what they want to hear. (Irony! The rich don't actually respect those who do this.)