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Brooks Donohue Simpson is an American historian and an ASU Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University, specializing in… more

Brooks D. Simpson
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Quite the obsessed fan.
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Fugitive Slave Law vibes.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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But Democrats get in their own way.

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Note: Donald Trump preferred a coin featuring himself to a coin bearing the likeness of Charlie Kirk.

How soon they forget.
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Someone get JD Vance a couch.

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Escalators are not the problem.

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Fire the person responsible for hiring this person.
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Abe's aged.
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Did Jesse Watters actually say this?

"Fact checking the president's remarks is a plot to bring down our political institutions by the rabid left."

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What an interesting time to recall that it is Constitution Day.
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That Charlie Kirk was just interested in promoting free speech and open debate is open to debate.
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'Thunder in the Valley'
Civil War Expert to Discuss the Shenandoah Valley Campaign on Sept. 29 at Ohio Wesleyan
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So Roy Cohn's disciple is now an FBI informant?

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The controversy over the Epstein files once again reminds us ...

It's the coverup that gets you.

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So Trump was an FBI informant about a hoax that the Democrats set up, failed to investigate, and which implicates Clinton ...

You're trying too hard, Mikey.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Sep 6
Trump administration officials are perplexed by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case against Jeffrey Epstein. More:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
'What the Hell?' House Speaker Confuses White House With Claim Trump Was an FBI Snitch
Trump admin officials are perplexed by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case against Jeffrey Epstein.
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Trump administration officials are perplexed by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case against Jeffrey Epstein. More:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
'What the Hell?' House Speaker Confuses White House With Claim Trump Was an FBI Snitch
Trump admin officials are perplexed by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case against Jeffrey Epstein.
www.rollingstone.com
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So people are out of work just to spite Trump?

Haverford Howie reaches a new low ... difficult to believe but true.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5
Lutnick says the jobs numbers "will get better because you'll take out the people who are just trying to create noise against the president ... this is gonna be the greatest growth economy six months from now, a year from today"

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Lutnick says the jobs numbers "will get better because you'll take out the people who are just trying to create noise against the president ... this is gonna be the greatest growth economy six months from now, a year from today"
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JD Vance's nightmare is that cabinet members will laugh when asked to extol his virtues.
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It's a photograph.

Ulysses S. Grant.
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Has President Trump ever visited any of the Smithsonian museums?
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Apparently the president of the United States wants us to reconsider how bad slavery was.

Next question on the administration's agenda: is the sexual exploitation of minors really all that bad?
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How about a 3"x5" note card, Howie?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 19
QUINTANILLA: When do you think markets can get its hand on written documentation on the deals with Japan, UK, Vietnam, Korea?

LUTNICK: You're not gonna find a big long 250 page trading agreement

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QUINTANILLA: When do you think markets can get its hand on written documentation on the deals with Japan, UK, Vietnam, Korea?

LUTNICK: You're not gonna find a big long 250 page trading agreement
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It feels like 1938 all over again.
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Kevin Levin's been on this issue for some time. I'm looking forward to seeing more historians speak out.

If not now, when? Never?
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · Aug 12
Trump doesn’t have an interpretation of anything remotely related to history. What Trump has is an authoritarian agenda that demands control over how Americans remember history as a means to justify its current political and ideological agenda and claim to power. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Trump Administration to Conduct Review of Smithsonian Ahead of America's 250th Anniversary
Yesterday I urged you to remember that ultimately we are in control of how we teach and commemorate our collective history. I still believe this to be true, but I would be lying if I didn’t admit that...
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Trump doesn’t have an interpretation of anything remotely related to history. What Trump has is an authoritarian agenda that demands control over how Americans remember history as a means to justify its current political and ideological agenda and claim to power. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Trump Administration to Conduct Review of Smithsonian Ahead of America's 250th Anniversary
Yesterday I urged you to remember that ultimately we are in control of how we teach and commemorate our collective history. I still believe this to be true, but I would be lying if I didn’t admit that...
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by Brooks D. Simpson

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So the Secretary of Defense wants to honor people who killed US soldiers (many of whom are buried at Arlington National Cemetery) in their efforts to commit an insurrection to protect the enslavement of millions of people?

That's where we are today, folks.
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It's Bobby Murcer 5, Baltimore 4 day ... 1979. My most memorable regular season Yankees game.

Take care, Lemon and Tugboat.

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