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We both have it wrong Lays of Ancient Rome - Wikipedia I was riffing.

Honestly, this is pretty punk rock. Iowans will be trained at birth to be inured to death, like the Spartans. Iowa state motto: Nobody Gets Out of Here Alive

Study reveals surprising trend among nearly half of Tesla drivers: 'More ... emotionally charged than they ever expected' I'm sad for those who bought them prior to 2020.

My recollection had me looking at Manchester's wiki page. I guess the Kennedy family and he had a falling out over the book they asked him to write. Will take that rec for the Halberstam book.

I think I read it in William Manchester's "The Glory and the Dream". I heard a resounding recommendation for David McCullogh's "Truman" on my british WWII pod the other day. Said...the quality of the writing/readability was excellent

what a punchline Joni sending seniors in her district out to die sooner or late.

I'm seeing other bsky posts that say he included the Germans who came over. Possibly implying that they were good immigrants because they were fair skinned List of Germans relocated to the US via the Operation Paperclip - Wikipedia There is a great story about the scientists in their first forray into a US department store shopping for undergarments for their wives. The US sizes were different from the European sizes they knew so they were conspicuous in their use of their slide rules to do the conversions and the US handlers were flabbergasted at them breaking cover so obviously.

Vladivostok? That's worth posting Darth Vader saying "Impressive"

Also, that people with cancer will definitely die because of the halt to vital research. Also, that my son was denied a US education in the hard sciences because his internship might compete with Elon's business

This Operation Paperclip special immigrant says hi, JD.

someone missed history lessons Arsonist tortoise: "Oh my god" — Bluesky

once I was doing a comparative percentages of deaths for the Civil War for the US and WWI for the Commonwealth. The US recovered from the Civil War because of all the immigration but the UK more so than the Commonwealth populations were really gouged by WW1. Per the googles... 6% of the UK adult population died in WW1 and 2.5% of the US total population died in the Civil War.

aka Remembrance Day (which i recall from the eponymous Big Country song).

WWII vets probably drove that. They wanted to obscure the horrors.

Shame it didn't remain a Civil War memorial for those who died fighting to save the Union from the traitors.

What if Trump is also a mentally deranged drug addict?

Or Stephen Miller

moral courage is a resource in short supply because we seldom reward it.

67 Sound: "Political reporters like to pretend they are of a higher order than sports reporters but they’re not. Every sports fan recognizes the “empty the notebook” hit piece on a guy leaving the team. They rarely have the guts to do it when it matters." — Bluesky

the people with axes to grind are dishing. The Katie Miller thing is really an indictment of her as much as cosmic punishment for Stephen Miller.

Was looking at the news mix channel on a TV in the cafeteria and the fixation on one channel was Biden's use of autopen being illegal. Flash forward to the Houthi Signal chat where they weren't sure if Trump had given the go-ahead.

also amazing

This isn't me...but he's captured my thoughts.

Its interesting to see that she has the "banked" promise not to pardon them to play as a card when she responds. It will be interesting to see how/what she responds with.

I got to say this is a deep cut meme. George C. Scott in is it Hard Core as a Michigan calvinist who tracks his daughter down to the world of bad things.