He's a real smoothie operator.
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King Algamemnon
Ex-Interim Chair. Free puns. Historian. Books: Slave Country, Beyond Freedom's Reach. More: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RXHCAA4/adam-rothman
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Really remarkable time to witness all the historic land going back to Virginia Indian Nations rn. The Pamunkey reservation was est in 1646, & is recognized as the oldest continuously inhabited Indian reservation in the US. “Pamunkeys plan to use 13 acres for cultural, educational purposes”
Their land was taken centuries ago. Now the Pamunkey tribe is getting it back.The Native American tribe regained a piece of its ancestral homeland in $1.9 million deal.www.washingtonpost.com
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“Our results show a fundamental mismatch between the justifications for intensified immigration enforcement and the empirical patterns of that enforcement’s implementation. The majority of those arrested by ICE in the second Trump administration had no criminal conviction at arrest.”
Chloe N East (she/her)My paper is out today in PNAS documenting how ICE activity in Trump 2.0 compares to the last 10 years and the mismatch between the action and the rhetoric. Joint with the fabulous @caitlinpatler.bsky.social and @elizabethacox.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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This is a monumental loss and also what an amazing life lived. Rest in power Ms. Saar.
Los Angeles TimesPioneering L.A. assemblage artist Betye Saar, who ‘liberated’ Aunt Jemima, dies days before her 100th birthday https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2026-07-27/betye-saar-dead-artist-assemblage-aunt-jemima-99?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
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Related question, how much of “NBA in dire straits” talk is going to be assuaged by having the biggest names in the East and the Knicks as defending champions?
King AlgamemnonAnybody who calls another person "a traitor to the West" is off their rocker, unless it is in reference to LeBron leaving the Lakers and going to Philly.
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NEW: The government's own witness in the felony Reflecting Pool case couldn't represent that the damage cost $1K+, the core element of the crime.
Witness in Reflecting Pool case conceded damage before canoeist touched waterThe only grand jury witness in David “Davey” Hearn’s case said the area was already damaged and could not represent that his alleged actions cost more than $1,000, his attorneys said.www.nbcnews.com
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*angry co-workers at the cowboy town upset that someone is quitting to work at medieval times* you are a traitor to the old west.
King AlgamemnonAnybody who calls another person "a traitor to the West" is off their rocker, unless it is in reference to LeBron leaving the Lakers and going to Philly.
Kim Phillips-Fein's new book has something to say about this. 🗃 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Country of LordsA Pulitzer-finalist historian charts a 250-year-old intellectual and political tradition—the conviction that all Americans are NOT created equal., Country of Lords, Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwi...wwnorton.comRachel GilmoreVery cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?