I hate describing myself, but here it goes. I love my kitties. I love doggos too. Raised by a fascist, I hate fascism and nazism. I’m a history, particularly a military and social history, diletante. And I love trains.
oh cool so you created 5 million new jobs for those people right?
Aaron RuparRollins: "For those who love work and celebrate work and want people to work and not be on food stamps, it's a pretty big win when we've moved 5 million people off food stamps, y'all."
Translation: Congress is over. Republicans have scrapped it. It is now as useless as the Russian Duma. Sad. 🇺🇸
Aaron RuparCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
That headline is underselling it. HUNDREDS of trump accounts were closed by Capital One for anti-money laundering REASONS. Associated Press is tiptoeing around words a bit
Probably would've been nice to know this before the 2024 election, but sure
@GottaLaffABC has picked it up now. "Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'"
The craziest thing about these two photos of Max Miller is they are just from the first minute of his 20 minute live today for his own personally conducted public soothing Therapy Session while he waited for the teleprompter to start working.
Changed my name from Mueller, She Wrote to my actual name, Allison Gill. Hoping I can get my blue check back. @joshpetri.bsky.team can you help?
MacArthur, in addition to beinng anti-democratic, also left a lot to be be desired as a military commander. I don't think Halberstam talked about this is in the book, but he had 9 hours warning after Pearl Harbor that a Japanese attack on the Philippines was imminent and did nothing.
Continuing my Korean War/Halberstam posting: It’s hard to convey how malignant Douglas MacArthur was, how anti-democratic, what a persistent threat to civil-military relations. Conversely, George Marshall was a man of towering integrity and wisdom.
We welcome any and all MacArthur slander
Zach DorfmanContinuing my Korean War/Halberstam posting: It’s hard to convey how malignant Douglas MacArthur was, how anti-democratic, what a persistent threat to civil-military relations. Conversely, George Marshall was a man of towering integrity and wisdom.
"If a country unquestioningly adopts language that obscures its bloodiest crimes to absolve their worst perpetrators, how can we expect successive generations to remember the new assaults on democracy without deploying equally forgiving language?" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)To face our own history, we must be honest about it.www.nytimes.comMax Miller released audio recordings of conversations he has with his ex wife. In one of them, she accuses him of clandestinely recording their conversations. “I have never recorded our conversations” he says, while recording their conversation. This is domestic violence. Ask me how I know.
MARTIN SCORSESE talks us through his hilarious 2004 American Express commercial.
Oh great. An untreatable, possibly fatal virus passed by ticks is spreading in the USA. Good thing we have the CDC looking out for us, am I right?
First Case of Bourbon Virus, Which Is Untreatable and Potentially Fatal, Confirmed in New YorkThe first confirmed case of the tick-borne Bourbon virus, which is extremely rare and potentially fatal, has been identified in New York.people.com
The Yemeni militant Houthi group says it's targeting vital Saudi Arabian energy facilities—a situation that threatens to harden high gasoline prices at a precarious moment for Republicans ahead of the midterms. The Houthis' target is Abaaid—the world's largest crude oil processing facility.
Iran-backed militant group's threat to Saudi energy hub could upend Trump's midterm messageThe world's largest oil processing facility has emerged as the next flashpoint in the Iran conflict, with potentially immediate consequences for global energy markets and Republicans facing tough midt...www.politico.com