#UPDATE: Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway monument tarred and feathered near Gold Canyon. https://t.co/PNKk5A4VoR pic.twitter.com/crG8IzezUZ — FOX 10 Phoenix (@FOX10Phoenix) August 17, 2017 . For auld lang syne — #EvenTheLibertarianJaneGalt (note date): Working on an article today, so just started watching Trump press conference. He's making very sensible points about infrastructure delays — (((Megan McArdle))) (@asymmetricinfo) …
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Open Thread: Elderly Austrian Immigrant Yells At Trump & Other Nazi Supporters
.@Schwarzenegger has a blunt message for Nazis. pic.twitter.com/HAbnejahtl — ATTN: (@attn) August 17, 2017 (h/t commentor Jim, Foolish Literalist) . Related… For those just waking up, here's what happened in Baltimore: the city's dead-of-night removal of all four of its Confederate monuments. pic.twitter.com/gaquP2hlqN — Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) August 16, 2017 Let us be clear.Putting the …
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Down in Durham
#BREAKING Protesters in #Durham topple confederate monument downtown pic.twitter.com/a3BNIavyxC — Derrick Lewis (@DerrickQLewis) August 14, 2017 It was erected in 1924. Almost all Confederate veterans were dead by then. Durham County has always had a significant African American population so a statue supporting slavery standing in front of the courthouse has its own meaning. Be …
Civil Wars, Trump Edition
Jack Ohman via GoComics.com) . 'Civil War' is trending. Good news: it's only about the first one. Chillax. Bad news: it's why we're gonna have the second one. — ~unintelligible~ (@ZeddRebel) May 1, 2017 Here's Trump's full answer on "swashbuckler" Andrew Jackson and the Civil War: "Why could that one not have been worked out?" …
Tuesday Morning Open Thread: No Sooner Than Time
You can't be anti-participation trophies and pro Confederate statues. They are the world's biggest participation trophies. — Larry Beyince (@DragonflyJonez) April 24, 2017 I first saw the story in the Washington Post, but here’s how one of the local papers covered it. From the New Orleans Advocate: The removal of New Orleans’ monument to the …
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Open Thread: Mitch McConnell, Partnering with Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III
president elected with a yawning popular vote deficit nominates a justice for whom rules were changed to a seat that was held by obstruction — Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) April 6, 2017 McConnell's real feat was to refuse to give any hearing to Garland and to go nuclear without putting the slightest dent in both-sides-ism. — …
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Open Thread: Rep. Steve ‘Pigmuck’ King Will Not Be Out-Bigoted
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] Steve King of this morning turns to the Steve King of 48 hours ago: “Hold my beer.” https://t.co/TkN8j9gsXL — Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) March 14, 2017 CNN: [Warning: autoplay] … King, a Republican, was on the radio responding to a question about Univision anchor Jorge Ramos’ comment to Tucker Carlson on Fox …
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