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Kevin M. Kruse
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Dammit, I finally got the Twitter update.

Who the hell designed this? Fisher Price?
"What do our users want?"
"An edit button and fewer white supremacists."
"So let's go with 72 point font and an array of icons!"
ATTN @TwitterSupport:

Your new layout design is a godawful abomination.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@KevinMKruse
Sure, let's take a look at the Republican Party's stance on the Confederacy today.
For starters, I'm not a "soi-disant historian."

Lots of places call me a historian, in fact -- the institutions that awarded me a BA, MA and PhD in History, the one that employs me as a professor of history, the OAH and AHA too.

Remind me: what are your qualifications again?
Now, luckily, there have been a considerable number of clashes over Confederate monuments, memorials, and symbols in recent years, clashes which have forced the two parties to state their positions clearly.

Let's take a look at who's defending the Confederacy and who isn't.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@KevinMKruse
One thing’s for sure — if those long-rumored tapes of Trump using the N-word on the set of “The Apprentice” ever surface, congressional Republicans are going to do whatever it takes to ignore them.
“Beg your pardon — the ‘N word’? What is that? Nevada?”
“The hippity hop rappers say that word all the time and I don’t see Democrats calling on *them* to resign the presidency!”
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Kevin M. Kruse
@KevinMKruse
The pork chops I grilled tonight were so unbelievably good I’m listing them on my c.v.
Ribs tonight, worthy of a grant application.

Photo for @HerbertHistory.
Just to prove it’s not always pork — maple-ginger salmon and miso Brussels sprouts.
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