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Aug 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
August 1920 - American swimmer Ethelda Bleibtrey, age 18, at the Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. She won all three women's events at the Games that year. #100yearsago Image
Ethelda Bleibtrey took up swimming to recover from polio. In 1919, she was arrested for "public nudity" for taking off her stockings to swim at Manhattan Beach. The resulting public outrage changed prevailing attitudes about women's bathing attire. #100yearsago Image

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Apr 29
In re-reading all my old books about China, I’m often surprised by where I originally learned about certain things that stuck in my mind. I have to say, I’ve found several of the books by Harrison Salisbury - mostly now out of print - invaluable.
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Apr 26
I'll share my below-the-hood analysis of the GDP numbers here. Headline real GDP growth for the U.S. came in at +1.6% (annualized q/q) in 1Q24, lower than expected. That's the lower quarterly growth rate since 2Q22. Image
The composition of real GDP growth in Q1 was: +1.6 = +1.7 consumption +0.4 business investment -0.4 inventories +0.5 housing +0.2 government spending -0.9 net exports.
By comparison, the composition in Q4 was: +3.4 = +2.2 consumption +0.5 business investment -0.5 inventories + 0.1 housing +0.8 government spending +0.3 net exports.
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Mar 30
As a former Republican, now Independent, and still WAY more conservative than most of you, I’m going to respond to these assertions one by one.
1) This is true, but only when you artificially limit it to "MSM". Which means ignoring the #1 cable news channel, talk radio, Epoch Times, and host of other podcast, etc. that have increasingly eclipsed legacy media outlets as sources of news and opinion.
2) Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, have always had different institutional sources of power in America, and they each like to tell themselves that the other has the institutions that matter and are thus all-powerful, which makes them the underdogs.
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Mar 29
Why did the Allies nickname the Germans "Huns" in World War I? Many believe it was inspired by German atrocities in Belgium, and that's true as far as it goes, but there was a specific reason why "Huns" was the reference that stuck ...
In the 1890s, Kaiser Wilhelm II developed an obsession over the so-called "Yellow Peril", the racial bugbear that the Chinese and Japanese would unite to invade the Western world, either by arms or by mass migration ...
On July 27, 1900, the Kaiser gave a particularly unhinged speech to German soldiers departing to help rescue the foreign diplomats and residents besieged in Beijing by the Boxer Rebellion ...
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Mar 18
Visiting Daniel Webster in front of the New Hampshire State Capitol in Concord today. Image
The other guy in front of the New Hampshire Capitol is President Franklin Pierce … Image
Pierce’s house is right down the road … Image
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Feb 23
I'm going to tell you a little story about Trump and the people around him.
Back in around 210 BC, a nomadic people called the Xiongnu lived on the northern borders of China. Historians think they may have been the ancestors of the Huns.
The leader of the Huns was named Tumen, and he had a son and heir named Modu. Father and son we're on very friendly terms, and Modu was impatient to take over as leader.
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