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16 Feb
Wait, L. Brent Bozell IV was part of the MAGA Mob?

Feels like there's an interesting history of the devolution of modern conservatism to be written through that family line.
"Devolution" might be too strong a word given some of the activities of the earlier L. Brent Bozells, but then again, none of them were ever indicted for insurrection so ...
And here it is.
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13 Feb
So the Trump camp's argument now is that they'll get the upper hand by calling Muriel Bowser and Nancy Pelosi? What?
First of all, to call any particular witness, I believe they'd need to get 51 votes -- which would mean peeling away a Democrat.

Possible, I guess, but ... then what?
If the point is to show that Bowser or Pelosi didn't do enough to prep for the riot ahead of time -- that's some bizarre blame-shifting, like faulting a homeowner for not having deadbolts after they suffered a home invasion.
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9 Feb
It's OK, Bruce Castor, we've all tried to wing a public talk and failed miserably.
Really going well. Really, really, really well.
Really, really, REALLY well.
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9 Feb
The Arkansas state senate has a resolution for Black History Month and it's basically a D'Souza rant framed as a series of "WHEREAS" clauses.

arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocum…
I'm not going to fact-check every line, but this gives you a taste of its accuracy and intent.

So, uh, JFK was not president in 1960.

And JFK signed EO 11063 barring discrimination in federal housing projects in November 1962, six months *before* the Birmingham protests.
The next paragraph:

Um, no, LBJ did not vote against the CRA of 1964 as a senator. What?

He voted against civil rights laws a decade earlier, but voted for the CRA of 1957 & 1960 and *strengthened* the CRA of 1964 & pushed for it.

But Dirksen gets *all* credit for passing it!
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29 Jan
I've still got @questlove's SUMMER OF SOUL documentary rattling around in my head after the @sundancefest premiere last night, so a few more thoughts this morning.
It covers the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, which featured an amazing array of talent -- Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Sly & the Family Stone, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, etc. etc.

Just the concert footage -- long forgotten in a basement -- would make this worth watching.
But what really elevates it is the direction.

It's stunning that this is @questlove's first time directing, but as he noted in his opening comments last night, he's always been a storyteller. And it shows here.
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28 Jan
This is an excellent point, and it gets to the heart of the D’Souza conundrum.

Bear with me...
Some people keep asking me why I bother correcting his idiocy at all. Isn’t it just legitimizing him?

Here’s my take:
But as @pashulman notes, when we point out that historians have endlessly written about Democrats’ past ties to slavery and segregation, we’re effectively underscoring his point that Democrats were/are the Real Racists.
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