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4 Jul

a good deal of our contemporary reverence for the declaration of independence owes as much or more to lincoln's elevation & recontextualization of the document as it does to the document itself, so it is with that in mind that i want to mark today with a few words from lincoln.

"I have often inquired of myself, what great principle or idea it was that kept this [Union] so long together."

"It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land; but something in that Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time."

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@jbouie

3 Jul

rewatching EDGE OF TOMORROW and i forgot the 🐐bill paxton is in this. RIP

paxton was practically born to play a drill sergeant in a sci-fi action film

god, the second of act of this movie — when the repeats get going — is flawless

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@jbouie

2 Jul

https://twitter.com/rebekahentralgo/status/1410731102797393923

i’ll say a good deal of my pop culture literacy came from those shows and watching reruns of old sitcoms on nick at nite and tv land.

https://twitter.com/rebekahentralgo/status/1410731102797393923

could tell you only the most basic information about “friends” but could have a whole conversation about M.A.S.H

also, a lot of the stuff you would see on midday on like a saturday would be shows in syndication, which is how i saw a ton of the andy griffith show, matlock, murder she wrote, designing women, and in the heat of the night.

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@jbouie

1 Jul

ah i see the supreme court has once again decided that the 15th amendment doesn’t really count

very cool how the VRA has been dismantled by a handful of justices 15 years after it was reauthorized by a near-unanimous vote of congress.

it also rules that this time the “majority” included 3 justices nominated by a minority president & confirmed by a senate “majority” representing about 45 percent of americans.

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@jbouie

29 Jun

hmm people appear to be arguing about views i do not hold

@yourewrongabout

i recall arguing very vociferously on an episode of @yourewrongabout that it is in fact an error to think of key institutions as being developed to keep slavery around.

my view, which i have stated on here and elsewhere, is that the constitution of 1787 obviously reflected the extent to which slavery was an important economic interest (albeit one among many) and that it did this by insulating the institution from newly enlarged federal power

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@jbouie

29 Jun

to me the most important background to have for reading this “review” is that the author once angrily disputed the use of “plunder” to describe american racism

“Plunder is what Britain did to Ireland. It is what Thaddeus Stevens wanted to do to the prostrate South.”

anyway i put scare quotes around “review” because this piece is more like a screed.

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