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19 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I'm transitioning from a Tudor history wormhole to a history of neurology wormhole which leads me to this article and to the fact that Charles Guiteau was not in tip top mental shape. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
This is from the book “The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons” Image
“Mr President, there’s … this guy here again.” Image
I will say that Guiteau's argument that he didn't kill Garfield, the doctors did is ... close-ish to being true!
Robert Todd Lincoln had a tough time. Image

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I’ve never seen a baby who definite refers to every person under 50 as “young man” or “young lady” until now
Can a baby be a deacon
This reminds me that my late grandmother once referred to a 65 year old grandmother of two as “that young girl down at the church,” that’s the energy for me
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This is hardly the point but both of these people were.. assassinated for their views, so
The FBI sent MLK letters demanding he commit suicide, which seems worse than Facebook not approving posts
I feel pretty strongly about my view that the power of the state, which can and will kill you, is greater than the power of tech companies.
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15 Jul
It's interesting how DiAngelo is tied to critical race theory while apparently entirely rejecting the materialism central to critical race theory while focusing on white people saying the wrong things. Granted, doing so is probably a better economic decision.
From "Critical Race Theory: An Introduction" -- pay particular attention to the third screenshot.
If I could gesture meaningfully again:
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14 Jul
Still waiting on that Toussaint Louverture biopic
This biopic would be rated NC-17 for "excruciating violence and not in a fun way"
Hey speaking of Haiti bbc.com/news/world-eur…
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The evidence is wherever and whatever you want it to be!
Political media tends to do this thing where they take conclusions drawn from itself and project those conclusions onto voters (i.e. "I hate Trump, ergo, they will also hate Trump," or "I hate some culture war issue, ergo, it will be a winning issue for Republicans).
Meanwhile, voters, who largely have other things to do, vote for myriad reasons!
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