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25 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
If you’re wondering why this ad never mentions what the scary book was that she wanted to ban or what course it was used in, well, it was Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Beloved and the class was senior-year AP English.
If you think your high school senior can’t handle college-level novels in a college-credit course, maybe he shouldn’t take Advanced Placement English?
A lot of people are embarrassed for her son, but (unless I’m mistaken) he seems to be a 27-year-old Republican Party lawyer so he’s probably fine with all this?

washingtonpost.com/local/educatio…

nytimes.com/2020/12/18/sty…
“AP teachers must make sure they teach to the test!”

“Wait, not like that!”

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14 Oct
Hey, it looks like Ted Cruz has nothing better to do than respond to three-day-old tweets.

Must be nice to have that kind of free time with no responsibilities and nothing going on in the world.

Well, let's dig in!
First of all, no, "there is no Biden vaccine mandate" that's been put into effect yet.

Here's a news story about it yesterday. (Which I guess you'll get around to reading a couple days from now?)

nbcnews.com/politics/white…
You might not be aware that "next week" hasn't actually happened yet, but, uh ... it hasn't?

So, no, there is not currently a "Biden vaccine mandate" in place.
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6 Oct
No, the history books will give a full accounting here.

Political historians have our flaws, but a narrow focus on the presidency to the exclusion of other key actors like Congress really isn't one of them.
I mean, here's how @julianzelizer and I covered the 2011 fight over the debt ceiling in Fault Lines.

Congress sort of looms large in this telling, as it should.
If you grab any work of American political history, even a work ostensibly about a presidency, and you'll still find a great deal of attention to Congress.

I'm teaching the New Deal now, for good or bad, Congress keeps coming up an awful lot in my lectures and our readings.
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3 Oct
I would like to announce that I am making pork ragu for dinner, regardless of what Representative Tenney here has to say about it.

Please applaud both of us for our incredible bravery.
Look, I know a lot of people are saying @claudiatenney and I are “the greatest heroes in American history” fir our bold pro-dinner, pro-Christmas stances.

Are we better than Lincoln and Washington? Too soon to say, but I think its going to be close.
And listen, I don’t want to speak too soon, but I hear that @claudiatenney is going to insist she’s celebrating New Year’s Eve no matter what those bastards at Olive Garden and the Trilateral Commission have to say about it.
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26 Sep
I didn’t want to talk about Sarge’s accident until we got him home, but since so many have asked, here it is.
And let me say up front that the few times I’ve told this story to someone in person, they invariably gasp and pull a hand to their mouth.

So you might want to skip it, even though you know he’s pulled through.
So.

On Wednesday afternoon, our dog sitter was driving him home and — for some reason — Sarge jumped out of the window.

His leash got caught as he did, though, and as a result … he was dragged behind the fast-moving car for a decent stretch.
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26 Sep
Yes, most children are lucky that their parents were born before them, that’s a great point.
I do love that the guy who’s repeatedly attacking the children of a civil rights icon and screaming about CRT from his campaign Twitter account in a desperate plea for votes calling *them* “race profiteers”
The King children know that their father anticipated many of the same issues called out by CRT … and that work made many people denounce him divisive and made him quite unpopular.

He had a 75 percent disapproval rating the year he died.

smithsonianmag.com/history/why-ma…
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22 Sep
Sarge was in a pretty bad accident today.

Looks like he’ll make it but several days in the animal hospital ahead followed by a couple months of recovery. Ugh.

Pupper prayers appreciated.
Thanks so much for all the kind words.

Avoided the worst. No broken bones, but lots of cuts and scrapes. Ugh.

The doctors and staff at Princeton Animal Hospital are pretty damn amazing people, so a very special thanks to them and the Animal Control guys who got him there.
Unbelievable.

It seems Sarge isn't out of the woods just yet, so thanks so much for the kind thoughts and prayers.

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