Pima County Supes candidates Heinz & Backer to debate Tuesday tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor… Pima County Supervisor Matt Heinz is facing Republican challenger John Backer in a debate this week. #Tucson #Arizona
Wow, you seriously chose a side profile shot of Matt Heinz wearing a mask when there are plenty of available public photos, including this one from his Facebook page? Some voters might think you’re rooting for the other guy.
A team of investigators are trying to figure out if Cpl. Tye Simcox was a specific target or if any other troopers face threats, Col. Matthew Packard said Monday
Pretty sure this is Mount Stuart, shot it out the 737 window on a late-November flight to Chicago, 2010. Another shot of it by land in comments. #MountainMonday
Lewis Clephane, founder of the Republican Party: "In those days it was a crime to be called a Republican, and every man who was then known as a Republican was denounced as an Abolitionist. We have fought the battle." Its first platform: 1/ archive.org/details/birthofrep…
Clephane recounts fears of insurrectionists almost prevented Lincoln's inaugural parade; the party prevailed. He also notes how an insurrectionist mob attacked the Republican "Wide Awakes." Yes, woke. Ironies aplenty. 2/
I came to this researching his younger brother, James, for my book on the Linotype. Here is a fascinating biographic sketch of Lewis Clephane by his son: 3/ jstor.org/stable/40067107?seq=…
Lewis Clephane in Washington: "The Republicans of this city, surrounded as they were by dangers on every hand, threatened, vilified, abused, and ostracised by their fellow-citizens, stood firm, fearless, and true to their principles." 4/
I tag Joe Scarborough & Nicolle Wallace here because they often speak about the dissolution of their former party. It is worthwhile to contrast the GOP of today not just to the GOP of Reagan & Eisenhower, but also to the party's roots in the principles of Abolition. 5/
I think once Trump kicks it the power struggle within the Republican party will be damned fun to watch. I wonder what percentage of the party is still never trump or agnostic.
Note media's role in the birth of the Republican Party. The abolitionist newspaper National Era (Clephane was its business manager) lent its pages to the cause. Clephane then founded a paper: The National Republican. American news media, too, once stood on such principles. 6/
One more note here: The role Lewis Clephane & the National Era took in the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin. (BTW, I came to all this because I'm researching his brother James' role in the invention of the Linotype. I love these research rabbit holes.) 7/
I suspect "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a book many know about but few have actually read. It's fascinating. The characters are rather wooden, but it's full of fascinating details about slavery that I never knew -- like the fact that southern ladies who were too genteel to whip their slaves could outsource the job to "whipping houses."
My father was a Linotypist. He learned that trade using GI Bill benefits at the end of World War II. He was a sailor in that war. I was a soldier in the Vietnam War.
Note well that the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, who will prosecute the alleged attempted assassin of Donald Trump, is Markenzy Lapointe, a Marine Gulf War veteran and immigrant who was born in ... Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Learning undergraduate level signal processing for free, a few more uses for KDE Connect, analysing audio for HiFi setups, deep inspection of Python objects, viewing HTTP archives, and more on the problem with micropayments.
The Booker Prize 2024 shortlist has just been announced: the 2 I’m interested in are Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Woods and Orbital by Samantha Harvey #bookstodon @bookstodon
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