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A Historian Schools Joe Scarborough

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As an historian, let me start by saying: No, he hasn't. Not by a long shot. /1 twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/…
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Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 10, 2025

If anything, historians will fault Obama for seemingly naive belief that he could launch, as he said in 2008, a "post-partisan" America. /2
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Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 10, 2025

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Obama's first years in office showed bipartisan outreach we have not seen in the modern era before. He's the *least* partisan president. /3
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Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 10, 2025

When Obama formed his Cabinet, he added two Republicans and, until Judd Gregg rejected the Commerce position, nearly had three. /4
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Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 10, 2025

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To put that in perspective, two Cabinet members of opposition party ties the 20th c. record: FDR's unity govt as nation entered WWII. /5
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Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 10, 2025

His major policy proposals were very bipartisan. A third of the stimulus package was tax cuts GOP had previously proposed, for instance. /6
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Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 10, 2025

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Health care reform modeled on Romney's MA plan. On foreign policy, Obama kept Bush's SecDef and followed SOFA timetable on Iraq. /7
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Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 11, 2025

Despite such bipartisanship, Obama was met w/ unprecedented levels of obstructionism in the House and Senate, as @NormOrnstein has shown /8
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Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 11, 2025

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As @MikeGrunwald noted in his terrific book, Republicans set out to deny Obama any GOP votes on major laws like stimulus, ACA, etc. /9
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Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 11, 2025

Cantor and McConnell forbade caucuses from voting or even negotiating, to create the image that Obama was "most partisan" POTUS ever /10
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Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 11, 2025

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GOP embraced knee-jerk opposition to anything Obama proposed. As Sen. Voinovich noted: “If he was for it, we had to be against it.” /11
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Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 11, 2025

Again, read @NormOrnstein and Thomas Mann's book on this -- the GOP Congress imposed unprecedented delays, holds, filibusters, etc. /12
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Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 11, 2025

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Add on top of that the unbridled hostility -- birther nonsense, Joe Wilson screaming "You lie!" from the House floor at the POTUS, etc. /13
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Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 11, 2025

And you have asymmetric polarization in which Obama generally started from a position of compromise, but was still rebuffed constantly /14
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Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 11, 2025

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It's amazing to conclude, as @JoeNBC does, Obama is "the most partisan" president -- when he's actually one of the least partisan. /15
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Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 11, 2025

As an historian, I assure you: When we look back, Obama will fare just fine. But this idiocy in our news media will be mocked endlessly. /16
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Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 11, 2025

Feb

A Tweet Or Two

By Nerdy Wonka 106 Comments

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Tags: black, Black History, Black History Month, Boko Haram, Climate Change, coach, Dean Smith, history, imprisoned, kerry, lgbt, malawi, Measles, police brutality, Political And Funny Tweets, prison, race, racism, tweets, ukraine, Voter Suppression

"Last night, America lost not just a coaching legend but a gentleman and a citizen." —President Obama on Dean Smith: http://t.co/xNFSOoin1J
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 08, 2025

Dean Smith, civil rights champion and basketball coach, has died. For more on the former description, read this. es.pn/1D9OWEk
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Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) February 08, 2025

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Obama’s new budget puts billions toward fighting climate change thkpr.gs/3618406 http://t.co/p16I5nMM6Y
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Climate Progress (@climateprogress) February 07, 2025

Obama is "polarizing" because a large part of this country would rather be wrong than admit the Black President is right. About anything.
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(@GrooveSDC) February 07, 2025

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R.I.P. to Tougaloo alum Anne Moody. She was heavily involved in the sit-in demonstrations. #blackhistory http://t.co/DgJNYEIs1W
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English Fields™ (@BougieIntellect) February 07, 2025

47 yrs ago today, officers killed 3 in student demonstrations in Orangeburg, S.C. clarionledger.com/story/journeyt… http://t.co/uVIXAaXcOs
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Jerry Mitchell (@JMitchellNews) February 08, 2025

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OK. We make resisting arrest a felony. But every cop who makes an unlawful arrest also gets a felony charge. Deal? nypost.com/2015/01/26/pol…
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Radley Balko (@radleybalko) February 07, 2025

"Reagan said that he filmed a Nazi death camp as an army photographer, but he never left the country during WWII". politico.com/magazine/story…
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BWD (@theonlyadult) February 08, 2025

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So I was on the train to work this morning. Now, most women know that street harassers never think it's too early to street harass.
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Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 06, 2025

So that was happening. This dude was aggressively hitting on this woman, who was about my age. She was ignoring him. Everyone else was too.
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Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 06, 2025

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He kept after her. I could hear him saying, "Come on. I want your number. You're so pretty. You don't want my number?"
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Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 06, 2025

She finally says, loudly, "NO, I don't want your number!" And what happened next was amazing.
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Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 06, 2025

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This young woman a few seats away, looks up and she says, also loudly, "AND NO, I DON'T WANNA GIVE YOU MINE."
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Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 06, 2025

And there was this awkward silence. Like, at first people just stared at her, myself include. But then I realized, and slowly so did others.
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Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 06, 2025

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The second woman's friend started laughing and she said (not as loud, but still audible) "NO, I DON'T WANNA MEET YOU NO WHERE."
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Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 06, 2025

And together they sang, really loudly (and off key) "NO, I DON'T WANT NONE OF YOUR TIIIIIME"
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Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 06, 2025

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The dude trying to get the first woman's number just stared at them, and the woman he was harassing was just LAUGHING. He was done.
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Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 06, 2025

And if you don't get the joke....well, maybe your sense of humor needs some....TLC. *chuckles*
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Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 06, 2025

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Nigeria is postponing its presidential elections until March due to security concerns. bit.ly/1xPAZF8 http://t.co/C0JSbWD6JH
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(@Newsweek) February 08, 2025

Who is Kayla Mueller, the American held by #ISIS? Why her parents have not given up hope. @CBSEveningNews cbsnews.com/news/isis-host…
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Jim Axelrod (@JimAxelrod) February 08, 2025

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Cannot recommend more highly today this story on Dean Smith by @tommytomlinson that ran last year: espn.go.com/espn/feature/s…
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Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) February 08, 2025

#BrianWilliams's helicopter lie is nothing compared with the misinformation spewed by US press in lead-up to Iraq War bit.ly/1yRfJ3f
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BillMoyers.com (@BillMoyersHQ) February 08, 2025

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Mossad has broken with Netanyahu on Iran, adding fuel to the fire in Washington. @joshrogin @elilake bloombergview.com/articles/2015-… via @BV
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Dr. Hatem Bazian (@HatemBazian) February 08, 2025

If Netanyahu has lost the Anti-Defamation League, he's in real trouble lgf.bz/1DqzJiC
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Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 08, 2025

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She's the daughter of a New Jersey police sergeant. nydn.us/1KAUwA4 http://t.co/MPd0JkfvNm
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New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 08, 2025

Emergency dispatcher to 13-year-old girl as her dad dies: "Stop whining" wapo.st/1vyQW8z
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Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 08, 2025

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Wait a minute... http://t.co/WcD45wHsyT
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MyFeminismRealAF (@FeministaJones) February 08, 2025

Any campaign pushing abstinence that focuses on girls'/women's "reputations" loses http://t.co/hpLKCszs9z
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MyFeminismRealAF (@FeministaJones) February 08, 2025

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Gay marriages planned for Monday in Alabama unless US Supreme Court orders a stay: apne.ws/16EecWO
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The Associated Press (@AP) February 07, 2025

Referendum To Bar Same-Sex Couples From Marrying And Adopting In Slovakia Fails buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/re… via @jlfeder
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Adam Serwer (@AdamSerwer) February 07, 2025

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LOLZ at the white people shitting their pants that Obama dared remind them that they've done some horrific shit too nyti.ms/1FajtRM
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Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) February 06, 2025

REMINDER: "Christian" America currently imprisons more black men than America enslaved in 1850 m.huffpost.com/us/entry/10073… http://t.co/BVuZiWmK56
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The Baxter Bean (@TheBaxterBean) February 07, 2025

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Kerry warns of 'additional' US assistance to Ukraine u.afp.com/KEH
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Agence France-Presse (@AFP) February 08, 2025

Five African nations pledge to deploy thousands of troops, police and civilians to fight #BokoHaram militants ab.co/1vy0gtd
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ABC News (@abcnews) February 07, 2025

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Five dead, including two children, in horrific domestic violence-related shooting in Douglasville, Georgia: every.tw/1KwCZLf
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Moms Demand Action (@MomsDemand) February 08, 2025

Thousands cut off from aid in disastrous Malawi floods. aje.io/4tmn http://t.co/3oNdh7z2wS
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Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) February 07, 2025

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Brian Williams just couldn't live up to the high standards of a news org that employs Joe Scarborough and Luke Russert.
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Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) February 07, 2025

BREAKING: Brian Williams to take a "brief leave." He becomes the first person ever to be punished for lying about Iraq.
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(@LOLGOP) February 07, 2025

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EDITORIAL: "The small but dangerous minority of American parents resistant to vaccinating their children" sun-tim.es/1EqYo8k
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Chicago Sun-Times (@Suntimes) February 07, 2025

I was vaccinated as a child. 30 years later I am a complete failure. No way is that a coincidence.
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(@OhNoSheTwitnt) February 08, 2025

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That moment when President @BarackObama met boy who inspired $1 million @humansofny fundraiser bbc.in/1zIDL3g http://t.co/QjHf3XRZoA
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BBC Trending (@BBCtrending) February 07, 2025

40 bills introduced in 17 states so far in 2015 to make it harder to vote brennancenter.org/analysis/votin… @BrennanCenter http://t.co/YioUssniux
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Ari Berman (@AriBerman) February 06, 2025

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Dancing in the streets of Baghdad: a curfew ends & the city is finally coming back to life http://t.co/qBCT1a0C1Z
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Liz Sly (@LizSly) February 07, 2025

Finally got details of Putin peace plan proposal. #MSC15 http://t.co/W3HhKoMxgB
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ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) February 07, 2025

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Booming jobs and falling gas prices make this the best economy in 15 years wapo.st/16zMdHL
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Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) February 08, 2025

This chart should be a question in the first 2016 GOP Debate cc @comebackdecade: http://t.co/Ma1YxhCHb0
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Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) February 07, 2025

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Gladiators? You know exactly what this Scandal moment means :)

When you graduated 6 months ago and can't find a job so you walk into every business with your resume http://t.co/cpDSvqax94
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Brandon. (@BMarcTheBest) February 06, 2025

"I smell steak on your breath, dude. And you serving us puppy chow. Fuck you mean?" http://t.co/2qCvesqYh8
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My Beard Looks Nice (@WinkWestwood) February 07, 2025

Feb

A Tweet Or Two

By Nerdy Wonka 104 Comments

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Tags: aca, Affordable Care Act, black, Black History, Black History Month, cops, history, Humans Of New York, obamacare, obamacares, Oval Office, police brutality, Political And Funny Tweets, racism, tweets, Vidal, white house

The ACA was signed into law in March 2010. The private sector hasn't lost jobs since: onforb.es/1zXoezy
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Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) February 06, 2025

Not bad for a Socialist Prez: "There have only been six autumns in U.S. history in which job growth was faster." fortune.com/2015/02/06/job…
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Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) February 07, 2025

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What no white parent will ever have to tell his/her child. Every Black parent and child knows these 10 rules. The video chokes you up for its 100% rawness and truth

Harrowing video explains the rules parents often tell black kids about police bit.ly/18Xo5QQ http://t.co/XnpFjchkk1
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Mic (@micnews) February 07, 2025

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NY police officer under fire after pulling gun at a group of teens throwing snowballs buff.ly/1EAbxMb http://t.co/7ZioN9xtVv
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The Root (@TheRoot) February 02, 2025

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Be polite and respectful when stopped by the police. Do not, under any circumstances, get into an argument with the police. Keep your hands in plain sight. Make sure the police can see your hands at all times. Stay calm and remain in control. Watch your words, body language and emotions. “Your goal is to get home safely.”

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#BlackHistoryMonth To those who say "Why is there no White History Month?"..... http://t.co/vEzKRYBAuc
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TheObamaCAT (@TheObamaCat) February 04, 2025

This is what Pres Obama was speaking about at the National Prayer Breakfast. OWN YOUR ISH, #AmeriKKKa. 3chicspolitico.com/2015/02/07/thi… #BlackHistory
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(@3ChicsPolitico) February 07, 2025

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All five of these women are Astronauts at #NASA #BlackHistoryMonth http://t.co/mDJqJvBbek
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DebAlabama (@bayoumoonbeam97) February 04, 2025

BLACK PEOPLE AGE SO GRACEFULLY, THIS IS SCIENCE. http://t.co/4vL2nokYQB
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“But I know that there is a failed presidential candidate and an RNC chairman from the past who have criticized us,” Schultz said. “But I don’t have a response to either of those two people.”

White House defends Obama in "Crusades" controversy. ow.ly/IFtoJ http://t.co/6hzKZYllSb
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The Hill (@thehill) February 07, 2025

YEP ---> The Foolish, Historically Illiterate, Incredible Response to Obama's Prayer Breakfast Speech theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) February 06, 2025

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Nigeria has been forced to postpone elections because of Boko Haram read.bi/18XLFNh
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Business Insider (@businessinsider) February 07, 2025

JUST IN: Six people charged in the U.S. for allegedly supporting ISIS, Department of Justice says cbsn.ws/1v6VZXX
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CBS News (@CBSNews) February 07, 2025

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When the NYT calls you a "transgender campaigner" (WTH is that?!) when bestselling author and TV host would do. http://t.co/Lterj1rZmW
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Janet Mock (@janetmock) February 07, 2025

This white lady put her finger in my face. I expect to be welcomed into Heaven by Rosa Parks herself. Because she almost didn't make it.
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April (@ReignOfApril) February 07, 2025

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Historian Eric Foner, on Obama's comments: "In the south, Christianity was a bulwark of slavery." washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-lin…
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Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) February 07, 2025

Sorry, Fox: Obama was right about Christianity's "terrible deeds" bit.ly/1D85qgb http://t.co/O2mkvGsy3v
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Talking Points Memo (@TPM) February 07, 2025

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Just met w/FM #Lavrov. Reiterated need for immediate resumption of ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons & closing the border in #Ukraine.
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John Kerry (@JohnKerry) February 07, 2025

Made clear again to FM #Lavrov that deescalation in everyone's interests. #Russia will be judged by actions/more costs if attacks continue.
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John Kerry (@JohnKerry) February 07, 2025

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"Hollywood can't bring itself to cast someone who looks like the Kenyan woman Storm is" theatln.tc/1Kpbf9G http://t.co/hNs8BTkay2
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The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) February 04, 2025

11-year-old girl says what we’re all thinking in letter to DC comics bit.ly/1ywUDaf http://t.co/dJJ2MQMBHK
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Mic (@micnews) February 07, 2025

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I love Gillian Anderson for a lot of reasons, but this is definitely high on the list. http://t.co/lo3nZIYI90
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Swoozy (@SwoozyC) February 05, 2025

President Obama, the only one who calls it what it is.. http://t.co/q38MFKsMAt
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My Daughter's Army (@mydaughtersarmy) February 01, 2025

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#HistoricPOC #DanvilleVA 's Camilla Williams was the 1st African American to receive major opera contract w NYC Opera http://t.co/1J5lOS3XC6
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Vicky Morrison (@vmorrisonGDR) February 02, 2025

Daniel Hale Williams, the first person to successfully perform an open heart surgery was a black man. #HistoricPOC http://t.co/UWKkf9G4Hd
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DBB (@vickskat) February 04, 2025

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I can't believe there's a burgeoning national "debate" about Christianity's role in propping up slavery. Pick up a fucking book, America.
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Bearded Stoner (@beardedstoner) February 07, 2025

First Kansas, now Louisiana: The results of tea party governing run amok. nytimes.com/2015/02/07/us/… http://t.co/KNhq9d2oQ2
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Lydia DePillis (@lydiadepillis) February 07, 2025

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Why Is Marissa Alexander Still Being Punished for Fighting Back? | The Nation thenation.com/article/196361… via @thenation
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Vanna Black (@prisonculture) February 01, 2025

Alabama judges can override a jury's life w/o parol sentence and sentence death at their discretion. (via @eji_org) http://t.co/L4M2ZtY8m1
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deray mckesson (@deray) February 02, 2025

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Vatican abuse commission to recommend action against bishops reut.rs/1FjiVcy
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Reuters Top News (@Reuters) February 07, 2025

Awful. Scientists found "a 10 million gallon 'bath mat' of oil" under the Gulf of Mexico: bit.ly/1EMDtws http://t.co/H03DUI3YeB
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350 dot org (@350) February 07, 2025

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A personal #HistoricPOC. My grandfather meeting with Winston Churchill to discuss West Indian independence. http://t.co/HH6SIVtU3W
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Truthiest (@tmtweetz) February 03, 2025

First African-American WAVES to attend Hospital Corps School in Bethesda, MD, 1945 #HistoricPOC http://t.co/TcNgNnaVMq
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no sads just dads (@birdtoria) January 31, 2025

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UAE sending F-16s to support Jordan IS strikes bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…
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Jeff Gauvin (@JeffersonObama) February 07, 2025

The longer the Ukraine crisis continues, the more likely Putin’s regime collapses. ow.ly/IFymE http://t.co/Nk90kOGbTP
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Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) February 07, 2025

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Obama won't return 'torture report' without court OK: politi.co/1EOmycZ
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POLITICO (@politico) February 07, 2025

President Obama's "body man" dishes on his time at the White House nbcnews.to/16sne90
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University of California will require measles vaccination for incoming students, school announces - @latimes lat.ms/1zgBWH8
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Breaking News (@BreakingNews) February 06, 2025

GOP after 5 US Ebola cases: CLOSE THE BORDERS After 100+ measles cases: People should be given a choice on vaccines.
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(@Fun_Beard) February 04, 2025

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What you need to know about today's excellent jobs report. nytimes.com/2015/02/07/ups… http://t.co/Gkmd02sZuL
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Neil Irwin (@Neil_Irwin) February 06, 2025

11.8M new jobs since Feb. 2010, longest stretch of private-sector job creation in our history: 1.usa.gov/1ELXiE4 http://t.co/iSSdvsF2dg
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Tom Perez (@LaborSec) February 06, 2025

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*hot girl puts a cherry stem in her mouth* *twists it around with her tongue* *pulls it out* *it spells "I LIKE YOU AS A FRIEND"*
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Dan O'Brien (@OtherDanOBrien) January 22, 2025

Obama: Let's go sit down, John. McCain: IMMA WALK LIKE A ZOMBIE Obama: Um, just walk normal. McCain: http://t.co/xFgF9dVRGl
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Reverend Scott (@Reverend_Scott) January 12, 2025

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When history is inconvenient, rewrite it

By Liberal Librarian 173 Comments

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Tags: 2014 Elections, democrats, election, gop, history, Political And Funny Tweets, racism, republicans, Right wing, tweets

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The above is an actual quote by Heritage Foundation president and Teabagger extraordinaire Jim DeMint, formerly of the Senate until he found a way to make more money off the rubes principled conservatives.

Yes, the slaves were eventually freed because, according to DeMint’s conflation of history, it was in the Constitution that “all men are created equal and have inalienable rights”. They were also freed due to the efforts of William Wilberforce, noted English anti-slavery campaigner, who just happened to die in 1833, thirty years before the Emancipation Proclamation and the `13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution. Government had no role in the freeing of the slaves. It was all people power!

But, wait, why did we need amendments to the Constitution if the freedom of slaves was in it from the start? Because, of course, nothing of the kind was in the Constitution. Slavery was allowed to continue, and the slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person for purposes of the census. I’m sure they were very glad to know that not only were they not full human beings under the Constitution, but that even that diminution of their humanity allowed slave states to have an outsized influence in Congress, since those slaves counted towards apportionment of House seats.

The fact is that history doesn’t look too kindly on the successors to those slave holders. They are, rather correctly, excoriated.

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