#AmeriCAN

Democrats are so incompetent they hold a majority in the House despite rampant gerrymandering, hold the senate despite malapportionment, and won presidential election popular votes convincingly for the past 16
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Since Donald Trump has decided to decree that a statue to Hannah Arendt be erected in the National Garden of American Heroes, I thought I would take a few moments
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It was a lynch coup.1/ Since Trump’s attack on the Capitol last week, people have not quite been sure what to call it. Terminology has been amorphous, from “protest” to
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ok , putting this out there - Am married ; very married ; happily & forever . I talk about my ‘Hubalucious’ often .... so , heads up American blokes
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#BREAKING: The 2019 FBI Hate Crime Data released today show deadly, violent trend in #hatecrime continues for 4th consecutive year.Deadliest anti-Latino hate crime in American history documented as "anti-other race/ethnicity/ancestry&q
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OK, so we've seen some recommendations going around for people who want to buy their first firearm w/ the $600 check. First thing to know, pistols are terrible firearms for
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1. So many of our constitutional freedoms trace back to the trauma of the police-state imposed on Boston in the years before Lexington—and lately, I’ve been thinking again about one
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The U.S. central government grew relentlessly larger, richer, and more powerful during the decades that every problem faced by Americans got worse. Why does anyone think making the government even
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Decent @snopes treatment of "shanty" vs. "chanty"/"chantey" by @davidpmikkelson. But the Google Ngrams graph with spelling variants is misleading, since the frequency of "shanty" is significantly boos
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A HUSHPUPPI SPECIAL enjoy: “Bro, wire is completed, 500,000 Euro should be on your side now.....We still have access and they haven’t realised....we gonna shoot them again tomorrow am...”~~
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People like to talk about how the country is increasingly polarized and divided, as if it’s the responsibility of both sides failing to compromise.It’s not. The country is divided because
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The more I write about this, the more it becomes plain: if Biden loses, 2020 will be the last remotely free and fair election we have for decades, and certainly
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Yesterday @NYSEDNews @NanEileenMead held a private-school-parent zoom discussion to gather input how parents define the 'substantial equivalence' to public school law, & what makes parents chose schools.I signed up last
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This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020.This part is called: RESTORING AND STRENGTHENING OUR DEMOCRACY:Building an Effective,Transparent Federal Government/Only one party understands that qualified,dedicated civil servants serve the people &
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For those asking, I underestimated Trump and I overestimated Republicans, although I'm glad to see that they've finally come around. If anyone is interested in engaging in good faith, this
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It's Black History Month, so I thought it would be useful to make a little thread of those who came before us.Please feel free to add any I missed or
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