Holy shit. Ron DeSantis defends Florida’s new history curriculum standards teaching that slaves learned skills that “could be applied for their personal benefit” — He says it’s “rooted in whatever is factual”... some slaves learned how to be “a blacksmith.”

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Jeff Landry; 'Can I interest you in a fugitive slave act, but for women and trans people?'

'Not the odds, but the stakes.'

That's my shortand for the organizing principle we most need from journalists covering the 2024 election. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for our democracy.

Here's an example of stakes reporting. nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/…

King of Spain at the final day of Wimbledon. This looks great.

Very rare to see this level of tailoring nowadays, even on the wealthy. So let's talk about some of the reasons why it's great. 🧵

Advertising at its best:

Tremendous, incredible advertisement. Watch until the end. I felt like this deserves to be in the same thread.

Enough from this lying liar idiot nepo baby.

Not serious people: nytimes.com/2023/07/13/opi…

David Zaslav making some of the greatest Warner Bros. cartoons unavailable on HBO Max is the smoking gun verifying his unsuitability for his job. If you can’t watch “One Froggy Evening” or “What’s Opera, Doc?” on a Warner Bros. affiliated streamer, something is deeply wrong.

In Spanish, juzgado means 'panel of judges, courtroom.'

When English speakers of the American West borrowed juzgado, they recorded it the way they heard it: hoosegow.

Today, hoosegow has become slang for any place of confinement for lawbreakers.

What an incredible stat nytimes.com/2023/07/06/bus…

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So tired of David Zaslav:
washingtonpost.com/media/2023/07/…

Netanyahu's view of Palestinians is precisely the same as Putin's view of Ukrainians: They're not a real people, don't deserve sovereignty or statehood, the land really belongs to us.
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Ruling on an actual case or controversy is the absolute minimum we should be able to expect from the Supreme Court.

.ABC News thinks it's cute to normalize women who quote Hitler as 'joyful warriors.'

America was such bitch on Friday and now expects us to attend her birthday party on Tuesday? I don't think so, sweetie.

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