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I'd like to repost this great letter from a teacher in Iowa to a noisy little TV dinner heiress in need of some tutoring

https://t.co/9SYGz08dzt

I would follow this guy. He is good. @kearneyiowa
A message to Tucker Carlson from a teacher. https://t.co/7KqA3rclh6
— Patrick Kearney (@kearneyiowa) July 7, 2021
Serious question: I have to go to New York soon and I'm trying to figure out where to stay. I have heard it's disgusting and violent there. But is it like Walking Dead Season 1 or Season 4?
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) July 11, 2021
I work on the opioids, on research on the epidemic, its relationship with HIV/HCV, overdose. I work with data from Ohio, so care deeply about what is going on there. I was excited. Until I started digging. There's no there there. 2/
More here. 3/
You can even read their IRS-990-N filing. Sure looks like @JDVance1 tried real hard on combatting the opioid epidemic in his state. Um. Not. 4/
Now he's moved on to venture capital. Money is more interesting than the suffering of the people of #Ohio I guess. 5/
Look at the logic. He\u2019s found a handful of Trump supporters waving a Confderate flag; ergo, Trump and the GOP are the party of the Confederacy. Mind you, this is coming from a soi-disant historian! https://t.co/9SFk9HyRDt
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) July 17, 2019
For starters, I'm not a "soi-disant historian."
Lots of places call me a historian, in fact -- the institutions that awarded me a BA, MA and PhD in History, the one that employs me as a professor of history, the OAH and AHA too.
Remind me: what are your qualifications again?
Now, luckily, there have been a considerable number of clashes over Confederate monuments, memorials, and symbols in recent years, clashes which have forced the two parties to state their positions clearly.
Let's take a look at who's defending the Confederacy and who isn't.
Jun 26, 2021:
1/ "When FBI agents in San Diego seized the cell phone of a suspected white supremacist last year, they discovered text messages with a Georgia sheriffâs deputy...
Cody Griggers, a former Marine and sheriff\u2019s deputy revealed plans to steal explosives, dry runs with illegal silencers and boasts of racial violence. Also said he arrested Black people and charged them with felonies to prevent them from voting.https://t.co/ZXcZHtkw10
— Kristofer Goldsmith (@KrisGoldsmith85) June 26, 2021
@Ginger624 @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra @CatsChocolates @hairgoddess1221 @StaarVellocet @HoneybadgerLA @ABrat626 @zipillinois @LoboLaurel1 @AmbienStupor @loronnella @JulieKay0914 @dontdoitdrew @MakiSupaStar @BelltollsGOP @100FrogLegs @ChristopherJM 2/ ...boasting of racial violence and preparations for a civil war. The text message chain, called 'Shadow Moses,' between San Diego plumber Grey Zamudio, 33, and 28-year-old Cody Griggers, a former Marine and sheriffâs deputy in Wilkinson County
@Ginger624 @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra @CatsChocolates @hairgoddess1221 @StaarVellocet @HoneybadgerLA @ABrat626 @zipillinois @LoboLaurel1 @AmbienStupor @loronnella @JulieKay0914 @dontdoitdrew @MakiSupaStar @BelltollsGOP @100FrogLegs @ChristopherJM 3/ ...revealed plans to steal explosives, dry runs with illegal silencers and boasts of racial violence. In one text, [Wilkinson County GA sheriff's deputy] Griggers said he đhoped law enforcement and the military would join their side in the coming conflictđ. (con't)
@Ginger624 @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra @CatsChocolates @hairgoddess1221 @StaarVellocet @HoneybadgerLA @ABrat626 @zipillinois @LoboLaurel1 @AmbienStupor @loronnella @JulieKay0914 @dontdoitdrew @MakiSupaStar @BelltollsGOP @100FrogLegs @ChristopherJM 4/ ...'Our only saving grace is that for the time being they have not brainwashed the military completely,' Griggers wrote, according to court records. Griggers, who was a đmilitary policeman stationed in San Diego until his honorable discharge in 2017đ... "(more...)
@Ginger624 @TeresaCCarter2 @YDanasmithdutra @CatsChocolates @hairgoddess1221 @StaarVellocet @HoneybadgerLA @ABrat626 @zipillinois @LoboLaurel1 @AmbienStupor @loronnella @JulieKay0914 @dontdoitdrew @MakiSupaStar @BelltollsGOP @100FrogLegs @ChristopherJM 5/ ...Twin federal investigations resulted in the arrests and guilty pleas of Giggers and Zamudio on illegal weapons charges that could put them in federal prison for a decade. Zamudio will be sentenced in July; Griggers in August." (more...)

\u201cIn one of the only original passages in his Ohio speech, he criticized \u2018woke generals\u2019 and claimed that \u2018our military will be incapable of fighting and incapable of taking orders.\u2019 America\u2019s \u2018military brass have become weak and ineffective leaders.\u2019\u201d https://t.co/IHqNTcgILg
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 27, 2021
....to remember that 53 of the 500 people arrested for the Jan. 6th insurrection were former/current military. The Right knows the military has a potential extremist problem, except that rather than attempt to understand and solve the problem,...2/
Wow. Great speech by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Milley:
— Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych (@Nick_Carmody) June 24, 2021
"I want to understand white rage....I want to understand what caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the constitution of the United States." 1/
pic.twitter.com/lxVpPO9BHE
...Trump, and the Right Wing Media Echo Chamber are attempting to exacerbate and inflame the problem.
The Echo Chamber knows that FOX is on nearly every TV in and around military bases, so when Ted Cruz talks about the military being emasculated....3/
Holy crap.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 20, 2021
Perhaps a woke, emasculated military is not the best idea.... https://t.co/8aVFMW98NM
......and when Matt Gaetz and J.D. Vance talk about the military losing
With Generals like this it\u2019s no wonder we\u2019ve fought considerably more wars than we\u2019ve won. https://t.co/wt43YAs6cU
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) June 23, 2021
...5/....https://t.co/23iwQikwgH
I personally would like American generals to read less about \u201cwhite rage\u201d (whatever that is) and more about \u201cnot losing wars.\u201d
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) June 25, 2021