Patriotism

Everyone who's seen "A Charlie Brown Christmas" or read the Peanuts strip in depth knows how important religion was to Schulz. But he did *not* care for current trends of equating Christianity with Americanism, which has only gotten worse. Here's an interview snippet. pic.twitter.com/xUmpcaQqLc

— Luke Epplin (@LukeEpplin) July 4, 2019

The rest of this excellent thread.

Photo Choice

Unidentified, non-credited photo meant to illustrate "consciousness"...

Surely the FBI was wide-awake with consciousness—of the Bureau's political agenda—when agents so creatively gathered the impressive tower of files on Tom Hayden.

There's no mistaking the image. Though the event flyer improperly published it without credit (to LA Times), the photo of Hayden with files he obtained through FOIA was familiar to me from Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power. (Wrote about the book here.)

A 20-something event staffer googled "man + papers" to come up with the illustration? It's reminiscent of the wrong or missing context photos posted on fake history twitter accounts.

No Hotel

As promised — Yo-Yo Ma’s visit to both sides of the border:

“A country is not a hotel. And it’s not full,” he said. “In culture, we build bridges, not walls.”https://t.co/MqHPTSTF0e @ExpressNews

— Silvia Foster-Frau (@SilviaElenaFF) April 14, 2019

No Einstein

With airline disaster news followed by this performance...

gotta do it pic.twitter.com/Q2AuVlISfS

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) March 12, 2019

... it may be that Southpaw's search of the archives hit ultimate There's always a tweet...

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 21, 2013

Today In The Banana Republic of Georgia

Exactly! I've likened it to the Director of the Lottery certifying the balls and the equipment, ensuring there were no other tickets in the system, then yelling "I've won!" That's what Kemp did.
Re-upping @ProfCAnderson Neo-Jim Crow in Georgia https://t.co/rtpCR5lGYm https://t.co/8k3dNQ2adw

— Carol Anderson (@ProfCAnderson) November 17, 2018

A Southern politician changed voting eligibility rules in a way that resulted in **hundreds of thousands** more citizens, disproportionately African American, being stripped of the vote under his governorship. Then he won by 12,000 votes. This feels in line with U.S. history.

— Taniel (@Taniel) November 17, 2018

What's A Little Cover-up Among Friends

The Secretary of State who used to head the intelligence agency that just confirmed what went down?

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) November 16, 2018

NEW: The CIA has concluded Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination. https://t.co/eOhXy4pwcN By me, @gregpmiller, and @jdawsey1

— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) November 16, 2018

wsj has matched wapo’s reporting https://t.co/94pkeAKYiO

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 17, 2018

That's life (and death) in a privately-owned compound masquerading as a country. https://t.co/SOSWLjyxzt

— Anomynous Tweeter-1, LLC™ (@KagroX) November 16, 2018

R.I.P., William Goldman

Dammit, William Goldman died. Justly celebrated for his screenwriting, credited and otherwise, but if you haven't read his original novel THE PRINCESS BRIDE, remedy that ASAP. As much as you may love the movie, the book is leagues better. Rest in witty, ironic peace, sir.

— Ty Burr (@tyburr) November 16, 2018

Interesting remembrance here. Among other stories—

I sat with Bill for the last time Monday, in New York City. His friend of 80 years, John Kander, was there, too. With his lyricist Fred Ebb, Kander wrote "Cabaret" and "Chicago" and the song "New York, New York." They had shared an apartment in the 1950s on West 72nd Street along with Bill's older brother, James Goldman, who wrote "A Lion in Winter" and the book for "Follies." Imagine the magic in that apartment, when they were all young and everything was ahead of them.

RIP William Goldman, the screenwriter who brought us this scene: https://t.co/Bk3cgsjbTk

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) November 16, 2018

So sad that William Goldman won’t be here to write All the President's Men Part 2: Dumb and Dumberer.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 16, 2018