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historleans.bsky.social
I have decided to just pretend that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's concurring opinion on birthright citizenship is the official 250th anniversary speech for the United States. Happy 250th anniversary, USA 🎉! And here is part of Justice Jackson's conclusion - as the rest of this text, it is fire. 🗃️
“Of course, the ultimate irony is that for all the talk about the detestable Dred Scott decision, the Government and the principal dissent propose a return to its core tenet. Their bottom line is that, for certain people, being born on Amer- ican soil will not suffice to confer citizenship. It is that odi- ous conclusion that the Citizenship Clause plainly rejects, as the Court explains. Ante, at 26. I add only that the Four- teenth Amendment’s universalist aims should forever be the death knell for this kind of claim—one that seeks to make bloodline the marker of birthright. The America that was reborn from the rubble of the Civil War simply does not countenance that inequitable result. Thankfully, a major- ity of the Court remembered this today, and has dutifully preserved the most basic animating principle of our Na- tion’s founding—that all human beings are created equal— once more.”
July 1, 2026 at 1:11 PM
sharonk.bsky.social
Most civil wars in nation states through history have attracted foreign intervention of some kind, often military or diplomatic support for the faction rebelling against the established government. A very real possibility for such intervention existed during the Amer- ican Civil War. Emperor Louis Napoleon of France looked with favor on the Confederacy, and the French economy was hurt by the sharp decline in the availability of Southern cotton. Several times during the war Napoleon pressed the British government to join France in an effort to mediate peace negotiations between the warring parties in America on the basis of Confederate independence. The British economy was hurt even more than France’s by the loss of cotton from the South. Large numbers of Englishmen also sympathized with the Confederacy. But while Britain came dangerously close to intervention on two occasions, the ministry of Viscount Henry Palmerston backed off. Napoleon did not want to act without British cooperation. So in the end the Union and the Confederacy fought it out between them- selves without official intervention by any foreign power. Still, it was a very near thing.
August 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
leahmcelrath.bsky.social
Two weeks before the recent influx of tens of thousands of Moroccans onto the territory of Spain—a NATO member—the US House passed a bill asserting for the first time that “Ceuta and Melilla are located in Moroccan territory” and allocating $20 million to Morocco.

(www.congress.gov/119/crpt/hrp...)
Morocco.-The Committee continues assistance for Morocco in support of United States national security interests and directs not less than $20,000,000 under National Security Investment Programs and not less than $20,000,000 under Foreign Military Financing Program. The Committee notes the historic alliance between the United States and Morocco, as formalized 786 by the Moroccan-Amer- ican Treaty of Peace and Friendship. The Committee notes that the Spanish-administered cities of Ceuta and Melilla are located in Moroccan territory and remain the subject of Morocco's longstanding claim. The Committee supports efforts by the Secretary of State to encourage diplomatic engagement between Morocco and Spain on the future status of Ceuta and Melilla.
August 3, 2026 at 5:49 PM
cowboypuppy.bsky.social
tw I'm being very amer/ican right now

im gonna crash out fr nobody wants to turn on the a/c like outside of Hotel accommodations. its like every ch1nese person except for me wants to sweat and be sticky all day even indoors
April 15, 2026 at 11:51 AM
handle.invalid
my pronouns are AMER/ICAN
July 30, 2024 at 4:05 PM
fayseguts.bsky.social
Hey uh does anyone else remember when that therapist in Amer/ican Dad got inflated by a leaf blower and exploded into viscera because I sure do
January 18, 2026 at 4:11 PM
vegetablegremlin.bsky.social
On this day remembering an early victim of cancel culture
'Extreme Right Wingers' Target Bob Newhart For His Irreverent Barbs Hollywood, Feb. 13 Bob Newhart's satires on Amer-Ican history have drawn fire from what NBC TV sources describe as "estreme right wing". letter-writers. An NBC'TV exec explained that the writers object strenuously to Newhart's irreverent fun and sat-ire, and charge the comic is "un-misterina Te network replies
July 19, 2024 at 3:54 AM
mardiroos.bsky.social
📠
ARDEA HERODIAS HERODIAS Linnaeus GREAT BLUE HERON HABITS The great blue heron, or "blue crane" as it is often called, is the largest, the most widely distributed and the best known of the Amer- ican herons. Herons probably originated in the warmer climates, where they are certainly better represented in species and in numbers; but this species extends its range across the continent and well up into the cooler climate of Canada. It is a stately bird, dignified in its bearing, graceful in its movements and an artistic feature in the landscape. In its native solitudes, far from the haunts of man, it may be seen standing motionless, in lonely dignity, on some far distant point that breaks the shore line of a wilderness lake, its artistic outline giving the only touch of life to the broad expanse of water and its background of somber forest. Or on some wide, flat coastal marsh its stately figure looms up in the distance, as with graceful, stealthy tread it wades along in search of its prey. Perhaps you have seen it from afar and think you can gain a closer intimacy, but its eyes and ears are keener than yours; and it is a wise and a wary bird. But even as it takes its departure, you will still stand and admire the slow and dignified strokes of its great, black-tipped wings, until this interesting feature of the landscape fades away into the distance. A bird so grand, so majestic, and so picturesque is surely a fitting subject for the artist's brush.
June 6, 2026 at 5:57 PM
nikkei-science.com
「プラスチックの功罪」
“最初のプラスチック”は基本的にサステナビリティ問題に対する解決策だった。

日経サイエンス2026年3月号【短期集中連載：定説が覆るとき③】https://www.nikkei-science.com/202603_086.html
プラスチックの功罪｜日経サイエンス
1864年，本誌SCIENTIFIC AMER-ICANはビリヤード台メーカーによる懸賞広告を掲載した。広告主のフェラン＆コレンダー社は掲載に満足して本誌に書簡を寄せ，ビリヤードボールを作るために彼らが探し求めている「象...
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January 27, 2026 at 7:38 AM
catobervents.bsky.social
Amer/ican healthcare makes me so fucking angry. I'd be dead if I werent lucky enough to be born in Canada.
March 11, 2026 at 7:43 PM
cappers1953.bsky.social
ebay.us/m/57nfQ3

Vinatage The Amer*I Can 101 Cards Of Patriotic Affirmation New Old Stock Never Opened

#vintage #Amer*Ican #cards #patrioticaffirmations #history #americanhistory #newoldstock #NOS #neveropened
Vintage The Amer*I Can 101 Cards Of Patriotic Affirmation New Old Stock Never Opened
October 29, 2025 at 5:09 AM
nikkei-science.com
「プラスチックの功罪」
“最初のプラスチック”は基本的にサステナビリティ問題に対する解決策だった。

日経サイエンス2026年3月号【短期集中連載：定説が覆るとき③】
www.nikkei-science.com/202603_086.h...
プラスチックの功罪｜日経サイエンス
1864年，本誌SCIENTIFIC AMER-ICANはビリヤード台メーカーによる懸賞広告を掲載した。広告主のフェラン＆コレンダー社は掲載に満足して本誌に書簡を寄せ，ビリヤードボールを作るために彼らが探し求めている「象 … 続きを読む →
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February 13, 2026 at 1:30 PM
cappers1953.bsky.social
www.ebay.com/itm/15714508...

Vintage The Amer*I Can 101 Cards Of Patriotic Affirmation New Old Stock Never Opened

#vintage #newoldstock #theamer*ican

#101cardsofpatrioticaffirmation #circa1986
the amer*i can 101 cards of patriotic affirmation.
July 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
kobaneeh.bsky.social
amer
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December 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
nikkei-science.com
「プラスチックの功罪」
“最初のプラスチック”は基本的にサステナビリティ問題に対する解決策だった。

日経サイエンス2026年3月号【短期集中連載：定説が覆るとき③】https://www.nikkei-science.com/202603_086.html
プラスチックの功罪｜日経サイエンス
1864年，本誌SCIENTIFIC AMER-ICANはビリヤード台メーカーによる懸賞広告を掲載した。広告主のフェラン＆コレンダー社は掲載に満足して本誌に書簡を寄せ，ビリヤードボールを作るために彼らが探し求めている「象 … 続きを読む →
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January 31, 2026 at 9:00 AM
cowboypuppy.bsky.social
NOT EVEN THE TAXI DRIVERS TURN ON THEIR AC IM GONNA DIE IM LITERALLY SO HOT EVERY SINGLE DAY AND ALSO I NEVER GET TO HAVE ICE WATER AT MEALS I KNOW THIS IS A VERY AMER/ICAN THING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT BUT I AM SO HOT I LITERALLY FEEL NAUSEOUS HALF THE TIME
April 15, 2026 at 11:52 AM
justifiedmeh.mehcorp.net
What the PRC and Mao had to deal with from the US. When people rip history away from its context, it reduces the US roles in collective punishment again and again and again.
Mao this and Mao that. Sure thing buddy.
On this last point, it is worth consulting the book by an Amer- ican author who sympathetically describes the leading role played during the Cold War by Washington's policy of economic encircle- ment and strangulation against the People's Republic of China. The latter, in the autumn of 1949, was in a desperate situation. Mean- while, it should be noted that the civil war had been far from over. The bulk of the Kuomintang army had taken refuge in Taiwan, and from there was continuing to threaten the new power with air raids and incursions, especially as pockets of resistance continued to oper- ate on the mainland. But this is not the main thing: "After decades of civil and international wars, the national economy was on the verge of total collapse." The collapse of agricultural and industrial produc- tion was intertwined with inflation. And that was not all. "Severe flooding had devastated a large part of the nation that year, and more than 40 million people had been affected by this natural disaster."12 Making this most serious economic and humanitarian crisis more catastrophic than ever is the timely intervention of the embar- go decreed by the US. Its objectives emerge clearly from the studies and plans of the Truman administration and from the admissions or statements of its leaders: to make China "suffer the scourge" of "a general standard of living around or below subsistence level"; to cause "economic backwardness, "cultural backwardness," a "primitive and uncontrolled birth rate, "popular unrest"; to inflict "a heavy and very prolonged cost on the entire social structure" and to create, ul- timately, "a state of chaos."13 And it is a concept that was obsessively 12 hang (2001), pp. 52 and 56. 13 Ibid., pp. 20-1 DEMONIZATION AND HAGIOGRAPHY 297 repeated. There was a need to lead a country of "desperate needs" to ward a "catastrophic economic situation," "toward disaster" and "col lapse"14 This deadly *economic gun was pointed at an overpopulatec country, but that was not enough for the CIA. The situation caused by "the Economic Warfare measures and the naval blockade" could be further aggravated by an "air and naval bombing campaign againse elected ports, railroad hubs, industrial facilities and warehouses." Ir any case, Kuomintang air raids on industrial cities, including Shang hai, in mainland China continued with U.S. assistance.15 In the White House, one president succeeded another, but the embargo remained and included medicine. tractors. and fertilizer.16 In the early 1960s. a Kennedy administration collaborator. namelv Walt W. Rostow, pointed out that, thanks to this policy, China's economic development had been delayed for at least "dozens of years," while CIA reports point to "the serious agricultural situation in communist China now severely weakened by "overwork and malnutrition."17 Is t then a matter of reducing the pressure on a starving people? On the contrary, the embargo was not to be relaxed "even for humanitariar elief." Taking advantage also of the fact that China was "deprivec of key-natural resources, particularly oil and arable land," and also leveraging the serious contemporary crisis in China-USSR relations he final push could be attempted. It was a matter of "exploring the possibilities of a total Western embargo against China" and of block ing oil and grain sales to the fullest extent possible.18 Does it make sense, then, to attribute exclusively or primarily to Mao the responsibility for the economic catastrophe long befaller China and lucidlv and mercilessly planned in Washington as early as the fall of 1949? Committed as they were to painting Mao's Grand Guionol portrait and denouncing his mad experiments, the authors of the successful monograph…
September 8, 2026 at 12:17 PM
nikkei-science.com
「プラスチックの功罪」
“最初のプラスチック”は基本的にサステナビリティ問題に対する解決策だった。

日経サイエンス2026年3月号【短期集中連載：定説が覆るとき③】
www.nikkei-science.com/202603_086.h...
プラスチックの功罪｜日経サイエンス
1864年，本誌SCIENTIFIC AMER-ICANはビリヤード台メーカーによる懸賞広告を掲載した。広告主のフェラン＆コレンダー社は掲載に満足して本誌に書簡を寄せ，ビリヤードボールを作るために彼らが探し求めている「象 … 続きを読む →
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February 12, 2026 at 8:00 AM
misterjayem.bsky.social
The leap from Old Man Daley to Donald Trump is a much smaller step than many Chicagoans care to admit.

www.chicagotribune.com/2024/09/08/c...
"I made this appointment because I have known Tommy Keane, the boy I appointed, since he's been a baby. And I know his mother, Adeline Keane, one of the greatest women I know, not only in this city but in any city in the United States... a fine Polish-Amer- ican woman, who raised a fine boy. And should that boy be told by any professor or faker that he shouldn't hold office because his name is Keane and she's his mother?"
September 8, 2024 at 3:27 PM
datbishbailey.bsky.social
saying up past your ssleeping pills an odering stuf on amazons like,, the amer,ican dream, amirite?
November 14, 2024 at 7:24 PM
jonahhhhhhh.bsky.social
*to hulk hogan theme*

I am a real amer-ican, say the N word as much as I can
January 7, 2025 at 3:30 AM
nikkei-science.com
“最初のプラスチック”は基本的にサステナビリティ問題に対する解決策だった。

「プラスチックの功罪」
日経サイエンス2026年3月号【短期集中連載：定説が覆るとき③】https://www.nikkei-science.com/202603_086.html
プラスチックの功罪｜日経サイエンス
1864年，本誌SCIENTIFIC AMER-ICANはビリヤード台メーカーによる懸賞広告を掲載した。広告主のフェラン＆コレンダー社は掲載に満足して本誌に書簡を寄せ，ビリヤードボールを作るために彼らが探し求めている「象 … 続きを読む →
www.nikkei-science.com
February 23, 2026 at 7:15 AM
thatbumpinthenight.bsky.social
I just saw a 🦅🇺🇸🍊

With AMER-ICAN for knuckle tats...

Do they know how cringe they are? FFS

Embarrassing.
July 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
warpedhorizon.bsky.social
I'm home now so I can grab an action shot of one of the sister 2-8-0s on Proctor Hill in 1904. These locos could only handle 28 empties up the hill, a good train length for HO. From Frank A King's The Messabe Road.
A black and white photo of a 2-8-0 stream locomotive working hard to pull a short train of empty ore cars up a hill. Caption on the photo reads "DM&N Class C-1 Consolidation No. 305 blasts up Proctor Hill in 1904 with a train of 28 ore empties. The Duluth docks can be seen in the distance. The engine was almost new, having arrived from the Dickson Works of the Amer ican Locomotive Company only two years before."
August 30, 2024 at 8:56 PM
renfro.bsky.social
Many thanks to the (sadly) Bluesky-less Tamar Carroll for her very generous review of my book in the most recent issue of the @oah.org’s Journal of American History. 🗃️
Paul M. Renfro offers the first full-length scholarly study of Ryan White, a white Amer- ican middle-school student with hemophilia who contracted aids (acquired immune defi- ciency syndrome) from a blood-clotting treat- ment in the 1980s. White became famous in the controversy over his local school adminis- tration, in Russiaville, Indiana, barring him from attending in 1985. White subsequently died from aids complications in 1990, and Congress named its first major aids relief package—the Ryan White Comprehensive aids Resources Emergency (care) Act—in his honor. Renfro persuasively argues that White’s “whiteness, youth, middle-class sta- tus, and boyish charisma and charm made him relatable”; thus, media reports about White’s life garnered a large and highly sym- pathetic audience and helped educate Ameri- cans about aids, which had previously been considered primarily, albeit erroneously, a “gay” disease (p. 28). At the same time, me- dia accounts touting White’s “innocence” re- inforced the widespread cultural assumption that people who contracted hiv (human im- munodeficiency virus) through sex or intrave- nous drug use were “guilty” and not deserving of sympathy. Thus, coverage of White’s story ultimately reinforced aids stigma and in- equality; for example, the care Act contained amendments barring the use of federal funds for needle-exchange programs and sex educa- tion. In highlighting White’s innocence, Renfro observes, media accounts also portrayed the white working-class residents of Russiaville and nearby Kokomo as villains: ignorant ho- mophobes whose personal acts of discrimina- tion and intolerance were to blame for White’s struggles and the broad aids epidemic. The 1989 television film The Ryan White Story, Renfro argues, “reduced aids to a personal mo- rality tale that stressed the need for education and tolerance—and little else” (p. 75). White’s funeral, attended by 1,500 mourners, was broadcast live on cnn and featured a perfor- mance by Elton John. In contrast, in the early 1990s in the United States, many people with aids were denied funerals by funeral homes afraid to take their bodies, or by families, em- barrassed by the stigmas of aids and homosex- uality, who refused to list aids as the cause of death in obituaries. This discrepancy led The Marys, an affinity group of activists in the aids Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) to begin staging political funerals: unsanctioned, raw- ly emotional, public memorials to friends and loved ones who died of aids. Renfro’s compari- son of mainstream media’s depiction of the ep- idemic to the critique of government, health officials, and media by act-up is instructive. In his interesting, informative, and deeply researched account, Renfro draws on a range of primary sources, including media coverage, letters sent to White and to Russiaville and Kokomo school authorities, and oral history interviews with Russiaville and Kokomo com- munity members involved in the controversy over White’s school attendance. Renfro’s acces- sible prose and his inclusion of fourteen illus- trations, three maps, and a timeline make this a particularly valuable resource for teaching undergraduate students about hiv/aids his- tory. Importantly, Renfro reminds readers that the aids epidemic is ongoing and “notions of innocence and guilt, deservingness and undeservingness, and absolution and blame” con- tinue to impede efforts to end it and to create a just public health system (p. 128).
June 15, 2026 at 8:03 PM