NEW: ICE’s Eswatini flight went through US base in Djibouti; Americans stationed there are angry
Details of how the five men got to Eswatini have not been previously reported.
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A call to action for airline workers to stop ICE’s “deportation machine”
NOW is the time to tell your airline: ICE flights are unsafe and inhumane, and if you contract with them, I will refuse to fly.
A private jet to hell
On Tuesday afternoon, when news broke that at least two immigrants in DHS custody were being deported to South Sudan, I hopped onto the flightradar24 app to see if I could find the plane. I am a former flight attendant, a journalist, and a bit of an av geek (I&
Kidnapping again!!
I thought of this poster last night as I read journalist Bill Shaner's account of the kidnapping of a woman from her neighborhood in Worcester, Mass. In video taken by Shaner and others, Worcester police hold back a crowd attempting to the stop the abduction by federal officers
Time is neutral. History isn't. Part I
Welcome to Hard-G History’s new home! Same as the old site but now with less oh-god-am-I-helping-nazis-and-fascists dread. New platform, new subscriber options, and a new motto: “Time is neutral. History isn't.” Allow me to explain what that means to me, in two parts. First: Time is neutral.
Let's do the math on the Canadian state dipshittery.
You really don't want a Maple Leaf State, chuckleheads.
Meta, AI minstrelsy and “edge cases”
Why are they still so bad at this.
You should get into biathlon this winter.
It's fun to watch and happens to be the hardest sport. Really.
LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back.
A solidarity post and reflection.
Where to put your ‘I voted’ sticker
You do not, in fact, gotta hand it to Susan B. Anthony's grave.
Bezos should sell The Washington Post, but not to another billionaire
You can't stop a bad billionaire with a good billionaire, because there aren't any.
What didn't make it into my WaPo Emmett Till story
More bias, background and the angel of history
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Trump can't laugh
The day after Kamala Harris entered the presidential race, I was scrolling through TikTok, trying to figure out the coconut thing, when I was served up a supercut video from the Daily Mail. I know these kinds of videos well; as a video editor for The Washington Post during the
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History does not repeat itself.
The 1968 Democratic National Convention's mangled lesson
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‘Why do you have to make everything about race?’
Square dancing, editing and history
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Taylor Swift & the Chelsea Hotel
Girlfriend knows her tortured poets at 222 W. 23rd St.
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My late-night adventure with the Trump bible
When a Trump-grift mystery and too much Vyvanse meet: Think China.
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Selling a plantation in 2024
Real estate is such a revealing indicator of America’s relationship with its history, but especially so in the mid-Atlantic region where I live. I just finished reading Mehrsa Baradaran’s “The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap,” which explains how white elites in each generation
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Get the ‘arc of the moral universe’ out of your mouth.
Clean countertops, empty history.
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It doesn't matter if the next president dies or declines
Let's take a walk through history and right-size the panic about Biden's age.
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Hi! I compiled this thing about time for you.
Hey there! If I sent you this link, it is because I want to share with you something that changed my life. It comes from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” He was in jail because of a bunch of super-racist white a-holes who loved oppressing
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One neat trick to prove the Civil War was not about states’ rights
The dead week between Christmas and New Year’s was always a banner time for Retropolis. Perhaps readers felt they weren’t too busy to read something historical and that may or may not have any relevance to their lives. In successive years, we got on huge traffic on this
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E. Jean Carroll, Maria Halpin, and the historical record
History is always biased when a human decides what gets included, and who gets left out.