@JosephRardin @josiahwatson99 Yes, they denied it. But they aren't the most reliable witnesses, are they? Particularly since they named cousins as likely suspects, but they were ruled out by the genetic evidence.
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Semi-pro history guy, book collector, former high school history teacher
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@stanbrown32 @josiahwatson99 Then the grandchildren denied it was Thomas Jefferson. 😃
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Imagine being one of the top historians of the War for Independence and writing this downer for the 250th. Some historians in America just love being negative about our country, don't they.
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@JJ_McCullough I'm an American interested in Canada--I don't recognize 6, 9, or 10.
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In 1998, Maclean's got an expert panel to come up with a list of history's "Most Important Canadians" based on "character, enduring achievement, influence, renown, and contribution to Canada and the world." I doubt your average Canadian has any idea who these people are.
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@JJ_McCullough You need more Heritage Minutes on TV, radio, social media, as well as school social studies curriculum.
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@JosephRardin @josiahwatson99 I don't think this can be proved for every necessary critical period. If Randolph Jefferson was on site for months at a time each time, why did TJ's grandchildren suggest their cousins as possibly the father of Sally Hemmings's children, and never Randolph?
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@stanbrown32 @josiahwatson99 Yes, RJ and many Jefferson visited Jefferson when he was at Monticello. They would stay there for months at a time.
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@josiahwatson99 @JosephRardin Maybe--I have wondered about Randolph Jefferson. But how much do we know about his character? Isn't it just one letter that says he played his violin in the slave quarter? And Sally Hemmings apparently bore children only when TJ had been at Monticello. Was RJ there so often?
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@stanbrown32 @JosephRardin I still don't really believe in Thomas Jefferson and the Hemingses' relationship. I think Randolph Jefferson is a more plausible candidate, for it seems to fit his character more.
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@JJ_McCullough @ChHouseBooks Like A Streetcar Named Desire, Cape Fear, and Twilight Zone episodes?
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@ChHouseBooks I’m not sure if there are that many examples of the Simpsons drinking from deeper waters. A lot of early seasons jokes are just parodies of movies that came out a few years earlier. Like the Shinning parody is fun, but that would be like doing a parody of the Hunger Games today.
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The best pop culture was always downstream of high culture. Meyer, George Lucas, and the original writers of The Simpsons drank from deeper waters. Now, pop culture writers are exclusively consumers of pop culture and the water has become much thinner.
Val@VK_HM
When Nicholas Meyer was hired to do the second Star Trek movie he only vaguely knew Trek as ‘the one with that guy with the ears.’ He did watch the show but made the movie inspired by things he loved, like Horatio Hornblower. And the result was, well, The Wrath of Khan
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@josiahwatson99 @JosephRardin That book was published in 1998, a year before the publication of the DNA evidence collected from Jefferson and Hemmings descendants. That evidence forced many historians to revise their judgment of the Hemmings claims.
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@JosephRardin @stanbrown32 In his appendix of "American Spinx," if memory serves me correctly, he rendered the relationship implausible. Where did he say otherwise?
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@JosephRardin There is indeed something wrong with being a cheerleader for your own nation--that is the work of a propagandist, not a historian. Historians are supposed to present the past as it really was (despite inevitable biases--should work against their biased). Can't ignore evidence
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@stanbrown32 There is nothing wrong with being a cheerleader for your own nation as a historian.
Joseph J. Ellis had no problem in being speculative when he perpetrated the "Thomas Jefferson had children from Sally Hemings" story.
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Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.
Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.
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As Trump posts AI videos of him assaulting Stephen Colbert, here’s what Colbert was doing:
Dancing with his wife, having fun at the Fired & Festive!” afterparty in NYC.
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This is the right way to speak about it - just say it plainly.
Erin Burnett OutFront@OutFrontCNN
Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb rips Trump’s $1.8B defense fund: "this is really just a criminal conspiracy to steal money from the taxpayers."
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A campaign account for Senate candidate Mike Collins mocks an adviser to rival Derek Dooley’s PAC whose wife attempted suicide after accusing Matt Lauer of rape. #gapol
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Here's how the corruption works:
Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump
Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it
Friday: FDA changes the policy
#donation-big-tobacco-vaping" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nytimes.com/live/2026/05/2…
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"Where is the missing congressman" feels like exactly the sort of story where TMZ should be able to play a key role in Washington. Why haven't they found him?
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I said on @MSNOW just now:
What *is* the Trump slush fund?
It's not an appropriation: Congress did not vote.
It's not a settlement: There was no valid litigation because (as the judge said) Trump was suing himself.
On what basis is this money leaving the Treasury?
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@ArdorNew Not even a troubling dream, lol. United Methodist here.
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The Didache is the Protestant’s worst nightmare.
Hughes de Payens 🇻🇦✝️📿@hdpayens
The Didache was written before most Christians had a "Bible." It had baptism rites. Eucharistic prayers. Bishops. Deacons. Fasting rules. A full liturgical calendar. The structure Protestants call "Catholic invention" was already running. A thread.
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Schools in 2025-26 to have 40+ softball wins, 30+ men’s basketball wins, 25+ women’s basketball wins & 9+ football wins:
🔵Duke
Last school to do this? Louisville more than a decade ago in 2012-13
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