Yesterday's thoughts on the Revolution. If we don't know it all (and no one does, nor will anyone), how can we decide what is "essential"? tinyurl.com/Calculus-of-Te…
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Steven Maher
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Steven Maher
@smaher
History Educator & Amateur Chronographer. Thoughts, ideas & expressions mine alone and do not reflect those of my employer
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@grynbaum Claims made without evidence are claims that are made falsely, unless of course, you believe that there is somewhere, out there in the universe one small sliver of a chance that the articles were intended to demean the military. That's not a rational thought. "Falsely claimed"
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NEW: Trump Threatens to Sue The New York Times and CNN Over Iran Reporting nytimes.com/2025/06/26/bus…
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Serious question US History teachers - is this quote going to make it into your next current event lesson? If you include it you're contributing to the deterioration of public discourse. If you don't include it, you're covering up a President's deterioration of public discourse
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President Trump on Israel and Iran: "We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing."
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Wondering whether the work of history teachers to help students make sense of the past so they understand it also makes then ill-equipped to appreciate the size, scope and scale of seismic change that defies any sense in the present. infinitude.maherpages.net/index.php/2025…
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@SenFettermanPA Good start. Did the Senate orientation include anything on the power of Senators beyond social media posts? Take a took at Article I of the Constitution, Section 8 especially.
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The Supreme Court made a unanimous decision, saying the lower Court’s order “properly requires the Government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release.”
Calling on the White House to follow this directive.
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@jfritze The headline reads "The Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump to enforce the Alien Enemies Act for rapid deportations for now, handing the White House a significant victory." Victory? Really? Is this a game? Stop sportscasting politics
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Latest briefing at SCOTUS (in the probationary firings case) signed by newly confirmed solicitor general D. John Sauer.
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@SenFettermanPA DO: Something consistent with the power at your disposal as a Senator of the United States
DO NOT: Think a social media posts cuts it
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DO: Discuss on Signal your March Madness bracket.
DO NOT: Disclose on Signal the timing when American fighters will strike terrorist targets.
Lethality is incompatible with this sloppiness.
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@jeffjarvis I can hang out in a middle school lunch to learn what's popular
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Super stupid sound bite on Morning Joe.
Mike Allen: "Now, Joe, it's super important to say, the idea of Doge and what doge is doing is super popular, both in polls and in my conversations with friends, relatives...."
Joe: "It's always been popular."
I watch so you don't have to.
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@swanversations As my 7th grade teacher used to stamp on my papers "correct and resubmit"
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Is this a rhetorical question?
Because, there are actual answers.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
What is the point of having democratic elections if unelected activist “judges” can override the clear will of the people? Well, that’s no democracy at all!
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@supertanskiii Worse than that an utterly inexcusable is the number of news-entertainment stories never once mentio
ning it either
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It’s obvious that the hicks commenting on the US involvement in Ukraine haven’t read the Budapest memorandum. If they can read. It was an agreement to protect Ukraine for destroying nuclear weapons, not a treaty but based on honour, something neither Putin nor Trump possesses.
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@PessimistsArc High school history teachers can leverage drones, martians and Orson Welles into a media literacy lesson tinyurl.com/23a977ks
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Hiring a decorating service to string up lights on your house for the holidays is like using AI to write – the product looks good but a little fake – and you gain nothing from it. A thought unlikely to change any student's mind, but I'll share it anyway. tinyurl.com/22xlls22
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No one alive in 1938, 1858 or 1985 could predict their future. Even in retrospect it's difficult to comprehend the scale of World War II, the Civil War and the end of the Soviet Union. We can't predict our future either, but we can get a sense of scale tinyurl.com/28gcm4c2
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Answering a student's "Why?" question about McCarthyism isn't easy. Putting McCarthyism in a calendar events to start thinking about the "Why?" in the context of what happened before and after is much easier, a good place to start. Here's how we did it - tinyurl.com/2bn9curs
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@ResisterSis20 @CNN @MSNBC These talking heads are the news-ertainment version of "chum machines" grinding up fish scraps in the form of stories, quotes and semi-factoids and spewing them out to bait more viewer's attention, conversation and complaint
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Trump’s education pick once incorrectly claimed to have education degree washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…
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@atrupar I don't see it, she gave him free air time. Conversations that follow this model will produce the same result - just more conversations like this.
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Damn. Pamela Brown wasn't messing around here with Oklahoma schools superintendent Ryan Walters.
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