🧵1. A HELPFUL RULE OF THUMB I BORROWED FROM A FRIEND…
There are people who live in an alternate universe. Filled with alternate facts. And as much as I believe they are deluded… They are equally as convinced that in fact, I am the one who’s deluded. And you know what? …
Lawyers with business before the Supreme Court made undisclosed direct payments to a Clarence Thomas' aide via Venmo, labeling the gifts as for Thomas' "Christmas Party"
If this isn't the appearance of corruption, I don't know what is.
A Texas sheriff said his deputies took 11 minutes to get to a mass shooting. In response to questions, his office now says it took them more than 40.
An AP investigation found the sheriff has faced years of complaints about corruption and dysfunction. https://t.co/ie67xMRNKG
@PJThypnosis @highbrow_nobrow Too much money tied up in cotton, couldn’t pick it profitably without slave labor. It was a rich, white, planters war fought by poor, white, descendants of border reivers.
@Kamohoalli@OstapYarysh Very nasty history in Galicia. Polish nobility tried to stir up the peasantry against Austro-Hungarian rule. Backfired spectacularly.