The USMNT suddenly turned into one of the most complete team in international soccer as soon as we divided the game into four quarters. You connect the dots.
when kennedy offered lbj the vp slot, johnson ran the numbers of how many sitting senators had become president (only 2 counting jfk) & how many presidents had died in office (7) and accepted the role bc it was statistically his best path to the presidency. incredible called shot
@dan_gaffa@reschultzed I think after current house member it should go through state constitutional officers in seniority in order of the state’s acceptance into the Union and then after former it should be territorial officers
As our nation celebrates #Juneteenth, we remember and honor the end of slavery as well as when General Gordon Granger and his soldiers arrived in Galveston on June 19, 1865, to deliver the good news of President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
I was proud to work with the late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee to pass a bill establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday so that all Americans can join Texans in marking this day, which has been observed as a state holiday in the Lone Star State for nearly 50 years.
“i don’t know why the president of the united states behaves like this towards his allies: it is not the first time. i can only say it is disappointing that he does not show the same determination with the enemies of the west and of the united states, whose leaders he instead treats with far greater indulgence.”
- italy pm georgia meloni, saying publicly what most us allies are saying privately
“Questions of just how much reading and writing students actually do, which had hardly come up during my time in Gainesville, are uncomfortable, but they concern the essence of education.”
Ann Manov on civic centers and the future of the liberal arts.
https://t.co/3aGdPPNQhw
Unless you're an brain-wormed partisan, "Iran is an evil regime," "this preventive war was stupid and should never have been launched," and "this peace deal is a US humiliation" are three perfectly true things you should be able to believe at the same time.
It’s very funny that Hegseth spends 100 percent of his time talking about how masculine and traditional and warrior are ethos he made the military, then his band of Real Men just speed ran a nearly unprecedented military failure