grahamgal

COVID puppy pushover. CDR USN (ret). Naval War College grad. Jersey gal gardening in NC. Pro-Democracy, anti-inequality. Proud to have been ASW Cold Warrior.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In an incredible video, Democrat Paige Cognetti just announced her campaign to flip PA-08. This is the best thing we’ve seen all week.

[Claire McCaskill @clairecmc]

Trump is destroying the premier evidence based public health protection agency in the world. How in the world do Rs in Congress stand by and do nothing? They know how bad this is for Americans. Trust me, they know.

[Michael @Michael12507861]

@sbg1 It's not a cabinet. It's a junk drawer.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

If America wants to purge distorted history, let’s start with the biggest, ugliest distortion of them all: the Lost Cause.

Because the Lost Cause isn’t some quaint relic of “Southern heritage.” It’s the longest-running con job in American history — a mass-scale gaslighting campaign that rewrote treason into honor, slavery into benevolence, and violent white supremacy into nostalgia.

When I was at the University of Georgia, someone cracked a joke — “Oh, are you teaching about the War of Northern Aggression?” Everyone chuckled, including me, because it sounds absurd. But here’s the thing: it isn’t a joke in the South. That narrative, that “alternative history,” has been engineered. And it’s been taught, reinforced, carved into granite, and literally set in bronze on courthouse lawns for more than a century.

The Lost Cause insists the Civil War wasn’t about slavery — no, it was about “states’ rights.” Right. States’ rights to own people. States’ rights to rape, whip, sell, and kill human beings as property. Let’s stop pretending otherwise. And this myth goes further — it paints the Confederacy as a noble David facing down the Northern Goliath, supposedly fighting off economic domination. In reality? They were fighting to preserve a slave empire that was the economic backbone of their wealth. They gambled the Union, and when they lost, they cried victim.

And here’s the kicker: they weren’t just rebels. Men like Lee and Jackson were U.S. Army officers. They swore loyalty to the United States of America, and then they broke it. That’s called treason. They weren’t freedom fighters, they were traitors. And yet, because of the Lost Cause, Americans still drive down highways named for them, send their kids to schools named for them, and until very recently, trained soldiers at federal bases named for them. Imagine Germany naming a barracks after Rommel. The South didn’t just lose the war — it won the memory of it.

I know because I’ve seen it up close. I taught students in Georgia and Virginia, and I watched firsthand how deeply this poison runs. Generations have been raised on textbooks scrubbed clean of slavery, on statues that glorify men who fought to destroy the Union, on church sermons and political speeches steeped in Confederate nostalgia. It isn’t harmless myth-making — it’s the foundation stone of Jim Crow, of segregation, of modern white nationalism.

And here we are again. The same forces that once dressed treason up as honor are back, marching under new banners but preaching the same gospel of racial hierarchy. The Lost Cause isn’t just history — it’s the live virus still coursing through our politics. It’s why “heritage not hate” gets trotted out to defend Confederate flags. It’s why MAGA rallies echo secessionist rhetoric.

So yeah, if we’re going to start fixing distorted history, let’s rip this one out first. Let’s call the Lost Cause what it was: a propaganda campaign to launder slavery, treason, and white supremacy into something honorable. And let’s stop pretending it’s anything but a Big Lie.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

“He and his administration are amateurs, inept and in over their head. They are entertainers and grifters, shock jocks and freaks. Whatever talents they may possess, mastery of governing is not one of them."

https://t.co/Ed0msY8DJJ

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

How beautiful!

Actor Gary Sinise took over 1,000 children of fallen soldiers to Disneyland, free of charge.

[grahamgal @grahamgal]

@stan_sdcollins Beautiful, Stan! Good morning from North Carolina! I’ve run away up to cousins in the mountains because it’s just too darn hot in the piedmont!!!

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Andy Beshear just broke down how Democrats need to speak like human beings, not politically correct AI robots. This is amazing.

[Admiral Mike Franken @FrankenforIowa]

As Captain of a ship, you never blame anything on your predecessor. Never.

Obviously, Trump never captained anything.

[Cincinnati Zoo @CincinnatiZoo]

Happy National Corn Day from Rico the porcupine!! 🌽

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

Get this: Trump‘s “big beautiful bill” lowers the age of a “dependent child“ from 18 years old to seven years old.

That means assistance programs designed to help children will no longer include 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13…year olds.

So, a 7 year old in the 1st grade is not a dependent child?

These people are SICK!

[grahamgal @grahamgal]

Pit stop on the way home. Looking at route alternative to 15 mph creeping on 95 .

[grahamgal @grahamgal]

@stan_sdcollins All the best for your surgery and seeing you back here Thursday! 🙏🏻

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Secretary Hegseth needs to resign.

If there is zero accountability for this level of incompetence; if there are no repercussions when our top national security leaders are caught lying to the American public, our nation's credibility is destroyed.

[Tammy Duckworth @SenDuckworth]

Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could’ve gotten our pilots killed.

He needs to resign in disgrace immediately.

[grahamgal @grahamgal]

@stan_sdcollins Glad to see you looking so good, Stan, and that you have such a wonderful friends. I bet the trout they brought you were delicious.

[grahamgal @grahamgal]

@wxannie @AndrewDesiderio @NatashaBertrand Like hell it is

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot.

RETWEET if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

[grahamgal @grahamgal]

@JuddLegum @johnpavlovitz I wonder if they’re high school taught civics?

[Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya @Tsihanouskaya]

To all the Belarusians who stood together yesterday against the regime's fake elections—in Warsaw, Vilnius, Berlin, Kyiv & so many other cities—I cannot thank you enough.

Your courage & solidarity are a powerful reminder that Belarusians will never stop fighting for freedom, democracy & a European future. 🤍❤️🤍

@BelarusInPoland @belarusinlt @BelarusInSweden @BelEmbassyAT @belarusrazam @BelAmbasada @BelarusinItalia