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Maria Chong
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. Orwell
Sep 9, 2018 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Amazing. We think these things are the distant past, but Ruby Bridges is not even retired yet. There's a beautiful, family-friendly film about Ruby Bridge's historic integration into New Orleans segregated schools. #ProfileInCourage
Sep 7, 2018 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
“To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men."
—Abraham Lincoln “I know there is a God and I know He hates injustice. I see the storm coming and I know His hand is in it. But if He has a place and a part for me, I believe I am ready.”
—Abraham Lincoln
Aug 18, 2018 • 5 tweets • 7 min read
This summer, I followed about 100 more historians and my feed is already 30% better. More interesting. More cool facts. More insightful links. More sober, considerate, courageous, verifiable-fact discussion. #twitterstorians My automatic follows are: physicists, poets, theologians, neuroscience researchers, philosophers, women in tech, cephalopod researchers, philanthropists, Korean-Americans and Lithuanians, good cooks—and now, historians.
Apr 11, 2018 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
I'm re-watching THE TWO TOWERS. One of my most *hated* storylines of any film ever starts around 2:30. "Farimir Tries to Take the Ring to Gondor." It's the most egregious flaw of these otherwise excellent films. Did I mention how much I HATE how Peter Jackson ruined the character of Faramir?
Mar 28, 2018 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
Sam Harris is an ass. This email correspondence just makes him sound like an insufferable and petulant bore. People who become virulently anti-SJW lose their sense of proportionality in the same way rabid SJW's lose perspective & scale.
Mar 16, 2018 • 11 tweets • 1 min read
1) Concussions, bathtubs, and balance: a few points on Hillary Clinton. 2) Hillary sustained a concussion in 2012 that required six-months of vision treatment. Even mild TBIs often create vision impairment.
Nov 26, 2017 • 42 tweets • 7 min read
Evil and domestication: how puff pieces in 1930's Vogue, Life, Home and Garden, NYT normalized Nazis. placesjournal.org/article/hitler… The SS opened Buchenwald a few months after American Kennel Gazette published “Hitler Says His Dogs Are Real Friends” in 1937.