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October 14, 2022

October 12, 2022

I learned a new term today. An institution that got "Teen Vogued" instead of got Woke. Here's a recent teen on why black conservatives "cross a line".
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/black...

I learned a new term today. An institution that got "Teen Vogued" instead of got Woke. Here's a recent teen on why black conservatives "cross a line".
teenvogue.com/story/black-co…

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Published on October 12, 2022 18:19

Absolutely brilliant, sober, and analytic first episode of All Things Re-Considered with
@peterboghossian a series that will lay bare the depths of @NPR and @npratc

https://youtu.be/PPvNucxB7TI

Absolutely brilliant, sober, and analytic first episode of All Things Re-Considered with
@peterboghossian a series that will lay bare the depths of @NPR and @npratc

piped.kavin.rocks/PPvNucxB7TI

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Published on October 12, 2022 16:00

So @Twitter considers the posting of interesting historical photos from Oregon, in this case from our State Library, as "potentially sensitive". This one is of a famous Chinese laundry in our state capital. Has the left's obsession with race really made th

So @Twitter considers the posting of interesting historical photos from Oregon, in this case from our State Library, as "potentially sensitive". This one is of a famous Chinese laundry in our state capital. Has the left's obsession with race really made them so fragile?

nitter.net/GarlandPollard/status/1580219680697876481#m

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Published on October 12, 2022 09:33

RT by @BruceDGilley: To twitter "potentially sensitive" but in reality it looks like a historic photo of an actual 19th century Asian business in #Oregon . It is actual censorship of history.

To twitter "potentially sensitive" but in reality it looks like a historic photo of an actual 19th century Asian business in #Oregon . It is actual censorship of history.

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Published on October 12, 2022 08:31

October 4, 2022

Annual firemen's wagon pull contest, Salem, Oregon. 1886.

Annual firemen's wagon pull contest, Salem, Oregon. 1886.

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Published on October 04, 2022 21:22

Best line in this review by @robert_lyman of Caroline Elkins' trash bestseller: "At a quite profound level the book is weird."
https://thecritic.co.uk/violence-agai...

Best line in this review by @robert_lyman of Caroline Elkins' trash bestseller: "At a quite profound level the book is weird."
thecritic.co.uk/violence-aga…

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Published on October 04, 2022 20:37

I must have missed this major publishing event back in 2020: the Soviet-backed socialist Ariel Dorfman's attack on Donald Duck from the Allende days, and his new promise to "confront the America inside me and burn it at the stake."

https://www.amazon.com/

I must have missed this major publishing event back in 2020: the Soviet-backed socialist Ariel Dorfman's attack on Donald Duck from the Allende days, and his new promise to "confront the America inside me and burn it at the stake."

amazon.com/How-to-Read-Donal…

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Published on October 04, 2022 16:34

Hidden figure. Only the second biography of one of the 20th century's little known geniuses.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/31370...

Hidden figure. Only the second biography of one of the 20th century's little known geniuses.
penguin.co.uk/books/313705/t…

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Published on October 04, 2022 09:02

October 3, 2022

RT by @BruceDGilley: @TinaKotek has never explained why she did not fire her legislative aide @knarayan_ who was arrested during the anti-police Portland BLM riots and then proudly announced the fact on social media. Will @TinaKotek support police AFTER

@TinaKotek has never explained why she did not fire her legislative aide @knarayan_ who was arrested during the anti-police Portland BLM riots and then proudly announced the fact on social media. Will @TinaKotek support police AFTER the election?

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Published on October 03, 2022 12:55

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