How it started: My first op-ed selfie for mom in 2015. How it's going: My latest op-ed selfie for mom in 2023.

RT @warrenbingham: Fun stuff on the dramatic timely deaths of some of the early presidents. Franklin Pierce not welcome here. .

Presidents used to time their deaths. Now they schedule tweets.

Live free and then die! . Presidential Clearance Season readers, Madison just dropped--six days early.

In news that will surprise no one, I nailed the "match the president to his favorite dish" displays at the WH Historical Society--but I have notes! How could you omit the text "troublesome little bones?!"

On June 27, 1973, a federal judge told President Richard M. Nixon he wasn’t a monarch with a line-item veto. He was the head of a constitutional republic. More on that -->

Charts and graphs continue to help me process my work

I can't believe it's taken me decades to realize that James Madison has the most obvious nickname: . Pocket Constitution.

Does June come for James? The second installment in my @Presidential Summer Clearance" series dropped (lol) today.

Six presidents died in June. Three were named James.

When you give me heavy pours at dinner and WiFi on the subway home:. Roses are red.The flag's at half-staff.If you're elected in spring.You're a summer epitaph. Roses are red.The cherries were sweet.But Zachary Taylor.Couldn’t take the heat. there are five more in my notes app.

Obviously, I made a chart. and a forthcoming series. Subscribe below because I'm getting better at forgetting this hellscape exists 👇🙏.

I noticed a historical pattern and will now present it in the most annoying way possible:. Roses are red.July plays for keeps.Presidents drop.But the republic creeps. ⚰️ 1 in 3 presidents have died in summer.

RT @AlexisCoe: Dead presidents may be my subject but living men are my muses

Dead presidents may be my subject but living men are my muses

RT @bruciebear: Incredibly timely and salient thread on why we revolted 250 years ago.

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So this July 4th, celebrate the real fireworks: the right to call out tyranny—and dissent. /11.

Remember, they were reluctant revolutionaries—vast landowners, lawyers, merchants—men who feared the weight of breaking contracts, forfeiting property, risking execution. They’d already tried patience, prayers, protests. (See my Washington bio for a lot more on that.) . /10.

Imagine it, this awesome right they’d just insisted was theirs: To rid themselves of a tyrant. /9.

The names have changed. The playbook hasn’t. The most urgent line in 1776 wasn’t about liberty but a threat they would make good on: . When a government becomes destructive, “it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.” . /8.