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PhD Student of History Join the list → receive the 2026 Jamestown papers directly via email on publication day: https://t.co/BSI6yQyGds
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Three papers currently under review could completely change why we think Jamestown died. If they’re accepted, you’ll get the PDFs in your inbox the minute the editor says yes — no paywall, no waiting. Sign-up Link →
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Historian. +150k followers. Three papers coming in 2026 that completely change why everyone thinks Jamestown died. Get them free, the second they’re accepted.
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Getting ready for Christmas breakfast over here! Merry Christmas, everyone!
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The plan was clean. The escape? Not so much. Midway City doesn’t play fair. Wishlist this 4-player coop heist FPS on Steam today.
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Teachers and parents blame each other for the current illiteracy rates in schools. Meanwhile, we have most of an entire generation who can't read or write. Imagine the changes that will be forced on society as a result of an illiterate adult population.
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'The mall' 'Them all' In my mind, it's because the places I want to shop at are in the building with 'them all' inside it.
i love how americans call it “the mall” it feels so 2000s coded. lets go to the mall guys
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The government being the sole repository for truth in a country always leads to grotesque abuse of its citizens. And that's why the Founders passed the First Amendment.
Hillary Clinton: "Americans who engage in misinformation should be civilly or criminally charged." https://t.co/UnqhHfPaS4
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I've begun to shop around my rupture sequence essay to publishers. This one won't make its way into an academic journal, so it will very likely be publicly available in a digital format. Excited to get this theory out into the world!
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I think the change was because it forced all the schools in half the states to throw out all the textbooks they had been keeping and photocopying to save the school money. Textbooks sales were low, imagine the sheer volume of revenue from simply changing the methodology...
I have a conspiracy theory. Coworker- “My daughter brought home her simple long division. I was about to help her with it, but she started drawing boxes and I have no idea what that is. I’m about to write a letter to the teacher.” I think they drastically switched up how math
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Having so deeply studied Jamestown, I can say with 100% certainty the indigenous populations were BAMF's.
Joy Reid: “This nation was founded by kiIIers who slaughtered 90% of the indigenous people.”
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Elissa Slotkin claims Democrats made the ‘illegal orders’ video because a slew of military personnel were coming to them with concerns for months: “I don't know if this is legal. I don't know if I'd be held accountable later after this administration. I can't get a straight
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'Education' experts have been silencing subject matter experts since the 1930s. We need to start including experts in curriculum development once more.
Yeah. Hi. Bad news here. You know how we miseducated several generations because a handful of gurus convinced the edu-establishment that phonics was bad? Well, schools are about to do the same exact thing with math
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It's done. My re-examination of the Starving Time in Jamestown is finally complete and ready for the journal's stylistic editing requirements. Best guess for publication? Fall 2026.
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This is typically done by parents who had nothing growing up, came out of that poverty, and made sure their children didn't repeat the cycle. But then turn around and use that same childhood poverty that haunts them to punish their kids. There's nothing worse than nothing.
What is it with millennial parents and humiliation rituals as discipline
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We, like so many other families, had visitors arrive yesterday. And today, the parents took the children out into the woods to hunt snowmen bunnies. Those are some involved parents, right there.
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This sounds like a future president is going to retroactively punish the military for following orders. There are historical examples we can look at to see how this plays out. Remember: history repeats itself because people don't bother to learn from it.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Seditious Sen. Mark Kelly is digging his hole EVEN DEEPER, saying the military rebellion MUST happen Even Kristen Welker can't BELIEVE what he is saying right now. KELLY: Just say I'M NOT GONNA DO THAT, it's against the law. WELKER: That's a lot of burden on the
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The UK has a very long history of punishing what they view as bad 'social behaviors': it's part of the reason why the colonists fought to break away and form the United States.
UK: A Brit posted photo of him holding a shotgun while on holiday in Florida, when he returned home UK police arrested him, seized his devices, jailed him overnight for violating the 1986 Public Order Act. The process was the punishment. After sharing a photo of himself posing
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I want to see your Christmas villages!! Mine is clay gingerbread themed
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A couple of years ago, it came out that people don't care about contracting STDs because they can just take a pill for it. It doesn't carry the same stigma it used to. Additionally, wearing a condom isn't trendy. So, middle school on up, people are rawdogging randos.
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