The Real Story Behind the Gettysburg Handshake

We all know the iconic photo: an old Union veteran in blue shaking hands with a Confederate in gray at the 1913 Gettysburg reunion. It’s become the symbol of forgiveness — proof that America “healed” fifty years after the Civil War. But the truth underneath it is far more complicated.

I Check Bluesky So You Don’t Have To

Lex McMenamin (they/them) describes himself¹ in his Bluesky biography as: permanent Philadelphian in NYC, opinions mine WAS politics @teenvogue.com member @transjournalists.org @leximcmenamin elsewhere linktr.ee/leximcmenamin As you can see, Mr McMenamin, who puts plural pronouns in his signature line on Bluesky, is going to be a flaming liberal, as the list of his online articles shows. …

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Democrisy: The Left Said That No One is Above the Law, Right Up Until the Law Impacted the People They Favored.

Our good friends on the left spent much of the Biden Administration years telling us what Senator Dick Durbin did in a tweet pictured to the right, telling us that no one is above the law. Letitia James said the same thing, many times, in her witch hunt against then-former President Trump, yet, today, she’s …

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The Gospel According to Alex Jones: Fear, Fame, and the Invisible “They”

Alex Jones doesn’t report the news—he baptizes it in panic and sells you iodine tablets afterward. On Tucker Carlson, he was back in the pulpit, bellowing about a Globalist Death Cult fueling the next civil war. You could almost smell the brimstone through the screen. The man could turn a stubbed toe into a government …

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(Future) History 304: Pandemics and Policy Failures of the 21st Century

It was a rainy afternoon in 2125, and the university coffee shop was buzzing with chatter and the smell of synthetic espresso. History 304: Pandemics and Policy Failures of the 21st Century had just let out, and a group of students huddled around a table, half-mocking, half-processing what they’d learned.