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🔮BREAKING: House votes to ban State Department from citing Gaza Health Ministry death toll statistics.

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The Forever War: America's Unending Conflict With Itself by Nick Bryant, 2024

The Forever War tells the story of how America’s political polarisation is 250 years in the making, and argues that the roots of its modern-day malaise are to be found in its troubled past.

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    In Need of a New Myth

    “Where do national myths originate? They do not emerge by happenstance. Rather their creation and spread are an exercise of power. Influential historical actors, from antebellum slaveholders to the moguls of Hollywood and those Slotkin calls the ‘political classes’, have attempted to develop and disseminate broadly acceptable myths to serve their own interests.”

    https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n13/eric-foner/in-need-of-a-new-myth

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    American stayed in Israel and is now fighting in Gaza for the IDF.

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    A Post-Truth World: Politics, Polarization, and a Vision for Transcending the Chaos by Ken Wilber, 2024

    A piercing examination of our current social and political situation through the lens of Integral Theory—by the framework’s founder, cutting-edge philosopher Ken Wilber.

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    Four Threats The Recurring Crises of American Democracy by Suzanne Mettler

    An urgent, historically-grounded take on the four major factors that undermine American democracy, and what we can do to address them.

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    The CIA An Imperial History by Hugh Wilford, 2024

    In this “superb” new history of American intelligence, a celebrated historian uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of America’s covert global empire.

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    Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind by Annalee Newitz, 2024

    In Stories Are Weapons, best-selling author Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats―the essential tool kit for psychological warfare―have evolved from military weapons deployed against foreign adversaries into tools in domestic culture wars.

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    Conditional Enfranchisement: How Partisanship Determines Support for Noncitizen Voting Rights

    “Our findings suggest that U.S. voters are pragmatic about extending the local franchise to noncitizens. Although U.S. voters are, on average, indifferent toward local noncitizen suffrage, they oppose enfranchisement when noncitizens would vote for the opposing party.”

    ALARIAN, H. and ZONSZEIN, S. (2024) ‘Conditional Enfranchisement: How Partisanship Determines Support for Noncitizen Voting Rights’, American Political Science Review, pp. 1–8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055424000522.

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    “Four factors are found to be significant predictors of the position of primary stress: endings, word complexity, the segmental structure of the final syllable, and syllable count. Moreover, this study confirms previous observations on the tendency for American English to have more final stress in French loanwords than British English.”

    Dabouis, Q. and Fournier, P. (2024) ‘Stress in French loanwords in British and American English’, Journal of Linguistics, pp. 1–26. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226724000136.

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    đŸ‡ș🇾 How Christianity’s Decline Impacts White Christians’ Emotional and Attitudinal Response

    “Racial resentment predicts Christian nationalism, Christian persecution beliefs, and White persecution beliefs. In other words, negative stereotypes about Black Americans are related to Christian nationalism and persecution beliefs. But while Whiteness and Christianity are undeniably intertwined among Whites, our experiment provides evidence that they cannot be conflated.”

    https://religioninpublic.blog/2024/05/03/how-christianitys-decline-impacts-white-christians-emotional-and-attitudinal-response/

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    đŸ‡ș🇾 "Land Of Cotton - King Cotton's Slaves" 1936 Southern Tenant Sharecroppers Documentary XD49484

    "This particular episode of the series takes an in depth look at the struggles of Black and white tenant sharecroppers and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) in Arkansas during the New Deal Years."

    length: 8 minutes 25 seconds.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_o38AGSx6Q

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    đŸ‡ș🇾 🌎 Mapped: U.S. Immigrants by Region

    "From this graphic, we can see that Asia and Latin America emerge as the primary sources of immigration, collectively accounting for 81% of America’s 46.2 million immigrants."

    https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-u-s-immigrants-by-region/

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    The Origins of the Rapture

    "The Rapture: The belief that Jesus will remove all true Christians from the Earth prior to the end of the world and establishment of his kingdom. The belief is mostly found among American Evangelicals and is part of the larger theological framework called Dispensational Premillennialism. But where did this belief come from?"

    https://youtu.be/mvsjMuHkGBc

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    The Origins of the Rapture

    "The Rapture: The belief that Jesus will remove all true Christians from the Earth prior to the end of the world and establishment of his kingdom. The belief is mostly found among American Evangelicals and is part of the larger theological framework called Dispensational Premillennialism. But where did this belief come from?"

    https://youtu.be/mvsjMuHkGBc

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    The Origins of the Rapture

    "The Rapture: The belief that Jesus will remove all true Christians from the Earth prior to the end of the world and establishment of his kingdom. The belief is mostly found among American Evangelicals and is part of the larger theological framework called Dispensational Premillennialism. But where did this belief come from?"

    https://youtu.be/mvsjMuHkGBc

    @christianity @religion @theology

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    from [gift article]
    [Bias alert - NYT usually favors Israel]

    Cheers, Fears and ‘Le Wokisme’: How the World Sees

    Abroad, some have praised the demonstrations. Others call the crackdowns evidence of American hypocrisy, or of a nation coming apart.


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    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/world/europe/campus-protests-rorschach-test.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pU0.PIIQ.IKvCt8Z-lLKn&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

    immibis ,

    @plink @palestine @israel Yup. and were losing the moral high ground by supporting the holocaust abroad, but now by choosing to deploy the same tactics on their own citizens they've lost absolutely any distinction between America and .

    By the way, be prepared for Trump to win the next election. Biden needed the anti-genocide votes he just lost.

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    1861-1865: The Complete Story Of The American Civil War | History Of Warfare | Timeline

    "Less than a century after gaining independence from Great Britain, the United States of America would be wracked by a Civil War as the secessionist Confederate States of the South fought the Union forces of the remaining loyal states. Four long years of war would result in the deadliest military conflict in American history, as the fate of the Union hung in the balance."

    length: 54 minutes 40 seconds

    https://youtu.be/Pu-Fcc5vFlE

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    1861-1865: The Complete Story Of The American Civil War | History Of Warfare | Timeline

    "Less than a century after gaining independence from Great Britain, the United States of America would be wracked by a Civil War as the secessionist Confederate States of the South fought the Union forces of the remaining loyal states. Four long years of war would result in the deadliest military conflict in American history, as the fate of the Union hung in the balance."

    length : 54 minutes 40 seconds

    https://youtu.be/Pu-Fcc5vFlE

    @histodon @histodons

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