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The first time I had Ethiopian was in DC.

The Red Sea in Minneapolis’ Cedar Riverside neighborhood (now best known as home to many Somali immigrants) is also good.

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In the 80s we shocked monkeys.

Yes, best keep it out of Aboukir Bay.

New York Times Connections statistics page, including the new “Reverse Rainbow” badge

Wyna Liu finally has a badge that recognizes my quest for reverse rainbows.

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It reminds me of Surly Brewing’s pre-Prohibition American lager.

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You’ve pegged it.

It’s got tongues wagging, but will it last?

Meriden had a lot of anti-Nebraska organizing, but I suspect that this was separate from that. The wild card is that someone had begun Know Nothing organizing in time to make a difference in the October local elections.

I’m writing a conference paper about this that I’ll present in June.

Yes, it’s an announcement in the Connecticut Whig, which was published in Meriden. My primary interest at this point is simply to observe that the Young Men’s Institute appears to have become a locus for political organizing (seemingly separate from the town’s Democratic establishment).

Quite true, and I’ve also found instances where the phrase “principles of ‘93” clearly refers to the French Revolution. That, and the existence of a Principles of ‘98 faction among the Republicans, might have influenced its use in the US.

One thing that I find interesting is that the phrase was used without explanation; readers were expected to know what it meant. Context tells me that it’s some aspect or expression of Jeffersonian republicanism but not exactly what. Fortunately, I don’t need to know that.

@cmcknichols.bsky.social suggested that it might be a way of contrasting the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850 was supported by one 1857 newspaper article that I found. I suspect that a known phrase was being repurposed for rhetorical purposes.

After checking newspaper databases, I think that I have an answer to my question from last week. “The principles of ‘93” appears to be shorthand for some form of Jeffersonian republicanism.
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And needed to name planes things like Enola LGBTQIA+.

How about a twee pop band named A Cute Angle?

Unsurprisingly, one book that does quote this section is Daniel Walker Howe’s Political Culture of the American Whigs (p. 270). Howe made the point that Lincoln “identified the law with superintending rationality,” and had an orthodox Whig aversion to the passions.

And the most quoted part is from the start of the speech, in particular, “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

Interesting what this story chose to excerpt from and highlight about the Lyceum address. It’s not one of the usual quotes.

Life Under a Clicktatorship What happens to government when everything is content?

Don Moynihan calls the social media dimension of this, the drive to generate memes and sizzle reels and monitor the level of engagement, a clicktatorship: www.lincolnsquare.media/p/life-under...

The polling place that accidentally sealed its tally sheet in the ballot box was a nice touch.

FYI, I’m looking at the Meriden Young Men’s Institute, not far from New Haven. It had originally called itself the Young Men’s Lyceum.

That’s an interesting idea. Meriden, the town in question, had a vocal anti-slavery base, reacted strongly against Kansas/Nebraska, and was an Underground Railroad station. But opposition to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act doesn’t quite chime with what I know about the Young Men’s Institute.

It’s clearly ‘93, and the Principles of ‘98 wouldn’t make much sense in this context.

I live in NC and have been immensely frustrated with Tillis prior to his decision not to run for reelection. His votes to confirm every Trump nominee were particularly galling, especially when, like with Hegseth, he hinted at possible opposition.

“The Voice of the Institute announces that the Meriden, CT, Young Men’s Institute will be publishing a paper that is “entirely original, racy, and well filled,—devoted to the interests of Meriden, the welfare of the young, and “the great principles of ‘93.”

Have any #skystorians come across the phrase “principles of ‘93?” An 1854 announcement for a Connecticut Young Men’s Institute newspaper described it as devoted to those principles. Is it Jeffersonianism?

Killing goats must be a real red line for you.

Such as Thomas Cole’s Course of Empire paints: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Co...

You were itching to say that.

Season 8 was a big disappointment. Martin hasn’t yet finished the book series, and the way that the showrunners resolved the many plot points was deeply unsatisfying.