King Algamemnon

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King Algamemnon@adamrothman· 28d

"Anyway"? That was part of his appeal!

He Says He Killed a Man. Republicans Nominated Him Anyway.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· 28d

Stop the deportations Stop killing people Abolish ICE www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/u...

Mary Hayes, who also lives nearby, said she looked outside at about 7:30 a.m., after seeing social media posts about the shooting. She saw a white car with the driver’s side window blown out, she said, and bullet holes in the windshield.

There was also a woman on her knees, screaming, Ms. Hayes said, alongside a young girl with a pink backpack who was being comforted by another child.

“I heard agony,” Ms. Hayes said. “I heard a howl that came from your soul, that your whole life had just changed and it was never going to be the same.”

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· 28d

Robert Smalls, Captain of the Gun-Boat "Planter" (1862) www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· 29d

Charles King:

“Decline and Fall” represented the coming-of-age of history writing not just as a profession but as a practice of living. For Gibbon, modesty, skepticism, a preference for evidence over authority and a view of every conclusion as provisional were essential traits of a good historian. They also turn out to be useful skills for getting through your day.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jul 11

Haaland!

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jul 11

The one thing the government is not surveilling www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-st...

The country is in the midst of a nationwide outbreak of explosive diarrhea caused by a parasite the CDC stopped surveilling at the federal level in July 2025.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jul 11

Commodore William "Dirty Bill" Porter would like a word www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jul 9

Bring back shame!

Trump appointees Thursday insisted that the idea was broadly popular. Ingrassia said that a model arch currently displayed at a fair organized on the National Mall to celebrate the nation's anniversary had drawn positive comments.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jul 9

I feel like this ad from 1864 might be the first AI-generated image in history.

Ad for Janney & Son Boot and Shoe Manufacturers appears to show a seated man with three legs

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jul 8

Me too, Manhattan Building, me too.

Sagging Manhattan Building Stable for Now, Official Says

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jul 8

"My father has been in this country for nearly 35 years," his son Ronaldo Salgado said in a statement, "working in construction to provide for myself, my two brothers, and my mother. ... My father did not deserve this."

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jul 7

pausa de hidratación

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jul 5

While the Continental Congress was drafting the Declaration of Independence, the Pennsylvania Gazette was publishing runaway slave advertisements digitalcollections.statelibrary.pa.gov/Documents/De...

Advertisements for Ishmael and Newry for the Pennsylvania Gazwtte, July 3, 1776

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jul 4

Left on the cutting-room floor

he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, & murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jul 3

Did the algae write this?

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jul 3

The Pope has decided that instead of competing against each other, Portugal will play Brazil while Spain plays Mexico.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jul 2

More seriously, Adams put his finger on something vitally important to the history of the Revolution in this letter: the networks of communication and debate that created an insurgent political community in the mainland colonies.

But on the other Hand, the Delay of this Declaration to this Time, has many great Advantages attending it.—The Hopes of Reconciliation, which were fondly entertained by Multitudes of honest and well meaning tho weak and mistaken People, have been gradually and at last totally extinguished.—Time has been given for the whole People, maturely to consider the great Question of Independence and to ripen their Judgments, dissipate their Fears, and allure their Hopes, by discussing it in News Papers and Pamphletts, by debating it, in Assemblies, Conventions, Committees of Safety and Inspection, in Town and County Meetings, as well as in private Conversations, so that the whole People in every Colony of the 13, have now adopted it, as their own Act.—This will cement the Union, and avoid those Heats and perhaps Convulsions which might have been occasioned, by such a Declaration Six Months ago.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jul 1

Snorri not Snorri

It is the 1594 printed edition of a work by the 13th-century historian Snorri Sturluson, and tells medieval stories of Viking kings, queens, farmers and warriors.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jun 30

I love the parenthetical in the subhead: "(He did not succeed.)" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...

A Founders Previously Unknown Attempt to Avert the Revolutionary War
Letters written by John Dickinson, a member of the Continental Congress, displayed in Cambridge, Mass. Lauren 0'Neil for The New York Times
Recently discovered documents reveal a back-channel attempt by a leader of the Continental Congress to make peace. (He did not succeed.)

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jun 30

So much for the free exercise of religion

President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown — including at sensitive sites such as houses of worship — has prompted faith leaders to adjust their response to church members who have become too afraid to attend. Some have encouraged online attendance, while others have offered help doing errands such as grocery shopping for people too fearful to leave their homes.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jun 28

I found this to be utterly delightful

When Accrington Stanley travelled to Scotland for a series of pre-season friendlies in the summer of 2005, the first game was against the wonderfully named Dundonald Bluebell, a club from Fife, then competing in the country’s eastern junior league.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jun 27

What is a mental skills coach and where can I get one?

That led to a dugout scene in which Freddie Freeman, pitching coach Mark Prior, mental skills coach Brent Walker and eventually Roberts all took turns chatting with the former top prospect.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jun 27

It has gone a whey.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jun 25

Why don't they just assimilate?

Turnblad created the American Institute for Swedish Art, Literature and Science (later renamed to the American Swedish Institute), which was housed in his former residence, as a place to preserve Swedish customs and culture

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jun 25

Enjoy this article from a Minnesota newspaper in 1882 noting that Scandinavians love their home countries so much that it will take them generations to assimilate into America. www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...

SCANDINAVIANS
No people on earth, probably excel the Scandinavians, and scarcely any equal them, unless it may be the Swiss mountaineers, in attachment to their native country. The Scandinavian emigrant
brings with him to this country, not only his love of home, but his attachments to customs and habits of his old home. So
strong is this passion that it is hard for him to assimilate to the customs of his new home, and to conform to the ideas of American citizenship, but he remains in his adopted land, a foreigner, in all that pertains to his modes, manners, habits,
likes and dislikes.

This peculiar habit of our Scandinavian fellow citizens, and this strong, over-mastering attachment to their native land, has not been generally known and appreciated by our own citizens, "to the manor born."
It will take several generations to wear away this foster land attachment, and to assimilate the Scandinavian emigrant, and
absorb him into the language, habits, customs and true idea of a homogeneous American citizenship.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jun 24

I'm not sure "the Rally to end all Rallies" is the best branding for a celebration of democracy. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

The state fair is to kick off on the Mall with Trump's Wednesday "Rally to end all Rallies," which he announced on Truth Social in early June after a number of performers pulled out of a planned concert series.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jun 22

New look at the Reflecting Pool explorethomascole.org/project/deso...

Thomas Cole. Desolation. Oil on canvas, 1836, 39 ½ x 63 ½ in. Collection of The New-York Historical Society, 1858.5.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jun 21

My work is done here.

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King Algamemnon@adamrothman· Jun 21