I am so tired of stupid opinion pieces that can't even be bothered to stop and ask why it took ONE HUNDRED YEARS for Congress to make good on the Reconstruction Amendments, and whether that should influence how we think about them.

Nice shot of the mountains flying out of PDX. Till next time, to my beloved PNW!

Laughing at these being next to one another on the shelf at Powells

We sure love a section with easy mail drops don't we folks

Counting down the days let's gooooo

Write a horror story in 5 words:

NYC: the best beach city in the USA

Greenthumbs: we planted this rhododendron a few weeks back and it is not very happy. Any thoughts?

I'm sorry, we're supposed to be surprised that this Disney-villian-looking mob boss was in on a grift?

We are on the SEVENTEENTH FLOOR

Enthusiasm is running HIGH (just don't ask me how long it took to get into the office lmao)

Here is the only acceptable kind of rock to do this with:

I snorted

Brooklyn is HERE FOR IT

Very exciting things happening over here

Ha -- deal! Though of course how could our buddy Jim Clark not show up in the VRA book?

I'm such a sucker for this shit. Love it so much

Few people are putting this so plainly. This is what is happening. Miss me with partisanship, as if partisanship isn't a vessel for achieving policy goals — including racial ones

The entire story of this book can be told in its chapters' epigraphs

Drafted.

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Black Reconstruction:

Alright I'm ready to call it: Reconstruction was good

This is exactly what I've been calling the Rucho-Alexander two-step for the past couple of years

They have not. Buy the book that proves it. bookshop.org/p/books/an-a...

It's a good dissent