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Isaac S. Loftus retweeted
So looking forward to speaking with @AOTUS11_Shogan at @USNatArchives in a few weeks! It will be such a great conversation.
Join online or in person on Tues., Sep. 10, at 6 p.m. ET as author @lmchervinsky and @AOTUS11_Shogan discuss the unique challenges faced by President Adams and how he shaped the office for his successors.
Learn more: loom.ly/ab9hIvM
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ALT The book cover for "Making the Presidency," by author Lindsay M. Chervinsky. It features a painting of John Adams.
Isaac S. Loftus retweeted
I tweeted a tweet about Science! I read the article myself, and wrote the tweet myself and posted it myself. 🥹🥹🥹
I haven't been able to do anything like that for a year and a half. 😭
It only took me three days lol. But I did it.
Why is this cool?? Because it’s one step closer to making a new element - unbinilium - which would be the heaviest element ever synthesized.
What’s cool? Scientist at Berkeley found a new way to make Livermorium (an element with 116 protons! So, just 4 protons away from Unbinilium) by putting titanium-50 in a cyclotron for 22 days and smashing it into another atom. And with all that energy, they only got out two atoms of Livermorium. 😅
Yes, this was tweeted by Dianna!
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Isaac S. Loftus retweeted
It's finally here - RED DEAD'S HISTORY is officially out in the world! Pick up the beautiful @StMartinsPress hardcover in bookstores and online, or listen to the marvelous @MacmillanAudio audiobook, narrated by the one-and-only @rclark98. Video games can help teach us big things!
Isaac S. Loftus retweeted
I don't know who needs to hear this but it's perfectly normal for people with multiple ethno-racial backgrounds to emphasize one background in one setting and another background in another setting. It'd be an issue to outright deny one of those backgrounds, but Harris never did.
Isaac S. Loftus retweeted
Huge thanks to all of you pre-orderers who've helped make RED DEAD'S HISTORY a "#1 New Release" in U.S. Civil War history on @amazon! Five days left before the big debut! See what all the fuss is about at us.macmillan.com/books/97812… @StMartinsPress @MacmillanAudio
Isaac S. Loftus retweeted
A striking parallel between the 1790s and today is the intraparty vitriol and rejection of moderates and compromise. It was a joy to work with @SarahLongwell25 and @BulwarkOnline team to combine history and focus groups. History doesn't repeat but it rhymes.
Article 👇.
"History suggests two possible futures for a party like the current GOP: reform or irrelevance." Right now, along with other things, the party is brittle, and that's not sustainable. @lmchervinsky and @SarahLongwell25 on the (possible) future of the GOP:
thebulwark.com/p/history-pol…
Isaac S. Loftus retweeted
“Trump said what about Hannibal? DJ Vance searched..”
You bolt awake in your Manhattan HQ. You are not online. It is April of 1777. You are Sir William Howe, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Burgoyne can fend for himself. Philadelphia must burn.
Isaac S. Loftus retweeted
Don’t forget we made all that up, though
Let’s remind ourselves that #Veep has already written a fictional version of this script .. Kamala *inherits* the actual presidency. Then runs. The electoral college is tied. The house vote is tied. Which means the Senate has to choose the tie breaking candidate. And that ends up with … JD Vance as POTUS
(Nb this is DRAMA …)
Isaac S. Loftus retweeted
The fact is much more was plundered for tax breaks for the rich and special deals for real estate etc than for illegal immigrants (I do think we need to be tougher on illegal immigration and profuse about legal immigration of talent). The world is rapidly running out of workers and so all young immigrants will be wanted. We do need to contain despots like Putin and Ukraine is part of that or Taiwan, Poland etc will go next
Isaac S. Loftus retweeted
Today I start as the Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library. I plan to spend a lot of time talking about Washington’s decision to step away from power. It was a radical act in 1783. It was revolutionary in 1797. And it remains extraordinary in 2024. 1/3
Isaac S. Loftus retweeted
Ask yourself why a political party would want to stop citizens, but even more specifically veterans, from registering to vote?
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Isaac S. Loftus retweeted
OK, our final -and biggest- Loeb give-away for the summer: 31 of them by the looks of it! Sophocles, Euripides, Cicero, Sallust, Suetonius, and the dirtiest poet of all, Martial in 3 vols. Draw 10pm Thurs BST: just RT and follow us before then! And vote below for 1 or 2 winners!
Isaac S. Loftus retweeted
Our newest episode featuring Lucy Smith is LIVE!! Watch at youtu.be/lEiWCrmULJ4?si=jN8-…
#teeth #dentist #fyp #ushistory #georgewashington #blacksmith
Isaac S. Loftus retweeted
It's now less than two weeks before US readers will get their pre-orders of the Fall of Civilizations book, with a shiny new American cover.
Pre-order links below!
Amazon: amazon.com/Fall-Civilization…
Barnes & Noble: barnesandnoble.com/w/fall-of…
Books a Million: booksamillion.com/p/Fall-Civ…
