Professor of Early American History, @AssumptionUMA; Director of @SlaveAdverts250; 18th-Century Advertising & Ephemera Enthusiast; Daily #Adverts250 Update
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Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Mike Rogers will be another rubber stamp for Donald Trump’s dangerous agenda. We can’t afford to give MAGA another Senate seat in November. #MISEN
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
There is no way - or should be no way - for the government to know whom you voted for. That's what a secret ballot means.
🚨 NOW: Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy announces there will be a FOLLOW-UP with voters who cast their ballot for the fake Dan Sullivan, to see if they meant to vote for the REAL Sen. Dan Sullivan
If enough voters were duped, this should be allowed to FLIP the race in the GOP Senator's favor if Peltola's scheme steals the seat!
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
WTAF are the velvet ropes for?????
This is Obama's Oval Office: an ambience and atmosphere that invites conversation, negotiation, and a quiet respite.
It doesn't look like Trump's garish pro-wrestler's dressing room or a Turkish brothel.
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
This is like the epigraph for the entire Trump 2.0 presidency:
‘’I don’t give a damn. We’re making a fortune’
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Well, it's true that I didn't write a *second* piece about Biden's pardons, probably because I was busy being appalled at Trump pardoning seditionists and rioters who attacked the Capitol and the US Constitution - as I feared he would:
theatlantic.com/newsletters/…
Yes. He called Biden's December 2024 Hunter Biden pardon a "terrible idea," "dishonorable and unwise," and a "tremendous strategic blunder" in The Atlantic.
No public record found of him raising similar questions about the January 2025 preemptive pardons for Fauci, Milley, the Jan. 6 committee, or other family members.
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today?
“THE Publisher of this Paper being determined to remove to Boston during the Course of next Week.”
Adverts 250 Project: Featured Advert for October 21
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Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
"A world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was, until now, the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies, dark tales that Americans told themselves, like ghost stories around a campfire."
@RadioFreeTom:
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
457 UK armed forces personnel died during the war in Afghanistan. Beyond those and US fatalities, a further 703 individuals from 30 nations were killed. Hegseth owes each of their families an apology.
Hegseth on Afghanistan:
I was a captain in Afghanistan, and we would go to the headquarters in Kabul, and there would be 50 flags at the headquarters.
It was a beautiful thing to see 50 different countries contributing to the NATO alliance and the ISAF mission there.
Except there were like maybe five that contributed. It was actually closer to one or two that, by the end, were actually involved in kinetic operations.
In fact, the ISAF patch, we would joke that it meant "I Saw Americans Fighting."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Over 1100 non-American soldiers from 31 US-allied countries were killed fighting in Afghanistan, approximately 1/3 of the total combat deaths.
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Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Wow! If this doesn't get the cost of groceries and gas down, nothing will. Well done, Mr. President.
I am pleased to announce that the Department of the Interior, under the auspices of Secretary Doug Burgum, and in conjunction with famed Golf Course Architect, Tom Fazio, has developed a plan to build a World Class Championship Golf Course on the site of the current East Potomac Golf Links, located in Washington, D.C. When completed, it will be open to the Public while, at the same time, designed to the Highest Level of Golf and able to hold World Class Tournaments such as the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship, the Ryder Cup, and the Presidents Cup. This Course will create many Jobs, and have a tremendously positive Economic Development impact on Washington, D.C., and the surrounding area. Millions of Dollars will inure to the Capital area. The current Course is old, broken, dilapidated, and of no further use or effect. It is in very poor condition, with falling, dangerous, and disease infested trees and, importantly, a collapsing and hazardous seawall. When the East Potomac Course was originally built, it was famous for no trees, with views of Washington, D.C., for all to see, but now, it is completely overgrown, dysfunctional, and unsafe. Restoration work will begin on the Fazio Design on November 15th, when the old Course will be closed to play. The new Course will be opened in approximately 15 months. The United States Golf Association, PGA of America, and the PGA Tour have already been notified that they will soon have one of the Best and Most Spectacular Golf Courses anywhere in the World to put on their list of great places to play, and hold Major Events. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
( TS: Oct 18 2026, 10:09 AM ET )
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
You wrote a law giving Trump the unrestricted power to waive sanctions, and of course he used that power to serve his own interests. The irresponsible party here is Congress.
Beyond irresponsible. What part of enforcing a law passed 86-11 by the Senate does the President and his advisors not understand? It’s unconscionable that this administration is capitulating to a Russian dictator who illegally invaded Ukraine and butchers innocent civilians every single day. If the President wants to actually bring down energy prices, he can do it by solving the Iran problem, not by doing a solid for Vladimir Putin.
apnews.com/article/russia-sa…
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Rev250 resource of the day — Via the Golden Ball Tavern, Brooke Barbier, PhD, speaks online about the influence of tavern and drinking culture on the American Revolution, particularly in Massachusetts, on Thursday, October 15, 7pm: goldenballtavern.org/annual-…
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
I think "reading a book is performative" is the end point of American anti-intellectualism. The mere act of reading is now suspicious to swaths of slug people.
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
#earlymodern ads are never boring! Today's fave:
Cardiac Cordial for women to counter when 'fumes fly up into the Head' after tea-drinking... ☕️
Weekly Journal, or Sat. Post, 27 Sept. 1718
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
Another way to think about Trump announcement today: If he increased US diesel imports from Canada by 4%, he would gain as much fuel as from this Russia deal. But the Canadians are global super-villains, so who wants to buy from them when you could enrich Putin instead?
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
As a homicide detective, I can say with all of my being that there is no lesson learned in seeing someone die. But there is a price. And that price is your peace. Your decency. And the soul of our society.
We don’t have to be this way, this fake tough but real ugly way. Stop
Breaking news: The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be live-streamed, the Defense Department said.
“People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. wapo.st/4hNxK0C
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
I love how the "pro life" crowd is frothing at the mouth to watch a public execution
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
"I have not been insured my whole life. I spent a year when I was running for governor in 1994 when I could not afford health insurance" --Susan Collins
This is a level of sacrifice for public service that most people will never know.
Carl Robert Keyes 🏳️🌈 retweeted
The Onion couldn’t have made up something this absurd.
BREAKING WaPo:
Trump wants to transform his West Palm Beach golf club into a presidential retreat modeled after Camp David.
The plan calls for a parcel of the private club to be designated a permanent, official sanctuary for foreign leaders and future U.S. presidents.
Future presidents would also be offered comped memberships to the Trump club. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
