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Fred Dews

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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 12h
Will anyone in the Pentagon have the courage to say “no sir” to this grotesque idea?
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 14h
Perverted if true.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
McBride. They were Scots-Irish late of Ulster and migrated to Virginia in the mid-18th C. And, Malone, but I don’t know much about that ancestor.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio.
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Caitlin Talmadge @proftalmadge.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Delighted to have joined The Beijing Brief podcast from Taipei for a discussion of Taiwan's defense policy and security environment with Ryan Hass and Jon Czin! www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
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How secure is Taiwan? The view from Taipei | Brookings
Ryan Hass and Jon Czin are joined by Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow Caitlin Talmadge for a special episode of The Beijing Brief from on the ground in Taipei. Drawing on conversations with Taiwane...
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Sympathy for this couple but … leopards eating peoples faces and all that.
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Heather @unxpctdisvry.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
So literally anything but gun control
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18
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Full Metal Jacket: Drill Sergeant Yells
ALT: Full Metal Jacket: Drill Sergeant Yells
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Fun game:
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Brookings Institution @brookings.edu · 15/07/2026
How close are China and Russia, really? For The Beijing Brief, Fiona Hill and Patricia M. Kim sit down with Jonathan A. Czin to unpack the surprisingly complicated relationship between Beijing and Moscow.
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No limits? Testing the China-Russia relationship | Brookings
The Ukraine war, shifting American foreign policy priorities under President Trump, and increased global instability have shifted the balance in the China-Russia relationship, one of the world’s most ...
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
well, looky thar
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 07/07/2026
Buck up, US fans. The women’s World Cup is less than a year away.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.
Chuck Schumer: "The founding fathers called America God's noble experiment. I believe in all three words to this day: we are one nation under God, we have clung to noble ideals for longer than any other nation, and we are an experiment always changing, trying to make ourselves better.
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Brookings Institution @brookings.edu · 02/07/2026
The Declaration of Independence remains an unfinished promise. On the season finale of Democracy in Question, host Katie Dunn Tenpas talks with historian Heather Cox Richardson about what the Declaration means today, and how its ideals depend on Americans to defend, expand, and reinvent them.
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Heather Cox Richardson on defending the Declaration’s democratic ideals | Brookings
On the final episode of Democracy in Question’s third season, host Katie Dunn Tenpas speaks with historian Heather Cox Richardson about the Declaration of Independence as a whole and its relevance tod...
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Weird! And the president continues to debase the majestic dignity of the Medal of Honor when he thinks it's an award he can give to anyone, including himself, just because he feels like it.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The ruling in the Birthright Citizenship case makes it crystal clear that the embrace of "originalism" by conservative justices, to interpret the meaning of our constitution, goes only so far as it is useful in bringing about a desired result. Today we saw how easily they are willing to abandon it.
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Media Strategy 101: ask ONE question.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/06/2026
Sometimes symbolic victories matter. And for a community of LGBTQ Floridians in Miami Beach, restoring their rainbow sidewalk demolished by Gov. Ron DeSantis is a huge victory. @citizencohn.bsky.social goes to Miami Beach to speak with members of the community and explore the city's history.
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The whole "masculinity" discourse is so tiring to me. I'm perfectly comfortable with who I am as a grown-ass person and have never felt the need to talk about my qualifications for "manhood" or whatever.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
🧵 Just listened to a white historian explain that he is ceding the story of Juneteenth to African Americans. Apparently, it is solely their story to tell. It's a national holiday for crying out loud. It is all of our responsibility to share this story, if capable, and to learn as much as possible.
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Kids absolutely were not bringing guns into the public schools I attended in Texas in the 1970s.
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The Fugitive Slave act of 1850, part of the "Missouri Compromise," was an essential component of the Southern states' values imposition nationwide, and accelerated the country's split.
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
@megansmolenyak.com remember the smoking lounges?
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Also featured in a brutalism exhibit at The National Building Museum last year. The library's two towers are meant to evoke those of the Victorian gothic campus centerpiece Healy Hall next door. Once had smoking lounges that overlooked the Potomac River!
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Welker: “I’d like to start off by talking about the major issue that you are focused on every day, which is Iran.” Is he, though?
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Good list. What do you think about "uncapping" the House of Reps? It's too small; each member represents about 700,000 people, about 10x the amount a member of the UK Parliament represents.
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Darn good piece
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
34 days! I’ll do it on book of the face
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Paul Chiddicks @chiddickstree.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
How many sins have you committed? #Genealogy #FamilyHistory open.substack.com/pub/chiddick...
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The Ten Deadly Sins of a Genealogist
And how to avoid repeating them
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Yep, I produce or have produced (or hosted) all but one of these shows! www.brookings.edu/podcasts/
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Brookings Podcast Network | Brookings
The Brookings Podcast Network presents the best in public policy audio content. BPN is a platform for high-quality, informative, and relevant discussions with public policy experts about their ideas a...
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This Kagan? He was on a podcast that I produce. Take a listen! www.brookings.edu/articles/has...
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Has the US lost the Iran war? | Brookings
Brookings Senior Fellow Robert Kagan writes in The Atlantic that U.S. defeat in Iran war “is not only possible but likely.” In this episode of The Brookings Current, Kagan is joined by Melanie Sisson ...
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Ticket to Ride
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“Douglass named something that Americans have repeatedly struggled to see, namely that the Civil War was not primarily a sectional dispute but a war of ideas.”
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“Show me your papers” energy here
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
This is the way.
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Maybe family secrets/truths are inherited by next of kin. I know some CODs for distant relatives (not ancestors) b/c I've seen their death certs. from decades ago, but their descendants, not me, inherit the truth of it (e.g., cancer, murder, suicide), so it's not my story to broadcast.
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Margaret G @mls0308.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Stephen Colbert is all class. 👏👏👏 #Pinks #ProudBlue @colbertlateshow.bsky.social
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Haha, I, an American, thought it would be fun to take this quiz. Couldn't get past even two questions because I absolutely lack context for UK history, social norms, and politics. A written constitution for you guys? How would I know. We have one ... and how's that working out?
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
And apropos of this very theme, here's a terrific piece in NYT (gift link if you need it) about a family secret and how the author approached it. Very interesting. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...
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A Family Secret No More
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/05/2026
“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”
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Seth Rogen Says If “Your Instinct Is to Use AI” to Write Scripts, “You Shouldn’t Be a Writer”
'The Studio' creator said people who are thinking about using the technology to aid their writing skills should try another occupation: "Go do something else."
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I did discover that one of my grandmothers had been briefly married prior to marrying my grandfather in the 1930s. My uncle didn't know (my dad was deceased). She got a divorce and reverted to her maiden name so nobody could know. I decided to tell my uncle and he thought it was kind of funny.
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Paul Chiddicks @chiddickstree.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Ethical dilemmas in genealogy are something we rarely discuss openly despite how common they can become once research deepens. In this piece I explore the emotional and ethical challenges family historians can face #DNA #Genealogy #FamilyHistory chiddickstree.substack.com/p/ethical-di...
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Ethical Dilemmas in Genealogy: What to Do When Family Secrets Emerge
Navigating sensitive discoveries in family history research with care, empathy, and responsibility
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Good piece. In my research of distant collateral ancestors I sometimes come across a COD in official records that closer relatives either wouldn't know or wouldn't want known. I keep the findings to myself.
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
"You started a war!" someone yells at him, reference to his actions at Fort Necessity, I guess?
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Start of a really great thread about clothing, art, and the Met Gala. Just to reiterate what @dieworkwear.bsky.social emphasizes, the Met Gala is a charity event for an important public institution, the Costume Institute. The work of fashion spins off into all kinds of other cultural projects too.
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Fred Dews @freddews.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
My vintage 1977 #1 Luke Skywalker trading card and vintage 1977 Luke action figure. If only I had known as a kid to keep these encased. #Maythe4th #StarWarsDay #Maythe4thbewithyou
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