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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

78 Years OTD, Harry Truman on his tireless whistle-stop campaign. "I am the servant of the people of the United States. They are not my servants. I can’t order you around, or send you to labor camps, or have your heads cut off if you don’t agree with me politically 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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Harry Truman's Train Ride - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Image is everything, as you can see from the one on top of this essay for 3Quarksdaily.com Thomas Jefferson, the complex, and sometimes disappointing. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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Jefferson Expresses His Mind (On Slavery) - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The great Amy Howe on SCOTUS' gift to Trump. She plays it straight. www.scotusblog.com/2026/08/supr...

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to move forward with order imposing restrictions on mail-in voting

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So what did Thomas Jefferson and John Adams do after they left office? 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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Two Lions In Winter - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Bygone era, August 9, 1974. "There stood Richard Nixon, less than two years after a smashing landslide of a reelection victory, a solitary figure on a helicopter’s steps, his hands outstretched for last time, to be carried away to political oblivion." 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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A Cancer On The Presidency: The Tragedy Of Richard Nixon - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael LissDamp and clammy. Last week was the 49th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s resignation. Go back to your half-forgotten copy of Woodward and

syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

[M]en by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties. 1. those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2dly those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them cherish and consider them. Jefferson

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Thomas Jefferson, towards the end of his remarkable life: "When I look back to the days of my youth, it is like looking over a field of battle. All, all dead! and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know not us." 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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A Natural Aristocracy Among Men - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

On this day, July 8, 1896, William Jennings Bryan gave his "Cross of Gold" speech. It was a bit downhill after that. Bryan's message was durable, but didn't travel particularly well that year. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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The Lost Summer of William Jennings Bryan - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Tall ship....

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Tall Ship (Second Class)

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

@hcrichardson.bsky.social..."Best 4th of July Speech Contest (Besides Frederick Douglass). My entry, JQ Adams "swept away all the rubbish of accumulated centuries of servitude--proved that the social compact was no figment of the imagination; but a real, solid, and sacred bond of the social union."

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This guy, in all his flawed brilliance. Metaphor for a country?

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

On this day in 1948, Thomas E. Dewey was nominated by the Republican Party. He was considered a lock to beat incumbent President Harry S. Truman. But Truman had other ideas... 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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Harry Truman's Train Ride - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A few thoughts about bedrock American values, as we approach the 4th of July. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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Founding Gift: John Peter Zenger And The Declaration Of Independence - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

D-Day, and a reminder that true heroism consists of acts, and not words. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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Order Of The Day: Eisenhower And D-Day - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

RFK assassinated June 5, 1968. "My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it" Ted Kennedy

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

If you want to know about politics without the froth... centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/...

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Texas Senate to Leans Republican Following Paxton Win; TX-35 Makes Same Move; Redistricting Updates - Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Texas Senate race gets more interesting following Ken Paxton's win, but he is still favored

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Some thoughts about what we might need to offset some of the damage Trump is doing. And from whom. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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It's Time, Boomers - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael LissEight years ago, in May of 2018, motivated by a series of discussions with my then-graduating son, I wrote a piece for 3 Quarks Daily titled

syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

SCOTUS fulfills the wildest dreams of GOP, blessing Alabama's racially discriminatory map. I was too soon with this--three weeks is a long time when you want to reward your ideological soulmates. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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The Horses Are Coming - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

It seems to be a good day to post about the Supreme Court and Justice Roberts. Of course, it's almost never a good day to post about them... 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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The Horses Are Coming - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

April 15, 1865. Lincoln succumbs. The following day is Easter Sunday+New Testament allusions could not be overlooked. Nor the confluence with the Passover seder: Destined to lead the slaves out of bondage and to see the Promised Land, but not permitted to enter. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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If The Thing Be Pressed: Two Weeks In April, 1865 - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael LissApril 1, 1865. For the South, the end is nearing. It was already obvious on March 4, when Abraham Lincoln delivered his magnificent Second

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

For the Lincoln men and women among us, including @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @jbf1755.bsky.social As April 14 turns to April 15 Special War Correspondent and Britannia consoles Columbia.

syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It ends for Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This is just for fun. Nothing deep, political, etc. If you read and you like it, that's pleasure enough for me. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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Sounds and Silence: A Bit of Bach, A Night of Banjo - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael LissFor several centuries, as we moved from farm to city, the human ear has engaged in a ceaseless battle against the noise caused by human

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...

Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab

syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

February 27th, 1860, Abraham Lincoln travels to Cooper Union to introduce himself. “Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. ”https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2019/02/radical-centrism-lincoln-at-cooper-union.html

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

FDR's first crisis, resolved. "The effect was remarkable. The following day, Monday, March 13th, hundreds, perhaps thousands of customers returned to their banks—to put their cash and gold in, not take it out. Roosevelt had turned them around, given them confidence." 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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Together We Cannot Fail: FDR's Ten Days - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael LissMarch 3, 1933. Herbert Hoover spent his final hours in the White House in anger and despair. Angry that he’d been decisively rejected by an

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

227th anniversary of Lincoln's birth. Let's remember what might be his greatest speech. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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Radical Reconciliation: Lincoln's Second Inaugural - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

76 years ago... Wheeling, West Virginia, a "star" is born. "The speech itself is neither eloquent nor subtle. The former amateur boxer wades in with both fists. It’s likely even built on a lie—there was no list—at least not one McCarthy would let people look at." 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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No Sense Of Decency - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

One of the great pictures of the last century, unattributed, with an uncertain ID of the men pictured: My review of Christine Roussel's "Lunch On A Beam" 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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A Seat At The Top: Book Review Of "Lunch On A Beam" - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael LissA picture may be worth 1000 words, but this picture, the centerpiece of Christine Roussel’s engaging Lunch on a Beam: The Making of an American

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, must spring up amongst us. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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A Complex Man: Lincoln At The Lyceum - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Tens of thousands of hungry desperate people arrive in DC to ask for relief. Waiting for them, Hoover, MacArthur, Ike, and, ready to lead a cavalry charge, George Patton. "If the Army must be called out to make war on unarmed citizens, this is no longer America." 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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A Painful Paradox: Hoover And The Bonus March - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Watching Trump struggle, his constant assurances that everything is much better, remind us Herbert Hoover. "More Dickensian is Hoover’s insistence that the Federal Government should play little or no role in aiding the individual who falls into destitution." 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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Things Fall Apart: Herbert Hoover And The Risks Of Certitude - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

With tomorrow the 84th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, hoping @hcrichardson.bsky.social might add some context to what a great nation does when faced with an existential challenge--and leadership needs to step up.

syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

So, he begins to fail, becomes a man apart, so committed to his credo, so dismissive of alternatives, that he appears detached and unfeeling, and finally tone-deaf. All he has left is the authority of his office and his sense of virtue mixed with grievance. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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Things Fall Apart: Herbert Hoover And The Risks Of Certitude - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

As the anniversary of the Gettysburg address approaches, the cause of the war remains relevant. Lincoln's election triggered secession, but what options did he have besides either surrendering his Presidency or surrendering the principles that got him elected? 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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Lincoln's Trolley Problem: Fort Sumter And Beyond - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

What can happen when institutions (and people) fail to foresee/adapt/take seriously 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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A Less Than Pleasing Prospect: The Great Crash - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

"It was crazy. Republicans had some hard-boiled talkers amongst them—shock-jocks like Rush, serious men like Pat Buchanan, but this was the team that usually nominated accomplished, mainstream adults. That fling with Goldwater in 1964 was … a summer thing..." 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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A New Marshal In Town - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

"Trump I was gaudy and messy, but until January 6th...didn’t seem to be life-altering. Trump II, well, “Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war.” 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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Confronting The Golem - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael LissIn 16th century Prague, so the legend goes, the sage Rabbi Judah Loew, Talmudist, philosopher, mystic, mathematician, and astronomer, searching

syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

"Trump I was gaudy and messy, but until January 6th (soon to be a major motion picture with a semi-fictional Horst Wessel figure) didn’t seem to be life-altering. Trump II, well, “Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war.” 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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Confronting The Golem - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael LissIn 16th century Prague, so the legend goes, the sage Rabbi Judah Loew, Talmudist, philosopher, mystic, mathematician, and astronomer, searching

syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

A few thoughts about certain level of courage. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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The Guts To Do It - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

"That people lust for the Presidency, that they reach as hard as they can for it, doesn’t necessarily make them able, or the better choice—even if they take the prize. The responsibilities of the office come at you fast." 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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Presidential Appetites - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael LissGeorge Washington and his wife Martha were committed eaters and generous hosts. A meal was a serious affair: fine China, glassware and cutlery,

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

A word (or three) from the author of the Declaration 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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Thomas Jefferson Would Like A Word With You - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

One more....John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, President and Vice-President, have reasons to disagree 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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John Adams Is Bald and Toothless: A Brief History Of The Alien And Sedition Acts - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

A few words from Thomas Jefferson. Not always a Unionist. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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Thomas Jefferson Would Like A Word With You - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

What do you do after the parades are over? 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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Thomas Jefferson Would Like A Word With You - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

Opinion | My Journey Deep in the Heart of Trump Country

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Eighty-one years ago today. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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Order Of The Day: Eisenhower And D-Day - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

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syncpol.bsky.social @syncpol.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

When too much power is welded to too little common sense. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

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John Adams Is Bald and Toothless: A Brief History Of The Alien And Sedition Acts - 3 Quarks Daily

by Michael Liss

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Lucas Brown Eyes @lucasbrowneyes.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Keep in mind. Trump isn’t giving all these ICE Agents directions individually. They are choosing to do this. Stealing money. Making girls stand in the rain in their underwear. That’s their choice. Because people who chose to be ICE Agents chose it for pain it causes.