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  1. Brent Molnar describes the horrible living conditions on board the USS Abraham Lincoln.

    One look at the aircraft carrier and its accompanying ships reveals how the USA has become an emperor without clothes.

    The ships look like the inland, many cities and public transport of the USA: a sore for the eyes and far behind on infrastructure.

    The sailors live like many veterans in the USA: unsanitary accommodations and only the bare minimum of food.

    brentmolnar.substack.com/p/flo
    #USA #AbrahamLincoln

  2. Brent Molnar describes the horrible living conditions on board the USS Abraham Lincoln.

    One look at the aircraft carrier and its accompanying ships reveals how the USA has become an emperor without clothes.

    The ships look like the inland, many cities and public transport of the USA: a sore for the eyes and far behind on infrastructure.

    The sailors live like many veterans in the USA: unsanitary accommodations and only the bare minimum of food.

    brentmolnar.substack.com/p/flo
    #USA #AbrahamLincoln

  3. Brent Molnar describes the horrible living conditions on board the USS Abraham Lincoln.

    One look at the aircraft carrier and its accompanying ships reveals how the USA has become an emperor without clothes.

    The ships look like the inland, many cities and public transport of the USA: a sore for the eyes and far behind on infrastructure.

    The sailors live like many veterans in the USA: unsanitary accommodations and only the bare minimum of food.

    brentmolnar.substack.com/p/flo
    #USA #AbrahamLincoln

  4. Brent Molnar describes the horrible living conditions on board the USS Abraham Lincoln.

    One look at the aircraft carrier and its accompanying ships reveals how the USA has become an emperor without clothes.

    The ships look like the inland, many cities and public transport of the USA: a sore for the eyes and far behind on infrastructure.

    The sailors live like many veterans in the USA: unsanitary accommodations and only the bare minimum of food.

    brentmolnar.substack.com/p/flo
    #USA #AbrahamLincoln

  5. Brent Molnar describes the horrible living conditions on board the USS Abraham Lincoln.

    One look at the aircraft carrier and its accompanying ships reveals how the USA has become an emperor without clothes.

    The ships look like the inland, many cities and public transport of the USA: a sore for the eyes and far behind on infrastructure.

    The sailors live like many veterans in the USA: unsanitary accommodations and only the bare minimum of food.

    brentmolnar.substack.com/p/flo
    #USA #AbrahamLincoln

  6. US carrier supply issues stem from Iran’s missile, drone attacks on Bahrain base

    The supply issues plaguing the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) aircraft carrier stem from Iranian drone and missile…
    #NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #AbrahamLincoln #aircraft #bahrain #ballisticmissile #breakingnews #Drone #Iran #ship #Tehran #UnitedStates #usnavy
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  7. The Roaring Twenties

    There are decades that become famous for what happened during them.And there are decades that become famous for what people later decided they had meant. The 1920s belong to the second category.We know how the story ends. In October 1929, the American stock market collapsed. The Great Depression followed. The prosperity of the decade gave way to unemployment, bank failures, political crisis, and social hardship. The New Deal transformed the relationship between the federal government and the […]

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  8. Peer AI Review

    The Gazette Has Been Reviewed — And We Have Answered The Gazette has completed its first independent AI peer review. From the beginning, we wanted the project to be more than a collection of historical articles. Our Manifesto makes a simple promise: readers should be able to follow the road from our conclusions back to the evidence and the documents behind them. So we decided to test the project from the outside. We created a standardized AI Peer Review Prompt and gave it to independent […]

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  9. A Guide to the Gazette articles 01~50

    A Reading Guide Through American History: Part I — Before the United States1. Before the United States, There Were Neither United nor StatesExplores the political reality of North America before 1776, showing that neither the United States nor a unified American nation yet existed.2. What Did Independence Mean in 1776?Examines the Declaration of Independence within its historical context, separating what it proclaimed from what later generations came to associate with it.3. The […]

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  10. The End of the Old World

    I. A World That Seemed PermanentFor generations, the political map of the world appeared remarkably stable.Empires dominated continents.Kings and emperors ruled vast populations.Colonial possessions stretched across oceans.International politics revolved around a handful of great powers whose existence seemed as permanent as mountains or rivers. "Some centuries end not with a date on the calendar, but with the disappearance of the world that created them." The United States had grown inside […]

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  11. Wilson’s Impossible Peace

    I. A Peace Unlike Any BeforeWhen the guns finally fell silent in November 1918, Europe faced a problem unlike any it had known before.Previous wars had usually ended with negotiated settlements between surviving monarchs. Borders shifted. Reparations were paid. Armies returned home. "Some victories end wars. Others attempt to end war itself." This time, the foundations of the old order had collapsed.Millions had died.Entire regions had been devastated.Governments struggled to maintain […]

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  12. The Canal Between Two Oceans

    I. A Dream Older Than the RepublicLong before the United States existed, sailors understood the problem.The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans were separated by only a narrow strip of land, yet ships traveling between them faced journeys measured in months rather than days. "Some nations build roads. Some build railroads. A few build structures that permanently alter the geography of the world." After Vasco Núñez de Balboa first reached the Pacific Ocean in 1513, Spanish officials immediately […]

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  13. The Progressive President

    I. A Republic Outgrows Its InstitutionsBy the beginning of the twentieth century, the United States had become something its founders had never imagined.The frontier had largely disappeared. Railroads connected the continent. Steel framed the skylines of rapidly growing cities. Industrial corporations employed hundreds of thousands of workers. Wall Street had become the financial heart of the nation's economy. The republic had become larger, wealthier, and more complex than ever before.Yet […]

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  14. When America Crossed the Ocean

    I. The Republic Facing InwardFor more than a century after independence, the United States had been occupied with itself.Its greatest questions lay within its own borders.How could a republic survive? How could a continent be connected? How could millions of immigrants become one nation?Railroads crossed the wilderness. Factories transformed raw materials into steel. Cities rose where forests had stood only decades before.Even the Civil War, devastating as it was, remained an internal […]

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  15. The Rise of Wall Street

    I. A Street That Built NothingThere was nothing remarkable about Wall Street itself.It produced no steel. It laid no railroad. It harvested no wheat.No ships were built there, no coal was mined, and no bridges rose from its pavements.Yet by the end of the nineteenth century, decisions made on a few blocks of lower Manhattan increasingly determined which railroads would be built, which factories would expand, which companies would survive, and which industries would disappear.This […]

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  16. The Man Who Financed America

    Industrial revolutions are often remembered through machines.Steam engines. Railroads. Steel mills. Factories.Yet machines alone never built a modern economy.Every railroad required investors long before it carried passengers.Every steel mill demanded capital years before it produced its first beam.Every bridge, dock, factory, and warehouse existed first as a financial commitment. The Industrial Republic needed more than engineers. It needed people capable of organizing money on a scale […]

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  17. Building with Steel

    No civilization is remembered only by its ideas.It is remembered by what it builds.Stone gives shape to ancient empires.Brick defines medieval cities.Concrete transforms the twentieth century. For the United States of the late nineteenth century, that material was steel Not because steel had never existed before.But because, for the first time in history, it became abundant enough to shape an entire nation.The Industrial Republic did not simply need more steel.It needed steel that ordinary […]

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  18. The Man Who Standardized Industry

    America did not become an industrial nation simply because it discovered oil. Nor because it possessed iron ore. Nor because it had ambitious entrepreneurs willing to invest enormous fortunes. Natural resources existed elsewhere. Factories had already transformed Britain. Railroads crossed Europe long before they connected the American continent. What made the United States different was not merely its industrial growth.It was its ability to organize industrial growth. By the 1870s, the […]

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  19. The Trusts and the Titans

    The United States did not invent wealth during the nineteenth century.Nor did it invent industry.Factories had long transformed Britain. Banks had financed empires for centuries. Merchant houses had accumulated fortunes long before the American Republic existed.What America did create was something different. It created an economy so vast that no individual business could easily govern it. The railroads connected the continent.Steel transformed construction.Millions of immigrants filled […]

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  20. The Gilded Age

    When later generations looked back upon the closing decades of the nineteenth century, they did not call them the Golden Age. They called them the Gilded Age The distinction mattered.Gold is solid.Gilding is only a thin surface laid over something else. The phrase entered American history through the novel The Gilded Age, published in 1873 by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. It was intended as satire, yet it became something greater. Historians, economists, and politicians eventually […]

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  21. The Immigrants Who Built the Cities

    Between roughly 1865 and the close of the nineteenth century, the United States experienced one of the greatest movements of people in modern history. Millions crossed the Atlantic Millions crossed the Atlantic, not as conquerors or adventurers, but as workers, families, craftsmen, laborers, and dreamers. They did not arrive to change the course of American history. They came because history had already changed the course of theirs. The Civil War had preserved the Union, and the industrial […]

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  22. The Age of Steel

    The nineteenth century is often remembered through the names of remarkable individuals. Lincoln preserved the Union.Carnegie built an industrial empire.Rockefeller transformed oil.Edison electrified cities. Yet before any of these men could reshape America, something more fundamental had already changed. The nation learned to produce steel. That transformation was neither dramatic nor celebrated at first. It did not begin with speeches, elections, or battles. It began inside […]

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  23. The Railroads That Built America

    There are moments in history when a nation changes without a revolution, without a new constitution, and without a single decisive battle.The transformation comes quietly.A line appears across an empty landscape.Then another. Soon the lines connect towns, rivers, forests, mountains, and finally oceans. What was once a collection of distant places becomes something entirely different.By the end of the nineteenth century, Americans often spoke of the railroad as the greatest invention of […]

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  24. Reconstruction The Unfinished Peace

    In April 1865, the Civil War ended.After four years of bloodshed, the Confederate armies laid down their arms. Richmond had fallen. General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House. The Union had survived.For millions of Americans, the nightmare seemed to be over.In reality, the hardest work had only begun. Winning a war and rebuilding a nation are not the same task. The United States had preserved its Constitution, abolished slavery, and prevented permanent division. Yet none of […]

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  25. A quotation from Lincoln

       The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves — in their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.
       The desirable things which the individuals of a people can not do, or can not well do, for themselves, fall into two classes: those which have relation to wrongs, and those which have not. Each of these branch off into an infinite variety of subdivisions. The first — that in relation to wrongs — embraces all crimes, misdemeanors, and non-performance of contracts. The other embraces all which, in its nature, and without wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself.
       From this it appears that if all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
    Speech (1854-07-01?), fragment on government

    More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/3093…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #community #government #humanity #judiciary #lawenforcement #publicservices #publicworks #smallgovernment #welfare

  26. A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

    The advice of a father to his son “Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, bear it that the opposed may beware of thee,” is good, and yet not the best. Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
    Letter (1863-10-26) to J. M. Cutts

    More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2191…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #anger #argument #backdown #consequences #contention #costbenefit #fight #priorities #prudence #quarrel #selfcontrol #temper #yielding

  27. @FallsMom @cdarwin @DavidBHimself Sad to see what has happened to #WestVirginia.

    The state was carved out of slave-dependent #Virginia in 1863 by #AbrahamLincoln to become a #FreeState. It is now a #SlaveState once again, but the bodies of white women are now enslaved as well. cnn.com/2022/09/16/politics/we

    #SaveAmerica from the #MAGA cult of ignorance and hate. 🗳️

  28. 2/21 The 1860 #election of #AbrahamLincoln became the "last straw" for #Southerners.

    Alabama #secession documents declared: "the election of Mr. Lincoln cannot be regarded otherwise than a solemn declaration...of hostility to the South, her property and her institutions" (which, as we've seen, was precisely slavery).

    In other words, the #CivilWar was a rejection of — and retaliation to — *a presidential election with progressive results.*