A deep-sea expedition group says that it has discovered what appears to be Amelia Earhart’s plane, which went missing after the famed pilot crashed somewhere in the South Pacific during her flight around the world.
Deep Sea Vision, a marine-robotics company, <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amelia-earharts-aircraft-believed-found-184400252.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALYxVCiuhArz9_BAqhiigMqK1mZBmqF-nqfDYH3HfW6L8LC4z-aFEXvlQYzV3rDBQAJRXgURDFHiuaZ2AEDEq6-7NqWCPLUbKoG6Tp4FzPi_xnvEdmKE9u9eHBblU8EI3lZmuU-K9ROCi2a0wMOTQiidAUqofFOBTNiCGoym2fkc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Sunday that it has located what it believes to be Earhart’s Lockheed Electra, which went missing in 1937 after taking off from Papua New Guinea. Deep Sea Vision says that it believes Earhart and her navigator got off track because they forgot to take into account the International Date Line leading them to be off target and crash into the ocean.
“This is maybe the most exciting thing I’ll ever do in my life,” Deep See Vision CEO Tim Romeo <a href="https://www.wsj.com/science/amelia-earhart-lost-plane-found-843e9e9c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Wall Street Journal of a return trip to survey the wreckage. “I feel like a 10-year-old going on a treasure hunt.” 
The group posted photos of the wreck on Sunday, announcing news of the find.
“On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan took off from Papua New Guinea, nearing the end of their record-setting journey around the world never to be seen again. Until today,” Deep Sea Vision said.
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Romeo, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, said that the plane appears to be in good condition despite its being in the ocean for over 80 years.
&#8220;We always felt that she [Earhart] would have made every attempt to land the aircraft gently on the water, and the aircraft signature that we see in the sonar image suggests that may be the case,” he said. &#8220;We&#8217;re thrilled to have made this discovery at the tail end of our expedition, and we plan to bring closure to a great American story.&#8221;
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The discovery of the craft was made after the group searched over 5,200 miles of ocean over a 90 day period. The group used the <a href="https://www.deepseavision.com/service-details#wreck-hunting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HUGIN 6000</a>, an autonomous underwater vehicle, to search massive portions of the ocean at a time.
Dorothy Cochrane, aeronautics curator at the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Air and Space Museum, said that she was looking into Deep Sea Vision’s findings.
&#8220;We are intrigued with DSV&#8217;s initial imagery and believe it merits another expedition in the continuing search for Amelia Earhart&#8217;s aircraft near Howland Island,” she said.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/national-park-service">National Park Service</a> announced that it is reversing course on removing a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/statues">statue</a> of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a> founder William Penn from a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/history">historical</a> park due to massive backlash against the decision. 
The organization announced on Friday that it would remove both the statue and a replica of Penn&#8217;s home from Welcome Park, a recreation area within Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia.
Per the original <a href="https://www.nps.gov/inde/learn/news/park-seeks-input-on-the-rehabilitation-of-welcome-park.htm">announcement</a>, the NPS was seeking “to rehabilitate Welcome Park to provide a more welcoming, accurate, and inclusive experience for visitors.”
The stated replacement for Penn’s statue and home included an homage to American Indians.
“The proposed rehabilitation of Welcome Park includes expanded interpretation of the Native American history of Philadelphia and was developed in consultation with representatives of the indigenous nations of the Haudenosaunee, the Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe of Indians, the Shawnee Tribe, and the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma,” the update said.
The NPS invited public comment on the change, which led them to scrap the plans altogether following public outrage.
&#8220;The preliminary draft proposal, which was released prematurely and had not been subject to a complete internal agency review, is being retracted. No changes to the William Penn statue are planned,&#8221; an updated NPS statement <a href="https://www.nps.gov/inde/learn/news/park-withdraws-review-of-welcome-park-rehabilitation-proposal.htm?fbclid=IwAR3lDfWxt1cL8janQW5Koe_dPuRoPB-EzlAS5uekAF5nUOeoDP5428Z6Cac">said</a>.
Critics of the plan, including politicians, expressed their opinions online. 
State Representative Martina White (R-PA) <a href="https://www.facebook.com/repmartinawhite/posts/pfbid02ttMHiahZLeQoV65fBozbc7CkcTpzestfjrpwXDs6Hy4yjT4F2J4c7WQ28q6gGJc3l?amp%3B__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R">wrote</a> on Facebook, “I hope they will find a way to incorporate the statue into the renovations,” while inviting constituents to share their opinions with the NPS on the proposed changes.
A lot of the backlash came via X.
“It started with Confederate statues. Now they&#8217;ve arrived at William Penn,” entrepreneur Michael Seifert <a href="https://twitter.com/realmichaelseif/status/1744410326353821871">wrote</a> in one popular post. “It doesn&#8217;t matter that he supported religious freedom, opposed slavery, and treated Native Americans with respect. It was always about replacing the history of the United States.”
Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro seemed to agree with the NPS’s course reversal, <a href="https://twitter.com/GovernorShapiro/status/1744502454048178194">writing</a> in an X post, “My team has been in contact with the Biden Administration throughout the day to correct this decision. I’m pleased Welcome Park will remain the rightful home of this William Penn statue — right here in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Penn founded.”
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“Yay!” X owner Elon Musk commented, while another commenter <a href="https://twitter.com/RecoverRepub/status/1744508800973828547">thought</a> “the only reason why this decision was stopped is because the public got wind of it and became rightfully outraged.”
“Make no mistake: the Biden Administration tried to tear down a statue of William Penn as part of its toxic obsession with &#8216;equity.&#8217;  They only stopped because they got caught,” Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1744738325645447195">wrote</a> of the controversy.
William Penn was an influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era. The deeply religious Englishman was an advocate of democracy and religious freedom and was well-known for making fair and lasting treaties with native tribes as he helped establish the commonwealth.

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A battle has broken out in Texas between academic historians and hobbyist history buffs — with the hobbyists advocating for exploring history through primary source material, and the &#8220;experts&#8221; opting to push modern far-Left politics.
It came to a head this month after a veteran publisher of Texas history books wrote to a member of the Texas Historical Commission, a government body that runs historical sites, with a list of all the books sold at the gift shop of the Levi Jordan plantation outside of Houston. Of the 23 books sold, few had to do with the plantation, Texas history, or slavery in Texas. Instead, many were modern leftist political screeds or unrelated lamentations about black victimhood in other times and places.
They included books about Malcolm X, an &#8220;Afro-Vegan Cookbook,&#8221; a novel about a black man in Harlem, a book about Chicago&#8217;s black slums, and book by radical black feminist author &#8220;bell hooks&#8221; tackling &#8220;racism among feminists.&#8221; They also included a book from Frantz Fanon, who posits that violence is necessary for &#8220;decolonization,&#8221; about &#8220;revolutionary struggle, and a continuing influence on movements from Black Lives Matter to decolonization.&#8221;
The situation was similar at the nearby Varner-Hogg plantation, where &#8220;White Rage&#8221; and books by Ibram X. Kendi about diversity, equity, and inclusion were being sold.
Michelle Haas, a veteran publisher of Texas history books who chairs a nonprofit called the Texas History Trust, sent this inventory of the books to the Texas Historical Commission. “I attach a list of the books available with the publisher’s description of each,” she wrote. “You may assess for yourselves how relevant they are to the history of Brazoria County.”
&#8220;Why is the State of Texas selling an afro-vegan cookbook at a state historic site? Or fiction about people living in Chicago in the 1890s? What do books written and edited by Ibram X. Kendi have to do with the Varners, Pattons or Hoggs?&#8221; Haas asked in another email, referring to the plantations.
In an internal email, a member of the commission, David Gravelle, agreed that some of the materials &#8220;are not about accurate Texas history, but seem to wander off into present social issues.&#8221; The Commission later pared the inventory at its historic sites — it says for unrelated reasons.
But on December 7, <a href="https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-historical-commission-book-removal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas Monthly</a> magazine posted an article with Haas as its main subject. It caused an uproar by twisting the story from one about a woman advocating for more books about Texas slavery at Texas plantations, to one about a white woman who wanted books about slavery banned.
Texas Monthly, writing based on an interview with Haas and a collection of Gravelle&#8217;s emails, said that Gravelle falsely stated that “there is no question these books are not about Texas history.” The outlet attempted to dunk on the official by saying that a whopping one of the 23 actually was: “That description wasn’t accurate: one of the 23 titles on the list, for example, was &#8216;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Days-Sorrow-Texas-Narratives/dp/1933337478" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Remembering</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Days-Sorrow-Texas-Narratives/dp/1933337478" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Days-Sorrow-Texas-Narratives/dp/1933337478" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Days of Sorrow</a>,&#8217; which features testimony from numerous Texan slaves,” it wrote.
The article’s crux — that Haas and conservatives wanted slavery books banned — rested on the statement that, &#8220;When asked if it was her intention that historical books about slavery be removed from sites, Haas demurred.&#8221;
But that statement was invented out of thin air. The author of the Texas Monthly article, Steven Monacelli, is a <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/socialist-journalist-sued-by-texas-newspaper-for-defamation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported socialist</a> who was fired from another Texas paper after making <a href="https://dallasweekly.com/2021/02/formerly-black-owned-dallas-express-resurrected-as-right-wing-propaganda-site/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">false</a> accusations against conservatives. Haas recorded her interview with Haas and shared it with The Daily Wire, and the audio shows that he never asked her if she wanted to remove books about slavery — likely because it was obvious from the conversation that she did not. Haas&#8217; entire point, after all, was that books like Ibram X. Kendi&#8217;s are not about slavery.
Monacelli had actually asked her: “Is it possible that the response to your raising these concerns could have unintended effects?” Haas said it was possible, and suggested that as a way to avoid the risk, if they removed a book like &#8220;Roots,&#8221; they should replace it with a book like one about Britt Johnson, a former Texas slave.
The journalist then asked if there were “books that were included on that list that you found to be good representations of the sorts of literature that [Texas Historical Commission] should carry.” Her number-one example was &#8220;Remembering the Days of Sorrow.&#8221; “That absolutely should be there,” Haas told Monacelli.
“Okay. Because I wanted to make sure I wasn&#8217;t getting the wrong impression regarding this list,” he replied. His article, however, did give his readers the wrong impression.
After Haas confronted Texas Monthly editor Dan Goodgame with the audio, the publication made <a href="https://www.diffchecker.com/PyIpgiHR/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">numerous changes</a>, including removing the sentence alleging that Haas refused to say if she wanted to ban slavery books. But the correction appended to the article concealed the actual changes, instead making it seem like a pedantic issue. The correction itself introduced an equally inflammatory charge against Haas that reinforced the article’s central false narrative. The correction itself, which remains at the bottom of the published piece and can be read in full below, states that “Haas emailed a list of books that she objected to.”
<blockquote>“Correction, December 12, 2023: A prior version of this story reported Michelle Haas emailed a list of books that she objected to that were available for purchase at the Levi Jordan historical plantation to Texas Historical Commission Chairman John Nau III. She addressed the email to him and other commissioners, but did not include him as a direct recipient.”</blockquote>
Throughout the interview, as in her email to officials, Haas described how her list was simply a list of all books available for sale, and that she did not object to all of the books. “Here&#8217;s a complete list of the books that are for sale at these particular sites&#8230; here&#8217;s the list of everything that&#8217;s for sale, make of it. Use your judgment to decide if these titles are relevant to Texas history,&#8221; she told Monacelli.
In fact, Haas warned Texas Monthly in advance about getting that fact wrong. “It’s certainly not how certain professors want to portray me as someone who just doesn&#8217;t &#8230; want any bad stuff there. No, I do want bad stuff there,” she said.
Texas Monthly did not return a request for comment, and did not provide The Daily Wire with the public records underlying the story, which Monacelli initially concealed from Haas in their interview before alluding to a list he had received that he wasn’t sure how to interpret. He also said some books the Texas Historical Commission apparently removed were not on Haas’ list, which tended to back up the Commission’s assertion that the books were removed as part of a general inventory reduction. The Texas Historical Commission did not return a request for comment.
Texas Monthly’s article was picked up by other outlets who distorted it even further, leading to a firestorm of threats against Haas.
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&#8220;Those books include: ‘Roots,’ by Alex Haley; ‘Invisible Man,’ by Ralph Ellison; ‘White Rage,’ by Carol Anderson; and ‘Stamped from the Beginning,’ by Ibram X. Kendi. See a pattern?” <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/8/2210546/-Texas-Historical-Commission-removes-dozens-of-books-on-slavery-from-plantation-gift-shops" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Kos</a> wrote. “It seems that ‘amateur historian’ and graphic designer Michelle Haas is the source of the movement to remove mentions of historical slavery at Texas’s historic sites,&#8221; it added — a non-sequitur since only one of those books, Roots, is about slavery, and none are about Texas slavery.
Falsehoods poured in from otherworldly places, with the Star Trek actor-turned-activist George Takei morphing it to the claim that books &#8220;written by slaves&#8221; were removed &#8220;after white woman complains.&#8221;
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Books like Ibram Kendi&#8217;s are not written by slaves, and the audio showed that Haas explicitly advocated for adding a book about a slave, Britt Johnson, and for keeping one based on interviews with former slaves, &#8220;Remembering the Days of Sorrow.&#8221;
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The smear on Haas appeared to be retribution from a larger battle between citizen historians dedicated to researching their state, and academics who are more likely to use history as a vehicle for contemporary leftist politics, and to jealously guard the domain.
The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), which has been in existence since 1897, is designed to be split between academic historians and laypeople. But in recent years, the board was packed with academics.
Its chief historian, Walter Buenger, used the group to promote racial conspiracy theories,<a href="https://thetexan.news/issues/social-issues-life-family/prominent-texas-historian-says-alamo-represents-what-it-meant-to-be-white/article_56c09758-8fa4-561f-b0ee-2a360db90bd2.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> claiming in 2021</a> that, “The Alamo became this symbol of what it meant to be white&#8230;. It is again tapping into a defense of white privilege.”
TSHA is a private group, but likely the most important history group in Texas, according to Haas.
“Since they need their articles peer reviewed and published, the academics need to control who the peers are doing the review. TSHA has the most important scholarly history journal in the state. They need it, but require full ideological capture and can&#8217;t tolerate differing points of view,” Haas told The Daily Wire.
A businessman, J.P. Bryan, stepped in as executive director to bail out the TSHA after declining membership, perhaps due to the fact that most Texas history buffs aren’t keen on constant denigration of Texas. “We are disenfranchising our non-academic members, who make up 90% of our membership, because they’re not properly represented on the board,” Bryan once <a href="https://thecannononline.com/amateur-historians-turn-the-tide-against-woke-academics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. But Nancy Baker Jones, the association president and an academic, appeared to want to use Bryan for his financial expertise, then cast him aside.
In March, TSHA attempted to install yet another academic, and became outraged when Bryan suggested that to comply with their bylaws, they should install a layman, the first black chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, instead. Professor Jeffrey Littlejohn, the co-chair of Sam Houston State University&#8217;s diversity committee, stood up and shouted his displeasure at the prospect of a black conservative history buff instead of a leftist academic, Haas <a href="https://www.texashistorytrust.org/texas-history-news-and-opinion/tsha-illegal-board">wrote</a>.
In May, Judge Kerry Neves <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6174b6bf19cf4223cc28a1d8/t/64877e52d145f22a1f39bcf5/1686601298461/23-CV-0679+-+Order+Granting+Temporary+Injunction.pdfhttps://budgetbook.heritage.org/administration-of-justice/reduce-funding-five-programs-in-department-justice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocked</a> the academic packing, writing, “The Bylaws require that the membership of the Board of Directors be balanced substantially between academic and non-academic members. The present Board is not substantially balanced because the makeup is presently 12 academic members compared to 8 non-academic members.”
The two professors behind pushing the media smear of Haas were angry at her for her role in stopping the Texas-history coup by academics. On Facebook, a former junior college professor named Michael Phillips indicated that he and another academic historian, Ben Johnson, were behind the Texas Monthly article, and that, “People who think you can work with Haas and company regarding the TSHA are delusional.”
Phillips was the only academic quoted by Texas Monthly&#8217;s Monacelli, who last year wrote a lengthy article in <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/texas-education-maga-trump-book-bans-1310603/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rolling Stone</a> about how Phillips was let go by a junior college and was suing it alleging that it was in retaliation for pushing leftist politics. On Instagram, the socialist journalist labeled Phillips as &#8220;legendary.&#8221;
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Though Haas spent a career in Texas book publishing, the outlet called her a mere &#8220;graphic designer,&#8221; implying that because she did not have a Ph.D. in history, she could not ascertain what books were related to a Texas plantation and what weren&#8217;t. That characterization was removed by Texas Monthly after she confronted the editor with the audio.
Haas said that degree-based attack was the modus operandi of leftist academics who chafed because she knew enough about history to offer critiques when they relied on their credentials to push biased information. For example, she said, when Johnson alleged that low voter turnout in 1918 was because of racist voter suppression, she reminded him that the Spanish flu “shut everything down a week before the primaries” that year. “If you&#8217;re such a professional, why do you omit that? And instead of answering, the answer is always: &#8216;Well, you&#8217;re just a white supremacist.&#8217;”
In August, the lawsuit was settled and Baker Jones, the association president, and another academic agreed to <a href="https://www.texashistorytrust.org/texas-history-news-and-opinion/tsha-settlement-battleship-texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resign</a>. The <a href="https://www.texaspolicy.com/in-galveston-a-win-for-history-and-against-wokeness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas Public Policy Foundation</a> called the outcome “a win for history — and against wokeness.”
Since then, leftist academics have been in a tailspin at the idea of opposing views, Haas said. “The historians started resigning because they didn’t know what to do. For the past decades or so they’ve just appointed their grievance studies people to the committees and enveloped the whole organization,” she said.
Haas said that history is the domain of all Americans and that activist academics have squandered their credibility by subjugating facts to ideology. She said primary source documents have more to teach people about slavery than contemporary ideologues like Kendi do, saying “we have their words … that’s moving stuff.”
Her <a href="https://www.texashistorytrust.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas History Trust</a> has “digitized about 30,000 pages of primary source material so that the public, teachers and scholars can go direct to the source on their phone, for free.&#8221;
&#8220;I put a $25,000 research library in people&#8217;s pockets,” she said. “When I announced the digitization project, the activist historian crew objected. ‘You need an archivist with a Ph.D. to do that!’ No, I really don&#8217;t.”

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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro showed off his knowledge of history this week while sitting down with Broadcast Cal, star of the <a href="https://www.bentkey.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bentkey</a> original show “Kid Explorer,” who quizzed him on a variety of topics from American presidents to inventions. 
The two discussed the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, President Abraham Lincoln, and the American Revolution, among other topics from history. 
During their discussion, Cal asked Shapiro what sport Lincoln was known for, prompting Shapiro to answer “wrestling” and give more background on the athletic prowess of the 16th president.
“He would actually challenge dudes to wrestle in the streets. There are a bunch of stories about people confronting him, being like, ‘Let&#8217;s throw down right now,’ which is totally not what you think of when you think of Abraham Lincoln,” Shapiro said. 
Shapiro also gave more context on the debates between Stephen Douglas and Lincoln, which focused on federal versus state power. 
Historians have “preserved a huge number of these speeches and sort of the back and forth between Lincoln and Douglass and those those arguments are relevant right now on other subjects, actually, not just regarding slavery, because they&#8217;re all about what should be left to the states, what should be left to the federal government, which sort of subjects should be left to the people versus taken off the table by the Constitution,” Shapiro said. 
The two also discussed the shot heard round the world at the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the 1783 Treaty of Paris, and how long Britain’s King George III was in power. 
“Wow, a dominant performance,” Shapiro said after Cal’s final question. “But there are certain things that I didn&#8217;t know. Even I can learn things from the Kid Explorer and so can you. Which is why you should go to <a href="https://www.bentkey.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Wire+</a> and subscribe if you haven&#8217;t already. ‘Kid Explorer’ is a great show for kids. They&#8217;ll absolutely love it.”
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“Kid Explorer” is just one of the original shows available on Bentkey, The Daily Wire’s kids entertainment company. Other originals include “A Wonderful Day with Mabel Maclay” and “Chip Chilla.” 
The Daily Wire announced that new subscribers can take advantage of a 14-day free trial by downloading the Bentkey app or visiting <a href="https://www.bentkey.com/">Bentkey.com</a>, giving parents a great opportunity to check out entertaining content for their kids without the woke indoctrination. The code for the free trial is &#8220;UNLOCK.&#8221;
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As the world seems to teeter on the brink of chaos, many wonder how much longer until reality itself unravels before their eyes. 
But there is hope yet. 
In “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/end-of-the-world" target="_blank" rel="noopener">End of the World</a>,” a new series streaming on <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus-jordan-peterson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DailyWire+</a>, French Canadian icon carver and public speaker Jonathan Pageau offers a thoughtful framework to make sense of these confusing times, placing the chaos in historical context and providing a roadmap to lead us out of the clown world and restore order. Episode 1 of the series, titled “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/episode-1-state-of-chaos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State of Chaos</a>,” was released Wednesday — delving into how people can interpret “the very strange things” seemingly taking over the world today.
“When you become obsessed with the strange, you are reaching the end of an identity. The main narrative of our world seems to be something like a clown world,” Pageau says in the series premiere. “We&#8217;re moving into a world that is so controlling the assault on all our holidays, the assault on our origin, the assault on all the things which tend to bind us together.”
“We can look at history. We can also look at ancient stories in the Bible. Also different myths, you know, ancient stories that can help us understand how together we can survive the end of the world,” he continues. 
Pageau introduces “End of the World” as a series on “how we can recognize the signs of how a world is coming to an end, how a civilization is coming to its end.” 
“And so hopefully in the next few hours, I&#8217;ll be able to give people a little bit of a roadmap to understand what is happening around us today, to get a sense of why it is that most people on both sides of the aisle feel like things are unraveling,” he says. 
The “end of the world” doesn’t necessarily mean the fire-from-heaven apocalypse most people think of when they hear the ominous phrase, according to Pageau. Rather, it could mean the end of a civilization and a way of life. 
“Worlds are starting and ending all the time at different scales. People are born and die, you know, families start to fall apart,” Pageau says. “But now it feels like it&#8217;s bigger. The signs are showing us that what&#8217;s falling apart and what&#8217;s coming undone is much bigger than these little worlds. So we&#8217;re seeing the fight for even the narrative of the United States or the narrative of the West. It&#8217;s going to decide what the story is.” 
“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/end-of-the-world" target="_blank" rel="noopener">End of the World</a>” will release an episode every Wednesday beginning December 6 until the fourth and final episode on December 27. The series will stream exclusively on <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus-jordan-peterson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DailyWire+</a>.

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-kingdom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">British museum</a> has decided that an infamous Roman emperor was transgender, and will refer to him using female pronouns in the name of sensitivity.
The North Hertfordshire Museum told the Telegraph that going forward, it will refer to Elagabalus, who ruled the Roman empire from 218-222 AD, as a woman, based on the work of contemporary historian Cassius Dio, who said that Elagabalus was “termed wife, mistress and queen.”
 “Call me not Lord, for I am a Lady.” Elagabalus supposedly <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/cassius_dio/80*.html">told</a> a male lover.
“We know that Elagabalus identified as a woman and was explicit about which pronouns to use, which shows that pronouns are not a new thing,” <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/11/21/news/uk-museum-says-roman-emperor-was-a-trans-woman/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social">said</a> Keith Hoskins, executive member for Enterprise and Arts at North Herts Council. “We try to be sensitive to identifying pronouns for people in the past, as we are for people in the present.”
However, later historians have debated how seriously some of these descriptions should be taken. Rome was an unapologetically patriarchal society and lacked the modern conceptions of “gender” as something independent of biological sex. While some “gender fluid” characters existed in myth, such as Hermaphroditus, from whom we get the term “hermaphrodite,” and the blind prophet Tiresius, who was transformed into a woman for seven years as a divine punishment, after which he was transformed back into a man, such ambiguity wasn’t transferred over to flesh and blood people.
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Allegations of sexual impropriety or effeminate behavior were stock insults in the Roman political lexicon. Surviving histories of the era are often fragmentary and biased, with some unpopular emperors being exclusively remembered by the descriptions of their enemies.
&#8220;There are many examples in Roman literature of times where effeminate language and words were used as a way of criticising or weakening a political figure,” Dr Shushma Malik, a classics professor at Cambridge University, told the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67484645">BBC</a>. &#8220;References to Elagabalus wearing makeup, wigs and removing body hair may have been written in order to undermine the unpopular emperor.&#8221;
Elagabalus, who is widely considered to be one of the worst emperors Rome ever had, ascended to the throne at the age of 14 at the end of a bloody civil war, and was himself assassinated four years later to be replaced by his younger cousin, Alexander Severus. Aside from his reported sexual exploits (Dio tells us that he was “married” at various points to four women and one man and had many extramarital affairs), Elagabalus is also remembered for his promotion of the Syrian sun-god of the same name and his unpopular religious reforms, which were rescinded after his death.
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Cassius Dio lived through Elagabalus’ reign and was a close political ally of his replacement. While he is still respected as a valuable ancient source, Dio has often been regarded as less reliable than other Roman historians and his descriptions of the late Emperor were far from neutral.
“[Elagabulus] both married and was bestowed in marriage; for he appeared both as man and as woman, and in both relations conducted himself in the most licentious fashion,” Dio <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/cassius_dio/80*.html">wrote</a>.
In the same account, Dio repeatedly refers to Elagabalus as a pretender to the throne (“the False Antoninus”), and accuses him, among other things, of defiling a virgin priestess, dressing and acting like a female prostitute, planning to “cut off his [own] genitals” seeking out a primitive vaginoplasty, and says that “He ought to have been scourged in the Forum, thrown into prison, and then put to death.”
That being said, the <a href="https://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/kim-jonguns-vile-pleasure-squad-where-virgin-schoolgirls-are-selected-to-entertain-north-korean-rulers/news-story/62559264441661586a826f20865eca4e">well</a> documented <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2474533/The-terrible-truth-Gaddafis-harem.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sexual</a> behavior of some <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/ex-gambian-dictator-yahya-jammeh-handpicked-women-for-rape-2059736" target="_blank" rel="noopener">modern</a> dictators often mirrors ancient allegations of impropriety, which has led some historians to re-evaluate claims that had previously been dismissed as &#8220;fantastical.&#8221;
The claims made about Elagabalus in the historical record stand out as particularly extreme, even when compared to other Roman invective, which has led some historians to believe that he may have genuinely suffered from gender dysphoria, although others remain skeptical.

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Famed director Ridley Scott recently had some strong words for French critics who panned his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/history">historical biopic</a>, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">Napoleon</a>.”
The “Alien” director spoke frankly while reacting to negative reviews, including one that described the new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">film</a> as “deeply clumsy, unnatural and unintentionally funny.” One French critic, who also wrote a biography of Napoleon, said it was &#8220;very anti-French and very pro-British.&#8221; Some critics said the film was historically inaccurate. Scott discussed those claims in general during a recently published interview with <a href="https://go.skimresources.com/?id=38395X987171&amp;xs=1&amp;xcust=655b045ae4b05723e4bdc001&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2Farticle%2Fridley-scott-i-didnt-listen-to-historians-to-make-my-napoleon-epic-snq5f7x68">The Times</a>.
“Like all history, it’s been reported. Napoleon dies, then, 10 years later, someone writes a book. Then someone takes that book and writes another book and so, 400 years later there’s a lot of imagination [in history books],” Scott told the outlet.
“When I have issues with historians, I ask: ‘Excuse me, mate were you there? No? Well, shut the f*** up then,’” he added.
“Napoleon” will debut in theaters nationwide on Wednesday, just in time for Thanksgiving weekend. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon and Vanessa Kirby as Joséphine, his wife. 
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The description says the historical drama will take a look at “the military commander&#8217;s origins and his swift, ruthless climb to emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and often volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Joséphine.”
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Scott <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67419876">told</a> the BBC that it was a no-brainer to do a movie about Napoleon. &#8220;He&#8217;s so fascinating. Revered, hated, loved… more famous than any man or leader or politician in history. How could you not want to go there?&#8221; he said.
But the British director acknowledged that even though there was so much to explore, he kept the movie under three hours intentionally to avoid the &#8220;bum ache factor&#8221; of extra-long movies. 
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&#8220;When you start to go &#8216;oh my God&#8217; and then you say &#8216;Christ, we can&#8217;t eat for another hour&#8217;, it&#8217;s too long,&#8221; Scott said.

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Ridley Scott Responds To French Critics Slamming ‘Napoleon’: ‘Shut The F*** Up’

Ridley Scott Responds To French Critics Slamming 'Napoleon:' 'Shut The F*** Up'

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As “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">Oppenheimer</a>” exceeds expectations at the box office, the grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer revealed which scene in the movie he would have cut.
Christopher Nolan’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/history">historical drama</a> has gotten mostly rave reviews for its commitment to accurate storytelling. The film, starring Cillian Murphy, is based on the 2006 biography “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.” It details the life of Oppenheimer, also known as “father of the atomic bomb.”
Charles Oppenheimer told <a href="https://time.com/6297743/oppenheimer-grandson-movie-interview/">Time Magazine</a> the one thing he would have changed about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">movie</a> in an interview published Tuesday. While he understood “you have to dramatize a bit and parts that are changed” for film, Charles believes one scene featuring a poisoned apple shouldn’t have made the cut. 
“The part I like the least is this poison apple reference,” he said, noting that it is a historically inaccurate depiction of Oppenheimer trying to murder his teacher. 
“If you read ‘American Prometheus’ carefully enough, the authors say, ‘We don’t really know if it happened,&#8217;” he said. “There’s no record of him trying to kill somebody. That’s a really serious accusation and it’s historical revision. There’s not a single enemy or friend of Robert Oppenheimer who heard that during his life and considered it to be true.”
Charles said the biography implies the poisoning attempt may have happened, but the film is more assertive with this claim.
“Sometimes facts get dragged through a game of telephone,” he told the outlet. “In the movie, it’s treated vaguely and you don’t really know what’s going on unless you know this incredibly deep backstory. So it honestly didn’t bother me. It bothers me that it was in the biography with that emphasis, not a disclaimer of, this is an unsubstantiated rumor that we want to put in our book to make it interesting.”
Despite the caveat, Charles said he liked the film and thought it did a good job of telling his grandfather’s story.
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“As a dramatized representation of the history, it was really largely accurate,” he said. “There are parts that I disagree with, but not really because of Nolan.”
He recalled visiting the set twice during filming and that while he “definitely would have removed the apple thing,” he couldn’t imagine “giving advice about movie stuff to Nolan. He’s an expert, he’s the artist, and he’s a genius in this area.”

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Oppenheimer’s Grandson Reveals 1 Scene He ‘Definitely Would Have Removed’ From Christopher Nolan Film

J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Grandson Reveals 1 Scene He 'Definitely Would Have Removed' From Christopher Nolan Film

Reviews for Christopher Nolan’s historical drama “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">Oppenheimer</a>” have been incredibly positive so far, but some viewers couldn’t help but point out what they’re calling a historical discrepancy in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">film</a>.
The 3-hour movie details the life of nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called “father of the atomic bomb.” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">Set designers</a> took care to recreate the look and feel of the early 1940s, which is when most of the action takes place, but some observant viewers couldn’t help but notice one small error.
During one scene when Oppenheimer, played by Irish actor Cillian Murphy, stands in front of a cheering crowd, observers noticed that the American flags the people were waving have fifty stars like they do today. This appears to be an error because Hawaii and Alaska were not added as states until 1959.
A post from fan Andy Craig about the alleged mistake quickly went viral on social media. He said that while he appreciated the movie overall, it was hard to ignore this error.
“It was good and all, but I’ll be that guy and complain they used 50-star flags in a scene set in 1945,” the tweet said.
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Other fans were a little harsher with their criticism.
“Totally ruined the film for me,” one person <a href="https://twitter.com/PersimmonTI/status/1682899301381419008">chimed in</a>. 
Another person agreed, “That’s an amazing ‘catch.’ Now I’ll never ‘not’ see it.”
Another made a joke about the director’s nationality, placing the blame on Nolan being from the U.K. originally. “Yeah, but that’s not Nolan … so he had to have just missed it. He is ‘mostly’ British, after all,” that reviewer <a href="https://twitter.com/ShannonNutt/status/1683133508640727040">shared</a>.
Some fans came to Nolan’s defense, saying the addition of the fifty-star flag may have been intentional. They noted how the historically accurate flag is present in a different scene from the same time period.
“I can argue that this is done intentionally as the colored scenes were from Oppenheimer’s perspective, while the black and white scenes were from another. This would be a memory of Oppenheimer from his present-day memory which does have 50 states on the flag,” one person <a href="https://twitter.com/CtrldEntropy/status/1682982039916806144">insisted</a>.

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‘Oppenheimer’ Viewers Point Out Historical Mistake, Fans Speculate On Whether It Was Intentional

'Oppenheimer' Viewers Point Out Historical Mistake, Claim It 'Totally Ruined' The Film

A longtime trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has had nearly $70 million in looted artifacts seized in the past two years, though investigators haven’t suggested she, or her late husband, knowingly acquired them with that information. 
Shelby White, an 84-year-old emeritus trustee of the Met, has had 71 looted artifacts seized from her Manhattan apartment over the past two years. An additional 17 artifacts she loaned to the museum have also been seized under the suspicion of them being stolen, according to a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/arts/design/shelby-white-the-met-antiquities-investigation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The New York Times. 
“The Met has been very public in acknowledging that new information brought to light by law enforcement and others has precipitated our decision to devote additional resources to provenance research,” Met spokesman Ken Weine told the NYT. 
The investigation was being conducted by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit, which has reportedly seized 89 items in total from Shelby White’s collection. One of the looted items is a bronze statuette of Roman emperor Lucius Verus — one of the most expensive artifacts in the collection at $15 million — which belongs to Turkey, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/19/investigators-seize-69m-worth-of-stolen-artifacts-from-met-trustee/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the New York Post. 
Another item was a seventh-century Chinese funerary artifact that was still filled with dirt, a sign that it had previously been looted; it has since been returned to China. Additional artifacts include a mixing bowl and an amphora from the sixth century B.C., among many others. 
Matthew Bogdanos, head of the Antiquities Trafficking Unit, described White’s apartment as “literally a museum.” 
Despite many of White’s purchased artifacts being seized on suspicion of looting, it appears the Met is not trying to distance itself from the collector. White and her late husband, investor Leon Levy, had donated roughly $20 million to the organization. In 2007, after Levy passed away, the Met unveiled the Leon Levy and Shelby White Court, which the Times describes as the “centerpiece of the Met’s Greek and Roman galleries.” 
Additionally, White is a member of numerous committees at the museum, including buildings, finance, and even acquisitions. According to the Times, she was recently placed on a task force focusing on issues relating to cultural property and practices for collection. She served as a trustee for 33 years, but now as emeritus trustee does not have voting power, offering advice instead. 
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While investigators have not suggested White purposefully purchased the artifacts knowing they were stolen, some experts have expressed doubts. 
“There is no way that someone at her level of the market and her depth of collecting and her prominence at the Met, there is no way someone at that level did not know they should be asking for things like export licenses,” Colgate University director of museum studies Elizabeth Marlowe told the Times. 
Patty Gerstenblith, a professor at DePaul University, said, “Her collecting practices do not fit the model of how a museum should be pursuing knowledge and preserving the historical record.” 
However, White’s lawyer Peter A Chavkin says that any items in her collection deemed looted have been promptly and “voluntarily returned&#8221; to its &#8220;rightful place of origin.” He also says White and Levy purchased all the antiquities in “good faith” from “reputable” dealers. 
Additionally, the Met appears to have defended her from attacks, with Met director Max Hollein saying she is a “profoundly generous supporter” who has had an “enormous impact at this museum and many other institutions.&#8221;
Since the 1970s, White and Levy have purchased over 700 artifacts from around the world, and “dozens” are still included in the museum&#8217;s collection, according to the Times. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office says it has concluded the investigation into White’s collection, but that it will reexamine if new evidence comes forward.

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Actor Cillian Murphy admitted he went to unhealthy extremes while dieting for his titular role in the Christopher Nolan film &#8220;Oppenheimer.&#8221;
Murphy, who played the role of the physicist behind the race to develop the atomic bomb, said at one point he was actually <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/08/cillian-murphy-oppenheimer-christopher-nolan-florence-pugh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testing himself</a> to see how little he could eat and still function.
&#8220;You become competitive with yourself a little bit which is not healthy. I don’t advise it,&#8221; Murphy said, although he flat out refused to say which foods his nutritionist told him to cut out or how much weight he lost in total — mainly because he knew that would be the headline. &#8220;I don’t want it to be, &#8216;Cillian lost x weight for the part.'&#8221;
Murphy went on to explain that the pace at which Nolan filmed the project actually made it easier for him to skip meals without even realizing it.
&#8220;It’s like you’re on this f***ing train that’s just bombing. It’s bang, bang, bang, bang. You sleep for a few hours, get up, bang it again. I was running on crazy energy; I went over a threshold to where I was not worrying about food or anything,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I was so in it, a state of hyper … hyper something. But it was good because the character was like that. He never ate.&#8221;
In real life, Oppenheimer – who died of cancer in 1967 — smoked constantly, switching between cigarettes and his pipe while occasionally punctuating the two with a martini.
&#8220;Cigarettes and pipes. He would alternate between the two. That’s what did for him in the end. I’ve smoked so many fake cigarettes for &#8216;Peaky [Blinders]&#8217; and this,&#8221; Murphy lamented. &#8220;My next character will not be a smoker. They can’t be good for you. Even herbal cigarettes have health warnings now.&#8221;
Although Murphy admitted to extreme dieting, it may not have been quite as extreme as costar Emily Blunt made it out to be. &#8220;He could only eat, like, an almond every day. He was so emaciated,&#8221; she said.

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'I Don't Advise It': Cillian Murphy Admits To Extreme Diet For 'Oppenheimer' Role

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Nationally syndicated radio host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dana-loesch-rips-biden-the-stupidest-thing-ive-ever-heard-about-guns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dana Loesch</a> took time out on Saturday to offer a brief history lesson to Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-cuomo-brings-in-big-guns-to-defend-blinkens-alleged-lies-disgraced-fbi-agent-peter-strzok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Antony Blinken</a>, mocking him for comparing the American Revolution to the French Revolution.
Blinken had offered a statement Friday in honor of Bastille Day — the day that French revolutionaries stormed the Bastille prison in 1789.
&#8220;The War of Independence and the French Revolution were fueled by the same aspirations for freedom, democracy, and human rights. Today, we are more committed than ever to defending them — together. Warmest wishes on Bastille Day to the people of France,&#8221; Blinken wrote.
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The War of Independence and the French Revolution were fueled by the same aspirations for freedom, democracy, and human rights. Today, we are more committed than ever to defending them — together. Warmest wishes on Bastille Day to the people of France.
&mdash; Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1679860760145543169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Loesch was quick to respond, first simply wondering, &#8220;Are you historically illiterate?&#8221;
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Our revolution, founded in the protection of individualism and freedom *from* is opposite the French Revolution which pushed freedom *to* and socialist subjugation. Tocqueville noted that freedom was no longer the main pursuit of the revolutionaries. It was so unsuccessful it was…
&mdash; Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1680249433508704258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Our revolution, founded in the protection of individualism and freedom *from* is opposite the French Revolution which pushed freedom *to* and socialist subjugation,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;Tocqueville noted that freedom was no longer the main pursuit of the revolutionaries. It was so unsuccessful it was followed by a dictator then the restoration of the monarchy. What an embarrassing tweet from a member of our government.&#8221;
And Loesch was far from the only person to notice the historical inaccuracy of Blinken&#8217;s statement.
&#8220;Both nations had revolutions at nearly the same time, that is true. The American Revolution started in 1776 and the French Revolution in 1789. In France, just 4 years later, collectivist ideologues who claimed that their science was superior to God-given wisdom usurped control of the country and proceeded to wreck every civic institution and overturn every social norm,&#8221; another <a href="https://twitter.com/TheSarcasticist/status/1680158313986572288" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a>. &#8220;Political opponents were hunted down and destroyed, and the power of the State was unleashed against its citizens, viciously crushing all dissent. No question or doubt was tolerated. In the United States, it took until 2020 to get there.&#8221;
Pedro Gonzales added, &#8220;The French Revolution launched the Reign of Terror that killed tens of thousands of people, often in the most gruesome ways. Simon Schama wrote in &#8216;Citizens&#8217; that during the Vendéan massacre, &#8216;Every atrocity the time could imagine was meted out to the defenseless population. Women were routinely raped, children killed, both mutilated. . . . At Gonnord . . . two hundred old people, along with mothers and children, [were forced] to kneel in front of a large pit they had dug; they were then shot so as to tumble into their own grave. . . . Thirty children and two women were buried alive when earth was shoveled onto the pit.&#8217; But Blinken isn’t wrong to praise the French Revolution because, in a sense, modern liberals like him are its heirs.&#8221;
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The French Revolution launched the Reign of Terror that killed tens of thousands of people, often in the most gruesome ways. Simon Schama wrote in “Citizens” that during the Vendéan massacre, “Every atrocity the time could imagine was meted out to the defenseless population.… <a href="https://t.co/Q0xB8jvw7U">https://t.co/Q0xB8jvw7U</a>
&mdash; Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) <a href="https://twitter.com/emeriticus/status/1680075547525742592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Omri Ceren, national security adviser for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), pointed out, &#8220;It&#8217;s a small thing, but this is not the position of the State Dept. The State Dept. Office of the Historian notes that the Founders were so opposed to the French Revolution the Federalists legislated against it. This is what happens when you let children do social media.&#8221;
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It&#39;s a small thing, but this is not the position of the State Dept.
The State Dept. Office of the Historian notes that the Founders were so opposed to the French Revolution the Federalists legislated against it. 
This is what happens when you let children do social media. <a href="https://t.co/PaXL6IAFzQ">https://t.co/PaXL6IAFzQ</a>
&mdash; Omri Ceren (@omriceren) <a href="https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/1680195809785028612?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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