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Peter Van Buren
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How to Survive Thanksgiving 2025 with Liberal Family
It all starts with a text: “Can’t wait to see everyone for Thanksgiving! This year, let’s keep it civil!” You remember last year, when someone “accidentally” sent your MAGA cap down the disposer. You know the text was not intended for your cousin who live streams her dietary needs (“I guess no one remembers — again […]
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“As one Iraqi said, “It is like I am standing naked in a room with a big hat on my head. Everyone comes in and helps put flowers and ribbons on my hat, but no one seems to notice that I am naked.”
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“Kinetic meant violent; a gunfight was kinetic, a tea party was nonkinetic.”
― We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People
― We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People
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“And then the struggle was on for the next seven monarchs: to balance bringing their people into the Industrial Age while preserving for them some sense of cultural identity; to maintain the sovereignty of their country while dealing with the greediest and most powerful empires in the world; to provide a modern economy and wealth for their people while becoming snared ever tighter in the grip of the American economic colossus. For all this to have taken place in the span of one human lifetime is a pageant of imperial triumph and human tragedy rare, if not unknown, elsewhere in history.”
― Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii
― Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii
