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Host of the michael steel podcast. and thomas zimmer, contributor to "the guardian." thank you for being here. i told you before we came on and ill say it again on tvp that your twitter feed is sort of a lifeline for me so i know im not crazy when i talk about the fact, and i have been talking about this for quite a few years, that fascism is coming back, right, that its here in america and its real. i just laid through and went through a whole series of things from trump threatening violence ag...

Even drag balls. get this. there is one of my favorite characters is william dorsey swy. he started holding drag balls in washington, d.c. as early as the 1880s. and im sure the sisters in the church were not crazy about this brother. but the point is that he did it. even his drag balls were reviewed. this is one review from 1887. ive got to read this. it says they all wore corsets, long hose, slippers and everything that goes to make a females dress complete. and he had these drag balls every y...

Her facebook masses after that live by trump. take a listen. >> i went to that i calm and, it was just a lot of horrible things there. >> those horrible things, the day include threats? >> yes. a lot of threats. wishing death upon me. tell me that ill be in jail with my mother and saying things like be glad its 2020 and not 1920. >> its unbelievably disgusting. her testimony, and the -- added ripple effects. but its in the fact she might not expect to have occurred. the associated press spoke wi...

Essentially, kakira is a town within itself, and everyone who works for the madhvani family lives in kakira. my grandfather arrived in uganda some time in the late 1920s. he lived and worked here. dont say hi to the camera. hi! hi, camera! the madhvani family leftjust before the expulsion as tensions started to brew. but like many ugandan asians, they were invited back by the government in �*80s to help rebuild the economy. were actually very, very happy that you got your — madhvanis factori...

Lights." it was not about football, its about sports and football as a sociological phenomenon. i tried to dot same here. these guys were great football players but this is really a book about war. its a book about taking these men from their early days in the 1920s as children, high school, college, into the marines and ultimately into the horror of okinawa, a battle that i think is forgotten. i think the readers will connect with these guys. i hope they love these guys. and the narrative pull ...

States. how much should this sentiment factor into republicans decision making going forward? >> well, first, there is the legal question. the biden administration has not taken the bait in effect. they have not gone into court to stop this. but desantis is facing a criminal investigation in texas and also a class action lawsuit from civil rights groups representing some of the migrants who were shipped and are both seeking damages and to enjoin him from doing this any further. in the republican...

Since the early 1920s and the trust that looks after it is making sure it looks its best before its big birthday — as tim allman explains. in this city of all cities, the occasional face—lift is practically mandatory. they repaint the hollywood sign every ten years or so, but, this time, its a little bit different. a very special day is on the horizon — the signs centenary — and that requires some very special effort. people dont realise that, you know, when youre standing at the sign, e...

Are in northampton county. you pulled up the county itself. in 2020 joe biden won by 2,000 votes. why is john in northampton county? hopefully i am stealing all of his material right now. flip back to 2016. donald trump won it by 5,000 votes. back to 2012, barack obama won it by 6,000 votes. 2008 barack obama won it by just under 20,000 votes. it certainly demonstrates how the state of pennsylvania has shifted in several levels but also has gone back and forth. what are you seeing on the ground ...

Founder of celebrity. most historians that talk about celebrity culture go back to louis the 14th. and the royal family of course, its part of that celebrity culture. the first visit by a brit, its not, well and with the seventh, was by prince of wellstone 1860, and he was mobbed wherever he went. he was the most eligible bachelor in the world of course. and edward the eighth as print of was in a 1920s, they seem to put up a special relationship. america has this cult of celebrity. and members o...

>> it was horrible for the queen. her mother and her sister, the two closest women to her, two people she could really talk to, were gone. >> for the queen it wasnt just the loss of her mother, which was deeply important to her. the loss of an adviser and a counselor. but it was the loss of a contact with the past. >> the queen mother embodied much of the history of early 20th century britain, whod married into the famil y in the 1920s, whod been there through the abdication, through the