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JD Vance says he's "a Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart," but Irish people won't claim him. According to Defector, The Times of London uncovered private emails from Northern Irish government officials "admitting the fact-checking expedition they'd commissioned into Vance's ethnic identity had 'run into the proverbial brick wall' trying to prove the veep's actual ethnicity was as he'd said." Here's more.
Only a few years ago, JD Vance was boasting about his immigrant roots. âTo understand me, you must understand that I am a Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart,â Vance wrote in Hillbilly Elegy, the 2016 book that launched him into the public consciousness. Given that he leveraged the success of that bestseller and the movie it [âŚ]
Definition of "trump" to devise deceitfully or dishonestly, as an accusation; fabricate.
"Try as they might, they were unable to trump up a convincing case against him." https://www.dictionary.com/browse/trump
#Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: âWe found too many slavesâ. When the extent of the universityâs involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired
"Firings, resignations and attempts to âdilute and delayâ research"
#slavery #history #genealogy
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/21/harvard-slavery-decendants-of-the-enslaved
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George Washington Morrison Nutt (aka Commodore Nutt)
Born 1 Apr 1848 in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
Died 25 May 1881 at age 33 in New York, New York, USA