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Sorry for the redactions. This is what I was working on, today, but I kind of want it to be a bit of a surprise.
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For a wonder, the city fathers of [redacted] had coffee. And not just old instant coffee, preserved for three hundred years by magic or chance; this was fresh-ground, and freshly made. It would be an expensive extravagance in a port like Story and nigh-unobtainable in Port-land; here, they were pouring out cups for everyone in Aaron Spruce’s diplomatic delegation. Even the militia guards had gotten some.
Aaron raised an bushy eyebrow at one of the ‘militia;’ the human minutely shook her head in response. Which meant that if there was any inimical magic or poison in the stuff, the disguised mage couldn’t detect it. Not that there should have been [redacted] was voluntarily discussing joining up with what Aaron’s people were now calling the ‘Dwarvenwood’ but it never hurt to check. Things weren’t as bad as they
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are, you know, interacting in this way, human intelligence, signals intelligence intertwine, and they support each other. in foreign operations like the russians were doing in our country. that she said on the record that surprised me. i got to tell you honestly. because why? because this is usually very classified information. i know all kinds of things that i am not going to say to you right now about what russians have done in this country because it is usually classified and by the way, that s one of the biggest problems with getting americans to be more concerned about these things is we don t talk about them in the open. ambassador, i know things that i don t talk about to you, they re just not as important or classified as a lot of the things you don t tell us. what do you say to people are we just signed on to the idea that with hostile countries which we have relations with, which can be a good thing, people believe in diplomacy,
you know, donald trump makes this big point of saying he doesn t read books, he doesn t learn history. but he might find this interesting. in the 1840s was begun as you know, ari, something called the know nothing party. and their whole thing was anti-immigration. there were a lot of new immigrants, newcomers to america coming, in irish and germans, very catholic in the 1840s and 19 and 1850s. and this whole the party s idea was that these people are taking your jobs away, you old americans, and they are challenging the old white protestant supremacy and they make big efforts to get in their way. one thing they wanted from congress was to take 21 years for a newcomer to become a citizen. and this thing was so powerful that by 1856 the ex-president millard fillmore ran as the candidate of the know nothing party, third party candidate. he did better than any other third party presidential