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Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

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From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

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Here’s the thing. There are over 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the USA. Many of us have been tracking the right-wing capture of law enforcement for years and years. We’ve been talking about it. It’s well known.

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Having done absolutely nothing to engage in loud, public collective action that might have shifted the political Narrative & made ongoing resistance possible (bsky.app/profile/mcop...), university presidents now still find themselves left listening only to their lawyers & capitulating. Even Harvard.

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there was a concerted elite effort over the past five years to make America as bigoted as possible, conducted so openly that Chris Rufo was simultaneously tweeting "i am going to be lying about this subject" and being quoted on the precise subject he declared that he was lying about in the NYT

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Only thing I can say for Cuomo is he gave us this, which I find reason to use approximately 4-6 times per year

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personally i think it’s cool that someone is willing to do something

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I don’t think it’s possible to understand the Biden administration and Trump round 2 without recognizing that there was a growing fifth column of bosses — and journalists sympathetic to bosses — determined to ensure that the social movements of 2020-2023 could never, ever happen again

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A great Friday read. 🗃️ #Pride #TransHistory

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this is very good

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Now what. ✊🌹

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An important piece by @vermontgmg.bsky.social

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For those interested in the Chevalier D'eon or James Allen, please see this blog from our Archives and Manuscripts team, 'What the John Johnson Collection Tells us About Gender in Early Modern Britain': blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandm... #Pride #TransgenderHistory #TransHistory.

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respect the Glare™️

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well then this youtu.be/6qlUFKFHNIU?...

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There will come a point where someone will shoot government thugs who refuse to identify themselves and the trial afterwards--likely a wrongful death trial brought by family, sadly--will be... interesting. The way ICE is behaving is indistinguishable from a cartel from a bad Sicario knockoff.

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I wrote about the alleged Minnesota shooter, his education and his preaching, and how, as scholar and expert on independent charismatic Christians @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social shared with me, Boelter is one of a common type.

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Swastika Girls: Atonal music and ambient dissonance from another era. youtu.be/ik-abc79g38?...

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the college board is an ed tech company

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It me, on yesterday’s episode of @twit.tv’s Intelligent Machines, talking AI and higher ed, history of writing and word processing, and textpocalyptic visions of the future/present. Had a great time! Also, apparently I’m fond of “air quotes.”

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#Juneteenth is a day of paradox for me, a historian of slavery at Georgetown University, since June 19 is also the anniversary of the infamous 1838 sale of the Maryland Jesuit enslaved community, known today as the GU272(+). May they be remembered. slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/items/show/1

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May 🔝 reads! Links👇 1/J. Chow’s rev. of @manionjen.bsky.social's Female Husbands: A Trans History 2/K. Hansen’s “Dress as Deceptive Visual Rhetoric in Haywood’s Fantomina” 3/S. Buckner’s rev. of A History of African American Autobiography, ed. by Joycelyn Moody #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC

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HAPPY JUNETEENTH MY BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE ❤️🖤💚

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It has long been stunning how the media and DC have continued to elevate people who were wrong on Iraq. Now those same voices are doing this. Lather, Rinse, Repeat - except instead of shampooing were getting many thousands of deaths and trillions of wasted dollars

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AOC played ball and did everything Pelosi told her and was rewarded by being passed over for a 75-year-old who died four months later. There have now been four House votes this year where Dems lost by the margin of members who died in office. No one has more right to say this than her

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Provenance: Elizabeth Rose, Baroness of Kilravock "possibly the best documented 18thC Scottish woman reader", and acquaintance of Robert Burns #books #antiquarian #Bluestockings #18thcentury #provenance #manners #society #RobertBurns #herbook #bookauction bit.ly/4kWiWwT

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Donald Trump’s fascism couldn’t exist today if we weren’t a country where George W. Bush could just disappear into cozy, pleasant retirement, make a few public appearances a year, & enjoy 52% approval, as if eight years of lies, crimes, constitutional violations, & policy negligence never happened.

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Brutal.

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Anyway given it's finally been communicated to me through official channels: My team and I won the Premio internazionale Flaiano di italianistica "Luca Attanasio" for translating the monograph pictured below into English

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well this is not good www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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we're sleepwalking through damage that will stretch decades into the future, presided over by a clique of scheming degenerates and an aging wannabe dictator

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Thoughts and prayers

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This is a nice, simple lesson plan for helping first-year undergrads think about the effects of knowledge organization. I liked the linked video, too. projectcora.org/assignment/t...

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Read this by Nicholas Lezard. It’s very funny.

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The general consensus forming around this very correct sentiment is that students' use of AI is encouraged by the transactional nature of higher ed. The systemic issue is that college educators, for the most part, aren't the ones who have made education transactional. So how can we fix this system?

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Dearest humanities friends, I’m sending up the humanities bat signal. Heard a NEH colleague that orgs aren’t submitting requests for close out costs on terminated awards—which they are entitled to!! Here’s what to do: 1/

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A book is like it's own kind of mystery box, except the prize is just figuring out which part is actually a thinly veiled piece of the author's personal trauma or kink

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It's unclear to me why the US Congressmen are not escorted by big armed cops to push through obstacles to them exercising their legal rights, and instead everyone now defers to the guys with no uniforms or badges or name tags to determine what is and is not legal?

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Anyone with an interest in #18thC literature, politics, life-writing, women’s lives, networks up for reviewing this? bit.ly/HayleyGeeCrosby Lemme know if so! And I’m grateful for all RPs. Thank you! #18thcentury #18thCenturyStudies #C18th #lifewriting #WomenInHistory #WomensHistory #biography

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Understand who has taken over the US government. And understand that they're laughing at you for not understanding.

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We have included Gray's sketch on the Bay of Gaeta in the #ThomasGrayArchive Latin poems: www.thomasgray.org/texts/poems/... Written on an excursion from Rome to Naples in 1740, while on the Grand Tour, the poem is among Gray's MS notes on the journey, at @jhulibraries.bsky.social. #Latin #c18th

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i think i called not doing court packing in 2021 "baffling folly" at the time, and yup.

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