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This illegal national security group chat has everything, Houthi bombing plans, JD Vance xenophobia, improper emoji use, the editor of the Atlantic Magazine thinking he got punked, Pete Hegseth day drinking, and MTV’s Dan Cortese.

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Happy bday Werner? NOT

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@eamusursuli.bsky.social Meanwhile in civil engineering 🤣😉

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Beyond despicable

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History just keeps rhyming

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Adolf Hitler and Ferdinand Porsche History just keeps rhyming

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Here’s a cheat sheet with all the phone numbers for the US Senate. I have a feeling we’ll be calling them a lot in the near future.

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The #Cryptocurrency scam. Is it any wonder the tangerine terror wants to move to crypto?

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No one ever said they were creative.

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"There are times, however ... when even being right feels wrong ... there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die. " Hunter S Thompson, Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's

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⚡️Russia, China, Iran to hold joint naval drills in Gulf of Oman. The exercises are aimed at deepening "the mutual trust and pragmatic cooperation between the participating countries' armies," the Chinese Defense Ministry said.

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Facts

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40 BOOKS IN ROMAN HISTORY WRITTEN BY WOMEN A killer reading list of great books (and personal favorites!) in Roman History to celebrate #InternationalWomen'sDay 2025. Limited to English (to keep it manageable!) and listed in order of publication. Let's go!

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Thank you! And yes. You’re right… the show is on YouTube as well! Here’s the link: youtube.com/@jimacosta?s...

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‘TB predominantly affects the poor in the Global South. As Paul Farmer wrote in “Infections and Inequalities”, “the ‘forgotten plague’ was forgotten in large part because it ceased to bother the wealthy.”’ Sophie Cousins on USAID, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

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Relatable

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I love how flippant the Space-X staff are about blowing up a rough billion dollars of government money. I'm beginning to think that perhaps government efficiency isn't musks actual goal

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All you need to know to understand why in a nutshell

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He skis like shit.

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"What can I do?" That is the number 1 question I get asked. And at this time in our democracy -- or what remains of it when public servants put their loyalty to a person above their oaths of office— I am grateful that people are asking that question. Below is a video with my answer:

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@eamusursuli.bsky.social

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In these turbulent times remember this prescient Harvard Prof "Critics say that America is a lie because its reality falls so short of its ideals. They are wrong. America is not a lie; it is a disappointment. But it can be a disappointment only because it is also a hope.” - Samuel P. Huntington

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Justinian I who died in Constantinople on 14 November 565 was the last Byzantine emperor to be a native speaker of Latin.

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"Does the practice of literary quotation depend on a stable set of common references? Or does it function as a kind of substitute for a shared body of knowledge that may never have existed at all?" A O Scott, NYT 4/28/24

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As Damascus falls to the rebel forces, it’s Assad day for Putin.

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"Having a worse regret betrays your belief that one misstep caused all your undeserved misfortune." -Sarah Manguso 300 Arguments

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“It’s not ‘natural’ to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little—have few verbal means. Eloquence—thinking in words—is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality.” — Susan Sontag

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substack.com/@brittlestar...

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For Patrons today I am doing a cheeky bit of historiography dissecting Montague Summers' 1948 intro to the Malleus. There's a lot to say about belief and how just because someone thought there was a vast international witch conspiracy that doesn't make it true. www.patreon.com/posts/malleu...

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At the British Museum, a snail, presumed dead when collected from Egypt was glued to a specimen card in 1846. In 1850, zoologist William Baird realised it was still alive. Placed in water, it revived becoming a minor celebrity until it died in 1852. Be like Eremina desertorum Never give up.

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