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History teacher in Philadelphia. APUSH, AP Govt, AP Euro. Dogfather. Irish dance dad. STL Cards, Blues, and STLCity fan. Army vet (Gulf War). Notre Dame alum. Gen X. "It’s a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought with speaking the truth.”
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At a bar in Lancaster and they have Det vs Pitts on the TV and the Pirates are such a bad team

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Whenever Team Trump says they’ll do something in two weeks that’s a sure sign it’s bs thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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When I was a teenager I found this to be the funniest comic strip in existence. No one agreed. Has its time finally come www.flickr.com/photos/eknat...

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www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view... @carlhendrick.substack.com @thebandb.bsky.social I'm not 100% sure I agree with everything here, but this is still pretty good...

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1/Hannah Arendt QOTD from Tradition and the Modern Age: "A random remark which Plato made in his last work: "The beginning is like a god which as long as it dwells among men saves all things" is true of our tradition; as long as its beginning was alive, it could save all things and bring them

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‘Il faut en finir’ was the only popular slogan, but it carried real conviction. It was the grumbling of an utterly exasperated person rather than a program for which to die. To fight a war only for the purpose of ending the danger of war is an absurdity…” A. Koestler, The Scum of the Earth (1941)

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Lancaster Central Market—claims to be the oldest continuously used farmers market in the US. In operation since the 1730s

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#Reacher fans--they're filming Season 4 in Philly right now... Gift link: share.inquirer.com/KutYV6

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1/Hannah Arendt QOTD from Tradition and the Modern Age: "Political philosophy necessarily implies the attitude of the philosopher toward politics; its tradition began with the philosopher's turning away from politics and then returning in order to impose his standards on human affairs.

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Goodnight... youtu.be/4VgLkk_drx4?...

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If any president from Truman to Biden---except Trump--had said "evacuate city X" in some public forum, the whole world would assume we were going to attack that city. Shock and awe stuff. With Trump, so one knows because he's such a dumbass. @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social

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1/Hannah Arendt QOTD from Tradition and the Modern Age: "OUR tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx. The beginning was made when,

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1/Hannah Arendt QOTD from the Gap Between Past and Future: "Kafka mentions the experience, the fighting experience gained by "him" who stands his ground between the clashing waves of past and future. This experience is an experience in thinking since, as we saw,

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Now THERE'S a curse---this dude's bones are still washing up on NJ beaches 180 years after his ship sank...gift link: share.inquirer.com/IyKIoq

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Maybe the troops pulled one over on Trump today with that awful marching... Willie and Joe would have...

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I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

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