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10:14 in Berlin. An English-accented man in the platz below the hotel is screaming the top of his head right off about the traitors responsible for the assassination of JFK. Have to say, you rarely get that in SW Virginia. This is why we travel, I guess.

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I took my students to Sachsenhausen yesterday, and they were shattered. So was I. I’m very lucky to do what I do for a living.

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@50plusdoner.bsky.social I guess I’m out. Operation LMAO seems like it was fun for you, but it isn’t for me. Tschüss.

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Well, my club sucks now. They’ve never missed Europe before, and they’re going to lose players and nobody wants to coach them. Is this what it’s usually like? Because this is less fun.

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So this is bad.

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@nytimes.com spends way more time bemoaning the lack of resistance than covering it when it happens. This is the top of the front page; it feels very like nothing happened yesterday.

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@handsoff in Roanoke!

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

Leaked group chat messages, like this excerpt, provide a rare and revealing look at the Trump administration's private conversations on national security issues. See our full annotation of the messages here. nyti.ms/4l4uxui

submitted 64 days ago • 50 comments

Well, they lied. Obviously.

submitted 65 days ago • 2065 comments

I wrote about Supreme Court Briber Harlan Crow, his weird taste in totalitarian art, and how fascism seized control of a major Texas university. open.substack.com/pub/drmphill...

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If you're having a bad day, just remember that without security clearance, accidentally being invited to a group chat is the only way Poilievre is gonna learn Canada's national security secrets.

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Me realizing I’ve been added to the national security group chat:

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Is there any non-dickish use of the crying laughing emoji?

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I owed 100k despite paying for 15 years. It was forgiven under this program, and it changed my family’s life and future. So now, is my school going to have to be performatively cruel to our trans or immigrant kids, lest its employees suffer? We won’t, and we shouldn’t, and they will.

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My congressman, Ben Cline, has been dodging his constituents for a while, now. I guess I would, too, if I were him.

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How long until Fetterman switches parties?

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What or who is missing from this picture?

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From the NYT:

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