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Emeritus Professor, U. Oklahoma, books/articles/chapters on Hans Mogenthau, JQ Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Machiavelli, Reinhold Niebuhr, George Kennan, Eric Voegelin Interests: Political Biographies, Victorian Leaders.
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200 million dollars of waste.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1221 comments

I don't think the Dems can stop the firings. But why aren't they proposing legislation that assures those that took the buyout get paid , and that all that are fired, get at least a year severance and health benefits? And any one with a health condition is covered the entire time they are sick?

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DAVID BOREN 1941-2025 www.oudaily.com/obituaries/o...

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Balmy 9 degree morning in conversation with roundtable as to whether PM Clement Attlee bore some physical resemblance (as Orwell apparently thought) to V. Lenin, plus a bit of here and there on the Red Flag.

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Bully Pulpit (January 30, 2025) open.substack.com/pub/richardh...

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Weekend At The BBC

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www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... From Charlemagne and the Sopranos, to Trump and I, Claudius—all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius New edition of Lives of the Caesars, ed. Tom Holland, out 4/29/25

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Excellent Guardian piece on Right’s WAR ON WOKE and their well-tested playbook against Academics

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Is US unilateral withdrawal from NATO by presidential fiat even workable given provisions of Defense Authorization Act versus the so-called “quiet-quitting” option?

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

The news is grim and unsettling, an attack on American democracy and citizens, in many insidious ways, though the moral courage of resistance can begin with one person in the public square in different ways. Doubt not yourself.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Stay loud. And when tired, rest and resume complaining. There are more of us than there are of them.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

What you see now is a suit and tie version of January 6th -Lawrence O’Donnell We are once again under attack

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"DOGE has no authority": Attorneys general plan to sue to block Musk's data access: Representatives of more than a dozen states said they hope to DOGE's "unacceptable" federal rampage

submitted 16 days ago • 43 comments

They’re not wrong.

submitted 16 days ago • 154 comments

NEW: A Houston man and Jan. 6 defendant has been arrested for a child sex crime -- two weeks after he was pardoned by Trump and released from a six-year prison stint for assaulting police with bear spray and a metal whip.

submitted 16 days ago • 128 comments

“We are witnessing one of the worst and most costly foreign policy blunders in U.S. history.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 20 days ago • 821 comments

It seems the High Censor and Chief Expurgator at the LA Times has not slowed as the tablet keeper of history.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The one and only item on my 2025 Wish List!

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: The Defense Department’s intelligence agency has paused observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pride Month, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and more in response to President Donald Trump’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal workplace.

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

Democrats EVERYWHERE need to start spreading this message: Trump & Republicans stopped Medicaid. Trump & Republicans are denying Americans healthcare and basic services.

submitted 25 days ago • 14 comments

While we may face repercussions for this, the truth lies in the metadata. Memos to federal employees are being authored by individuals with ties to Project 2025. You can verify this yourself.

submitted 25 days ago • 261 comments

@meidastouch.com Much appreciate your outstanding public service on behalf of democracy and against the autocrats and corruptionists. Stay on ‘em, as Dan Rather often said, like “raven on roadkill,”

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Secretary of State Dean Acheson at work on his Harewood Farm (7/11/49) Credit: Harris and Ewing Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

wow

submitted 29 days ago • 1945 comments

Trump: We're looking at the whole concept of FEMA....I'd like to see the states take care of disasters, let the state take care of the tornadoes and the hurricanes and all of the other things that happen.

submitted 29 days ago • 1064 comments

Education in Oklahoma from the state’s comandante redrawing the map of the Western Hemisphere and perhaps beyond: www.koco.com/article/ryan...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

If there is to be a film about Jack Smith, Noah Wylie might be close on resemblance.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Get ready. Trump is going to fire most of the VA workforce, 70% of which are Veterans, then to "fix" the problems he created, he's going to privatize the VA and send our veterans to expensive, shitty corporate health mills after he slashes health benefits so he and his buddies can get richer.

submitted 31 days ago • 586 comments