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rjhoule.bsky.social
History professor, disc golfer and board-gamer who believes the echoes of the past weave through the present. It’s our job to understand them, in all their brilliance and awfulness.
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Access journalism is truly a big part of corruption in politics

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

First they came for the air traffic controllers and I said nothing, then they came for the Park Rangers, epidemiologists, teachers and librarians and I realized we were now just as in dumb as they wanted us to be. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/....

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

@lv4allorg.bsky.social Residents of Lehigh Valley who want to reach out to Ryan Mackenzie and express concern about Musk tearing down the Dept of Education can try the website below.I tried the office number and got nowhere, but the #s below are more active. mackenzie.house.gov/media/press-...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I almost feel bad for my students who are about to read Hett’s excellent “Death of Democracy.” It’s just too on point these days to stomach…

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Played Nations Dice game this morning solo. Regular Nations is, admittedly, one of my favorite of all time and this version is just a great little take off on it that lasts about an hour.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Ok boardgamers, I need assistance! Next semester I’m teaching world geography for the first time and want to match concepts with boardgames. So monopolies with Pan Am, farming with Atiwa, political geography with Votes for Women, and Pandemic, of course. Other suggestions?!?

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

I need help folks, it’s my turn to recommend a movie for family movie night and I’m thinking about “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” - but I’ve got a teen son who doesn’t like “mean” humor - is it too mean for the soulful payoff I remember?

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Much to my foodie family’s horror, I shall once again be making green bean casserole not from scratch, but with the 5 ingredients Campbell Soup recommends!

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Currently rereading Jonny Steinberg’s “Midlands” for class and am reminded of what a brilliant writer he is. The story remains deeply relevant even a quarter-century on!

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Currently grading papers connected to ANC resistance efforts and *gasps in historian* I am trying hard not to veer into anachronism as parallels with the current moment keep messing with my focus.

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

Saint Firmin is feeling on point today.

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Got knocked down, but I’ll get up again!

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, this is how democracies die. Citizens, animated by a relentless propaganda machine telling them to be afraid of people who are not them and the terror of slightly higher milk prices, voted for the autocrat. Somewhere, Hannah Arendt is wagging her finger at us…

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Im speaking it into existence - Harris takes 5 of 7 swing states and one surprise defection, be it Iowa or, please sweet baby Jesus, Texas.

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Currently waiting in line with my 18 year old son to vote early in PA. It’s an hour wait and I had to listen to an old guy go on an anti-immigrant tirade, but happy to do my part in saving our democracy! #KamalaHarris

submitted 121 days ago • 1 comment