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"The humanities may be as necessary, or as dangerous, as any other set of disciplines. They do, however, offer at least a means and a store of evidence for diagnosing our present discontents." @kfullagar.bsky.social, Vice-President of the ‪@austhistassoc.bsky.social‬.

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Two days off X/Twitter and I’M LOVING IT, JERRY!

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This. Especially Senate Republicans.

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Borrowing a quotation attributed to a usurper. We are all the Duc d’Enghien.

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Correct. This is a President of the United States declaring himself a dictator. And instead of Americans understanding that we’re now under imminent threat of martial law and tyranny, we’ll get a month of think pieces about what the President of the United States meant by his UNAMBIGUOUS statement.

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Bye X. Nice to know you.

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“You can also commit injustice by doing nothing," as someone famous once said.

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February 4, 2025:

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I didn't realize @thetraecrowder.bsky.social was on Bluesky:

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I’m having such a bad morning that I went to Starbucks so I could pay for the guy behind me. Only an act of kindness is going to turn this day around. That, at least, is the hope.

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Trump’s Gaza plan is ethnic cleansing, plain and simple

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All D senators — except Fetterman — sponsor resolution condemning pardons for those who assault led Capitol Police on Jan. 6.

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Tomorrow we celebrate Black Americans: MLK Malcolm X Travon Martin Breonna Taylor Eric Garner Tamir Rice Kendrick Johnson George Floyd Emmett Till Korryn Gaines Laquan McDonald Freddy Gray Michael Brown Ahmaud Arbery Booker T Washington W. E. B. Du Bois Ta’Kiya Young Thurgood Marshall Not Trump

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www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/10/b... Found searching the keyword “bloat.”

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I decided to assign Eric Hoffer’s True Believer in one of my classes this spring. No particular reason….

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Nor am I.

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It’s a power the president shouldn’t have in the first place.

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C'est la France, c'est l'Église!

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I want to wish a particularly Happy Thanksgiving to those whose memories extend all the way back to pre-Election Day You can learn a lot about our new POTUS just by looking at, I dunno, everything he's ever done and remembering that he's a career criminal, rapist, con man, sexual predator and stuff

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Carville Unbound: "If I were running a 2028 campaign and I had some little snot-nosed 23 year old saying, I’m going to resign if you do this, not only would I fire that motherfucker on the spot, I would find out who hired him and fire that person on the spot!" www.mediaite.com/politics/jam...

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