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Professor of Roman art & archeology, fan of ranked choice voting, Quaker, beekeeper, amateur baker, amateur photographer. No interest in supporting cowardice or greed; very interested in bravery and community spirit. No DMs unless I already know you.

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10 articles?!! I wasn't exaggerating. And you might think that football is more important than murder, but I don't.

25.01.2026 21:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why do I have to scroll past 10 articles about sports and weather on the (digital) front page of the Boston Globe before I get to "The federal government is executing citizens in the streets"?

25.01.2026 20:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I don't think we should be surprised that a woman who shot and killed her own dog has unleashed federal agents who are shooting and killing poets and nurses.

25.01.2026 19:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoplesโ€™ movement for land rights with an active membership ofย 250,000 landless poor and is r...

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights.

There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.

This is my favorite guide.

24.01.2026 19:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15459    ๐Ÿ” 6239    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 371    ๐Ÿ“Œ 224

I plan to tailor the ICE scripts by mentioning that I oppose federal agencies that deny people their constitutional due process rights; that break into the homes of citizens without judicial warrants; and that sanction extrajudicial murder.

24.01.2026 19:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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5 Calls - Wikipedia

Your reminder that the 5 calls app provides you with call scripts to make it easier to call your representatives and make your opinions heard on vital issues like, I dunno, abolishing ICE. You can tailor the scripts if you'd like, but you don't have to.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Calls

24.01.2026 19:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Now ICE agents are targeting police officers?! This is what happens when you have no significant requirements for recruiting.

22.01.2026 19:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Apparently Mark Carney has also been thinking about the Melian Dialogue.

22.01.2026 10:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I keep thinking about the Melian Dialogue, about the Athenians' stance just before they destroy the Melians: "The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." Thucydides is famous for not commenting on what he reports, but the fact remains that Athenians lost the Peloponnesian War.

21.01.2026 13:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.

And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

20.01.2026 14:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14775    ๐Ÿ” 5853    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 595    ๐Ÿ“Œ 381

Of course they did.

21.01.2026 01:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The last time that happened, the Civil War, we got land grant colleges. Maybe this time we can get universal health care.

20.01.2026 11:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If red states think it's a good idea to cancel the midterms, I invite them to sit them out. The rest of us plan to vote.

20.01.2026 11:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What a treat!

20.01.2026 09:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Also known as Instant Runoff Voting: 2nd choice=who you would vote for if your 1st choice is eliminated.

20.01.2026 09:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RCV cuts right through the Faustian bargain that virtually everyone else on this thread is trying to convince you to accept. You can vote FOR the candidate you like as your 1st choice and rank the Democrat as your 2nd choice.

20.01.2026 09:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Absolutely nothing, if you're using ranked choice voting.

20.01.2026 09:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Europe's Most Effective Response To Trump? Cancel US Patent Monopolies Donald Trump does not appear to be backing down from his obsession with seizing a big chunk of real estate in the form of Greenland. He now is set on whacking American consumers with another big tax hike in the form of $75 billion in tariffs on imports from the European countries most vigorously def...

Europe's Most Effective Response To Trump? Cancel US Patent Monopolies

flip.it/mayuFT

20.01.2026 09:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wasn't their oath to defend the Constitution? I guess whether or not they keep their oath depends on who benefits. Shameful.

18.01.2026 02:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Consider how long it took the MSM to use "lie" in connection with Trump, though he was documented as telling dozens of provable lies a day. And yet it was SO EASY to accuse Harris of lying when she was actually making a prediction. I wonder why such different treatment?

13.01.2026 04:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Texas A&M is banning Plato, citing his โ€œgender ideology.โ€ Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semesterโ€”but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossfโ€ฆ

Evidently, the MAGA censors who thought that promoting Greek and Roman culture was their best intellectual move have just discovered the Symposium. Wait until they find out about the Sacred Band.

lithub.com/texas-am-is-...

12.01.2026 19:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf AND Low Cut Connie? Trump-and-Kennedy Center, you are screwed.

30.12.2025 20:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Raise your hand if you're tired of everything they don't like being labeled "far left." Cry wolf much?

30.12.2025 20:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just a friendly reminder to surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library, theatre, bakery, bookstore, and cafรฉ.

15.12.2025 15:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 698    ๐Ÿ” 108    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

I'm looking on the bright side: When he's finally removed from office, de-Trumpifying federal agencies will be spectacularly easy.

08.12.2025 18:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trumpโ€™s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...

Of course they do.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

08.12.2025 18:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That lady is a) 100% right and b)delightfully fashionable.

08.12.2025 18:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We record them to provide the evidence needed for others to stop them.

04.12.2025 02:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I had to read most of this article before I understood that the author is advocating for AP exams in modern (not ancient) Greek.

30.11.2025 18:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"This is one of the fundamental guarantees established by the Geneva Conventions and their protocols. This guarantee is applicable not only to protected persons but to all individuals, no matter what their status, or to what category of persons they belong." -Mรฉdecins sans Frontiรจres

30.11.2025 10:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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