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For Q4 of Historathon, we're spending October-December reading about everything related to nonfiction history written in or about 1820 to the present day. Come join us to toss around ideas!

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I guess it never crossed Nora's mind to ask why the Court couldn't do to Obergefell what it did to Roe, which we thought was settled precedent for half a century - before it was overturned in Dobbs. And in which Barrett herself joined in the majority.

If gay marriage doesn't exist, why do we need to overturn Obergefell? Those marriages never even happened in the first place - right? I'm so confused.

Oh, what a tangled web is his weave! He is the only one deceived.

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Kafka slaying like the diva he was. #Booksky 💙📚

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YouTube video by John David (NicholasOfAutrecourt) Yale University Press Book Haul!

Anyone else pick up some @yalepress.bsky.social
books during their May sale?

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938-2025)

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No one is putting you down. I'm acknowledging the privilege you can't see to reconcile yourself with. And if, as you said above, you "don't care about other people's religion," maybe just refrain from commenting on it altogether since it clearly doesn't affect you.

Saying "It doesn't affect me because I'm not religious and don't go to church" is the HEIGHT of privilege.

I don't believe in God either. That doesn't stop me from seeing what Francis did: propping up an inherently misogynistic, homophobic institution.

Francis might not have been as bad as Benedict, but that's sort of like saying you're to the skinniest kid at fat camp. It's not much to brag about.

I have horrible news for you: he still judged. He spoke out against same-sex marriage as being something that the Church shouldn't sanction. Allowing for heterosexual marriage while not allowing for gay marriage robs people of rights and turns them into second-class citizens.

Madeleine Dean isn't a senator.

Well, disdain doesn't sound like the only form you're advocating for. What you said earlier makes it sound like you explicitly support guilt by association. Fortunately for you and everyone else, that's not how justice works.

"Guilt by association" certainly sounds like a very Stalinist model of justice. I hope you're never subjected to it yourself.

Assigning Hardy to teenagers feels like it's dooming them to see books as dusty, old, and unrelatable. I always had the same suspicions about other authors, too - including Shakespeare. Three chapters in. So far, so good!

Tess was the other option for tonight! I found them in International Collectors Library editions (with the faux gold gilt on the cover and spines) for a song and couldn't resist. Thanks, Hannah.

Tonight: Diving into Thomas Hardy's break-out success, "Far From the Madding Crowd". My first Hardy novel!

Are you a admirer? A hater? Let's spill some Victorian literary tea.

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In other words: "I'll troll Canada by talking about invading them to make them the 51st state, but I'm too much of a chickenshit to even mention it without the Canadian PM bringing it up first." I said it before and I'll say it again: all Republicans excel at is trolling. It's all bluster.

YouTube video by John David (NicholasOfAutrecourt) The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World by Selena Wisnom

My review of Dr. Selena Wisnom's (@lswisnom.bsky.social) wonderful cultural history of ancient Assyria, "The Library of Ancient Wisdom" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). A brilliant reconstruction of what we can learn from Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh!

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Oh, it's on like Donkey Kong!

And you'd be wrong.

I love that they took the time to do the calculation. Assuming 40 hour work weeks and working 48 weeks a year, you get about 47 years ... which is pretty close to how long most people work. Sorry for overanalyzing and killing the joke, but I thought it was neat that the math was mathing. 😂

It can't be simultaneously courageous for Bill for resign and also courageous for everyone else to stay. That's not the way courage works. Either the editorial integrity of the show has been compromised or it hasn't.

It looks a lot more like Oddjob.

YouTube video by John David (NicholasOfAutrecourt) Friday Reads | April 26, 2025

What are you reading this weekend?

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It's incredibly rich that the man who ran the institution that hoards vast quantities of fine art and money had the gall to speak out about wealth inequality and the perniciousness of capitalism.

A few pictures from my central Texas garden in late April:

How many million Aprils came
Before I ever knew
How white a cherry bough could be,
A bed of squills, how blue!

-Sara Teasdale, "Blue Squills"

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Correct. Did I ever claim that he was?

Did you even bother reading what I wrote? I said that it's clear that his IQ was NEVER in the 70s.