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Bill Westermeyer

@westwil.bsky.social

anthropology prof., naturalist, fellow traveler, gentleman farmer, misplaced southern Californian Author of Back to America: political culture, identity, and the Tea Party Movement (Nebraska Press 2019).

34 Followers  |  67 Following  |  10 Posts  |  Joined: 02.02.2025  |  1.799

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Sir, you're almost 80. Why is this a tough decision? Go fishing; enjoy some retirement. Many people are willing and able to do your job.

21.08.2025 22:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Better reopen Whitewater just to be sure, Pam.

21.07.2025 23:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Aiken, SC #nokings

15.06.2025 11:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Video shows masked agents detain Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts University, was detained March 25 by Department of Homeland Security agents in masks and plainclothes.
27.03.2025 11:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Every Democratic officeholder should be in campaign mode like you are. Not governing mode. They have to get out there getting earned media like their seat depended on it.

22.02.2025 20:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Curlew, the Cactus, and the Obliterated Whitefish: The Species We Lost in 2024 โ€ข The Revelator Scientists also declared several other extinctions, including the first documented plant extinction in New Hampshire.

therevelator.org/extinct-2024/

16.02.2025 23:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | To Obey Trump or Not to Obey The voluntarily surrender of the publicโ€™s power is how autocracies are built.

Those who anticipate the demands of a repressive government and submit to these demands before they are made, Snyder wrote, are โ€œteaching power what it can do.โ€
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...

09.02.2025 13:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It was always obvious that the right-wing moral panic around universities had nothing to do with "free speech". It was about delegitimising critical & dissenting intellectual activity, with a view to suppressing it altogether. Far too many liberals were taken in by this transparent, reactionary scam

04.02.2025 10:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 721    ๐Ÿ” 260    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

There is so much you can do to slow down the creep.

03.02.2025 19:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 716    ๐Ÿ” 227    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17
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Voice of the resistance. We're screwed.

03.02.2025 00:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | The Lost Tradition That Explains Trumpโ€™s Obsession With the Panama Canal Inside the lost tradition in American foregin policy that explains the presidentโ€™s overseas obsessions.
02.02.2025 14:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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