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Thomas Crofts
@hypermetrix.bsky.social
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professor (medieval lit and classics), drummer (punk). east tennessee. hometown: san antonio, tx.

poemz at commoncrofts (https://commoncrofts.blogspot.com/)

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Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · Jan 26
Nicanor Parra:

basta de profecías apocalípticas
ya sabemos QUEL MUNDO SE ACABÓ

Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Thomas Crofts

50501movement.bsky.social
50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 28d
Mike Johnson really doesn’t want you to go to the largest peaceful protest in American history: NoKings.org
NO KINGS For the love of America OCTOBER 18 www.NoKings.org Picture of Statue of Liberty with American flag in the background

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Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · Oct 12
Tommy Smothers at 0:38. But also the song.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjAO...
Buffalo Springfield 1967 live - For What It's Worth (Smothers Brothers) Stereo Mixed
YouTube video by Kelly's Classics
www.youtube.com

Reposted by Timothy Snyder, Anna O. Law, Joe R. Feagin , and 8 more

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Oct 10
George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Oct 10
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

hypermetrix.bsky.social
Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · Oct 5
I repeat, their souls are in hell.
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Oct 5
“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

Reposted by Nandita Sharma, John McLaren, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 9 more

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Oct 5
“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

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Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · Oct 4
Their souls are in hell.
malena.bsky.social Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · Oct 4
Four U.S. citizen children were detained in an ICE raid—zip-tied, separated, held for hours.

Imagine if these were your precious little ones! Can you close your eyes to this depravity? Please don't.

Remember

If this could happen to these little kids, it can happen to yours.

Speak out now!

Reposted by Robbert Sanderman, Patrick A. Jansen, Michelle Everson , and 1 more

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The Dangerous Ones @thedangerousones.com · Oct 4
This.
Is.
Brilliant.

Reposted by Thomas Crofts, Gerald Friedman

malena.bsky.social
Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · Oct 4
Four U.S. citizen children were detained in an ICE raid—zip-tied, separated, held for hours.

Imagine if these were your precious little ones! Can you close your eyes to this depravity? Please don't.

Remember

If this could happen to these little kids, it can happen to yours.

Speak out now!

Reposted by Patrick A. Jansen, Bryan D. Jones, Philip Nel , and 4 more

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Oct 4
Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

This is not a drill: Chicago

Reposted by Thomas Crofts

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · Oct 1
A Medieval Cat’s Paw Print: How a Mischievous Feline Made its Mark on History www.medievalists.net/2024/10/medi... #Cats
A Medieval Cat's Paw Print: How a Mischievous Feline Made its Mark on History - Medievalists.net
Imagine stumbling upon a centuries-old manuscript and discovering an unexpected visitor had left its mark – a cat’s paw, immortalised in ink. This quirky image, a medieval equivalent of your cat…
www.medievalists.net

Reposted by Thomas Crofts

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Sep 22
What “fascism” means

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DO6EvDz...

Reposted by Thomas Crofts, Beatriz Gallardo Paúls

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Armin Philipp 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 @arminphilipp.bsky.social · Sep 15
Pastor Howard-John Wesley on Charlie Kirks death!
All said!

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Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · Sep 11
Are not his bills hung up as monuments
whereby whole cities have escaped the plague
and thousand desperate maladies been eased?

Reposted by Steve Peers, Thomas Crofts

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · Sep 10
Charlie Kirk in 2023: "It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment."

He was wrong. No child, no moviegoer and no conservative commentator should have to die to maintain this perverted notion of the 2nd Amendment.
Newsweek Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths 'Unfortunately' Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment PUBLISHED APR 06, 2023 AT 05:39 PM EDT UPDATED APR 07, 2023 AT 08:44 AM EDT

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Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · Sep 10
Euge! Of course you'd already be fired in Texas.

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Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · Sep 5
Look at those wheels. Despite her mother's bullshit, I bet she knows she majorly scored.

Reposted by Colombia, Thomas Crofts, Erol Akçay

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · Aug 28
beautiful
I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response. Miyazaki said, "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." Scam Altman said we can surround the solar system with a Dyson Sphere to hold data centers. Miyazaki is right, and Altman is wrong. Miyazaki tells stories that blend the ordinary and the fantastic in ways people find deeply meaningful. Altman tells lies for money. And I'm glad they're lies. Because the makers of Al aren't damned by their failures, they're damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave.

Reposted by Thomas Crofts

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T N @tavia.bsky.social · Feb 1
Reading about Felon47 blaming an air crash on DEI, this poem from 2017 leapt off the shelf:
Propter Nos Fall 2017 Insurgency/Exhaustion

Reposted by Don Ross, Thomas Crofts

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The Onion @theonion.com · Feb 5
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
theonion.com

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Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · Jul 11
Truth

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Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · Jun 27
Good for them, but troubling that only the group under attack is speaking out. Their colleagues in congress of all backgrounds should be raising hell.

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Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · Jun 8
Fucking hell.

Reposted by Thomas Crofts

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · May 31
These people were following the law and went to check in with immigration like they are supposed to.

This woman's immigration case was dismissed, which made her immediately undocumented.

So ICE took her into custody.

The air conditioning was off in the back of the truck.

"I can't breathe."

hypermetrix.bsky.social
Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · May 27
Same.

Reposted by Thomas Crofts

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · May 27
CBS reporter Scott Pelley:

This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”.

If you haven’t already shared this, please do.

hypermetrix.bsky.social
Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · May 14
Well, maybe there's some *kairos* afoot: I was just about to throw myself into the letters, which will be the more poignant now; glad to have your essay for company.

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Thomas Crofts @hypermetrix.bsky.social · May 14
Looking forward to reading this but, shit, this is how I learned Joris died.