Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם)
@bestonetx.bsky.social
Award-winning community college prof, writer, editor, historian of Texas Jews and the Galveston Movement. Alte kaker in training.
Views expressed here are mine and are protected by the First Amendment.
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www.BryanEdwardStone.com
Views expressed here are mine and are protected by the First Amendment.
Books: tinyurl.com/besbks
www.BryanEdwardStone.com
Pinned
The wise man does not break into his fellow's speech. He is not in a rush to reply. He asks what is relevant and replies to the point. Of what he has not heard he says, "I have not heard," and he acknowledges what is true.
-- Talmud (Pirkei Avot)
-- Talmud (Pirkei Avot)
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this is why the humanities should be mandatory
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
this is why the humanities should be mandatory
What's happening to Greene is the best sign yet that Trump has reached his lame duck phase. She wouldn't be doing this if she feared him even a little.
November 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
What's happening to Greene is the best sign yet that Trump has reached his lame duck phase. She wouldn't be doing this if she feared him even a little.
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Yup. The vibe is real.
We’re at a turning point in the Trump presidency. You can feel it. The elections proved it. Polling backs it.
Trump’s era of false power and authoritarian fear is being replaced with a lame duck era defined by political weakness.
Slowly but surely, the vibe is shifting.
Trump’s era of false power and authoritarian fear is being replaced with a lame duck era defined by political weakness.
Slowly but surely, the vibe is shifting.
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Yup. The vibe is real.
Black Mirror is going to have to try harder.
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Black Mirror is going to have to try harder.
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Hey, it's time for #FollowFriday! Here's a big list of People Who Get It, imho. Great follows for good info, good vibes, or good practical things to do to help make things better in 2025. go.blacksky.community/5KTiNKd
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Hey, it's time for #FollowFriday! Here's a big list of People Who Get It, imho. Great follows for good info, good vibes, or good practical things to do to help make things better in 2025. go.blacksky.community/5KTiNKd
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not to absolve them of their other work, but every so often the Bee posts a banger
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
not to absolve them of their other work, but every so often the Bee posts a banger
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genuinely perfect that the interview with Olivia was done by Jacob Bernstein, the child of Nora Ephron and Carl Bernstein, who themselves had a monumental scandal that involved romance, adultery, and the highest echelons of the literary and journalism worlds
November 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
genuinely perfect that the interview with Olivia was done by Jacob Bernstein, the child of Nora Ephron and Carl Bernstein, who themselves had a monumental scandal that involved romance, adultery, and the highest echelons of the literary and journalism worlds
Christ, is there anyone doing anything in public life today who isn't the child of someone famous?
genuinely perfect that the interview with Olivia was done by Jacob Bernstein, the child of Nora Ephron and Carl Bernstein, who themselves had a monumental scandal that involved romance, adultery, and the highest echelons of the literary and journalism worlds
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Christ, is there anyone doing anything in public life today who isn't the child of someone famous?
Isn't this textbook prior restraint?
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Isn't this textbook prior restraint?
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I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.
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Focus on their Board of Regents who imposed this policy on the university after firing a professor, department chair, dean, and the president over this exact issue.
Beat up on @tamu.bsky.social all you want. They deserve it.
But TAMU didn't do this all by themselves. There's plenty of blame to go around for sinking another great public university.
Please save some outrage for the Republican legislators and state officials who created a legal pretext for this.
But TAMU didn't do this all by themselves. There's plenty of blame to go around for sinking another great public university.
Please save some outrage for the Republican legislators and state officials who created a legal pretext for this.
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Focus on their Board of Regents who imposed this policy on the university after firing a professor, department chair, dean, and the president over this exact issue.
If we've learned anything, it's that the relatives of famous people are singularly unqualified for anything important.
NEW: Jack Schlossberg, President John F. Kennedy's only grandson, has launched a campaign in N.Y. to replace retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler in Congress.
Jack Schlossberg, JFK's grandson, enters N.Y. race to replace Nadler in Congress
The 32-year-old writer said New York "deserves a representative who won't back down."
www.axios.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
If we've learned anything, it's that the relatives of famous people are singularly unqualified for anything important.
I don't even teach there but I'm thinking about checking with them anyway.
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I don't even teach there but I'm thinking about checking with them anyway.
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
Beat up on @tamu.bsky.social all you want. They deserve it.
But TAMU didn't do this all by themselves. There's plenty of blame to go around for sinking another great public university.
Please save some outrage for the Republican legislators and state officials who created a legal pretext for this.
But TAMU didn't do this all by themselves. There's plenty of blame to go around for sinking another great public university.
Please save some outrage for the Republican legislators and state officials who created a legal pretext for this.
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Beat up on @tamu.bsky.social all you want. They deserve it.
But TAMU didn't do this all by themselves. There's plenty of blame to go around for sinking another great public university.
Please save some outrage for the Republican legislators and state officials who created a legal pretext for this.
But TAMU didn't do this all by themselves. There's plenty of blame to go around for sinking another great public university.
Please save some outrage for the Republican legislators and state officials who created a legal pretext for this.
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
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8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"
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My dad ran a prison ministry before his death. Their big outreach was buying soap & shaving cream for inmates
b/c TX provides about a credit card of soap per month. The ministry was supplying the basic necessities the state should (as the state fought to not air condition the prisons).
b/c TX provides about a credit card of soap per month. The ministry was supplying the basic necessities the state should (as the state fought to not air condition the prisons).
She’s certainly getting unusual amenities, but I have to say the choice to lead this piece with “unlimited toilet paper” is fuckin bizarre.
Apparently, Ghislaine Maxwell is living it up in prison with unlimited toilet paper. Here’s what we know about her alleged special privileges at her new federal prison camp in Texas.
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
My dad ran a prison ministry before his death. Their big outreach was buying soap & shaving cream for inmates
b/c TX provides about a credit card of soap per month. The ministry was supplying the basic necessities the state should (as the state fought to not air condition the prisons).
b/c TX provides about a credit card of soap per month. The ministry was supplying the basic necessities the state should (as the state fought to not air condition the prisons).
Talking about structural racism does not shame any particular race. Not talking about it does.
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
“The policy defines race ideology as, among other things, ‘a concept that attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity.’”
These GOP-led efforts will ruin their states’ public universities. Sad!
“The policy defines race ideology as, among other things, ‘a concept that attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity.’”
These GOP-led efforts will ruin their states’ public universities. Sad!
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Talking about structural racism does not shame any particular race. Not talking about it does.
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Conservatives claim that structural racism does not exist while simultaneously creating innovative new forms of structural racism like banning discussions of the concept.
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
“The policy defines race ideology as, among other things, ‘a concept that attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity.’”
These GOP-led efforts will ruin their states’ public universities. Sad!
“The policy defines race ideology as, among other things, ‘a concept that attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity.’”
These GOP-led efforts will ruin their states’ public universities. Sad!
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Conservatives claim that structural racism does not exist while simultaneously creating innovative new forms of structural racism like banning discussions of the concept.
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Here is the statement on the initial TAMU system proposal. The adopted rule apparently prohibits "advocacy" of "race and gender ideology" without approval.
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Here is the statement on the initial TAMU system proposal. The adopted rule apparently prohibits "advocacy" of "race and gender ideology" without approval.
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📢 Hope our colleagues across the country recognize—just as with Texas’s ban on DEI in higher education—this will NOT remain in Texas. What is happening here is a blueprint for the rest of the country.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
📢 Hope our colleagues across the country recognize—just as with Texas’s ban on DEI in higher education—this will NOT remain in Texas. What is happening here is a blueprint for the rest of the country.
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Since the invention of 24/7 cable news, journalism has been on a slow descent into mediocrity and below.
Disappointing that speaking “Truth to Power” has become an afterthought since Power now owns news outlets.
Disappointing that speaking “Truth to Power” has become an afterthought since Power now owns news outlets.
At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
November 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Since the invention of 24/7 cable news, journalism has been on a slow descent into mediocrity and below.
Disappointing that speaking “Truth to Power” has become an afterthought since Power now owns news outlets.
Disappointing that speaking “Truth to Power” has become an afterthought since Power now owns news outlets.
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The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...
Immigrants are the ones building the fucking houses.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Immigrants are the ones building the fucking houses.