Clios Fan Boy🗽🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🇨🇦 🇬🇱
@cliosfanboy.bsky.social
Mostly retired American history prof. Specialist on Woodrow Wilson and his Era. Dayton, Ohio native, Alum of Hanover College, Wright State, & Ohio University. Sigma Chi. Beer can collector. Balloon Juice Jackal and LGM fan. Yellow Dog Democrat
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So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.
Breaking News: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, was arrested in Britain on suspicion of misconduct in public office over his links to Jeffrey Epstein, the BBC said.
UK Police Arrest Former Prince Andrew Over Epstein Ties: Live Updates
The British police on Thursday arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on suspicion of criminal activity linked to the Epstein files.
nyti.ms
February 19, 2026 at 10:50 AM
So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.
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I’m starting to understand what happened to The Onion
February 19, 2026 at 2:35 PM
I’m starting to understand what happened to The Onion
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Chiseling Away at the "Marble Man": Historians Reassess Robert E. Lee #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Chiseling Away at the "Marble Man": Historians Reassess Robert E. Lee
Yesterday, reader Mike DiPaolo asked an excellent question in response to my post about Robert Duvall’s portrayal of Robert E.
open.substack.com
February 19, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Chiseling Away at the "Marble Man": Historians Reassess Robert E. Lee #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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"Are there any technologies the left is excited about?"
This seemed like an old-school prompt for blogging (complimentary,) so I blogged about some ocean conservation technology that I'm excited about.
www.southernfriedscience.com/here-are-som...
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This seemed like an old-school prompt for blogging (complimentary,) so I blogged about some ocean conservation technology that I'm excited about.
www.southernfriedscience.com/here-are-som...
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Here are some ocean conservation technologies that I’m excited about
“Is there any technology the left is excited about?” This question was asked on social media this week by a supporter of AI who was frustrated by criticisms of that technology. It’…
www.southernfriedscience.com
February 19, 2026 at 3:09 PM
"Are there any technologies the left is excited about?"
This seemed like an old-school prompt for blogging (complimentary,) so I blogged about some ocean conservation technology that I'm excited about.
www.southernfriedscience.com/here-are-som...
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This seemed like an old-school prompt for blogging (complimentary,) so I blogged about some ocean conservation technology that I'm excited about.
www.southernfriedscience.com/here-are-som...
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Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
February 19, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
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Being willing to get in a tesla taxi is a sign you've just given up and don't care anymoreit's like quiet quitting on life
Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans
Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans
The incidents bring the robotaxi service to a total of 14 crashes since launching last summer.
gizmodo.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Being willing to get in a tesla taxi is a sign you've just given up and don't care anymoreit's like quiet quitting on life
'tiz a puzzlement
Americans bewildered as release of Epstein Files leads to resignations and criminal investigations in democracies around the world.
February 19, 2026 at 3:26 PM
'tiz a puzzlement
I have a suggestion for a suitable cellmate
NEWS: Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to life in prison after a court found him guilty of leading an insurrection tied to his 2024 martial law declaration that triggered a constitutional crisis and military raid on the National Assembly.
February 19, 2026 at 12:18 PM
I have a suggestion for a suitable cellmate
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LOL, "Amanda's Mild Takes" really nails it here about Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA02) and her imaginary friends at the grocery store - "of all the things that didn't happen, that didn't happen the most." bluevirginia.us/2026/02/va-s...
February 18, 2026 at 9:40 PM
LOL, "Amanda's Mild Takes" really nails it here about Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA02) and her imaginary friends at the grocery store - "of all the things that didn't happen, that didn't happen the most." bluevirginia.us/2026/02/va-s...
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WTF?
This company should not exist
-in one chat, it wrote, “Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode,” before recommending Sam take twice as much cough syrup so he would have stronger hallucinations. The AI tool even recommended playlists to match his drug use.
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
-in one chat, it wrote, “Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode,” before recommending Sam take twice as much cough syrup so he would have stronger hallucinations. The AI tool even recommended playlists to match his drug use.
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose.
"Who on earth gives that advice?"
www.sfgate.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:14 PM
WTF?
AMEN!
Writing is thinking.
It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.
February 16, 2026 at 3:14 PM
AMEN!
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Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ...
Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups?
Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com:
tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf
Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups?
Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com:
tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf
February 16, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ...
Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups?
Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com:
tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf
Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups?
Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com:
tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf
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Let’s Make MAGA un-American, finally.
I wrote about the conflict over national identity, the need to reclaim patriotism from the Right, and the struggle between two traditions that are both authentically American:
White male supremacy vs. the egalitarian promise of democratic pluralism.
I wrote about the conflict over national identity, the need to reclaim patriotism from the Right, and the struggle between two traditions that are both authentically American:
White male supremacy vs. the egalitarian promise of democratic pluralism.
What is “Un-American”?
We must acknowledge America’s history of state authoritarianism and racial violence – but also dare to claim its aspirational tradition. Make MAGA un-American, finally.
steady.page
February 16, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Let’s Make MAGA un-American, finally.
I wrote about the conflict over national identity, the need to reclaim patriotism from the Right, and the struggle between two traditions that are both authentically American:
White male supremacy vs. the egalitarian promise of democratic pluralism.
I wrote about the conflict over national identity, the need to reclaim patriotism from the Right, and the struggle between two traditions that are both authentically American:
White male supremacy vs. the egalitarian promise of democratic pluralism.
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Part of my theory of change is to share the words white men need to hear, spoken by white men. This is because creating defections is crucial to stopping authoritarianism and democratic backsliding. This is because almost everyone else is already off the Trump train.
"I never want to see a child ever run away from our own government ever again"
Notes on changing brains. And Brians.
www.thefarce.org
February 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Part of my theory of change is to share the words white men need to hear, spoken by white men. This is because creating defections is crucial to stopping authoritarianism and democratic backsliding. This is because almost everyone else is already off the Trump train.
Moderates don't seem to get that Fascists don't get 1st Amendment rights. Free speech is part of the social contract in a Democracy. Fascism openly wants to eliminate that democracy and its social contract. I'm not obligated to hand a gun to the man who is promising to shoot me.
This “beloved” Chicago teacher, James Heidorn, believes he was pushed out of his job due to a two-word post on his Facebook account.
Oddly enough, the heavily Hispanic district didn’t appreciate him posting “GO ICE”.
#ProudBlue #FuckICE #Chicago
Oddly enough, the heavily Hispanic district didn’t appreciate him posting “GO ICE”.
#ProudBlue #FuckICE #Chicago
'Beloved' Chicago teacher fired over two word post about ICE
A "beloved" Chicago teacher is reeling after he describes being pushed out of his job for a two-worded pro-ICE Facebook post
www.the-express.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Moderates don't seem to get that Fascists don't get 1st Amendment rights. Free speech is part of the social contract in a Democracy. Fascism openly wants to eliminate that democracy and its social contract. I'm not obligated to hand a gun to the man who is promising to shoot me.
JFC
Hegseth (boorishly): Russia's cool. NATO sucks. Your security problem, Europe, is you're too brown and gay.
Vance (condescendingly): Russia's cool. Your security problem is you're too brown and Muslim.
Rubio (politely): Who cares about Russia. Your problem is you're not white or Christian enough.
Vance (condescendingly): Russia's cool. Your security problem is you're too brown and Muslim.
Rubio (politely): Who cares about Russia. Your problem is you're not white or Christian enough.
February 16, 2026 at 2:52 PM
JFC
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That’s what happens when 1/3 of the country voted for a traitor/pedophile/convicted felon and another 1/3 doesn’t even bother to vote.
Remember, in the election before Hitler was appointed Chancellor, the Nazi party only received 1/3 of the parliamentary seats. That was enough to take over.
Remember, in the election before Hitler was appointed Chancellor, the Nazi party only received 1/3 of the parliamentary seats. That was enough to take over.
February 16, 2026 at 6:02 AM
That’s what happens when 1/3 of the country voted for a traitor/pedophile/convicted felon and another 1/3 doesn’t even bother to vote.
Remember, in the election before Hitler was appointed Chancellor, the Nazi party only received 1/3 of the parliamentary seats. That was enough to take over.
Remember, in the election before Hitler was appointed Chancellor, the Nazi party only received 1/3 of the parliamentary seats. That was enough to take over.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
February 16, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
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Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
February 16, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
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A former Democratic colleague of hers once told me that Susan Collins is “usually there when you don’t need her and never there when you actually do.” The moderate brand she projects is entirely performative. It’s always surprised me that Maine voters don’t seem to care.
February 16, 2026 at 12:16 AM
A former Democratic colleague of hers once told me that Susan Collins is “usually there when you don’t need her and never there when you actually do.” The moderate brand she projects is entirely performative. It’s always surprised me that Maine voters don’t seem to care.
Like Americans who support Fascists just as the WWII generation passes away. Not an accident
So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.
February 15, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Like Americans who support Fascists just as the WWII generation passes away. Not an accident
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"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement
February 14, 2026 at 2:28 PM
"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement
Beautiful
#WorldWhaleDay 🐳:
Carl Walters (USA, 1883–1955)
#Whale, 1927
Glazed earthenware
19.7 × 42.6 × 19.7 cm (7 3/4 × 16 3/4 × 7 3/4 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago 2022.243: www.artic.edu/artworks/263...
Carl Walters (USA, 1883–1955)
#Whale, 1927
Glazed earthenware
19.7 × 42.6 × 19.7 cm (7 3/4 × 16 3/4 × 7 3/4 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago 2022.243: www.artic.edu/artworks/263...
February 15, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Beautiful
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New Blog Post ➡️ refusingtoforget.org/the-canales-...
On January 30, 1919, began an unprecedented exposure of state-sanctioned violence by the Texas Rangers & accomplices. Witnesses testified about murder, torture, displacement, and other efforts of intimidation of Border Mexicans by the Rangers.
On January 30, 1919, began an unprecedented exposure of state-sanctioned violence by the Texas Rangers & accomplices. Witnesses testified about murder, torture, displacement, and other efforts of intimidation of Border Mexicans by the Rangers.
January 31, 2026 at 2:28 PM
New Blog Post ➡️ refusingtoforget.org/the-canales-...
On January 30, 1919, began an unprecedented exposure of state-sanctioned violence by the Texas Rangers & accomplices. Witnesses testified about murder, torture, displacement, and other efforts of intimidation of Border Mexicans by the Rangers.
On January 30, 1919, began an unprecedented exposure of state-sanctioned violence by the Texas Rangers & accomplices. Witnesses testified about murder, torture, displacement, and other efforts of intimidation of Border Mexicans by the Rangers.