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Charles Mathewes
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I teach religion & ethics @ UVa
I'm mostly here to find books & articles I don't yet know about
Sometimes also interested in opinions, but not as often as many of you seem to believe

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 13h
Time to reup the real National Security Strategy:
a man and woman are sitting next to each other in a church .
ALT: a man and woman are sitting next to each other in a church .
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 16h
This aged well

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 18h
There are some horrible analogies flying around today. A reminder: the US kidnapping of Maduro in no way justifies, vindicates, or lifts responsibility from the Ru govt or the Ru people. Their war against Ukraine continues to be an unprovoked act of aggression with war crimes and genocidal intent.

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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 18h
Always happy to help out a fellow teacher

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 19h
Some thoughts on what Trump has done in Venezuela and what it might mean for US national security. Caveat: not a Latin America scholar so this is focused on US policy. Clearly huge consequences for Venezuela that others can address.

First, despite the buildup, I didn't think Trump would do it.

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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 21h
I know how you feel
a black and white photo of two men standing next to each other with the words `` i 'm shocked . ''
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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 21h
(Which is a bit weird for liberalism to be naive about, if you think about its origins.)

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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 21h
A v useful little piece that serves as a helpful reminder of one thing that Carl Schmitt said that wasn't really Nazi or Nazi-adjacent, namely, that liberalism (here in a constitutionalist guise) may be at times naive about the seductions of power. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/sometimes-...?
Sometimes Constitutional Law is Naive
A few thoughts about unitary executive theory in the Age of Trump.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21h
I’m being informed that they will not because it was never rooted in Trump’s actions but in currying favor???? Learn something new every day!

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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 22h
Is it for undergrads? I found the book "Objective Troy" very illuminating in putting a narrative frame around questions of executive power of extrajudicial killing.

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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 23h
Well, today will be very interesting.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d
The FIFA Peace Prize doesn't mean what it used to

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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 1d
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 1d
Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela.

Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.

Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 1d
Like this but with Timothee Chalamayyydh
two men in military uniforms are standing next to each other and one has the number 9 on his sleeve
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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 1d
This is sounding better and better

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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 1d
Now they're just trying to freak us all the hell out

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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 1d
Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York

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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 1d
It only took 70 years

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UK Defence Journal @ukdefencejournal.org.uk · 1d
The U.S. Air Force has completed flight testing of an adaptive seat cushion for the B-52H Stratofortress aimed at reducing aircrew fatigue during long-duration missions.
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American B-52 bombers to get comfier seats
The U.S. Air Force has completed flight testing of an adaptive seat cushion for the B-52H Stratofortress aimed at reducing aircrew fatigue during long-duration missions.
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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 2d
He’s pretty unpopular, anyway. chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/20...
Mayor Johnson's job approval up slightly, but his tax choices are unpopular, poll shows
Mayor Brandon Johnson's 31% job approval rating — up from 26% last summer — follows months of mayoral attacks on budget cuts imposed or threatened by President Donald Trump and after Johnson’s opposit...
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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 2d
In middle age, where I am right now, the cure is almost invariably a walk or a nap. So I can believe it about ultra running

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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 3d
I think that parents are the ultimate materialists: if there’s something upsetting the kid, it’s usually because something has to come out, or something has to go in

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 3d
They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?!

Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 4d
I too have always parented my children with unimpeachable logic, you are welcome, my children
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I would never do the "Here comes the airplane" bit to feed my child. Embarrassing for us both. I would calmly explain the importance of adequate nutrition and they will yield to unimpeachable logic

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 4d
I would never do the "Here comes the airplane" bit to feed my child. Embarrassing for us both. I would calmly explain the importance of adequate nutrition and they will yield to unimpeachable logic

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Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social · 4d
Wild to think that ACNA would produce leaders who would abuse their position and authority in so many ways! No one could have seen this coming.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 4d
The Bulwark- Trump administration assists the foreign founders of an illegally funded media outlet aimed at reaching American audiences with Russian propaganda. www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-c...
Trump Admin Scores Visa for Founder of Russian Propaganda Outlet
Tenet Media’s Lauren Chen is back—even though the illegal-influence and money-laundering investigation remains open.
www.thebulwark.com

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5d
2025 isn’t quite over yet, so you still have time if you hope to win the Absolutely Most Absurd Editorial of the Year.

But you’ll have to beat this banger, and good luck with that.
top Read in app Opinion Editorial Board In defense of the White House ballroom Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs October 25, 2025

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 5d
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS

THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context