@eeperry.bsky.social
Professor of Roman art & archeology, fan of ranked choice voting, Quaker, beekeeper, amateur baker, amateur photographer. No interest in supporting cowardice or greed; very interested in bravery and community spirit. No DMs unless I already know you.
Why do I have to scroll past 10 articles about sports and weather on the (digital) front page of the Boston Globe before I get to "The federal government is executing citizens in the streets"?
January 25, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Why do I have to scroll past 10 articles about sports and weather on the (digital) front page of the Boston Globe before I get to "The federal government is executing citizens in the streets"?
I don't think we should be surprised that a woman who shot and killed her own dog has unleashed federal agents who are shooting and killing poets and nurses.
January 25, 2026 at 7:13 PM
I don't think we should be surprised that a woman who shot and killed her own dog has unleashed federal agents who are shooting and killing poets and nurses.
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We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights.
There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.
This is my favorite guide.
There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.
This is my favorite guide.
CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC
You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...
www.nonviolent-conflict.org
January 24, 2026 at 7:54 PM
We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights.
There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.
This is my favorite guide.
There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.
This is my favorite guide.
Your reminder that the 5 calls app provides you with call scripts to make it easier to call your representatives and make your opinions heard on vital issues like, I dunno, abolishing ICE. You can tailor the scripts if you'd like, but you don't have to.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Calls
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Calls
5 Calls - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 24, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Your reminder that the 5 calls app provides you with call scripts to make it easier to call your representatives and make your opinions heard on vital issues like, I dunno, abolishing ICE. You can tailor the scripts if you'd like, but you don't have to.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Calls
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Calls
Now ICE agents are targeting police officers?! This is what happens when you have no significant requirements for recruiting.
January 22, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Now ICE agents are targeting police officers?! This is what happens when you have no significant requirements for recruiting.
I keep thinking about the Melian Dialogue, about the Athenians' stance just before they destroy the Melians: "The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." Thucydides is famous for not commenting on what he reports, but the fact remains that Athenians lost the Peloponnesian War.
January 21, 2026 at 1:10 PM
I keep thinking about the Melian Dialogue, about the Athenians' stance just before they destroy the Melians: "The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." Thucydides is famous for not commenting on what he reports, but the fact remains that Athenians lost the Peloponnesian War.
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Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
January 20, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
If red states think it's a good idea to cancel the midterms, I invite them to sit them out. The rest of us plan to vote.
January 20, 2026 at 11:38 AM
If red states think it's a good idea to cancel the midterms, I invite them to sit them out. The rest of us plan to vote.
Evidently, the MAGA censors who thought that promoting Greek and Roman culture was their best intellectual move have just discovered the Symposium. Wait until they find out about the Sacred Band.
lithub.com/texas-am-is-...
lithub.com/texas-am-is-...
Texas A&M is banning Plato, citing his “gender ideology.”
Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossf…
lithub.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Evidently, the MAGA censors who thought that promoting Greek and Roman culture was their best intellectual move have just discovered the Symposium. Wait until they find out about the Sacred Band.
lithub.com/texas-am-is-...
lithub.com/texas-am-is-...
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Just a friendly reminder to surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library, theatre, bakery, bookstore, and café.
December 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Just a friendly reminder to surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library, theatre, bakery, bookstore, and café.
I just used a clothing steamer to get a notoriously finicky cake to release from a notoriously finicky bundt pan and it worked! Wait 10 minutes after you remove the cake from the oven, flip the pan over your serving platter and steam away!
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I just used a clothing steamer to get a notoriously finicky cake to release from a notoriously finicky bundt pan and it worked! Wait 10 minutes after you remove the cake from the oven, flip the pan over your serving platter and steam away!
I wonder how Leavitt's nephew feels about having his mother taken away from him? I wonder how he'll feel about his aunt making excuses for the people who did it?
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
ICE detains relative of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt
Leavitt has not yet publicly commented on her relative’s arrest, while other family members have launched a GoFundMe page
www.yahoo.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I wonder how Leavitt's nephew feels about having his mother taken away from him? I wonder how he'll feel about his aunt making excuses for the people who did it?
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
"It's not too late because too late is a fake idea." organizingmythoughts.org/we-have-to-m...
We Have to Move
"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."
organizingmythoughts.org
November 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
"It's not too late because too late is a fake idea." organizingmythoughts.org/we-have-to-m...
"...it's become standard to blame the excesses of the right on liberals, the left, feminists, Black Lives Matter, affirmative action, environmental protection, and BIPOC and LGBTQ people....the right is granted masculine prerogatives and the left feminine responsibilities for the right's behavior."
October 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
"...it's become standard to blame the excesses of the right on liberals, the left, feminists, Black Lives Matter, affirmative action, environmental protection, and BIPOC and LGBTQ people....the right is granted masculine prerogatives and the left feminine responsibilities for the right's behavior."
Maybe my favorite thing about this week in politics is that frogs went overnight from being symbols of the extreme right to being symbols of the patriotic defenders of democracy.
October 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Maybe my favorite thing about this week in politics is that frogs went overnight from being symbols of the extreme right to being symbols of the patriotic defenders of democracy.
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Any form of media that involves an angry man telling an audience what to be angry about for several hours a day is probably not good for the human brain
October 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Any form of media that involves an angry man telling an audience what to be angry about for several hours a day is probably not good for the human brain
I wonder what the people of Kyiv think of the phrase "war ravaged Portland"?
September 28, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I wonder what the people of Kyiv think of the phrase "war ravaged Portland"?
Greetings and best wishes to all of my fellow humans who weren't taken in the Rapture. We've got our work cut out for us: Let's get to it.
September 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Greetings and best wishes to all of my fellow humans who weren't taken in the Rapture. We've got our work cut out for us: Let's get to it.
One silver lining to all this (gestures around) is how easy it is to imagine a better world.
Maybe the FTC should be appointed by a panel of employee and consumer interest groups.
September 23, 2025 at 6:40 AM
One silver lining to all this (gestures around) is how easy it is to imagine a better world.
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a big reason the Disney thing is important is that in the most visible fight the administration has picked, a fight they celebrated winning, ended up as a loss. it's embarrassing and demoralizing. it also shows non-political folks that the pendulum can swing back.
that emboldens all of us to fight.
that emboldens all of us to fight.
September 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
a big reason the Disney thing is important is that in the most visible fight the administration has picked, a fight they celebrated winning, ended up as a loss. it's embarrassing and demoralizing. it also shows non-political folks that the pendulum can swing back.
that emboldens all of us to fight.
that emboldens all of us to fight.
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It’s not a crime to be in this country as an undocumented person. It’s a civil violation.
But you know what is a crime? Taking a bribe from undercover agents in exchange for the promise of government contracts WHEN YOU’RE THE FCKING BORDER CZAR.
But you know what is a crime? Taking a bribe from undercover agents in exchange for the promise of government contracts WHEN YOU’RE THE FCKING BORDER CZAR.
September 21, 2025 at 2:15 AM
It’s not a crime to be in this country as an undocumented person. It’s a civil violation.
But you know what is a crime? Taking a bribe from undercover agents in exchange for the promise of government contracts WHEN YOU’RE THE FCKING BORDER CZAR.
But you know what is a crime? Taking a bribe from undercover agents in exchange for the promise of government contracts WHEN YOU’RE THE FCKING BORDER CZAR.