@jeanpaulsmartre.bsky.social
Secretary of War Hegseth announced that soldiers who participated in the 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their Medals of Honor... "This decision is now final, and their place in our nation’s history is no longer up for debate."
September 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Secretary of War Hegseth announced that soldiers who participated in the 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their Medals of Honor... "This decision is now final, and their place in our nation’s history is no longer up for debate."
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/w...
The president, she said, could end up playing a role like that of Boris Yeltsin, who brought on the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. “Trump is deconstructing the United States, just as Yeltsin deconstructed the Soviet Union."
The president, she said, could end up playing a role like that of Boris Yeltsin, who brought on the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. “Trump is deconstructing the United States, just as Yeltsin deconstructed the Soviet Union."
Fiona Hill, Trump’s Ex-Russia Adviser, on Why Great Powers Fall
www.nytimes.com
July 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/w...
The president, she said, could end up playing a role like that of Boris Yeltsin, who brought on the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. “Trump is deconstructing the United States, just as Yeltsin deconstructed the Soviet Union."
The president, she said, could end up playing a role like that of Boris Yeltsin, who brought on the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. “Trump is deconstructing the United States, just as Yeltsin deconstructed the Soviet Union."
A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train.
The New America: Federal (ICE) Agents Boarding Trains?
By Judith Roberts * As an attorney I’m deeply alarmed by an incident that occurred just this week and feel compelled to share it—to raise aw...
weknowwhatsup.blogspot.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
April 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
[T]he purpose of the struggle of liberty against tyranny is not to carry on the fight but not to have to. --Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker
April 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
[T]he purpose of the struggle of liberty against tyranny is not to carry on the fight but not to have to. --Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker
“To this day,” Justice Sotomayor wrote, “the government has cited no basis in law for Abrego Garcia’s warrantless arrest, his removal to El Salvador or his confinement in a Salvadoran prison. Nor could it.”
April 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
“To this day,” Justice Sotomayor wrote, “the government has cited no basis in law for Abrego Garcia’s warrantless arrest, his removal to El Salvador or his confinement in a Salvadoran prison. Nor could it.”
[The Supreme] court stopped short of ordering the return of the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, indicating that courts may not have the power to require the executive branch to do so. (NYT)
April 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
[The Supreme] court stopped short of ordering the return of the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, indicating that courts may not have the power to require the executive branch to do so. (NYT)
More Cacaxtla
March 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
More Cacaxtla
@tracybodnar.bsky.social
You would probably recognize and get a kick out of these: parrot or macaw cages at Cacaxtla, a multi-era site near Puebla but much like Paquime.... (Cacaxtla also has brilliant Maya style murals 6-900 CE of myserious origin)
You would probably recognize and get a kick out of these: parrot or macaw cages at Cacaxtla, a multi-era site near Puebla but much like Paquime.... (Cacaxtla also has brilliant Maya style murals 6-900 CE of myserious origin)
March 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
@tracybodnar.bsky.social
You would probably recognize and get a kick out of these: parrot or macaw cages at Cacaxtla, a multi-era site near Puebla but much like Paquime.... (Cacaxtla also has brilliant Maya style murals 6-900 CE of myserious origin)
You would probably recognize and get a kick out of these: parrot or macaw cages at Cacaxtla, a multi-era site near Puebla but much like Paquime.... (Cacaxtla also has brilliant Maya style murals 6-900 CE of myserious origin)
We at SciBeh are organizing an online workshop, entitled "Safeguarding Scholarship and Research in (Emerging) Autocracies", which will be held on 25 February 15:00-18:00 UK time (16:00-19:00 CET, 10 am - 1pm EST, 7 am - 10 am PST). www.scibeh.org/events/works... 2/n
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February 13, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Today the American Bar Association took a stand against the Trump administration’s “wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself."
February 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Today the American Bar Association took a stand against the Trump administration’s “wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself."
"I’ve begun to suspect that a major division in American life... is the one between carnies and non-carnies; that is, between those who understand instinctively—animalistically, sometimes—that life is theater, that people will believe what they want to...."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc....
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc....
Bob Dylan’s Carnival Act
His identity was a performance. His writing was sleight of hand. He bamboozled his own audience.
www.theatlantic.com
December 22, 2024 at 11:43 PM
"I’ve begun to suspect that a major division in American life... is the one between carnies and non-carnies; that is, between those who understand instinctively—animalistically, sometimes—that life is theater, that people will believe what they want to...."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc....
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc....
[T]he level-headed election was emblematic of Uruguay's strong and stable democracy, free of the anti-establishment fury that has vaulted populist outsiders to power elsewhere...
www.npr.org/2024/11/25/n...
www.npr.org/2024/11/25/n...
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November 25, 2024 at 4:18 PM
[T]he level-headed election was emblematic of Uruguay's strong and stable democracy, free of the anti-establishment fury that has vaulted populist outsiders to power elsewhere...
www.npr.org/2024/11/25/n...
www.npr.org/2024/11/25/n...
November 25, 2024 at 4:05 PM
A government run by billionaires will never be for the people.
November 23, 2024 at 4:50 PM
November 23, 2024 at 4:48 PM
The term "Butterfly Effect" comes from a sci-fi story by Ray Bradbury (A Sound of Thunder, 1952), in which a time tourist's stumble has consequences eons later: A popular fascist has been elected president because of a crushed butterfly, changing the present to which the time safari has returned.
November 23, 2024 at 4:44 PM
The term "Butterfly Effect" comes from a sci-fi story by Ray Bradbury (A Sound of Thunder, 1952), in which a time tourist's stumble has consequences eons later: A popular fascist has been elected president because of a crushed butterfly, changing the present to which the time safari has returned.
The decision to enter or avoid echo chambers is not simple. Echo chambers are cognitive and philosophical dead ends. But if you avoid attractive ideas and positive responses, you may succumb to a sense of isolation, so conversations become reactive and adversarial rather than collaborative.
November 17, 2024 at 5:57 PM
The decision to enter or avoid echo chambers is not simple. Echo chambers are cognitive and philosophical dead ends. But if you avoid attractive ideas and positive responses, you may succumb to a sense of isolation, so conversations become reactive and adversarial rather than collaborative.