Professor KPA 🗃️😷
@kpanyc.bsky.social
Professor of Russian & Soviet History at Queens College, CUNY. Author of The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays and An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia. Knitter & spinner. antoshki.com
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They said if this what he cares about we’re going to try and leverage that to some good.
Nobel Peace Prize Committee Says It Takes Points Off if a Candidate Denies People Food
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Nobel Peace Prize Committee Says It Takes Points Off if a Candidate Denies People Food
A Nobel spokesperson offered insight into the deliberative process.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
They said if this what he cares about we’re going to try and leverage that to some good.
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The surrender caucus secured yes votes from Democrats who aren't facing re-election this cycle, but four of them have Democratic governors who can pick their replacement.
If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.
If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.
Yup, and the damage isn’t so much in the story as in the proof of weakness. Trump now knows he has new torture tools to make Dems do what he wants. It’s why at least one of the 7 capitulators oughta be run out of office now, mid session. Get that number down to 6. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The surrender caucus secured yes votes from Democrats who aren't facing re-election this cycle, but four of them have Democratic governors who can pick their replacement.
If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.
If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.
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Why hasn’t Chuck Schumer resigned yet? Can we get a website counting down until he resigns?
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Why hasn’t Chuck Schumer resigned yet? Can we get a website counting down until he resigns?
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Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
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Everyone saying that last week’s elections marked the beginning of the end of the MAGA era really underestimated Democrats’ ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Everyone saying that last week’s elections marked the beginning of the end of the MAGA era really underestimated Democrats’ ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
The thing is that you absolutely can't fake being a book person to other book people, but non-book people will think they're rocking it and it's hilarious.
LOT going on here obviously so i will add my own specialist knowledge, which is the penguin classics versions of the odyssey and iliad are terrible prose translations that do not benefit from being read aloud
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The thing is that you absolutely can't fake being a book person to other book people, but non-book people will think they're rocking it and it's hilarious.
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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The level of normie involvement and investment in Chicago in what is essential a city-wide* decentralized grassroots mutual aid program of resistance to ICE/CBP — it is truly a remarkable inspiration in these otherwise awful times.
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The level of normie involvement and investment in Chicago in what is essential a city-wide* decentralized grassroots mutual aid program of resistance to ICE/CBP — it is truly a remarkable inspiration in these otherwise awful times.
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If this bears out this is perhaps the biggest health innovation since mRNA vaccines which like lol how crazy. This science interrupted the biological production of antibiotic producing mold and isolated an early molecule in the compound. That rules.
www.livescience.com/health/medic...
www.livescience.com/health/medic...
Antibiotic found hiding in plain sight could treat dangerous infections, early study finds
Scientists have discovered a never-before-seen antibiotic that shows promising in treating drug-resistant infections.
www.livescience.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM
If this bears out this is perhaps the biggest health innovation since mRNA vaccines which like lol how crazy. This science interrupted the biological production of antibiotic producing mold and isolated an early molecule in the compound. That rules.
www.livescience.com/health/medic...
www.livescience.com/health/medic...
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“The President sent his lawyer to negotiate a settlement with a convicted sex trafficker to provide cushy accommodation in exchange for her silence on his participation in said sex trafficking” is a cold description of the facts of an insane story that the media doesn’t find worthy of scrutiny
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“The President sent his lawyer to negotiate a settlement with a convicted sex trafficker to provide cushy accommodation in exchange for her silence on his participation in said sex trafficking” is a cold description of the facts of an insane story that the media doesn’t find worthy of scrutiny
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All of the same MAGA idiots that called Zohran an Al-qaeda jihadist will support Trump welcoming a literal al-qaeda member in the White House because these people are sick.
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
All of the same MAGA idiots that called Zohran an Al-qaeda jihadist will support Trump welcoming a literal al-qaeda member in the White House because these people are sick.
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They are actively trying to murder us.
In some cases they've succeeded...
In some cases they've succeeded...
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
They are actively trying to murder us.
In some cases they've succeeded...
In some cases they've succeeded...
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Dawg what
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Dawg what
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November 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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I have anxious disaster brain from navigating a lifetime of disasters, and I genuinely hate how it keeps being proven useful and correct.
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I have anxious disaster brain from navigating a lifetime of disasters, and I genuinely hate how it keeps being proven useful and correct.
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There — I fixed the analysis so it is actually accurate to what happened when 8 Senate Dems caved instead of keeping up the righteous fight to deliver lower health care costs for Americans.
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
There — I fixed the analysis so it is actually accurate to what happened when 8 Senate Dems caved instead of keeping up the righteous fight to deliver lower health care costs for Americans.
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They had everything lined up to actually defend democracy in this window and they dithered. It’s upsetting.
fondly recalling when Chris Coons stopped witness testimony during Trump's impeachment trial for Jan 6 because he wanted to get home for Valentine's Day www.yahoo.com/news/biden-a...
Biden ally advised against calling witnesses in Trump's impeachment trial because many senators wanted to get home for Valentine's Day, says report
Sen. Chris Coons told colleagues that GOP senators wanted to go home so witnesses should not be called, reported The Washington Post.
www.yahoo.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
They had everything lined up to actually defend democracy in this window and they dithered. It’s upsetting.
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no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one
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Who would be your ideal but realistic democratic senate leader?
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Who would be your ideal but realistic democratic senate leader?
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If games companies don't want to pay voice actors what they could do is just not have spoken dialogue. Games did that for decades. It's fine. Just DON'T USE THE PLAGIARISM SLOP MACHINE OH MY GOD IT IS NOT HARD TO NOT USE IT YOU JUST DON'T USE IT THAT IS ALL. GAMES DO NOT ALL NEED VOICES.
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
If games companies don't want to pay voice actors what they could do is just not have spoken dialogue. Games did that for decades. It's fine. Just DON'T USE THE PLAGIARISM SLOP MACHINE OH MY GOD IT IS NOT HARD TO NOT USE IT YOU JUST DON'T USE IT THAT IS ALL. GAMES DO NOT ALL NEED VOICES.
Durbin needs to be made to understand how life works for those of us who don't have the ludicrous privilege that has propped him up all his life.
Dick Durbin suffers from a terminal case of Senate Brain, in which the big prize is a handshake deal with your distinguished colleagues where they'll allow you to hold a meaningless vote that you can then point to with pride to your constituents as they go broke from crushing medical bills.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Durbin needs to be made to understand how life works for those of us who don't have the ludicrous privilege that has propped him up all his life.
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the “axios is fake news trying to stir shit, dems aren’t gonna cave” to “the dem deal is actually good and smart and savvy” pipeline is real and best explained not be rational trains of thought but fear and cognitive dissonance
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM
the “axios is fake news trying to stir shit, dems aren’t gonna cave” to “the dem deal is actually good and smart and savvy” pipeline is real and best explained not be rational trains of thought but fear and cognitive dissonance
I have a theory about white men getting to a certain age and just not getting enough oxygen to their brains.
I get to see that Tim Kaine has pudding for brains.
Kaine on why he thinks just getting a vote on healthcare is a win: "We're the minority party, but everybody will get to see who is standing for them when it comes to lowering their healthcare costs"
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I have a theory about white men getting to a certain age and just not getting enough oxygen to their brains.
Then what everybody does is vote for the "electable" centrist in the primaries instead of the good one, on the totally false theory of electability sold to us by these same centrist assholes despite decades of evidence to the contrary.
Dem voters need to vote in primaries.
It is worthless to threaten to not vote for them in the general election. They will just ignore.
The threat that works is to vote against them in the primaries.
THAT is why the GOP is afraid of their base, they vote in primaries and then vote for the nominee.
It is worthless to threaten to not vote for them in the general election. They will just ignore.
The threat that works is to vote against them in the primaries.
THAT is why the GOP is afraid of their base, they vote in primaries and then vote for the nominee.
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Then what everybody does is vote for the "electable" centrist in the primaries instead of the good one, on the totally false theory of electability sold to us by these same centrist assholes despite decades of evidence to the contrary.
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The fact that rich people are buying up the media and politicians, and using up the remaining carbon budget is very bad for everyone.
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The fact that rich people are buying up the media and politicians, and using up the remaining carbon budget is very bad for everyone.