Peter Ravn Rasmussen
@peterravn.bsky.social
Danish historian, teacher, writer, and father of three splendid young people. He/him or they/them, as you prefer.
Mastodon: @peter_ravn@mstdn.social
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Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡
@nytimes.com
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@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
Good gods, this boils my blood.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Good gods, this boils my blood.
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Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
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I mean, really the whole East Wing debacle is our fault, if you think about it. Trump said that thing about "respecting" the White House, and we didn't immediately know *for sure* that he was going to tear it all down because he has never respected anything in his entire blighted life.
October 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I mean, really the whole East Wing debacle is our fault, if you think about it. Trump said that thing about "respecting" the White House, and we didn't immediately know *for sure* that he was going to tear it all down because he has never respected anything in his entire blighted life.
This is the Way. Don't give them an inch.
"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."
Source:
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Source:
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October 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This is the Way. Don't give them an inch.
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By now, foreign governments must have put their least effective and competent spies on the job of spying on us. It's just too easy.
Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.
October 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
By now, foreign governments must have put their least effective and competent spies on the job of spying on us. It's just too easy.
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Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
October 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
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For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!
October 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!
Today's episode of "A Girl and Her Fed" by @kbspangler.com and @alepresser.com resonates with me. This is what I mean when I say that "I am not a good man, but I can fake it convincingly".
www.agirlandherfed.com/1.2284.html
www.agirlandherfed.com/1.2284.html
A Girl and Her Fed
www.agirlandherfed.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Today's episode of "A Girl and Her Fed" by @kbspangler.com and @alepresser.com resonates with me. This is what I mean when I say that "I am not a good man, but I can fake it convincingly".
www.agirlandherfed.com/1.2284.html
www.agirlandherfed.com/1.2284.html
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"Der Rächer" (The Avenger), later cast of a 1914 sculpture by German sculptor Ernst Barlach (1870-1938).
Barlach's pacifism as a result of his experiences in WWI, and his Expressionist art (denounced as "degenerate"), led to him being persecuted by the Nazis.
In the Tate Gallery, ref. no. T00951.
Barlach's pacifism as a result of his experiences in WWI, and his Expressionist art (denounced as "degenerate"), led to him being persecuted by the Nazis.
In the Tate Gallery, ref. no. T00951.
October 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"Der Rächer" (The Avenger), later cast of a 1914 sculpture by German sculptor Ernst Barlach (1870-1938).
Barlach's pacifism as a result of his experiences in WWI, and his Expressionist art (denounced as "degenerate"), led to him being persecuted by the Nazis.
In the Tate Gallery, ref. no. T00951.
Barlach's pacifism as a result of his experiences in WWI, and his Expressionist art (denounced as "degenerate"), led to him being persecuted by the Nazis.
In the Tate Gallery, ref. no. T00951.
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Zodiac killer murders again, challenging legal bounds
October 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Zodiac killer murders again, challenging legal bounds
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New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
September 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
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Complaining about cancel culture in Riyadh is one of the best examples I've seen of how "free speech culture" rots the brain.
Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.
Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival
Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.
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October 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Complaining about cancel culture in Riyadh is one of the best examples I've seen of how "free speech culture" rots the brain.
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Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
September 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
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we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
September 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
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You do not in fact have to praise the guy who said homeless people should be murdered with lethal injections and then apologized four days later to save his job. Let's get a grip here.
Brian Kilmeade deserves praise for his apology.
Brian Kilmeade apologized for his comments about homeless people getting lethal injections this morning on Fox & Friends, saying "so many homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion."
Here's the clip of his apology 👇
Here's the clip of his apology 👇
September 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
You do not in fact have to praise the guy who said homeless people should be murdered with lethal injections and then apologized four days later to save his job. Let's get a grip here.
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This is the day's most essential read. A Guardian investigation into the Alexandria, Louisiana, facility reveals a pattern of alleged due process violations, previously unreported accounts of neglect and abuse, documented health emergencies and long stays www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Trump’s deportation hub: inside the ‘black hole’ where immigrants disappear
A Guardian investigation into the Alexandria facility reveals a pattern of alleged due process violations, previously unreported accounts of neglect and abuse, documented health emergencies and long s...
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This is the day's most essential read. A Guardian investigation into the Alexandria, Louisiana, facility reveals a pattern of alleged due process violations, previously unreported accounts of neglect and abuse, documented health emergencies and long stays www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Fuck this actual piece of shit human and administration
Rubio vows US response following conviction of Brazil's Bolsonaro reut.rs/4piCG0f
Rubio vows US response following conviction of Brazil's Bolsonaro
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said the United States would "respond accordingly to this witch hunt" after former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election.
reut.rs
September 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Fuck this actual piece of shit human and administration
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"Don't Engage, Just Block" is praxis
There’s likely an organized campaign going on to incite you to say stuff that’s gonna get you suspended or banned (or worse). The right has mentioned the Bluesky reaction to this incident repeatedly. They’re here to find targets. Don’t let them rile you up and goad you into something you’ll regret.
September 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
"Don't Engage, Just Block" is praxis
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Congratulations to Brazil, joining South Korea among the countries who successfully did what the United States could not
🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...
🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...
Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to more than 27 years in a Brazil prison for attempting a coup after losing the 2022 election.
Bolsonaro Convicted of Attempting a Coup in Brazil, Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison
Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted the former president of trying to cling to power after losing the 2022 election, including a plan to assassinate his opponent.
nyti.ms
September 12, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Congratulations to Brazil, joining South Korea among the countries who successfully did what the United States could not
🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...
🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...
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We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.
September 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.
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Wouldn’t it be more accurate to call it the Trump Docket?
Few things better sum up how I feel about Kavanaugh, his place on the court, and his scholarship/contribution to the law better than the things he just goes out there and says. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
September 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Wouldn’t it be more accurate to call it the Trump Docket?