Renee Searfoss
@reneesearfoss.bsky.social
Lecturer, history dept Coastal Carolina University, transplant Midwesterner, left wing liberal, shy nerd with limited ability to sum up my personality in a few pithy sentences
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Finished reading @juliagaffield.bsky.social 's biography of Jeans-Jaques Dessalines, one of the founding fathers of Haiti. The book is a story of what Dessalines did versus the way he has been sometimes inaccurately portrayed for political reasons as a bloodthirsty unthinking man unfit to rule. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Finished reading @juliagaffield.bsky.social 's biography of Jeans-Jaques Dessalines, one of the founding fathers of Haiti. The book is a story of what Dessalines did versus the way he has been sometimes inaccurately portrayed for political reasons as a bloodthirsty unthinking man unfit to rule. 1/
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“MAGA have been shutting down the government since Inauguration, gutting Medicare, Medicaid+ the ACA+ engaging in the greatest health care heist in history to pay for tax cuts for billionaires,” said Sen Ed Markey, Dem, MA. “The American people want us to stop the heist, not drive the getaway car.”
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“MAGA have been shutting down the government since Inauguration, gutting Medicare, Medicaid+ the ACA+ engaging in the greatest health care heist in history to pay for tax cuts for billionaires,” said Sen Ed Markey, Dem, MA. “The American people want us to stop the heist, not drive the getaway car.”
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Haverford College in Philly's suburbs is a Quaker-founded bastion of progressive thought, home to the brilliant 1960s-70s radical prof Bill Davidon, among others
Now it's produced Howard Lutnick and Palantir's Alex Karp. So much for "liberal indoctrination" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Now it's produced Howard Lutnick and Palantir's Alex Karp. So much for "liberal indoctrination" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Opinion | Alex Karp Went From Biden Donor to Trump Enabler. Why?
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Haverford College in Philly's suburbs is a Quaker-founded bastion of progressive thought, home to the brilliant 1960s-70s radical prof Bill Davidon, among others
Now it's produced Howard Lutnick and Palantir's Alex Karp. So much for "liberal indoctrination" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Now it's produced Howard Lutnick and Palantir's Alex Karp. So much for "liberal indoctrination" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
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Burn upon burn!
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Burn upon burn!
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No, false.
This wasn’t about a mere “policy agenda”—pre-Trump shutdowns were, which is also why they were much shorter—it was about egregious lawbreaking.
No one explained how it could’ve gone any other way? I did.
Just put on the red hat and say you like the serially lying authoritarian, Josh.
This wasn’t about a mere “policy agenda”—pre-Trump shutdowns were, which is also why they were much shorter—it was about egregious lawbreaking.
No one explained how it could’ve gone any other way? I did.
Just put on the red hat and say you like the serially lying authoritarian, Josh.
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
No, false.
This wasn’t about a mere “policy agenda”—pre-Trump shutdowns were, which is also why they were much shorter—it was about egregious lawbreaking.
No one explained how it could’ve gone any other way? I did.
Just put on the red hat and say you like the serially lying authoritarian, Josh.
This wasn’t about a mere “policy agenda”—pre-Trump shutdowns were, which is also why they were much shorter—it was about egregious lawbreaking.
No one explained how it could’ve gone any other way? I did.
Just put on the red hat and say you like the serially lying authoritarian, Josh.
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GIVEN: One week contains exactly 7 days.
ALSO GIVEN: Love is needed and can be provided for more than 7 days a week.
ASSUME: One distrusts established conventions, rejects the Gregorian calendar, and is pathologically horny. What duration best conveys this surplus of desire?
ALSO GIVEN: Love is needed and can be provided for more than 7 days a week.
ASSUME: One distrusts established conventions, rejects the Gregorian calendar, and is pathologically horny. What duration best conveys this surplus of desire?
Pop Song Math Quiz
Answer all questions in the form of a song title. 1. The Rob Base Postulate Given that a number greater than 1(x) is required to make a thing go ri...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
GIVEN: One week contains exactly 7 days.
ALSO GIVEN: Love is needed and can be provided for more than 7 days a week.
ASSUME: One distrusts established conventions, rejects the Gregorian calendar, and is pathologically horny. What duration best conveys this surplus of desire?
ALSO GIVEN: Love is needed and can be provided for more than 7 days a week.
ASSUME: One distrusts established conventions, rejects the Gregorian calendar, and is pathologically horny. What duration best conveys this surplus of desire?
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God bless Michael Shannon. '“I’m sure anybody who’s associated with promoting and selling this movie to the world is going to be horrified by everything I’ve said in this interview,” he agrees. “But I don’t really care.”'
‘Hermann Göring loved his kids. That’s what’s terrifying’: James Vanderbilt, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon on Nuremberg
Russell Crowe has a malevolent charm as the Nazi on trial in a compelling new film. His co-stars and director explain how they understood this monster – and the persistence of evil today
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
God bless Michael Shannon. '“I’m sure anybody who’s associated with promoting and selling this movie to the world is going to be horrified by everything I’ve said in this interview,” he agrees. “But I don’t really care.”'
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There’s hope for all of us
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
There’s hope for all of us
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Trump makes things worse in a fractal way. The same patterns but from tiny things to the biggest worst things. Just keep telling the story each time it happens.
things take time to percolate but truly the weirdest shit keeps percolating and resonating. I interviewed a super normie at no kings last time and he had a sign joking about being antifa and the number one thing he was mad about off the top of his head was venezuelan boat strikes
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Trump makes things worse in a fractal way. The same patterns but from tiny things to the biggest worst things. Just keep telling the story each time it happens.
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This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.
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The exact thing Nazis love to hear
John Fetterman: "Now, I have lost the taste to fight."
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The exact thing Nazis love to hear
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The answer is not to throw your hands up and abandon the Democratic Party.
The answer is to make the Democratic Party into what we want it to be.
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The answer is to make the Democratic Party into what we want it to be.
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5000 people have signed up to run for office with @runforsomething.net in the last week. Between the election wins & the shutdown fury, we’re taking that momentum in to 2026.
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The answer is not to throw your hands up and abandon the Democratic Party.
The answer is to make the Democratic Party into what we want it to be.
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The answer is to make the Democratic Party into what we want it to be.
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It was over before it began.
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It was over before it began.
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Trump has just removed a memorial to Black soldiers from a US military cemetery. But no matter what he does to try to erase them, Black soldiers have fought for this country — from the First Rhode Island Regiment in 1778 to the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II to the service members of today.
Veterans Day 2025: Honoring Black Service Members
YouTube video by The Keith Boykin Channel
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November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Trump has just removed a memorial to Black soldiers from a US military cemetery. But no matter what he does to try to erase them, Black soldiers have fought for this country — from the First Rhode Island Regiment in 1778 to the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II to the service members of today.
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Corporal Waverly Woodson, a medic from Philadelphia (where his father was a postal carrier) tended to hundreds of wounded soldiers under heavy fire at Normandy on D-Day despite being wounded himself.
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Corporal Waverly Woodson, a medic from Philadelphia (where his father was a postal carrier) tended to hundreds of wounded soldiers under heavy fire at Normandy on D-Day despite being wounded himself.
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“The lobbyist, Michael Prescott, was reportedly appointed to the BBC advisory position under the influence of BBC Board member Sir Robbie Gibb, a co-founder and early fundraiser of the pro-Trump TV news station GB News co-owned by hedge fund multimillionaire Paul Marshall.”
🔴'BBC Bias’ Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President, reports @nafeez.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President, reports @nafeez.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“The lobbyist, Michael Prescott, was reportedly appointed to the BBC advisory position under the influence of BBC Board member Sir Robbie Gibb, a co-founder and early fundraiser of the pro-Trump TV news station GB News co-owned by hedge fund multimillionaire Paul Marshall.”
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2 weeks
BARNICLE: What is the Treasury Dept doing to lessen job insecurity in this country?
BESSENT: What Trump is doing to bring back high-paying manufacturing jobs is all about job security
BARNICLE: How many jobs have come back?
BESSENT: It's just starting
BESSENT: What Trump is doing to bring back high-paying manufacturing jobs is all about job security
BARNICLE: How many jobs have come back?
BESSENT: It's just starting
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
2 weeks
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The Trump administration is pushing to strip language from a resolution that affirms the country’s territorial integrity and condemns Russia’s occupation of Crimea and other regions, according to two people familiar with internal UN discussions.
www.kyivpost.com/post/63999
www.kyivpost.com/post/63999
November 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The Trump administration is pushing to strip language from a resolution that affirms the country’s territorial integrity and condemns Russia’s occupation of Crimea and other regions, according to two people familiar with internal UN discussions.
www.kyivpost.com/post/63999
www.kyivpost.com/post/63999
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They should do what the Blade movies did with Kris Kristofferson where he flat out died in a movie and then was back like well that was a close one Blade thank goodness for your vampire abilities. Judi Dench will have to be a vampire from now on but I think that only makes the movies better l.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
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Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
They should do what the Blade movies did with Kris Kristofferson where he flat out died in a movie and then was back like well that was a close one Blade thank goodness for your vampire abilities. Judi Dench will have to be a vampire from now on but I think that only makes the movies better l.
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Over nearly three years, @mariamelba.bsky.social and I have examined hundreds of fatal domestic violence shootings in TN to understand how often they are committed by someone legally barred from having a gun, and the gaps victims fall through in the system. 2/7
Guns in Dangerous Hands Archives
Tennessee has one of the highest rates of women killed by men in the country. Loose gun laws and weak enforcement make it easier for dangerous people to keep their guns, even if they are barred from h...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Over nearly three years, @mariamelba.bsky.social and I have examined hundreds of fatal domestic violence shootings in TN to understand how often they are committed by someone legally barred from having a gun, and the gaps victims fall through in the system. 2/7
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There's nothing inherently wrong with climate change. It's just that the ecosystems and built environments that we depend on as life support systems aren't equipped to handle the rapid changes. So if we want to live, we should deal with climate change ASAP.
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
There's nothing inherently wrong with climate change. It's just that the ecosystems and built environments that we depend on as life support systems aren't equipped to handle the rapid changes. So if we want to live, we should deal with climate change ASAP.
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(WSJ) - U.S. nonfarm payrolls likely shrunk by 50,000 roles in October, economists at Goldman Sachs said.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
(WSJ) - U.S. nonfarm payrolls likely shrunk by 50,000 roles in October, economists at Goldman Sachs said.
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A 1-year-old girl was pepper-sprayed through the window of a moving vehicle by ICE agents in Chicago. She was briefly hospitalized.
The dad said a masked agent pointed pepper-spray at a Sam's parking lot when they were hit.
#ProudBlue
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The dad said a masked agent pointed pepper-spray at a Sam's parking lot when they were hit.
#ProudBlue
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November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A 1-year-old girl was pepper-sprayed through the window of a moving vehicle by ICE agents in Chicago. She was briefly hospitalized.
The dad said a masked agent pointed pepper-spray at a Sam's parking lot when they were hit.
#ProudBlue
Video Credit: NowThisImpact/IG
The dad said a masked agent pointed pepper-spray at a Sam's parking lot when they were hit.
#ProudBlue
Video Credit: NowThisImpact/IG