Sean Easton
@seaneaston.bsky.social
College professor: Greek, Latin & Classical Studies; Peace Studies. Minnesota, USA.
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One like, one Thucydides opinion.
One like, one history opinion
one like, one writing opinion.
July 26, 2025 at 6:20 AM
One like, one Thucydides opinion.
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A local NYC baseball coach says he fended off ICE agents during a recent practice.
Youman Wilder said caught feds questioning youth about where they're from & country of origin, so, he told feds to back off & kids to not answer!
Shoutout all of our local heroes!
Youman Wilder said caught feds questioning youth about where they're from & country of origin, so, he told feds to back off & kids to not answer!
Shoutout all of our local heroes!
A Baseball Coach Says He Fended Off ICE Agents Questioning Kids on the Upper West Side
The baseball field in Riverside Park near 72nd Street and Youman Wilder. Photo 1: Google Maps. Photo 2: Courtesy of
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July 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A local NYC baseball coach says he fended off ICE agents during a recent practice.
Youman Wilder said caught feds questioning youth about where they're from & country of origin, so, he told feds to back off & kids to not answer!
Shoutout all of our local heroes!
Youman Wilder said caught feds questioning youth about where they're from & country of origin, so, he told feds to back off & kids to not answer!
Shoutout all of our local heroes!
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45 billion dollars… but your 🫵🏿 groceries still high
OPINION by @hayesbrown.bsky.social:
“Already investors can see that the potential fiscal returns for exploiting human suffering are higher than they’ve been in over 150 years”
READ MORE:
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“Already investors can see that the potential fiscal returns for exploiting human suffering are higher than they’ve been in over 150 years”
READ MORE:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | How ICE’s massive cash infusion is poised to transform America
Republicans gave $45 billion to help ICE detain hundreds of thousands of immigrants — and another $100 billion to further supercharge Trump’s mass deportations.
www.msnbc.com
July 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
45 billion dollars… but your 🫵🏿 groceries still high
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NEW: the Trump admin has moved to terminate TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua, covering over 50,000 people
Both of these designations date back to 1999, meaning Trump wants to strip legal status from people here legally who have had a background check every 18 months for the last 26 years.
Both of these designations date back to 1999, meaning Trump wants to strip legal status from people here legally who have had a background check every 18 months for the last 26 years.
July 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
NEW: the Trump admin has moved to terminate TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua, covering over 50,000 people
Both of these designations date back to 1999, meaning Trump wants to strip legal status from people here legally who have had a background check every 18 months for the last 26 years.
Both of these designations date back to 1999, meaning Trump wants to strip legal status from people here legally who have had a background check every 18 months for the last 26 years.
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i'm reading this charles sumner speech from february 1866 and my dude is cooking
July 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
i'm reading this charles sumner speech from february 1866 and my dude is cooking
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Listen, @housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social address this flagrant, insulting & incendiary racism. Where is the censure motion?
Stop jumping at every smear against Mamdani.
Focus on what a U.S. Senator is saying abt a key part of your base.
www.al.com/politics/202...
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social address this flagrant, insulting & incendiary racism. Where is the censure motion?
Stop jumping at every smear against Mamdani.
Focus on what a U.S. Senator is saying abt a key part of your base.
www.al.com/politics/202...
Tuberville says ‘inner city rats’ live off the American taxpayers: Trump should send them ‘back home’
"These inner city rats, they live on the federal government," Tuberville said in the interview.
www.al.com
June 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Listen, @housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social address this flagrant, insulting & incendiary racism. Where is the censure motion?
Stop jumping at every smear against Mamdani.
Focus on what a U.S. Senator is saying abt a key part of your base.
www.al.com/politics/202...
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social address this flagrant, insulting & incendiary racism. Where is the censure motion?
Stop jumping at every smear against Mamdani.
Focus on what a U.S. Senator is saying abt a key part of your base.
www.al.com/politics/202...
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Per @npr.org, the Department of Homeland Security, in partnership with the White House U.S. DOGE Service, has built a searchable national citizenship register with data from the Social Security Administration & immigration records— without public notice & comment.
Infrastructure for a police state.
Infrastructure for a police state.
The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system
The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.
www.npr.org
June 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Per @npr.org, the Department of Homeland Security, in partnership with the White House U.S. DOGE Service, has built a searchable national citizenship register with data from the Social Security Administration & immigration records— without public notice & comment.
Infrastructure for a police state.
Infrastructure for a police state.
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This is so beyond the norm of regular human behavior, how is this very obvious sociopathic dementia not always the top news story
April 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This is so beyond the norm of regular human behavior, how is this very obvious sociopathic dementia not always the top news story
500 people turned out for Indivisible’s Stop The Cuts protest in Mankato, Minnesota against Trump and Musk’s assault on our government’s ability to meet people’s basic needs #Indivisiblespgm #Indivisible #stopthecuts youtu.be/KMkIyGWls58?...
Indivisible Mankato March - 04/19/2025
YouTube video by Jon Smithers
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April 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
500 people turned out for Indivisible’s Stop The Cuts protest in Mankato, Minnesota against Trump and Musk’s assault on our government’s ability to meet people’s basic needs #Indivisiblespgm #Indivisible #stopthecuts youtu.be/KMkIyGWls58?...
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The Trump administration is taking away almost a quarter of a billion dollars of funding from the MN. Our public health infrastructure will be DECIMATED. 150 to 200 people will be laid off. As measles, TB, bird flu & other infectious diseases increase. Devastating, reprehensible & dangerous.
Minnesota Dept. of Health announces $226M in federal cuts and layoffs of around 200 employees
State health officials held an all-staff meeting Wednesday to explain how the $226 million in cuts could impact the state healthcare system.
www.kare11.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The Trump administration is taking away almost a quarter of a billion dollars of funding from the MN. Our public health infrastructure will be DECIMATED. 150 to 200 people will be laid off. As measles, TB, bird flu & other infectious diseases increase. Devastating, reprehensible & dangerous.
64+ people showed up today to protest Trump and Musk in our small town #Indivisible rally. Saint Peter, #Minnesota. #lndivisiblespgm
March 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
64+ people showed up today to protest Trump and Musk in our small town #Indivisible rally. Saint Peter, #Minnesota. #lndivisiblespgm
#Indivisible rally against Trump and Musk in St. Peter, #Minnesota again today. 51 people yesterday. 57 people today. More next week. #MN01 #mn18a
March 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
#Indivisible rally against Trump and Musk in St. Peter, #Minnesota again today. 51 people yesterday. 57 people today. More next week. #MN01 #mn18a
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Yay, my copy of Abortion Stories has arrived! @kweingarten.bsky.social, it’s gorgeous!
March 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Yay, my copy of Abortion Stories has arrived! @kweingarten.bsky.social, it’s gorgeous!
#IndivisibleSPGM citizens’ rally demonstrating against Trump, Musk, and MAGA in St. Peter, #Minnesota. #Indivisible
March 7, 2025 at 12:52 AM
#IndivisibleSPGM citizens’ rally demonstrating against Trump, Musk, and MAGA in St. Peter, #Minnesota. #Indivisible
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Registration for #ResDiff6 is now available: resdifficiles.com/res-diff-6-2...
It is my pleasure to announce the program for #ResDiff6 (March 21, 2025), an annual digital conference addressing inequity in classics, which I co-organize with Joseph Romero. Keynote: Sarah Derbew. resdifficiles.com/res-diff-6-2...
Res Diff 6 2025
The 2025 Res Difficiles conference will take place on March 21st. Conference registration will be made available ahead of the event. Res Difficiles: A Conference On Challenges and Pathways for Addr…
resdifficiles.com
February 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Registration for #ResDiff6 is now available: resdifficiles.com/res-diff-6-2...
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NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two.
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
March 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two.
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
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i was just complaining about this to a friend a few days ago. the punditry is obsessed with this retreat to discourse, where there is an inability to examine the actual phenomenon itself. instead, they engage in language games or treat politics as a question of definitions
seeing a lot of too-cool-for-it takes pointing out that the US has backed awful dictators before. it's certainly true that this country has blood on its hands, but this is another example of pundits treating trump like a literary foil instead of an actual president who is doing bad things.
March 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
i was just complaining about this to a friend a few days ago. the punditry is obsessed with this retreat to discourse, where there is an inability to examine the actual phenomenon itself. instead, they engage in language games or treat politics as a question of definitions
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Rep. Finstad had plenty of time to visit Republican groups during the recess, but had no response to constituents requesting town halls. WHERE IS BRAD??
February 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Rep. Finstad had plenty of time to visit Republican groups during the recess, but had no response to constituents requesting town halls. WHERE IS BRAD??
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This is a new, open dataset on 40 years of Federalist Society events, including titles, dates, locations, sponsors, topics, and speakers.
There couldn't be a better moment for scholars to pick this up and run with it.
There couldn't be a better moment for scholars to pick this up and run with it.
🚨My nerds: new preprint + data available to you starting now. Plz enjoy what I believe to be (other than tax stuff) the first large scale empirical dataset about the Federalist Society. Have fun! 😘 #LawSky #PoliSky #AcademicSky osf.io/preprints/so...
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February 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
This is a new, open dataset on 40 years of Federalist Society events, including titles, dates, locations, sponsors, topics, and speakers.
There couldn't be a better moment for scholars to pick this up and run with it.
There couldn't be a better moment for scholars to pick this up and run with it.
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MORE BARGING
Two Dem lawmakers barge into House speaker's office in backlash against Musk
Reps. Judy Chu and Gwen Moore denounced DOGE's access to a vast government payments system.
www.politico.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
MORE BARGING
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TOMORROW: We’re rallying at the Treasury building with @moveon.org to stop Elon Musk’s hostile takeover and tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. We hope you can join us if you’re in the D.C. area.
We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon! · MoveOn
**Rally at the Treasury building to stop Elon Musk’s billionaire takeover.** Nobody elected Elon! We need everyone to fight this hostile takeover at every level—that includes Democrats in Congress, wh...
www.mobilize.us
February 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
TOMORROW: We’re rallying at the Treasury building with @moveon.org to stop Elon Musk’s hostile takeover and tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. We hope you can join us if you’re in the D.C. area.
“The case appears to be the first instance of criminal charges against a doctor accused of sending abortion pills to another state, at least since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 …”
Welp, here we fucking go. This is how they’re gonna do the abortion pill ban:
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-indictment-lousiana-new-york-doctor-63ff4d9da8a9b592a7ca4ec7ba538cd3
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-indictment-lousiana-new-york-doctor-63ff4d9da8a9b592a7ca4ec7ba538cd3
January 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
“The case appears to be the first instance of criminal charges against a doctor accused of sending abortion pills to another state, at least since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 …”
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Abolishing slavery didn’t just outlaw property in people. It provided congressional authority to secure civil rights. Overwhelmingly, Reconstruction Republicans thought 13A empowered them to enact the Civil Rights Act of 1866. And they override President Johnson’s veto. All before the 14A.
Today in US History: On January 31, 1865, "Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment which, on ratification, abolished slavery in America. The vote in the House was 121 to 24."
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January 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Abolishing slavery didn’t just outlaw property in people. It provided congressional authority to secure civil rights. Overwhelmingly, Reconstruction Republicans thought 13A empowered them to enact the Civil Rights Act of 1866. And they override President Johnson’s veto. All before the 14A.
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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey: Everything We Know So Far
www.empireonline.com/movies/featu...
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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey: Everything We Know So Far
The director of Oppenheimer is preparing to shoot his Ancient Greek epic – with an all-star cast. Read the details at Empire.
www.empireonline.com
January 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey: Everything We Know So Far
www.empireonline.com/movies/featu...
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REPORTER: Is there an acting FAA director?
DUFFY: *walks away*
(The FAA director resigned on the day of Trump's inauguration under pressure from Elon Musk)
DUFFY: *walks away*
(The FAA director resigned on the day of Trump's inauguration under pressure from Elon Musk)
January 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
REPORTER: Is there an acting FAA director?
DUFFY: *walks away*
(The FAA director resigned on the day of Trump's inauguration under pressure from Elon Musk)
DUFFY: *walks away*
(The FAA director resigned on the day of Trump's inauguration under pressure from Elon Musk)