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Chad Leahy
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Early modern Iberia. Spain & Jerusalem. Strategic anachronism and political uses of the past. Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Denver.
My brain is so cooked that i saw this and was so confused about how Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter and Jaco were gonna possibly help with this storm.
Weather report for Charlotte: massive ice storm coming in from Chicago. Large swaths up and down i77. Be safe
November 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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We stopped teaching students that intellectual curiousity is the most exciting and important part of college, stopped asking them to not just do the reading but seek extra books, music, films, shows, plays, art for context, stopped demanding not just looking for rubrics to check boxes but seek more.
November 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Genuinely thought this said “The Presidential Waffle House”
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Hang on wait a minute, zohran mamdani’s dad is Mahmood Mamdani? 🤯
November 6, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Hail to the Thief isn’t the best Radiohead album, but apropos of nothing, it’s a very good Radiohead album.
November 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Assuming this will be the only campaign video anyone needs to run.
October 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Raise your hand if you're really upset about the journalists being unlawfully and roughly detained footage.

In case you were wondering...it's here.
October 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I don’t think I’ll ever get over “Spanish (Traditional Sort)” as one of MS Word’s language options. Like “Garyd vos, ay yermanelas com’ contener a meu mali.” Like…. That?
October 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I know zero about payroll but whenever I see graphs like this I immediately assume this is glucose and think like hey man get some sugar or hey man hit that with a bolus or like GET THE GLUCAGON or whatever.
Whelp! ADP did a preliminary benchmark to the QCEW and we are already seeing private job losses in August & September...
October 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The upside is that this thing is really inspiring some bangers on Bluesky today.
September 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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When I was an epileptic child, my parents would worry so much every time I got a virus or cold—because every time my body temperature spiked beyond a point; I could have a seizure.
Have you ever seen a child have a seizure? Do you know how scary it is for them to have a seizure?
Highly normal. Nothing to see here, folks.
September 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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She doesn't look like a rat to me.
September 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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HAHAHA, my administration likes to murder people who work on fishing boats! HAHAHAHA, isn't that funny! Now WE are the party of the working class!
Vance on Trump's strikes on boats: "I wouldn't go fishing right now in that area of the world."
September 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
There’s a lot here but probably my favorite is “A couple of little edicts.”
Trump: "We could've won every war, but we really chose to be very politically correct, or wokey."
September 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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SO sorry about the treatment your specialists and engineers received at the hands of our secret police goon squad. That's normally something we reserve for a different race of people who we like even less, hope you understand. Please come back
September 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Call for papers for a two-part workshop on Early Modern Iberian Critical Race Studies, to be hosted at Holy Cross (spring 2026) and Johns Hopkins (fall 2026).

Please share the call with anyone who might be interested, and feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
September 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Is it unreasonable to assume that this assassination will be used as a pretext for military interventions on college campuses? (And to be clear: murder is bad).
September 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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"The moment I hear Middle East I become upset, because this is colonial language." - Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian writer & activist
August 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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The deeper I get into the Womanly Arts, AKA sewing and knitting, the more I realize that misogyny has been a long con in every way. Both disciplines involve tons of math, precision work, mechanical parts, and gear. All things women are told they cannot do, yet have invisibly done for centuries 🤡
September 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
But what will I do without those sick sax solos? 😔🎷
Guess I’ll take the 6’x10’ Bill Clinton flags off my boat and pickup truck tmrw and never wear my ‘Building a Bridge To The 21st Century’ hat again
lolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
September 9, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Ah yes, the famously wonderful outcomes of the —checks notes— Vietnam War.
This is insane. This is a real social media post in which the president of the United States declares war on a great American city.
Get active now, while you can. Help us rescue our country from a fascist dictatorship.
September 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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opening the word document again
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee
September 4, 2025 at 4:52 AM