David M. Luebke
@davidmluebke.bsky.social
Historian of the Reformation, early modern world, social movements, uprisings. Helped create the permanent exhibition at Holocaust Museum in DC, ages ago. Union activist. Amateur cook and photographer. Opinions are my own, RT ≠ endorsement. 💙🌊
Too bad it's not a word
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Too bad it's not a word
For once he's actually half right!
November 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
For once he's actually half right!
Proud dancer dad, after the matinee performance of "Dracula," a new production by the Eugene Ballet
#EugeneBallet
#Dracula
#EugeneBallet
#Dracula
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Proud dancer dad, after the matinee performance of "Dracula," a new production by the Eugene Ballet
#EugeneBallet
#Dracula
#EugeneBallet
#Dracula
October 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
It's blatantly unconstitutional, of course, but that's no obstacle to ol' Gregg.
#GreggAbbott
#Texas
#WarOnEducation
#edusky
www.kxan.com/top-stories/...
#GreggAbbott
#Texas
#WarOnEducation
#edusky
www.kxan.com/top-stories/...
October 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It's blatantly unconstitutional, of course, but that's no obstacle to ol' Gregg.
#GreggAbbott
#Texas
#WarOnEducation
#edusky
www.kxan.com/top-stories/...
#GreggAbbott
#Texas
#WarOnEducation
#edusky
www.kxan.com/top-stories/...
October 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Here's how one pastor celebrated the Gaza ceasefire.
October 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Here's how one pastor celebrated the Gaza ceasefire.
Move more than a block or two from the ICE facility, and you'd never guess that Portland is under federal occupation. Every morning, hundreds of thousands of commuters zoom past on their way downtown without smelling so much as a whiff of grapeshot.
October 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Move more than a block or two from the ICE facility, and you'd never guess that Portland is under federal occupation. Every morning, hundreds of thousands of commuters zoom past on their way downtown without smelling so much as a whiff of grapeshot.
The South Waterfront is a former warehouse and light-industry district turned high-rise residential, packed with oldsters who like it there because the South Waterfront neighborhood is connected by suspended air tram to the Oregon Health Sciences University, high up on the bluffs above.
#OHSU
#OHSU
October 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The South Waterfront is a former warehouse and light-industry district turned high-rise residential, packed with oldsters who like it there because the South Waterfront neighborhood is connected by suspended air tram to the Oregon Health Sciences University, high up on the bluffs above.
#OHSU
#OHSU
Tr•mp will attempt to mobilize the military against his domestic political opponents. Everything will hinge on the generals and their willingness to obey illegal commands.
#Tyranny
#Repression
#StopTheCoup
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
#Tyranny
#Repression
#StopTheCoup
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
September 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Tr•mp will attempt to mobilize the military against his domestic political opponents. Everything will hinge on the generals and their willingness to obey illegal commands.
#Tyranny
#Repression
#StopTheCoup
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
#Tyranny
#Repression
#StopTheCoup
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
When the FTC put the heat on ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel over opinions he uttered publicly on his own show, now THAT was straight-up tyranny.
#JimmyKimmel
#Tyranny
#1A
#JimmyKimmel
#Tyranny
#1A
September 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
When the FTC put the heat on ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel over opinions he uttered publicly on his own show, now THAT was straight-up tyranny.
#JimmyKimmel
#Tyranny
#1A
#JimmyKimmel
#Tyranny
#1A
September 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Not even a bronze medal? Oregonians, you disappoint me!
#nones
#Oregon
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
#nones
#Oregon
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
September 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Not even a bronze medal? Oregonians, you disappoint me!
#nones
#Oregon
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
#nones
#Oregon
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
And here is the corresponding map for all political murders perpetrated by anyone on the "left" during the same period:
#antifascism
#antifascism
September 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
And here is the corresponding map for all political murders perpetrated by anyone on the "left" during the same period:
#antifascism
#antifascism
The "right" holds a near-monopoly on politically motivated murders in the United States. Here is a map compiled by the Anti-Defamation League, showing right-wing political murders from 2002 to now.
#ADL
#PoliticalViolence
#signalboost
#fascism
#ADL
#PoliticalViolence
#signalboost
#fascism
September 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The "right" holds a near-monopoly on politically motivated murders in the United States. Here is a map compiled by the Anti-Defamation League, showing right-wing political murders from 2002 to now.
#ADL
#PoliticalViolence
#signalboost
#fascism
#ADL
#PoliticalViolence
#signalboost
#fascism
Needless to say, Charlotte Corday was guillotined on July 17, 1793, only four days after murdering Marat.
September 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Needless to say, Charlotte Corday was guillotined on July 17, 1793, only four days after murdering Marat.
Her assassination of Marat sealed the Girondins' fate: in late July, the Girondins were proscribed as enemies of the people, arrested, tried, and executed.
September 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Her assassination of Marat sealed the Girondins' fate: in late July, the Girondins were proscribed as enemies of the people, arrested, tried, and executed.
But within the revolutionary coalition, too, he was as much loathed as he was loved. In 1793, Marat gave full-throated support to the "Committee of Twelve," tasked with repressing those deemed insufficiently republican.
September 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
But within the revolutionary coalition, too, he was as much loathed as he was loved. In 1793, Marat gave full-throated support to the "Committee of Twelve," tasked with repressing those deemed insufficiently republican.