JC_Spurlock
@historiator.bsky.social
He/him. Historian, author of Youth and Sexuality in the 20th-Century U.S. and other works on American sexuality. Teaching interests in global history, World War II, genocide. Of the Lutheran faith. Blog : bluemonkeyreview.wordpress.com/
Driving into Central Pennsylvania yesterday, I saw not one but two anti-MAGA billboards. What happened to the war on coal?
November 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Driving into Central Pennsylvania yesterday, I saw not one but two anti-MAGA billboards. What happened to the war on coal?
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Awesome
It’s getting real for Home Depot. The flash mob is only the warm up, the nationwide boycott hits on November 27th.
Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”
Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Awesome
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So, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan- we learned nothing from those actions?
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
So, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan- we learned nothing from those actions?
Danny Boy - Sinéad O'Connor, 1993
YouTube video by CR's Video Vaults
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November 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Some days you feel tired of hearing
About “plans”
Some days you feel sad.
Then you remember: Ukraine is still alive, still resisting, still surprising the world.
About “plans”
Some days you feel sad.
Then you remember: Ukraine is still alive, still resisting, still surprising the world.
November 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Some days you feel tired of hearing
About “plans”
Some days you feel sad.
Then you remember: Ukraine is still alive, still resisting, still surprising the world.
About “plans”
Some days you feel sad.
Then you remember: Ukraine is still alive, still resisting, still surprising the world.
This summary reveals a horrible plan for Ukraine. Russia would get almost everything it wants and Ukraine would be left more vulnerable to a future invasion.
“Donald Trump’s latest plan for ending the war in Ukraine would see territory ceded to Russia, Russia readmitted to the G8 and Ukraine banned from joining Nato, according to drafts of the proposal seen by Axios, AFP and the Associated Press”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Ukraine banned from Nato, Russia readmitted to the G8 and territory ceded: what’s in Trump’s draft plan
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he expects to discuss the plan – which was reportedly drafted by Russian and US officials – with Trump
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This summary reveals a horrible plan for Ukraine. Russia would get almost everything it wants and Ukraine would be left more vulnerable to a future invasion.
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Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
This does make sense of a lot of our politics.
things become easier to understand once the realization sinks in that many powerful or influential people are - very literally - con artists, fraudsters, and criminals
November 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This does make sense of a lot of our politics.
Emma Thompson comments on AI:
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Emma Thompson comments on AI:
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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The Great Again Depression
Warner: "We're already at 9% recent college graduate unemployment. I think that number will go to 25% very shortly."
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The Great Again Depression
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American invasion of US going well, reports indicate.
Trump Troop Deployment in U.S. Climbs to 35,000 Boots on the Ground
A federal judge found the deployment to LA violated bedrock constitutional law, but Trump’s domestic military campaign continues. theintercept.com/2025/09/17/t...
A federal judge found the deployment to LA violated bedrock constitutional law, but Trump’s domestic military campaign continues. theintercept.com/2025/09/17/t...
November 19, 2025 at 2:31 AM
American invasion of US going well, reports indicate.
The news here is mixed, but a least there is some pretty good news as part of the mix: China’s carbon emissions have hit a plateau (at least for now).
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024.
www.carbonbrief.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The news here is mixed, but a least there is some pretty good news as part of the mix: China’s carbon emissions have hit a plateau (at least for now).
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
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Walking around Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon is the best reminder ever that not everybody in America is stupid. 🙏 🇺🇸
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Walking around Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon is the best reminder ever that not everybody in America is stupid. 🙏 🇺🇸
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"Breaking: Sexless, godless freaks leave homes for first time to support socialism"
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"Breaking: Sexless, godless freaks leave homes for first time to support socialism"
I think in Pennsylvania a lot of people who couldn't bring themselves to vote for Kamala finally woke up and smelled the napalm.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I think in Pennsylvania a lot of people who couldn't bring themselves to vote for Kamala finally woke up and smelled the napalm.
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I didn't realise "day drunk" was a "warrior ethos."
September 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I didn't realise "day drunk" was a "warrior ethos."
Sadly, this does sound like Fetterman.
This is either completely made up or it’s Fetterman.
Both equally plausible.
Both equally plausible.
September 30, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Sadly, this does sound like Fetterman.
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Skills of the delivery trade
September 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Skills of the delivery trade
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The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
Meantime, socialism with Chinese characteristics has come run so far ahead of the West on solar that venture capital firms are ignoring western solar companies. Talk about energy dominance.
Capitalism is so fun cause we invent renewable energy and then for some reason (capitalism again) electricity is getting more expensive AND we aren’t really turning off that much fossil fuel combustion. Fantastic stuff
September 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Meantime, socialism with Chinese characteristics has come run so far ahead of the West on solar that venture capital firms are ignoring western solar companies. Talk about energy dominance.
Yes, I'd like to pray in peace. My small church (with the gay pride flag out front) has security concerns. We've put in bullet resistant glass. The outer doors are locked after worship begins. Someone remains in the narthex to open for latecomers. At times that is me, 1st line of defense.
I want to be able to worship without worrying that someone could walk in with a rifle and start shooting.
The shooter is dead - how are you going to prosecute him?
The shooter is dead - how are you going to prosecute him?
Leavitt on Michigan shooting: "As the president rightfully put in his Truth Social yesterday, this appears to be yet another targeted attack on Christians. And the Trump administration is fully committed to not only investigating these crimes but prosecuting them to the fullest extent of the law."
September 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Yes, I'd like to pray in peace. My small church (with the gay pride flag out front) has security concerns. We've put in bullet resistant glass. The outer doors are locked after worship begins. Someone remains in the narthex to open for latecomers. At times that is me, 1st line of defense.
Does anyone else suspect this is a bait and switch set up, where DT walks into the meeting and all the generals are required to take an oath of personal loyalty to il duce?
September 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Does anyone else suspect this is a bait and switch set up, where DT walks into the meeting and all the generals are required to take an oath of personal loyalty to il duce?
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Not even that.
September 29, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Not even that.