Elizabeth Duquette
@hylonome.bsky.social
Writer, reader, editor, ranter, professor. Opposed to tyrants:
American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon (Oxford UP 2023 and audiobook)
Co-Editor, American Literary History Review
American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon (Oxford UP 2023 and audiobook)
Co-Editor, American Literary History Review
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Elizabeth Duquette
@hylonome.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Elizabeth Duquette, American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon
Elizabeth Duquette’s American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon starts with a striking fact: the “magical ubiquity” (4) of the figure of Napoleon Bonaparte in the 19th-century culture of the U...
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Perfection
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Perfection
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"Politics is not just about power and money games, politics can be about the improvement of peoples lives, about lessening human suffering in our world and bringing about more peace and more justice."
U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, who died on this day in 2002
U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, who died on this day in 2002
October 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"Politics is not just about power and money games, politics can be about the improvement of peoples lives, about lessening human suffering in our world and bringing about more peace and more justice."
U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, who died on this day in 2002
U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, who died on this day in 2002
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Good summation of the propaganda assault on Portland that is accompanying the Trump administration’s political/military assault on the city. open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...
Sordid Sortor
A dust-up in Portland reveals the dangerous degree of Trump administration overlap with the right-wing marketplace
open.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Good summation of the propaganda assault on Portland that is accompanying the Trump administration’s political/military assault on the city. open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...
I did not know that DC residents were making noise in solidarity at 8pm every evening. Armed soldiers in museums, parks, streets, metro. Gearing up to make some noise with (for) them from OR.
August 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I did not know that DC residents were making noise in solidarity at 8pm every evening. Armed soldiers in museums, parks, streets, metro. Gearing up to make some noise with (for) them from OR.
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From romcom to Shakespearean tragedy: my life on hold in the broken insurance loop: open.substack.com/pub/emdillon...
July 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
From romcom to Shakespearean tragedy: my life on hold in the broken insurance loop: open.substack.com/pub/emdillon...
A few last minutes outside before drugs.
July 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
A few last minutes outside before drugs.
Pynchon’s Nixon, “‘There are always the whiners and complainers who’ll say, this is fascism. Well, fellow Americans, if it’s Fascism for Freedom? I….can….dig it!’ Tumultuous applause from a room full of supporters, some of them holding banners with the same phrase professionally letter on them”
July 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Pynchon’s Nixon, “‘There are always the whiners and complainers who’ll say, this is fascism. Well, fellow Americans, if it’s Fascism for Freedom? I….can….dig it!’ Tumultuous applause from a room full of supporters, some of them holding banners with the same phrase professionally letter on them”
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Blue #4, by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1916, 📸 by Mitchell Leff
June 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Blue #4, by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1916, 📸 by Mitchell Leff
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Anyway. Did you know that once, waiters didn’t want to serve sarah huckabee at a restaurant? That was a national crisis. This is fine though
June 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Anyway. Did you know that once, waiters didn’t want to serve sarah huckabee at a restaurant? That was a national crisis. This is fine though
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If you've driven on I-5 in southwest Washington, you've probably noticed the big billboard with the far-right JBS messages. That's about to change.
Chehalis Tribe Buys Billboard, Plans to Replace Messages with Accurate U.S. History
medium.com/@lewiscounty...
Chehalis Tribe Buys Billboard, Plans to Replace Messages with Accurate U.S. History
medium.com/@lewiscounty...
Chehalis Tribe Buys Billboard, Plans to Replace Messages with Accurate U.S. History
NAPAVINE, WA — In a development historians are calling “chef’s kiss levels of poetic justice,” the infamous Uncle Sam billboard along I-5 near Chehalis has been purchased by the Confederated Tribes…
medium.com
June 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
If you've driven on I-5 in southwest Washington, you've probably noticed the big billboard with the far-right JBS messages. That's about to change.
Chehalis Tribe Buys Billboard, Plans to Replace Messages with Accurate U.S. History
medium.com/@lewiscounty...
Chehalis Tribe Buys Billboard, Plans to Replace Messages with Accurate U.S. History
medium.com/@lewiscounty...
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I've just joined BlueSky and need help from friends to gather followers. So @uvalaw.bsky.social, and other faculty and students, please share/follow. I write about discrimination law and its philosophical foundations and about bribery and corruption. Am interested in all things law and philosophy.
May 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I've just joined BlueSky and need help from friends to gather followers. So @uvalaw.bsky.social, and other faculty and students, please share/follow. I write about discrimination law and its philosophical foundations and about bribery and corruption. Am interested in all things law and philosophy.
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New to Bluesky, and posting a new paper: "Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and Title VI: A Guide for the Perplexed" -- with @beidelson.bsky.social.
Forthcoming in Harv. L. Rev. Forum in June. (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....).
A thread follows.
Forthcoming in Harv. L. Rev. Forum in June. (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....).
A thread follows.
May 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
New to Bluesky, and posting a new paper: "Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and Title VI: A Guide for the Perplexed" -- with @beidelson.bsky.social.
Forthcoming in Harv. L. Rev. Forum in June. (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....).
A thread follows.
Forthcoming in Harv. L. Rev. Forum in June. (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....).
A thread follows.
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I'm curious what JD Vance means when he says that places like France -- where after 1918 social Catholics & business owners wedded to paternalist capitalism began building what are today its exceptionally generous child allowance, daycare, & universal health systems--is "hostile to family formation"
May 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I'm curious what JD Vance means when he says that places like France -- where after 1918 social Catholics & business owners wedded to paternalist capitalism began building what are today its exceptionally generous child allowance, daycare, & universal health systems--is "hostile to family formation"
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this -- about a tenured professor of English at West Point who, after being ordered not to assign an essay by Alice Walker, decided she had to resign on principle -- hit hard
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
May 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
this -- about a tenured professor of English at West Point who, after being ordered not to assign an essay by Alice Walker, decided she had to resign on principle -- hit hard
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
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New Pope Declares All Style Manuals Other Than Chicago As Schismatic
May 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
New Pope Declares All Style Manuals Other Than Chicago As Schismatic
There are countless greater horrors in our world, and I choose to believe they fuel my little (losing) war on utilize.
Use is a perfectly fine word! Let’s use it! Extra syllables do not make prose (seem) smarter!!
Use is a perfectly fine word! Let’s use it! Extra syllables do not make prose (seem) smarter!!
April 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
There are countless greater horrors in our world, and I choose to believe they fuel my little (losing) war on utilize.
Use is a perfectly fine word! Let’s use it! Extra syllables do not make prose (seem) smarter!!
Use is a perfectly fine word! Let’s use it! Extra syllables do not make prose (seem) smarter!!
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Me too, vizcacha
April 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Me too, vizcacha
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90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
About 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Had No US Criminal Record
Trump administration officials have described the men deported to El Salvador prisons last month as “the worst of the worst,” suggesting they were gang members involved in murder, rape and kidnapping.
www.bloomberg.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I really need our society not to collapse before Oct. 7.
April 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I really need our society not to collapse before Oct. 7.
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Join me for my daily game of Anxiety Disorder or Literacy
April 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Join me for my daily game of Anxiety Disorder or Literacy
The utter buffoonery of vicious mediocrity!
US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally - www.reuters.com/world/us-off...
US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally - www.reuters.com/world/us-off...
US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally
U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers' participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The utter buffoonery of vicious mediocrity!
US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally - www.reuters.com/world/us-off...
US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally - www.reuters.com/world/us-off...
From Blackstone’s Commentaries: because imprisonment is “less public,” it is “therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government” than obvious assaults on liberties because “by secretly hurrying” a person to jail, their “sufferings are unknown or forgotten” (1:132).
March 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
From Blackstone’s Commentaries: because imprisonment is “less public,” it is “therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government” than obvious assaults on liberties because “by secretly hurrying” a person to jail, their “sufferings are unknown or forgotten” (1:132).
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Happy March 15 to the President of the United States and all his team.
March 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Happy March 15 to the President of the United States and all his team.