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John Terry
@johntrterry.bsky.social
award-winning world history teacher, occasional writer, arkansas grad, phd from uva in early medieval things 🗃️ missing weird #stlcards twitter but nothing else

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first time I've done a "hello new followers" thing bc I've never had many followers on any platform, but I'm enjoying the high engagement culture of this website. seems that I've appeared on enough starter packs to gain a few followers, so: I'm john.
"goodies" is a weird way to spell "services" lol
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
criminal charges now
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Ahead of the upcoming ACIP meeting on the child immunization schedule, it’s important to remember immunizations are about more than individual decisions — immunizations affect communities, including babies too young to be vaccinated
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
after watching death by lightning on netflix I've learned that for most of american history it was considered unseemly and tacky for presidential candidates to campaign for themselves. it's not often I look at the 19th century and think to myself "yeah let's bring that back" but here we are.
November 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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this tawdry Olivia Nuzzi stuff highlights why I’m turning into a small-c conservative with regards to “it is unseemly and shameful for people in positions of power and influence to subject the public to their messy-ass sex nonsense on a constant basis”
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
ladies and gentlemen, we got 'em
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
god yes absolutely here for the ecclesiastical content, honestly if rian johnson would give us one of these every 3-5 years for the rest of our lives this century might just be bearable
Final trailer! Wake Up Dead Man is in theaters 11/26 and on Netflix 12/12. Can’t WAIT for you all to see it. #wakeupdeadman
November 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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There is a Nuremberg, PA, and if we start building infrastructure now...
"Nuremberg defendants were surprisingly normal, opportunists who, as he put it in a 1946 lecture, 'exist in every country of the world, who would willingly climb over the corpses of half of the … public if they could gain control of the other half.'”
What's real & not in the new Nuremberg movie:
The Psychiatrist Who Studied Nazi Officials After the War Found Something Shocking. It Didn’t Earn Him Any Fans.
Understanding the minds of monsters is no easy task.
slate.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
ai could never
“Baby, don’t worry,” he said. “It’s not a worm.”

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
November 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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/2 The article and headline don’t arise in a vacuum, they arise on the front page of the New York Times, which has selected a very specific way to approach moral and political issues, characterized by detachment, both-sidesism, and trolling.
November 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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She’s lying, of course, but it is noteworthy that the feels like she has to lie and say these things. She’s a weathervane and this is a sign of the way the wind is blowing.
BASH: We have seen these attacks from the president at other people. It's not new. And I haven't heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you.

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
November 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"blending governance and family business" like they're folding in the cheese. get a grip.
Saudi officials used President Trump’s state visit in May to pique his interest in a major real estate development, the latest example of Trump blending governance and family business, particularly in Persian Gulf countries. nyti.ms/4r7mboU
November 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Blending Family and Governance is why this country exists in the first place you absolute fools
Blending family and governance
November 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
it's knives out night, name a better november movie
November 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
this photo in particular is doing something to me
November 15, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
this is as powerful and righteous a witness to the teachings of jesus christ as you can find in 2025
This man, Rev. Michael Woolf, wrote this for us earlier this month: "It is up to us to keep our communities safe from this terror, and scripture tells us that God will meet us there—at the picket line, amid the tear gas." sojo.net/articles/opi...
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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This man, Rev. Michael Woolf, wrote this for us earlier this month: "It is up to us to keep our communities safe from this terror, and scripture tells us that God will meet us there—at the picket line, amid the tear gas." sojo.net/articles/opi...
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
speaking as someone whose child will never remember her wonderful grandmother..............fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck this.
New insult to life itself just dropped
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Jamelle was cooking.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
excellent work on this thread both for pulling out the main excerpts from former UVA president jim ryan and @bakerdphd.bsky.social's commentary on it
Jim Ryan wrote a letter to UVA detailing his "resignation" and I'm gonna get some fresh tea before I read it because I feel pretty certain I'm gonna be filled with righteous anger by the end

I'll do a thread but here's the full letter provided by the chronicle

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Jim Ryan letter
www.documentcloud.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
every time I hear a student say "ai slop" i get a little spring in my step
November 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
what a fucking day to be Offline
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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AND WE'RE LIVE!!!!!

Welcome to American Medieval! Our first episode sees @profgabriele.com talk with the amazing @goingmedieval.bsky.social about what got us interested in the Middle Ages, why Czech history is super cool, and why Dan Brown drives us nuts

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Public Medievalism with Eleanor Janega
Podcast Episode · American Medieval · 11/12/2025 · 57m
podcasts.apple.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM