RoyG
@royg1863.bsky.social
Historian, writer, Cubs fan, cat dad. I also have a human child. The avatar is a version of Romo Lampkin, a fictional character with whom I identify greatly. I love art, books, games, and staring at the sky.
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RoyG
@royg1863.bsky.social
· Nov 17
The most interesting parts of my biography are embedded in this image. That is all.
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Video of scene after shooting of National Guard in DC
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Video of scene after shooting of National Guard in DC
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I stand with Mark Kelly.
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I stand with Mark Kelly.
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@stevevladeck.bsky.social, Georgetown Law Professor and SCOTUS expert on why Justice Jackson’s move last night was strategically smart.
open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
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190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
@stevevladeck.bsky.social, Georgetown Law Professor and SCOTUS expert on why Justice Jackson’s move last night was strategically smart.
open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
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With SNAP benefits going to shit because of rich assholes and corruption running rampant through politics I'd like to point your attention to a Clinton.
No, not one of those Clintons. This Clinton. Clifford Clinton.
No, not one of those Clintons. This Clinton. Clifford Clinton.
October 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
With SNAP benefits going to shit because of rich assholes and corruption running rampant through politics I'd like to point your attention to a Clinton.
No, not one of those Clintons. This Clinton. Clifford Clinton.
No, not one of those Clintons. This Clinton. Clifford Clinton.
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"A Chicago Heights Catholic priest began a 50-day pilgrimage in support of immigrant children, from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton, IL to New York ...
'This is not only a physical act of endurance, but a spiritual act of solidarity, a prayer in motion'..."
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/c...
'This is not only a physical act of endurance, but a spiritual act of solidarity, a prayer in motion'..."
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/c...
Chicago Heights priest begins walk for immigrant children from Pope Leo’s childhood home in Dolton
Gary Graf, a Chicago Heights Catholic priest, began a 50-day justice walk from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton to New York.
www.chicagotribune.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"A Chicago Heights Catholic priest began a 50-day pilgrimage in support of immigrant children, from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton, IL to New York ...
'This is not only a physical act of endurance, but a spiritual act of solidarity, a prayer in motion'..."
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/c...
'This is not only a physical act of endurance, but a spiritual act of solidarity, a prayer in motion'..."
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/c...
RIP, Col. Hardy.
George Hardy, one of the last original Tuskegee Airmen, dies at 100: "A true American hero"
Lt. Col. George Hardy enlisted in the Air Force in 1944 and was the youngest Red Tail fighter pilot to fly a combat sortie over Europe.
www.cbsnews.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
RIP, Col. Hardy.
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Baptist minister: It is up to us to stop Christian nationalism
September 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Baptist minister: It is up to us to stop Christian nationalism
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This ought to be engraved somewhere.
September 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This ought to be engraved somewhere.
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Democrats, you don’t have to make your good communicators president! You can just put them in leadership positions. Stop letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
September 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Democrats, you don’t have to make your good communicators president! You can just put them in leadership positions. Stop letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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People walking to Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009 in the bitter cold, full of hope for a better future.
Sound up. 🔊
Sound up. 🔊
September 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
People walking to Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009 in the bitter cold, full of hope for a better future.
Sound up. 🔊
Sound up. 🔊
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Agree with Mayor Pete.......
September 22, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Agree with Mayor Pete.......
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Some people hate it when you interrupt their ill founded narrative...with critical thinking. That's exactly why we have to continue doing so. Propaganda hates meeting critical thinking.
September 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Some people hate it when you interrupt their ill founded narrative...with critical thinking. That's exactly why we have to continue doing so. Propaganda hates meeting critical thinking.
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Trump is unusually unpopular and has always been unusually unpopular, and most of his agenda - policy and anti-democracy - is unpopular. The people who do love him are mostly the most intense partisans, who are going to like any GOP president, and are no more special than any other group of voters.
there's this concept widely held among political professionals and observers that because Trump got nearly 50% of the votes, his entire program represents the authentic will of the people and criticizing him means you're in a bubble, and i'm here to tell you those people are dumb and bad
A new Reuters poll finds that Americans are uneasy at Trump’s moves to expand presidential power.
September 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Trump is unusually unpopular and has always been unusually unpopular, and most of his agenda - policy and anti-democracy - is unpopular. The people who do love him are mostly the most intense partisans, who are going to like any GOP president, and are no more special than any other group of voters.
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We thought the social fabric was coming apart in 1968, too. You cannot think clearly or act wisely or strategically through the fog of a highly charged moment. Too often we have the experience and miss the meaning.
September 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
We thought the social fabric was coming apart in 1968, too. You cannot think clearly or act wisely or strategically through the fog of a highly charged moment. Too often we have the experience and miss the meaning.
As I was saying ...
Watch for these moves in the coming days:
1.) Instant sanctification by the leader
2.) Rituals that migrate into rallies
3.) Attribution-before-evidence
4.) Policy ratchet tied to grief: calls for emergency powers, campus purges
5.) Merchandising the memory,
1.) Instant sanctification by the leader
2.) Rituals that migrate into rallies
3.) Attribution-before-evidence
4.) Policy ratchet tied to grief: calls for emergency powers, campus purges
5.) Merchandising the memory,
When Tragedy Becomes Theatre - Don’t Let Them “Horst Wessel” Charlie Kirk
The warning isn’t about equivalence; it’s about a tactic. Authoritarians turn death into myth, grief into mobilization, they are experts at turning funerals into furnaces. Resist the myth-making
belib.org
September 11, 2025 at 4:49 AM
As I was saying ...
I fear the right has founds its Horst Wessel.
Horst Wessel - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I fear the right has founds its Horst Wessel.
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Rest in Peace, Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman.
She was targeted and assassinated on June 14, 2025 between 2 am and 3:35 am CDT in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Vance Boelter was targeting 70+ Democrats at the time of the incident.
She was targeted and assassinated on June 14, 2025 between 2 am and 3:35 am CDT in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Vance Boelter was targeting 70+ Democrats at the time of the incident.
September 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Rest in Peace, Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman.
She was targeted and assassinated on June 14, 2025 between 2 am and 3:35 am CDT in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Vance Boelter was targeting 70+ Democrats at the time of the incident.
She was targeted and assassinated on June 14, 2025 between 2 am and 3:35 am CDT in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Vance Boelter was targeting 70+ Democrats at the time of the incident.
I swear to gopod if some of you people who should damn well know better don't stop using "Democrat" as an adjective, I am going to lose what's left of my damn mind.
Just know, if you do this, you are proliferating right-wing propaganda.
Just know, if you do this, you are proliferating right-wing propaganda.
September 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I swear to gopod if some of you people who should damn well know better don't stop using "Democrat" as an adjective, I am going to lose what's left of my damn mind.
Just know, if you do this, you are proliferating right-wing propaganda.
Just know, if you do this, you are proliferating right-wing propaganda.
Age verification:
I watched Soviet and American spacecraft dock in space live on television.
I saw Roots when it first aired.
Along with 105 million others, I watched the finale of M*A*S*H.
I read Pratchett's first Discworld book the year it was published.
I saw video kill the radio star.
I watched Soviet and American spacecraft dock in space live on television.
I saw Roots when it first aired.
Along with 105 million others, I watched the finale of M*A*S*H.
I read Pratchett's first Discworld book the year it was published.
I saw video kill the radio star.
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I dodged ice cream cone tops with Neopets.
I saw Lord of the Rings in cinema (all three).
I remember Supernatural season one and how worried we all were it wouldn’t get renewed.
I remember The WB commercials becoming The CW.
I dodged ice cream cone tops with Neopets.
I saw Lord of the Rings in cinema (all three).
I remember Supernatural season one and how worried we all were it wouldn’t get renewed.
I remember The WB commercials becoming The CW.
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I witnessed Snape Wives first hand
I witnessed Snape Wives first hand
September 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Age verification:
I watched Soviet and American spacecraft dock in space live on television.
I saw Roots when it first aired.
Along with 105 million others, I watched the finale of M*A*S*H.
I read Pratchett's first Discworld book the year it was published.
I saw video kill the radio star.
I watched Soviet and American spacecraft dock in space live on television.
I saw Roots when it first aired.
Along with 105 million others, I watched the finale of M*A*S*H.
I read Pratchett's first Discworld book the year it was published.
I saw video kill the radio star.