Scott MacEachern
@scottmaceachern.bsky.social
Vice-Chancellor, archaeologist, Maritimer
As PM, has Keir Starmer actually let with anything except that enormous chin?
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Starmer allies issue warning to PM’s rivals as fears grow over leadership challenge
No 10 said to be in ‘full bunker mode’ over fears of attempt to oust him after budget or May local elections
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
As PM, has Keir Starmer actually let with anything except that enormous chin?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I bought Count Zero by accident, in transit through O’Hare just after it came out in 1986 or 1987.
It encapsulated a very particular concept of cool that has stuck with me ever since. Funny the things that work to define your life.
It encapsulated a very particular concept of cool that has stuck with me ever since. Funny the things that work to define your life.
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I bought Count Zero by accident, in transit through O’Hare just after it came out in 1986 or 1987.
It encapsulated a very particular concept of cool that has stuck with me ever since. Funny the things that work to define your life.
It encapsulated a very particular concept of cool that has stuck with me ever since. Funny the things that work to define your life.
As an archaeologist, I want to emphasize what bullshit this is.
“…this originated in the mists of prehistory, that men were organized to have warrior bands, which meant they needed to have hierarchical structures.”
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“…this originated in the mists of prehistory, that men were organized to have warrior bands, which meant they needed to have hierarchical structures.”
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Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?
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November 7, 2025 at 4:10 AM
As an archaeologist, I want to emphasize what bullshit this is.
“…this originated in the mists of prehistory, that men were organized to have warrior bands, which meant they needed to have hierarchical structures.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
“…this originated in the mists of prehistory, that men were organized to have warrior bands, which meant they needed to have hierarchical structures.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
“It’s not a war if the other side can’t shoot back.”
“Whatever happens, we have got/the Maxim gun, and they have not.”
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“Whatever happens, we have got/the Maxim gun, and they have not.”
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War Powers Law Does Not Apply to Trump’s Boat Strikes, Administration Says
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November 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM
“It’s not a war if the other side can’t shoot back.”
“Whatever happens, we have got/the Maxim gun, and they have not.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
“Whatever happens, we have got/the Maxim gun, and they have not.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
“The collision between Albanese and the Trump White House … It’s a conflict between someone who deeply understands the workings of a Mafia state and a U.S. administration that is building a Mafia state.”
Opinion | The U.S. Denounces Her. Multinationals Threaten Her. She Likes Her Odds.
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October 16, 2025 at 10:23 AM
“The collision between Albanese and the Trump White House … It’s a conflict between someone who deeply understands the workings of a Mafia state and a U.S. administration that is building a Mafia state.”
Now I understand why I keep reading all of these smarmy, squishy conversations between columnists and extreme-right commentators in the New York Times.
The Times columnists are doing job interviews: after all, they might be working for Bari Weiss someday.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...
The Times columnists are doing job interviews: after all, they might be working for Bari Weiss someday.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...
Opinion | Trumpism After Trump: The Future of the Right
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October 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Now I understand why I keep reading all of these smarmy, squishy conversations between columnists and extreme-right commentators in the New York Times.
The Times columnists are doing job interviews: after all, they might be working for Bari Weiss someday.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...
The Times columnists are doing job interviews: after all, they might be working for Bari Weiss someday.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...
If Dave Hutchinson had started writing his Fractured Europe sequence five years later, it would’ve been accused of being a documentary.
Except for the alternate universe and the Flu starting in Wuhan, of course.
Except for the alternate universe and the Flu starting in Wuhan, of course.
October 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
If Dave Hutchinson had started writing his Fractured Europe sequence five years later, it would’ve been accused of being a documentary.
Except for the alternate universe and the Flu starting in Wuhan, of course.
Except for the alternate universe and the Flu starting in Wuhan, of course.
“..mainstream right-wing commentators are claiming that black people cannot be English ..This is absolute poison, obviously, but it is also contrary to public opinion.. I would like to see a Labour communication strategy which punches that bruise. Make it the chief issue, focus remorselessly on it.”
October 4, 2025 at 5:17 AM
“..mainstream right-wing commentators are claiming that black people cannot be English ..This is absolute poison, obviously, but it is also contrary to public opinion.. I would like to see a Labour communication strategy which punches that bruise. Make it the chief issue, focus remorselessly on it.”
“Gazans are being slaughtered, but they’ve been slaughtered for a while now and that’s going to continue. So just give it a rest for a day or two, OK?
“The issues that are driving those protests have been going on for some time. They don’t look like they are going to come to an end any time soon.”
“The issues that are driving those protests have been going on for some time. They don’t look like they are going to come to an end any time soon.”
Home secretary calls Gaza protests in wake of Manchester attack ‘un-British’
Shabana Mahmood urges demonstrators to ‘show some love’ and call off planned protests after deadly attack
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October 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“Gazans are being slaughtered, but they’ve been slaughtered for a while now and that’s going to continue. So just give it a rest for a day or two, OK?
“The issues that are driving those protests have been going on for some time. They don’t look like they are going to come to an end any time soon.”
“The issues that are driving those protests have been going on for some time. They don’t look like they are going to come to an end any time soon.”
Not a coincidence that you get reports like this one at the same time as articles on the lawlessness of American Special Forces in places like Afghanistan. The objective is to have American families terrorized the way that Afghan families were.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...
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October 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Not a coincidence that you get reports like this one at the same time as articles on the lawlessness of American Special Forces in places like Afghanistan. The objective is to have American families terrorized the way that Afghan families were.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...
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September 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
As a partial antidote to this nonsense, I’d recommend Nadia Abu El-Haj’s excellent book ‘Facts on the Ground’.
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‘Tunnel vision’: how Israel is using archaeology for political ends
Scientists say Netanyahu government and its US backers are trying to construct a history shorn of all complexity
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September 25, 2025 at 4:28 AM
As a partial antidote to this nonsense, I’d recommend Nadia Abu El-Haj’s excellent book ‘Facts on the Ground’.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
In an conversation that spends most of its time talking about how the first two Red Scares were the left’s fault…
“And I want to be clear that I am not absolving them of their responsibility for this or saying this is the left’s fault. But…”
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“And I want to be clear that I am not absolving them of their responsibility for this or saying this is the left’s fault. But…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Building the Blue Scare
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September 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
In an conversation that spends most of its time talking about how the first two Red Scares were the left’s fault…
“And I want to be clear that I am not absolving them of their responsibility for this or saying this is the left’s fault. But…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
“And I want to be clear that I am not absolving them of their responsibility for this or saying this is the left’s fault. But…”
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‘…Vice President JD Vance said last week: “We don’t believe in political violence, but we do believe in civility….’
‘….when one social media user told him that killing foreign civilians without due process was a war crime, Mr. Vance responded, “I don’t give a shit what you call it.”’
‘….when one social media user told him that killing foreign civilians without due process was a war crime, Mr. Vance responded, “I don’t give a shit what you call it.”’
Opinion | America Is Blowing Up Boats and Asking Questions Later
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September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
‘…Vice President JD Vance said last week: “We don’t believe in political violence, but we do believe in civility….’
‘….when one social media user told him that killing foreign civilians without due process was a war crime, Mr. Vance responded, “I don’t give a shit what you call it.”’
‘….when one social media user told him that killing foreign civilians without due process was a war crime, Mr. Vance responded, “I don’t give a shit what you call it.”’
Erik Prince at work… using drones to kill children at a birthday party.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...
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Drone Strike in Haiti Kills 8 Children at a Birthday Party
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September 23, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Erik Prince at work… using drones to kill children at a birthday party.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...
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🇨🇦 🇵🇸 CANADA OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZES THE STATE OF PALESTINE 🇵🇸 🇨🇦
In a historic move, the Canadian government announced Sunday it now recognizes #Palestine, a decision it says is necessary to preserve the prospect of a #Two-stateSolution.
Benjamin Lopez Steven, CBC News
#CdnPoli #Canada
🇨🇦 🇵🇸 CANADA OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZES THE STATE OF PALESTINE 🇵🇸 🇨🇦
In a historic move, the Canadian government announced Sunday it now recognizes #Palestine, a decision it says is necessary to preserve the prospect of a #Two-stateSolution.
Benjamin Lopez Steven, CBC News
#CdnPoli #Canada
September 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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🇨🇦 🇵🇸 CANADA OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZES THE STATE OF PALESTINE 🇵🇸 🇨🇦
In a historic move, the Canadian government announced Sunday it now recognizes #Palestine, a decision it says is necessary to preserve the prospect of a #Two-stateSolution.
Benjamin Lopez Steven, CBC News
#CdnPoli #Canada
🇨🇦 🇵🇸 CANADA OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZES THE STATE OF PALESTINE 🇵🇸 🇨🇦
In a historic move, the Canadian government announced Sunday it now recognizes #Palestine, a decision it says is necessary to preserve the prospect of a #Two-stateSolution.
Benjamin Lopez Steven, CBC News
#CdnPoli #Canada
Reposted by Scott MacEachern
Reposted by Scott MacEachern
When you meet someone who wants you to be institutionalized, prosecuted, or killed, you should be asking yourself: what do I have in common with this person?
Tomorrow from Ezra Klein
Tomorrow from Ezra Klein
September 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
When you meet someone who wants you to be institutionalized, prosecuted, or killed, you should be asking yourself: what do I have in common with this person?
Tomorrow from Ezra Klein
Tomorrow from Ezra Klein
Eventually, these two idiots are going to run out of bad things to say about Democrats. However, it won’t be soon: if they are slagging Democrats, they are avoiding criticism of the present regime, and that’s primary.
Opinion | Ezra Klein Is Worried — but Not About a Radicalized Left
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September 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Eventually, these two idiots are going to run out of bad things to say about Democrats. However, it won’t be soon: if they are slagging Democrats, they are avoiding criticism of the present regime, and that’s primary.
Starmer’s never had an actual motive in government beyond screwing the Labour Left. Faced with the choice between condemning and embracing racism, he’ll take the easy route every time.
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It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage | Aditya Chakrabortty
As Labour flounders and dabbles in the politics of hatred to gain a point or two, it is those far from power who will suffer most, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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September 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Starmer’s never had an actual motive in government beyond screwing the Labour Left. Faced with the choice between condemning and embracing racism, he’ll take the easy route every time.
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The most anodyne description of a double tap ever: these are meant to kill rescuers.
Isabel Kershner as one of the writers, of course.
“…a “double tap” strike…. Rights groups have deplored such attacks, which can put rescue workers and other civilians gathering to help the wounded in danger.”
Isabel Kershner as one of the writers, of course.
“…a “double tap” strike…. Rights groups have deplored such attacks, which can put rescue workers and other civilians gathering to help the wounded in danger.”
20 Killed in Gaza Hospital Strikes. Netanyahu Claims ‘Tragic Mishap.’
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August 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The most anodyne description of a double tap ever: these are meant to kill rescuers.
Isabel Kershner as one of the writers, of course.
“…a “double tap” strike…. Rights groups have deplored such attacks, which can put rescue workers and other civilians gathering to help the wounded in danger.”
Isabel Kershner as one of the writers, of course.
“…a “double tap” strike…. Rights groups have deplored such attacks, which can put rescue workers and other civilians gathering to help the wounded in danger.”
“In 2019, the Trump administration argued that it should not be required to provide soap, showers, towels or toothbrushes to detained children, which stunned a panel of Ninth Circuit judges.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...
Judge Rejects Trump’s Attempt to End Standards of Care for Detained Migrant Children
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August 16, 2025 at 7:54 AM
“In 2019, the Trump administration argued that it should not be required to provide soap, showers, towels or toothbrushes to detained children, which stunned a panel of Ninth Circuit judges.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...
