Thomas Elkins
@taelkins-15.bsky.social
Classics reader - studied philosophy/history/literature. NIU/DePaul. Dog & cat owner. Prog social Dem. Plato/Aristotle/Kant/Gadamer reader. No DMs.
Log splitter, classicist, Mod.
Log splitter, classicist, Mod.
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The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.
October 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.
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One of the greatest women who ever lived, Jane Goodall has died at age 91. May we all think of her as our role model. 💔
October 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
One of the greatest women who ever lived, Jane Goodall has died at age 91. May we all think of her as our role model. 💔
One of my heroes. Good night Jane Goodall. You were the best of humanity.
October 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
One of my heroes. Good night Jane Goodall. You were the best of humanity.
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It’s not just that this is puerile and lawless. It’s that it is completely out of touch with the issues relevant to contemporary warfare. Russia fights like this. It makes Russians criminals. But it doesn’t make them winners.
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
October 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It’s not just that this is puerile and lawless. It’s that it is completely out of touch with the issues relevant to contemporary warfare. Russia fights like this. It makes Russians criminals. But it doesn’t make them winners.
Cats go from purr to bite in 2 seconds. Yet no one uses that as a selling point.
September 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Cats go from purr to bite in 2 seconds. Yet no one uses that as a selling point.
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A six year investigation by NYT reporters found the nation’s largest bank enabled Epstein for years.
🎁 article
🎁 article
How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
A six year investigation by NYT reporters found the nation’s largest bank enabled Epstein for years.
🎁 article
🎁 article
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1 like = 1 interesting I read in Greek inscriptions (or read about in SEG or BE)
September 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
1 like = 1 interesting I read in Greek inscriptions (or read about in SEG or BE)
A must read thread.
August 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A must read thread.
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#ProtestSongOfTheDay
youtu.be/1q82twrdr0U?...
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again
youtu.be/1q82twrdr0U?...
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again
Les Misérables | Do You Hear the People Sing?
YouTube video by Universal Pictures
youtu.be
August 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
#ProtestSongOfTheDay
youtu.be/1q82twrdr0U?...
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again
youtu.be/1q82twrdr0U?...
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again
Good night, Jim Lovell.
August 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Good night, Jim Lovell.
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I am well aware that social class and privilege are important factors here but even so, this was my own experience. I have had a really blessed life in this respect. I used the open curriculum to take whatever I wanted and ended up majoring in Religious Studies just because after sophomore year
Brown's liberal, open curriculum taught me higher ed wasn't just career prep but reading the great books and learning to be a good citizen
My alma mater's heartbreaking capitulation to the Trump regime makes me wonder if my dream was a mirage
A personal new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
My alma mater's heartbreaking capitulation to the Trump regime makes me wonder if my dream was a mirage
A personal new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Brown’s Trump surrender shatters a dream | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, about those "Trump accomplishments"
www.inquirer.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I am well aware that social class and privilege are important factors here but even so, this was my own experience. I have had a really blessed life in this respect. I used the open curriculum to take whatever I wanted and ended up majoring in Religious Studies just because after sophomore year
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The new books arrived, looking great! @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The new books arrived, looking great! @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social
'Fat, poorly educated, slobs, stupid' - just more projection.
August 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
'Fat, poorly educated, slobs, stupid' - just more projection.
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Sean Hannity is whining about me on his radio show and I have learned some new information about myself.
July 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Sean Hannity is whining about me on his radio show and I have learned some new information about myself.
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🎧 Every single word of this monologue! 🔥
"You've structured this thing to make [immigrants] seem like monsters...B/C, "as long as we see somebody as a monster...we don't really care what happens to them."
"If you get really good at stripping that humanity away, you can do whatever you want..."
"You've structured this thing to make [immigrants] seem like monsters...B/C, "as long as we see somebody as a monster...we don't really care what happens to them."
"If you get really good at stripping that humanity away, you can do whatever you want..."
July 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🎧 Every single word of this monologue! 🔥
"You've structured this thing to make [immigrants] seem like monsters...B/C, "as long as we see somebody as a monster...we don't really care what happens to them."
"If you get really good at stripping that humanity away, you can do whatever you want..."
"You've structured this thing to make [immigrants] seem like monsters...B/C, "as long as we see somebody as a monster...we don't really care what happens to them."
"If you get really good at stripping that humanity away, you can do whatever you want..."
Absolutely disgusting, cruel, and so Republican.
Never again does the Republican Party get to claim they care about children or families.
Never
Never
Gary Bivens got a call asking what to do with the remains of his baby.
His baby was killed because of the torturous treatment of his pregnant partner, Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus who was forced to sleep on the floor, starved, drugged & denied medical care while in immigration detention.
Speak out
His baby was killed because of the torturous treatment of his pregnant partner, Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus who was forced to sleep on the floor, starved, drugged & denied medical care while in immigration detention.
Speak out
July 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Absolutely disgusting, cruel, and so Republican.
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Just to be clear: The director of national intelligence for the USA is making allegations against a former U.S. presidential candidate based on material from Russia’s intelligence services.
July 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Just to be clear: The director of national intelligence for the USA is making allegations against a former U.S. presidential candidate based on material from Russia’s intelligence services.
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To the Lisa Murkowskis, the Mike Johnsons, the Paramounts, the CBS heads, the capitulating CEOs and most importantly to the OrangeShitgibbon whose skin is so fucking thin that he just posted that he hopes he’s responsible for Kimmel’s & Fallon’s potential cancelation…. GO FUCK YOURSELF!! 🖕🏼🖕🏼
July 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
To the Lisa Murkowskis, the Mike Johnsons, the Paramounts, the CBS heads, the capitulating CEOs and most importantly to the OrangeShitgibbon whose skin is so fucking thin that he just posted that he hopes he’s responsible for Kimmel’s & Fallon’s potential cancelation…. GO FUCK YOURSELF!! 🖕🏼🖕🏼
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
Opinion | Canceling Stephen Colbert Isn’t Funny
www.nytimes.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
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Has Trump had his Deplorable moment? Stupid Republicans...took nearly a decade for Trump to break character. Trump talking about the Epstein files is likely worse for him than the actual Epstein files. Remember Face in the Crowd with Andy Griffith? youtu.be/su3qmvCkvtE?...
"Good night, you stupid people!" clip from A FACE IN THE CROWD
YouTube video by Club Samely
youtu.be
July 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Has Trump had his Deplorable moment? Stupid Republicans...took nearly a decade for Trump to break character. Trump talking about the Epstein files is likely worse for him than the actual Epstein files. Remember Face in the Crowd with Andy Griffith? youtu.be/su3qmvCkvtE?...
Laura Ingraham, at Turning Points, asks people to applaud if they agree with the DOJ dismissal of the Epstein investigation. They boo instead. She says, "I asked you to applaud. Come on, I not going to grade you on a curve."
Who the fuck are you to grade anyone?
Who the fuck are you to grade anyone?
July 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Laura Ingraham, at Turning Points, asks people to applaud if they agree with the DOJ dismissal of the Epstein investigation. They boo instead. She says, "I asked you to applaud. Come on, I not going to grade you on a curve."
Who the fuck are you to grade anyone?
Who the fuck are you to grade anyone?
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This explanation by @velshi.com of what Trump is doing with ICE, while hollowing out the FBI, is dead on the money. We need to pay attention now, before it's too late. I had the good fortune to join him for this segment. Do not miss this. www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
'Blatantly unconstitutional’: Democracy professor on ICE tactics
ICE targeting students who have criticized the Trump administration is “blatantly unconstitutional,” warns professor of democracy Lucan Ahmad Way. “You can't simply racially profile or profile people based on their national origin and start pulling them off the streets,” says Joyce Vance. “That, by definition, is a police state.” With an explosion of new funding for ICE, as part of the GOP’s megabill, there’s yet more reason to be alarmed. With a rapid expansion of ICE, the danger, says Vance, “is that the people in charge are no longer the career officials with training who understand loyalty to the Constitution. These are quite literally people who understand loyalty to Donald Trump.”
www.msnbc.com
July 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This explanation by @velshi.com of what Trump is doing with ICE, while hollowing out the FBI, is dead on the money. We need to pay attention now, before it's too late. I had the good fortune to join him for this segment. Do not miss this. www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
Too good not to share.
Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.
July 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Too good not to share.
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Someone (@lewfoo) posted a long thread on the THREADS app about this. I’m posting the @npr.org story on which her thread was based here. PLEASE READ & SHARE. It’s so important.
@cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social
www.npr.org/sections/the...
@cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social
www.npr.org/sections/the...
When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.
www.npr.org
July 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Someone (@lewfoo) posted a long thread on the THREADS app about this. I’m posting the @npr.org story on which her thread was based here. PLEASE READ & SHARE. It’s so important.
@cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social
www.npr.org/sections/the...
@cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social
www.npr.org/sections/the...
Why does Andy Biggs look twice as old as Biden?
July 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Why does Andy Biggs look twice as old as Biden?