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Chris Loar
@chrisloar.bsky.social
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English Prof, Western Washington U. Eighteenth-century lit and culture, ecology, histories of empire, race, and slavery. Co-Editor at Digital Defoe.
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Chris Loar @chrisloar.bsky.social · 1d
Scholars of eighteenth-century topics: consider submitting your work to *Digital Defoe*. We publish essays on Defoe, but also on his "contemporaries," which we're inclined to interpret broadly. More info here:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3d
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/g...
Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters (1)
A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.
news.bloomberglaw.com
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 4d
It should be very very clear to everyone right now that the Attorney General was asked under oath if she possesses pics of the President with undressed teens and she refused to say “no.”
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UChicago AAUP @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social · 6d
Get ready! Be there!
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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 9d
ME: Once I do X, my anxiety will dissipate

**does X**

MY ANXIETY: Ah but what about Y?

ME: Fuck
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10d
before and after hegseth's directive
Sean Connery is a red strapped outfit. He's very hairy. William Shatner as Captain Kirk. He's in a black strapped outfit and has a smooth chest.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11d
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 11d
hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13d
Our cities aren’t war ravaged. They’re ICE ravaged.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14d
It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14d
I often say that conservatives want to repeal the various Civil Rights Act but it’s probably more accurate to say they want to overturn the Reconstruction amendments.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14d
Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...
Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship | CNN Politics
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, pushing the issue back bef...
www.cnn.com
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 15d
I’m grateful that action is being taken to address yesterday’s violence at 26 Federal Plaza.

When we insistently bear witness, there are limits to the cruelty people will support. Even Trump’s ICE can’t escape that indefinitely.
ICE Officer ‘Relieved of His Duties’ After Pushing Woman to Floor
www.nytimes.com
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 15d
the Wounded Knee Massacre, as described in Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America:
Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (2023)
Believing a band of worshippers under Big Foot to be hostile, members of the Seventh Cavalry-Custer's former unit-confined them along the Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation. They forced them to surrender their arms, and upon the discharge of a concealed rifle, the cavalry attacked, charges unleashing mortar fire from Hotchk- iss cannons stationed above them. Revenge for Custer's defeat was now obtained against women, children, and the elderly. Historians debate the extent of the number of those killed, as hundreds either died or fled across the frozen winter landscape, hiding in whatever shelters they could find.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15d
really interesting to me that pete hegseth — who incidentally was accused of domestic abuse — is obsessed with war crimes
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 15d
The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 15d
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16d
I am too old to learn how to use the updated software or computer program. I will be using the old software. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16d
Most informative thing I’ve read so far on this topic
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 16d
ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me.

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
The ICE Shooter’s Motive
Joshua Jahn's friends speak
www.kenklippenstein.com
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Chris Loar @chrisloar.bsky.social · 16d
Possible dark horse candidate

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ9W...
Sesame Street: Feist sings 1,2,3,4
YouTube video by Sesame Street
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Chris Loar @chrisloar.bsky.social · 16d
I believe this is what you're looking for.
Two puppets representing martians--one magenta, the other pale blue--stare, goggle-eyed, through a window at a rotary telephone on a table.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16d
I have no idea who shot at the ICE facility or why, & hard to trust this FBI director. Murder is always inexcusable.

Now, the idea that people are mad at ICE because of ‘Democrats’ rhetoric’ & not because of daily videos of masked ICE agents assaulting people, including citizens, is for the birds.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21d
Lia Thomas met the NCAA requirements for transition when she started competing as a woman. Did the right accept those standards? Or, if they disagreed, argue that they could be more stringent?

No. They said she was a man who was unfairly competing and pretended that there were no standards at all.
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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 21d
THE GULLIVER TRILOGY

#1 Gulliver’s Travels (The Norton Library)

#2 The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels

#3 Gulliver’s Afterlives (Bloomsbury)
Book cover: Gulliver’s Travels, ed. Daniel Cook Book cover: The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels, ed. Daniel Cook and Nicholas Seager Book cover: Daniel Cook, Gulliver’s Afterlives
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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22d
I would call this “consciousness of guilt” in an eventual domestic trial or international war crimes tribunal.
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Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 22d
Dems ought to be telling people now these letters are worth absolutely nothing.
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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 23d
Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.
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Jaysun Silver @jaysunsilver.bsky.social · 22d
I just spoke to NYC Comptroller Brad Lander as he left police custody following his arrest at immigration court. Here’s what he said:
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