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Leia Taillefur

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Medieval/ancient history professor & author.🇲🇫🇬🇷🇮🇹🇨🇦. Love of animals has always been my life. Proud Cat Lady and virtual hermit. I post an obscure early saint of the day with a touch of humor and otd historical event of significance (or none).

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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · Nov 12

My Leia

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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 1m

The water flow could be better.

Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 11m

😺

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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 18m

The psych ftom MGH has held me in good stead. When I teach, I try to understand how and why people reacted to events (e.g. plague, religious violence, etc.) And I'm currently working on a book on fear in European history from Egypt to 1888.

Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 1h

EPSTEIN.

Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 1h

OOPS - 1981. I took a year off the first year at Mass. General. Btw I worked in Psychiatry....

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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 1h

😁 That's really funny! I got my BA in 1980. Then btw 1988 - 1992 (except 1990) I taught either in History & Lit or Extension.

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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 1h

My 1st 2 yrs on tuition only scholarship - then got divorced & had to get a full time job at MGH while going full time to Harvard at night.But MGH paid my tuition! Wellesley is so much better than Harvard. I ended up teaching at both on year to year jobs before getting my tenure track job in Maine.

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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 1h

It was great - I also taught there for a few of my itinerant years.

Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 1h

Did you go to Wellesley?

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bazouzabou @bazouzabou.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 1h

« J’ai regardé à droite et à gauche, je ne reconnaissais rien » : le choc des Palestiniens de retour dans la ville de #gaza
https://www.nouvelobs.com/monde/20251013.OBS108714/j-ai-regarde-a-droite-a-gauche-je-ne-reconnaissais-rien-le-choc-des-palestiniens-de-retour-dans-la-ville-de-gaza.html

Accords de paix à Gaza : les images des Palestiniens de retour dans la ville de Gaza

Peu après l’annonce du cessez-le-feu, la famille Qazaat a voulu rentrer chez elle, dans la ville de Gaza. Zuher et son épouse ont eu bien du mal à retrouver l’emplacement de ce qui fut leur maison au milieu des ruines.

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sunshinelaughter.bsky.social @sunshinelaughter.bsky.social · 1h

Trump's rambling Israel 'victory lap' shows he has no idea what's to come: expert

www.rawstory.com/trump-gaza-2...

Trump's rambling Israel 'victory lap' shows he has no idea what's to come: expert

Moments after Donald Trump finished a more than hour-long speech before the Knesset in Jerusalem, MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire called it “rambling” — and the former president of the Council on Foreign R...

www.rawstory.com

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claude2001.bsky.social @claude2001.bsky.social · 1h

À Gaza le défi n’était pas très grand, il n’y avait presque plus rien à détruire. Netanyahou, criminel de guerre, était rendu à tuer des ennemis dans d’autres pays afin que ce ne soit pas que des civils qui décède.

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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 2h

Interesting that they're not dhowing any images from Gaza City.

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 1d

Decorative mosaics from the dome of Hagia Sophia

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film-authority.com @film-authority.bsky.social · 8h

An uncertain week lies ahead; Jake the cat isn't sure, but his brother Joe is firmly in his corner with advice, support and cleaning duties if required. Poor wee Jake is having one of his blurry anxiety attacks, but hopefully his caring, sharing brother will keep him right on track. Namaste to all!!

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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 3h

Makes me wonder if the two didn't set all this up from the beginning with the strike on Qatar leading to this conclusion. They're birds of a feather.

Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 3h

My baby

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CalGal @blue-n-gold.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's plans for Gaza were noted long ago.
Trump & Netan-yahoo want to wipe Palestinians out of Gaza (own reasons). Trump wants exclusive resort area overseen by the "US" (aka Trump & other greedy elites).
SO glad Trump's emissary, Witkoff, is being soundly booed.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Trump's Gaza 'Riviera' echoes Kushner waterfront property dreams

Trump's plan has revived an idea floated by his son-in-law Jared Kushner.

www.reuters.com

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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 3h

And the Templars. I don't know why it's making me share rather than copy images.

Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 3h

Thank God it's over. (8:15am). What a horror and embarrassment of a speech.

Social News XYZ @socialnews.xyz · 4h

Knesset members expelled after disrupting Trump speech at Israeli parliament #Knesset #Trump #Israeli #socialnewsxyz

Knesset members expelled after disrupting Trump speech at Israeli parliament

Jerusalem, Oct 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Two Knesset members on Monday were swiftly expelled by ushers as they tried to disrupt US President Donald Trump's address in the Israeli Parliament. A few minutes after Trump began addressing the Knesset, the two members rose with signs held in their hands. "That was very efficient of you", Trump praised the ushers who removed Knesset members Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif from the plenum hall after they held up signs during the president's speech.

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martinr121.bsky.social @martinr121.bsky.social · 4h

Another pathetic, rambling, self-indulgent "speech", as he revels in the ass-kissing he generates...he is an embarrassment - as for the demonstrators, it would have been honest for the Israeli authorities to say to Trump -"Sorry, Mr. President, we know you don't tolerate dissent."

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CiceroSpeaks @cicerospeaks.bsky.social · 3h

Please make it stop. Trump speech in Israel is a major embarrassment. Leave it to Trump to poison what could have been a great occasion.

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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 3h

His praise of Netanyahu makes me sick.

Meg Kinnard @megkinnardap.bsky.social · 3h

JERUSALEM (AP) — Trump uses Knesset speech to urge Israeli president to pardon Netanyahu on corruption charges.

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hjdunagan @hjdunagan.bsky.social · 3h

Listening to #Trump in Israel and wondering just how this can possibly be considered a peace speech. Where is the other party? Where are the Palestinians?

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Leia Taillefur @leiataillefur.bsky.social · 3h

Here's Philip "the Fair"