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DaveDrolet

@newhercules.bsky.social

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Retired hotelier. Flog books online: history, lit, travel, philos. Was Twitter @DaveDrolet since #OccupyWallSt but off now. Writer. Brit footies still take a knee. Ukraine lives. We are CHARIOTEER BOOKS at Amazon Marketplace, list/search New England No DMs

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DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 3d

Feels like the 50's to me. Gift article NYT.

"It was another hurdle for Dr. Bray, a historian who published the 2017 book “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,” and who had taught courses on anti-fascism and terrorism at Rutgers in New Jersey in relative obscurity until a few weeks ago." ½

Em @emwils.bsky.social · 3d

I can't fix the structural asymmetry in our media ecosystem but here's a gift link! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

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Robert @evry1getsatrophy.bsky.social · 4h

Let’s see what ARC has to say about this? I would think that they will not be quiet about this. Administration is awful they just don’t care about anyone. This is part of project 2025. Cruel and inhumane.

Marcie Lipsitt @mlipsitt.bsky.social · 6h

Never known for my silence. Don’t care if I’m put on mute! Silence is Complicity. Trump FIRED the ENTIRE Staff in the USED Office for Special Ed Programs! No Accountability means 7 Million Students will Suffer More! PLEASE FIND YOUR VOICES (202) 224-3121 youtu.be/L-JQ1q-13Ek?... go.bsky.app/SE6AQHv

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 4h

I am only just learning that Tim Curry has a memoir coming out? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Tim Curry Does the Time Warp

The actor and singer discusses the origins of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” his relationship with David Bowie, and the joy of working with Miss Piggy.

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DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 3h

"According to binding precedent, a Ninth Circuit case called Newsom v. Trump, a judge is to give president “a great level of deference” in defining when those conditions exist. But how much deference to give to one who constantly lies?
He can forfeit judicial deference through his own conduct." 4

DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 3h

"To justify his deployment, Trump invoked a statute that allows him to call the National Guard to federal service in the event of an invasion, a “rebellion or danger of a rebellion” against the United States, or when he is “unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.” ¾

DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 3h

"On Oct 4 Judge Karin Immergut, the U.S. District Court for Oregon, issued a temporary restraining order blocking Trump’s federalization and deployment of the Oregon National Guard to Portland. The opinion is a model of judicial clarity. Other fed courts should read it and absorb her reasoning." 2/4

DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 3h

Gift article: NY Times.

"However, a Trump appointed judge said no. She refused to play Trump’s game and instead held him accountable for his words. There is no deference due to a president who refuses to operate in good faith." ¼

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/o...

Opinion | How a Trump Judge Exposed the Trump Con

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 3d

A troll on the Other Place asked why the ACA needed to be "fixed".

Here’s how Trump & the GOP tried to kill and sabotage the ACA—making it costlier. Now they want to let the tax credits expire too.

𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝘅 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗼.

𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁!

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DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 13h

"Israel’s international isolation — all of it led not to the promised vision but to a negotiated settlement resurrecting the very ideas Netanyahu spent his career opposing. Their defeat is a victory for Israelis, Palestinians & others in the region who seek an alternative to prolonged bloodshed." 3

DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 13h

"That is that Israel’s longest major war in history, hostages held captive for over two years in unbearable conditions and many dying in captivity, some 2,000 Israeli casualties, more than 67,000 Palestinian deaths according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health, Gaza reduced to rubble," ⅔

DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 13h

Gift article: NY Times.

"It is understandable why Mr. Netanyahu’s government celebrates the agreement but at the same time winks that the cease-fire may be temporary and a strategic achievement. Admitting otherwise means acknowledging an unbearable truth." ⅓

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/o...

Opinion | Trump’s Peace Plan Dismantled Netanyahu’s Vision for Gaza

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DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 1d

How it will be able to continue the ethnic cleansing and genocide of the entire indigenous Palestinian people. The fact that over 150 countries out of approximately 190 have indicated that there should be a Palestinian State, YET the U.S. and ISRAEL get to nix that.” 3/3

DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 1d

“Then Israel protested and demanded changes which were NOT presented to Arab leaders. Once again, this will be another example of the U.S.-ISRAEL blaming Hamas for not accepting this proposal, AFTER Trump and Netanyahu changed the proposal so that Israel will maintain control of the Gaza Strip.” ⅔

DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 1d

From my brother:
“I am sending along a few more details of the alleged new peace proposal that Donald Trump and his BOSS Ben Netanyahu have come up with, and how the deal was changed from what was presented to the Arab leaders after they initially thought it would be acceptable.” ⅓

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Greg @gkri15263.bsky.social · 1d

darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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Paul Atreides @paulatreidesno7.bsky.social · 1d

Mikey, the insurrectionist, literally said he won't negotiate anything. He wants his way, period.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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hunglikeahorsefly.bsky.social @hunglikeahorsefly.bsky.social · 1d

Actions.... more important than any lies he tells!!

They PRAISED him for getting the vaccine done quickly thru operation Warp Speed.... but REFUSED to take it because they dont know whats in it, while CERTAIN it has the ability to track you. They posed from their tracing device in their hand!!!

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DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 1d

"Ginster, an architect with a minor case of neurosis, is naturally hypersensitive to the organization of space. Spatial metaphors crowd the text. Herr Valentin, Ginster’s boss at the architecture firm where he works, is described as a man for whom “the war was too roomy.” 3/3

Now in English.

DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 1d

"In “Ginster,” this journalistic tendency produces countless bon mots and aperçus, which lend much charm. “Modern train stations are the appropriate site for mourning on a grand scale,” we read. Ginster remarks that driving around in a car “makes a person feel like an autocrat in the crowd.” ⅔

DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 1d

Saturday musings, from the Weimar Era:
"Kracauer trained his eye in his critical writings on ephemera and other overlooked phenomena, from hotel lobbies and popular biographies to city maps and the dance routines of the Tiller Girls." ⅓
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Review | An odd Weimar-era novel, finally in English, probes the folly of war

Siegfried Kracauer’s classic novel “Ginster” is exceptionally peculiar and entirely worth discovering now.

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DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 3d

"In the weeks after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, he has become a target of right-wing hate, accused of being a part of the movement he studied. Jack Posobiec, a right-wing influencer, called Dr. Bray a “domestic terrorist professor” on X" 2/2

DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 3d

Em @emwils.bsky.social · 3d

I can't fix the structural asymmetry in our media ecosystem but here's a gift link! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 3d

The Kyiv Independent is proud to announce the U.S. premiere of its full-length documentary, “Can You Hear Me? The Invisible Battles of Ukrainian Military Medics,” hosted in collaboration with the Embassies of Sweden and Ukraine.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 3d

This is the clearest sign yet that Democrats are winning this argument. Nobody is going to buy this desperate B.S. I’m honestly surprised, but the Democrats have managed to back Johnson into a corner.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Mike Johnson: "It's about keeping Congress operating so we can get to healthcare. We always were going to. They're lying to you. Okay? The healthcare issues were always gonna be something discussed, deliberated, contemplated, and debated in October and November."

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