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Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, a landslide. If electronic tabulation of ballots is a thing, I'm braced for interference attempts.

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you. So true. Ask NYT: "Can you say 'fatuous' and 'self-important?"

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, a landslide. If electronic tabulation of ballots is a thing, I'm braced for interference attempts.

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 1d

#chantaldelsol

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 2d

#CubanMissileCrisis 2.0

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 2d

She sure did. When "command of your subject" mattered.

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 2d

picornell.bsky.social, French historian #ChantalDelsol posits that in just the past 60+ years, we have lived through a "inversion of values" that mirrors a similar 60+year transition 1600 years ago, when the order of the pagan #Roman world gave way to Christianity. An equally disorienting time.

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Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 2d

If I keep reminding myself that "it's all about the oil," every incremental policy adjustment or micro-action makes complete sense.

Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty sure "attacking another country's military infrastructure within its own borders" has a name...

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald ..

@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 2d

TY for add to your starter pack!

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Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 2d

#Mamdani: The over/under on illegal efforts to stop his victory? His 12+point polling advantage seems very strong, but given the cast of characters allied to stop him, you never know...

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 2d

TY for the add. My first bsky list!

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Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 3d

Good one.

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 4d

They seem like very decent people, whose pain is real. Still. gotta ask: Did they both vote is the last national election? If yes, who for? And are they planning to vote in the mid-terms?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

Retired couple (teacher & union carpenter) on ACA premiums skyrocketing — from $443/month to $2,224/month: “It's like buying another house and trying to pay for two houses at the same time… without the subsidy we honestly don’t know what we’re gonna do.” #TrumpShutdown

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 4d

Lukǎc is extraordinary.

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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 5d

Next Tuesday (5 November 2025, 17:00-18:30): A talk on "The Specificity of the Political: Georg Lukács’s Political Thought in the Post-Stalinist Ferment of Ideas (1956-1971)" @uni-konstanz.de Colloquium of Modern History.

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Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 5d

What is his stated POV on #Bovino?

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 5d

Authoritarianism comes fast, Governor J. B. Pritzker told @markleibovich.bsky.social. “And if you’re not willing to stand up and push back while it’s happening in the early days,” Pritzker added, “it gets a lot harder later.”

J. B. Pritzker Wishes for Precedented Times

Twenty-seven minutes with the latest governor Donald Trump wants arrested

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Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 5d

69 here. It's both culture and times. Not you. I have the sentiment you share often enough.

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Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 5d

Think "Night of The Long Knives" (June 30 - July 2, 1934), when the SA (Sturmabteilung, aka "Brownshirts") was purged.

The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 6d

“This isn’t about deportations. It’s about obedience...and once proven effective, it won’t stay in immigration long….The internal message Is discipline over discretion…”

www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/the-most-d...

The Most Dangerous Quiet Night in Federal History

How the New ICE Chain-of-Command Model Will Be Used Everywhere Else.” This isn’t about deportations. It’s about obedience...and once proven effective, it won’t stay in immigration long.

www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 5d

I'd say more Ernst Röhm, head of the Sturmabteilung (SA, aka “Brownshirts”).

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6d

Wow!

Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 6d

More than 100 former top Justice Dept officials, including dozens of former prosecutors, file court brief opposing James Comey's prosecution:

"not the judgment of an impartial prosecutor, but rather an expression of retributive animus by the President"

washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/over-on...

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Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 6d

And of course Didion's "Miami" (1987): "In many ways the Bay of Pigs continued to offer Miami an ideal narrative, one in which the men of the 2506 were forever the valiant and betrayed and the United States was forever the seducer and betrayer and the blood of los martires remained forever fresh,''

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 6d

Alma Guillermoprieto, "Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America"(2002): From Vargas Llosa to Che, to Vicente Fox, Subcommander Marco and, again, Eva Peron.

Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 7d

V.S. Naipaul, "The Return of Eva Peron, with the Killings in Trinidad" (1980). The intersections of grandiose delusion, economic decline, and breakdown/authoritarianism, in Argentina and Uruguay

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Daedelus, Field Notes @patrocles34.bsky.social · 8d

🙏

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peacegardener.bsky.social @peacegardener.bsky.social · 9d

There are so many ways the trump administration is very busy preparing to screw with our midterms…
The resistance needs to be familiar with Heather Honey and follow what she is doing so this can be exposed NOW!
www.propublica.org/article/heat...

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.

Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

www.propublica.org

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aneke60.bsky.social @aneke60.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you ProPublica! The mainstream media has failed us, making your work especially important!

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