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James Goetsch
@profjrg.bsky.social
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Retired Professor of Philosophy. Author, Vico's Axioms:The Geometry of the Human World "Evils are many and good things are few" (Plato). Corollary: Goodness is real.
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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 7h
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James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 1h
Beautiful!
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davidbowman17.bsky.social @davidbowman17.bsky.social · 1d
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Kraig Peck @kraigpeck.bsky.social · 1d
This is the Willamette National Cemetery, a veterans cemetery 10 miles outside of Portland. If the Republican Party wants to find Antifa around Portland, there are thousands of them here. And they want to know why the GOP has joined the fascists they died fighting against.
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Angstipated™ @angstipated.bsky.social · 1d
#Portland law enforcement truly protect and serve...
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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 2d
“I think China is using [clean technology] in a very, very geopolitically savvy way, taking advantage of America’s stupidity and regression back into a petrostate. China just wins. America has abrogated the playing field.”

www.ft.com/content/013e...
The ‘profound’ global impact of China’s rise as an electrostate
The country’s companies now dominate many clean technology industries
www.ft.com
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Ian Fortified with Sexy (but spooky) Vitamins @ianfortey.bsky.social · 1d
I hope by the end of the month the only thing any news network can show of Portland is footage of masked men in body armor with automatic weapons facing down a magical army of giant, puffy animal people armed with fans and awkward dance moves.
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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 2d
This is awesome.
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 1d
Portland isn't burning, it's lit
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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 2d
This is awesome.
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James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 2d
"We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one'. We forget we still have to make a study of 'and'. (A.S. Eddington)

This is the teaching of all the Buddhas.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 2d
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d
www.wweek.com/culture/2025...
Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.
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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 3d
This headline 🤣🤣🤣
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 3d
Cowabunga, dude.
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James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 4d
For just one second let your mind shake at the horror.

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
www.theguardian.com
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 4d
I yearn to rave with the Portland massive
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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 4d
It's a whole block party vibe over here.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 5d
"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"
a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland
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Mayhem RN @mayhem1994.bsky.social · 5d
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Mayhem RN @mayhem1994.bsky.social · Aug 26
How ironic, ICE doesn’t like when random strangers come up to them in public aggressively asking for papers and to ID themselves? Woman are holding it down
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James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 5d
(5) Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty! I say that the loss of that dearest privilege has ever followed, with absolute certainty, every such mad attempt.
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James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 5d
(4) but its defective and imperfect construction puts it in their power to perpetrate the worst of mischiefs, should they be bad men. Would not all the world . . . blame our distracted folly in resting our rights upon the contingency of our rulers being good or bad?
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James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 5d
(3) Where are your checks in this government? Your strongholds will be in the hands of your enemies. It is on a supposition that your American governors shall be honest, that all the good qualities of this government are founded;
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James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 5d
(2) Your President may easily become king. Your Senate is so imperfectly constructed that your dearest rights may be sacrificed by what may be a small minority; and a very small minority may continue forever unchangeably this government, although horridly defective.
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James Goetsch @profjrg.bsky.social · 5d
(1) Man, Patrick Henry really saw it coming:

"This Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other deformities, it has an awful squinting; it squints towards monarchy . . .
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 5d
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
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