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Servando Ortoll

@sortoll.bsky.social

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Ph.D. In historical sociology, Columbia University (1987). A historian and social scientist witnessing—with angst and from afar—the sad demise of the American civilization. Also, a Wordle aficionado. 🚫DMs, Bots, Porn, MAGAs, Crypto.

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Servando Ortoll @sortoll.bsky.social · Jan 3

"Theory" is not a gift from the thinking society to those pseudo-researchers who strive to recycle commonplaces. Good theory invites us to think, to question it, to find flaws in what it proposes. To repeat the trite, let's rather stay at home.

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 19h

We’ve just finished our live talk –
and even had a little walk
in the heart of Kyiv.

How was it? Hope not bad.

To learn what live walks are
and how to join next time:
www.patreon.com/posts/137941...

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 16h

I want to show you a few Ukrainian village houses
from different regions.

Seen at the exhibition Ukraine WOW.

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Servando Ortoll @sortoll.bsky.social · 50m

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Took me a while.

Servando Ortoll @sortoll.bsky.social · 19h

Gosh!

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T2inDC @t2indc.bsky.social · 1d

Because he is hugely influential. He owns JD Vance a man one place away from the Presidency of the United States. And that is not a coincidence.

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zonkerabf @zonkerabf.bsky.social · 1d

Why does anyone care what Peter Thiel thinks or says? He’s obviously a too-rich spoiled egotist who has been nothing but bad for the world

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MJ Delaney @havadood.bsky.social · 1d

Hilarious. They just advanced Greta's message geometrically.

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Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 1d

he expects us to take him seriously but at this point his closest intellectual and ideological peer is like, Kanye West

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Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 1d

in a more just world, Peter Thiel would be yet another insane podcaster/blogger/poster we all agree to ignore

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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John Paul Helveston @jhelvy.bsky.social · 1d

I knew MIT hired smart people
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 1d

I just watched the video of the Portland Cop threatening to arrest an ICE agent if they drive their truck through a crowd. Now I see this where the General of the Oregon National Guard says if they get called up they will protect the protesters. People are fed up.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online

Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold made the comments to state lawmakers Sept. 30, and they drew notice on social media this week.

www.oregonlive.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Great point from @mjtoma.bsky.social: Millions of us absolutely do see what's happening to the USA.

"We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."

newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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The Psy of Life @thepsyoflife.bsky.social · 1d

Worse, the for-profit press reports it as if it were normal. Bothsides it at the very least, equating it with the Russia election interference Congressional investigation, the secret papers, and felony counts against Trump.

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1d

MSNBC is reporting that the DOJ is seeking an indictment of John Bolton.

I can’t stand that guy, and still: THIS IS SO WRONG.

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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, MAGA & Christian Nationalists are the American Taliban.

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EssenViews @essenviews.bsky.social · 1d

Former US Presidents who have won the Nobel Peace Prize

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The Psy of Life @thepsyoflife.bsky.social · 1d

Treating ICE like the disaster and threat that they are. No different than an active shooter, fire, or nuclear attack that school children have drilled for.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Member of the Chicago press gets arrested by
masked ICE GOONS

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

Friday night Tequila tweet: I’m so fucking sick of how divisive Trump & his people are. Here she is, using her official government office for political/partisan purposes. To trash Democrats. It’s wrong, it’s illegal, & it’s a really shitty thing to do. I’m fucking sick of them trying to divide us.

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America Is Divided @petrep.bsky.social · 1d

Once upon a time in a country that's fading from our minds...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mamdani: "Trump ran on 3 promises - punishment of his political enemies, easing cost of living crisis, & mass deportation. It's that second promise that brought so many to his campaign. And yet he's unable & unwilling to deliver bc he's beholden to the very billionaires that are profiting off of it"

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 1d

To all the Americans losing their jobs and farmers losing their farms, take comfort in the fact that the people in Argentina are doing great.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

OH. MY. GOD. 🫠

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 1d

. @repdangoldman.bsky.social to DOJ prosecutors: "You have to stand up for your oath of office. You have to stand up for the Constitution. It is daunting. You may get fired. But I promise you, the legal profession will reward you for doing the right thing."

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