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Jeffery Irvin

@thegrayprofessor.bsky.social

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Historian. Author. Science Enthusiast. Author of "The End Is Not Near" https://a.co/d/2zbT1WJ Presently working on a book titled "Artificial Intelligence in the Waning Days of Neoliberalism".

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · Sep 10

To those who condemn political violence as obscene and undemocratic, think for a moment how the violence we've experienced today is a direct consequence of a politics unmoored from our basic human moral sentiments.

Violence is endemic to any politics bereft of moral sentiment.
#ItHasHappenedHere

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 20h

New awareness campaign

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 15h

Let's note right now the party claiming that more democracy leads to their annihilation.

This should tell you everything you need to know about the GOP.
#ItHasHappenedHere

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Johnson: "If they had no filibuster, they would pack the SCOTUS. You'd go from 9 to 17 or however many liberals they could pack. You would make DC & Puerto Rico into states, which would give 4 additional Democrat senators & make us a permanent minority. You'd see massive restrictions of 2A rights"

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 15h

Mike, stop digging. You've got all the Dems on board now. 😁

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 15h

Have they been telling them so long that they believe their own lies at this point? 🤔
#ItHasHappenedHere

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 20h

"I want to be a dentist." 😁

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 20h

Wow!

Douglas's definition of fascism is succinct and accurate. It suggests why fascism manifests itself naturally among the right, for the right does not mind democracy while the franchise is limited to the wealthy, but the right becomes increasingly anxious when universal suffrage is instituted.

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

Trump can only feel sympathy for the rich, the powerful, and the personal ally.

His stunted moral view of the world makes it impossible for him to see the weak as victims. They are not victims in his eyes, they are the pawns, the marks, and the cannon fodder that feed his purse.
#ItHasHappenedHere

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Prince Andrew and the Epstein scandal: "I feel very badly. I mean, it's a terrible thing that's happened to the family. That's been a tragic situation. And it's too bad. I feel badly for the family."

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans have two reasons for not getting rid of the filibuster:

1. They don't want Democrats to have a non-filibustering Senate after they're gone.

2. If they ramrod this CR through then everything that happens, from ACA rise in premiums to rural hospital closures, is solely on Republicans.

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

PSA: Fox and the establishment Republicans’ panicking over ending the filibuster is how you know it’s a good idea to do that.

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 1d

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

Is it getting rid of all government spending and leaving everything to the free market? 🤔

It's handing healthcare completely over to the economic oligopoly while socializing its losses, isn't it? 😒

How about #MEDICARE4ALL?

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

This is a great book exploring how austerity is used primarily to discipline labor, and how the idea of austerity (lebensraum?) ultimately contributes to the development of fascism.

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

If only Justice McLean had reached out to Chief Justice Taney we might have avoided all the injustice associated with that Dred Scott decision. 🤣

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

Let's not forget that Gary Oldman already gave the best theatrical performance of Scott Bessent when he played Zorg in The Fifth Element.

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

That's glass half full thinking!

I'm in.

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

If the leaders of the @democrats.org party cannot understand that becoming a party of the working class, for the working class, is the future, then they will continue to make their corporate-sponsored counterpart more competitive in races all across the country.
#UBI #MEDICARE4ALL #FREEEDUCATION

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 1d

Hakeem Jeffries says Zohran Mamdani is not the future of the Democratic Party.

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

This just made me realize how nonplussed Democrats are when they're called "socialists" and "communists."

Could that be because Democrats realize how absurd those epithets are while Republicans know in their hearts they're fascists? 🤔

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 2d

I've been convinced for several months now that money laundering is why GOP & Trump don't want #EpsteinFiles released.

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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 3d

New information show that an investigation into Epstein accounts at J.P. Morgan was stop under G.W. Bush DOJ. Also there were people from J.P. Morgan involved in Epstein "activities". Some of the people who involved are in the Regime now.
www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

Report: New revelation details a previously unknown money laundering into Jeffery Epstein

Michael Feinberg, Former Assistant Special Agent In Charge at the FBI and Jason Leopold, Bloomberg Senior Investigative Reporter join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss his reporting w...

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 2d

Clearly, I was wrong, at least from the perspective of the modern traditional religionist.

Kristin Kobes du Mez has made a good case for why the whole tradwife craze has reasserted itself. It's the perceived assaults on masculinity and the family, which are really just fear of lost patriarchy.

Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes du Mez

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 2d

I read Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" in the mid-1990s.

She shined a light on how some women felt dissatisfied at being what we today call "tradwives."

Her suggestion was letting them leave the house to work and explore their identity.

In the 1990s this did not seem radical to me. 🤷‍♂️

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 2d

Is that the infamous Raymond Reddington in the white fedora? 😲

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 2d

Our introduction to TradWifing - 101 will be a viewing of the following film.

Followed by my two-day lecture, "How Working Outside the House Makes You a Whore: A Theological Critique of the Works of Betty Friedan."

Extra credit will be given to any student willing to collect my drycleaning.

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 2d

Which begs the question, if it's a politics that only make you feel good then why do some people fear it so much they're willing to spend millions to defeat you?

A politics so emotive and ineffective cannot possibly be a threat to the powers that be, can it? 🤔

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 3d

Forty years after my first read of Bloom, and ten years of classroom teaching later, I relish the thought of combat with students. What a great way to learn! 😁

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 3d

The idea that what is happening in society should never enter the classroom seems a bit ivory towerish.

Yes, there should be a degree of order in the classroom, but that doesnt mean the professor stands ex cathedra at the lectern of every class.

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 3d

My first read of Allan Bloom's "The Closing of the American Mind" was during my 1980s National Review phase, so, of course, I thought it revelatory.

My second reading, this year, convinced me it was just a screed written by someone traumatized by 1960s and 70s movement for educational equity.