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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם)

@bestonetx.bsky.social

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Award-winning community college prof, writer, editor, historian of Texas Jews and the Galveston Movement. Alte kaker in training. Views expressed here are mine and are protected by the First Amendment. Books: tinyurl.com/besbks www.BryanEdwardStone.com

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · Oct 11

The wise man does not break into his fellow's speech. He is not in a rush to reply. He asks what is relevant and replies to the point. Of what he has not heard he says, "I have not heard," and he acknowledges what is true.

-- Talmud (Pirkei Avot)

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 3h

Right. It sounds like they appreciate the quality of his campaigning.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 4h

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 3h

When you say "extraordinary," what do you mean exactly?

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 3h

Signed. Thank you!

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

bit.ly/nodealtexas

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 8h

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 6h

They might as well give the literature prize to a desk.

Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 8h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 10h

They don't have that either.

Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 10h

You too! It's great. Headed into class right now as a matter of fact. Glad to see you here.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 10h

Not while Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell still walk the earth.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 4d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 10h

Tracy Chapman.

Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 10h

Democrats: We follow the science.

Republicans: The science follows us.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 10h

Arithmetic is woke.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "We're gonna be reducing the cost of medicines by 100%, 200%, 300%, 500% and even more than that."

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 12h

And send the national guard to shut down churches that preach MAGA politics from the pulpit.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 12h

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 12h

If enough people say plainly enough that Stephen Miller is obviously the real power behind the presidency, there's a chance Trump will fire him out of jealousy and spite.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 13h

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 13h

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 12h

Congratulations!

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Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com · 13h

Coming soon to a bookstore near you :-)

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 16h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.