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Mostly retired American history prof. Specialist on Woodrow Wilson and his Era. Dayton, Ohio native, Alum of Hanover College, Wright State, & Ohio University. Sigma Chi. Beer can collector. Balloon Juice Jackal and LGM fan. Yellow Dog Democrat

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Clios Fan Boy🗽🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🇨🇦 @cliosfanboy.bsky.social · 16h

Speaking of which, rumor has it that not everything in the cafeteria and vending machines is really Vegan! If so, we clearly need to do something. Disgraceful!
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Marquito Carlsonic @markalancarlson.bsky.social · 19h

Be ready to show your Antifa membership card!

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

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Clios Fan Boy🗽🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🇨🇦 @cliosfanboy.bsky.social · 16h

JFC. And yes, your MAGA neighbor is exactly the type of person that would have turned in Anne Frank and her family.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 16h

Yes.

The miles of “gold” in the Oval Office are a product of the same thing—a DESPERATE need for adulation.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

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Clios Fan Boy🗽🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🇨🇦 @cliosfanboy.bsky.social · 16h

I ordered something on eBay from the UK. Let's see if.
1. I get it
2. What the tariffs total.
FWIW, so far the cost is £19.8. Shipping £17.36 Import Charges £8.64 £Tax 1.19 Import fees £5.94 total: £46.99 (apx $62)

Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 1d

Just had my first-ever experience of a delivery guy needing to collect a tariff from me in order to give me my package. Only a bank or cashier’s check is accepted, so no way for me to pay, I have to go to the bank tomorrow and the postman will try again. Very cool new system, America is great again

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Clios Fan Boy🗽🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🇨🇦 @cliosfanboy.bsky.social · 16h

A much needed laugh today!

Spocko @spocko.bsky.social · 22h

Cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war.
-Nora Reed

#Portland #Frogs #Antifa #AntiFascistFrog #FrogBrigade

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Inko Gneto @inkogneto.bsky.social · 1d

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 1d

“Antifa” means anti-fascist.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.

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Clios Fan Boy🗽🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🇨🇦 @cliosfanboy.bsky.social · 18h

It’s on the Virginia side of Memorial Bridge, the circle where the parkway and traffic from over the bridge meet. It's NOT a pedestrian area, despite what the drawing shows. UGH

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Camelina @camelina.bsky.social · 19h

Malignant narcissism is a concept created to explain the psychological makeup of Hitler. Amazing that Trump fits it so well, no?

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Clios Fan Boy🗽🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🇨🇦 @cliosfanboy.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone with a library card or school id can usually access it via their library page. Just FYI.

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CultureStorm @rootwoman123.bsky.social · 1d

What do #Democrat programs look like to a racist, misogynistic, xenophobic and filthy rich POTUS? His #Republican base is about to find out the hard way that they benefit from them too. (Gift Article) #GOPWarOnAmerica
#CrueltyIsThePoint #ResistFascism
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Workers Across the Government Get Layoff Notices

www.nytimes.com

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Clios Fan Boy🗽🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🇨🇦 @cliosfanboy.bsky.social · 1d

Same here. You have to create a WaPost account even to read a "free" article. :(

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Clios Fan Boy🗽🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🇨🇦 @cliosfanboy.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, this is bad.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2d

Just in case anyone is still holding on out of nostalgia for what it used to be.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

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Clios Fan Boy🗽🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🇨🇦 @cliosfanboy.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, what did they arrest this woman for? (assuming she exists, which is doubtful) arrested for dating someone from "Antifa"?

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 3d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Clios Fan Boy🗽🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🇨🇦 @cliosfanboy.bsky.social · 2d

Please don't use "pop out" and "Dolly Parton" in the same post, let alone the same sentence. My 60-something heart can only take so much!

Clios Fan Boy🗽🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🇨🇦 @cliosfanboy.bsky.social · 2d

How can I get my students to do so, when it's not a skill for which, like me, they're out of practice, but one they never learned in the first place?

Clios Fan Boy🗽🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🇨🇦 @cliosfanboy.bsky.social · 2d

From an essay on "non-literacy". "The alternative is bleak—a TL;DR stamping on a human face, forever." Far too many young people (and those not-so-young) can't process complicated texts, "let alone subtexts. " I notice that I struggle with longer, complicated texts more than I used to. (1/2)

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

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Clios Fan Boy🗽🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🇨🇦 @cliosfanboy.bsky.social · 2d

No argument from me.

Clios Fan Boy🗽🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🇨🇦 @cliosfanboy.bsky.social · 2d

Isn't Pat Boone still alive??

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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning, Pam Bondi ☕️💅🏽

Photo of a blonde female pathological liar wearing a dark suit to match her dark soul, with the words:
“Someone should tell Pam Bondi that while Nixon didn't go to prison, his Attorney General did.”

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Clios Fan Boy🗽🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🇨🇦 @cliosfanboy.bsky.social · 2d

JFC

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:

Douthat: So, just to take a related example, one of the controversies of many that you’ve been mixed up in has to do with slavery, and whether slavery is absolutely forbidden by the Bible, absolutely forbidden to Christians, or whether it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: And you think it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: On this, on a straightforward reading of the New Testament, I would agree with you. I would say, pretty clearly, there is a pretty clear path from the message of the Bible to the abolition of slavery. But there is no moment in the New Testament when Jesus insists on the manumission of slaves.

Wilson: Right.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2d

Whether it’s Joe Biden attending weekly mass or Donald Trump’s ICE agents shooting a priest in the face with a pepper ball, presidents of both sides have directly engaged with the Catholic faith.

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