David H. Price
@dhprice.bsky.social
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Anthropologist, FOIA scholar, & sometimes historian of anthropology. I mostly write about FBI, CIA, and DoD efforts to undermine democratic movements at home and abroad. Every billionaire is a policy failure.

David Hotchkiss Price is an American historian and a scholar of early modern culture. Professor of Religious Studies, History, and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University until 2024, he is now emeritus. Price studied classics (BA) and German literature (MA) at the University of Cincinnati before receiving his PhD in German Studies from Yale University (1985). He also studied at the University of Tübingen and the University of Munich. From 2005 to 2016, he was a professor at the University of Illinois. He previously taught at Yale and the University of Texas at Austin. Price is the author of numerous books and articles on the Bible in English, Reformation drama, humanist poetry, Albrecht Dürer, and Johannes Reuchlin, the Jewish Book Controversy of the early sixteenth century, and religious toleration in the early modern period. .. more

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The situation, according to Kilgore Trout, presents “a problem whose queasy horrors will eventually be made world-wide by this sophistication of machines. The problem is this: How to love people who have no use?”
Kurt Vonnegut Warned Us About the Dangers of Automation
Kurt Vonnegut’s 1952 novel, "Player Piano," portrays a dystopia following a Third World War where automation makes most work unnecessary.
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Salmon running the Deschutes River a few blocks from my home.
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Sights I saw in Washington DC today.

National Guard at the National Museum of the American Indian.

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America’s Far Right and the Further Right: the Klan and a Coup in 1920s Lumber Country - CounterPunch.org share.google/rlEwz3zIKDJx...
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Camping along the Yakima River.

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"In some ways, Palantir can be seen as an amplifier of people’s intentions and biases. . . .'It's a really powerful tool,' says one former Palantir employee. 'And when it's in the wrong hands, it can be really dangerous. And I think people should be really scared about it.'”
What Does Palantir Actually Do?
Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it.
www.wired.com

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I hope that some of you can help donate to a legal fund for this family under threat of separation by Trump. The person stepping up to organize this effort to help them is one of my oldest dear friends, Lisa Queen.

Anything you can give helps gofund.me/5d7d6821
Donate to Help a family about to be separated by deportation, organized by Lisa Queen
Ines, a parent at my school with 3 US-born children under the age of 10,… Lisa Queen needs your support for Help a family about to be separated by deportation
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American Idiocracy brought to you by Citizens United, Fox News, Coast to Coast AM, and American capitalism's refusal to acknowledge what it's doing to the planet.
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An “anti-government militia” is “targeting Oklahoma weather radars, days after a man vandalized News 9’s weather radar

Meteorologists are trying to explain that weather radars do not control the weather
'Anti-government militia' says it’s targeting Oklahoma weather radars
An “anti-government militia” called ‘Veterans on Patrol’ told News 9 on Tuesday that it is “targeting” Oklahoma weather radars, days after an individual vandalized News 9’s weather radar.
www.news9.com

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Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ
 “I’ve studied McCarthyism’s impact on higher education for 50 years. What’s happening now is worse.” -Ellen Schrecker, historian

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Taking the ferry south from Tromsø.

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Rule Number 8: Anyone not marching or not looking at their phone is suspicious.

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Opinion | I was addicted to heroin for 20 years. Here's why I am eliminating federal funding for Narcan so that an extra 10,000 people can die each year from opiate overdoses.

by RFK Jr.

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“This is what we were always scared of,” said Kevin Bankston. . . a senior adviser on A.I. . . “The infrastructure for turnkey totalitarianism is there for an administration willing to break the law.”

Infrastructure built with policies of Bush, Obama, Trump v1.0 & Biden.
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State
DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.
www.nytimes.com
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This week marks the 70th anniversary of the historic anti-colonial 1955 Bandung Conference, when 29 nations from Asia and Africa gathered in Indonesia.

“They all gathered together because they understood their unity was very important,” says @vijayprashad.bsky.social.

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Jesus’s parents were unwed and undocumented. So he got what he deserved.

by J. D. Vance

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This Spy Talk podcast episode has one the best takes on the JFK record release I've heard. Wirth listening to.
CIA Opened Oswald’s Mail!
Podcast Episode · SpyTalk · 04/03/2025 · 43m
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As a lawyer, I can tell you why Abrego Garcia must remain in El Salvador. If he were free, he could sue me for defamation and win.

by Pam Bondi

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First light paddle on Salish Sea.

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Olympia barks back at Musk & Trump.

Reposted by David H. Price

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🎲 We launch the Kickstarter for Billionaires & Guillotines tomorrow! 🎲

Check back here at 9 AM EST, or follow the campaign now to be notified when it's live!
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Trump signs executive order targeting all ticket scalpers except Ticketmaster.
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Not being allowed to hand water to people in line to vote no matter who they are voting for, while being allowed to hand people million dollar checks to get their vote, is the most American thing ever.

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France is moving far too fast against Marine Le Pen.

by Merrick Garland