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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦

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Doctor of History at LSE International History. Book on the Russian Constitutional Crisis of 1993 forthcoming. I use to live in DC and do public policy, geopolitics, and anti-extremism. Dyslexic Academic. Find a way or make one! he/him

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 1h

Having conquered the 7 seas the pirate queen historian extends her dominion over the lumberjacks

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 1h

Would the person who decided to move insert footnote on Google Docs please make themselves be known. We would like a word with them.

a cat is sitting on a couch with its paws on a laptop .

Alt: a cat is sitting on a couch with its paws on a laptop .

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 4h

My kingdom for an edit button. And yes I tend to read phonetically so often miss these.

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 4h

Our and yes I am dyslexic and frequently use voice type

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 4h

It seems with additional evidence you chaps provided we have one of these sort of moments

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 4h

Well with this additional context, I retract my earlier statement

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 4h

Unaware of well shame on her then

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 5h

A crucial point I think for American dissidents I think. We must not just disobey unjust laws we must demand and demand repeatedly loudly that are rights under the constitution, be observed and obeyed by the state.

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 5h

Well done you

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 5h

To be fair, the woman is fighting an entrenched dictatorship and needs foreign legitimization and support from the regional hegemon, which happens to be run by a senile buffoon who is easily flattered. We are condemned to use the tools of our enemies.

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 6h

I thought that was just a American phenomenon condolences

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 6h

You shall know them as the righteous among nations

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 21h

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/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 6h

One of the best defenses against totalitarianism is mockery.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 17h

I love this image.

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 6h

It’s quite good I’ve just started Nathan’s previous book was on the Pale of Settlement. I read it in grad school remembered it was quite good

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 6h

May we all write so well

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 6h

How was the rickshaw I avoid them generally but seems like you had a smashing good time I’m sure your friend loved it

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 1d

The author of this piece by even suggesting the man in black could for a moment, not be cool has earned the fiery wrath of 1000 sons

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 1d

Well outside my price range but colored map from Shanghai 1940

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful find. 1912 and 1992. The 1992 trouble I assume was printed in advance and went into circulation as the Union collapsed. All empires fall.

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 1d

Well, they need a reason that their kids won’t talk to them. Easier to blame someone else then have a bit of introspection I guess.

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 1d

I second the motion.

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 1d

Someone has besmirched the man in black! Oh it is freaking GO time!

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 1d

Tik tock tick tock ground.news/article/russ...

Russia's industrial titans furlough workers as its war economy stalls

From railways and automobiles to metals, coal, diamonds and cement, some of Russia's biggest industrial companies are putting employees on furlough or cutting staff as the war economy slows, domestic ...

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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 2d

Took my boys to Goodrich castle recently where Lord Talbots use to rob his tenants with a sword. So if he wants to use a gun and castle your grandchildren could wind up in the House of Lords 😑

Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 2d

A robber baron perhaps

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