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MaryMolitierno

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Retired History teacher, Gardener, Avid reader (formerly @corneliagracchi at X) No Chats henceforth🥲. Ohio asking for SS to prove over 21, nope, not gonna! #GardenGrewPeas #BalconyGardening #ResistanceGardening 🌱

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MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · Nov 29

Keep a light in the window, dear friends. (Home of abolitionist John Rankin which overlooked the Ohio River on a bluff easy to spot by refugee slaves making the crossing) #WeCanSurviveMaga

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MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · 3h

G’nite from #Brookside!

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 10h

The tide of the battle of Cat and Mouse begins to turn.

BL Harley 6563; Book of Hours; c.1320-c.1330; England, S. E. (London); ff.72v, 74v, 75

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MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · 3h

Fascinating!

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · Jan 7

'Sutton Hoo & Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?' This is one of the most exciting things I've written (so far..!). Thanks to everyone who helped.
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

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MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · 3h

No fan of current dictatorship but wondering what flavour of democracy Machado will bring? Trump
Flavour

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 13h

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 9h

Trump’s regime is trying to blackmail colleges and universities to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. We must demand that our universities commit to upholding freedom of speech and to providing an affordable, safe education for all. Take action to stop Trump’s “Loyalty Oath.” 👇

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

actionnetwork.org

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 13h

Recall how vibrant Franco's Spain was. Or the breakthroughs achieved by Stalin's USSR. (Yes, they could do 1st rate technical work—e.g. the Russian bomb & Sputnik. But ask yourself: what transformative science or tech came from that system. I'll wait.)

That's the trajectory of Trump's America.

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING:

"Just landed."

Mark Bray confirms to me this morning that he and his family did, on the second attempt, make it out of the US and to Spain

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · 3h

Wishing she did not also fit into the tradition of Trump admirer

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jen-l-espinoza.bsky.social @jen-l-espinoza.bsky.social · 2d

Wolf Moon rising last night. #Moon

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MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · 3h

Happy Birthday!

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Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social · 13h

📢 New SCS Blog Post

Amy Norgard and Joshua Nudell -- in the first part of a two-part series -- explore the deep roots of our thinking about the nature of human relationships with artifical companions, stretching from Hollywood to Ovid and back again.

Great reflections on classical reception here!

SCS Blog: Part 1 of 2: Pygmalion in the Age of AI Companions | Society for Classical Studies

www.classicalstudies.org

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MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · 16h

Would have been my choice also but then I am not in the unenviable position of being roundly criticized for choosing Trump and forced to do the next best thing ie selecting one of his fan girls!

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

My choice for the Nobel Peace Prize this year:

Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen.

MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · 16h

Admirable work but not quite sure how it relates to World #Peace.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 21h

⚡️The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Maria Corina Machado.

The Nobel Peace Prize committee awarded it for "her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela."

MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · 16h

This is precisely what happened to the tea I ordered from #MariageFreres. It was supposedly destroyed by #UPS.

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EMC Maine @emc-maine.bsky.social · 17h

@marymolitierbo.bsky.social FYI.

It's insane, honestly.

⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie) @stinasdemons.com · 17h

The amount of already fractured things that are breaking right now... And I mean systems, infrastructure, the safeguards and conveniences, etc that many have taken (or take) for granted here in the U.S.

None of it compares to the hell that is coming

And it WILL be hellish, & unlike anything before

UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.

www.nbcnews.com

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MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · 1d

Frost warning tonight 😢

MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · 1d

Outrageous

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 1d

9 October is the feast of St Denis whose communion and martyrdom are depicted here. St Denis is reputed to have picked up his head after it was cut off.

BnF MS Latin 11700; Homiliarium Corbeiense, Vol III; 12th c (1179); France (Corbie); f.105r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

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MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · 1d

Hoping whatever farce this becomes will be ignored by the Nobel Committee…

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 2d

Can't even imagine the level of threats and rage that went into coercing Netanyahu to get the deal done before the Peace Prize is announced Friday.

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Mark Pajor @mpajor.bsky.social · 1d

This is the theatre company I lead alongside my wife Allison. Help us fund our 2026 season of underperformed plays from the time of Shakespeare!

A small teaser...

Rogues and romance.
Despots and defiance.

I CANNOT WAIT for our next season; we need more $16 donations to make it happen!

AMP Theatre Company @amptheatrecompany.org · 1d

We've raised $706 so far! Help us hit $1600 to fund our 2026 season of Renaissance plays! #theatresky

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MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · 1d

Or Zeus and Hermes, disguised as lowly hungry travelers who call upon the cottage of the poor but generous Baucus and Philomena….one never knows who in need will come into one’s life (a story told us many times by our beloved grandmother)

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

It's pope vs. president now. "The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking," the pontiff writes in the document, titled "Dilexi te" (I have loved you). "She knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community."

www.reuters.com

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 1d

"I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences."
~ Virginia Woolf

'Autumn, collecting firewood' (1915)
🎨 Peder Mørk Mønsted

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 1d

As MLK said, True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

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TheSnarkyFarmer @thesnarkyfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning Blueskies and everyone else waking up not needing a pardon

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