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DaveDrolet

@newhercules.bsky.social

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Retired hotelier. Flog books online: history, lit, travel, philos. Was Twitter @DaveDrolet since #OccupyWallSt but off now. Writer. Brit footies still take a knee. Ukraine lives. We are CHARIOTEER BOOKS at Amazon Marketplace, list/search New England No DMs

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DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 2d

Feels like the 50's to me. Gift article NYT.

"It was another hurdle for Dr. Bray, a historian who published the 2017 book “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,” and who had taught courses on anti-fascism and terrorism at Rutgers in New Jersey in relative obscurity until a few weeks ago." ½

Em @emwils.bsky.social · 2d

I can't fix the structural asymmetry in our media ecosystem but here's a gift link! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

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DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 12h

How it will be able to continue the ethnic cleansing and genocide of the entire indigenous Palestinian people. The fact that over 150 countries out of approximately 190 have indicated that there should be a Palestinian State, YET the U.S. and ISRAEL get to nix that.” 3/3

DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 12h

“Then Israel protested and demanded changes which were NOT presented to Arab leaders. Once again, this will be another example of the U.S.-ISRAEL blaming Hamas for not accepting this proposal, AFTER Trump and Netanyahu changed the proposal so that Israel will maintain control of the Gaza Strip.” ⅔

DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 12h

From my brother:
“I am sending along a few more details of the alleged new peace proposal that Donald Trump and his BOSS Ben Netanyahu have come up with, and how the deal was changed from what was presented to the Arab leaders after they initially thought it would be acceptable.” ⅓

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Greg @gkri15263.bsky.social · 16h

darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 18h

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Paul Atreides @paulatreidesno7.bsky.social · 16h

Mikey, the insurrectionist, literally said he won't negotiate anything. He wants his way, period.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

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hunglikeahorsefly.bsky.social @hunglikeahorsefly.bsky.social · 17h

Actions.... more important than any lies he tells!!

They PRAISED him for getting the vaccine done quickly thru operation Warp Speed.... but REFUSED to take it because they dont know whats in it, while CERTAIN it has the ability to track you. They posed from their tracing device in their hand!!!

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DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 16h

"Ginster, an architect with a minor case of neurosis, is naturally hypersensitive to the organization of space. Spatial metaphors crowd the text. Herr Valentin, Ginster’s boss at the architecture firm where he works, is described as a man for whom “the war was too roomy.” 3/3

Now in English.

DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 16h

"In “Ginster,” this journalistic tendency produces countless bon mots and aperçus, which lend much charm. “Modern train stations are the appropriate site for mourning on a grand scale,” we read. Ginster remarks that driving around in a car “makes a person feel like an autocrat in the crowd.” ⅔

DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 16h

Saturday musings, from the Weimar Era:
"Kracauer trained his eye in his critical writings on ephemera and other overlooked phenomena, from hotel lobbies and popular biographies to city maps and the dance routines of the Tiller Girls." ⅓
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Review | An odd Weimar-era novel, finally in English, probes the folly of war

Siegfried Kracauer’s classic novel “Ginster” is exceptionally peculiar and entirely worth discovering now.

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DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 2d

"In the weeks after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, he has become a target of right-wing hate, accused of being a part of the movement he studied. Jack Posobiec, a right-wing influencer, called Dr. Bray a “domestic terrorist professor” on X" 2/2

DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 2d

Em @emwils.bsky.social · 2d

I can't fix the structural asymmetry in our media ecosystem but here's a gift link! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

@ryancroswell.bsky.social

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 2d

The Kyiv Independent is proud to announce the U.S. premiere of its full-length documentary, “Can You Hear Me? The Invisible Battles of Ukrainian Military Medics,” hosted in collaboration with the Embassies of Sweden and Ukraine.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 2d

This is the clearest sign yet that Democrats are winning this argument. Nobody is going to buy this desperate B.S. I’m honestly surprised, but the Democrats have managed to back Johnson into a corner.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "It's about keeping Congress operating so we can get to healthcare. We always were going to. They're lying to you. Okay? The healthcare issues were always gonna be something discussed, deliberated, contemplated, and debated in October and November."

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 2d

I went ahead and did the starting work for someone who wants to chase this angle. Most right-wing influencers who participated in the "Antifa" roundtable at the White House yesterday have easily provable ties to TPUSA (8 of 12). The other four need a closer look I don't have time for right now.

right-wing influencers standing for a photo together at the white house

(Left to Right)

Jack Posobiec - TPUSA employee
Seamus Bruner - Government Accountability Institute (GAI)
James Klug - TPUSA Ambassador
Jonathan Cho - TPUSA employee
Nick Sortor - Influencer
Julio Rosas - Former TPUSA, Blaze Media
Nick Shirley - Influencer
Andy Ngo - Human Events Media Group*
Brandi Kruse - Influencer
Savannah Hernandez - TPUSA employee
Katie Daviscourt - Former TPUSA, Human Events Media Group*
Cam Higby - TPUSA employee

(Human Events Media Group is closely tied to TPUSA. https://humanevents.com/about-human-events )

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 3d

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown.

Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...

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theonlyjunedoe @theonlyjunedoe.bsky.social · 2d

MTG is still a traitor.

January6er... Willard war room with Steve Bannon and Roger Stone.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Greene on the Epstein files: "I can't conclusively say that's why the House isn't in session, but the House should be in session...there is a new Democrat that's been elected that deserves to be sworn in...if it's to avoid the discharge petition, why drag this out? It's going to have 218 signatures"

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 2d

my "this has nothing to do with Epstein" public statement is raising questions already answered by the public statement

Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 3d

Speaker Johnson crashes Kelly and Gallego gaggle. Says he’ll swear in Grijalva when they reopen the government

Kelly asking why Fine and Petronis got sworn in on pro forma, Johnson says it has to do with being on recess.

Johnson: “this has nothing to do with Epstein”

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

If you want to abolish a tax on poor people you cut VAT.

If you want to abolish a tax that is almost entirely on Multimillionaires you cut Stamp Duty.

Please, please, please, don't be too stupid to understand this.

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DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 2d

" .. that are terrifying, strange, appallingly comic and often shatteringly beautiful.”

The Nobel Prize is literature’s major honor, and typically the capstone to a writer’s career." 4/4

DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 2d

"Marina Warner, the chair of that year’s judging panel, told reporters that Krasznahorkai was “a visionary writer of extraordinary intensity and vocal range who captures the texture of present day existence in scenes .." ¾

DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 2d

"In recent decades, he has received a stream of accolades outside his home country. In 2015, he won the Man Booker International Prize, which at the time was awarded for an author’s entire body of work rather than a specific novel." 2/4

DaveDrolet @newhercules.bsky.social · 2d

Gift article: NY Times

He studied Hungarian lit in Budapest.

Krasznahorkai’s literary breakthrough came w/ his 1985 debut novel, “Satantango,” about a life in a poor hamlet, which was a literary sensation in Hungary. (And filmed (over 7 hours long) in 1994.) ¼

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Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

WEST VIRGINIAN: “If the subsidies go away I won’t have health insurance. I won’t go to the doctor. This really is a life or death situation.” #TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

(This shutdown is making the case for #MedicareForAll better than we ever could)

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