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Peter B. Kaufman @pbkauf.bsky.social · 19h

Or: bull?

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 20h

You’d think a decade into all of this, the NYT would have figured out how to stop lauding the arsonist for helping to extinguish the fire.

Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 21h

there was a ceasefire when trump came in. he let israel blow that up, let famine spread, let his goons murder starving people, before using the power he'd had since he took office. grotesque to call this peacemaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/trump-mideast-visit-israel-gaza.html

(from the nyt obvi) With Mideast Deal, Trump Is on the Brink of a Major Diplomatic Accomplishment

For President Trump, success in brokering a cease-fire is the ultimate test of his self-described goal as a deal maker and a peacemaker.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 1d

"A transcendent, boundary-breaking work."

Peter Kaufman reviews @whitneyphillips.bsky.social and Mark Brockway’s "The Shadow Gospel" for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Hand holding a copy of "The Shadow Gospel: How Anti-Liberal Demonology Posessed U.S. Religion, Media, and Politics" by Whitney Phillips and Mark Brockway.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Peter B. Kaufman @pbkauf.bsky.social · 2d

Nuts.

Peter B. Kaufman @pbkauf.bsky.social · 2d

“Overlapping.”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. the latest example of the Trump administration’s policy priorities overlapping with the business dealings of the president and his family.”

@wsj.com
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 5d

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The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools

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Peter B. Kaufman @pbkauf.bsky.social · 7d

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Peter B. Kaufman @pbkauf.bsky.social · 9d

I like the emoji.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10d

FT: Several people said they expected the transaction to go through fairly easily.

“.. What regulator is going to say no to the president’s son-in-law?" 🤡

@financialtimes.com $EA
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How Jared Kushner brokered the $55bn takeover of Electronic Arts

Trump’s son-in-law used deep ties in Saudi Arabia to help pull off the largest buyout

www.ft.com

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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Tim Berners-Lee, Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free

我为何免费赠送万维网

Why I gave the world wide web away for free (www.theguardian.com) 19:17 ↑ 112 HN Points

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 14d

Trump announces 5,000% increase in all numbers, @theonion.com

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Peter B. Kaufman @pbkauf.bsky.social · 14d

Tarte Tatin alert.

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Peter B. Kaufman @pbkauf.bsky.social · 15d

"The fire's not raging through the houses!" his character shouts. "The fire's in the minds of men!" Dostoevsky & others help explain our mania in an LARB review I've written about a new book from the MIT Press. @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
@mitpress.bsky.social.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

The Demons That Rule Us | Los Angeles Review of Books

Peter B. Kaufman considers Whitney Phillips and Mark Brockway’s “The Shadow Gospel: How Anti-Liberal Demonology Possessed U.S. Religion, Media, and Politics.”

lareviewofbooks.org

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Michael Luo @michaelluo.bsky.social · 21d

Next week's @newyorker.com cover. www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 10

wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america

Opinion | They Don’t Want to Live in Lincoln’s America

www.nytimes.com

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Peter B. Kaufman @pbkauf.bsky.social · Sep 9

Book talk with legend Moses Znaimer & friends in Toronto:

youtu.be/Jh3VwlIatGw?...

Preserving the Future – An MZTV Talk with MIT’s Peter B. Kaufman

YouTube video by MZTV Museum of Television

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Sep 9

It should not be up to John Oliver to be publicly making the argument that university presidents should be making loudly & collectively on the news & in front of the US Capitol every day.

🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · Sep 9

John Oliver: "While get the appeal of thinking just one more concession, one more payoff might safeguard your independence or let you live to fight another day, it's worth asking at what point have you compromised so much that
the thing you're supposed to be defending is gone."

Trump vs. Higher Education: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 8

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Aug 31

Brazilian investigators have put together the details of Jair Bolsonaro's entire planned coup d'état, much of which was advised and planned by senior staffers of Donald Trump. There's even the speech he was to give after the coup was pulled off. www.economist.com/1843/2025/08...

The untold story of Bolsonaro’s weird and wild coup attempt

How Brazil’s ex-president and his cronies tried to take down democracy

www.economist.com

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · Aug 29

What Ancient Greece Really Looked Like: See Reconstructions of the Temple of Hadrian, Curetes Street & the Fountain of Trajan

Ancient Greeks did not live among ruins. This is, of course, an obvious truth, but one we run the risk of forgetting if we watch too many historical fantasies set in their time and place as popularly ...

www.openculture.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 29

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns

“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

www.advocate.com

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Peter B. Kaufman @pbkauf.bsky.social · Aug 26

The full Pyongyang:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 26

Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "Mr President, I invite you see your big beautiful face on a banner in front of the Department of Labor because you are really the transformational president of the American worker, along with the American flag and President Roosevelt."

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Peter B. Kaufman @pbkauf.bsky.social · Aug 21

How cool.

Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · Aug 21

Reminder!

The Bodleian Book Hospital is open tomorrow (Friday 22 August). 11am-3pm. In Blackwell Hall.

Meet real life Bodleian conservators who will help rescue battered and beloved children's books. Free, no booking required.

Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · Aug 5

Bodleian Book Hospital. 22 August, 11.00–15.00.

Bring flapless lift-the-flaps & scribbled on bedtime stories to the Bodleian Book Hospital where our Conservation Team will fix 'well-loved' favourites and show little ones how to care for treasured tomes.

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/summer...

Peter B. Kaufman @pbkauf.bsky.social · Aug 21

Clams.

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