Professor Greg Russell
@profgrussell.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor, U. Oklahoma, books/articles/chapters on Hans Mogenthau, JQ Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Machiavelli, Reinhold Niebuhr, George Kennan, Eric Voegelin
Interests: Political Biographies, Victorian Leaders.
Interests: Political Biographies, Victorian Leaders.
Hamnet and Hamlet!
Have we overdone (or not) the elements of loss and mourning (and its role relative to the comic) for the Bard?
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Have we overdone (or not) the elements of loss and mourning (and its role relative to the comic) for the Bard?
www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...
January 17, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Hamnet and Hamlet!
Have we overdone (or not) the elements of loss and mourning (and its role relative to the comic) for the Bard?
www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...
Have we overdone (or not) the elements of loss and mourning (and its role relative to the comic) for the Bard?
www.newstatesman.com/culture/film...
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“News organizations” are running the hell out of this story because they see their function not so much to report facts but to enforce social norms like “police officers are automatically deserving of respect to a degree it is newsworthy if someone is mean to one of them.”
Starbucks employee delivers coffee to L.A. deputy with hand-drawn pig on cup
Starbucks employee delivers coffee to L.A. deputy with hand-drawn pig on cup
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is speaking out after one of its deputies was served a cup of coffee from an employee of a Norwalk Starbucks with a hand-drawn image of a pig on it.…
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January 13, 2026 at 1:08 AM
“News organizations” are running the hell out of this story because they see their function not so much to report facts but to enforce social norms like “police officers are automatically deserving of respect to a degree it is newsworthy if someone is mean to one of them.”
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Reposted by Professor Greg Russell
Reposted by Professor Greg Russell
This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.
January 7, 2026 at 7:14 PM
This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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"Vague assurances are not security; they are illusions, and illusions in great power politics are fatal." lnk.thebulwark.com/4pzTkrK
A Letter from Clausewitz to Secretary Rubio
Channeling the author of ‘On War’ on the U.S. pursuit of peace in Ukraine.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"Vague assurances are not security; they are illusions, and illusions in great power politics are fatal." lnk.thebulwark.com/4pzTkrK
Peter Sellers: A Hard Day's Night
YouTube video by thefilmprojector
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November 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Judge Wolf is quitting the federal bench to fight Trump's corruption
I asked him point blank: are you scared?
His answer on Legal Fight Club was amazing 👇
I asked him point blank: are you scared?
His answer on Legal Fight Club was amazing 👇
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Judge Wolf is quitting the federal bench to fight Trump's corruption
I asked him point blank: are you scared?
His answer on Legal Fight Club was amazing 👇
I asked him point blank: are you scared?
His answer on Legal Fight Club was amazing 👇
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Instead of directing states to issue partial SNAP payments to cover the gap, the feds told them to shut the system off. Starting Nov. 1, SNAP EBT cards won’t reload and after Oct. 31, any unused benefits will be frozen. Please make sure those who rely on them know.
October 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Instead of directing states to issue partial SNAP payments to cover the gap, the feds told them to shut the system off. Starting Nov. 1, SNAP EBT cards won’t reload and after Oct. 31, any unused benefits will be frozen. Please make sure those who rely on them know.
The House and Senate Republicans (who hear and see no evil) are about as nimble and sure footed as the Vichy collaborators on disguising abject capitulation and surrender.
October 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The House and Senate Republicans (who hear and see no evil) are about as nimble and sure footed as the Vichy collaborators on disguising abject capitulation and surrender.
“It is discouraging, from the point of view of those of us who are confirmed believers in representative government, to see _______ completely in the hands of a dictator.”
Admiral William D. Leahy to FDR, August 1941
Some Americans then could see such things more clearly than now!
Admiral William D. Leahy to FDR, August 1941
Some Americans then could see such things more clearly than now!
October 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“It is discouraging, from the point of view of those of us who are confirmed believers in representative government, to see _______ completely in the hands of a dictator.”
Admiral William D. Leahy to FDR, August 1941
Some Americans then could see such things more clearly than now!
Admiral William D. Leahy to FDR, August 1941
Some Americans then could see such things more clearly than now!
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@radiofreetom.bsky.social
Admire your give and take (some with Father Mulcahy’s jocularity) with the swarms on line.
But….I do read carefully your Atlantic pieces with interest. You make a great contribution.
Best wishes.
Admire your give and take (some with Father Mulcahy’s jocularity) with the swarms on line.
But….I do read carefully your Atlantic pieces with interest. You make a great contribution.
Best wishes.
October 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
Admire your give and take (some with Father Mulcahy’s jocularity) with the swarms on line.
But….I do read carefully your Atlantic pieces with interest. You make a great contribution.
Best wishes.
Admire your give and take (some with Father Mulcahy’s jocularity) with the swarms on line.
But….I do read carefully your Atlantic pieces with interest. You make a great contribution.
Best wishes.
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🚨 JUST IN: Trump spotted heading to his golf course amid government shutdown
Trump Heads to Golf Course Amid Government Shutdown
President shuns shutdown talks for golf trip
meidasnews.com
October 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🚨 JUST IN: Trump spotted heading to his golf course amid government shutdown
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"After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, or ARCUS, will close September 30."
"The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives."
"The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives."
After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors
The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.
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September 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, or ARCUS, will close September 30."
"The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives."
"The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives."
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War ravaged Portland.
September 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
War ravaged Portland.
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War-ravaged Portland
September 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
War-ravaged Portland
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I understand Miller doesn’t like being called Goebbels, but maybe - and I’m just spitballing here - he should stop plagiarizing Goebbels speeches
September 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I understand Miller doesn’t like being called Goebbels, but maybe - and I’m just spitballing here - he should stop plagiarizing Goebbels speeches
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@radiofreetom.bsky.social at #TAF25l: Donald Trump’s use of the military as his “personal militia” is “everything George Washington feared about what the U.S. military could become.”
Watch more: bit.ly/3ItaNSB
Watch more: bit.ly/3ItaNSB
September 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
@radiofreetom.bsky.social at #TAF25l: Donald Trump’s use of the military as his “personal militia” is “everything George Washington feared about what the U.S. military could become.”
Watch more: bit.ly/3ItaNSB
Watch more: bit.ly/3ItaNSB
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As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."
I’m a Congressional Candidate. I Was Assaulted by ICE.
An interview with Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Democratic House candidate in Illinois, who was violently thrown to the ground twice at a peaceful protest in Illinois on Friday morning.
newrepublic.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Fox & Friends on Charlie Kirk: "This guy is a modern day St Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero. He's one I think that knows what Jesus meant when he said 'the truth will set you free.'"
September 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.