Scott MacEachern
@scottmaceachern.bsky.social
Vice-Chancellor, archaeologist, Maritimer
December 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“There was a time, mostly forgotten now, when almost every centrist institution in this country bent over backward to describe Donald Trump’s appeal as a function of some kind of “economic anxiety.” The alternative…”
December 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
“There was a time, mostly forgotten now, when almost every centrist institution in this country bent over backward to describe Donald Trump’s appeal as a function of some kind of “economic anxiety.” The alternative…”
How a Kansas Republican Became Part of a Racist, Antisemitic Group Chat
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December 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
You’d have to be drunk to think that firing an RPG inside a helicopter was a good idea.
Oh, wait…
Oh, wait…
December 2, 2025 at 9:14 AM
You’d have to be drunk to think that firing an RPG inside a helicopter was a good idea.
Oh, wait…
Oh, wait…
Next step, Shabana Mahmood pledges to make sure asylum seekers can only sit at the back of the bus.
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UK asylum seekers to be banned from taking taxis to medical appointments
Move, which is part of crackdown on costs, comes after it emerged Home Office spends £15.8m a year on service
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November 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Next step, Shabana Mahmood pledges to make sure asylum seekers can only sit at the back of the bus.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Friendship… it’s called Gripen.
Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Friendship… it’s called Gripen.
Israel tried to render southern Lebanon uninhabitable with cluster weapon UXOs in 2006. Now they are using them there again.
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Israel used widely banned cluster munitions in Lebanon, photos of remnants suggest
Exclusive: Images are first indication that Israel has used cluster munitions in nearly 20 years
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November 20, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Israel tried to render southern Lebanon uninhabitable with cluster weapon UXOs in 2006. Now they are using them there again.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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At a time when people are getting fired across the US for expressing ideas from the left, Len Gutkin pursues his zealous pursuit of the wokes.
Opinion | At Colorado State, a couple of zealous social work instructors were practicing something that looks a lot like indoctrination. https://chroni.cl/3Lti7yW
A Classroom Cult at Colorado State
Plus: 15 leading thinkers on what AI hath wrought in higher ed.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
At a time when people are getting fired across the US for expressing ideas from the left, Len Gutkin pursues his zealous pursuit of the wokes.
Exactly this, from lioneltrolling.bsky.social:
“In the way Buchanan used it… it’s what Western civilization means: It means white people…a certain racial stock that makes up Western people.
And the division on the right, right now, is: Are Jews part of that Western white people?”
“In the way Buchanan used it… it’s what Western civilization means: It means white people…a certain racial stock that makes up Western people.
And the division on the right, right now, is: Are Jews part of that Western white people?”
Opinion | Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes and the Right’s ‘Groyper’ Problem
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November 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Exactly this, from lioneltrolling.bsky.social:
“In the way Buchanan used it… it’s what Western civilization means: It means white people…a certain racial stock that makes up Western people.
And the division on the right, right now, is: Are Jews part of that Western white people?”
“In the way Buchanan used it… it’s what Western civilization means: It means white people…a certain racial stock that makes up Western people.
And the division on the right, right now, is: Are Jews part of that Western white people?”
As PM, has Keir Starmer actually let with anything except that enormous chin?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Starmer allies issue warning to PM’s rivals as fears grow over leadership challenge
No 10 said to be in ‘full bunker mode’ over fears of attempt to oust him after budget or May local elections
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November 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
As PM, has Keir Starmer actually let with anything except that enormous chin?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I bought Count Zero by accident, in transit through O’Hare just after it came out in 1986 or 1987.
It encapsulated a very particular concept of cool that has stuck with me ever since. Funny the things that work to define your life.
It encapsulated a very particular concept of cool that has stuck with me ever since. Funny the things that work to define your life.
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I bought Count Zero by accident, in transit through O’Hare just after it came out in 1986 or 1987.
It encapsulated a very particular concept of cool that has stuck with me ever since. Funny the things that work to define your life.
It encapsulated a very particular concept of cool that has stuck with me ever since. Funny the things that work to define your life.
As an archaeologist, I want to emphasize what bullshit this is.
“…this originated in the mists of prehistory, that men were organized to have warrior bands, which meant they needed to have hierarchical structures.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
“…this originated in the mists of prehistory, that men were organized to have warrior bands, which meant they needed to have hierarchical structures.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?
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November 7, 2025 at 4:10 AM
As an archaeologist, I want to emphasize what bullshit this is.
“…this originated in the mists of prehistory, that men were organized to have warrior bands, which meant they needed to have hierarchical structures.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
“…this originated in the mists of prehistory, that men were organized to have warrior bands, which meant they needed to have hierarchical structures.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
“It’s not a war if the other side can’t shoot back.”
“Whatever happens, we have got/the Maxim gun, and they have not.”
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“Whatever happens, we have got/the Maxim gun, and they have not.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
War Powers Law Does Not Apply to Trump’s Boat Strikes, Administration Says
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November 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM
“It’s not a war if the other side can’t shoot back.”
“Whatever happens, we have got/the Maxim gun, and they have not.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
“Whatever happens, we have got/the Maxim gun, and they have not.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
“The collision between Albanese and the Trump White House … It’s a conflict between someone who deeply understands the workings of a Mafia state and a U.S. administration that is building a Mafia state.”
Opinion | The U.S. Denounces Her. Multinationals Threaten Her. She Likes Her Odds.
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October 16, 2025 at 10:23 AM
“The collision between Albanese and the Trump White House … It’s a conflict between someone who deeply understands the workings of a Mafia state and a U.S. administration that is building a Mafia state.”
Now I understand why I keep reading all of these smarmy, squishy conversations between columnists and extreme-right commentators in the New York Times.
The Times columnists are doing job interviews: after all, they might be working for Bari Weiss someday.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...
The Times columnists are doing job interviews: after all, they might be working for Bari Weiss someday.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...
Opinion | Trumpism After Trump: The Future of the Right
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October 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Now I understand why I keep reading all of these smarmy, squishy conversations between columnists and extreme-right commentators in the New York Times.
The Times columnists are doing job interviews: after all, they might be working for Bari Weiss someday.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...
The Times columnists are doing job interviews: after all, they might be working for Bari Weiss someday.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...
If Dave Hutchinson had started writing his Fractured Europe sequence five years later, it would’ve been accused of being a documentary.
Except for the alternate universe and the Flu starting in Wuhan, of course.
Except for the alternate universe and the Flu starting in Wuhan, of course.
October 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
If Dave Hutchinson had started writing his Fractured Europe sequence five years later, it would’ve been accused of being a documentary.
Except for the alternate universe and the Flu starting in Wuhan, of course.
Except for the alternate universe and the Flu starting in Wuhan, of course.
“..mainstream right-wing commentators are claiming that black people cannot be English ..This is absolute poison, obviously, but it is also contrary to public opinion.. I would like to see a Labour communication strategy which punches that bruise. Make it the chief issue, focus remorselessly on it.”
October 4, 2025 at 5:17 AM
“..mainstream right-wing commentators are claiming that black people cannot be English ..This is absolute poison, obviously, but it is also contrary to public opinion.. I would like to see a Labour communication strategy which punches that bruise. Make it the chief issue, focus remorselessly on it.”
“Gazans are being slaughtered, but they’ve been slaughtered for a while now and that’s going to continue. So just give it a rest for a day or two, OK?
“The issues that are driving those protests have been going on for some time. They don’t look like they are going to come to an end any time soon.”
“The issues that are driving those protests have been going on for some time. They don’t look like they are going to come to an end any time soon.”
Home secretary calls Gaza protests in wake of Manchester attack ‘un-British’
Shabana Mahmood urges demonstrators to ‘show some love’ and call off planned protests after deadly attack
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October 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“Gazans are being slaughtered, but they’ve been slaughtered for a while now and that’s going to continue. So just give it a rest for a day or two, OK?
“The issues that are driving those protests have been going on for some time. They don’t look like they are going to come to an end any time soon.”
“The issues that are driving those protests have been going on for some time. They don’t look like they are going to come to an end any time soon.”
Not a coincidence that you get reports like this one at the same time as articles on the lawlessness of American Special Forces in places like Afghanistan. The objective is to have American families terrorized the way that Afghan families were.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...
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October 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Not a coincidence that you get reports like this one at the same time as articles on the lawlessness of American Special Forces in places like Afghanistan. The objective is to have American families terrorized the way that Afghan families were.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...
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September 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
As a partial antidote to this nonsense, I’d recommend Nadia Abu El-Haj’s excellent book ‘Facts on the Ground’.
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‘Tunnel vision’: how Israel is using archaeology for political ends
Scientists say Netanyahu government and its US backers are trying to construct a history shorn of all complexity
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September 25, 2025 at 4:28 AM
As a partial antidote to this nonsense, I’d recommend Nadia Abu El-Haj’s excellent book ‘Facts on the Ground’.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
In an conversation that spends most of its time talking about how the first two Red Scares were the left’s fault…
“And I want to be clear that I am not absolving them of their responsibility for this or saying this is the left’s fault. But…”
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“And I want to be clear that I am not absolving them of their responsibility for this or saying this is the left’s fault. But…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Building the Blue Scare
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September 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
In an conversation that spends most of its time talking about how the first two Red Scares were the left’s fault…
“And I want to be clear that I am not absolving them of their responsibility for this or saying this is the left’s fault. But…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
“And I want to be clear that I am not absolving them of their responsibility for this or saying this is the left’s fault. But…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...