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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 15h

Those new stairs don’t look like they’re long for this world.

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 23h

Very Blade Runner

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 1d

I will knock doors for any 2028 candidate who makes this their slogan.

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

Fuckers need to pay.

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 1d

Marc sticks the landing. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Comedy Podcast · Updated Semiweekly · Marc Maron welcomes comedians, actors, directors, writers, authors, musicians and folks from all walks of life to his home for amazingly revealing conversations. ...

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 2d

Forkish overnight country brown. The chestnut color is a tell, no?

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 3d

Aromatherapy

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 5d

Anise pick me up.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 9d

Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 13d

I need Jackson Lamb’s cheery optimism as a palate cleanser from that loss in the Bronx.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 14d

Becoming an ancient crone who tells mystical tales to the English majors in my classes about the halcyon days when the college library was wall-to-wall stacks of wonderful books rather than 80% coldly sanitized monochrome “flex spaces”

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 14d

Chapman just wanted it to be maximally psychologically damaging to the Yankee fan base.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 17d

Not the most important thing, I suppose, but Hegseth's last sentence is interesting: "Their place in history is settled."

This epitomizes the yearning of all authoritarians: To control not just the present and the future, but the past. Nothing can be re-examined or re-thought. No questions allowed.

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · 25d

Having a wonderful time at Hopkins at the “Oratory and Rhetoric
in the Generation before Cicero” conference. And met this very cool Etruscan duck decanter.

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · Sep 14

Yep. Don’t sacrifice your 20s on a losing venture. musgrave.substack.com/p/dont-do-a-...

Don't Do a Ph.D. Now

At least in the United States

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · Sep 11

What a difference a hemisphere makes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil

www.nytimes.com

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · Sep 11

This man fomented an insurrection, then bestowed pardons and military honors on its perpetrators.

Here, he praises "free speech," then attributes all political violence to his ideological foes and vows to crack down on their organizations. We're living in an Orwellian nightmare.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Sep 11

"My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it, as well as those who go after our judges, law enforcement officials, and everyone else who brings order to our country."

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is so good. Thanks!

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · Sep 6

Complete theft. I’ve lost track of
From where.

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · Sep 6

So often such puns just lead to obscurity. And whatever starts in vagueness stays in vagueness.

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · Sep 4

My girl is distraught over Roman Anthony’s injury.

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Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social · Aug 30

This (great) thread confirms my sense that the priority now is not to patch up coalitional differences. That's step two. The priority is to get everyone across the opposition to understand that we're not in a pluralist, politics-as-normal world. We're in a zero-sum world. The stakes are existential.

Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · Aug 30

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.

The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · Aug 28

Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...

New C.D.C. Director Is Fired, White House Says

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John Dugan @sicsicsinefine.bsky.social · Aug 27

Outlook email doesn’t recognize “lucubration” as a word. I mean wtaf.

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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thoughts:
1. This will pass
2. The fascists' fall will be as grotseque as their crimes.
3. History has already judged them, as has God

But
1. we know not when / how, only that it will be worse and longer than we fear
2. no one is coming to save us
3. Undoing some of the damage will be much work

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · Aug 23

Cicero seated at a writing desk with quill and knife in hand, next to a revolving book stand, and cupboard holding books

Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 257; Somnium Scipionis, with Macrobius' Commentary, & glosses; 1383 CE; Italy (Bologna); f.2r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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