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Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 2m

I don’t know if you’re joking, but banc means bench, hence the whole bench of the court.

Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 4d

Great reporting for the Sun-Times. Proud to have delivered the paper many years ago.

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Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 8d

Context is important. Please link to full texts when you quote sources.

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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 8d

*this* is how to legally and humanly deal with suspected drug smuggling vessels

UK Defence Journal @ukdefencejournal.org.uk · 8d

Royal Marine snipers aboard a Wildcat fired a precision shot to stop a high-speed drugs boat in the Gulf of Oman, as HMS Lancaster seized £35 million worth of illegal narcotics.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/royal-marine...

Royal Marines sniper halts £35m drug boat in Gulf of Oman

Royal Marine snipers aboard a Wildcat fired a precision shot to stop a high-speed drugs boat in the Gulf of Oman, as HMS Lancaster seized £35 million worth of illegal narcotics.

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 16d

we can destroy that (aspirational)

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 16d

well, he's correct about this www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

“U.S. universities were and are the envy of the world,” Mr. Rowan told Bloomberg Television. “We can destroy that. We can lose it.”

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Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 17d

Make “the source” read “a source.”

Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 17d

I’d heard that the source was the seven liberal arts. The three beginning studies: grammar, logic, and rhetoric were the three ways to knowledge — the trivium. The four mathematical studies: arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy were the quadrivium. The three introductory studies were trivial.

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Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 21d

"Sanford also appears to have signed two petitions as a Michigan voter favored by conservatives. He appears to have signed a petition to … curtail emergency powers that came amid a COVID-19 backlash to public health orders and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s handling of the pandemic."

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 22d

Full homily text. adw.org/news/wdmr-ho...

Mass for the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees Homily Given by Robert Cardinal McElroy - Archdiocese of Washington

HOMILY Mass for the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees Given by Robert Cardinal McElroy, Archbishop of Washington Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, Washington, DC September 28, 2025 at 5:30 ...

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 22d

US Magistrate Judge Vaala trying to untangle Lindsey Halligan's first adventure in indicting someone:

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Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · 28d

Nice catch of Pritzker quoting the central Andorian theme.

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Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies @ralahinecentre.bsky.social · 28d

Celebrating 40 years of Music and Poetry of the Kesh by Ursula K. Le Guin and Todd Barton. 4pm this Wednesday afternoon at the IWA in UL. Tower Seminar organized by Dr Aileen Dillane.

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Tower Seminar: Celebrating 40 years of Music and Poetry of the Kesh by Ursula K. Le Guin and Todd Barton

Venue: Theatre 2Time: 4pm-5.30pmPresenter: Todd Barton and Dr Aileen Dillane Chair: Dr Aileen DillaneSeptember 2025 marks the fortieth anniversary of the release of the recording 'Music and Poetry of ...

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Museum of Northern Arizona @musnaz.bsky.social · 29d

You can search the Museum of Northern Arizona collections online.
Go to musnaz.org/collections/ and tap the Collections Online button.

Collections

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Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · Sep 13

Gonzalez’s art is “a way of pointing out the hypocrisy within a sector of the population that is anti-immigrant yet considers themselves Christian.”

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Sep 13

Column by Philip Kennicott: The painting “Immigrants Crossing the Border Wall Into South Texas” was included on a list of Smithsonian artworks, exhibitions and programming that the Trump administration considers woke or anti-American.

Column | His art is inspired by Rubens and Velázquez. Trump says it’s woke.

The administration’s campaign against what it calls divisive art targets realism, representation, empathy and Christianity.

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Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · Sep 11

Well done Senator Gallego.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Sep 10

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Ashli Babbitt was a traitor. She was a traitor to this country. She was part of a violent mob that tried to overthrow our democracy...She didn't die protecting our country. She died trying to turn it down...She wasn't a martyr. She was and is a traitor."

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Thony Christie @rmathematicus.bsky.social · Sep 10

Book review: The history of science in Islamicate culture #histsci
thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/t...

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Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · Sep 9

This silent generation baby also wants to know the details.

Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · Sep 8

…….?

Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · Sep 7

I remember avoiding swimming pools to avoid polio and contributing ten cents to the March of Dimes against polio.

US ten cent coin (one dime) in the Roosevelt series (1946-present)

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Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · Sep 4

English translation of bulletin from Vatican Press Office.

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Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · Aug 26

It was said of President Truman that he mispronounced many words because he learned them by reading, not in conversation.

The problem you cite is of people who learned aurally, not by reading. It’s a symptom of modern media.

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Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · Aug 26

Lovely garden. Do I see a fuscia in the corner?

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · Aug 25

US colleagues in #philsci #sts #histsci #histmed, please encourage your students to consider the Gates Cambridge Scholarships. Deadline for US residents is October 15th. They need to first apply for admission to the Department of HPS for MPhil or PhD (2026 entry) www.hps.cam.ac.uk/study/postgr...

International Scholarship at The University of Cambridge

International postgraduate scholarships at the University of Cambridge

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Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · Aug 25

A letter from General Grant to General Buckner:

"Yours of this date proposing Armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of Capitulation is just received. No terms except a unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.
I propose to move immediately upon your works.
I am sir, very respectfully your obt. svt. U. S. Grant Brig. Gen."

Steve McCluskey @stevemccluskey.bsky.social · Aug 25

Perhaps its time to add an argument based on the Second Amendment to California’s case against federal use of the National Guard (Newsom v. Trump).

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