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Alan Singer

@alansinger.bsky.social

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Historian of Great Britain, Europe, Jews and antisemitism, teacher, guitar player, baseball watcher.

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Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · 2d

@radiofreetom.bsky.social you have just reminded me why I tell my friends why @theatlantic.com sucks. Thanks.

Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · 4d

Extra Credit Question: Louis XIV + II = x www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

Opinion | Trump’s Louis XIV Moment

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Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · 7d

Mr. Greenblatt has much to atone for this year.

Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · 8d

I still don’t know how they keep his devil’s horns so trim. Cudos to his coiffeur.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 8d

The former UK prime minister has welcomed Donald Trump’s 'bold and intelligent' peace plan, but there was disbelief among some members of Blair’s Labour party on.ft.com/3WgLMgE

Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · 10d

Warrant. Oh wait.

Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · 10d

Or, for the moment, focus on the fashionism. No one tells Portlandians what to wear.

Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · 15d

Go Brewers!

Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · 19d

Hey, just like with the fascists in Italy in the ‘20s and ‘30s.

Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · 19d

But if you don’t think like Max, off with your head! Find a better quote about freedom.

Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · 21d

Wow it’s bad.

Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · 22d

RIP Mr Redford.

Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 22d

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · 25d

We are so far gone now.

Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · 25d

Tommy says hi.

Tom Morello holding Arm the Homeless guitar.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · 27d

Klein’s piece was an obnoxious cry for attention and clicks. I’m pretty sure maintaining a McCarthyite watchlist is not practicing politics the right way. Shameful.

Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · 27d

All current msm outlets will either comply or die within the next few months.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 28d

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · 28d

It is not clear that the suspect is in custody.

Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · Sep 6

As soon as the sun comes up, I’m on my way. ❤️

Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · Aug 28

Ah yes, the never ending epidemic of class war.

Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · Aug 26

a man with a mustache is talking to another man in a movie .

Alt: a man with a mustache is talking to another man in a movie .

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Aug 24

I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.

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Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · Aug 23

Mazel Tov!

Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · Aug 23

Yeah any time they get peckish they can pop into the McDonald’s in Rafah for a Happymeal. Your numbers are meaningless to the suffering people on the ground.

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Alan Singer @alansinger.bsky.social · Aug 21

Yes, of course.