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Michael Alvard
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Radical Left Scum (RLS), Atheist, scientist, anthropologist, outdoors person, anti-authoritarian. Father, sibling, friend. I live in Texas, but I'm not from Texas. Motto: gɛdder dün
December 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The Texas A&M football team lost today and that brings me joy. Am I a bad person for feeling that way?
December 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Academic freedom at Texas A&M is done
December 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Mood
December 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
On a secret mission
November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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"On Tyranny" is #1 on the WaPo bestseller list this week. I wish it weren't necessary, but I'm glad that people are finding the book useful.
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Washington Post paperback bestsellers
A snapshot of popular books.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Weekly rage protest click for the details
October 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
College Station, TX
October 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
October 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Narrator: This is fascism.
October 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.
October 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
August 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
President of Dartmouth, Sian Leah Beilock, tells Trump to fuck off
Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President
president.dartmouth.edu
October 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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“It was a glimpse into our new reality created by the Court’s decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo…Justice Kavanaugh wrote that federal immigration officers can stop and briefly detain anyone they have ‘reasonable suspicion’ to believe is in the country unlawfully.”

open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...
The Most Dangerous Thing Happening Right This Minute
We have entered the "Papers. Please" era
open.substack.com
October 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Here's the first page of the United States Forest Service website
October 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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"Are we the baddies?" Lands as a joke because it genuinely would have been a novel thought to front-line 1942 Germans who, like 90% of Americans in 2025, had not considered that their national project might be some kind of great historic evil the likes of which the world had never known.
September 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Well, yeah....
September 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Today. 6:00 academic Plaza Texas A&M University.
September 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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September 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.
September 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This is what ethnic cleansing looks like
Israel bombed the Mushtaha Tower in Gaza City, leveling the 12-story building as part of a larger escalation aimed at depopulating the largest urban center in the Palestinian territory.
September 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Nothing even remotely subtle or confusing about what this is.
1) ABC/NBC should lose license or pay hefty fees because their reporting is mean to him.
2) MD should maybe lose bridge repair funds because Wes Moore was mean to him.
3) The feds should investigate Chris Christie for Bridgegate because he was mean to him.
August 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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If you’re a convicted felon and your character witness is your dear old friend, the convicted child sex trafficker and enabler of your other dear old friend, the most notorious raper of children in modern history, you’re definitely a total piece of shit.
August 23, 2025 at 4:40 AM