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Gregory A. Hargreaves

@bordergroves.bsky.social

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Historian of capitalism, environment, & technology in the longue durée. Assistant director of the @hagleycenter.bsky.social. Adjunct prof. Dad. PhD. Delawarean. First Gen. Hoopy frood. Born at 344 ppm. No human is illegal.

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · Jan 26

"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 2h

Powell’s Stan here 🙋🏻‍♂️

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 2h

THIS is desecration of the flag

Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 3h

the patentee 🦨

Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 3h

Municipal governments are often superior to state governments 🤷🏻‍♂️

Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 3h

What’s your sign?

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 6h

I think about this a lot. Specifically about Ankh-Morpork! Freedom permits self organization. Large chaotic systems, when free, self organize an organic order from below more flexible and durable than any order imposed from above.

Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

In Discworld, cities thrive because they welcome dwarfs, trolls, vampires, and humans alike. Ankh-Morpork works because everyone belongs. Funny how fiction can seem more humane than policy sometimes.

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 1d

Ai companies be like “the price of tulips bulbs will rise ever higher!”

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 22h

Pupdate

Scruffy yellow dog snuggled amongst throw pillows on a couch

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 21h

These vast, new “ai” server farms will soon be converted to crypto mines with huge public subsidies, a bait and switch that will allow a tiny number of people to launder limitless money

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 21h

national Dems must demand integrity for the 2026 and 2028 elections above all else

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 9h

Right Wing Catholics Favor Child Abuse

least surprising headline ever

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

SCOTUS signaled at its hearings today it may strike down Colorado's ban on conversion therapy

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The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 10h

No shit, Sherlock.

Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 21h

Museums: Always The Front Lines

Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 21h

national Dems must demand integrity for the 2026 and 2028 elections above all else

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 21h

These vast, new “ai” server farms will soon be converted to crypto mines with huge public subsidies, a bait and switch that will allow a tiny number of people to launder limitless money

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA is not going to build a “unitary executive” and then allow free and fair elections for the office.

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 1d

they pepper sprayed his frog hole

heavily armed police pepper spraying the breathing hole of hero frog

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 22h

Pupdate

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s power rest upon a Faustian bargain but he hasn’t gotten his comeuppance because in the bargain he wasn’t Faust.

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 1d

Every crime committed by and on behalf of Trump is a powerful inducement for him and his cronies to cling to power because the alternative is prosecution.

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 1d

Two heart attacks is all that stands in the way of a Mike Johnson presidency possibly relating to a cheeseburger and an overly amorous encounter with a chaise lounge

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 1d

I saw Demented Souls live back in ‘06 great show

Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 1d

they pepper sprayed his frog hole

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 1d

This is the fundamental right upon which all other American rights and freedoms are founded: equality before the law. Losing that returns us to a system of aristocrats above the law and commoners bound by it.

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