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More of what @adamserwer.bsky.social has called the Great Resegregation:

"State Senator Jennifer Carroll Foy, a Black VMI alumna, said in an interview that the VMI board president, John Adams, told her the board no longer wanted a Black superintendent." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...
The First Black Leader of Virginia Military Institute Is Ousted
The college’s board decided not to renew the contract of its superintendent, Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins, who led diversity efforts and removed a Confederate statue on campus.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Advances of @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social’s translation of The Odyssey have arrived, and this is a gorgeous piece of book making. Cover and case design by Matt Avery of Monograph.

In bookstores everywhere April 9, or get it direct from @uchicagopress.bsky.social.

press.uchicago.edu/index.html
February 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Never thought I’d quote from Die Hard, but it’s worth remembering that Hans Gruber initially poses as a terrorist, sending police on a wild goose chase to release political prisoners around the world. But Bruce Willis finally finds them drilling the safe and realizes it’s just a good old bank job.
February 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
So I was shooting a job downtown this morning and was parked near the USAID Annex building. I looked up and noticed that the USAID flag was ripped by a third or so. It appears that it has been torn along the letters “ID” in “USAID,” leaving it to read only “USA.”
February 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
February 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM