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Richmond Eustis

@reustis.bsky.social

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Reclusive Swamp Druid. Associate professor, Nicholls State: World Lit, Wilderness, and other "Waste" lands. Senior field & Wilderness Medicine instructor at NOLS. Wilderness EMT. Oud, bees. Fulbright Jordan 2015-17. South Louisiana Sacrifice Zone

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · Nov 9

Obligatory pinned skeet. Behind the scenes with my oud at last year's Arabic Music Retreat.

Point of view shot holding an oud in front of a music stand, with sheet music for a sama'i in maqam hijaz kar kurd.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 1h

Should have abolished ICE when we had the chance. Now it's going to be a big ol pain in the ass.

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1h

The question isn’t whether ICE has become secret police or its functioning legally within very bad law. Very bad law made it possible for form secret police.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 1h

At least this is going great for states run by Trump toadies.

Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Trump is moving to kill all funding for proposed Texas and Louisiana mega-hubs to capture CO₂ from the atmosphere

The bipartisan-backed hubs represented a rare clean tech industry where the US was on the cutting edge

by @emilypont.bsky.social for @heatmap.news

heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Cancel Direct Air Capture Hubs in Texas, Louisiana

A new list of grant cancellations obtained by Heatmap includes Climeworks and Heirloom projects funded by 2021 infrastructure law.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2h

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3h

Nooooo. Lmaoooo. Cuts like a fucking knife.

Every time I see shit like this I realize they're gonna lose and we're gonna win.

TresTiffany @trestiffany.bsky.social · 5h

“What’s your barber name?” is crazy 😂

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

If you look at the sheer insanity of what government officials and agencies openly post on XShitter, it becomes abundantly obvious how much the press is complicit. If Dems did even a fraction of this poasting it would be saturated in news coverage.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 11h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 1h

(She died in Paris in 2014. Also: all fascists deserve a stomping.)

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 2h

RFK Jr.: “Vaccines Don’t Save Lives” - he missed the effect of vaccines on deaths from pertussis, measles, polio and more, points out Dr. @pauloffit.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi...

RFK Jr.: “Vaccines Don’t Save Lives”

In a recent post on X, RFK Jr. said that vaccines are overrated.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 1h

Which one of you bootlicking bastards finally ratted out Comrade Marina?

Black and white photo Marina Ginestá, socialist youth organizer and antifascist soldier in the Army of the Spanish Republic. Age 17. Carrying a rifle and smiling, a magnificent view of Barcelona behind her. 1936 JUna Guzman, EFE.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 2h

Burgundy

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 22h

Mozart:
"Confutatis maledictis" - when the wicked are confounded. "Flammis Acribus Adictis." How would you translate that?

Salieri:
Consigned to flames of woe.

Mozart:
Do you believe it?

Salieri:
What?

Mozart:
A fire which never dies, burning you forever?

Salieri:
Oh, yes...

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 22h

absolutely incredible piece, and do not skip the beautiful photos of the maps

Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 23h

"The City and the City and the City"
by Ayham Dalal

A mapping workshop with refugees from Homs, Syria, illuminates the complexity of rebuilding after war.

Read more: placesjournal.org/article/mapping-homs-syria-rebuilding-after-war/

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So Sayeth Black Lord: @jmood88.bsky.social · 1d

They can’t see themselves in black people, so they have to go to other countries to talk about their fascism

Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 1d

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 23h

It is a total blast to teach. Challenging reading, but a lot of fun.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 23h

someone call the etsy witches this is a fucking emergency

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

variety.com

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 23h

I shook my head and said "Here's the part where I lose my job, I guess. It's been fun teaching you."

More laughter.

And a few voices: "I didn't hear anything!"

"Me either!"

"Nobody heard anything, Dr. Eustis!"

Teaching at this social/political moment is deeply weird. And satisfying. (2/2)

Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 23h

I was showing clips from Star Wars Ep. IV in my Mythology class this afternoon. My selection included the scene when Imperial Stormtroopers stop Luke and Ben at a checkpoint on their entry to Mos Eisely.

"Well, there's ICE," I blurted out, to a chorus of "OOOOOO!" and uproarious laughter. (1/2)

Fugitive resistance Jedi Ben Kenobi uses the force to deceive Stormtroopers on the way into Mos Eisley with Luke Skywalker and the droids in Star Wars: A New Hope

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

This image was posted on X today by a Chicago Tribune reporter. Trump’s government has declared war on the American people — or some of them, based on race.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

Guys like this is exactly why phrasing like “stay woke” came about

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Anti-woke crusader Pete Hegseth praised DEI and working with Democrats while at Harvard, report says

Pete Hegseth praised DEI and working with Democrats while at Harvard, report says

www.independent.co.uk

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 1d

I'm reminded of the Fred Moten line about how settlers build forts on other people's land only to complain about how they're "surrounded"...

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 1d

File under "Once again, the USA is an extraordinary, gruesome outlier on so many statistical measures it isn't even funny".

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 2d

ACLS has released a statement regarding the White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”: bit.ly/3IviMig

We call for the immediate rejection of the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”...No institution that is committed to the free pursuit of knowledge should submit to the degradation of autonomy and academic freedom contained in it. -ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

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