Fifty-seven here and just did the subtraction on a calculator. Agreed.
Thomas Elkins
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Classics reader - studied philosophy/history/literature. NIU/DePaul. Dog & cat owner. Prog social Dem. Plato/Aristotle/Kant/Gadamer reader. No DMs.
Log splitter, classicist, Mod.
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This expression makes RFK, Jr. look like a reasonable facsimile of Alfred E. Newman from "Mad" magazine.
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#ProtestSongOfTheDay
youtu.be/1q82twrdr0U?... Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people Who will not be slaves again
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Good night, Jim Lovell.
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I am well aware that social class and privilege are important factors here but even so, this was my own experience. I have had a really blessed life in this respect. I used the open curriculum to take whatever I wanted and ended up majoring in Religious Studies just because after sophomore year
Brown's liberal, open curriculum taught me higher ed wasn't just career prep but reading the great books and learning to be a good citizen
My alma mater's heartbreaking capitulation to the Trump regime makes me wonder if my dream was a mirage
A personal new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Brown’s Trump surrender shatters a dream | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, about those "Trump accomplishments"
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The new books arrived, looking great! @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social
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'Fat, poorly educated, slobs, stupid' - just more projection.
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Sean Hannity is whining about me on his radio show and I have learned some new information about myself.
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Just fucking evil!
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🎧 Every single word of this monologue! 🔥
"You've structured this thing to make [immigrants] seem like monsters...B/C, "as long as we see somebody as a monster...we don't really care what happens to them."
"If you get really good at stripping that humanity away, you can do whatever you want..."
When you strip away humanity
