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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Apr 28

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PhD Timeline

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Apr 17

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The Great American Drought: How We’re Draining the Reservoirs of Our Republic

Part 5 - Citizenship Isn’t Something You Buy

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Apr 10

It's time to take a stand against these actions. Where the hell is the plan, #Democrats ? People are coming out in numbers all across the country to protest. It's time to do your part!
#ICE #Deportation
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Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window

Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Apr 9

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The Great American Drought: How We’re Draining the Reservoirs of Our Republic

Part 4 - The Collapse of Trust Isn’t an Accident, It’s a Strategy

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Apr 8

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The Great American Drought: How We’re Draining the Reservoirs of Our Republic

Part 3 - Innovation Without a Nation

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Apr 8

This is great, thank you for posting! I've always wanted to have a go at growing mushrooms.

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Apr 8

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Elon Musk sets the stage for Tesla to bail out Twitter/xAI at an insane valuation

Elon Musk, who already suggested Tesla invest in xAI, is now setting the stage for the public company under his...

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Apr 8

Looks really cool, price upon request is always scary ;-)

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Apr 5

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Is Trump Crashing the Economy on Purpose?

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Apr 5

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Conspiracy theories - How we lost faith

You aren't imaging things...

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Apr 4

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The Great American Drought: How We’re Draining the Reservoirs of Our Republic

Part 2 - The Rules Aren’t Broken. They Were Rewritten

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Apr 4

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Massive Expansion Of Italy’s Piracy Shield Underway Despite Growing Criticism Of Its Flaws

Walled Culture has been following closely Italy’s poorly designed Piracy Shield system. Back in December we reported how copyright companies used their access to the Piracy Shield system to order I…

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Apr 4

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How Ghost Jobs RUINED The Labor Market

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Apr 3

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Leaked Emails Expose Trump’s Devastating Revenge Plot on Dem. Governor

Maine Governor Janet Mills stood up to Donald Trump, and he can’t get over it.

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Apr 2

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The Great American Drought: How We’re Draining the Reservoirs of Our Republic

Part 1 - We Didn’t Drain the Swamp. We Drained the Reservoirs

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Apr 1

Love her or hate her @aoc.bsky.social was on-point from the get go. Hopefully we all will begin to realize the reforms necessary to get back on track.
#government #USA #darkmoney #reform #congress #ethics
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls out Trump in five-minute corruption game

YouTube video by CNN

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Apr 1

What a sad day... it's usually an invader that burns down the buildings and systems of knowledge and history to replace with their own. Here we are doing it to ourselves
#IMLS #Museums #Libraries #DOGE #braindrain #Trump
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Trump’s Mass Purge Finally Hits Museums and Libraries

Donald Trump’s overhaul of the federal government has reached the agency that helps museums and libraries across the country.

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Apr 1

This is exactly why we need Due Process!
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Trump admin accidentally sent man to Salvadorian prison and can’t get him back

Government argues it no longer has control over Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s fate

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Mar 31

Starting to think about where we came from so we can know where we're going to...
#american #usa #1980s #civicduty #community
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What It Means to Be American

Growing Up in the 1980s

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Mar 31

bot much?

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Mar 31

The United States Disappeared Tracker -
It's sad to me that we've gotten to a place where something like this exists but a huge thank you to @danielleharlow.bsky.social
#disappeared #venezuela #ice
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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Mar 27

A free society doesn't sweep people off the street and spirit them away to places unknown because of what they say. Citizen or not, let's live the values of our constitution lest our freedoms evaporate.
#tufts #massachusetts #freespeech #boston #ozturk
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Surveillance shows Tufts graduate student detained

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Mar 24

“The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians - because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Mar 24

I thought the Egyptians learned from the Bent Pyramid that they needed a base under the sand to support the weight of the pyramid...
#pyramid #ancientegypt #archeology #egypt
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Scientists say they used new tech to find 'vast city' beneath pyramids

The researchers claim to have discovered eight vertical cylinder-shaped structures, referred to as shafts, extending approximately 2,100 feet deep beneath the pyramids.

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Harry Hoffman @harryhoffman.bsky.social · Mar 22

First they come for the libraries. Then the museums. What’s next, our right to wonder? Our kids deserve more than billionaire vanity. Curiosity isn’t a luxury—and any policymaker who thinks it is shouldn’t be in office.
#libraries #museums #doge #IMLS #smithsonian
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Moves to Gut Local Libraries While No One Is Looking

DOGE is seizing the Institute of Museum and Library Service.

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