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Harlow’s Musings @harlowsmusings.bsky.social · 8h

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Rep-Elect Adelita Grijalva announces her election results will be OFFICIALLY certified tomorrow, destroying Mike Johnson’s last excuse to delay her swearing in.

“Mike Johnson needs to do his job so I can do mine.”

No more lies.
No more delays.
Swear her in!

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(We the) People Over Politics @kudubro.bsky.social · 3h

Get your signs ready👇

And bring 🇺🇸 flags. Let’s show Mike Johnson that it’s not a “Hate America” rally, it’s a “Love America, hate Trump” rally.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1h

Speaker Mike Johnson described the upcoming “No Kings” protest as a “Hate America” rally.

“No Kings” = America.

False King = MAGA.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

Today, Mike Johnson will continue to keep the House adjourned for the 71st day out of the last 83, with Republicans refusing to show up to work again to avoid having to vote on the Epstein files or negotiate with Democrats.

Epstein Shutdown

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, babes. Have you got a big surprise coming...

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@realchrisrufo
This is great news. We've hired the classicist Spencer Klavan to teach at New College of Florida. Goodbye gender studies; hello, Greek literature.
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Truly excited to be teaching an online survey course in Greek literature this fall semester @NewCollegeofFL. Even more excited that it's open to the public. Please join in here! We'll be reading Homer, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and lots more.

https://ncf.edu/youngheretics/
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 1h

Yet if you revisit the text free of Marxist dogma, it actually translates as 'he had chronic bone spurs.'

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2h

Achilles tries to get out of Trojan War, by dressing like a Pharaoh. Pharaoh Fawcett-Majors.

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 2h

Pentheus goes to spy on the Maenads dressed as Kid Rock

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1h

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En Björn @nollbok.bsky.social · 1h

It's giving

Tweet chain:
1. #AssassinsCreedOdyssey lets you be as gay as you want
2. This takes place in ancient Greece, right? The Greeks followed religious doctrine, so they would kill somebody for being gay. Therefore, if this series, which prides itself in its historical realism (apart from characters having an impact) is gonna add this, it's wrong.
3. LOL YOU THINK ANCIENT GREECE WASN'T GAY
4. I know ancient Greece followed Christianity.

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Inklaar 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 @inklaar.bsky.social · 1h

You degenerate. They’ll have them study the virtuous men in Plutarch’s Lives, like Pelopidas and his elite troops, the Sacred Band of Thebes.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1h

And dress the police commissioner in drag.

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Tom Hall @tomjhall.bsky.social · 1h

"No more gender studies. Instead well be reading the Lysistrata which is about *checks notes* women going on sex-strike to end a war... "

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🎃nisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 2h

This is one of those tell me you've never read Greek literature without telling me you've never read Greek literature moments.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1h

And PROPER filthy.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1h

it was quite hard to avoid the X rated ones as they are numerous

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2h

And THOSE are just a couple of PG-rated examples.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2h

anyone would think he'd never seen a Greek vase...

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 9m

the most beloved professor on campus and the one who did the keynote orientation welcome (while lit) for years before and after i got there was a classicist. anyway, my best to mr. klavern

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, babes. Have you got a big surprise coming...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18h

I appreciate @punchbowlnews.bsky.social noting something that's objectively true and necessary context, but routinely elided over:

The House GOP is not away because of the shutdown, but to avoid taking a vote on releasing info about a notorious pedophile because that info implicates Trump.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 18h

👀 “The Ghost House”: Eye opening report from @punchbowlnews.bsky.social this am on how Mike Johnson has turned the House into a joke under Republican rule. He has turned House Republican leaders into Trump White House’s poodles (if you catch my drift) covering up for #EpsteinFiles.

$“The Ghost House. Speaker Mike Johnson and top House GOP leaders have kept members home since Sept. 19. While the complaints are growing louder inside House GOP ranks over the issue, Johnson insists Republicans have done their job and there’s no reason for them to be here. House GOP lawmakers passed a “clean” CR that would keep federal agencies open until Nov. 21. Senate Democrats have repeatedly blocked that measure, which led to this shutdown. Democrats are demanding a vote on their own proposal to permanently extend expiring Obamacare premium credits, a rollback in massive Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the end of unilateral spending rescissions. Yet the House’s absence makes it easier for the shutdown to continue. Part of what ends shutdowns is anxiety building among the rank-and-file. Members are home, so there’s limited pressure on House GOP leaders to do anything. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and dozens of Democrats have been in D.C. throughout the shutdown. More importantly, Johnson has emerged as the “face” of the shutdown for House Republicans. He’s doing daily press conferences and more media interviews, putting himself in the center of the fracas. A C-SPAN caller begging Johnson to bring the House back last week went viral. So did Johnson’s hallway confrontation with Arizona Democratic Sens. Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly over Johnson’s refusal to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, a move that has infuriated Democrats.”$

OBBB and done. The reality is that since the OBBB passed on July 3, the House has been checked out. A virtual non-entity for more than three months. And this is the off-year, when Congress is supposed to be busy.
Since July 3, the House has only been in session for 20 days (out of more than 100 calendar days.) Even accounting for the normal August break — which began early because of the Epstein mess – the House has been AWOL.
There have been just over 90 floor votes during this period. A lot of these were amendment votes or votes on non-controversial suspension bills. Several were partisan FY2026 spending bills that have no chance of passage. All in all, very little of substance has been taken up. But as Johnson will remind you, the House did pass a CR.
The only period comparable to this in recent decades was in 2020, during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi used proxy voting to buttress the Democratic leadership’s power. Republicans yelled loudly about that at the time, even filing an unsuccessful lawsuit to stop it. But a similar thing is happening in reverse now.
If you see it, don’t say it. House Republicans have done virtually no oversight on the Trump administration, rolling over on a number of issues that their predecessors would have screamed loudly about. It’s true that House Democrats did little or nothing to rein in President Joe Biden when they controlled the House. But Trump has gone far beyond Biden in using executive authority. “Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an ‘iron fist,’” the Wall Street Journal reported.
For an institution that has complained for years about the need to claw back power from the executive branch, it’s a sad state of affairs. And it shows no sign of ending soon.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 18h

👀 “The Ghost House”: Eye opening report from @punchbowlnews.bsky.social this am on how Mike Johnson has turned the House into a joke under Republican rule. He has turned House Republican leaders into Trump White House’s poodles (if you catch my drift) covering up for #EpsteinFiles.

$“The Ghost House. Speaker Mike Johnson and top House GOP leaders have kept members home since Sept. 19. While the complaints are growing louder inside House GOP ranks over the issue, Johnson insists Republicans have done their job and there’s no reason for them to be here. House GOP lawmakers passed a “clean” CR that would keep federal agencies open until Nov. 21. Senate Democrats have repeatedly blocked that measure, which led to this shutdown. Democrats are demanding a vote on their own proposal to permanently extend expiring Obamacare premium credits, a rollback in massive Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the end of unilateral spending rescissions. Yet the House’s absence makes it easier for the shutdown to continue. Part of what ends shutdowns is anxiety building among the rank-and-file. Members are home, so there’s limited pressure on House GOP leaders to do anything. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and dozens of Democrats have been in D.C. throughout the shutdown. More importantly, Johnson has emerged as the “face” of the shutdown for House Republicans. He’s doing daily press conferences and more media interviews, putting himself in the center of the fracas. A C-SPAN caller begging Johnson to bring the House back last week went viral. So did Johnson’s hallway confrontation with Arizona Democratic Sens. Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly over Johnson’s refusal to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, a move that has infuriated Democrats.”$

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18h

Mike Johnson keeps canceling House business to shield Republicans from questions about huge healthcare cuts and health insurance premium hikes.

We must keep up the pressure on Republicans to stop hiding and end the Trump Shutdown: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

(next to an image of the Capitol and a hand holding a megaphone) STOP THE TRUMP SHUT DOWN

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Kat4Obama @kat4obama.bsky.social · 8h

"As this drags on until ACA open enrollment begins, voters are going to get a shocking look at what GOP intransigence has cost them. And GOP lawmakers might get a better sense of how dumb it is to sit back and slavishly obey President Trump."

Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 11h

This is what I was getting at in today’s column. Republicans won’t do anything without Trump’s permission. Period.

“GOP will brutalize voters with spiking health care costs unless Trump says to stop.”

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

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PhoenixWomanMN @phoenixwomanmn.bsky.social · 8h

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PhoenixWomanMN @phoenixwomanmn.bsky.social · 8h

This is the same deal Netanyahu refused to take last year because it would have given Biden a win:

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Joe Biden and Netanyahu were offered Gaza deal a year ago, says negotiator

Gershon Baskin says he got the plan on to the president’s desk but then learnt the Israelis were waiting for a change of administration in Washington

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