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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם)

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Award-winning community college prof, writer, editor, historian of Texas Jews and the Galveston Movement. Alte kaker in training. Views expressed here are mine and are protected by the First Amendment. Books: tinyurl.com/besbks www.BryanEdwardStone.com

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · Oct 11

The wise man does not break into his fellow's speech. He is not in a rush to reply. He asks what is relevant and replies to the point. Of what he has not heard he says, "I have not heard," and he acknowledges what is true.

-- Talmud (Pirkei Avot)

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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 54m

Hamas agreed to this same deal by Dec 2024. But “Baskin would soon learn that the Israelis had no intention of striking any agreement before a change of administration in Washington…”
Reminiscent of Reagan/Carter and a different hostage release…

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 4d

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

Biden and Netanyahu were offered same 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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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 11h

Oops, link. You can read and sign the letter here. Thanks to @chadstanton.blacksky.app for managing this.

bit.ly/nodealtexas

Former Longhorns “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” Open Letter

On September 28th, The Washington Post reported that the Trump Administration is planning to offer what they have named a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” to nine universities in ...

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 11h

Asking again, if you're a UT-Austin grad, to add your name to this open letter. You can also forward it to President James Davis ([email protected]) and the UT Board of Regents ([email protected]).

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11h

Some select quotes from Texas alumni on the “Compact for Academic Excellence” currently being offered by the Trump Administration.

(Photo by Vivian Arcidiacono on Unsplash)

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Longhorns on grassy field under blue cloudy sky

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 12h

Didn't think of that. I imagine they'll continue on about as before.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 12h

Great idea.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 13h

Tenure in Texas means nothing anymore.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

If you make "controversial statements" outside of classroom, that the President of the university dislikes, you can be summarily fired even if you are tenured.

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 14h

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

If you make "controversial statements" outside of classroom, that the President of the university dislikes, you can be summarily fired even if you are tenured.

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 14h

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

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Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 14h

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

spectrumlocalnews.com

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 14h

My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14h

you cannot "abuse" your rights.

civil rights either are protected and real or they are not.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 17h

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Broadview Shrinks Protest Safety Zones

The following statement can be attributed to Village of Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson:

“The protests at the ICE facility on Saturday night degenerated into chaos. There were 15 arrests, and 10 of those were around the age of my own daughter. As a mother and a mayor, I am mad. Broadview didn’t choose to have the ICE facility in our community. But it’s here. And so are Broadview residents. There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest. Too many are raising their fists rather than their voices, creating chaos at the expense of the people who call Broadview home. Broadview residents lack the protestors’ privilege to return to calm, quiet neighborhoods for undisturbed rest.

Therefore, I have issued a new executive order, in consultation with the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff, that permits protests only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street.

There will no longer be a designated protest safety zone at 2000 South 25th Avenue between Lexington and Fillmore.

Additionally, it has been only God’s grace alone that a protester has not been struck and killed by a motorist on 25th Avenue given how frequently protesters dash onto this busy, four-lane street. This new
measure will provide for both the serenity of residents and safety of protestors.

As I have repeatedly said, I respect, support, and defend the protesters’ free and – peaceful – speech against the outrageous injustices and deplorable unprovoked chemical arms attacks by ICE agents against American citizens, journalists, and ministers that put Broadview police and firefighters in harms’ way.

Nevertheless, my first priority is to defend public safety and the residents who live here and people who work here. They deserve stability, safety, and respect, a quality of life that is currently being denied to them. They deserve the love and kindness that they expect by being Broadview residents.”

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 14h

They should show "Cheers" so you can sit in a bar and watch people on tv sit in a bar and talk to each other.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 14h

Bars with televisions are no longer just a place to catch the latest football or baseball game. Businesses from New York to Los Angeles to Chicago are tapping into other programs to view during their weekday watch parties: reality television.

For some Chicago bars and restaurants, reality TV watch parties are a new way to build community

Watch parties, to some, are a thing of the past. Pizza Lobo’s director of operations makes sure his restaurant keeps the spirit and life of the party alive.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 15h

Maybe we should have built a giant well instead of a giant bridge.

www.wsj.com/us-news/clim...

This Texas Town Is an Energy Powerhouse. It’s Running Out of Water.

A severe drought has Corpus Christi scrambling to meet growing demand from companies like Exxon and Tesla that have invested billions of dollars in the region.

www.wsj.com

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 19h

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 17h

I signed.

c.org/kvNpPrVvhT

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Alumni urging UT Austin to reject the federal funding compact

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 20h

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 23h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 22h

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 22h

Biden started from the view that there should ultimately be peace and a dignified Palestinian sovereignty. Bibi wanted none of that.

Trump started from the view that the Palestinians should be eliminated so beach resorts could be built on the ashes of their homes. That brought Bibi to the table.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 22h

We can be simultaneously grateful the hostages are coming home and resentful that Israel has become a place where only someone like Donald Trump can make an impact.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 22h

For every task there's the perfect tool, and Donald Trump was exactly the kind of tool this situation called for.

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The Dallas Morning News @dallasnews.com · 1d

Local pastor, historian and activist Clarence Glover, who is also a member of the Dallas County Pioneer Association — which maintains municipal cemetery sites — said the organization initially contacted him about the vandalism.

‘Depressing’: Vandalized Dallas landmark Freedman’s Cemetery now under curfew

Police said the investigation is ongoing.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 1d

We're going to start getting random arrests in the Whole Foods parking lot.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/08/k...

AG Ken Paxton announces undercover investigations of “leftist terror cells”

Paxton cited the recent attack on a Dallas immigration field office, though the shooter’s political affiliation was unclear and there was no evidence he was linked to organized “cells.”

www.texastribune.org

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 1d

For the moment.

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that most academics are not making oodles of money from their university press books. For some reason, people think I am making bank with my Illinois book. I am not rich by any means.

Some make money with trade press books, but that isn't all of us. Thank you.
Adieu!

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