David M. Perry
@lollardfish.bsky.social
Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Preorder: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar. Subscribe to the Modern Medieval Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/ModernMedieval
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It's the story of three brothers who go to war over the imperial throne. It's a story of an empire built on lies. It's now out in paperback. From me and @profgabriele.com.
Buy one for your friends. Two for your enemies. Gift-giving/revenge solved!
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JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
February 1, 2026 at 5:17 AM
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End thread! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I will go back to dancing :). bsky.app/profile/tani...
JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
February 1, 2026 at 5:07 AM
End thread! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I will go back to dancing :). bsky.app/profile/tani...
Here’s a fascist @baybaybabycakes.bsky.social for you to block
February 1, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Here’s a fascist @baybaybabycakes.bsky.social for you to block
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When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."
January 31, 2026 at 4:25 PM
When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."
WAITING
(For those impatient: We will know more at the top of the hour. I’ll do my best to get you the results asap… while I have a drink in my hand at the bar. At least one of my friends really wants to know the results as well so I’m not being TOO rude.)
February 1, 2026 at 4:03 AM
WAITING
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Steven Pinker wrote a legal analysis of a *child sex crimes law* as a favor to Epstein and then had the gall to say he had no idea what the guy was accused of.
All of the “hey what’s the big deal here” pageantry is insulting
All of the “hey what’s the big deal here” pageantry is insulting
David Brooks wrote an entire column about offensive it was to say "Epstien Class" without volunteering that he was at a conference with Epstien.
February 1, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Steven Pinker wrote a legal analysis of a *child sex crimes law* as a favor to Epstein and then had the gall to say he had no idea what the guy was accused of.
All of the “hey what’s the big deal here” pageantry is insulting
All of the “hey what’s the big deal here” pageantry is insulting
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got our asses
NGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up
February 1, 2026 at 3:53 AM
got our asses
Important content
I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep
February 1, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Important content
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Abolish ICE and fire all agents is the moderate position.
I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
February 1, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Abolish ICE and fire all agents is the moderate position.
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My situation: I was working at St Louis Children's Hospital. I know I'd the MMR during a small outbreak about 15 years before (middle school). They tested my titers -- 0. Got the MMR, and subsequent titers also came back zilch. Went through this three times.
Please get vaccinated to keep me safe.
Please get vaccinated to keep me safe.
If you're an adult who was vaccinated, you should get your titers run to make sure you still have immunity. Vaccination can wane and/or you may not have generated a strong immune response. That was ok when we had herd immunity but we're likely about to lose our "measles free" status.
Vaccinate your kids, you friggin nuts.
February 1, 2026 at 2:07 AM
My situation: I was working at St Louis Children's Hospital. I know I'd the MMR during a small outbreak about 15 years before (middle school). They tested my titers -- 0. Got the MMR, and subsequent titers also came back zilch. Went through this three times.
Please get vaccinated to keep me safe.
Please get vaccinated to keep me safe.
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Today at Whipple, the sheriffs arrested a woman just for messing with the chain link fence, so yeah
If there comes a day when police put their bodies between the feds with guns and their targets, I will praise the police for doing so. I don’t expect to see that day. It might even be a dangerous escalation. But until that day comes … I assume they are helping the feds.
February 1, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Today at Whipple, the sheriffs arrested a woman just for messing with the chain link fence, so yeah
Culinary class war s2e8 … no more class war or will there be a gimmick???
February 1, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Culinary class war s2e8 … no more class war or will there be a gimmick???
I think it was @seanfennessey.bsky.social saying, about obsessive people, “sometimes we miss the forest for the trees, but sometimes the trees are worth it.” Or something like that. I like it.
February 1, 2026 at 1:05 AM
I think it was @seanfennessey.bsky.social saying, about obsessive people, “sometimes we miss the forest for the trees, but sometimes the trees are worth it.” Or something like that. I like it.
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Yes, that’s a 4-person bike dressed as a heart. And did I mention the high today was 20F? After -20 on 1/23 it felt warm!
Massive ride for Alex Pretti in Minneapolis today! One of dozens of rides across the US and around the world. Passed sites of Pretti’s and Nicole Good’s murders and ended at Veterans Home near VA Hospital where Pretti worked.
February 1, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Yes, that’s a 4-person bike dressed as a heart. And did I mention the high today was 20F? After -20 on 1/23 it felt warm!
Mad means something.
"It seems weird to say so, but we need more poems now.... Start writing. Rise up, rise up, you poets, and tell us how it is." - Novelist and retired Prof Charles Baxter writing in @literaryhub.bsky.social Letters from Minneapolis series
Letter From Minnesota: “Mad Means Something”
The greatest poem ever written about Minneapolis is a curse on the city. It‘s by James Wright, who wrote “The Minneapolis Poem” and published it in Shall We Gather at the River in 1968. He hated th…
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February 1, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Mad means something.
Al pastor, Salvadoran crema, cilantro, home pickled red onion, queso fresco, corn tortillas. Made a little guacamole. From the Columbia Heights supermercado.
February 1, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Al pastor, Salvadoran crema, cilantro, home pickled red onion, queso fresco, corn tortillas. Made a little guacamole. From the Columbia Heights supermercado.
Oh I hate that guy … it’s always nice to have biases confirmed.
I guess the best-available defense to this sort of thing—lots of friendly emails and visits with someone recently convicted of procuring a child for the purposes of prostitution, I mean—is something like “He seemed to have lots of money and connections and I would have liked a little piece of that”
February 1, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Oh I hate that guy … it’s always nice to have biases confirmed.
If there comes a day when police put their bodies between the feds with guns and their targets, I will praise the police for doing so. I don’t expect to see that day. It might even be a dangerous escalation. But until that day comes … I assume they are helping the feds.
January 31, 2026 at 11:41 PM
If there comes a day when police put their bodies between the feds with guns and their targets, I will praise the police for doing so. I don’t expect to see that day. It might even be a dangerous escalation. But until that day comes … I assume they are helping the feds.
I have had too many arguments about this story today and deleted the earlier thread. But all you had to do was read the mpr story and you would have seen this was basically nothing.
The way many white people are desperately clinging to this story. They desperately want to see some good in the police.
I bet they won’t see this correction.
I bet they won’t see this correction.
And the police department later distanced themselves from report that they had intervened. I guess we can’t have people thinking they’ll side with town residents against criming feds:
January 31, 2026 at 11:39 PM
I have had too many arguments about this story today and deleted the earlier thread. But all you had to do was read the mpr story and you would have seen this was basically nothing.
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These motherfuckers
January 31, 2026 at 11:35 PM
These motherfuckers
I think I can explain why
I know this from researching police salaries for a recent paper: many cities have a set of officers taking home more than $500k and they can’t really explain why
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One Oakland police officer made $490,000 in overtime. The city can’t find records detailing much of what he did
One OPD officer logged 5,242 total working hours, racking up $490,000 in overtime pay. If he worked more than half of the time in a calendar year, why can't the city tell us what he did?
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January 31, 2026 at 11:15 PM
I think I can explain why
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Personally, I think that anyone who was sending friendly emails back and forth with Jeffrey Epstein or attending events with him post-2008 should be thrown into an active volcano.
January 31, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Personally, I think that anyone who was sending friendly emails back and forth with Jeffrey Epstein or attending events with him post-2008 should be thrown into an active volcano.
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I recommend reading Chris’s work not just because he’s very good at explaining legal things, but also because there is an avalanche of legal filings and decisions, and he’s exceptionally good at explaining where to put your attention and which things *sound* significant but probably aren’t.
There's a lot happening in the courts that's coming out of Operation Metro Surge. I have your report at Law Dork on a nonstop 36 hours: www.lawdork.com/p/minnesota-...
BREAKING: Federal judge orders Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R., released.
"The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED."
"Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster."
"The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED."
"Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster."
January 31, 2026 at 10:01 PM
I recommend reading Chris’s work not just because he’s very good at explaining legal things, but also because there is an avalanche of legal filings and decisions, and he’s exceptionally good at explaining where to put your attention and which things *sound* significant but probably aren’t.
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I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.
January 31, 2026 at 9:03 PM
I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.
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Folks! There's a "Naz Reid not Nazis" sign.
January 31, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Folks! There's a "Naz Reid not Nazis" sign.