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AbuAlice
@abualice.bsky.social
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Loving husband (wife guy), girl dad, alarmed citizen, teacher, US Army veteran, sophist, sympathizer & struggler against the tyranny of ignorance. I follow teachers and historians. Stand with Ukraine.
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May 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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March 20, 2025 To President Katrina Armstrong and the Board of Trustees, As faculty members of the Department of History at Columbia University, we recognize in the recent actions of the Trump Administration a desire to assert political control over the university. Like many other American campuses, Columbia University has seen struggles over academic freedom and the right to protest in the past, including the dismissal of faculty during World War I that led to the resignation of historian Charles Beard; the 1936 expulsion of a student, Robert Burke, after his role leading anti-Nazi protests on campus; the 1968 building occupations; and the campus demonstrations over apartheid and ethnic studies in the 1980s and 1990s. The situation we encounter today is fundamentally different from these earlier campus conflicts. Authoritarian regimes always seek to gain control over independent academic institutions. That is what we see unfolding now. We call on scholars, students, administrators, and staff here at Columbia and around the world to reject such efforts to dominate colleges and universities. Such interventions jeopardize our ability to think honestly about the past, the present, and the future, and to do so with our students, who deserve every opportunity to learn and to think for themselves. Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible. Kim Phillips-Fein, Robert Gardiner-Kenneth T. Jackson Professor of History Frank Guridy, Dr. Kenneth and Kareitha Ford Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Professor of History Pamela Smith, Seth Low Professor of History Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities Pablo Piccato, Professor of History Elizabeth Blackmar, Mary and David Boies Professor of History Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History David Rosner, Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and …
March 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Unlawful Nationwide Injunctions by Radical Left Judges could very well lead to the destruction of our Country! These people are Lunatics, who do not care, even a little bit, about the repercussions from their very dangerous and incorrect Decisions and Rulings. Lawyers endlessly search the United States for these Judges, and file lawsuits as quickly as they find them. It is then the obligation of Law abiding Agencies of Government to have these "Orders" overturned. The danger is unparalleled! These Judges want to assume the Powers of the Presidency, without having to attain 80 Million Votes. They want all of the advantages with none of the risks. Again, a President has to be allowed to act quickly and decisively about such matters as returning murderers, drug lords, rapists, and other such type criminals back to their Homeland, or to other locations that will allow our Country to be SAFE. It is our goal to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and such a high aspiration can never be done if Radical and Highly Partisan Judges are allowed to stand in the way of JUSTICE. STOP NATIONWIDE INJUNCTIONS NOW, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. If Justice Roberts and the United States Supreme Court do not fix this toxic and unprecedented situation IMMEDIATELY, our Country is in very serious trouble!
March 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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The neat thing about cryptographic government (which is actually much easier than it sounds-we're talking a few thousand lines of code, max) is that it can be connected directly to the sovcorp's second line of defense: a cryptographically-controlled military. Cryptographic weapons control, in the form of permissive action links, is already used for the world's most powerful weapons. However, there is nothing in principle preventing it from being extended down to small arms-for example, with a radio activation code transmitted over a mesh network. Military formations loyal to the CEO will find that their weapons work. Rebel formations will find that theirs don't. The outcome is obvious. Moreover, the neocameralist state has no incentive to deal kindly with traitors, so there is no way for an attacker to repeatedly probe the system's weaknesses. The one difficulty with cryptographic weapons control is that it fails, and devolves into simple military rule, if the authorization keys are kept anywhere near the weapons. Weaponholders can gather unlocked or noncryptographic weapons secretly, and use them to arrest the keyholders-for example, the directors of the sovcorp. The solution is simple: keep the sovcorp's directors, or whoever has ultimate control of the highest grade of military keys, outside the sovcorp's neostate. Even if the CEO himself rebels, along with all of his subordinates, any formation loyal to the directors can defeat them. The result is internal military stability.
March 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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My daughter’s favorite book at the moment. Fuck the fascists. #FreeToBeMe
Cover of the book And Tango Makes Three showing two daddy penguins and their hatchling.
March 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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A charcoal grey Tesla is parked on the line between two parking spaces in a crowded parking lot of a medical facility.
March 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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What’s that?
March 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Me, too. Army 85-93.
March 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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March 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Silence AND complicity. Never forget
March 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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substack.com/@robertreich...
March 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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March 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Cowards. Grifters. Traitors.
March 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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A sign which reads: Danger (in red) Republicans are hazardous to your health
March 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Thank goodness Garland stuck to those norms. open.substack.com/pub/trumptyr...
March 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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If you accept that they are burning US to the ground, it makes sense.
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March 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Russia, Russia, Russia
A person familiar with the matter who spoke to the Guardian on the condition of anonymity said analysts at the agency were verbally informed that they were not to follow or report on Russian threats, even though this had previously been a main focus for the agency. The person said work that was being done on something "Russia-related" was in effect ❝nixed"
March 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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I’m a veteran, and it was another low point in American history. Just despicable.
February 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Another moment of shame. Disgusting display by tRump and the couch f****r. “Your people are going killed.” “You’re running out of soldiers.” Not a word about the killers. He might as well have said, nice country you have there. Be a shame if something happened to it.” #zelensky #pressconference
February 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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#Krasnov
Trump and Putin at Helsinki. Putin leading Trump by his long red tie as if it were a leash.
February 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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#Krasnov
February 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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@chiphardesty.bsky.social Where’s your bio? Post something.
January 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I got you covered.
January 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Inspiring.
January 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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May Christmas be what ever the hell you want it to be.
December 24, 2024 at 1:29 PM