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Larry J. Simon
@larryjsimon.bsky.social
Historian, teacher, editor; Antifascist, book lover, 3-chord strummer; Fan of Americana, Blues, Country, Dylan, Earle, FCBarcelona; UCLA Ph.D.; Southwesterner in Midwestern Exile. Not here for day job or to promote career. Opinions mine; not my employer’s.
More Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march over one month ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 25/? Rally over; march about to start.
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
“These are not the actions of mature adults. They are examples of crude people displaying their incompetence as they flail about in jobs—including the presidency—for which they are not qualified.”
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 AM
More Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march one month and a day ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 25/?
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 AM
More Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march one month and a day ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 24/?
November 17, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Northeastern Illinois U is taken; who knew? Maybe North-by-Northeast Illinois U?

Northern Illinois U at Evanston (SIU afterall has two campuses, Carbondale, Edwardsville)

illinois State U, Not-Normal

U Wisconsin, Milwaukee, south-of-the-border campus.

IUPUI Study Abroad in Illinois
November 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
In the grand scheme of things an un-endorsement does not seem all that awful.
November 15, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Be careful who you decide to serve.
November 15, 2025 at 5:07 AM
November 15, 2025 at 5:05 AM
I don’t think this is going to end well.
November 15, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Be careful who you serve.
November 15, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Megyn asserts that 15 is “barely legal.” She is dead wrong, I believe, and dead wrong in all 50 states. I was rather shocked to find out that 18 was not now the age of consent in all fifty states. It has been alleged that one of Trump’s victims was 13.
November 14, 2025 at 5:56 AM
UCLA Women’s Basketball, missing Gardiner and S. Betts, loaded with talent, rolling so far thru one of the hardest non-conference schedules I’ve seen in years. On Thanksgiving Day they’ll play either South Carolina or Duke.
Megan Grant, softball slugger, scores her first points. Bench goes wild!
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
And the bench goes wild!
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Megyn asserts that 15 is “barely legal.” She is dead wrong, I believe, and dead wrong in all 50 states. I was rather shocked to find out that 18 was not now the age of consent in all fifty states. It has been alleged that one of Trump’s accusers was 13. Let that sink in.
November 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
At most Power 5 conference schools football & basketball help finance all athletics; at almost all mid-majors, as with WMU, football costs the uni (tens of?) millions of $. I was teaching; in three decades I’ve only been to one game; but stadium on my circuitous walk home. Go Broncos!
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
No northern lights last night—maybe tonight—in Kalamazoo and all of LP Michigan. The only lights in town were from Waldo Stadium where Western Michigan University defeated Ohio U in a nationally televised football game and took over sole possession of first place in the MAC.
November 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
More Pics from #NoKings II #noclowns #nofascists #noauthoritarians #AbolishICE protest
#proUSA #prodemocracy rally and march three weeks and a day ago at the #Michigan Capitol in #Lansing. 23/?
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
What Democrats? WTF, Dems? What a chyron MSNBC? @theweekendprime.bsky.social?
Reckon with? How about celebrate? Bask in glory of? Look to capitalize on?
“Which side are you on boys? Which side are you on? —Florence Reece, wife of a union organizer, during the Harlan County War.
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Within seconds of each other in my Bluesky feed: white people yucking it up at the Fox Patriot Awards as Hegseth celebrates Trump ordering the murder of Venezuelan fishermen.
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 AM
November 7, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Cabezas up Kalamazoo: Tacos el Jefe in parking lot of Bottoms Up Spirits & Snacks, corner of W. Michigan and Lovell. Let Chicago’s loss be our gain. Snow on way, but life looking up.
November 7, 2025 at 5:19 AM
November 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
John Rich once told me on Twitter that I was a sick, sick man. I am happy never to have been on X and now to be on Bluesky. I appreciate the greater civility here. I am going to pass on casting aspersions on this man’s education and intelligence and merely post here what has been sent to me.
November 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
@carolleonnig.bsky.social, co-author w/ Philip Rucker of couple great Trump books, was just on @maddow.msnbc.com to discuss new book with Aaron Davis, INJUSTICE: How Politics & Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department.

Exploration of how Garland inherited a damaged DOJ and failed his challenge.
November 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
November 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM