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Gregory A. Hargreaves

@bordergroves.bsky.social
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Historian of capitalism, environment, and technology in the longue durée. Water history a specialty. Asst director of a center for advanced study. Adjunct prof. Dad. PhD. Delawarean. First Gen. Hoopy frood. Born at 344 ppm atmos CO2. No human is illegal

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For profit concentration camp operators GEO Group and CoreCivic are just the tip of the iceberg.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
dead rapists don’t reoffend
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The market for Pokémon cards is hot atm! If you have some stashed away somewhere it may be worthwhile to dig em out and look up some current prices. My 9yo just found out one of his cards is currently worth $900 and another $500!
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Squirtle Squad: Pokemon with Sunglasses
Alt: Squirtle Squad: Pokemon with Sunglasses
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Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The U.S. empire is unlike any other in history, able to project power, extract resources, and exercise hegemony without direct control or ownership of territory, a rented empire. Learn more on our latest #HagleyHistoryHangout here or wherever you find your podcasts: www.hagley.org/research/his...
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Renting an Empire: The United States in the Caribbean and the Arctic in the Twentieth Century | Hagley
The United States empire is unlike any other in history. Among its unique attributes is the ability of Americans to project power, extract resources, and exercise hegemony without direct control and o...
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Listen, folks. The horrors of the second Trump administration are due to this singular fact: the unified GOP control of all three branches of federal government. Dem control of Congress would break unified government, allow opponents of Trumpism to reign in the president and even expand the Court!
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Listen, folks. The horrors of the second Trump administration are due to this singular fact: the unified GOP control of all three branches of federal government. Dem control of Congress would break unified government, allow opponents of Trumpism to reign in the president and even expand the Court!
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Checks and balances, FT, that’s what a Dem victory in Nov will bring to the table to investigate and limit Trump’s abuses.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)
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a man stands at a podium with microphones that say wor on them
ALT: a man stands at a podium with microphones that say wor on them
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The market for Pokémon cards is hot atm! If you have some stashed away somewhere it may be worthwhile to dig em out and look up some current prices. My 9yo just found out one of his cards is currently worth $900 and another $500!
static.klipy.com
Squirtle Squad: Pokemon with Sunglasses
Alt: Squirtle Squad: Pokemon with Sunglasses
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Dead abusers don’t reoffend.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
First Years’ Lesson no.987: Do not use a word in its own definition.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the housing crisis is due to financialization not to immigration
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
LLM/AI is nothing more than the single biggest and most dangerous project of DESKILLING in human history. Unplug it now before it unplugs us.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Batten down the hatches, mateys!
Still image of a cartoon station wagon from the Simpsons with the caption “Well sir, we’ve got ourselves a classic nor’easter…”
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Years ago I said that Trumpism would require a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and now it’s looking more like it will require Nuremberg Trials.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the housing crisis is due to financialization not to immigration
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
log on tik tok
Log on tik tok [ a log above a clock ]
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
A reminder that many Nazi perpetrators of crimes against humanity were only brought to justice due to a trail of documents and evidence. Future efforts at truth and reconciliation, much less justice for victims, will depend upon thorough documentation of the ongoing criminal state terror in the USA.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Secret police treat SA like a fringe benefit
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Batten down the hatches, mateys!
Still image of a cartoon station wagon from the Simpsons with the caption “Well sir, we’ve got ourselves a classic nor’easter…”
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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
People just don't understand there is a saturation shortage. We all need to conserve the little saturation we still have.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every movie studio executive: Reduce the saturation. More. More. Moooore.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Watch this space.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Steamed rice today to fry rice tomorrow or the next day. This is the way.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“A More Civilized Age”: A Social History of the Galactic Republic
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“To Hide Their Numbers”: An Ethnography of the Tusken Raiders
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Luke and Leia: The Developmental Psychology of Separated Twins
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Late Imperial Political Economy: A Case Study of the Deathstar
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Luke and Leia: The Developmental Psychology of Separated Twins
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Linking Alderaan and Narkina 5: Coercion, Violence, and the Technopolitics of the Carcereal State
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“A More Civilized Age”: A Social History of the Galactic Republic
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Late Imperial Political Economy: A Case Study of the Deathstar
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Can’t wait for IT to happen!
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Uruguay is among the most economically equal countries in the world. This travesty is an insult to that noble achievement. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/w...
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Tech-Utopian Movement Praxis Says It Has Found a Home in Uruguay
After a sprawling world tour, Praxis, a New York-based, crypto-backed “digital nation,” has signed a deal to build a physical city in Uruguay.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“To Hide Their Numbers”: An Ethnography of the Tusken Raiders
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Back in the ‘90s the Internet was only considered fit for the public with guardrails in place, such as net neutrality. Ai has much greater potential for harm and is being rolled out without even the slightest effort at effective regulation.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
ICE is affirmative action for bullies
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Trump’s attack on science, research, and education is laying down a Chixulub iridium layer in the historiographies of all academic disciplines that in future years will mark the simultaneous extinction of numerous lines of American intellectual inquiry.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 11/08/2023
Capitalism has grown so powerful that it now wishes to kill that which it cannot control. Witness the ongoing attack on higher education.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Invasion of Greenland and/or Canada would trigger Article V of the North Atlantic Treaty obligating NATO member states to come to the defense of those member states under attack. What a creative way to explode the global security order!
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
NATO Article 5 is a dead letter if Russia can attack member states with impunity. Putin craves this gift, and his toady Trump is all too willing to oblige.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Why did Trump torpedo NATO? So he could attack the United States without fear of Article 5.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Suck it, the Bible!
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Give me a hammer and a sundress and point me toward the nearest data center.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You think fossil fuel economies are vulnerable to wartime disruption? lol Just wait til a society outsources its cognitive capacity to data centers that later get blown up. lol
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Move fast. Break things. Kill people.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For profit concentration camp operators GEO Group and CoreCivic are just the tip of the iceberg.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
May our children forgive us. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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