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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 · 3h
Had a great chat with Henry Jacob about his innovative research comparing U.S. imperial projects in the Caribbean and Arctic! Check it out
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 3h
👏🏼
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Monty Python: And There Was Much Rejoicing
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 14h
BE CAREFUL WHEN HANDLING VIALS OF YERSINIA PESTIS THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER DR H
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Folks love to romanticize life in small towns, tight-knit communities, but take it from one who has lived in villages and rural hamlets, it stinks. Everyone is all up in your business, there is zero anonymity, all of your choices however personal are constantly under scrutiny. Stadtluft macht frei
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 16h
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Ben Wyatt's Confused 'DAFUQ?!' Moment
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 17h
Right! And it’s a complete misunderstanding of the foundations of America.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 19h
I don’t know who needs to hear this but popcorn is a whole grain
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 18h
Right wing USians honestly believe “If only we could preserve our splendid isolation we would be the most prosperous, peaceful, and powerful people on earth,” not realizing that America is meaningless without its complex and comprehensive connections to the rest of the world.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 19h
The better to eat you with, my dear.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 19h
In all seriousness you are right! It’s a really neat show of faith, husbandry, and logistics.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 19h
Ouch! 🤕 The animals were invited for a feast after all
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 19h
I don’t know who needs to hear this but popcorn is a whole grain
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 19h
Served on toast or naan?
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 19h
Camel calves are tastier than their more aged counterparts.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 19h
Pupdate
A furry yellow dog sitting on an armchair with colorful textile accents
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Never forget that Trumpism is the Epstein Class’ attempt at governing.
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Dancing Donald Trump with a Mullet
Alt: Dancing Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 19h
*Offer applies to president Trump ONLY*
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 23h
Trump’s base is people who think Archie Bunker was the hero of All In The Family
Fat old white man yelling at his family in a black and white picture
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 23h
U.S. media: Should trans people be allowed to exist? Also U.S. media: This president’s disabilities are a personal matter.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 23h
Trump’s base is people who think Archie Bunker was the hero of All In The Family
Fat old white man yelling at his family in a black and white picture
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 23h
U.S. media: Should trans people be allowed to exist? Also U.S. media: This president’s disabilities are a personal matter.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
“Those who were the beneficiaries of the established order were bent upon defending it, not so much, perhaps, because it guaranteed their interests, as because it seemed to them indispensable to the preservation of society.” A. 2024 US election B. Transition from feudalism C. Civil rights opposition
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
If fair wages and effective public services are extremism then America needs a lot more of it.
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Zohran Mamdani
Alt: Zohran Mamdani “welcome to the transition”
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The time to green transition is yesterday
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
iykyk
The Gmork from the Neverending Story
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🤘🏽
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Release the Epstein Files
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don’t know but the president of the United States having to wear an exoskeletal support contraption to stand upright and walk around seems like a bigger story than the media are treating it…
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
iykyk
The Gmork from the Neverending Story
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Never forget that Trumpism is the Epstein Class’ attempt at governing.
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Dancing Donald Trump with a Mullet
Alt: Dancing Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
Cornell? What even is the Ivy League?
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ever find yourself explaining old ads to young people?
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Club Penguin was a model of a mediated internet
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Animated Penguin Playing Drums
Alt: Animated Penguin Playing Drums
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Stereotypes from the movies Home Alone that show how an all white society in not necessarily a high trust society
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Okay, okay. Not great. Still WAY better than the current
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Uncle Roger Nigel Ng Reacts
Alt: Uncle Roger Nigel Ng Reacts
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Snake oil salesmen out here like
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The Jungle Book Kaa
Alt: The Jungle Book Kaa snake saying you can trust me
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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 · 02/10/2026
FDR kept his disability secret while working to help reduce poverty and secure democracy. Trump hides his disability to more thoroughly plunder the treasury and critically weaken the state.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For context: bsky.app/profile/mrsb...
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Release the Epstein Files
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don’t know but the president of the United States having to wear an exoskeletal support contraption to stand upright and walk around seems like a bigger story than the media are treating it…
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That’s a controversial stance
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
You really think that if he’s president Governor Haircut (Newsom) won’t sell us out the moment it’s politically expedient?
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a man wearing a blue shirt that says pressed van
Alt: a man saying YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
To be fair he was born during the Great Depression so that scans
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Atlas never shrugs, and neither do bollards.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The 30 year mortgage only makes sense if you can get one in your 20s or 30s. Millennials and younger who can’t buy a home until they’re in their 40s or 50s may never pay them off.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Atlas never shrugs, and neither do bollards.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What makes American fascism unique is its relationship to the private sector. Italian fascism asserted “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing agaisnt the state.” By contrast, American fascism deputizes private, for profit companies to enact its program of control and exploitation.
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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Senator Kennedy holds up a sign
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