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eeperry.bsky.social

@eeperry.bsky.social
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Professor of Roman art & archeology, fan of ranked choice voting, Quaker, beekeeper, amateur baker, amateur photographer. No interest in supporting cowardice or greed; very interested in bravery and community spirit. No DMs unless I already know you.

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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"If you cross the Halys River a great empire will fall." You know there's a catch to that, right?
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Stuart Masters @stuartkmasters.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going. Harriet Tubman
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If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

Harriet Tubman
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Why do I have to scroll past 10 articles about sports and weather on the (digital) front page of the Boston Globe before I get to "The federal government is executing citizens in the streets"?
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I don't think we should be surprised that a woman who shot and killed her own dog has unleashed federal agents who are shooting and killing poets and nurses.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.
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CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC
You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Your reminder that the 5 calls app provides you with call scripts to make it easier to call your representatives and make your opinions heard on vital issues like, I dunno, abolishing ICE. You can tailor the scripts if you'd like, but you don't have to. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Calls
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5 Calls - Wikipedia
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Now ICE agents are targeting police officers?! This is what happens when you have no significant requirements for recruiting.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I keep thinking about the Melian Dialogue, about the Athenians' stance just before they destroy the Melians: "The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." Thucydides is famous for not commenting on what he reports, but the fact remains that Athenians lost the Peloponnesian War.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
If red states think it's a good idea to cancel the midterms, I invite them to sit them out. The rest of us plan to vote.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Europe's Most Effective Response To Trump? Cancel US Patent Monopolies flip.it/mayuFT
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Europe's Most Effective Response To Trump? Cancel US Patent Monopolies
Donald Trump does not appear to be backing down from his obsession with seizing a big chunk of real estate in the form of Greenland. He now is set on whacking American consumers with another big tax hike in the form of $75 billion in tariffs on imports from the European countries most vigorously def...
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Evidently, the MAGA censors who thought that promoting Greek and Roman culture was their best intellectual move have just discovered the Symposium. Wait until they find out about the Sacred Band. lithub.com/texas-am-is-...
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Texas A&M is banning Plato, citing his “gender ideology.”
Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossf…
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Just a friendly reminder to surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library, theatre, bakery, bookstore, and café.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Of course they do. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I just used a clothing steamer to get a notoriously finicky cake to release from a notoriously finicky bundt pan and it worked! Wait 10 minutes after you remove the cake from the oven, flip the pan over your serving platter and steam away!
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I wonder how Leavitt's nephew feels about having his mother taken away from him? I wonder how he'll feel about his aunt making excuses for the people who did it? www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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ICE detains relative of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt
Leavitt has not yet publicly commented on her relative’s arrest, while other family members have launched a GoFundMe page
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
"It's not too late because too late is a fake idea." organizingmythoughts.org/we-have-to-m...
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We Have to Move
"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
"...it's become standard to blame the excesses of the right on liberals, the left, feminists, Black Lives Matter, affirmative action, environmental protection, and BIPOC and LGBTQ people....the right is granted masculine prerogatives and the left feminine responsibilities for the right's behavior."
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Maybe my favorite thing about this week in politics is that frogs went overnight from being symbols of the extreme right to being symbols of the patriotic defenders of democracy.
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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Any form of media that involves an angry man telling an audience what to be angry about for several hours a day is probably not good for the human brain
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
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Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I wonder what the people of Kyiv think of the phrase "war ravaged Portland"?
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I think this would work, and it would be so inspiring. www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/if-they-ca...
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If They Can Target One of Us, They Can Target Any of Us: Here’s the Fix
How a single sleepless night turned into a blueprint to protect everyday Americans from government targeting...and how you can help build it.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Greetings and best wishes to all of my fellow humans who weren't taken in the Rapture. We've got our work cut out for us: Let's get to it.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
One silver lining to all this (gestures around) is how easy it is to imagine a better world.
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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
a big reason the Disney thing is important is that in the most visible fight the administration has picked, a fight they celebrated winning, ended up as a loss. it's embarrassing and demoralizing. it also shows non-political folks that the pendulum can swing back. that emboldens all of us to fight.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
It’s not a crime to be in this country as an undocumented person. It’s a civil violation. But you know what is a crime? Taking a bribe from undercover agents in exchange for the promise of government contracts WHEN YOU’RE THE FCKING BORDER CZAR.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
One cool thing about censorship is how often it boomerangs. If you wanted the maximum number of people watching Jimmy Kimmel's monolog, this was the way to achieve that.
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Jaysun Silver @jaysunsilver.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I just spoke to NYC Comptroller Brad Lander as he left police custody following his arrest at immigration court. Here’s what he said:
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
All the bad stuff is happening because our money and our attention are being leveraged against us. It's time to boycott.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 19/09/2025
Fantastic interview just released with Maria Ressa. A journalist who was arrested by Duterte - the Filipino dictator (who has since been overthrown). She always gives hope. Her book is called "How To Stand Up To A Dictator."
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Maria Ressa - Fighting Back Against Trump’s Authoritarian Algorithm With Truth | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The word Massachusetts has the most trouble pronouncing is....Massachusetts? www.mentalfloss.com/geography/ma...
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Mapped: The Word Each State Has the Most Trouble Pronouncing
We all have that one word we’re not sure how to say.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 15/09/2025
This is Finny. He doesn’t go chasing waterfalls. He carefully studies their timing and arrives in advance. 14/10 very impressive (TT: jordancain70)
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
"Critics have argued that the bill has little reason to exist other than to allow the Secretary of State to unilaterally strip passports from people without them actually having been convicted of a crime."
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
"“We’ve become a party that too often trims its sails. Too cautious, too rudderless. Too attached to poll-washed, pundit-rinsed, and donor-dried messages,” he said. “What comes out of the wash is all bleached and blow-dried.”
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Okay, wow
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Facts are facts: Right-wing extremists account for the overwhelming majority of extremist-linked deaths in America.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It is wildly unusual for lower-court judges to so publicly express frustration with the Supreme Court’s *behavior* (versus, say, a confusing ruling in a specific case). But the number of *different* examples is completely unprecedented—and pretty powerful evidence that something is seriously wrong.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I keep saying that one of the things that I miss the most is a loyal opposition. This man knows how conservatives OUGHT to be talking about political violence.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Two words: Reichstag Fire
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2025
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I think it's okay both to condemn political violence and to point out that Charlie Kirk didn't.
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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 09/09/2025
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Exactly
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
"In what could be read as a citizens’ revolt, ordinary people serving on grand juries have repeatedly refused in recent days to indict their fellow residents.... It has happened in at least seven cases — including three times for the same defendant." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/u...
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Grand Juries in D.C. Reject Wave of Charges Under Trump’s Crackdown
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
About Florida ending vaccine mandates: It's a bad idea to play Double Dog Dare You with natural selection.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Good to know somebody is willing and able to block some of the DoJ's most vindictive prosecutions. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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D.C. grand jury declines to indict another defendant amid Trump's crime crackdown
Grand juries have declined to indict at least six times in recent weeks during President Donald Trump's federal policing effort in Washington.
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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I can
I can
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