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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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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Actually, the connection between tyranny and extravagant construction projects goes back Thousands of years? See under Periander of Corinth and Polycrates of Samos.
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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 · 14/03/2026
"This war will be over in a matter of weeks, if not days." -Everyone who ever started a years'-long war.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The philosophy seems to be, "Free speech for me; you shut up. "
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
10 articles?!! I wasn't exaggerating. And you might think that football is more important than murder, but I don't.
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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.
nonviolent-conflict.org
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
I plan to tailor the ICE scripts by mentioning that I oppose federal agencies that deny people their constitutional due process rights; that break into the homes of citizens without judicial warrants; and that sanction extrajudicial murder.
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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 · 22/01/2026
Apparently Mark Carney has also been thinking about the Melian Dialogue.
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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 · 21/01/2026
Of course they did.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The last time that happened, the Civil War, we got land grant colleges. Maybe this time we can get universal health care.
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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
What a treat!
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Also known as Instant Runoff Voting: 2nd choice=who you would vote for if your 1st choice is eliminated.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
RCV cuts right through the Faustian bargain that virtually everyone else on this thread is trying to convince you to accept. You can vote FOR the candidate you like as your 1st choice and rank the Democrat as your 2nd choice.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Absolutely nothing, if you're using ranked choice voting.
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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 · 18/01/2026
Wasn't their oath to defend the Constitution? I guess whether or not they keep their oath depends on who benefits. Shameful.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Consider how long it took the MSM to use "lie" in connection with Trump, though he was documented as telling dozens of provable lies a day. And yet it was SO EASY to accuse Harris of lying when she was actually making a prediction. I wonder why such different treatment?
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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-...
lithub.com
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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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf AND Low Cut Connie? Trump-and-Kennedy Center, you are screwed.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Raise your hand if you're tired of everything they don't like being labeled "far left." Cry wolf much?
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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
I'm looking on the bright side: When he's finally removed from office, de-Trumpifying federal agencies will be spectacularly easy.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Of course they do. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
propublica.org
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 · 08/12/2025
That lady is a) 100% right and b)delightfully fashionable.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
We record them to provide the evidence needed for others to stop them.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I had to read most of this article before I understood that the author is advocating for AP exams in modern (not ancient) Greek.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
"This is one of the fundamental guarantees established by the Geneva Conventions and their protocols. This guarantee is applicable not only to protected persons but to all individuals, no matter what their status, or to what category of persons they belong." -Médecins sans Frontières
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
"International law posits that no protected person may be punished for acts that he or she did not commit. It ensures that the collective punishment of a group of persons for a crime committed by an individual is forbidden."
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
The first half of this essay reads like the Declaration of Independence.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
If he has time to do podcast interviews, he doesn't know what it means for a job to make "crushing demands."
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Nope. They're grabbing the easiest ones to grab, which almost definition means they're not the worst of the worst.
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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
Yeah, all that "welcome the stranger" talk is so Antichrist. Oh wait.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
"Let them eat generic brands"? I think we all know how this story ends.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Let's put that on the list of things we never forget, especially since we now have a much better idea of what those men went through at CECOT.
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
My senator and a great choice. Let everyone know that nobody messes with Massachusetts!
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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...
yahoo.com
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 · 26/11/2025
Veterans are speaking up on his behalf. Where are the Democrats?
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Is "disobey unlawful orders" too complicated a concept for the FBI and the Pentagon? Maybe the headlines should read, "FBI is Investigating Democrats for Urging Soldiers to Obey the Law."
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
"Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle. But without struggle, hope, as an ontological need, dissipates, loses its bearings, and turns into hopelessness. Hence the need for a kind of education in hope.” -Paolo Freire
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Bart Ehrman rocks. I didn't know he had a podcast, so thank you for that!
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eeperry.bsky.social @eeperry.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
So.much.video.footage.
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