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Eric Orts

@ericorts.bsky.social
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Climate and Democracy Hawk. Professor at Wharton/Penn in Philadelphia, where ideals of freedom were born and persist.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Flip the script on democracy's destroyers. It's Day One of the new phase of the fight for our democracy.
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Eric Orts @ericorts.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Trump is going full Jackson apparently. open.substack.com/pub/ericorts...
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Religion, Democracy, and Threats of U.S. Territorial Expansion by Force
Does MAGA II really mean going all the way back to President Jackson's precedent of expansion by forcefully stealing other people's land?
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Eric Orts @ericorts.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
My most recent blog here I January 6th: A Thin Blue (Broken) Line. Check it out! open.substack.com/pub/ericorts...
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A Thin Blue (Broken) Line
January 6th and Its Aftermath
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Eric Orts @ericorts.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
This NY Times retrospective is worth checking out. My comment also at Substack. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
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Video: The Last Word: Jimmy Carter
In a never-before-seen interview with The Times in 2006, Jimmy Carter reflects on his life and work as a Cold War leader, Middle East peace broker and post-presidential career as a citizen diplomat.
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Eric Orts @ericorts.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Trending on social media: reported response in Greenland to recent threats from Trump …
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Eric Orts @ericorts.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Trying to get going here on Blue Sky. Here’s my update of Dickens: “A Christmas Carol at Mar-a-Lago.” It’s fiction not a prediction. But tis the season for dreams! Please share if you like this. ericorts.substack.com/p/a-christma...
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A Christmas Carol in Mar-a-Lago
A Dickensian Update of a Ghost Story of Christmas
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Eric Orts @ericorts.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
In case you are tempted at time to think that freedom of speech and the right to protest don’t matter, take a moment to see and hear the reaction of the crowd in South Korea to news of the legislative vote of impeachment. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
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South Korea’s President Impeached Over Martial Law Crisis
Celebrations broke out in Seoul after lawmakers voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol. He vowed to fight removal in the country’s Constitutional Court.
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Eric Orts @ericorts.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
With thousands of others, I’m migrating here from X — which now deserves a general boycott by all. Musk’s use of X for political propaganda in the form of misinformation, flat-out lies, and conspiracy theories to elect Trump is unforgivable. Tips for how to use Bluesky are welcome!
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