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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Recently discovered Umberto Eco’s 1995 Essay on Ur-Fascism. Definitely worth a read, it’s the voice of the generation of anti-fascists no longer with us… archive.org/details/umbe...

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Ur-Fascism : Eco, Umberto : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

In his 1995 essay Ur-Fascism, cultural theorist Umberto Eco lists fourteen general properties of fascist ideology.

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I stand with the penguins of Heard and McDonald Islands!

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March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

"Vienna, Austria is a good place to be dead." 3/30 returns @jonreinhardt.bsky.social and Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus" to you: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 28/03/2025

🙌🏼 I’m not sure who had the amazing idea to invite this constitutional lawyer to a senate hearing that intended to prove Biden colluded with Meta to censor conservatives, but she took the opportunity to speak truth to power ✊🏼 on the hypocrite 👑 KING OF FREE SPEECH, Donald Trump, himself. 👏🏼 Brava!!

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Mery Díez-Ortega, PhD @meryenda.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

We can’t wait to see you at the 2025 CALICO conference this May! 🕊️Register by April 25 to get the early bird rate 🏨 Hotel rooms are filling fast—book ASAP! On-campus dorms are also available. 📅Check out the preliminary agenda & lodging details here: calico.org/calico-2025/. See you in San Diego!

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

at the same time, the Defense Dept continues to spend millions on FLE at places like the DLI and Flagship programs, but only the 'strategic languages' of Mandarin, Arabic, Russian, Farsi, and a few others, sometimes spending upwards of $1 million per student. If it really were about efficiency...

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Every single day these fuckers are treacherous. Today it's Fulbright, the 78 year old program that brings international students and scholars here and sends us there, a form of diplomacy and goodwill building that makes the USA a good guy in the minds of millions. #StandForFulbright #Notmypresident

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Both sides? Russian families? Who TF is this idiot and why TF are you letting her spread this Russian propaganda?

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Someone is Putin’s bitch and it’s definitely not Zelenskyy. America is now weaker than it’s been since before WWII.

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Of course Trump is trying to declare English the Official Language of the USA. England should say no.

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

when you realize you’re on the wrong side of history

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The mentality that leads US Americans to answer “where are you from?” with a US state or city instead of “the USA” is the same that leads to thinking Canada would simply want to join the US, or that the EU is similar in structure to the US. They do not understand the concept of sovereignty.

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

So much for a new world order, George. Sorry about your party. bush41library.tamu.edu/archives/pub...

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Public Papers - George Bush Library and Museum

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

So a Boston judge has stopped the freeze of NIH funds for the states that joined in the lawsuit. A sigh of relief for AZ and NC (Dem AGs!), but sadness for researchers in deep red states. How far are we all from being marched through the streets in dunce caps..

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

You do you buddy. I wish I could protest the Canadian Mining Corp that is poisoning our environment here in Arizona, and I'm sure they're kissing Trump's ass right now to overturn the lawsuits stopping them so far, but hey, that's not your problem, is it. Enjoy the strong and free life, eh.

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Yeah well US academia is already under massive threat by MAGA so hitting the purse strings of our little organizations by our global academic colleagues is like an extra kick in the balls. Thanks.

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

No fckin shit. We all voted for Kamala. 78 million of us actually. You think academics don’t think about that every day? You think we aren’t working out asses off opposing everything they do?

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Yeah well think about the organization you're denying registration fees to--many academic ones oppose and fight Trump, while bigger ones might be corporate, feeding into his machine

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Hey International Academics thinking about boycotting conferences in the US: the only people you’re hurting are the academic organizations you’re not giving your money to. You’re actually helping Trump and the right wingers who want to destroy universities, not hurting them.

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It’s not understandable. Trump and right wingers couldn’t care less if organizations like CALICO survive. The people he cares about make more per second than any academic visiting would spend in a week. It’s smug and self-righteous if you ask me.

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The academic orgs and businesses like hotels and restaurants are the ones that suffer, not Trump. He couldn’t care less, and in fact would be happy if academic orgs go bankrupt or fold. The only thing you’re really helping by not going is your reputation with your US-bashing friends I guess.

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The only way to fix this post-Trump will be to rewrite the Constitution to severely limit the powers of the Executive Branch. I doubt that will happen in my lifetime. How else?

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

he is nuts, and so is the idea--it's gotta be a distraction from Musk

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

According to Al-Jazeera just now, "Saudi Arabia said its support for the establishment of a Palestinian state is unwavering and it rejects any attempts to displace Palestinians from their land."

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

On any FB post I made where I named and criticized Trump, someone posted a laughing face, but their name doesn't come up. My posts are set to private/friends only. I've deleted them all, but yeah, this is where we are.

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Too bad they didn’t let Drumpf back in—his grandson would have made an excellent Nazi

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

In Hamburg I took a city tour and when we stopped at the port, the guide explained it was where grandfather Drumpf was not allowed reentry for being a draft dodger. Too bad, because his grandson would have been such a good Nazi.

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

"Obviously it is not standard to have aircraft collide. I want to be clear on that” is basically a line from Idiocracy

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

To recap, Trump: -Forced out the FAA chief at Musk's insistence -Imposed a hiring freeze that reportedly included air traffic controllers -Fired the TSA head and gutted a key aviation safety committee -Blamed the DCA crash on DEI This is disastrous leadership.

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

“First they came for the illegal immigrant and I did not speak out because I was not an illegal immigrant”….is this where we are?

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

if you are not actively supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion, you are passively allowing uniformity, injustice, and exclusionary practices to grow unchecked.

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Like my grandfather who probably never stopped using the telegraph, or my father who never stopped subscribing to cable TV, I will never stop using PowerPoint. Laugh at me all you want, descendants, I'll be dead, and you will never know the pleasure of a checkerboard entrance.

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

not like you can't just ask to use the bathroom at Mar-a-Lago

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I wonder if this is how the Colonists felt when burdened with yet another tax for the King

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Gee, what other global power will happily step in with aid and probably do a better job at it?

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I also don’t think red voters eat as many fruit and vegetables as blue voters, so maybe they don’t care if those prices go up—I mean I can see Trump thinking that way. 2/2

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

You know who doesn’t really care if university and urban economies are threatened by the grant freeze because they don’t live in cities or go to universities? Trump voters. He’s doing it to punish cities and divide us further. 1/2

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Let’s sell them tours of the Plantazione de Caffe d’Abruzzo. They say that biscotti bushes line the boulevards.

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The US educates the world, and it pays us back in better understanding of our culture and respect. Of course, this is now threatened by the close-minded, selfish racists now in charge, and it is like a deep and painful wound to something about which I'm proud to be US American. 2/2

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

This year we have applicants for our graduate program from 15 different countries around the world on all continents--basically no economically wealthy countries--which shows that US grad programs are pathways for highly talented individuals towards lucrative and globally equitable futures. 1/2

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

If only we could turn back time and replace the Hamburg immigration official…

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

His Grandfather left Germany to avoid the draft, failed in America, and then returned to Germany only to be turned back because he had dodged the draft. Too bad cause I’m sure he would have been a good Nazi.

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

it means he's going to send troops into Mexican territory to 'solve the Fentanyl crisis' without the cooperation of the Mexican government, causing a massive international crisis and probably leading the cartels to kidnap thousands of US expats in Mexico

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Jon Reinhardt @jonreinhardt.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

What’s the Executive of a Federation to do? Good thing local leaders know what’s best for the safety and economic health of their communities.

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