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Jeanne Reames

@mathetria.bsky.social
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Mother, writer, history professor, Homer fangirl & Alexander the Great geek * ATG Court Prosopography * Writing academic monograph on Hephaistion & Krateros * Director, Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program at UNO * Author, Dancing with the Lion duology

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Nancy Ann ❌👑 👍🏻🐸 @nancyannn.bsky.social · 7h
This face is what’s suggests every rethuglican member of the judiciary committee was in on the scheme to make Smith perjure himself and elevate Schmitt to possible 2028 vp status. She was first to recognize they’d based their attack on a game he didn’t attend. www.al.com/politics/202...
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Katie Britt’s face says it all when Jack Smith hearing goes off the rails
Sen. Eric Schmitt thought he caught Smith in a lie when the Republican confused the Atlanta Hawks for the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 7h
September 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. Today is a time to raise awareness of the ongoing impacts of residential schools and remember the children who never came home. How are you honouring the day?
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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
3xs Cy Young winner, the great Justin Verlander. My 2nd favorite Tiger of all time. (The immortal Al Kaline is 1st; I got to see him play as a little girl.) So glad they brought him back and he got to retire in a Tigers uniform. (Even if they didn't get a W that night.)
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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And appropriately in a Detroit uniform. So glad they got him back before he ended his career. Super sweet way to go, too, with his daughter.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Indeed, the cruelty is the point. Also, the cis gay men and lesbians who abandoned the trans & intersex communities... yeah, they're coming for you too. (Fortunately most of the queer folk I know, cis or not, are well aware of that, but a few believe it won't happen to them....)
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump had $400 million in his PAC and he STILL decided that he needed to steal taxpayer money to pay for campaign ads for the midterms.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It should not be lost on any of us that Cornell University swiftly suspended students for peacefully protesting atrocities against women and children, but allowed men who drugged and gang-raped a woman for seven hours to write an essay and continue with their education.
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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Video in response to a viewer's question about whether I intended to continue Alexander the Great's story in further novels. The short answer is "I hope to," but there are some caveats, mostly to do with publishing itself. #ClassicsBlueSky #AncientBlueSky #AlexandertheGreat
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Publishing Realities: Historical Fiction
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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Happy Caturday from Beatrice. While pulling basil leaves to make pesto, she had to get up on the counter to inspect. I let her sniff my fingers and all I can say… She’s not a basil fan. Funniest disgusted face. #SiameseBluesky #Siamesecats
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Dolly Parton Day
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Corporate Dems care about corporate donors and not the will and best interest of their constituents and democracy. This is CATASTROPHICALLY STUPID advice. Dem establishment determined to claw defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Democratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AI
Democratic consultants are warning their candidates in some key races not to lean into AI regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups could spend heavily against them.
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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is an excellent discussion (imo) from Parkrose Permaculture (video). As absolutely awful as some of these people are, the collapse of small and smaller farms is not good overall, and simply accelerates a problem already in the offing.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A politician who cares for his constituents? How novel! ==================
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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#Classicsbluesky #Ancientbluesky #AlexandertheGreat #Aristotle
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Nearly 2,400-year-old school where Aristotle taught Alexander the Great discovered in Greece
A school where Aristotle taught Alexander the Great has been found in northern Greece.
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The newly discovered cuneiform tablet fragment contains text from a section of the Treaty of Kadesh related to the treatment of Hittite and Egyptian refugees in the Bronze Age (circa 1269 BC). 🧪🏺
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'We have found traces of peace, thousands of years old': Fragment of world's oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey
Archaeologists excavating in the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusha have uncovered a fragment of the world's oldest peace treaty, signed around 1269 B.C.
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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yup.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/09/2026
I told ya she did it.
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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Ancient Macedonian gymnasium linked to Alexander the Great reveals new finds in Greece | Archaeology News Online Magazine
New finds at ancient Mieza in Greece reveal rooms, mosaics and other remains from the gymnasium linked to Aristotle and Alexander.
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
GOP lawmakers will let a pedophile destroy history simply because he can’t put his name on another man’s building.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/09/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A significant crowd is outside the Kennedy Center for a “Hands Off the Arts” protest, as the nation’s memorial to former President John F. Kennedy remains closed. Just today, another dozen Kennedy Center employees were laid off.
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Michelle: ProDemocracy, Anti-Fascism 😎📎 @memovingfwd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Kennedy Center is not at risk of falling down. It doesn’t need to be rehabbed. Trumb is lying….🤥 He’s using these lies to get his way. My guess is he wants to steal the valuable gifts-the marble, tapestries, lights, etc. and destroy another memorial so when he’s gone, so is our history.
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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
a bumper sticker that said "KENNEDY CENTER NOT DATA CENTERS" would do numbers right now
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Susan Gemmill 🇨🇦 @sgemmill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NO. NO. NO. 😡 Contact your members of Congress and demand they block this move. #SheShed @earthjustice.org
theguardian.com
Trump officials move to dismantle key protection for US endangered species
Fish and Wildlife Service memo calls for change in what it means to ‘take’ an endangered species
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fuck these fucks. You cannot un-extinct species. Then GOP are eco terrorists and committing ecocide. They want to drive species to extinction for profit. FOR MONEY. Our values in this country are so twisted and wrong.
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Killing Endangered Wildlife Is Legal If They Aren't The Target, New Trump Rule Says
A directive says imperiled animals or plants must be intentionally targeted for their killing to be considered illegal.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On the day Biden left office, inflation was down to 2.9%, gas was $3.12 a gallon, and diesel was $3.63. Now inflation is 3.4%, gas $4.44 and diesel is $6.40 because of tariffs and the Iran war.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
2019 Bob Kraft went twice to a massage parlor in Jupiter, FL to solicit prostitutes. Cops were suspicious of the place & caught them on camera. Kraft used his fortune & found a judge who ruled cameras violated the law and tossed everything out. Bob walked. The women were charged with prostitution.
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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
how about, first, universities have to cancel all their deals with AI-enabled edtech?
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
EPA head Lee Zeldin: “Americans will see a decrease in electricity prices, but this is just the beginning” Just the beginning, indeed. Of more frequent and intense heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and floods and ultimately, the end of civilization as we know it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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US ends limits on coal and gas plant emissions, removing key tool to battle climate crisis
Trump’s EPA strips itself of regulation ability, gutting Clean Air Act in what experts say is a gift to planet polluters
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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
These are all great books! I even assigned Men of Bronze in my "Ancient Greece in Historical Fiction" class as a great example of a novel told from the loser's side. Which is something Scott is actually rather good at (so also Memnon), and imo makes for an interesting take on familiar stories.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Climategate is more or less the bedrock of 2026 America
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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#indigenousredsky
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Dems' primary plan gives Native Americans more power
New Mexico, where 13% of the population is Native American, will be one of the first states to vote.
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Feels like universities might also want to wait to liquidate hundreds of years of educational practice before transforming themselves into single-corporation stewarded data centers.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: "For too long the industry lied" about AI risks
The head of the artificial intelligence company calls the exponential rate of AI developments a "warning sign," with risks for humanity, and says, "We need to slow down." He talks with "Sunday Morning...
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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A YouTube subscriber asked me to talk about Upper & Lower Macedonia, landscape & natural resources. So this is mostly me riffing w/ a map. I spared everybody the (plethora) of photos taken, tooling around northern Greece in a rental car. 😁 #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyAncient
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The Landscape of Ancient Macedonia
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Trump is the only president in history to be a completely worthless, vile, unintelligent, piece of child-raping filth. He will be remembered as the absolute worst leader ever. Hopefully. But who the fuck knows? MAGA dicks will vote for any scumbag who they think is as racist as they are.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Zohran Mamdani "was the only senior elected official who stayed at the 9/11 memorial ceremony at the WTC until the end…Vance was the first to leave the VIP area, and other elected officials began 'schmoozing.'" Per Steve Kastenbaum:
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Mayor Mamdani was the only senior elected official who stayed at the 9/11 memorial ceremony at the WTC until the end. It started at 8:40 AM, and concluded close to 12:30 PM. Most of the other current electeds left at various times. Former Mayors Bloomberg & Giuliani stayed.
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Mamdani stayed until the end of the memorial ceremony at which point he was seen talking with 9/11 victims' family members. All of the other senior elected officials left the 9/11 Memorial before the reading of the names concluded.
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The source tells me that V.P. Vance was the first to leave the VIP area, and other elected officials began "schmoozing." At some point, Mayor Giuliani's people started "bringing people over to talk with him." CORRECTION:I used photos in a previous similar post that were from 2025
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What happens when you combine one of Sophocles’ classics with pre-Hispanic art, music, and poetry? You get #Antigone: In the Language of the Kings! Witness the timeless story of love versus tyranny reimagined in pre-conquest Tenochtitlan, Mexico. Presented by Latino #Theater Company and Getty.
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
so far we’ve got guysistrata lysHIStrata misterstrata lysistrata… for him HYSistrata lysistrato and i’m sure i’m missing like a dozen others
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This. It's a well-known aspect of narcissistic behavior to fence-check. "Will anybody pay attention if I try this?" So, we pay attention. Unacceptable. Period.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one
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strea3m.bsky.social @strea3m.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Musk crawled out of wherever he was & has his shady fingers all over our elections again, & he's also grabbing more of ppl's info "[His website Vote Safe claims to provide users w info] they need to “vote with confidence.” But all the while, the site is secretly collecting information of its own"
newrepublic.com
Elon Musk Spends Millions Tricking People Into Giving Up Personal Data
Musk’s midterm spending has a sinister ulterior motive.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/09/2026
For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs
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September 11 Docs
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Jeanne Reames @mathetria.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I blame my brother. It's all his fault. LOL. I would sneak downstairs to listen in on the 3rd season of the show during its first run. Then of course, all the re-runs on Channel 44. Over and over. Sure, I loved Star Wars (and Princess Leia), but Star Trek (and Lt. Uhura) came first. #startrek60
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
MAHA has been in power for two years. They have decimated basic science, gutted food safety surveillance and kicked millions of people off food stamps. *That* is their ideology, not their polite platitudes about corporate control of the food supply.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026
Next, you assume that all these crazy internet women think people who kill their children should get away with it because they “had a bad day.” This is my favorite part. You manage to belittle PPD and accuse women of excusing murder. And you’re just plain wrong. Most people don’t think that. 4/
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