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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 6h

At least 5 in the Syracuse area tomorrow, where Trump spoke a week ago (more demonstrators than rally-goers). I'll be at one of them!

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

So very true. And, as you know as well as I, we will lose young people, who are totally alienated by the current congressional leadership. I'm adviser of College Dems at Syracuse, and what I hear is frustration and cynicism.

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

No problem. I also forgot: last election the Fems overturned a GOP supermajority in the county legislature and now have a majority there, too.

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And right down the road from Cornell, with its own problems in tihs regard.

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Syracuse has a Democratic member of Congress, a Democratic mayor (Black woman), a 100% Democratic city council (including a Democratic Socialist at-large member), all Democratic state assembly reps and senators, and a Dem Socialist who defeated a Dem incumbent for Assembly. Hardly Republican!

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Still waiting for my "radical left" check. I expect it as soon as the bribes that Trump has promised.

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Even more reason for the Democrats to take control of the Senate.

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is so very important. My progressive, gay, and feminist friends who have stepped away frequently comment that no one seems to notice that they are gone--or why. Meanwhile, there is frantic institutional obsession about groups like SSPX....

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He wouldn't have to be replaced simply for running--only if elected. He'd be 2 years into a 6-year term. I understand your concern, but it's not really relevant here. [p.s.--Vote Bottoms because she's the best candidate!]

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The country's not ready for an incompetent asshole as president--but we've had one for almost 6 years. I'm totally ready for Ossoff.

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And the same rich asshole can't be bothered to show up for the 25th anniversary commemoration....

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I mailed an anniversary card from Syracuse to Detroit. It arrived 9 days later.

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

And Ben Shapiro is the Grand Rabbi of 4chan and is allowed to proclaim this judgment.

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

On the other hand, feeling that I had to attempt to read JD Vance’s “Communion,” I got it from the library because I refused to pay a penny for it. (No spoiler alert: it was horrendous.)

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This is really good. Saving to use in my White Nationalism honors seminar next spring.

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

And combine this with the fact that "fortune cookies" were invented in the US and are unknown in actual China.... She is both an ignoramus and a bigot.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Future historian department: -Front page of today's NYT reports creation of world's first trillionaire. -Lead op-ed of same NYT is about worst-ever Ebola outbreak, which *this VERY SAME trillionaire* enabled, with his "chainsaw" destruction of US public health in the world. The book writes itself

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The combination of ignorance, stupidity, and utter corruption is just mindblowing.

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

My students, who read "Strongmen" in my Honors seminar on White Nationalism, notice the misogyny more than almost anything else as they read.

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Definitely did NOT have this on my Bingo card.

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

He’s an embarrassment to both church and state.

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

My students are once again thoroughly enjoying it (in English).

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Holy Crap. [Or, if I want to be dignified, Jesus, Mary and Joseph!]

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Bay of PIgs, anyone? This is what happens when people have no knowledge of history.

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Sixty-five years ago, there was the Bay of Pigs. These things DO. NOT. WORK.

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

It is also a real-life example of Wag the Dog, complete with the sexual assault dimensions for its rationale.

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I will be on the leg press at my trainer's tomorrow. Promise NOT to wear jeans (or improper shoes). Also promise NOT to take a photo!

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Reminds me of the pictures of Mussolini and Putin at their masculinist worst.

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I saw this and "Judgment at Nuremberg" back to back. I did prefer the older film....

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Once shared a cab with John Dean during the mid-1970s gas shortage in DC.

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Just found it on archive.org. THANK YOU for telling me about it. Will use in my White Nationalism honors seminar this coming semester.

archive.org

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I used Native in a seminar on spiritual memoir a few years ago. It's excellent!

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I agree--and so would Barry Goldwater. For the record, I'm a very progressive Democrat and would never have votes for either of these men, but they were both persons of principle. Would that more Republicans today could say the same.

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

They were both practicing detachment and establishing another site of Jesus in the tabernacle?

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

What bullshit. There is no other way of saying this.

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

The Temu Tony Robbins (times 2) were giving the talks....

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Syracuse's Nexstar Channel 9 (ABC) is not carrying Kimmel, of course. And our CBS and NBC outlets are *both* owned by Sinclair. Welcome to the city that's also home of the Newhouse School of Public Communication. Embarrassing. [Please come back and visit, Jim!]

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Margaret Susan (Peggy) Thompson @mstfromsu.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Your title is by far the better and more accurate one. Sadly.

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