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Rumpole of the Bayou

@rumpolebayou.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate in US History • Writing on C19 Newspapers • Appellate Lawyer

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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#bookhistory
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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lol they've got video of Smith at the Hawkeyes game
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MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) on X
Here's footage of Jack Smith at the Iowa vs. Maryland game on February 3rd, 2024 btw
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University of Massachusetts Press @umasspress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Twin States, Different Paths: The Politics of New Hampshire and Vermont by Brian L. Porto is out now! This book explores the contrasting political cultures of New Hampshire and Vermont.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Trump posted this photo on Truth Social this morning. Look close! #TravelWithNatalie
pic of Trump saluting next to Xi with the lovely Ms Harp in the background
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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Go on …
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
FBI used to stand for Female Body Inspector. Now it stands for Feral Body Inspector
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
KENTUCKY ARE READY TO SURRENDER, DESPERATE TO MAKE A DEAL. EXPECT A BIG DROP IN THE PRICE OF BOURBON.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This from a man who has asked his son to monitor his on-line porn consumption.
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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A seldom-heard Shakespeare quote that goes hard
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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dolly wanted something to read
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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
All these AI apps with names like Cutesie McSwizzle and Pupper Smooches really give it away, huh?
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Democrats have a plan to stop AI from destroying civilization. But how will they pay for it?
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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It’ll turn out Ted Cruz left the game at the end of the third quarter
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/09/2026
Here is AOC and Mamdani laughing at the solemn 9/11 commemoration. Oh wait…
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Phoenician Thnkr @phoenecianthnkr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
TRANSMANIAN DEVIL LMAOOO
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Sasha Talebi @sashat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses
I didn't know that AI could hallucinate facts," New Mexico defense lawyer says.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I guess they're saying that if Charlie is in heaven these people would be too?
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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
They needed a “too soon to tell” option
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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#bookhistory
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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Newspapers used to list the new books at the public library
Evening star
 Sat, May 01, 1915 Page 20
 THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
 SELECTED LIST OF BOOKS RE
 CENTLY ADDED.
 The following list, arranged by sub-
 jects, includes some of the latest add!-
 tions to the Public Library.
 The lists which appear in this col-
 umn each Saturday are reprinted, at
 the end of the month, In the library's
 Monthly Bulletin. Copies of this may
 he ehtained free at the library or will
 be sent by mail for 15 cents a year.
 The European War.
 Colin. J. Lo. A. France and the Next War.
 L-C885.
 Ex-Intelligence Officer. The German Spy System
 From Within.
 UC47-Ex1.
 lomatic
 France Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres. Der.
 Correspondence Respecting
 F3079-1845.
 The German Gospel of Blood and Iron. F3079-
 G316.
 Jefferson, C. E. The Cause of the War. F3079-
 133т.
 Johnson, Roaster, ed. The War in Europe.
 F30TD.E8ei, Theodore, President of U. S. Amer-
 Rooserelt,
 les and the World War.
 F3079-R677.
 Stockton, Richard, Jr. Peace Insurance. UC83-
 St86.
 Villard, O. G. Germany Embattled. F8079-
 Wells,
 H. G. The War That Will Ead War.
 F3079- TV468 w.
 Peace.
 Apcar. D. A. The Great Evil. JQ-Ap24g.
 Gould, F. J.
 Heroes of Peace.
 JQ-G7Sh.
 Kehler.
 J. H.
 An
 Open Letter
 to
 the Nation
 With Hegard to a Peace Plan. JQ-K2560.
 Sociology.
 Branford.
 Victor.
 Interpretations and Fore
 caNts.
 I-B7351.
 Fames. Blanche. Principles of Eugenics. IAR.
 Fa 63p.
 Eldridge, Seba. Problems of Communits Life.
 1-E127p.
 Eugenics: Twelve Coiversity Lectures. TAR-
 Eл43.
 Crime and Alcoholism.
 Schoff,
 H. K. The Warward Child. ICJ-
 Sch64w.
 Stoddard, C. F. Handbook of Modern Facts
 About
 Alcohol.
 ICI-S:83.
 Wasson. E. A. Religion and Drink. ICI-W287r.
 Charity and Relief.
 Bowen. L. H. de K. Safeguards for City Tourhs
 a1 Work and at Piar.
 IG-B6789.
 Washington.
 National Conterence of Catholie Chartie 1012
 D. C..
 IG-8N216a.
 1912.
 Proceedings.
 National
 Conference of
 Catholle Charities.
 Waehington.
 D. C..
 1914.
 Proceedinge.
 sd.
 IG-
 8N 216b.
 Education.
 Daris.
 I. B. Vocational and Moral Guidance.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a more significant breakdown in the fundamental bonds of the union than the headline might imply. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/u... 🎁
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ICE agent Christian Castro Released From Texas Jail After Minnesota Loses Court Fight (Gift Article)
The state had sought to have the agent extradited from Texas to answer charges in Minneapolis related to an on-duty shooting that wounded an immigrant.
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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Am I crazy or does this look like a Jerry Seinfeld impersonator
An ad for an upcoming Jerry Seinfeld performance at The Anthem but the picture of Jerry Seinfeld looks uncanny, like it's not quite him
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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 16/08/2026
They're calling it the most effective midterm messaging in political history
Reuters hed: "Iran defiant on strait as Trump tells Americans to accept high gas prices"
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
NEW AD: 14 years ago today, Ken Paxton stole someone's $1,000 pen. Today, Ken Paxton’s pen victim is endorsing James Talarico.
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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
ACAB includes Paw Patrol
Poster for new Paw Patrol movie
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Designated Non-Survivor lol
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Every reporter who was on board Air Force One when Trump abandoned it as a decoy to be attacked knows exactly which administration staffers were also left as sitting ducks there. There's a real opportunity here to get some inside dirt from people who have every right to be bitter and spiteful.
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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 09/08/2026
A colleague pointed out just how oddly this interprets the old quote about how "a language is just a dialect with an army and a navy," which gets taken up here as meaning that a variety of speaking can only truly be a "language" if it "projects violence from a distance" 🐦🐦
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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
#shoehistory
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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Feels like a lot of subtext here
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
it really makes you think
A clearly photoshopped screenshot of a Threads post. It reads 'All the people who are anti The Museum of English Rural Life, I have one question: if MERL disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without half a building comprised entirely of heritage wagons? Imagine MERL was suddenly banned. Would you actually be willing to give it up.'
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Rich Hill’s Blister @blisterrich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Babe tRuthers
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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
@mariners.com I’m serious. The bullpen can read these newspaper stories for themselves. Ignorance isn’t cute or funny.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
this is actually the wife-beatingest reply possible. this is the platonic ideal of how a guy who beat his wife would respond to a question about beating his wife.
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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I always thought Hieronymus Cock was Hieronymus Bosch’s porn name
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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is a goddamned lie. Trump said “perimeters” of a deal, but AP literacy-washed it to parameters.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Uh oh time for Trump to fire another woman www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump insists vandals damaged Reflecting Pool, blasts DOJ for dropped charge
The president acknowledged “there may have been some contractor difficulty” but said he disagreed with U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro for dropping a criminal charge against a former Olympian.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
my reaction to fully three-quarters of "new AI features" is "jesus christ, why?" sometimes that's "why" as in "this is dumb who would want this" and some times it's "why" as in "this is dumb and will lead to bad things" and sometimes it's both:
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
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Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Now I want a BLT sandwich for lunch
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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
On the other site people are claiming that tapping on a casket is a traditional gesture of honor & not some weird fucking thing to do
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Sounds like the political right is about to change its opinion on The Odyssey.
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batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
“No, Blood Boy!” I cry out to my own blood boy, “Put down the knife!”
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Never has Cuba been in more danger.
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