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Thomas Elkins

@taelkins-15.bsky.social
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Classics reader - studied philosophy/history/literature. NIU/DePaul. Dog & cat owner. Prog social Dem. Plato/Aristotle/Kant/Gadamer reader. No DMs. Log splitter, classicist, Mod.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, the United States had spent that money helping the people of the United States
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Thomas Elkins @taelkins-15.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
A government that deliberately uses performative violence to instill fear among its population is engaged in state sanctioned terrorism. It is the fucking definition of terrorism.
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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.
Scene from "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.
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The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @lorenzothecat.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
One of the greatest women who ever lived, Jane Goodall has died at age 91. May we all think of her as our role model. 💔
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Thomas Elkins @taelkins-15.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
One of my heroes. Good night Jane Goodall. You were the best of humanity.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
It’s not just that this is puerile and lawless. It’s that it is completely out of touch with the issues relevant to contemporary warfare. Russia fights like this. It makes Russians criminals. But it doesn’t make them winners.
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Thomas Elkins @taelkins-15.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Cats go from purr to bite in 2 seconds. Yet no one uses that as a selling point.
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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
A six year investigation by NYT reporters found the nation’s largest bank enabled Epstein for years. 🎁 article
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How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein
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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
1 like = 1 interesting I read in Greek inscriptions (or read about in SEG or BE)
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Thomas Elkins @taelkins-15.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
A must read thread.
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Democratic Barbara @barbtries.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
#ProtestSongOfTheDay youtu.be/1q82twrdr0U?... Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people Who will not be slaves again
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Les Misérables | Do You Hear the People Sing?
YouTube video by Universal Pictures
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Thomas Elkins @taelkins-15.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Good night, Jim Lovell.
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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I am well aware that social class and privilege are important factors here but even so, this was my own experience. I have had a really blessed life in this respect. I used the open curriculum to take whatever I wanted and ended up majoring in Religious Studies just because after sophomore year
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The new books arrived, looking great! @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social
The books arrived!
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Thomas Elkins @taelkins-15.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
'Fat, poorly educated, slobs, stupid' - just more projection.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Sean Hannity is whining about me on his radio show and I have learned some new information about myself.
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Bren @kindofnerdy.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
🎧 Every single word of this monologue! 🔥 "You've structured this thing to make [immigrants] seem like monsters...B/C, "as long as we see somebody as a monster...we don't really care what happens to them." "If you get really good at stripping that humanity away, you can do whatever you want..."
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Thomas Elkins @taelkins-15.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Absolutely disgusting, cruel, and so Republican.
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oldladylife.bsky.social @oldladylife.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Just to be clear: The director of national intelligence for the USA is making allegations against a former U.S. presidential candidate based on material from Russia’s intelligence services.
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FloofMcGoof @floofmcgoof.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
To the Lisa Murkowskis, the Mike Johnsons, the Paramounts, the CBS heads, the capitulating CEOs and most importantly to the OrangeShitgibbon whose skin is so fucking thin that he just posted that he hopes he’s responsible for Kimmel’s & Fallon’s potential cancelation…. GO FUCK YOURSELF!! 🖕🏼🖕🏼
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Bette Casperson @bettecasperson.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
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Opinion | Canceling Stephen Colbert Isn’t Funny
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Ericjhensal @ericjhensal.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Has Trump had his Deplorable moment? Stupid Republicans...took nearly a decade for Trump to break character. Trump talking about the Epstein files is likely worse for him than the actual Epstein files. Remember Face in the Crowd with Andy Griffith? youtu.be/su3qmvCkvtE?...
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"Good night, you stupid people!" clip from A FACE IN THE CROWD
YouTube video by Club Samely
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Thomas Elkins @taelkins-15.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Laura Ingraham, at Turning Points, asks people to applaud if they agree with the DOJ dismissal of the Epstein investigation. They boo instead. She says, "I asked you to applaud. Come on, I not going to grade you on a curve." Who the fuck are you to grade anyone?
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
This explanation by @velshi.com of what Trump is doing with ICE, while hollowing out the FBI, is dead on the money. We need to pay attention now, before it's too late. I had the good fortune to join him for this segment. Do not miss this. www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
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'Blatantly unconstitutional’: Democracy professor on ICE tactics
ICE targeting students who have criticized the Trump administration is “blatantly unconstitutional,” warns professor of democracy Lucan Ahmad Way. “You can't simply racially profile or profile people based on their national origin and start pulling them off the streets,” says Joyce Vance. “That, by definition, is a police state.” With an explosion of new funding for ICE, as part of the GOP’s megabill, there’s yet more reason to be alarmed. With a rapid expansion of ICE, the danger, says Vance, “is that the people in charge are no longer the career officials with training who understand loyalty to the Constitution. These are quite literally people who understand loyalty to Donald Trump.”
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Thomas Elkins @taelkins-15.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Too good not to share.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Someone (@lewfoo) posted a long thread on the THREADS app about this. I’m posting the @npr.org story on which her thread was based here. PLEASE READ & SHARE. It’s so important. @cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social www.npr.org/sections/the...
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When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.
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Thomas Elkins @taelkins-15.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Why does Andy Biggs look twice as old as Biden?
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Michael Chiklis @michaelchiklis.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Save the #NEA PSA Please watch this important message and amplify it! Art isn't a luxury, it's a necessity!
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
1/8 Progressives get labeled “too far left” all the time, even by fellow Dems. But when you look at what we’re actually fighting for, it’s hard to see what’s so extreme. So let’s put the truth on the table and open the conversation. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
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NancyNY 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰 @ncmc1994.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This 👇👇
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Because the United States is denying entry visas to athletes for international competitions we are hosting, the IOC, FIFA and other sports bodies should STOP allowing the USA to host such events. It’s time to move the 2028 Olympics and give our World Cup games to Canada. PERIOD!
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
What are they planning to do now?
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Sen. Elizabeth Warren just revealed to me that the bill is even WORSE than we thought: “They've revised (it). It’s not 16 million who lose their healthcare…it's 20 MILLION. That’s the price Republicans are willing to pay for billionaire tax cuts.” Share this everywhere!
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
List of ALL 100 U.S. Senators DC Contact Information: Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville 202-224-4124 Senator Katie Boyd Britt 202-224-5744 Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski 202-224-6665 Senator Dan Sullivan 202-224-3004 Arizona Senator Mark Kelly 202-224-2235 Senator Ruben Gallego 202-224-4521 1/17
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Thomas Elkins @taelkins-15.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
While Tech Bros keep talking about increasing the birth rate, they also support policies that will kill those children.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Who else AGREES with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson?! 🤚 She’s right, isn’t she?! 👇 Enjoy. 😎✨
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♥️♠️Pam♦️♣️ @pam.sheshed.rocks · 28/06/2025
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the court limiting nationwide injunctions on birthright citizenship: "No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.“ REPOST if you stand with Justice Sotomayor against the “orange goul” tRamp !
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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Key differences: www.history.com/articles/soc...
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How Are Socialism and Communism Different? | HISTORY
Socialism and communism are different in key ways.
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Joan Resnick Ehrlich @jremmc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Military ethics. The *U.S. military. OUR military. Scary shit going on under Trump.
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Thomas Elkins @taelkins-15.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Make America Great Again? We're not even good!
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Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
New: Trump’s two-week window was a smokescreen. He had already decided to attack Iran when he said he was open to negotiating. Our report on tonight’s historic U.S. strikes. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Trump’s Two-Week Window for Diplomacy Was a Smoke Screen
Even as the president suggested that he was open to negotiations, he had already made up his mind.
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️
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Kat 🕊️ @smith83k.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States. It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the ending of slavery in the United States. The holiday's name, first used in the 1890s, is a portmanteau of the words "June" and "nineteenth", referring to June 19, 1865 #HappyJuneteenth #Pinks
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ECP408 @ecp408.dev · 17/06/2025
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Baby Boomers’ Luck Is Running Out
After a lifetime of good fortune, the generation has become vulnerable at exactly the wrong moment.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Trump’s attempts to dehumanize large segments of the American people in order to use military force against them fits the classic definition of “tyranny,” and right wing rhetoric using the phrase “third world” to justify it is no accident (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Tyrant Test
A leader who uses military force to suppress his political opposition ought to lose the right to govern.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
LET’S MAKE SURE THIS PATRIOT IS PROTECTED!!! 🚨DISTURBING: Airman Christian Stephens posted a video saying he’s not proud to serve under Trump and disapproves of ICE. Now it’s gone—replaced with a chilling message that he was forced into a psych hold, despite not being a threat. Please share.
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MariaevaJ (Formal Tribel) @mariaevaj.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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Kodiak149 @kodiak149.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Saturday June 14 Find a protest near you
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