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John D. Winters Endowed Professor of History at Louisiana Tech University. Books: GUN COUNTRY (2023) and CONSUMING JAPAN (2017).

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I had a dream last night that I was writing a book about Welcome Back, Kotter. Editors, I'm available

06.03.2026 16:12 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Hmm seems good if you're rooting for the collapse of global capitalism tho

06.03.2026 15:49 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Point/Counterpoint

This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t

Published: March 26, 2003

Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t Published: March 26, 2003

06.03.2026 02:51 πŸ‘ 3252 πŸ” 490 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 15

This is what Hegseth promised. He should spend the rest of his life in a jail cell.

06.03.2026 03:41 πŸ‘ 147 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

The only one who could ever reach me /

Was the son of a…

06.03.2026 02:23 πŸ‘ 2343 πŸ” 442 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 0

I want it on the record that I was on the Markwayne beat MONTHS ago bsky.app/profile/drew...

05.03.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

tbh I hope he gets confirmed and we get years of this tremendous Veep content

05.03.2026 21:51 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

And then really just watching communists fighting with each other most of the time

05.03.2026 21:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The dog sits on that couch all day and stares out the window and barks at everyone who comes by. He could be DHS secretary

05.03.2026 20:43 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
A dog spread out on couch cuhsions

A dog spread out on couch cuhsions

Proper couch sitting technique

05.03.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It is probably a very superficial and big tv talking-head-brained take but I think he axed Noem because of Tillis embarrassing her so prominently on tv. It doesn't matter how incompetent or corrupt you are, it's looking bad on tv that is inexcusable for him

05.03.2026 20:33 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

It is quite perfect that the last thing she does as DHS secretary is use a fake quote from Orwell, a man who went to Spain to shoot at people like her

05.03.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Markwayne is actually a noble title, and is the Oklahoma equivalent to "Marquis," and may be passed on at the same time your father gives you his car dealership

05.03.2026 19:56 πŸ‘ 4655 πŸ” 743 πŸ’¬ 81 πŸ“Œ 32

I'm not under any illusion that things will change anytime soon but I am glad to see this horrible human being have a really bad day

05.03.2026 19:46 πŸ‘ 77 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

among other things, it's very very funny to imagine Trump having granular knowledge and strong opinions about various obscure Iranian regime figures possibly in the running.

05.03.2026 16:32 πŸ‘ 2357 πŸ” 330 πŸ’¬ 254 πŸ“Œ 33

Final grades submitted for the winter quarter. Spring quarter starts in... 6 days

05.03.2026 15:15 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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John Fleming says Ralph Abraham offered him CDC job if he dropped out of Senate race Shortly after leaving the CDC job, Abraham was named chair of Rep. Julia Letlow’s Senate campaign against Fleming.

John Fleming accuses Jeff Landry and Ralph Abraham of trying to buy him out of the Senate race by offering him Abraham's CDC post
www.nola.com/news/politic...

05.03.2026 13:40 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

i tried this with ben franklin but he wouldnt stop asking about yoga pants and hentai

05.03.2026 12:48 πŸ‘ 2041 πŸ” 203 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 5

72% of Americans approved the invasion of Iraq in March 2003

05.03.2026 03:46 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

And to be clear the student is not to blame for this

05.03.2026 02:10 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

The followup exchange was me saying "Grammarly is AI" and her replying "well I can't write without it"

05.03.2026 02:09 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

I had a student who very obviously used AI to write a paper and when I pointed this out she replied "I didn't use AI, I used Grammarly"

05.03.2026 02:07 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

My wife says I like The Pitt because "where else do you see competent people in positions of authority trying to help?"

04.03.2026 22:09 πŸ‘ 1775 πŸ” 189 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 0
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Breaking Down the Hemani Arguments | Duke Center for Firearms Law

NEW: I wrote up a short, breezy 3,700 word post for @dukefirearmslaw.bsky.social blog w/ reactions to the Supreme Court's oral arguments in US v. Hemani earlier this week.

I may be overly optimistic about getting some coherence in Second Amendment doctrine.

firearmslaw.duke.edu/2026/03/brea...

04.03.2026 19:00 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Right now, an assistant manager at Missouri's 7th most profitable Kia dealership is reading this to motivate his sales associates, who all have to wear "Lee's Summit Auto Mall" polos with blacked out American flags on the sleeve.

04.03.2026 18:43 πŸ‘ 171 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

Bye Dan Crenshaw. May the revolution continue to devour its children

04.03.2026 18:31 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Better than a guy with a katana on a Kawasaki

04.03.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

[LeBron James steps up to the podium]

"I stand before you today with one unmistakable message about Operation Defeat Bayonne Central Middle School Basketball -- the Lakers are winning decisively, devastatingly, and without mercy"

04.03.2026 16:59 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations, you've been given more money than any country in world history to build a military that can launch missiles at any target on earth from the comfort of the Fox and Friends couch and you're "winning" against a failing third-rate theocratic shitocracy devastated by decades of sanctions

04.03.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't know if it's the peak levels of pollen or a cold or end-of-quarter grading or all three of them but this doesn't feel good, not one bit

04.03.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0