turtlensue @turtlensue@qoto.org
Joined Nov 2022
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In news that actually matters and has nothing to do with trading cards...
Dr. Claudine Gay will be the first black President of Harvard University.
Congratulations!
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Hello Mastodon! I'm Brian Klaas - an associate professor of global politics at University College London, a writer for The Atlantic, and host of the Power Corrupts podcast.
I'm Minnesotan.
I write a newsletter on Substack called "The Garden of Forking Paths."
I also wrote the first book on Trump's authoritarianism. My most recent book is "Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us."
And yes, that is a lemur on my shoulder. #Politics #Introduction #WelcomeToMastodon #Mastodon
@Ouij @swampudlian I’m more optomistic . I’ve seen my feed start to diversify nicely in the past week or so.
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@Ouij as I deactivated on Twitter I am enjoying the second hand stories about twitter. There is now baseball people on here too. I’ve tooted them
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Things just seem so crazy today.
I mean, can you imagine say in the 1930s if the richest automobile executive in America was also a media owner who used his platform to encourage anti-Semitism and allied himself with a foreign dictator waging a territory-expansion war in Europe?
@swampudlian the only thing I regret is that according to Facebook John DeLancie (Q of Star Trek) got into it with Musk and his culties on twitter last night. I would have loved to see that. DeLancie is a smart guy.
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@turtlensue The latest banning of reporters over the "El-ron Jet" account has REALLY brought over tons of folks over here. Odd that that is the line that shall not be crossed, and re-activating accounts of Neo-Nazis was not.
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Since AW is probably not long for this platform, let me impart something uncharacteristically personal. This is difficult and probably enough information to dox me, but I don’t care. 1/
@swampudlian that’s why I went ahead and deactivated- otherwise I’d be too tempted.
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Good morning, Evelyn knows what you dreamed about last night and she has judgement to render
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Singer Josephine Baker was the toast of Paris. She was a spy for the French Resistance during WWII & secured passports for Jewish citizens fleeing Nazi territory.
Her marriage to a Jewish businessman drew the attn. of Hermann Göring, who poisoned her. Members of the Fr. Resistance rescued her; she recovered.
She was awarded the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre & the Rosette of the Resistance. In 2021, she was inducted into Panthéon, France's hallowed tomb of heroes. #BlackFriday
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