Huh! Well it was only a matter of time. Guess we're dive into some cease and desist action
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Tomorrow is now today! Do yourself a favor and buy a great book you'll love. Of all the people and groups I've talked about over the years the Bund are inner-circle favs and this is now THE book to read on the subject
My friends! @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's book about the Bund is coming out tomorrow!!!! If you listen to the Revolutions Podcast you will love this book it's that simple. It's so good
The SD leaders neatly sidestepped answering for this massive strategic miscalculation by never talking about it and skipping right to the mutiny of the Petrograd garrison when retelling the story of the revolution
The best part about 1917 is SD leaders told women not to turn out for International Women's Day protests in March because it was a lib-coded distraction and they wanted to save their juice for May Day. Instead the women turned out anyway and those protests literally sparked the revolution
Do we get a Yankee needing to wear a three digit number in our lifetimes?
Um if he wasn't born of a cherry tree then why did he have wooden teeth ๐ค๐ค๐ค
I got some new glasses recently and the guy was about to start talking about the importance of the little special cloth and I was just like look man you know and I know I'm gonna use my shirt so lets skip this part
This is utterly beside the point but does my profile really show when I joined and say "Bluesky Elder" when I do a post? I don't see that when I look at it myself?
Also just to clear this up my pod comrade @dhmontgomery.com wrote up a poll back in the heyday of Men Think About the Roman Empire Everyday. It's not even close to true. Only like 4% of us are true Roman history sickos
We can't cede every space, topic, and platform to the Nazis just cause there are Nazis there. Sometimes we have to stay seated to maintain a beachhead of normal, cool, and good
The struggle is real
I am simultaneously exhausted beyond comprehension and completely wired. I will now be putting on the Elizabeth Taylor Cleopatra and will watch it until sleep comes for me. Or death. Whichever. Both fine
Of all the posts I've seen go up this one most captures how i feel rights now
Ironically there is a person here who totally sounds like a moderately hallucinatory AI chatbot and it's not Kelsey
Oh yeah fascism then and now is absolutely a revolutionary movement. Just a right-wing one
When I go into detail moving through these things day-by-day week-by-week rather than just skipping from one Big Event to the next, I'm hoping the listeners take away that even a revolution is a slow moving process with lots of downtime and accumulation of small events
All brought to you by the same group that in a previous episode staged a riot inside the national capital to disrupt and prevent the legal transfer of power to their political rivals after losing an election
Hello friends! @alexiscoe.bsky.social and I are doing a live feed on her substack tonight. Come hang! open.substack.com/live-stream/...
I was for some reason supremely zen yday. Built a dresser while watching the game. We lost. OK. Tonight finally got to me and I spent the last two innings pacing nonstop
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Substack is messing with us, but we will triumph!
Let's eff em up next Tuesday--same time, same day, same disappointing place!
open.substack.com/pub/alexisco...
Live hit in about 45 min. Come hang. Live!
Listen to us gush about the Mariners. It's so fun
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This was back in Aug 9