R F Kennedy (not Jr.)
Ancient Historian and Professor. First gen, public school, state college kid teaching at a SLAC. PhD OSU, BA UCSD. “Come on down here, third string. Let me show you how outclassed you are.” ~Full Metal Alchemist
- The new litmus test.
- Anyways, only 13 Democrats are currently *not* to the right of *Bill Kristol* in terms of abolishing ICE: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)COONS: Joe, it's same rules NYPD follows. Do you see roving bands of NYPD w/ masks using bear spray on people? KERNEN: You lost the election! That doesn't give you right to shut down govt C: I have to fight for the core value of our democracy, including law enforcement that doesn't murder citizens
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- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)I mean!!!!
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- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)Great read. An ICE attorney working for DOJ temporarily explains that ICE has no clue how all of this "federal court" stuff works and makes clear that both ICE and DOJ were totally unprepared for the flood of habeases that were the inevitable result of the Minneapolis raids.
- If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)The GOP’s new Voter Suppression bill, the so-called “SAVE Act,” would disenfranchise many of the 69 million women who took their husbands’ last names, as explained in my summary. It proposes *no penalties* for erroneous voter purges but potential *prison time* for erroneous registrations. WTF?! 1/
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)BREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them. www.propublica.org/article/chic...
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)Interesting stat from the article
- They weren't rookies The two federal agents who murdered Alex Pretti had a combined 20 years of experience with BP or CBP, and simmered in a toxic culture with an absurd crime rate that must be erased, not "reformed" My new column on what really killed Alex www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)World's least surprising stat, now with alt text:
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)ICE shooting a food bank worker in the back is a little on the nose for the current moment
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE watch this. If you have MAGA relatives make them watch this!
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)“.. Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum .. on the violence inflicted by federal immigration agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good ..” @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/post/206100/...
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)holy shit
- In case you want a reminder of the last time we went through this conversation… For those with academic library access, I’ve also published Kennedy, Rebecca Futo. "Racist Reactions to Black Achilles." Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City (2022): 79-96.
- Feel like it’s time to shake the dust off this one again: rfkclassics.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-...
- I hate to inform everyone, but Helen wasn’t a real person, but fictional. She can look like whatever anyone retelling the story wants her to look like.
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- Didn’t their side sue to have DCs gun restrictions tossed out as unconstitutional?
- Pirro: "You bring a gun into the District, you mark my words, you're going to jail. I don't care if you have a license in another district and I don't care if you're a law abiding law owner somewhere else. You bring a gun into this District, count on going to jail. And that makes all the difference"
- lol.
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)I'm not sure anyone has shown themself to be a gigantic fucking loser more in the last 10 years than this guy. It's an extremely tough field but my god, there is not a boot he will not lick with ferocity.
- If the Minneapolis police dept was smart, they would provide a police escort for Liam and his whole family every time they leave their house to ensure 1. They get there and back safely, and 2. To show that they mean it when they say they oppose what the federal gov is doing to their communities.
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)Amazing
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- Just so everyone knows: I have never asked a child predator to fund my research nor have we asked to sail our yacht to one’s private island. it’s not hard to never been tempted even. #notallacademics
- Don’t know why one wouldn’t say this. It’s a useful fact.
- Space science and exploration, with Dr Sally Ride Biblical and American Law History of opera A ton of Ancient Greek History of opera Statistics
- Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1) Epistemology 2) Euripides 3) History of Rock Music 4) Dead Sea Scrolls & Apocrypha 5) Twentieth Century US Political History with @rauchway.bsky.social
- But, but...CENSORSHIP
- Ha ha. perfect.
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)Ancient Women, Modern Crime: How Etruscan Women Were Trafficked Across the World art-crime.blogspot.com/2026/01/anci...
- Jobs I've gotten paid for: department store gift wrapper (perfumes) restaurant hostess/cashier line cook waitress/bartender copy editor for pharmacy handbook law firm archives research assistant (epigraphy) museum director (!) teacher/professor
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- Every once in awhile Aristotle comes up with a banger: "In human life well pretty much a majority of deliberate wrongdoing comes through ambition and love of money." (Politics 1271a17-8). He's writing about the unaccountable council of elders (gerousia) in Sparta.
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- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)The Catholic Church is calling for defunding ICE. The Episcopalian bishops are all out calling for people to put their bodies in the streets. Make of that what you will.
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- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)"Hi, everyone. I know things are hectic as heck right now, but please be sure to fill out your timesheets every Friday by 5 p.m. Central. I can’t pay you unless I know your hours. Please also try to be accurate."
- Never met a sports mom, it seems. This is just the average beginning of Lacrosse season.
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)I spent the most formative years of my political life reading headlines like this seemingly every week.
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)Snap
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.
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- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)I keep thinking about this fact that his last words were are you okay and hers were I'm not mad at you and it feels like a weird coincidence but it's just a reflection of the fact that the people who are coming out to take care of their neighbors are good and the people who are after them are bad
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)Please share. 💔
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)"Your contract allows for a modest structure in the prevailing style of the neighborhood. It does not allow for a big tall house with rooms by the dozen."
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- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)Re the February Dear Colleagues letter that threatened funding for schools & universities over DEI-related efforts: ‘[Ed Dept]…moved to dismiss its appeal. It leaves in place a federal judge’s August decision finding that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment & federal procedural rules.’
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)ah well at least we restructured the entire contemporary university, the product of many centuries of slowly accumulating human ingenuity, to boost this
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)No surprise to librarians, but perhaps surprising to users, demands/prices for ebooks /audiobooks are killing public library budgets. David Szalay's book, Flesh,” costs DCPL: $28.99 hardcopy $59.99 ebook $69.99 audiobook DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.
- I bong want to see this immensely and also don’t want to because I don’t really like horror as a genre.
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- Even though my 10 year wedding anniversary was last week, today is an even bigger anniversary day for me—it is both the anniversary of notification of getting tenure (11 yrs) and of student loan forgiveness (5 yrs). I even got a refund for overpayment (9k).
- Classes don’t start until next week, but I’m in like 5 meetings this week. Syllabi? Lol. Who has time for that.
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- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)Tillis is spot on. The Senate can't confirm a Trump toady to succeed Powell at the Fed. The rest of the game is now out in the open, and it doesn't end well.
- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)Hard to overstate what a remarkable statement this is from a Republican senator — even a retiring one — accusing thte Trump White House of weaponizing DOJ to control the Fed: "It is now the independence and credibility of the Department of Justice that are in question."
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- Reposted by R F Kennedy (not Jr.)"organized gangs of wine moms us[ing] Antifa tactics" should be a genre this could be the next heated rivalry
