Rick Halpern

Rick Halpern

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Historian, Author, Cook, Photographer, critical thinker. photos: http://500px.com/p/ucrahex

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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They've learned nothing and they intend to learn nothing.

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Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.

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Caleb Ward
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I've also deleted my academia-dot-edu account. Find all my papers as free PDFs (and apparently a zoomed in picture of my mug) at www.calebward.xyz Please spread the word to your colleagues about the academia scam, also those who are not as online as we are.

calebward.xyzCaleb Ward | PhilosophyI'm a postdoc in philosophy at University of Hamburg, working on social and political philosophy and ethics. My current projects are on political agency, sexual consent, and the philosophy of Black fe...
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Rick Halpern
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It's 11 September again, and let's not forget that other world historic event that shaped the late 20th century and the early 21st. Remember, another world is possible -- that is a vital thought for these times.

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Karl Jacoby
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"The Columbia University Board of Trustees’ concessions to the Trump administration are a disaster . . . . Never in the history of our nation has an educational institution so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat." National AAUP Statement on Columbia www.aaup.org/news/columbi...

aaup.orgColumbia University Settlement an Unprecedented DisasterNever in the history of our nation has a university so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat. All who care about higher education must stand up and fight back against this unprecedented continuin...
Rick Halpern
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jeffreycisaacdesign.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/b... Bret Stephens’s Recent Attack on the “Genocide” Charge Is Both Stupid and Immoral – Democracy in Dark Times

jeffreycisaacdesign.wordpress.comBret Stephens’s Recent Attack on the “Genocide” Charge Is Both Stupid and ImmoralThursday, July 24, 2025 Last week the New York Times published a powerful op-ed by Omer Bartov, the distinguished scholar of the Holocaust, entitled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It…

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Stefan Kipfer
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Among the many benefits of bike lines: fewer accidents, effective mobility, more cycling, boosted transportation equity for those without cars. From the York U team Mahtot Gebresselassie, Joanna Silva, and Steven Lum. theconversation.com/why-bike-lan...

theconversation.comWhy bike lanes should remain on Ontario’s roadsEfforts to remove bike lanes in Toronto could result in more injuries and make transportation more challenging for people.

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Marisa Kabas
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Disappearing an elected official.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social

Alina Habba tells Fox News that Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested and is being held in a secret location right now. Martha MacCallum: "Where is he being held?" Habba: 'I'm not going to speak to that right now. He's obviously in New Jersey."

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Joanne Freeman
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The Library of Congress is a research library. The Congressional Research Service researches for Congress. Scholars & researchers apply for passes to research. NO children’s section. Even the general public has very limited access.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why?  Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.

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Revolution's Newsstand
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'Dark Towns' by Mary Heaton Vorse from Men and Steel. Boni and Liveright Publishers, New York. 1920. A chapter from Vorse’s marvelous book on the Steel Strike of 1919 sees her travel with Mother Jones through the Steubenville, Ohio area. revolutionsnewsstand.com/2025/05/07/d...

revolutionsnewsstand.com‘Dark Towns’ by Mary Heaton Vorse from Men and Steel. Boni and Liveright Publishers, New York. 1920.Mingo Junction, just south of Steubenville. A chapter from legendary labor reporter Mary Heaton Vorse’s marvelous book on the Great Steel Strike of 1919 sees her travel with Mother Jones through th…