Let me know what you think once you’re done!
There was some glitch that didn’t allow my “so far…” response to post, but it’s for the best, because now I’ve finished it.
Definitely worth reading. At the end, I felt he rushed things without fully fleshing them out (and there was one sentence that I think wasn’t proofread accurately, so it seemed to say the opposite of what would have been intended, based on what came before), but that’s small potatoes. He does not whitewash the truth, nor does he pretend that there weren’t real feelings of love and belonging that were part of his experience growing up in the white nationalist movement, which is why it took him so long to denounce it. And he has advice about how to get through to people: the carrot & the stick are both necessary, and in fact the gentle persuasion over time by numerous people he met at the New College wouldn’t have mattered, he feels, if he hadn’t also experienced the painful ostracism that his original views caused.
It also helped me understand why DeSantis and Hillsdale College chose the New College for their hostile takeover: it was payback. He never says it explicitly in the book (he talks about the takeover in the epilogue) but clearly that’s why.
Really, I am so glad I read this book, and even more glad that he was able to write it.
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On behalf of most of residents of the state of Michigan, I am so sorry about Hillsdale College.
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Are these or aren’t these prime examples of socialism at work?
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Thanks! I’ve ordered a copy, but who knows when I’ll get to it… I might read it sooner rather than later, tho.
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I was wondering about that project and how it was working out. I hope that the local public radio station will do a story on it at some point.
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Financial law is SO confusing.
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“There are no books banned in Florida,” said Florida Department of Education spokesperson Sydney Booker. “Sexually explicit material and instruction are not suitable for schools.”
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Among the books removed are Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, and Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.
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… for anyone who hasn’t read it, it’s about fighting fascists in the Spanish Civil War 
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Is that the one whereby, in the movie version, Gary Cooper gets Helen Hayes pregnant and she dies?
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No. That’s a Farewell to Arms. Worth reading for the description of the retreat from Caporetto alone.
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Thank you very much for straightening that out for me.
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But how he has sex while lying in a hospital bed with two badly injured legs is beyond me. He describes a lot in detail, but not that.
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Like porcupines, I would expect - verrrry carefully.
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On Jan. 29, 2023, Clendaniel told CHS-1 that the five substations she planned to target included “Norrisville, Reisterstown, and Perry Hall.” Clendaniel described how there was a “ring” around Baltimore and if they hit a number of them all in the same day, they “would completely destroy this whole city.” She added that they needed to “destroy those cores, not just leak the oil…” and that a “good four or five shots through the center of them… should make that happen.” Further, she stated that: “[i]t would probably permanently completely lay this city to waste if we could do that successfully.” When CHS-1 asked if it would accomplish a “cascading failure,” Clendaniel replied, “[y]es… probably” and that the attack targets are all “major ones.” Clendaniel also said that the most difficult target that they would have to do together has “fire walls on three sides.”
During that conversation, Clendaniel sent CHS-1 five links to the “Open Infrastructure Map” which showed the locations of five specific Baltimore, Gas and Electric (BGE) electrical substations in Maryland. BGE is an energy company that utilizes substations, like the five targeted sites, to produce, convert, transform, regulate and distribute energy. Three of the five substations were located near the towns of Norrisville, Reisterstown, and Perry Hall. The remaining two substations were in the vicinity of Baltimore City. Each location is a BGE substation with significant infrastructure.
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From July 2024:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bankrupt-former-parent-of-parler-fails-to-stop-lawsuit-against-backer-mercer-8195232b
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