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Cacacta Carta, Esq.

Cacacta Carta, Esq.

@CacactaCarta

Report white supremacy to SPLC and any incorporating Classics to Pharos at Vassar; support student workers; grateful to be fully vaccinated; she/her

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RetroNewsNow
RetroNewsNow@RetroNewsNow·
🎶🎬Angela Lansbury recording ‘Be Our Guest’ for Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (1991) Lansbury recorded the iconic song in just a single take
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Headquarters@HQNewsNow·
Reporter: More than 45,000 ballots have been returned in Louisiana. What happens to those? GOP Gov. Jeff Landry: Oh, those ballots are discarded. Reporter: You say that like it’s not a big deal. Landry: Well, it’s not a big deal. It’s not my fault
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Carol Rosenberg
Carol Rosenberg@carolrosenberg·
Good morning from the Pentagon streaming site of war court hearings from Guantánamo Bay. The latest news is the judge has reset the trial date in the court’s other death-penalty case. nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/…
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Acyn@Acyn·
Trump: Drugs coming by sea meaning coming by water. A lot of people don’t know what I mean by sea. They think I mean vision. I’m talking about sea like the sea.
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sententiae antiquae
sententiae antiquae@sentantiq·
sorry folks. Achilles and Odysseus are not role models, they are epic heroes. Each epic starts by specifying their destructiveness to their communities. Iliad: Achilles's rage sends myriad Achaeans to their doom Odyssey: Odysseus tried to bring his men home and failed
Homer Pavlos@HomerPavlos

What we’re seeing on X these past few days is insane. > They’re trying like maniacs to convince you that Achilles is not a hero or a role model, even though he was the greatest role model in the West for 3,000 years. > They’re trying to convince you that he had a sexual relationship with his dear brotherly friend Patroclus, even though Homer says nothing of the sort. On the contrary, Homer mentions his relationships with women, states that Achilles has a son, Neoptolemus, and that at Patroclus’ funeral, Achilles and Briseis weep because he didn’t manage to marry them. That’s what Homer writes. > They’re trying to convince you that he shouldn’t be a role model for men because he was weak and a “cry baby”. This is being said by uneducated barbarians whose sources are the movie and secondary interpretations. They want you weak and disillusioned with classical studies. All these pseudo intellectuals have invaded the academic community of classical studies and archaeology and are trying to completely rewrite the facts in order to repel you. They want to fully control classical studies the same way they control art. Because if they control the Classics they will control the civilizational narrative. Don’t fall victim to their Marxist anti-Greek and anti-Western propaganda. Achilles was, is, and will always be the role model of a healthy man. Never forget that Alexander the Great slept with a copy of the Iliad (from Aristotle) under his pillow, along with his dagger. His role model was Achilles, who was also his ancestor on his mother’s side. Never forget that.

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Archaeology & Art
Archaeology & Art@archaeologyart·
In a Latin manuscript from around 1420, on the page of a book about alchemy, stands a black-skinned, green-winged angel. The angel's abdomen is cut open, with a serpent and a dagger inside. The manuscript is titled Aurora Consurgens, meaning 'Rising Dawn'. For a long time, it was attributed to Thomas Aquinas, but today, scholars agree that the text belongs to an anonymous 14th- or 15th-century author known as Pseudo-Aquinas. The copy I'm sharing is housed in the Zurich Central Library under the shelfmark Ms. Rh. 172. Among the ten known Aurora Consurgens manuscripts, it's the oldest surviving illuminated copy. The 100-folio parchment measures just 20.4 × 13.9 cm. The angel simultaneously embodies the three classical stages of alchemy: blackening (nigredo), whitening (albedo), and reddening (rubedo). The transformation starts with the black skin, continues through the white garment, and culminates in the red background and the golden-rayed mandorla. I think the text's original logic is essentially this: a genuine whitening is only real if it has first passed through blackness. That's why the angel's skin is still black even at the end of the transformation. The whiteness doesn't erase the blackness; instead, it's layered on top of it. As for the serpent and dagger duo in its abdomen, the motif is directly related to Hermes' caduceus, the staff with two snakes: it illustrates the reconciliation of two opposing natures - mercury and sulfur - embracing and uniting within a single body. The dagger, meanwhile, represents the alchemical operation known as dissolutio, the conscious fragmentation of matter. I interpreted the dark sphere beneath its feet as the sky/heaven above the Earth (though alternative interpretations also mention it as the moon). The fully transformed soul stands in perfect balance above the material-celestial order. I'm adding the link to the book and the illustration; it's really beautiful if you want to check it out: archive.org/details/Aurora…
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Aaron Rupar
Aaron Rupar@atrupar·
Hassett lies his ass off: "Almost all of the job creation that happened under President Biden was the employment of illegal aliens"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@ReichlinMelnick·
This is an extremely clear violation of international and domestic law; someone who has won protection from deportation to their own country on account of persecution cannot just be deported to that country by “chain.“
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Tobi Raji@tobiaraji

My final story for The Washington Post is about the first third country deportation flight from the U.S. to Ghana. I spoke to two people who were on that Sept. 5-6 flight, including a woman from Togo who fled the country in 2024 to escape FGM. wapo.st/4dvSWHn

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Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour@amanpour·
Palestinian journalist Ali al-Samoudi was recently released from Israeli prison, where he was held for a year without charge and without a trial. He lost around half his body weight behind bars. “It was a real hell,” he tells @JDiamond1, in this heart-wrenching report.
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Acyn
Acyn@Acyn·
Reporter: We’re almost 10 weeks since a missile hit a school in Iran. Who fired that missile? Trump: That’s under study. We’ll give you a report when we have it.
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sententiae antiquae
sententiae antiquae@sentantiq·
Strauss Clay, Jenny. The wrath of Athena: gods and men in the Odyssey. 2nd ed. Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches., Lanham (Md.): Rowman and Littlefield, 1997. required reading!
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sententiae antiquae@sentantiq·
Murnaghan, Sheila. Disguise and recognition in the Odyssey., Princeton: Princeton University Pr., 1987. If you can only read one book about the Odyssey, read this one
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