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ÉJ Néel
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Adjunct professor. Scholar of fascism and extremism. Sociologist. Coffee addict. Disabled beauty queen. Est. 1987. Texan Masshole. Aspiring future ex of Pedro Pascal. Sometimes I post funny and personal things too cuz I’m human. 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈♿️ ❌👑
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I kill plants only to replace them and kill those too. It’s a Sisyphean cycle of murder, mayhem, and the pursuit of frustration.
Sociologically, this represents Robert K. Merton’s Strain Theory in one photo. Durkheim is standing in the foreground waiting for the right French phrase to describe “what in the actual fuckery is this anomic shit?”
Her Ladyship the Mona Lisa. Or something easy like a van Gogh.
Gonna go rob the Louvre let me know if yall want anything
To those still holding out hope that democracy will prevail and win at the 11th hour: I’ll see you at the 12th hour in my frog suit, I have bourbon and cigarettes.
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One day you’re doing blow off a Requiem for a dream dvd case, then you blink and find yourself pruning tomatoes and identifying bird calls
If Medicaid gets cut one medication that I take to stay “healthy” costs $650. That’s the cheap one. Should I send the bill to the White House? Asking for a friend.
We’re all acting like we weren’t raised by Mr Rogers and Big Bird and it’s beginning to show.
I know what I’m stealing.
In the aftermath of the Louvre heist, we have decided to beef up security around our prized collection of erotic clown paintings.
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It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
Call me crazy but I do believe that LA, Chicago, and Boston are about to get violent and it won’t because of “crime”. It will be because of ICE and their agents who just hate civil liberties.
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.
It’s soon to be open season on chaos in my classrooms: I have several social experiments running simultaneously along with lectures. 🤪
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Guys I MAY have an unorthodox solution to ChatGPT-based academic misconduct
man the etsy witches get AROUND
Someone paid one to get the Mariners a better season and they’ve been their best ever!
I should be able to buy a car with negative equity.
Alas. Nope.
I had to teach today’s classes during the Canvas outage. I’d like hazard pay for the looks I got explaining Y2K to my students. 🤣
Sometimes it takes something like this for it to sink in.
absolutely fascinating and heartbreaking how those pictures of the White House being bulldozed really made it real for folks
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For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings
I’m there in spirit and support!
😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings
If you see me eating cookies and drinking milk at a bar while reading a book, it’s because I’ve created my own rules. Feel free to approach.
I may have to go live in Canada just so I can access real sports like cricket and rugby like a civilised person. Hockey too.
I was born to make a mockery of authority. 😎
One last post (for the moment!):

Why the costumes?

Authoritarians grab power with fear.
They can’t STAND mockery.
It weakens their hold.

That’s why.
Give that kid a cookie.
A nine year old kid just corrected my grammar. Of course, her grammar policing quietly pissed me off, but she was also correct. I'm a 49 year old university professor with a degree in English.
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Do you know what a group of frogs is called?

AN ARMY
Honestly, my internet is out due to a dead modem and I’m ready to throw in the towel. I’ll take dial-up and physical media at this point.
everyone should just go back to buying CDs and walkmans
Longer. Populism in Europe is the aftermath consequence of fascism.
The right-wing populists in Europe have been fuelled by Trumpism (and Putin) since around 2015.
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15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.