David R. Evans, Ph.D.
@drdreforreal.bsky.social
Liberal Arts Guy, Semi-former Early Modernist; collector of rescue animals; lover of traditional arts; 47, Wahoowa! Opinions my own.
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Trump announces a “full and unconditional” pardon for Juan Orlando Hernandez, a former president of Honduras sentenced to 45 years for drug trafficking and weapons offenses.
My latest on Trump’s continued abuse of the presidential pardon power:
youtu.be/M3VzVlHhQM8?...
My latest on Trump’s continued abuse of the presidential pardon power:
youtu.be/M3VzVlHhQM8?...
Yikes! Trump’s SHOCKING Pardon IGNITES Global OUTRAGE
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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December 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Trump announces a “full and unconditional” pardon for Juan Orlando Hernandez, a former president of Honduras sentenced to 45 years for drug trafficking and weapons offenses.
My latest on Trump’s continued abuse of the presidential pardon power:
youtu.be/M3VzVlHhQM8?...
My latest on Trump’s continued abuse of the presidential pardon power:
youtu.be/M3VzVlHhQM8?...
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I taught composition and technical writing at OU for three years. This decision is a disgrace. If instructors are expected to treat personal beliefs as formal “evidence,” then why even bother offering courses?
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I taught composition and technical writing at OU for three years. This decision is a disgrace. If instructors are expected to treat personal beliefs as formal “evidence,” then why even bother offering courses?
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Lecturing on Watergate this morning and trying to decide how to communicate "no, Congress used to care when presidents did crimes!" without derailing the lecture and/or sobbing
December 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Lecturing on Watergate this morning and trying to decide how to communicate "no, Congress used to care when presidents did crimes!" without derailing the lecture and/or sobbing
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(all of academic Bluesky)
a man sits in a chair with the words oklahoma oklahoma written on the bottom
ALT: a man sits in a chair with the words oklahoma oklahoma written on the bottom
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
(all of academic Bluesky)
Exactly right. I've graded thousands of college essays, and this one is a bottom 10-percenter.
If you spend decades undermining a liberal arts education, you get college students who can't write a decent essay. But you also get adults who can't recognize a decent essay and sincerely think the issue is the beliefs and not that reading this is painful.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Exactly right. I've graded thousands of college essays, and this one is a bottom 10-percenter.
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Murdering crew members claiming they were smuggling drugs while pardoning a drug kingpin. Very on brand for the Trump regime.
November 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Murdering crew members claiming they were smuggling drugs while pardoning a drug kingpin. Very on brand for the Trump regime.
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Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running. This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
Our Economy Is in Danger. Here’s Why
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running. This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
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These are true Patriots and true Patriots ignore illegal orders.
♻️💙 if you agree!
♻️💙 if you agree!
November 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
These are true Patriots and true Patriots ignore illegal orders.
♻️💙 if you agree!
♻️💙 if you agree!
"But Lincoln was a Republican...."
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
"But Lincoln was a Republican...."
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Trump’s attack on our independent judiciary is an attack America itself.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Trump’s attack on our independent judiciary is an attack America itself.
@governorwalz.mn.gov, my mom spent her last couple years at the Episcopal Church Home in St. Paul. She was mostly cared for by Somali refugees, who were uniformly kind, professional, and patient. Thanks to them her last years were comfortable and safe. Thank you, MN, for your kind, open hearts.
November 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
@governorwalz.mn.gov, my mom spent her last couple years at the Episcopal Church Home in St. Paul. She was mostly cared for by Somali refugees, who were uniformly kind, professional, and patient. Thanks to them her last years were comfortable and safe. Thank you, MN, for your kind, open hearts.
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Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
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Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.
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Had Trump not ignored a week-old court order to withdraw the troops from DC, no one would have been shot and all the members of the WV guard would have been home sor Thanksgiving.
I honor her service, but I also won't forget Trump's hand in this.
I honor her service, but I also won't forget Trump's hand in this.
November 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Had Trump not ignored a week-old court order to withdraw the troops from DC, no one would have been shot and all the members of the WV guard would have been home sor Thanksgiving.
I honor her service, but I also won't forget Trump's hand in this.
I honor her service, but I also won't forget Trump's hand in this.
This is a tragedy on so many levels, and as usual Trump is exploiting it for his own bad ends.
20-year-old West Virginia National Guard member, Sarah Beckstrom, died a day after volunteering to serve in DC so that others could enjoy Thanksgiving with their families. She deserves our gratitude, not political exploitation by a shameless president who scapegoats immigrants to swell his power.
November 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This is a tragedy on so many levels, and as usual Trump is exploiting it for his own bad ends.
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This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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I find bewildering the push by many to focus on reaching out voters who believe different things from Dems rather than trying to motivate voters who believe the same things as Dems but who for one reason or another didn't vote, don't regularly vote, etc. I'm sure there is a great wisdom behind this.
Democrats spending big to expand coalition in midterms
Democrats spending big to expand coalition in midterms
A new DCCC program will pour eight figures into engaging some demographic groups that swung to the right in 2024.
dlvr.it
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I find bewildering the push by many to focus on reaching out voters who believe different things from Dems rather than trying to motivate voters who believe the same things as Dems but who for one reason or another didn't vote, don't regularly vote, etc. I'm sure there is a great wisdom behind this.
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Your political views aren't just opinions.
They reveal your values, your capacity for empathy, and the way you view other human beings.
They reveal your values, your capacity for empathy, and the way you view other human beings.
November 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Your political views aren't just opinions.
They reveal your values, your capacity for empathy, and the way you view other human beings.
They reveal your values, your capacity for empathy, and the way you view other human beings.
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Notice a difference in how Democracy Docket framed Trump's threats vs how legacy media did? This is no accident. They are more interested in normalizing Trump to please their corporate overlords. Democracy Docket is only interested in providing you the truth. Support its work. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Notice a difference in how Democracy Docket framed Trump's threats vs how legacy media did? This is no accident. They are more interested in normalizing Trump to please their corporate overlords. Democracy Docket is only interested in providing you the truth. Support its work. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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It's really shocking that Trump's DOJ, because a grand jury in the James Comey case refused to agree to their bogus indictment, bypassed that grand jury and lied to the judge about the grand jury deciding on fake indictments. Beyond appalling. Such a corrupt administration.
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
It's really shocking that Trump's DOJ, because a grand jury in the James Comey case refused to agree to their bogus indictment, bypassed that grand jury and lied to the judge about the grand jury deciding on fake indictments. Beyond appalling. Such a corrupt administration.
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NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
NEW: As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick drives billions of dollars in foreign payments to help build AI data centers in the US, his sons help run a company earning tens of millions in fees helping finance AI data centers. A NYT investigation. (Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
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Whenever I’m in the middle of having a heart attack I always pause to carefully review which ambulance service offers the lowest rates before calling 911.
Cassidy: "If she goes and gets 2 types of shampoo & one is a dollar cheaper, she'll get the cheaper one & the other lowers their price. Once you give her the power of making the decision, she's gonna shop -- that begins to save her money and squeezes waste out of the healthcare system."
November 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Whenever I’m in the middle of having a heart attack I always pause to carefully review which ambulance service offers the lowest rates before calling 911.