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mathteacherjedi
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Father of 2 awesome girls.
7th grade STEM teacher.
Williams College alum.
Roslindale, MA
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.

$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
SOURCES: Michigan State is firing head coach Jonathan Smith, @theathletic.com has learned.

He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).

MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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This.

The second strike is important bc AFTER that one, they started leaving survivors (plus, why the fuck can't Whiskey Pete's DOD manage to destroy a boat in uncontested waters the first strike?).

But all these are murder. Murder murder murder murder.
The first strike was also murder. You can’t just up and kill civilians on the high seas and then claim you were at war with them.
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?

Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
December 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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If a Psych prof assigns students an essay response paper with explicit guidelines and then flunks a student for turning in a paper that ignores those guidelines but instead makes vague gestures to "the Bible" then THAT IS NOT A VIOLATION OF THE STUDENT'S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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I mean, yes
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.
November 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them
November 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Reminder that the press is the only occupation directly named in the Constitution
November 30, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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No children were killed by the mRNA shots.

But the anti-vax leadership at FDA, NIH, and HHS will kill kids.
November 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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How are we about to go to war with freaking Venezuela? I mean, I know: seize their oil and “punish” or even overthrow Maduro. But neither of those are “legitimate” casus belli, even by our already lowered standards. Fuck these murderous, imperialist clowns.
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Sadly, the @nytimes.com keeps writing deeply irresponsible, dangerous headlines like this one. It’s incredibly damaging.
Headlines like this are extremely dangerous. Because moms of young kids are the people who make the bulk of the vaccine decisions for famillies. And for a lot of them, "reading the news" looks like scrolling past headlines on social media in the spare moments of the chaos of caring for kids.
November 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Stephen Miller says Afghan immigrant Rahmanullah Lakanwal was incapable of assimilating to American culture. But a factcheck shows that Lakanwal used a gun to assault and kill multiple innocent people. Four Pinocchios.
November 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days
This is the second largest payout from a private university to the Trump admin yet, second only to Columbia’s $200m
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Also, Trump hates powerful women. He hates it when women dare to question him or push back on him in any way. And so do many others in his administration. So they attack those powerful women, specifically to disempower them. open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...
November 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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This will kill people and is no less murder than the boat bombings.
Big change: FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements under RFK Jr ally

Vinay Prasad signaled changes to annual flu shots, concurrent vaccines + more

Prasad said his team found link between covid-19 shots and kids' deaths, necessitating a new approach overall

with @rachelroubein.bsky.social
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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President Hernandez was serving 45 years in prison for a plot to distribute 400 tons of cocaine before Trump pardoned him. Meanwhile, Trump is murdering fishermen in small boats for allegedly smuggling far smaller amounts.
“Additionally, I Will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that | greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly.”
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”

also trump:
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Congratulations to the Secretary of Defense for ordering a hundred murders right before the president established the precedent that pardons are invalid.
November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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A note on SaneWashing: I read part of this post to family (all liberal Democrats who consume a lot of news, but not social media), and it blew their mind. They all thought it was parody: if Corporate Media did not SaneWash, it would shock US, his approval would plummet from low (30s) to lower(20s).
Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”
November 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Assuming every boat Trump and Hegseth blew up contained the amount of drugs they claim, Hernandez was responsible for bringing more drugs into the US than every one of them had combined. By far. And yet, Trump murders 80+ people and counting while pardoning the narco kingpin.
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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November 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Just a quick reminder that land doesn't vote.
The 2025 VA Gubernatorial Election, a contest between former Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger and incumbent Lt. Governor Winsome Earl-Sears resulted in Spanberger thrashing Earl-Sears by a 15.4% landslide — the Largest Democratic win in VA since it became a two party Democracy.
November 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Look forward to Bari Weiss asking "has identity politics gone too far?" while studiously ignoring the most virulent identity politics driving American government
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.

And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Their campaign against immigrants is now targeting the communities that first occupied this land, which shows how none of this makes any damn sense. This is shameful. All of it is shameful.
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM