Joe Ava 🗃️🍕
@joeava.bsky.social
Bearded dad and AP Euro / World History teacher. MA student - Transatlanticism, Political Ecology, Empire. New Jersey gavone. COYG.
This is a very strange time to be alive.
For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This is a very strange time to be alive.
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"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia.
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia.
Welp!
Rahmanulla Lakanwal is the National Guard shooting suspect.
Interesting that there were 36 searches for his exact name.
4 hours before the shooting.
I bet Stephen Miller knows why.
Interesting that there were 36 searches for his exact name.
4 hours before the shooting.
I bet Stephen Miller knows why.
November 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Welp!
Yes to this thread.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Yes to this thread.
I Believe in a Thing Called Love
Y Control
Such Great Heights
B.O.B (Bombs Over Baghdad) - non release year division. For, uh, obvious reasons.
Y Control
Such Great Heights
B.O.B (Bombs Over Baghdad) - non release year division. For, uh, obvious reasons.
What’s the most 2003 song you can think of?
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I Believe in a Thing Called Love
Y Control
Such Great Heights
B.O.B (Bombs Over Baghdad) - non release year division. For, uh, obvious reasons.
Y Control
Such Great Heights
B.O.B (Bombs Over Baghdad) - non release year division. For, uh, obvious reasons.
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It is my sincere belief that this is a more profound work of art than every Godard movie I've seen
November 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It is my sincere belief that this is a more profound work of art than every Godard movie I've seen
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Chihiro from SPIRITED AWAY is the most millennial-coded character in fiction:
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
January 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Chihiro from SPIRITED AWAY is the most millennial-coded character in fiction:
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home
Look, I don’t know what this says about me but HUNTR/X might be my favorite current pop music.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Look, I don’t know what this says about me but HUNTR/X might be my favorite current pop music.
Man my current research paper is being justified in real time.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Man my current research paper is being justified in real time.
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The media are always a lagging indicator, piling on after events threaten to overtake them. This was true in the McCarthy era, in the Vietnam era, in the Watergate era, the Iraq War era. By the time the media say something is bad and failing, the public has already turned decisively against it.
"While elite journos and businessmen kiss the ring of Trump, people in jammies and slippers confront ICE in the street. The courage of ordinary people has been stunning compared to the elite."
On the pod @amandamarcotte.bsky.social is good on Trump's downward spiral:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
On the pod @amandamarcotte.bsky.social is good on Trump's downward spiral:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Trump Is a Weak, Failing President, and the Media Is Finally Saying So
As Trump’s downward spiral starts producing harsher media coverage, a writer who regularly dissects MAGA and political media explains why he’s entering a tailspin that will be very hard to reverse.
newrepublic.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The media are always a lagging indicator, piling on after events threaten to overtake them. This was true in the McCarthy era, in the Vietnam era, in the Watergate era, the Iraq War era. By the time the media say something is bad and failing, the public has already turned decisively against it.
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
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It’s afraid.
Sen Thom Tillis (R-NC) is not amused by ICE's antics in Charlotte and wants an accounting. “I want to make sure that Homeland Security can provide me with the definitive list of people who were detained, how long they were detained, whether or not they were released and, when property was
Thom Tillis wants answers from Homeland Security on Operation Charlotte’s Web
Sen. Thom Tillis used a Senate hearing Thursday to demand answers about what’s happening to NC residents apprehended by Border Patrol.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
It’s afraid.
Thinking of the Threat Level Midnight screenplay right now for no reason at all:
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Thinking of the Threat Level Midnight screenplay right now for no reason at all:
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Report of the Gettysburg Address of 11/19/1863 in The Liberator. Note the applause.
www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...
www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...
![President Lincoln then delivered the following ded
icatory speech
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought
forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in
liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men
are created equal. [Applause.] Now we are engaged
in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or
any other nation so conceived and so dedicated can
long endure. We are met on a great battle field of
that war; we are met to dedicate a portion of that
field as the final resting-place of those who here gave
their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether
fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a
larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate,
we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it
far above our poor power to add or to detract. [Applause.] The world will little note nor long remem
ber what we may say here; but it can never forget
what they did here. [Applause.]
It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here
to the unfinished work that they have thus far so no
bly carried on. [Applause.] It is rather for us here
to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us
that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last
full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve
that those dead shall not have died in vain. [Applause.] That the nation shall, under God, have a
new birth of freedom; and that governments of the
people, by the people and for the people, shall not per
ish from the earth.” [Long continued applause.]
Three cheers were here given for the President and
the Governors of the States.
After the delivery of this address, a dirge and the
benediction closed the exercises, and the immense as
semblage separated about 2 o'clock.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kok4aqdr3qnsj6ktfkq76kqz/bafkreifmymlb3mtcbdzsjakrupazwn33x7zhduhvofhbwdu5efdwtnd4b4@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Report of the Gettysburg Address of 11/19/1863 in The Liberator. Note the applause.
www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...
www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...
Give me…sugar…in water.
November 20, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Give me…sugar…in water.
Is this good
Generic Ballot Polling:
🔵 Democrats: 53%
🔴 Republicans: 44%
Marquette / Nov 12, 2025
🔵 Democrats: 53%
🔴 Republicans: 44%
Marquette / Nov 12, 2025
November 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Is this good
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The President of the United States
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The President of the United States
Needless to say this man is an irredeemable piece of shit.
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Needless to say this man is an irredeemable piece of shit.
I’d really like to know less about these deeply damaged people on my timeline.
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I’d really like to know less about these deeply damaged people on my timeline.
Citation needed.
Bessent on tariffs: "This is one of President Trump's signature policies, and traditionally the Supreme Court does not interfere with a president's signature policy."
November 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Citation needed.
Cancel your subscription if you still have one.
Saudi officials used President Trump’s state visit in May to pique his interest in a major real estate development, the latest example of Trump blending governance and family business, particularly in Persian Gulf countries. nyti.ms/4r7mboU
November 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.