Jeremy Wattles
@jtwattles.bsky.social
”Work as if you live in the early days of a Better Nation.” Educator, Sometime Poet, Runner, Political Junkie. I believe in the Public Good.
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
Today I have a piece up in the new issue Brevity @dintywmoore.bsky.social Thanks to all who have supported me in the last year as I’ve tried to recommit to writing.
Brevity literary magazine showcases essays by @stevenchurch.bsky.social, @marjiealonso.com. Richard Robbins, Toni Judnitch, Heather Shaw, @mollyakin.bsky.social , @jtwattles.bsky.social, Dana Wall, Heather Kindree Thomas, @suelick.bsky.social, Julie Hou, and Lori White.
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Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction | Brevity: The journal devoted exclusively to the concise literary nonfiction.
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September 16, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Today I have a piece up in the new issue Brevity @dintywmoore.bsky.social Thanks to all who have supported me in the last year as I’ve tried to recommit to writing.
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This is so perfect. "Dead Center" and he's so far to the right that he's half off the cover
I seriously do not know how this title got through even a single launch meeting.
July 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This is so perfect. "Dead Center" and he's so far to the right that he's half off the cover
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This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
Dean at U of Chicago: “She also expressed concerns that the administration might be asking the Arts & Humanities Division to cut back to compensate for other divisions’ financial challenges, asking whether ‘our entire unit [is] being used to float other units facing cuts.”
UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures”
“The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.
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July 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
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Oh yea we've got tons of evidence for this
“Univ. of Illinois report shows that a large humanities department like English produces substantial net profit; units like engineering and agriculture run at a loss. The widely respected Delaware Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity shows the same pattern.” /7 thi.ucsc.edu/the-humaniti...
The Humanities Really Do Produce a Profit – The Humanities Institute
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July 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Oh yea we've got tons of evidence for this
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This is true! The most common thing I hear from regular liberal people is frustration at how they can see shit is fucked up but nobody is speaking for them (which is why they love AOC & Mamdani, ppl who ARE in their social media feeds actually fighting for things)
but from pop culture? crickets!
but from pop culture? crickets!
people are so desperate for a sign of cultural resistance they're posting south park clips
July 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This is true! The most common thing I hear from regular liberal people is frustration at how they can see shit is fucked up but nobody is speaking for them (which is why they love AOC & Mamdani, ppl who ARE in their social media feeds actually fighting for things)
but from pop culture? crickets!
but from pop culture? crickets!
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WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
July 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽
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returning to this from me from early 2019, well before epstein met his, uh. demise, about how the secret horrible truth of things is that the horror has always been entirely out in the wide open all along therevealer.org/suffer-the-c...
July 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
returning to this from me from early 2019, well before epstein met his, uh. demise, about how the secret horrible truth of things is that the horror has always been entirely out in the wide open all along therevealer.org/suffer-the-c...
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This is what's called a limited hangout; they're releasing some grand jury evidence that is a tiny fraction of what they've got.
July 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This is what's called a limited hangout; they're releasing some grand jury evidence that is a tiny fraction of what they've got.
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![Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber who no longer works at the company, appeared on All-In to talk with hosts Jason Calacanis and Chamath Palihapitiya about the future of technology. When the topic turned to AI, Kalanick discussed how he uses xAI’s Grok, which went haywire last week, praising Adolf Hitler and advocating for a second Holocaust against Jews.
“I’ll go down this thread with [Chat]GPT or Grok and I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics and then I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it’s vibe physics,” Kalanick explained. “And we’re approaching what’s known. And I’m trying to poke and see if there’s breakthroughs to be had. And I’ve gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs just doing that.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qlnirjwff4ibiw3wchmleszo/bafkreiac2szurc5dnw6klquhpjmo7iafg4n6fwmrqyred7jrrph6h6mptq@jpeg)
July 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Last night, I endorsed @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
While we don’t agree on every issue, we share a deep commitment to tackling the affordability crisis that’s hurting New Yorkers.
Democrats should be able to agree that making New York more affordable is a fight worth taking on together.
While we don’t agree on every issue, we share a deep commitment to tackling the affordability crisis that’s hurting New Yorkers.
Democrats should be able to agree that making New York more affordable is a fight worth taking on together.
June 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Last night, I endorsed @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
While we don’t agree on every issue, we share a deep commitment to tackling the affordability crisis that’s hurting New Yorkers.
Democrats should be able to agree that making New York more affordable is a fight worth taking on together.
While we don’t agree on every issue, we share a deep commitment to tackling the affordability crisis that’s hurting New Yorkers.
Democrats should be able to agree that making New York more affordable is a fight worth taking on together.
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Wake up Democratic Party old guard establishment. This isn’t about New York City. This is the way the wind is blowing. Step aside for young people who this country will need over the next several decades long after you are gone. Enough with your egos and the big money interests.
June 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Wake up Democratic Party old guard establishment. This isn’t about New York City. This is the way the wind is blowing. Step aside for young people who this country will need over the next several decades long after you are gone. Enough with your egos and the big money interests.
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I told you we’d be back
June 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I told you we’d be back
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Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse
May 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse
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Is this bad? I'm no international shipping expert, but this sounds bad.
May 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Is this bad? I'm no international shipping expert, but this sounds bad.
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Bro really said "we have nothing to lose but our chains"
April 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Bro really said "we have nothing to lose but our chains"
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
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Telling mayoral race scene yesterday: Lander criticizes Cuomo, then reporters ask about Mamdani and he dodges. It’s the DREAM strategy in action. Or maybe DRAM, at this point.
March 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Telling mayoral race scene yesterday: Lander criticizes Cuomo, then reporters ask about Mamdani and he dodges. It’s the DREAM strategy in action. Or maybe DRAM, at this point.
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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
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Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth.
The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...
The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...
Don’t Buy a Tesla. Sell Your Tesla. Refuse a Tesla at the Rental Counter. Yes—It Will Help.
Elon Musk’s car company is in a precarious spot.
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February 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth.
The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...
The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...
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in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
February 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
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I wrote about the idiotic and anti-human vision that is currently replacing the republic. I will now go back to thinking about what a cleansing flood might look like. defector.com/billionaire-...
Billionaire Dipshit And His Strike Team Of Greasy Beavises Are Stripping The Wires From The Federal Government | Defector
The most important thing to know about both the chittering Renfields gnawing through the ductwork of the American administrative state and the billionaire sociopath they serve is that they don’t care....
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February 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I wrote about the idiotic and anti-human vision that is currently replacing the republic. I will now go back to thinking about what a cleansing flood might look like. defector.com/billionaire-...
Brilliant as always from David Roth. defector.com/billionaire-...
Billionaire Dipshit And His Strike Team Of Greasy Beavises Are Stripping The Wires From The Federal Government | Defector
The most important thing to know about both the chittering Renfields gnawing through the ductwork of the American administrative state and the billionaire sociopath they serve is that they don’t care....
defector.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Brilliant as always from David Roth. defector.com/billionaire-...