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· Oct 4
So, have we had enough of Russell Vought and his #Project2025 yet? Have we had enough of the American military in our streets on these ginned up Reichstag fire excuses?
Are you asking yourself WHY only a pitiful 53% of the public disapproves of all this, when we are clearly on the verge of …
Are you asking yourself WHY only a pitiful 53% of the public disapproves of all this, when we are clearly on the verge of …
Nothing has upset me as much this week as @NPR brining me a recent Afghan refugee woman who struggled with English while singing Donald Trump’s praises for wanting “To Make American Great” again? Like she had a lot of experience with it? How does @NPR find these people? And why?
December 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Nothing has upset me as much this week as @NPR brining me a recent Afghan refugee woman who struggled with English while singing Donald Trump’s praises for wanting “To Make American Great” again? Like she had a lot of experience with it? How does @NPR find these people? And why?
I really thought @indivisible.org was not going to be another moveon and just morph into another NGO with its own agenda and think a few million supporters make them a major new party. I thought wrong and I’m upset about it. This is what happens when people get a little power. They always want …
December 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I really thought @indivisible.org was not going to be another moveon and just morph into another NGO with its own agenda and think a few million supporters make them a major new party. I thought wrong and I’m upset about it. This is what happens when people get a little power. They always want …
A huge betrayal to me. @indivisible.org always stood above party politics. A handful of idealists driving primaries created MAGA & destroyed the @GOP (and America). Why would anyone expect the outcome to be different with Dems?
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Not so Indivisible after all
December 2, 2025 at 1:46 AM
A huge betrayal to me. @indivisible.org always stood above party politics. A handful of idealists driving primaries created MAGA & destroyed the @GOP (and America). Why would anyone expect the outcome to be different with Dems?
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So , Ezra, after all this build-up, and earning the support of so many like me, you’re now just turning @Indivisibleteam into the failed Justice Democrats model? What makes you think you’ll be any more successful than they were? FYI: a majority of people supported the …
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December 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
So , Ezra, after all this build-up, and earning the support of so many like me, you’re now just turning @Indivisibleteam into the failed Justice Democrats model? What makes you think you’ll be any more successful than they were? FYI: a majority of people supported the …
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If earning a living means you have to sanitize all your words and can't speak freely, are you really living, or are you just serving another?
December 2, 2025 at 12:41 AM
If earning a living means you have to sanitize all your words and can't speak freely, are you really living, or are you just serving another?
A familiar journalist messaged me and said: “Well said. I wish my employer would let me opine like this. I’d do it all day. Earning a living requires that I have to sanitize almost every word I write. I hate that part of my job.”
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Good morning. Maybe it was Hegseth’s “Kill em all,” order, but I have realized that popular culture and radical conservatism has completely destroyed the culture i grew up in, and it’s just absurd that so many pretend it hasn’t. That monstrous man was made by TV, movies, …
December 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
A familiar journalist messaged me and said: “Well said. I wish my employer would let me opine like this. I’d do it all day. Earning a living requires that I have to sanitize almost every word I write. I hate that part of my job.”
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December 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
By Tom Nichols (@radiofreetom.bsky.social)
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A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
By Tom Nichols (@radiofreetom.bsky.social)
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Depart, Pete Hegseth, and Let Us Be Done With You - The Atlantic
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December 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
By Tom Nichols (@radiofreetom.bsky.social)
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A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
By Tom Nichols (@radiofreetom.bsky.social)
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If you read any history, you should no this is true. Great Thread! This has been self inflicted, and when the climate destroys modern civilization. We have done this to ourselves.
Good morning. Maybe it was Hegseth’s “Kill em all,” order, but I have realized that popular culture and radical conservatism has completely destroyed the culture i grew up in, and it’s just absurd that so many pretend it hasn’t. That monstrous man was made by TV, movies, …
December 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
If you read any history, you should no this is true. Great Thread! This has been self inflicted, and when the climate destroys modern civilization. We have done this to ourselves.
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"Capitalism, technology and popular entertainment have seduced us into a hedonistic, decadent stupor that is steadily evolving us into a new dark age of ignorance, greed, and collective disinterest in almost anything but the self." 🧵
Good morning. Maybe it was Hegseth’s “Kill em all,” order, but I have realized that popular culture and radical conservatism has completely destroyed the culture i grew up in, and it’s just absurd that so many pretend it hasn’t. That monstrous man was made by TV, movies, …
December 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"Capitalism, technology and popular entertainment have seduced us into a hedonistic, decadent stupor that is steadily evolving us into a new dark age of ignorance, greed, and collective disinterest in almost anything but the self." 🧵
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This thread seems spot on to me. I think a lot of folks' brains have been cooked by the glut of procedural TV shows. They think the simplistic "good guys vs. bad guys" depictions of law enforcement and the military are *reality*, rather than advertisements sponsored by the agencies being depicted.
December 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This thread seems spot on to me. I think a lot of folks' brains have been cooked by the glut of procedural TV shows. They think the simplistic "good guys vs. bad guys" depictions of law enforcement and the military are *reality*, rather than advertisements sponsored by the agencies being depicted.
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Read this.
Thank you for your attention to the below matter.
Thank you for your attention to the below matter.
Good morning. Maybe it was Hegseth’s “Kill em all,” order, but I have realized that popular culture and radical conservatism has completely destroyed the culture i grew up in, and it’s just absurd that so many pretend it hasn’t. That monstrous man was made by TV, movies, …
December 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Read this.
Thank you for your attention to the below matter.
Thank you for your attention to the below matter.
You know what I was grateful for this Thanksgiving? That we don’t hear “We’re better than this,” much anymore.
Because we haven’t been better than anything for at least two generations. We’re an insipid, selfish, collapsing empire that should be ashamed of the mess it’s made.
Because we haven’t been better than anything for at least two generations. We’re an insipid, selfish, collapsing empire that should be ashamed of the mess it’s made.
December 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
You know what I was grateful for this Thanksgiving? That we don’t hear “We’re better than this,” much anymore.
Because we haven’t been better than anything for at least two generations. We’re an insipid, selfish, collapsing empire that should be ashamed of the mess it’s made.
Because we haven’t been better than anything for at least two generations. We’re an insipid, selfish, collapsing empire that should be ashamed of the mess it’s made.
We’re a disgusting, lost nation, and I am embarrassed to be stuck here. And whether we like it or not, we’re all collectively to blame for it. We’ve let this MAGA cancer metastasize for too long.
You won, MAGGATS. I finally *do* hate America. The one we let you build, …
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You won, MAGGATS. I finally *do* hate America. The one we let you build, …
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December 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
We’re a disgusting, lost nation, and I am embarrassed to be stuck here. And whether we like it or not, we’re all collectively to blame for it. We’ve let this MAGA cancer metastasize for too long.
You won, MAGGATS. I finally *do* hate America. The one we let you build, …
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You won, MAGGATS. I finally *do* hate America. The one we let you build, …
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Every now and then I replay this to remind myself to never judge anyone by first impressions. Especially appearances or manner.
She earned a fabulous career from it (and got a duet with Bocelli, too). Good on her.
Susan Boyle’s First Audition
She earned a fabulous career from it (and got a duet with Bocelli, too). Good on her.
Susan Boyle’s First Audition
Susan Boyle's First Audition 'I Dreamed a Dream' | Britain's Got Talent
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November 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Every now and then I replay this to remind myself to never judge anyone by first impressions. Especially appearances or manner.
She earned a fabulous career from it (and got a duet with Bocelli, too). Good on her.
Susan Boyle’s First Audition
She earned a fabulous career from it (and got a duet with Bocelli, too). Good on her.
Susan Boyle’s First Audition
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We're seeing possibly the worst attendance in history. Even in creative writing classes, where students generally want to participate and have their voice heard--they're not showing up, ignoring guidelines and feedback, and either describing expectations as "unclear" or simply refusing to comply.
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
We're seeing possibly the worst attendance in history. Even in creative writing classes, where students generally want to participate and have their voice heard--they're not showing up, ignoring guidelines and feedback, and either describing expectations as "unclear" or simply refusing to comply.
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We keep adjusting our goalposts, trying to meet students where they're at--but for some, that place is a kind of non-place, where they don't complete any work or engage with the class, but still receive a high grade. Emails are ignored. They can't meet a deadline or keep an appointment.
November 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
We keep adjusting our goalposts, trying to meet students where they're at--but for some, that place is a kind of non-place, where they don't complete any work or engage with the class, but still receive a high grade. Emails are ignored. They can't meet a deadline or keep an appointment.
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This is not a "students today" post--it's more "this is a new form of dysfunction" that doesn't look exactly like it's been in previous decades. It's more than just "first-year chaos." It's an across-the-board inability to process instructions, engage with longer texts, and *connect* with others.
November 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This is not a "students today" post--it's more "this is a new form of dysfunction" that doesn't look exactly like it's been in previous decades. It's more than just "first-year chaos." It's an across-the-board inability to process instructions, engage with longer texts, and *connect* with others.
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And if you want techno-feudalism it would help greatly to have a population that are dependent and lack the ability to think critically. AI is a tool to facilitate the end-to-end wipeout of critical thinking.
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
And if you want techno-feudalism it would help greatly to have a population that are dependent and lack the ability to think critically. AI is a tool to facilitate the end-to-end wipeout of critical thinking.
If you think I was depressing this morning, do NOT read this:
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Good morning. Maybe it was Hegseth’s “Kill em all,” order, but I have realized that popular culture and radical conservatism has completely destroyed the culture i grew up in, and it’s just absurd that so many pretend it hasn’t. That monstrous man was made by TV, movies, …
November 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
If you think I was depressing this morning, do NOT read this:
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good thread about a bad thing
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 1:43 PM
good thread about a bad thing
Sure, but they imply the entire paper was written by Ai, and I doubt that’s true.
• And yes, AI uses a lot of bullets.
• But there’s nothing wrong with bullets and…
• More should learn how to use them properly :)
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• And yes, AI uses a lot of bullets.
• But there’s nothing wrong with bullets and…
• More should learn how to use them properly :)
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November 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Sure, but they imply the entire paper was written by Ai, and I doubt that’s true.
• And yes, AI uses a lot of bullets.
• But there’s nothing wrong with bullets and…
• More should learn how to use them properly :)
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• And yes, AI uses a lot of bullets.
• But there’s nothing wrong with bullets and…
• More should learn how to use them properly :)
mastodon.social/@mike...
You have to wonder how MAGA trolls like @catturd2 and @realjameswoods rationalize Trump’s self-dealing? Do they think it’s the liberal media (mostly owned by the Right) just making it up? What kind of broken human beings are so willing be fleeced every fucking day?
November 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
You have to wonder how MAGA trolls like @catturd2 and @realjameswoods rationalize Trump’s self-dealing? Do they think it’s the liberal media (mostly owned by the Right) just making it up? What kind of broken human beings are so willing be fleeced every fucking day?