Bennett
@bennettem.bsky.social
High school history & government teacher in Nashville. Politics nerd. Vols fan.
History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme.
History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme.
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Millennials just screaming into the void - “what if we didn’t repeat the same mistakes over and over again”????
June 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Millennials just screaming into the void - “what if we didn’t repeat the same mistakes over and over again”????
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Yes! Exactly. Exactly, exactly.
"The Trump administration has been worried schools would team up in resistance, because it is harder to negotiate with a united front..."
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
"The Trump administration has been worried schools would team up in resistance, because it is harder to negotiate with a united front..."
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Exclusive | Elite Universities Form Private Collective to Resist Trump Administration
Separate from the public dissent, a group of school leaders are strategizing behind the scenes about how to respond and push back against the White House.
www.wsj.com
April 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Yes! Exactly. Exactly, exactly.
"The Trump administration has been worried schools would team up in resistance, because it is harder to negotiate with a united front..."
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
"The Trump administration has been worried schools would team up in resistance, because it is harder to negotiate with a united front..."
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Canada's election results prove that Democrats in the United States have not emphasized identity politics ENOUGH
April 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Canada's election results prove that Democrats in the United States have not emphasized identity politics ENOUGH
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This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
April 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
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Elder millennial who drank straight from the garden hose of recession after recession.
April 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Elder millennial who drank straight from the garden hose of recession after recession.
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President Trump announced far-reaching tariffs on most of the United States’ trading partners.
So far-reaching, in fact, that they include a remote Antarctic island group inhabited mainly by penguins — and a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean known for its polar bears. wapo.st/4lfaitV
So far-reaching, in fact, that they include a remote Antarctic island group inhabited mainly by penguins — and a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean known for its polar bears. wapo.st/4lfaitV
April 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
President Trump announced far-reaching tariffs on most of the United States’ trading partners.
So far-reaching, in fact, that they include a remote Antarctic island group inhabited mainly by penguins — and a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean known for its polar bears. wapo.st/4lfaitV
So far-reaching, in fact, that they include a remote Antarctic island group inhabited mainly by penguins — and a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean known for its polar bears. wapo.st/4lfaitV
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Who could’ve guessed Trump would break the economy again
April 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Who could’ve guessed Trump would break the economy again
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This pointless stunt by Cory Booker is accomplishing nothing but drawing attention to the Trump administration’s wrongdoing and delaying the work of the Senate and energizing the Democratic base and, wait, hang on, let me come in again
April 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This pointless stunt by Cory Booker is accomplishing nothing but drawing attention to the Trump administration’s wrongdoing and delaying the work of the Senate and energizing the Democratic base and, wait, hang on, let me come in again
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What a strange feeling... is that... joy?
April 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
What a strange feeling... is that... joy?
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Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏
April 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏
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Within about a 15-minute span Tennessee...
- Men's basketball beat Kentucky in the Sweet 16
- Baseball beat South Carolina on the road
- Softball beat Oklahoma on the road.
Quite the night for UT's athletic department: tennessee.rivals.com/news/tenness...
- Men's basketball beat Kentucky in the Sweet 16
- Baseball beat South Carolina on the road
- Softball beat Oklahoma on the road.
Quite the night for UT's athletic department: tennessee.rivals.com/news/tenness...
March 29, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Within about a 15-minute span Tennessee...
- Men's basketball beat Kentucky in the Sweet 16
- Baseball beat South Carolina on the road
- Softball beat Oklahoma on the road.
Quite the night for UT's athletic department: tennessee.rivals.com/news/tenness...
- Men's basketball beat Kentucky in the Sweet 16
- Baseball beat South Carolina on the road
- Softball beat Oklahoma on the road.
Quite the night for UT's athletic department: tennessee.rivals.com/news/tenness...
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this is just bad political instincts, period. most people don't care either way on trans issues and continuing to bring it up (as opposed to fighting back hard when Republicans take away ppls' rights) only plays into the hoax that "Democrats need to stop talking so much about trans issues"
SCOOP: Sarah McBride and other Dems have discussed how the party must accept Ds with differing stances on trans rights to not alienate people
“We have to create more space in our tent,” she told me
An inside look at Dems’ reshuffling on trans issues:
www.notus.org/congress/tra...
“We have to create more space in our tent,” she told me
An inside look at Dems’ reshuffling on trans issues:
www.notus.org/congress/tra...
Inside Democrats’ Reshuffling on Trans Issues
Democrats are talking about how to handle transgender rights politically, after infighting and flailing over the issue in the last year. “We have to create more space in our tent,” said Rep. Sarah McB...
www.notus.org
March 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
this is just bad political instincts, period. most people don't care either way on trans issues and continuing to bring it up (as opposed to fighting back hard when Republicans take away ppls' rights) only plays into the hoax that "Democrats need to stop talking so much about trans issues"
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Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate
![[“The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians—because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreig3dcwrzxtvuj2hkgj2mg3rgwactm77awp4ygvxjuje5q67yact7m@jpeg)
March 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate
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“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” - Donald Trump, in Michigan, on Nov 1st.
NEWS | U.S. forces have killed at least 31, mostly women and children, and wounded 101 others in a wave of attacks across Yemen, the Ministry of Health said Sunday.
March 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” - Donald Trump, in Michigan, on Nov 1st.
Finished Snyder’s latest today. His definition of freedom, as a positive concept, not just the removal of barriers, is something I’ll be thinking about for a long time going forward. Can’t wait to teach it next fall. #booksky
March 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Finished Snyder’s latest today. His definition of freedom, as a positive concept, not just the removal of barriers, is something I’ll be thinking about for a long time going forward. Can’t wait to teach it next fall. #booksky
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all this so jeff bezos can have a tax cut and buy clothes that show his nipple
March 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
all this so jeff bezos can have a tax cut and buy clothes that show his nipple
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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.”
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
March 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.”
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
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This is a great piece. One thing it’s important for folks to recognize is that the right has been working to whitewash the way US history is taught and publicly discussed for over a century now. What’s relatively new is how aggressively they’re using the power of the federal government to do it.
New, from me:
Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America.
Here is a partial inventory. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
Trump is whitewashing American history, removing not just people, but also the stories, images, and values to anyone who does not conform to his impoverished vision of America.
Here is a partial inventory. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
Whitewashing American history
The Trump Presidency as a project of erasure
donmoynihan.substack.com
March 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This is a great piece. One thing it’s important for folks to recognize is that the right has been working to whitewash the way US history is taught and publicly discussed for over a century now. What’s relatively new is how aggressively they’re using the power of the federal government to do it.
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Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding.
inews.co.uk/news/world/m...
inews.co.uk/news/world/m...
Musk cuts the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by Russia
Trump’s federal cost-cutting - led by Elon Musk's Doge – has now hit the unit helping rescue Ukrainian children taken by Russia
inews.co.uk
March 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding.
inews.co.uk/news/world/m...
inews.co.uk/news/world/m...
In ‘19 I took a class on democratic erosion & participated in a culminating symposium in DC. I remember clearly comparing DT’s actions to Bolsonaro’s in Brazil. Profs leading discussion disagreed we could see the same kind of gov takeover 🙃 Started w Comey firing, the courts & SCOTUS, then AGs & DOJ
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
In ‘19 I took a class on democratic erosion & participated in a culminating symposium in DC. I remember clearly comparing DT’s actions to Bolsonaro’s in Brazil. Profs leading discussion disagreed we could see the same kind of gov takeover 🙃 Started w Comey firing, the courts & SCOTUS, then AGs & DOJ
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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
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I want the names of the Dem consultants and campaign managers who told Tim Walz to stop cooking like this on the campaign trail last year.
They should never work in politics again. THIS is the energy we need.
They should never work in politics again. THIS is the energy we need.
Gov. Walz, "There’s nothing conservative about an unelected South African nepo baby firing people at the VA."
March 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I want the names of the Dem consultants and campaign managers who told Tim Walz to stop cooking like this on the campaign trail last year.
They should never work in politics again. THIS is the energy we need.
They should never work in politics again. THIS is the energy we need.
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They tortured him.
March 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
They tortured him.