Ferny Reyes
fernyreyes.bsky.social
Ferny Reyes
@fernyreyes.bsky.social
Gay, Mexican, Education Administrator. Boston, MA.
Proud graduate of the 'epicenter of the woke mind virus' and banned from Russia.
Mom, Freddie is once again writing about how the gays aren't what he wants them to be!

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I Miss When Homoeroticism Was Erotic
Ah, the never-ending Wicked promotional tour!
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November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Hot take: the reclassification of education grad degrees and limiting student loans is a long term good thing for education.
November 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The turn against standardized testing is actually pretty bi-partisan! You can find red-state legislators arguing about how terrible it is (and how not career preparatory it is) and blue-state legislators talking about how it isn't equitable.

Parent groups have also agitated against it.
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
This is a sort of annoying posture by Kerr doing the 'I'm just a small bean" routine.

Again, the rhetorical trick here is pivoting to the corporations. The players get 50% of the revenue! Fewer games would mean substantially less money for them too

How many players would agree to a 10% pay cut?
Steve Kerr argues the NBA should reduce the number of games to address injuries, but says that’s unlikely to happen because this country prioritizes profit over everything else, including human decency and product quality. Hard to argue with that! www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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this is just so so so so so grim. i could not reject this more fully.
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."

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November 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Here's the reality. Simon, like a lot of the NY Times class (I'd say precocious 'thinker/writer from HYP' is a shared class) really finds social lefties really really obnoxious (which, they can be on colege campuses) and has grown up with 'liberals' as the institutions they fight against.
this is just a wild thing to tweet a week after democrats won a statewide in Georgia by 20 points. completely divorced from the current electoral environment
November 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It is interesting how many more DSAers are on Twitter rather than BlueSky
November 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I was pretty anti-Pete for lots of reasons (and mostly, because I knew too many people like him in college and they sucked). It's also the case that Pete clearly thinks of the gay community as the cis white rich gays who are 'successful' but not 'that gay.

I don't see him representing my gay world
Buttigieg largely interpreted the queer left's rejection of him in the 2020 primary as a rejection of his identity as a gay white man--i.e. he wasn't "queer enough" or "oppressed enough" to represent queer people--when queer people as a population are just to his left politically
This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing
November 16, 2025 at 5:01 AM
My dream is an urban candidate that tells the public transit unions to fuck themselves.

You shouldn't be able to just unilaterally decide not to finish a bus route.

Yes, looking at you, MBTA.
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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it's often very hard for extremely successful and powerful people to understand that mild criticism from those they have power over is not equivalent to actually being oppressed.
Jill Lepore in the Chronicle. This is still so embarrassing. I don't know in what world 2014 was "miserable" because students held the power over Harvard profs, and it was worse then than now.
November 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I agree with this. That said, there is a tension in that folks at the top of the socioeconomic ladder fighting to take advantage of every tool in their status competition against each other.
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
And these bastards never expect to pay for their asshole nature
College Republicans seem to be the least moral people in the world.

Read the Bible you fake ass Christians

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Boston University Student Faces Backlash After He Called ICE on Workers
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November 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Bring back 1900 immigration policy for everyone!
"my least woke opinion is---"

That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.

Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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We went a couple of weeks where the government was de facto, but totally unconstitutionally, run by a triumvirate of the VP, speaker of the House, and chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and we all just shrugged and muddled through and then pretended it hadn't happened.
one reason I think soft coup is underrated as an outcome is that we probably already had one in January 2021 and the collective popular reaction was that we didn’t notice
November 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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A lot of people have observed that the Democrats’ deep unpopularity comes from the fact that absolutely everyone wants to complain about them and nobody wants to defend them.

This is true, but a lot of THAT dynamic comes from the fact that Dems are regularly punching their supporters in the face!
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Primary Tim Kaine.
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
It's pretty clear the end state of MAGA is Pol Pot. All expertise is bad and must be destroyed.
November 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Between their plan to destroy the health care markets of the country and stuff like this, the GOP really just wants to destroy the normal functioning of America.
BREAKING FOX NEWS: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy goes on the record: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."
November 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Twitter is just one upmanship sociopathy after another. Also, the tech sector and the public advocates it produces might be the worst class of people ever produced by an industry in human history.
November 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Also, Helen Andrews has been a misogynist since college and Leah virtue ethics herself into Catholicism and frequently betraying her friends, so yeah.

Fuck, the late 2000s YPU should have no discourse impact on the world.
November 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
God, this is horrible. The world doesn't deserve to hear a bad POR debate circa 2008.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?
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November 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The idea that Mamdani voters in NYC don't have ambition or work hard.

Trust me, those Mamdani Bodega workers putting in 65 hour weeks are working a lot harder than fucking Manhattan Institute assholes.
Manhattan Institute on X: "A statement from the Manhattan Institute: https://t.co/yZlKsH2Xaj" / X
A statement from the Manhattan Institute: https://t.co/yZlKsH2Xaj
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November 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The NYC mayor‘s election might be the first big election where Millennials and Gen Zers realize that their broad participation can literally dictate the outcome of elections.

That alone is everything. It’s the way democracy will be reborn.
November 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM