Miguel Angel Aguilar
@miguelyalater.bsky.social
Maths educator, ecology enthusiast; insight meditation, applied stats, anime, distance running, self-deprecating humor, & public policy. (He/Him)
DJT has got to be one of the dumbest presidents of all time, but what concerns me most as an educator is how we’re in this confluence of absurd/illegal policy administration and illiteracy in civic/social studies among the electorate.
November 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
DJT has got to be one of the dumbest presidents of all time, but what concerns me most as an educator is how we’re in this confluence of absurd/illegal policy administration and illiteracy in civic/social studies among the electorate.
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KPop* Demon Hunters
*Karl Popper's
*Karl Popper's
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
KPop* Demon Hunters
*Karl Popper's
*Karl Popper's
Congrats to Zohran Mamdani for his mayoral election victory in NYC!
November 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Congrats to Zohran Mamdani for his mayoral election victory in NYC!
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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Okay, I warn you: This is gonna be a long one.
I warn you further still: It's gonna be me telling you to join DSA. So if that bothers you for whatever reason, mute or unfollow or block or do whatever it is you gotta do.
But if you stick around, I'll try to make it worth your while.
I warn you further still: It's gonna be me telling you to join DSA. So if that bothers you for whatever reason, mute or unfollow or block or do whatever it is you gotta do.
But if you stick around, I'll try to make it worth your while.
Join DSA. Become a member today.
Democratic socialists have an historic opportunity and responsibility to play a central role in continuing the political revolution for the long term. As a democratic, grassroots organization, DSA is ...
act.dsausa.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Okay, I warn you: This is gonna be a long one.
I warn you further still: It's gonna be me telling you to join DSA. So if that bothers you for whatever reason, mute or unfollow or block or do whatever it is you gotta do.
But if you stick around, I'll try to make it worth your while.
I warn you further still: It's gonna be me telling you to join DSA. So if that bothers you for whatever reason, mute or unfollow or block or do whatever it is you gotta do.
But if you stick around, I'll try to make it worth your while.
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VA, and NJ are getting all the attention, but I think this is the bigger state-level story. I suspect few national reporters have spent much time in the Magnolia state, so they don't know how surprising this is.
NEW: Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the state Senate tonight for the first time since 2011.
It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat.
“Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.
It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat.
“Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.
Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
VA, and NJ are getting all the attention, but I think this is the bigger state-level story. I suspect few national reporters have spent much time in the Magnolia state, so they don't know how surprising this is.
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Watch @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's inspiring victory speech.
This is the future the Democratic Party must embrace.
Turn the volume up.
This is the future the Democratic Party must embrace.
Turn the volume up.
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Watch @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's inspiring victory speech.
This is the future the Democratic Party must embrace.
Turn the volume up.
This is the future the Democratic Party must embrace.
Turn the volume up.
Ten years ago, I truly thought that - if they organized - the Green (and Libertarian) parties could break us free from the political duopoly. I was much younger then and, perhaps, more naive (god knows I was stunned that the US elected Trump… TWICE).
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Ten years ago, I truly thought that - if they organized - the Green (and Libertarian) parties could break us free from the political duopoly. I was much younger then and, perhaps, more naive (god knows I was stunned that the US elected Trump… TWICE).
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I continue to believe that the Trump *campaign* successfully convinced quite a lot of people that mass deportations did not mean mass deportations; that it meant targeted enforcement against “the bad guys.”
The problem for the Trump *administration* is that no one believes that anymore.
The problem for the Trump *administration* is that no one believes that anymore.
More broadly, heavily-Latino counties moved far to the right in NJ last year, and back to the left this year:
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I continue to believe that the Trump *campaign* successfully convinced quite a lot of people that mass deportations did not mean mass deportations; that it meant targeted enforcement against “the bad guys.”
The problem for the Trump *administration* is that no one believes that anymore.
The problem for the Trump *administration* is that no one believes that anymore.
For all the inter-State news of Democrats picking up wins this election, as a Texas progressive, I’m a bit disappointed that all 17 proposed State constitutional amendments passed.
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
For all the inter-State news of Democrats picking up wins this election, as a Texas progressive, I’m a bit disappointed that all 17 proposed State constitutional amendments passed.
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Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
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New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani greeted runners around the halfway point of the New York City Marathon, where some runners stopped mid-race to talk and take selfies with him ahead of Tuesday's election.
November 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani greeted runners around the halfway point of the New York City Marathon, where some runners stopped mid-race to talk and take selfies with him ahead of Tuesday's election.
Me, who just got paid: “Time to buy hookers and blow!”
Me: *pays bills like a responsible adult*
Me: *pays bills like a responsible adult*
October 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Me, who just got paid: “Time to buy hookers and blow!”
Me: *pays bills like a responsible adult*
Me: *pays bills like a responsible adult*
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Mamdani says that six years ago, a well-meaning uncle told him that he didn't have to tell people he was Muslim
October 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Mamdani says that six years ago, a well-meaning uncle told him that he didn't have to tell people he was Muslim
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This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic Party. It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic Party. Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. Some thoughts...
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mamdani-moment
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mamdani-moment
October 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic Party. It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic Party. Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. Some thoughts...
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mamdani-moment
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mamdani-moment
If you are Pro-Kings, then organize a protest and get the proper permits to arrange your bootlicker march.
San Antonio's No Kings protest was disrupted by pro-Trump counterprotesters.
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October 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
If you are Pro-Kings, then organize a protest and get the proper permits to arrange your bootlicker march.
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
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Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
(Published June)
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
(Published June)
Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...
www.propublica.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
(Published June)
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
(Published June)
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Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.
Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
theconversation.com
November 23, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.
I knew wokism had gone too far when Family Matters went from being primarily about a Black, middle-class family to being primarily about a dorky, Black science kid who occasionally turns himself into a suave, Black man, vying for the affection of a police officer’s daughter.
October 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I knew wokism had gone too far when Family Matters went from being primarily about a Black, middle-class family to being primarily about a dorky, Black science kid who occasionally turns himself into a suave, Black man, vying for the affection of a police officer’s daughter.
This rings slightly of “What is Aleppo?”
“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here
Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?
TRUMP: Suspending who?
Q: Habeas corpus
TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
TRUMP: Suspending who?
Q: Habeas corpus
TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
October 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This rings slightly of “What is Aleppo?”
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No firearms were on display among a couple dozen pro-Palestinian protesters at Milam Park, or outside Fox Tech High School, where a handful of students walked out mid-morning.
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October 8, 2025 at 2:29 AM
No firearms were on display among a couple dozen pro-Palestinian protesters at Milam Park, or outside Fox Tech High School, where a handful of students walked out mid-morning.
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Me, having an autoimmune condition resulting in hives on my face when I drink caffeine:
“Can I please get a decaf, vanilla latte, hot?”
Barista: “Was that a decaf, lavender latte?”
Me: “Sure. Let’s go with that instead.”
…
Me, moments later: “I hope this ICED lavender latte is actually decaf.”
“Can I please get a decaf, vanilla latte, hot?”
Barista: “Was that a decaf, lavender latte?”
Me: “Sure. Let’s go with that instead.”
…
Me, moments later: “I hope this ICED lavender latte is actually decaf.”
October 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Me, having an autoimmune condition resulting in hives on my face when I drink caffeine:
“Can I please get a decaf, vanilla latte, hot?”
Barista: “Was that a decaf, lavender latte?”
Me: “Sure. Let’s go with that instead.”
…
Me, moments later: “I hope this ICED lavender latte is actually decaf.”
“Can I please get a decaf, vanilla latte, hot?”
Barista: “Was that a decaf, lavender latte?”
Me: “Sure. Let’s go with that instead.”
…
Me, moments later: “I hope this ICED lavender latte is actually decaf.”
Media coverage of these pro-Palestinian/anti-genocide student led protests in San Antonio is negligent and dangerous. Local commentators and school districts are so out-of-touch with young people and their concerns with Israel’s ongoing genocidal campaign in Gaza.
October 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Media coverage of these pro-Palestinian/anti-genocide student led protests in San Antonio is negligent and dangerous. Local commentators and school districts are so out-of-touch with young people and their concerns with Israel’s ongoing genocidal campaign in Gaza.
Is the deployment of troops to cities in Blue States an act of civil war in such slow motion that we aren’t registering it as an act of war?
October 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Is the deployment of troops to cities in Blue States an act of civil war in such slow motion that we aren’t registering it as an act of war?