Professor G
@professorg.bsky.social
Formerly KingsCowbothat. History professor. Alabama fan, Hawkeye stan. “Socrates realized he was the wisest man in Athens because he alone was prepared to admit his own ignorance.”
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Professor G
@professorg.bsky.social
· Jan 25
Things can get better but they are not going to get better on their own. We have to accept that we are responsible for making things better, and that may include sacrifice. I am willing to accept that sacrifice, and while I am still figuring out what that means, I am willing to find the #GoodTrouble
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If you had predicted with precise accuracy any of our current top stories this week during the ‘24 election, it would have been dismissed as Trump Derangement Syndrome by most of the professional takesmiths.
January 10, 2026 at 3:43 PM
If you had predicted with precise accuracy any of our current top stories this week during the ‘24 election, it would have been dismissed as Trump Derangement Syndrome by most of the professional takesmiths.
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Meat-heavy diets, promoted by RFKJ’s new upside-down food pyramid, “have repeatedly been linked to worse outcomes.
“The new food pyramid is simply bananas,” Michael Greger, a physician and founder of NutritionFacts.org, told me. “If nutrition guidelines were medicine, this would be malpractice.”
“The new food pyramid is simply bananas,” Michael Greger, a physician and founder of NutritionFacts.org, told me. “If nutrition guidelines were medicine, this would be malpractice.”
Opinion | The New Food Pyramid, Brought to You by Big Meat
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Meat-heavy diets, promoted by RFKJ’s new upside-down food pyramid, “have repeatedly been linked to worse outcomes.
“The new food pyramid is simply bananas,” Michael Greger, a physician and founder of NutritionFacts.org, told me. “If nutrition guidelines were medicine, this would be malpractice.”
“The new food pyramid is simply bananas,” Michael Greger, a physician and founder of NutritionFacts.org, told me. “If nutrition guidelines were medicine, this would be malpractice.”
Denver vs. Chicago Super Bowl confirmed
January 9, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Denver vs. Chicago Super Bowl confirmed
Supplications for the god-king
President Trump said he will meet with Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado next week — and that he would accept the award she said she wants to share with him.
January 9, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Supplications for the god-king
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ICE shooting comes after bombshell probe finds new recruits 'can barely read or write'
ICE shooting comes after bombshell probe finds new recruits 'can barely read or write'
A deadly shooting in Minneapolis at the hands of a federal immigration officer comes weeks after a bombshell report on President Donald Trump's desperate drive to rush 10,000 deportation officers onto the payroll by the end of 2025.The explosive Daily Mail report found that the administration's $50,...
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January 9, 2026 at 10:40 AM
ICE shooting comes after bombshell probe finds new recruits 'can barely read or write'
— King George III, 1775
Rep. Roger Williams: "People need to quit demonstrating, quit yelling at law enforcement, challenging law enforcement, and begin to get civil."
January 9, 2026 at 1:41 PM
— King George III, 1775
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The leading cause of death by far among ICE officers is COVID-19.
How dangerous is it really to work for ICE?
According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.
www.motherjones.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:00 AM
The leading cause of death by far among ICE officers is COVID-19.
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i firmly believe — like you would have to give me hard evidence to convince me otherwise — that they feed trump a steady diet of AI slop
man, did the viziers in the WH not actually show him the actual video?
January 8, 2026 at 3:42 PM
i firmly believe — like you would have to give me hard evidence to convince me otherwise — that they feed trump a steady diet of AI slop
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Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.
January 8, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.
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*grizzled sarge voice* up and at em, boys, that doom ain’t gonna scroll itself.
January 8, 2026 at 9:53 AM
*grizzled sarge voice* up and at em, boys, that doom ain’t gonna scroll itself.
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“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"
Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
www.mprnews.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:09 PM
“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"
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They're not just doing tyranny, they're doing the *exact* things listed in the Declaration of Independence that the colonists accused the king of. It's surreal
January 8, 2026 at 12:37 AM
They're not just doing tyranny, they're doing the *exact* things listed in the Declaration of Independence that the colonists accused the king of. It's surreal
So, imperialism…
JD Vance: "The way that we control Venezuela is we control the purse strings, we control the energy resources. And we tell the regime, 'You're allowed to sell the oil so long as you serve America's national interests.'"
January 7, 2026 at 11:36 PM
So, imperialism…
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Minnesota Public Radio says today marks the first and only shooting and homicide in Minneapolis in the year 2026
January 7, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Minnesota Public Radio says today marks the first and only shooting and homicide in Minneapolis in the year 2026
Preventing care to an injured person, specifically a civilian, when there is no active threat is a war crime
Man: “Can I go check a pulse?”
ICE: “No.”
Man: “I’m a physician.”
ICE: “I don’t care.”
ICE: “No.”
Man: “I’m a physician.”
ICE: “I don’t care.”
HuffPost has obtained a video of a physician trying to give medical care to the woman shot and killed by ICE goons today, and not being allowed to go near her. The ICE agents claim there are medics on site, but witnesses scream that there are no medics present
January 7, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Preventing care to an injured person, specifically a civilian, when there is no active threat is a war crime
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these two coaches are both 44 in these pictures
January 6, 2026 at 11:41 PM
these two coaches are both 44 in these pictures
This is against international law, this is against US Law, the idea that the president has a slush fund to do whatever he wants with is a direct threat to the US constitutional order, and the only answer is to impeach and remove now.
Trump: “I am pleased to announce that the Interim Authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the United States of America. This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President”
January 7, 2026 at 12:10 AM
This is against international law, this is against US Law, the idea that the president has a slush fund to do whatever he wants with is a direct threat to the US constitutional order, and the only answer is to impeach and remove now.
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From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 6, 2026 at 8:15 PM
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
This is a convergence of many of the popular theories of our political moment:
-Everyone is 12
-The law should bind some and protect others but not do both
-Gender (i.e. a misshapen idea of masculinity)
-Etc., etc., etc….
-Everyone is 12
-The law should bind some and protect others but not do both
-Gender (i.e. a misshapen idea of masculinity)
-Etc., etc., etc….
right. and like it's not like they're hiding it now. all of the major pundits (knowles + walsh) basically think the takeaway from Iraq War was not that PNAC was right to want to build democracy, but a world that is explicitly built around turning America into an empire
January 6, 2026 at 3:56 PM
This is a convergence of many of the popular theories of our political moment:
-Everyone is 12
-The law should bind some and protect others but not do both
-Gender (i.e. a misshapen idea of masculinity)
-Etc., etc., etc….
-Everyone is 12
-The law should bind some and protect others but not do both
-Gender (i.e. a misshapen idea of masculinity)
-Etc., etc., etc….
Stares in Filipino, Puerto Rican, Hawaiian, etc., etc., etc.
January 6, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Stares in Filipino, Puerto Rican, Hawaiian, etc., etc., etc.
“Blood and Iron”
Here is the Trump Doctrine, as articulated by Stephen Miller in his truly frightening interview with Jake Tapper this afternoon. It is very much like the doctrine of the dictators we fought and defeated in World War II and of Putin today. It is un-American at its very core.
January 6, 2026 at 2:01 PM
“Blood and Iron”
The Iowa women playing for essentially a home crowd AT Northwestern is a beautiful thing
January 6, 2026 at 3:35 AM
The Iowa women playing for essentially a home crowd AT Northwestern is a beautiful thing
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“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose.
"Who on earth gives that advice?"
www.sfgate.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:28 PM
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...