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Tom Wrongbottom
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Slow (t)Rot Thomas

Bad case of Weltschmerz

social sciences & humanities educator

"Political scientist" "multidisciplinarian"

Lame ditto/reply/repost/🫂 cis bi he/him.

We should've prosecuted Richard Nixon.

Harris-Walz '24

Los Spurs Race for Seis
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Daniel DiDonato, a college freshman who had been following a legal fight over redistricting in Alabama since he was 14, pulled an all-nighter to make a new legislative map for the state. Now it's likely to be used in next year’s election.
A College Freshman Is the Unlikely Source of Alabama’s New Political Maps
Daniel DiDonato, 19, has loved elections since he was in fourth grade. He also loves maps.
nyti.ms
December 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Is your state legislator smarter than a college freshman?
Daniel DiDonato, a college freshman who had been following a legal fight over redistricting in Alabama since he was 14, pulled an all-nighter to make a new legislative map for the state. Now it's likely to be used in next year’s election.
A College Freshman Is the Unlikely Source of Alabama’s New Political Maps
Daniel DiDonato, 19, has loved elections since he was in fourth grade. He also loves maps.
nyti.ms
December 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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And some people still want to believe the regime is above ballot manipulation.
December 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Here's the deal, says USDOJ to states: we're going to send you lists of voters we think are ineligible, and you're going to take them off the rolls. That "would hand the federal govt a major role in election admin, a responsibility that belongs to the states under the U.S. Constitution." [Stateline]
Trump’s DOJ offers states confidential deal to remove voters flagged by feds • Stateline
The U.S. Department of Justice has sent confidential draft agreements on voter data sharing to more than a dozen states, part of the Trump administration’s effort to obtain unredacted voter rolls, wit...
stateline.org
December 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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RIP First Amendment
December 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I hope y'all are getting your information from Canada, the UK, etc. Trump and RFK Jr. really screwed you.

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
Health minister says Canada can’t rely on U.S. health institutions anymore
Health Minister Marjorie Michel says she can no longer trust American health agencies as reliable partners.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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The Masculinity Industry bizarrely functions by asking group permission to be male & signaling one’s staunch manliness by being afraid of everything
Threads is just wild because what the fuck
December 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Oh no. Y’all gave Nic Cage a fat suit and told him to do a Minnesota accent.
Here the much-anticipated trailer for Madden, from @primevideo.bsky.social
December 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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just like every year since 2016 absolutely no one is sad about the current year ending
December 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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anyone seen DAVID yet? Saw it got like a 75 percent on rotten tomatoes. You guys like it? Would my 4 and 2 year olds?
December 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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She was fired for teaching what she was hired to teach. She was fired for doing what she did not do. She was fired for breaking a law that does not exist.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Be careful out there in the Yule Void, everyone
The Week Between Christmas and New Years
December 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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It's funny how staying in someone else's space for a few days always makes me reflect on how I live like a fail gremlin at home
December 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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my parents are the most normie lib dem base types imaginable and they are fucking sick of it
December 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Are holidays just a lot of extra work for women? Do you have holiday expectations of the men in your life?
December 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Society will return to where it began, paying people with rations of salt.
December 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.

Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.

"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.

"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.

Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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December 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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This is what they’re comfortable doing on camera, not enough people internalizing that part.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.

Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.

"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.

"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.

Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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*getting mounted every morning by a Malamute ready for their walk because you’re an alpha.*
Threads is just wild because what the fuck
December 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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We cannot consider Texas A&M a university in the sense we’ve used the word in the past. open.substack.com/pub/academic...
December 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Postulate a spherical dude
I'm still upset that "manosphere" doesn't refer to men who have been crushed and formed into a perfect orb.
December 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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It’s silly on several fronts including the fact I’ve seen German Shepherds only listen to women trainers and owners and mastiffs that attack all men because they’re good judges of character
Threads is just wild because what the fuck
December 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Odd that Gender is a biological, immutable certainty AND something you can lose if you own the wrong dog.
Threads is just wild because what the fuck
December 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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at the very least we gotta start recording who cashed checks working for ICE and go from there.
December 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM