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andreawestcot.bsky.social
@andreawestcot.bsky.social
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In which I try to make sense of what’s happening, as a sort of record of what I’m thinking. History, politics, education.
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I am annoying everyone in my house while I read this book, because nearly every page I want to read a sentence out loud or talk about Edmu/ond Hai/l/wley. @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
A photo of John Green’s book The Anthropocene Reviewed, held open to the essay titled “Diet Dr Pepper”, with a can of Diet Dr Pepper in the background.
June 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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“Mr Trump, you are increasing the volume of your voice but not the logic of your argument.”
Transcript of 2/28/2025 White House meeting / press conference with Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
February 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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@leahgreenberg.bsky.social and @ezralevin.bsky.social in The Nation. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Take that step, and steel yourself with the knowledge that you are the defender of a 250-year experiment in self-governance—a real-life pluralistic democracy, imperfect as it is, striving to be more perfect. Our predecessors deposed a brain-addled king; they crushed the violent insurrectionists of a slaveholding confederacy; they forced the robber barons to contend with workers and unions; they kicked the Nazis’ asses throughout Europe; they broke the back of the southern segregationist political bloc; they fought back against the terrorizing forces at Stonewall. We have planted ourselves in stubborn opposition to monomaniacal fascists of one form or another for a quarter of a millennium. No entitled reality-TV has-been backed by an addle-brained billionaire who cheats at video games is going to roll over us now.
February 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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20 second resistance task:
Google "Gulf of Mexico" and send feedback to Google about how they are total toadies for fascism. (Step by step instructions in the image alt text.)
Image of a social media post with a map of the Gulf of Mexico. Text reads: A quick second resistance task: Google "Gulf of Mexico". "Gulf of America" will be at the head of Google's answer. Click on the 3 little dots to the right of "Gulf of America". Select "Send Feedback". Click on the "Gulf of America" text. (There's a little flag there.) Select "inaccurate content". Select "incorrect" and then type in whatever text you want such as "The correct name of this body of water is "Gulf of Mexico". The more reports to google the merrier.....
February 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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What the actual fuck, Google Maps?
Map showing the Gulf of Mexico labeled as "Gulf of America".
February 13, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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This book starts from the radical premise that humans matter. New book by @biblioracle.bsky.social is timely and necessary.
Photo of a book and a pen. Book is titled “More Than Words: How to think about writing in the age of AI” by John Warner.
February 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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organizingmythoughts.org/a-brutal-beg...
Screenshot of quote “Doctors, nurses, social workers, clerical workers, teachers, and other everyday people will be expected to submit to fascist norms and participate in acts of criminalization. We will be expected to report people, check boxes, and cooperate with authorities. We will be expected to passively observe acts of violence, as though we are helpless and can organize no intervention. We should all be asking ourselves what rules and laws we are willing to break. What lines are we willing to cross? What are we unwilling to passively accept? To create as much justice and safety as possible, we have to defy authority and disobey. “
January 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM