Andrew Ordover
@aordover.bsky.social
Educator, Substacker, Novelist, Walker of Dog.
Husband of Heather (producer of the CraftLit podcast).
Father of two amazing young artists.
Husband of Heather (producer of the CraftLit podcast).
Father of two amazing young artists.
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Andrew Ordover
@aordover.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Scenes from a Broken Hand | Andrew Ordover | Substack
Thoughts on teaching, writing, living, loving, and whatever else comes to mind. Click to read Scenes from a Broken Hand, by Andrew Ordover, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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For those of you who don't know me, here's my Substack newsletter, which I publish every weekend. I write about education topics mostly, with a little regular life, politics, art, and culture thrown in from time to time.
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#education #arts #culture
It's foolish to expect people to make plans and policies that might mitigate damage and harm, when those people have spent their entire lives creating damage and harm for their own benefit.
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
It's foolish to expect people to make plans and policies that might mitigate damage and harm, when those people have spent their entire lives creating damage and harm for their own benefit.
It's not enough that he gropes and takes and uses and squanders and dismisses; he wants us all to be grateful for it, too.
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It's not enough that he gropes and takes and uses and squanders and dismisses; he wants us all to be grateful for it, too.
Gentle reminder from Mr. Jefferson and friends:
Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.
Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Gentle reminder from Mr. Jefferson and friends:
Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.
Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.
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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.~Jiddu Krishnamurti
November 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.~Jiddu Krishnamurti
Me, on Substack:
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This mockery of the idea of "strength" is not just wrong; it's increasingly dangerous.
2/2
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This mockery of the idea of "strength" is not just wrong; it's increasingly dangerous.
2/2
Inflatable America
Are those muscles or just hot air?
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November 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Me, on Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/brokenha...
This mockery of the idea of "strength" is not just wrong; it's increasingly dangerous.
2/2
open.substack.com/pub/brokenha...
This mockery of the idea of "strength" is not just wrong; it's increasingly dangerous.
2/2
November 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Knowledge is power.
open.substack.com/pub/initfort...
open.substack.com/pub/initfort...
CraftLit's AI Caveat Emptor
If AI's a whisk—don't be surprised it treats the Internet like an egg needing a beating
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November 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Knowledge is power.
open.substack.com/pub/initfort...
open.substack.com/pub/initfort...
When ignorance is allowed to wander outside without a leash in search of things to hate.
November 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
When ignorance is allowed to wander outside without a leash in search of things to hate.
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The most important thing to remember about all this fantasy-engineering of the Constitution is Madison's warning: If we suck as a people, no clever constitutional schemes will save us.
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The most important thing to remember about all this fantasy-engineering of the Constitution is Madison's warning: If we suck as a people, no clever constitutional schemes will save us.
Inflatable America
Are those muscles or just hot air?
brokenhand.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law
Is it not time for reporters to start telling the president to go fuck himself?
Mob boss attacks female reporter again for her “attitude” and says he will ask his FCC commissioner to look into revoking her company’s broadcast license.
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Is it not time for reporters to start telling the president to go fuck himself?
Our furious and self-righteous refusal to cough up a few extra cents to make life better for our fellow citizens--or even ourselves--because that money is OURS AND HOW DARE YOU TOUCH IT--is sometimes mind-boggling to me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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November 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Our furious and self-righteous refusal to cough up a few extra cents to make life better for our fellow citizens--or even ourselves--because that money is OURS AND HOW DARE YOU TOUCH IT--is sometimes mind-boggling to me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
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The 🇺🇸 American pre-Code
musical black comedy film "DUCK SOUP" directed by Leo McCarey and starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo in his final film appearance) was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1933
🎬 Paramount Pictures
musical black comedy film "DUCK SOUP" directed by Leo McCarey and starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo in his final film appearance) was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1933
🎬 Paramount Pictures
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The 🇺🇸 American pre-Code
musical black comedy film "DUCK SOUP" directed by Leo McCarey and starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo in his final film appearance) was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1933
🎬 Paramount Pictures
musical black comedy film "DUCK SOUP" directed by Leo McCarey and starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo in his final film appearance) was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1933
🎬 Paramount Pictures
The moment King Rat starts to look weak, his sycophants and supporters all turn against him and return him to the little nobody he once was.
Nothing relevant here. Just reminiscing about an old movie.
Nothing relevant here. Just reminiscing about an old movie.
November 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The moment King Rat starts to look weak, his sycophants and supporters all turn against him and return him to the little nobody he once was.
Nothing relevant here. Just reminiscing about an old movie.
Nothing relevant here. Just reminiscing about an old movie.
Our founders did their homework and tried to avoid having us end up with someone like Caligula, whom Seneca said, “nature produced in order to show what unlimited vice would be capable of when combined with unlimited power."
But we don't learn from history--anyone else's or our own.
But we don't learn from history--anyone else's or our own.
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Our founders did their homework and tried to avoid having us end up with someone like Caligula, whom Seneca said, “nature produced in order to show what unlimited vice would be capable of when combined with unlimited power."
But we don't learn from history--anyone else's or our own.
But we don't learn from history--anyone else's or our own.
3. none of it registered as important; none of it said, “this is what made us different; this is hard won and easily lost; this is what must be protected.”
And now, when wealth and power flex their muscles to rid themselves of the last vestiges of chains of accountability, we react with a shrug.
And now, when wealth and power flex their muscles to rid themselves of the last vestiges of chains of accountability, we react with a shrug.
November 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
3. none of it registered as important; none of it said, “this is what made us different; this is hard won and easily lost; this is what must be protected.”
And now, when wealth and power flex their muscles to rid themselves of the last vestiges of chains of accountability, we react with a shrug.
And now, when wealth and power flex their muscles to rid themselves of the last vestiges of chains of accountability, we react with a shrug.
2. The wisdom of the founders, the deep research they did into various republics and what worked and didn’t work, the long history of trying to hold wealth and power accountable to the rule of law—a set of laws that bound all citizens equally—none of that got through.
November 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
2. The wisdom of the founders, the deep research they did into various republics and what worked and didn’t work, the long history of trying to hold wealth and power accountable to the rule of law—a set of laws that bound all citizens equally—none of that got through.
1. We undermined civics education for multiple generations, and when we taught it at all, we taught facts and figures and processes divorced from any meaningful context, letting kids assume that this was all just business-as-usual for countries across the planet and throughout history.
November 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
1. We undermined civics education for multiple generations, and when we taught it at all, we taught facts and figures and processes divorced from any meaningful context, letting kids assume that this was all just business-as-usual for countries across the planet and throughout history.
We Make the Path by Stumbling
Was I supposed to have a plan?
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November 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Laughing at the victim and applauding the bully won't stop the bully from targeting you next.
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Laughing at the victim and applauding the bully won't stop the bully from targeting you next.
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
