Austin
@austinprior.com
Columbus Blue Jackets, Columbus Crew, and F1 fan. Lost in the cornfields.
Indy N3 🫶🏻
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We cannot be a meaningfully representative democracy until we replace the Senate & single-member districts as currently structured with actually representative & democratic institutions
November 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We cannot be a meaningfully representative democracy until we replace the Senate & single-member districts as currently structured with actually representative & democratic institutions
I already called my rep. It won’t do anything in my case but it needs to be done anyways.
The people speak through the Congress and Congress must reassert itself, regardless of which party holds the Presidency. Congress has abdicated its power and handed it to SCOTUS and POTUS, to our detriment.
The people speak through the Congress and Congress must reassert itself, regardless of which party holds the Presidency. Congress has abdicated its power and handed it to SCOTUS and POTUS, to our detriment.
I know this can sound kind of silly at a time like this, but doing a war without congressional authorization is ample grounds for impeachment
June 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I already called my rep. It won’t do anything in my case but it needs to be done anyways.
The people speak through the Congress and Congress must reassert itself, regardless of which party holds the Presidency. Congress has abdicated its power and handed it to SCOTUS and POTUS, to our detriment.
The people speak through the Congress and Congress must reassert itself, regardless of which party holds the Presidency. Congress has abdicated its power and handed it to SCOTUS and POTUS, to our detriment.
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eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same
May 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same
This was incredibly helpful in understanding what trade deficits are and how they are not something to be too concerned about
@pkrugman.bsky.social has a bunch of explainers on his substack, e.g., paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-balance-...
A Balance of Payments Primer, Part I
And why you shouldn’t panic over trade deficits
paulkrugman.substack.com
April 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This was incredibly helpful in understanding what trade deficits are and how they are not something to be too concerned about
Wait until Social Security is privatized and a company like MOHELA is running it. Wait times will be at least 4 hours and you’ll get hung up on 3 hours into the call and have to rejoin the queue and wait another 4 hours.
Ask me (and many, many other student loan borrowers) how I know.
Ask me (and many, many other student loan borrowers) how I know.
@maddow.msnbc.com I’m 80. I decided to call Social Security
March 7, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Wait until Social Security is privatized and a company like MOHELA is running it. Wait times will be at least 4 hours and you’ll get hung up on 3 hours into the call and have to rejoin the queue and wait another 4 hours.
Ask me (and many, many other student loan borrowers) how I know.
Ask me (and many, many other student loan borrowers) how I know.
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House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
February 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
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Measles has a 12% mortality rate in unvaccinated young children.
Children cannot be vaccinated until they are at least 12 months old.
And if infants need to be kept home and out of daycare to avoid potentially fatal measles outbreaks...
Guess who that removes from the workforce.
(Women.)
Children cannot be vaccinated until they are at least 12 months old.
And if infants need to be kept home and out of daycare to avoid potentially fatal measles outbreaks...
Guess who that removes from the workforce.
(Women.)
In 3 days, the number of measles cases in a highly unvaccinated area of Texas has doubled. There are now 48 cases, all of whom are unvaccinated, and 13 of whom have been hospitalized so far, for a hospitalization rate of 27%. This is huge figure in epidemiology. This outbreak will keep spreading.
February 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Measles has a 12% mortality rate in unvaccinated young children.
Children cannot be vaccinated until they are at least 12 months old.
And if infants need to be kept home and out of daycare to avoid potentially fatal measles outbreaks...
Guess who that removes from the workforce.
(Women.)
Children cannot be vaccinated until they are at least 12 months old.
And if infants need to be kept home and out of daycare to avoid potentially fatal measles outbreaks...
Guess who that removes from the workforce.
(Women.)
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I really wish reporting would stop faithfully citing this “pause and review” line at agencies experiencing impoundment. Every previous administration reviewed programs. The difference is they still executed the law.
Pausing spending for “review” is not a thing.
Pausing spending for “review” is not a thing.
February 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I really wish reporting would stop faithfully citing this “pause and review” line at agencies experiencing impoundment. Every previous administration reviewed programs. The difference is they still executed the law.
Pausing spending for “review” is not a thing.
Pausing spending for “review” is not a thing.
Very niche post: I’m forever grateful for the members of the clergy who are (and have been for years) speaking out for justice and leading their communities in engagement and action.
If that’s you, you inspire me and so many others. Thank you!
If that’s you, you inspire me and so many others. Thank you!
January 30, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Very niche post: I’m forever grateful for the members of the clergy who are (and have been for years) speaking out for justice and leading their communities in engagement and action.
If that’s you, you inspire me and so many others. Thank you!
If that’s you, you inspire me and so many others. Thank you!
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I am simultaneously more existentially scared for us all collectively *and* more hopeful about the fall of MAGA fascism right now.
MAGA spent so much time on culture war during the Biden years, it seemed very likely that making good on those threats would be their opening salvo.
I am simultaneously more existentially scared for us all collectively *and* more hopeful about the fall of MAGA fascism right now.
MAGA spent so much time on culture war during the Biden years, it seemed very likely that making good on those threats would be their opening salvo.
January 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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I am simultaneously more existentially scared for us all collectively *and* more hopeful about the fall of MAGA fascism right now.
MAGA spent so much time on culture war during the Biden years, it seemed very likely that making good on those threats would be their opening salvo.
I am simultaneously more existentially scared for us all collectively *and* more hopeful about the fall of MAGA fascism right now.
MAGA spent so much time on culture war during the Biden years, it seemed very likely that making good on those threats would be their opening salvo.
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I think the biggest risk factor in doomerism is not having kids. My job as a parent is to make sure my little ones get to inherit a world better than the one I came into.
January 29, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I think the biggest risk factor in doomerism is not having kids. My job as a parent is to make sure my little ones get to inherit a world better than the one I came into.
The rise of fascism is terrifying. Just as terrifying is that, outside of AOC and maybe a few others, Democrats are not meeting the moment.
Wonder why so many of us are despondent about the response from Democratic leadership 🙄
January 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The rise of fascism is terrifying. Just as terrifying is that, outside of AOC and maybe a few others, Democrats are not meeting the moment.
Yep, 100%
Red states are OCCUPIED and that's who you're mocking, occupied people, and laughing and crowing about how we actually do deserve what has already come for us
January 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Yep, 100%
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If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Walmart Effect
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
www.theatlantic.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
If you made this argument back in the day you were smugly dismissed as an economically illiterate lefty.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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When I look at the fear this man thrives on. What he wants to project and sow onto so many. The fear and anger that his supporters want to sow into everyone, I immediately relax. They want fear. More fear. Fear keeps people under control. And I won’t be under their control
January 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
When I look at the fear this man thrives on. What he wants to project and sow onto so many. The fear and anger that his supporters want to sow into everyone, I immediately relax. They want fear. More fear. Fear keeps people under control. And I won’t be under their control
Are there any AT Protocol replacements for Facebook Marketplace? I’d be really interested in something like that if it exists/if someone’s developing it.
January 19, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Are there any AT Protocol replacements for Facebook Marketplace? I’d be really interested in something like that if it exists/if someone’s developing it.
!!! Big deal for rural healthcare and any hospital employee working towards PSLF
In addition to taking away health insurance from tens of millions, Republicans also want to cut payments to hospitals who treat people without insurance. Translation: hospitals in rural and high-need urban communities will be at risk of closure and ER wait times will skyrocket.
January 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
!!! Big deal for rural healthcare and any hospital employee working towards PSLF
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Yes! This isn’t a hard line as much as a framework to guide my work. Our students already live in the ‘real world,’ they’re citizens of, participants in, and victims of it.
Also, when folks talk about the real world they’re too often referring to adherence to an oppressive capitalist machine.
Also, when folks talk about the real world they’re too often referring to adherence to an oppressive capitalist machine.
Both/and rather than either/or, IMHO. An authentic education helps students to understand the “real world” and why it’s organized that way so that they can “dream of a better world” and figure out ways to realize their dreams for themselves and others.
I don’t want my class to prepare students for ‘the real world.’
I want my class to help students dream of a better world.
I want my class to help students dream of a better world.
December 29, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Yes! This isn’t a hard line as much as a framework to guide my work. Our students already live in the ‘real world,’ they’re citizens of, participants in, and victims of it.
Also, when folks talk about the real world they’re too often referring to adherence to an oppressive capitalist machine.
Also, when folks talk about the real world they’re too often referring to adherence to an oppressive capitalist machine.
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found this @jasonhickel.bsky.social screenshot on FB
January 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
found this @jasonhickel.bsky.social screenshot on FB
Just rewatched Interstellar for the first time as a parent and I am wrecked 😭😭
January 5, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Just rewatched Interstellar for the first time as a parent and I am wrecked 😭😭
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Turns out (again and again) that the best way to prevent poverty is giving people money. But America absolutely hates that idea.
In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing."
The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.
One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.
One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance
In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be chea...
www.propublica.org
December 31, 2024 at 4:43 AM
Turns out (again and again) that the best way to prevent poverty is giving people money. But America absolutely hates that idea.
Yes, this exactly!
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So many smart people seem to believe that higher ed. should be job training, explicitly. The rise in business (undergraduate) majors is one byproduct of such a perspective. And watching universities cut humanities is another.
I find this approach incredibly shortsighted, and ultimately defeating. 🧵
I find this approach incredibly shortsighted, and ultimately defeating. 🧵
December 31, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Yes, this exactly!
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Exactly the same. My love for our library has grown more than I could imagine having a young kid to explore it with! Truly one of the best things we collectively have chosen to invest in!
I have always loved public libraries, but having young children has exponentially increased my gratitude and sense of indebtedness to them. Our local library is such a huge part of our lives. The books, the programming, the very intentionally curated kids’ section. It’s all such a gift.
December 27, 2024 at 5:06 AM
Exactly the same. My love for our library has grown more than I could imagine having a young kid to explore it with! Truly one of the best things we collectively have chosen to invest in!
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it can't be overstated how much these clowns hated having a young popular female FTC boss driving bipartisan public interest in antitrust reform for the first time in 50 years
December 14, 2024 at 4:11 PM
it can't be overstated how much these clowns hated having a young popular female FTC boss driving bipartisan public interest in antitrust reform for the first time in 50 years