Brian Watkins
@brianlwatkins.bsky.social
Educator and advocate • Social irritant • Fan of the Oxford comma • Asst Dean @ UMD • American Studies scholar, ABD … because life • Proud husband and father 🏳️🌈
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The woman petitioning SCOTUS to overturn marriage equality in the name of the sanctity of marriage is on her fourth husband.
August 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
The woman petitioning SCOTUS to overturn marriage equality in the name of the sanctity of marriage is on her fourth husband.
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You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully.
This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.
Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.
This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.
Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.
Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully.
This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.
Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.
This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.
Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.
Heather literally has two mommies, Ritu and Chanda got married, “all boys aren't blue,” and James Baldwin’s sexual orientation actually does inform his writing. To ignore or deny any of those truths is just stupid. But here we are… and it’s endorsed by the MAGA Supreme Court.
June 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Heather literally has two mommies, Ritu and Chanda got married, “all boys aren't blue,” and James Baldwin’s sexual orientation actually does inform his writing. To ignore or deny any of those truths is just stupid. But here we are… and it’s endorsed by the MAGA Supreme Court.
George W Trump
Q: Your intelligence community says they have no evidence that Iran is building a nuke
TRUMP: Then my intelligence community is wrong. Who said that?
Q: You director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard
TRUMP: She's wrong
TRUMP: Then my intelligence community is wrong. Who said that?
Q: You director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard
TRUMP: She's wrong
June 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
George W Trump
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TRUMP HATES CHRISTMAS!!
June 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
TRUMP HATES CHRISTMAS!!
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9/ But there is no comparison anywhere on the left with MAGA's regular legitimization of violence in our politics. There is a straight line from Jan 6 to the pardons to the assault on Sen. Padilla to Minnesota.
A democracy cannot function when one faction embraces violence.
A democracy cannot function when one faction embraces violence.
June 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
9/ But there is no comparison anywhere on the left with MAGA's regular legitimization of violence in our politics. There is a straight line from Jan 6 to the pardons to the assault on Sen. Padilla to Minnesota.
A democracy cannot function when one faction embraces violence.
A democracy cannot function when one faction embraces violence.
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Jesus said he came to bring good news to the poor.
Those in power who are claiming they want a “Christian nation” are only bringing good news to the rich and powerful while creating cruel conditions for the poor.
They want “Christianity” without the inconvenience of Christ.
Those in power who are claiming they want a “Christian nation” are only bringing good news to the rich and powerful while creating cruel conditions for the poor.
They want “Christianity” without the inconvenience of Christ.
May 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Jesus said he came to bring good news to the poor.
Those in power who are claiming they want a “Christian nation” are only bringing good news to the rich and powerful while creating cruel conditions for the poor.
They want “Christianity” without the inconvenience of Christ.
Those in power who are claiming they want a “Christian nation” are only bringing good news to the rich and powerful while creating cruel conditions for the poor.
They want “Christianity” without the inconvenience of Christ.
🎵 8 6 4 7 (three oh nine) 🎵
May 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
🎵 8 6 4 7 (three oh nine) 🎵
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I want the Tesla Board of Directors to understand that I don't give a shit if they replace Musk. Keep him, oust him, it doesn't matter. I'm still gonna do the same thing: boycott Tesla and encourage others to do the same. They made a choice to enable Musk, and there are now consequences to be had.
May 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I want the Tesla Board of Directors to understand that I don't give a shit if they replace Musk. Keep him, oust him, it doesn't matter. I'm still gonna do the same thing: boycott Tesla and encourage others to do the same. They made a choice to enable Musk, and there are now consequences to be had.
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Phoenix Ikner: I am a white supremacist. I love Donald Trump. I hate Black and brown people. Trump says universities are liberal propaganda machines. I’m convinced white people are under attack.
Corporate Media: He had such a rough childhood and we just cannot fathom his motivation???
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Corporate Media: He had such a rough childhood and we just cannot fathom his motivation???
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April 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Phoenix Ikner: I am a white supremacist. I love Donald Trump. I hate Black and brown people. Trump says universities are liberal propaganda machines. I’m convinced white people are under attack.
Corporate Media: He had such a rough childhood and we just cannot fathom his motivation???
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Corporate Media: He had such a rough childhood and we just cannot fathom his motivation???
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The innocence of Abrego Garcia, Merwil Gutiérrez, and an estimated 90% of the people sent to El Salvador proves this was never about “criminals”.
It’s about racism.
It’s about state terror.
It’s about dehumanization.
Fascism takes hold when people stay silent. It’s up to all of us to speak up.
It’s about racism.
It’s about state terror.
It’s about dehumanization.
Fascism takes hold when people stay silent. It’s up to all of us to speak up.
April 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The innocence of Abrego Garcia, Merwil Gutiérrez, and an estimated 90% of the people sent to El Salvador proves this was never about “criminals”.
It’s about racism.
It’s about state terror.
It’s about dehumanization.
Fascism takes hold when people stay silent. It’s up to all of us to speak up.
It’s about racism.
It’s about state terror.
It’s about dehumanization.
Fascism takes hold when people stay silent. It’s up to all of us to speak up.
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Not former potus saying Harvard has set a precedent for other universities and I have to hold myself back from mentioning Wesleyan, Georgetown law, Rutgers faculty senate, etc. What we're not gonna do is erase the Jesuits! Sigh, let me reread Elite Capture.
April 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Not former potus saying Harvard has set a precedent for other universities and I have to hold myself back from mentioning Wesleyan, Georgetown law, Rutgers faculty senate, etc. What we're not gonna do is erase the Jesuits! Sigh, let me reread Elite Capture.
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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
April 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
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Vance, Hegseth, Trump shit on the intelligence and accomplishment of Black people for sport all as a way of confirming for white Americans the myth that the dumbest, most incompetent, most morally reprehensible white men are preferable to the most decent, prepared, hard-working Black person.
Sen. Chris Coons: "Every single one of the government officials on this text chain have now committed a crime – even if accidentally."
FLAG: Top Trump officials including JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard planned military strikes on Yemen's Houthis in a Signal messaging group — a group to which they accidentally added The Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
March 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Vance, Hegseth, Trump shit on the intelligence and accomplishment of Black people for sport all as a way of confirming for white Americans the myth that the dumbest, most incompetent, most morally reprehensible white men are preferable to the most decent, prepared, hard-working Black person.
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
March 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
This was a great way to start the day.
The Department of Ed has a form to snitch on DEI policies in schools.
I’d be a shame if we broke it with thousands of responses… enddei.ed.gov
I’d be a shame if we broke it with thousands of responses… enddei.ed.gov
Department of Education FormLock
enddei.ed.gov
February 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This was a great way to start the day.
This is 6 years old and sadly more relevant than ever. As a Christian, I don’t hate Christianity. I hate what the MAGA Evangelical Christians have done to it.
GOP Jesus
YouTube video by Friend Dog Studios
youtu.be
February 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This is 6 years old and sadly more relevant than ever. As a Christian, I don’t hate Christianity. I hate what the MAGA Evangelical Christians have done to it.
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Dear DNC, DSCC, and DCCC:
I don't want to see another fundraising text or email asking for a dollar of mine until I see an actual plan to meet this moment.
Y'all had 11 weeks between the election and inauguration, and there's still no plan. There's no excuse for that.
No plan, no donation.
I don't want to see another fundraising text or email asking for a dollar of mine until I see an actual plan to meet this moment.
Y'all had 11 weeks between the election and inauguration, and there's still no plan. There's no excuse for that.
No plan, no donation.
February 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Dear DNC, DSCC, and DCCC:
I don't want to see another fundraising text or email asking for a dollar of mine until I see an actual plan to meet this moment.
Y'all had 11 weeks between the election and inauguration, and there's still no plan. There's no excuse for that.
No plan, no donation.
I don't want to see another fundraising text or email asking for a dollar of mine until I see an actual plan to meet this moment.
Y'all had 11 weeks between the election and inauguration, and there's still no plan. There's no excuse for that.
No plan, no donation.
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Even if i didn't think it was BS, I'm not being lectured on 'masculinity' by a sentient toilet brush that got rich by inventing online stalking
January 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Please stop saying "rolled back diversity goals" and start saying "the company capitulated to a segregationist movement."
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
McDonald's is the latest company to roll back diversity goals
The company rolled out a series of diversity initiatives in 2021 after a spate of sexual harrassment lawsuits and a lawsuit alleging discrimination by a group of Black former owners of McDonald’s fran...
www.nbcnews.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Please stop saying "rolled back diversity goals" and start saying "the company capitulated to a segregationist movement."
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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The MAGA faithful are finally beginning to realize that Elon’s tech bros think they’re lazy, uneducated and unmotivated. These self-serving tech bros took advantage of gullible MAGA voters just so they can slash regulations, lower their taxes, and protect their business interests in China.
December 27, 2024 at 6:00 PM
The MAGA faithful are finally beginning to realize that Elon’s tech bros think they’re lazy, uneducated and unmotivated. These self-serving tech bros took advantage of gullible MAGA voters just so they can slash regulations, lower their taxes, and protect their business interests in China.
"you'll be visited by three spirits."
the three spirits:
the three spirits:
December 24, 2024 at 1:40 PM
"you'll be visited by three spirits."
the three spirits:
the three spirits:
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I don't care that Biden pardoned his son to protect him.
I care that he's done literally nothing else with the awesome power of the presidency to pardon thousands in prison, to cancel student debt in full & force Trump to revive it, & to commute the death penalty www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-real-i...
I care that he's done literally nothing else with the awesome power of the presidency to pardon thousands in prison, to cancel student debt in full & force Trump to revive it, & to commute the death penalty www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-real-i...
The Real Issue with Biden's Pardon Is One Corporate Media Won't Address
Corporate Media has turned Biden's pardon into a circus, while wholly ignoring where they should actually hold him accountable—and we are all worse off for it
www.qasimrashid.com
December 8, 2024 at 5:28 PM
I don't care that Biden pardoned his son to protect him.
I care that he's done literally nothing else with the awesome power of the presidency to pardon thousands in prison, to cancel student debt in full & force Trump to revive it, & to commute the death penalty www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-real-i...
I care that he's done literally nothing else with the awesome power of the presidency to pardon thousands in prison, to cancel student debt in full & force Trump to revive it, & to commute the death penalty www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-real-i...