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Deborah Nichols
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Assoc Prof, HDFS, Purdue | Study humans of all ages, the tools they use, and the contexts that shape them | Lover of books, music, and exploring the world ✈️ 🚂 ⛴ 🌍 🌎 | Cat person 🐈 | She/her/hers | “I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing.” —Audre Lorde
Instead, we got the reality show reboot no one asked for. We’re barely into episode 1 w/plot lines too ridiculous for fiction. Alcoholism, racism, sexism, sexual assault, infidelity, fraud, grift, staggering incompetence, Russia! At this rate, the season finale might just be the series finale
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January 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Although… are there any grown-ups in this train wreck of an administration? Turns out gutting agencies and replacing experts with bootlickers like Sean Duffy and Pete Hegseth isn’t a sustainable governance strategy. 🧐 Who knew?!
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January 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
And why? Because petulant Lex Luthor couldn’t handle being held accountable. He threw a fit, bullied the FAA, and got Trump to gut it, leaving it in shambles. Go freebase some more ketamine, Elon, and let the grown-ups handle this
January 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Instead of leading a grieving nation, Dementia-in-Chief is out here blaming Obama like it’s 2011. Clearly, the 🍊🤡 is still spiraling from that roast, acting like he just cracked the case on Biggie and Tupac
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January 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Blue dot in Indiana
November 24, 2024 at 2:41 AM
I exploit you, yet you cheer for me,
I say the sky’s red, and you agree.
Oh, I’m the cult of MAGA-ality 🎶🎶
November 23, 2024 at 4:45 AM
Orange face, a carnival prize,
When your leader speaks, the truth just dies.
No expertise, just loyalty,
Running chaos is THE policy.

I sell you lies you want to believe,
I’m the grinning face on your TV.
Oh, I’m the cult of MAGA-ality.
November 23, 2024 at 4:45 AM
🎵🎵 Look in my eyes, what do you see?
The cult of MAGA-ality.
I stoke your anger, I feed your fears,
I’ve sold you lies for nine long years.
Oh, I’m the cult of MAGA-ality.

Like Mussolini in a red hat spree
I’m the cult of MAGA-ality.
The cult of MAGA-ality,
the cult of MAGA-ality.
November 23, 2024 at 4:45 AM
Every single one of these nominations feels like a dare. “Bet you won’t!” Well, Trump did. And somehow, we’re all losing the bet.
November 23, 2024 at 2:43 AM
These picks are less draining the swamp and more turning it into a gator petting zoo 🐊 Which, to be fair, might be less dangerous than what’s actually happening.
November 23, 2024 at 2:43 AM
Oh wait, almost forgot, Dr. Oz as head of Medicare and Medicaid? So, healthcare’s new strategy is raspberry ketones, psychic readings, and praying your chakras align? This has to be satire. Will Commerce be handling next year’s Black Friday riots?
November 23, 2024 at 2:43 AM
Educ? WWE lady because nothing says prepping our kids for the future like a steel chair to the curriculum. Matt Gaetz as AG? A plot twist worthy of L&O SVU, with more Venmo receipts and fewer ethics. Thankfully, he withdrew…probably to avoid subpoena practice. Somehow this is just the warm-up act
November 23, 2024 at 2:43 AM
Sec Defense? A Fox News pundit, because if juggling 3 marriages, a secret love child, and a mess of bad decisions doesn’t make you a master strategist, what does? HHS? RFK Jr whose own family treats him like the Turkey day 🦃 crazy uncle 🤪 who’s 4 bourbons deep and ranting about Wi-Fi mind control.
November 23, 2024 at 2:43 AM
Need expertise? Not in this circus 🤡 Just appoint a Fox News pundit, an anti-regulation zealot, or someone whose dream job is torching the department they’re now running. It’s like letting an arsonist run the fire department 🔥👩🏻‍🚒 except the stakes are actual lives, not just flames.
November 23, 2024 at 2:43 AM
So yeah, that’s me: a Gen X-er with a lingering distrust of clowns, a front-row seat to this circus, and a staggering unease as the tent poles wobble, the clown cars crash, and shadowy ringmasters wait to reap the spoils. Glad to be here among the sane! Lovely to meet you, Bluesky. 🦋💙
November 20, 2024 at 11:06 PM
When did basic decency become radical? When did “don’t be awful” get replaced by “own the libs”? Because if this is what leadership looks like now, I’m starting to think we should hand the reins back to the Founding Fathers’ ghosts 👻
November 20, 2024 at 11:06 PM
And his audience? They’re eating it up. Cheering. Laughing. Some of them even paid extra to join the clown college (Matt Gaetz, looking at you). The rest of us are just trying to find the exit before someone sets the tent on fire 🎪🔥 (probably too late for that…)
November 20, 2024 at 11:06 PM
Only he’s not just a clown. He’s the whole circus…a sad, chaotic circus where the ringleader’s main act is blaming everyone else for the mess he made, the elephants 🐘 are gone (possibly indicted?), and the trapeze artists keep falling because they cut their own safety nets.
November 20, 2024 at 11:06 PM

Remember when clowns were just clowns? Harmless balloon-animal makers? Then came John Wayne Gacy, Poltergeist, and Pennywise. Clowns became nightmare fuel. Now we have Trump…part sideshow huckster, part carnival horror, juggling indictments while grifting at the popcorn stand 🍿
November 20, 2024 at 11:06 PM