Drew VanDrese
@dvan.bsky.social
Progressive Yooper talking hockey, history, & all things Michigan. Dum spiro spero ❤️🔥
Started at Yost in 2012, Now We're Here
Started at Yost in 2012, Now We're Here
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Drew VanDrese
@dvan.bsky.social
· Nov 11
One of Twitter’s best features was its versatility. It was as dynamic as we are, with communities linked by fandom, alma mater, hometown, academia, obscure hobbies, etc.
But academia left 💔 hoping to get back to learning from smart folks here across history, political science & the social sciences!
But academia left 💔 hoping to get back to learning from smart folks here across history, political science & the social sciences!
Cutting to Gal Gadot after the speech from the two Iranian winners was a choice lol
March 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Cutting to Gal Gadot after the speech from the two Iranian winners was a choice lol
Not sure if we have ever been more collectively wrong about someone than Tim Chalamet. Dude’s dude.
March 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Not sure if we have ever been more collectively wrong about someone than Tim Chalamet. Dude’s dude.
“Bob Dylan wanted to be here, but not that badly.”
March 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
“Bob Dylan wanted to be here, but not that badly.”
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This is math a seven year old can do. The best intelligence in the world placed the number of Hamas fighters at around 20,000. Israel has killed more than 20 times that number. The IDF is a highly trained force ruling out negligence on this level. Ergo, this is a massive, calculated war crime.
'Of 200 bodies, only 10 were confirmed as Hamas members': IDF soldiers who served in Gaza tell Haaretz that anyone who crosses an imaginary line in the contested Neztarim corridor is shot to death, with every Palestinian casualty counting as a terrorist – even if they were just a child”
IDF soldiers expose arbitrary killings and rampant lawlessness in Gaza's Netzarim corridor
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www.haaretz.com
December 19, 2024 at 5:51 AM
This is math a seven year old can do. The best intelligence in the world placed the number of Hamas fighters at around 20,000. Israel has killed more than 20 times that number. The IDF is a highly trained force ruling out negligence on this level. Ergo, this is a massive, calculated war crime.
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New York Rep. Pat Ryan, who easily held his Hudson Valley swing seat last month, spoke for AOC in the Dem conference meeting yesterday. Asked him what he said and he just sent me the speech - sharing in case it's interesting
December 18, 2024 at 4:13 PM
New York Rep. Pat Ryan, who easily held his Hudson Valley swing seat last month, spoke for AOC in the Dem conference meeting yesterday. Asked him what he said and he just sent me the speech - sharing in case it's interesting
I’ve been everywhere, man. Cool feature from AirBnB.
December 12, 2024 at 7:23 PM
I’ve been everywhere, man. Cool feature from AirBnB.
That's the first time UMich hockey has been swept in back-to-back games since ending the 1942-43 season with four straight shutout losses to Vic Heyliger's llinois program. #CollegeHockey
December 8, 2024 at 2:13 AM
That's the first time UMich hockey has been swept in back-to-back games since ending the 1942-43 season with four straight shutout losses to Vic Heyliger's llinois program. #CollegeHockey
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Google translated this into “The world view of the right is based on brain ghosts” and that’s the single best encapsulation of hallucinatory media-driven modern politics I’ve ever heard
Högerns världsbild bygger på hjärnspöken, detta får sen konsekvenser i verkligheten. För allt och alla, blir verkligheten. Ja det är fruktansvärt.
I think the fundamental breakdown is this: our politics are increasingly a frenzied reaction to a cartoonish false reality that we’ve constructed in our heads through endless social media consumption and discourse rather than the anything resembling the real world.
December 7, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Google translated this into “The world view of the right is based on brain ghosts” and that’s the single best encapsulation of hallucinatory media-driven modern politics I’ve ever heard
Y'all remember that first hit of Tate Forcier in '09 following the year of Nick Sheridan & Steven Threet? Tate & Denard were a seismic breath of fresh air.
December 6, 2024 at 11:44 PM
Y'all remember that first hit of Tate Forcier in '09 following the year of Nick Sheridan & Steven Threet? Tate & Denard were a seismic breath of fresh air.
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This is the agency Elon Musk and his billionaire buddies want to kill.
December 6, 2024 at 5:58 PM
This is the agency Elon Musk and his billionaire buddies want to kill.
Michigan knocked off Ohio State in football this past weekend. 13-10. Good game.
December 2, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Michigan knocked off Ohio State in football this past weekend. 13-10. Good game.
Have a great week, y’all 🤟🏼
December 2, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Have a great week, y’all 🤟🏼
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Top 15 SoS using the old BCS formula through the end of the regular season.
December 2, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Top 15 SoS using the old BCS formula through the end of the regular season.
Come And Take It!! 😤
*snowballs melt*
Nvm
*snowballs melt*
Nvm
Shouts to the Bills fan who tried to knock down the 49ers FG attempt with a snowball
December 2, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Come And Take It!! 😤
*snowballs melt*
Nvm
*snowballs melt*
Nvm
Doing a little check-in because we’re all earnest on this platform.
How was everyone’s Thanksgiving? You & yours all good?
How was everyone’s Thanksgiving? You & yours all good?
December 2, 2024 at 1:30 AM
Doing a little check-in because we’re all earnest on this platform.
How was everyone’s Thanksgiving? You & yours all good?
How was everyone’s Thanksgiving? You & yours all good?
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Whenever I see people talk about how soft we are becoming as a society I'm reminded of J.S Mill's point that a strong man should want more equality, since he should be enormously repelled by the slavish attitudes induced by subordination and aspire to live among his equals.
November 30, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Whenever I see people talk about how soft we are becoming as a society I'm reminded of J.S Mill's point that a strong man should want more equality, since he should be enormously repelled by the slavish attitudes induced by subordination and aspire to live among his equals.
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Yes, this was the intended effect of Elon's Twitter takeover and it's worked as they hoped: vile gutter racists who openly believe things like "nonwhite people are genetically inferior savages" constitute a huge percentage of the engagement that political elites see, and the ideas get normalized.
There are journalists I like who I see now routinely politically converse with accounts who are mainly focused on the promotion of dishonest race science talking points. I'm just a random person, so I'm in no position to ask them what the hell they're doing, but someone should.
November 30, 2024 at 3:19 AM
Yes, this was the intended effect of Elon's Twitter takeover and it's worked as they hoped: vile gutter racists who openly believe things like "nonwhite people are genetically inferior savages" constitute a huge percentage of the engagement that political elites see, and the ideas get normalized.
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Fifty. Six. Percent. Increase. In. The deaths. Of. Pregnant. People.
"Across Texas, residency applications in ob-gyn dropped significantly. Data from the Gender Equity Policy Institute revealed a fifty-six-per-cent spike in maternal deaths in the state between 2019 and 2022."
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus
Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2024 at 5:41 AM
Fifty. Six. Percent. Increase. In. The deaths. Of. Pregnant. People.
I, too, will stand by my pan this Thanksgiving and not burn down our homes.
71,000 people.
71,000 people have raised their hands and said, "We will stand by our pan this Thanksgiving and not burn down our homes."
71,000 people have raised their hands and said, "We will stand by our pan this Thanksgiving and not burn down our homes."
November 27, 2024 at 8:33 PM
I, too, will stand by my pan this Thanksgiving and not burn down our homes.
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Anonymous Nazis on a Twitter are a significant cultural force and there needs to be considerably more effort dedicated to unmasking then
November 27, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Anonymous Nazis on a Twitter are a significant cultural force and there needs to be considerably more effort dedicated to unmasking then
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obviously there’s a lot underneath that, in terms of changing media consumption, how the political zeitgeist is increasingly propelled by memes, etc. but what ultimately happened is that people voted as if they were really angry and the things they were angry about mostly didn’t exist
November 27, 2024 at 2:54 PM
obviously there’s a lot underneath that, in terms of changing media consumption, how the political zeitgeist is increasingly propelled by memes, etc. but what ultimately happened is that people voted as if they were really angry and the things they were angry about mostly didn’t exist
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"The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression."
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican president suggests Mexico could respond to any of Donald Trump's tariffs with tariffs of its own on US products.
November 26, 2024 at 2:29 PM
"The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression."