@edjrockdoc.bsky.social
American Studies/Arts access/punk rock/etc
Words. To. Live. By.
Virtually every institution I engage with regularly—the university, healthcare—is falling to pieces in front of my eyes.
But live music? It continues to deliver everything its social contract has always promised: community, joy, a vision of a better world.
Go to the gig.
But live music? It continues to deliver everything its social contract has always promised: community, joy, a vision of a better world.
Go to the gig.
December 3, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Words. To. Live. By.
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Good reminder that Trump was guilty of an egregious crime simply in Georgia, let alone the rest of the country, and should have served a significant stint in prison. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Last Big Case Against Trump Has Been Dropped
The U.S. justice and political systems have shown that they can’t hold the president and his allies to account for trying to steal the 2020 election.
www.theatlantic.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Good reminder that Trump was guilty of an egregious crime simply in Georgia, let alone the rest of the country, and should have served a significant stint in prison. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
Massively one-upping every megachurch worship band in the US.
They’re never gonna have another American pope. They’re gonna be like “the last one had raves”
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Massively one-upping every megachurch worship band in the US.
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“My mom gets $25 a month in food stamps. My son drives DoorDash. I worked in a warehouse. We share what little we have with other family. But how do you ‘get off the system’ when there are no jobs?”
#TrumpCrushesYourDreams
#TrumpCrushesYourDreams
November 22, 2025 at 4:48 AM
“My mom gets $25 a month in food stamps. My son drives DoorDash. I worked in a warehouse. We share what little we have with other family. But how do you ‘get off the system’ when there are no jobs?”
#TrumpCrushesYourDreams
#TrumpCrushesYourDreams
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"By any consistent standard, if Summers is unfit to work for each of these institutions [from which he resigned], he is equally unfit to teach at our school. Harvard should not be the only institution in America where Summers remains above reproach."
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www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The Professor and the Pedophile | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Summers should choose the most straightforward path and resign. Should he refuse to, though, the University must cut ties with its former president to the greatest extent possible.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:51 AM
"By any consistent standard, if Summers is unfit to work for each of these institutions [from which he resigned], he is equally unfit to teach at our school. Harvard should not be the only institution in America where Summers remains above reproach."
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www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Shaheen is retiring; Virginia is solid enough Blue territory that Kaine shld be replaced by a Democrat who is serious about preserving American democracy.
Senate reaches deal to reopen government after moderate Democrats cave
Senate Reaches Deal To Reopen Government After Moderate Democrats Cave
Republicans found enough Democrats willing to drop their party's demand to extend soon-to-expire health care subsidies for millions of people.
www.huffpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Shaheen is retiring; Virginia is solid enough Blue territory that Kaine shld be replaced by a Democrat who is serious about preserving American democracy.
No Kings, Iowa City 10/18/25
October 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
No Kings, Iowa City 10/18/25
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Guys who crawled up into fame by running small businesses and mastering SEO and cloutchasing being more right wing than people who mastered a collaborative art form seems pretty intuitive to me
just an observation but it does seem like the entertainment class of tiktok lifestyle influencers and reality stars is going to be way more right wing than actors, directors, and tv/movie writers.
why
October 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Guys who crawled up into fame by running small businesses and mastering SEO and cloutchasing being more right wing than people who mastered a collaborative art form seems pretty intuitive to me
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As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...
October 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...
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The university compact being offered to universities requires colleges to eliminate the recognition of trans people and ban them from bathrooms, locker rooms, and gender segregated dorms.
www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
October 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The university compact being offered to universities requires colleges to eliminate the recognition of trans people and ban them from bathrooms, locker rooms, and gender segregated dorms.
www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
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Val and I checked repeatedly because we simply couldn't believe no national or local news organizations covered this letter from 18 AGs in support of trans youth care and against FTC overreach.
If you find any stories, let us know, but it seems to be our exclusive.
If you find any stories, let us know, but it seems to be our exclusive.
On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.
And nobody covered it.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
And nobody covered it.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned
Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.
www.assignedmedia.org
October 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Val and I checked repeatedly because we simply couldn't believe no national or local news organizations covered this letter from 18 AGs in support of trans youth care and against FTC overreach.
If you find any stories, let us know, but it seems to be our exclusive.
If you find any stories, let us know, but it seems to be our exclusive.
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Once again, this perfect @zeboydgames.bsky.social post comes to mind:
September 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Once again, this perfect @zeboydgames.bsky.social post comes to mind:
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For some context, we could have made the monthly child tax credit that cut child poverty by 40% permanent for $100 billion a year. The return on investment would have been $15 per $1.
September 27, 2025 at 4:19 AM
For some context, we could have made the monthly child tax credit that cut child poverty by 40% permanent for $100 billion a year. The return on investment would have been $15 per $1.
This is who these people are.
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is who these people are.
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WHERE ARE THE 1800 MEN DETAINED AT THE CONCENTRATION CAMP CALLED #AlligatorAlcatraz?
1800 men have disappeared.
Have they been deported? If so, to where?
#ProudBlue #Pinks
#ResistanceUnited
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1800 men have disappeared.
Have they been deported? If so, to where?
#ProudBlue #Pinks
#ResistanceUnited
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This awful story has been overshadowed by the notoriety surrounding Charlie Kirk’s murder and the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel:
Immigration advocates warned that the Trump administration would “disappear” migrants
Now 1800 men detained at the so-called Alligator Alcatraz gulag can’t be located
Immigration advocates warned that the Trump administration would “disappear” migrants
Now 1800 men detained at the so-called Alligator Alcatraz gulag can’t be located
September 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
WHERE ARE THE 1800 MEN DETAINED AT THE CONCENTRATION CAMP CALLED #AlligatorAlcatraz?
1800 men have disappeared.
Have they been deported? If so, to where?
#ProudBlue #Pinks
#ResistanceUnited
👇🏼
1800 men have disappeared.
Have they been deported? If so, to where?
#ProudBlue #Pinks
#ResistanceUnited
👇🏼
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The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
September 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
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The right only believes in free speech when it protects their voices. Jimmy Kimmel floated the obvious, maybe the Charlie Kirk killer wasn’t some mythical “antifa leftist” but came from their own side, and suddenly his show is on “indefinite pause.”
One step closer to authoritarianism.
One step closer to authoritarianism.
September 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The right only believes in free speech when it protects their voices. Jimmy Kimmel floated the obvious, maybe the Charlie Kirk killer wasn’t some mythical “antifa leftist” but came from their own side, and suddenly his show is on “indefinite pause.”
One step closer to authoritarianism.
One step closer to authoritarianism.
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it is really important for news outlets to be clear (unlike the nyt here) that Kimmel was suspended not because of some grassroots backlash but because ABC caved to threats from the head of the FCC
ABC announced that it was pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show “indefinitely” after his comments about Charlie Kirk’s death. nyti.ms/46vgZl3
September 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
it is really important for news outlets to be clear (unlike the nyt here) that Kimmel was suspended not because of some grassroots backlash but because ABC caved to threats from the head of the FCC
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"You are being musically mean to me and it's hurting my feelings so I am going to call the police department that we are supposed to be supporting to report a feels violation."
A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.
September 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"You are being musically mean to me and it's hurting my feelings so I am going to call the police department that we are supposed to be supporting to report a feels violation."
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Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
September 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
With signs suggesting Tyler Robinson might be an extremely online Groyper, right wingers might get that civil war they want ...but entirely on the right.
September 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
With signs suggesting Tyler Robinson might be an extremely online Groyper, right wingers might get that civil war they want ...but entirely on the right.
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The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters.
Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence.
These docs show she did not.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence.
These docs show she did not.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show
A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.
www.reuters.com
September 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters.
Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence.
These docs show she did not.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence.
These docs show she did not.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
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I want us all, but men in particular, to really, really hear these words.
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained.
As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”
As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”
September 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I want us all, but men in particular, to really, really hear these words.
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."
"I thought someone was going to kill me."