Emily Dowd-Arrow
@emilydowd-arrow.bsky.social
Professor, writer, creative hobbyist, partner, mother, and orchid slayer. I believe in the power of rhetorical listening to transform human dynamics and the world.
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A dark, lie-filled inaugural address.
Cruel and unconstitutional executive orders.
Billionaires saluting a fascist agenda.
Heather Lofthouse and I break down Trump's first week back in power.
Cruel and unconstitutional executive orders.
Billionaires saluting a fascist agenda.
Heather Lofthouse and I break down Trump's first week back in power.
Trump's Real Agenda | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich
A dark, lie-filled inaugural address.Cruel and unconstitutional executive orders.Billionaires saluting a fascist agenda.Heather Lofthouse and I break down Tr...
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January 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A dark, lie-filled inaugural address.
Cruel and unconstitutional executive orders.
Billionaires saluting a fascist agenda.
Heather Lofthouse and I break down Trump's first week back in power.
Cruel and unconstitutional executive orders.
Billionaires saluting a fascist agenda.
Heather Lofthouse and I break down Trump's first week back in power.
Tradwife Life is the product of Gen Z privilege purchased with the blood of every escaped tradwife of the past.
December 27, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Tradwife Life is the product of Gen Z privilege purchased with the blood of every escaped tradwife of the past.
Breakfast casserole nostalgics beware: if the recipe tells you to use sliced cheese DON’T fall for it! Shredding your own cheese has been a personal choice since 1958. Buy the bag of shredded sharp cheddar and be grateful.
December 27, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Breakfast casserole nostalgics beware: if the recipe tells you to use sliced cheese DON’T fall for it! Shredding your own cheese has been a personal choice since 1958. Buy the bag of shredded sharp cheddar and be grateful.
1 poor a&$hole kills himself eating a bag of licorice a day for 3 weeks in 2017 & by 2024 I CAN’T GET A BLACK TWIZZLER AT PUBLIX?!! No black jellybeans. Best flavor in a spice drops bag—gone. & not a Good n’ Plenty on the shelves. The Dutch are over their eating 4 lbs a yr EACH & laughing at us.
December 23, 2024 at 11:25 PM
1 poor a&$hole kills himself eating a bag of licorice a day for 3 weeks in 2017 & by 2024 I CAN’T GET A BLACK TWIZZLER AT PUBLIX?!! No black jellybeans. Best flavor in a spice drops bag—gone. & not a Good n’ Plenty on the shelves. The Dutch are over their eating 4 lbs a yr EACH & laughing at us.
This is so true
Crucial new resource on the fiscal harm caused by school vouchers that, unlike voucher industry estimates, actually (shocker!) understands how state education budgets work.
@epi.org
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How vouchers harm public schools: Calculating the cost of voucher programs to public school districts
Overview What this report is about Voucher programs for schools are rapidly expanding across the country. Under these programs, public budgets provide funding to parents to either send their children ...
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December 20, 2024 at 3:12 AM
This is so true
Surprising? Nope.
Here it is: my viral Bluesky thread significantly expanded into a full essay. Hope you will share it with anyone you think might be interested.
The Truth About Musk, From His Biographer
A viral Bluesky thread introduced tens of thousands around the world to a first glimpse of a forthcoming biography of Elon Musk. Here—in a single essay—is some of what the world just learned.
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December 15, 2024 at 2:51 AM
Surprising? Nope.
Ever wish you could just turn all this off and go back to being not sick to your stomach?
December 13, 2024 at 3:45 AM
Ever wish you could just turn all this off and go back to being not sick to your stomach?
Putting this here
How insurance companies degrade the patient-doctor relationship, by Helen Ouyang, my friend and exceptional physician-author
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December 13, 2024 at 3:42 AM
Putting this here
Dear god
Remember when 45 said this? “I have nothing to do with Project 2025.” Just another lie.
He’s keeping his pledge to elevate the scum of America to positions they don't deserve. Lets keep our own pledge to fight back against his tyranny. #StopProject2025
He’s keeping his pledge to elevate the scum of America to positions they don't deserve. Lets keep our own pledge to fight back against his tyranny. #StopProject2025
December 13, 2024 at 1:11 AM
Dear god
The more I think about it, the more I disdain Trump’s supporters...
America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster.
We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here.
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We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...
December 12, 2024 at 6:12 PM
The stories that make us uncomfortable have the power to transform us. The discomfort is the grating of the stone as it slides away from the cave mouth. #letinthelight #freedomtoread
Spread these stories of resistance far and wide!
1. A teacher in Ohio who has worked at the same public school for 34 years was suspended without pay and threatened with termination for offering four books in her classroom library that contained LGBTQ characters.
She's fighting back.
She's fighting back.
December 12, 2024 at 3:04 PM
The stories that make us uncomfortable have the power to transform us. The discomfort is the grating of the stone as it slides away from the cave mouth. #letinthelight #freedomtoread
Any other geeks play Diablo 3/4 & think of Bobby Dollar & the Countess of Cold Hands? Just me? K. #TadWilliams #dirtystreetsofheaven #happyhourinhell #sleepinglateonjudgmentday #diablo3 #diablo4
December 12, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Any other geeks play Diablo 3/4 & think of Bobby Dollar & the Countess of Cold Hands? Just me? K. #TadWilliams #dirtystreetsofheaven #happyhourinhell #sleepinglateonjudgmentday #diablo3 #diablo4
All of this starts with education and the slow dismantling of its infrastructure in this country
My latest: What if we had a crisis and nobody cared?
Our grim educational crisis is met with a shrug.
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Our grim educational crisis is met with a shrug.
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The Crisis Neither Party Is Equipped to Handle
America’s education system is in trouble, but neither Republicans nor Democrats are up for the challenge of enforcing change.
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December 12, 2024 at 12:24 AM
All of this starts with education and the slow dismantling of its infrastructure in this country
Gonna leave this here…
We analyzed the educational backgrounds of every current and incoming member of Congress. Here's what we found. chroni.cl/3OSKh4N
The Colleges That Shape Congress
We analyzed the educational backgrounds of every current and incoming member of Congress. Here’s what we found.
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December 12, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Gonna leave this here…
December 11, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Scientists believe we are reaching the apex of the Just-Give-Up-o-cene Era.
Coca-Cola has been accused of quietly abandoning a pledge to achieve a 25% reusable packaging target by 2030 in what campaigners call a “masterclass in greenwashing”.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
December 11, 2024 at 9:35 AM
I’ll miss Krugman
“What I believe is that while resentment can put bad people in power, in the long run it can’t keep them there,” writes @pkrugman.bsky.social in his final column before his retirement from the Times.
Opinion | My Last Column: Finding Hope in an Age of Resentment
Where have all the good vibes gone?
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December 11, 2024 at 9:31 AM
I’ll miss Krugman
Wow
Using the First Amendment to justify banning TikTok in the United States could “spell a new and dangerous era of speech regulation,” write the legal experts Jameel Jaffer and Genevieve Lakier.
Opinion | The TikTok Ruling Is a Blow for the First Amendment and Free Speech
The First Amendment should not be used to cut Americans’ access to TikTok, and the Supreme Court should step in.
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December 11, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Wow
Chefs kiss
December 11, 2024 at 9:28 AM
Chefs kiss
Feels accurate
December 11, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Feels accurate
Facts
December 11, 2024 at 5:35 AM
Facts
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Thou shalt not kill' also means 'thou shalt not let profit margins decide who lives and who dies.'
December 11, 2024 at 12:05 AM
Thou shalt not kill' also means 'thou shalt not let profit margins decide who lives and who dies.'
Hrmmm.
Especially when he spends all day shitposting online.
December 11, 2024 at 12:43 AM
Hrmmm.
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Ultrarich tech elites are becoming much more prominent in American politics—and they don't care who knows it, @alibreland.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/o1O7kJNx
December 10, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Ultrarich tech elites are becoming much more prominent in American politics—and they don't care who knows it, @alibreland.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/o1O7kJNx