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Deborah Hollingsworth
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Feminist Dem voter in the US South with a sweet partner and funny little dog.

Political science prof at a small university, but it won’t take long to realize the views in my posts are my own.
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get your war on 12 - # 5 7/11/02 get your war on 13 #2 8/7/02 get your war on 13 - #4 8/7/02
November 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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New Yorker cartoon by Edward Steed Drawing that depicts the inside of a messy locker room. A heavyset man with a halo, long beard, robe, and sandals is wearing a baseball cap and whistle around his neck. He is scowling with his mouth open, pointing aggressively at a board on the wall with drawings of molecular formations. Suspended along the perpendicular wall above a bench are five anthropomorphized atoms with different expressions.
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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New Yorker cartoon Aerial view that shows a portion of a prison yard surrounded by a tall fence with razor wire and another row of razor wire at ground level a distance away. Inside the prison yard, there is a baseball diamond with players wearing prison stripes are looking out past the fence. Next to the player holding a bat and another holding a glove is a freshly-dug hole. Beyond the last row of fencing is a man in stripes reaching out of a hole to grab the missing baseball.
November 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Thank you. (Deleted because I don’t want people to think I’m slut-shaming.)
Deborah H... @h... • 30m Seems Nuzzi initiated sex work w Olbermann, & he paid for school/ lifestyle. The johns, currency changed, but her 1st career is consistent. Instead of mistaking her journalism hobby for a profession, let's judge her on the terrible prose/positions and see her as a famous prostitute given a platform
November 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Image of MS Word Clippy, the cartoon paper clip with eyes who assisted with spelling and grammar
November 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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I was one of many people who supported the Biden economy and found Harris’ policies to be a sound continuation. But numbers have changed and it’s inaccurate to make the following statement today.
Screenshot of a skeet Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social (Follow) people can buy more stuff today than ever before, more or less. compared to more than 3-4 years ago and it's not even close. we are vastly wealthier on average now than even within near living memory November 9, 2025 at 4:53 AM 3 reposts 20 quotes 88 likes
November 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Old graphic t-shirt that reads "I ran into Tammy Faye at the mall" with the image of a full face of makeup smashed into the shirt with foundation, black eyebrows, teal eyeshadow, black blob of mascara, bright purpleish cheek blush, more foundation around a smear of red lipstick. Ubiquitous in the Charlotte area during the 80s/early 90s during the height of their PTL amusement park televangelical scene.
November 7, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Also from the article:
I thought it was really interesting to look at [Harris's] involvement in this issue, because she didn't invent the idea of punishing parents when their kids miss school. California already had a law on its books. Her innovation was to build a really standardized way for local district attorneys to get involved in pressuring parents to make sure their kids go to school. And a lot of education advocates were happy that she brought attention to the issue, because they say attention is actually the number one way we solve truancy. They think it's really important to call people's attention to the fact that, Hey, it adds up when your kids miss school. who got caught up in this initiative. Harris wanted them to keep better data, but she didn't get everything she wanted. But generally, when you look nationwide, all of the studies of truancy
October 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Indeed!
Passage from Jude the Obscure Jude had by this time come to himself. *What a view of life he must have, mine or not mine!' he said. 'I must say that, if I were better off, 1 should not stop for a moment to think whose he might be. I would take him and bring him up. The beggarly question of parentage - what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.' … dearest! And we'll have him here! And if he isn't yours it makes it all the better. I do hope he isn't - though perhaps I ought not to feel quite that! If he isn't, I should like so much for us to have him as an adopted child!' 'Well, you must assume about him what is most pleasing to you, my curious little comrade!' he said. 'I feel that, anyhow, I don't like to leave the unfortunate little fellow to neglect. Just think of his life in a Lambeth pothouse, and all its evil influences, with a parent who doesn't want him, and has, indeed, hardly seen him, and a stepfather who doesn't know him. "Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived!"* That's what the boy - my boy, perhaps, will find himself saying before long!' 'O no!'
October 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Person holding sign at No Kings rally. Yellow sign with different ping pong balls glued to it that reads: Free Balls! For members of Congress who have lost theirs!
October 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Black and white photo from the 60s of a protest on what appear to be courthouse steps of white rightwingers against hippies. Foreground is angry, middle aged squares wearing buttoned-up shirts and pleated pants. In the background, others are holding signs with following phrases: - Long hair is communism - Move them hippies north - Stop hippies March of the (hidden)hrist
October 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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The Guggenheim had a Mondrian exhibit recently and seeing the change from representational to abstract style play out in sequence was so cool!
Two paintings hung beside each other on a wall. One is of a messy studio space that shows the space in a loose style. The painting on the right holds some of the same structural and color elements as the painting on the left, but the objects are visually unintelligible.
September 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Whomst among us could have guessed what would have happened under our tariff loving President?
Screenshot with passages highlighted that reads: Trump, March 16: China now is building a couple of massive plants where they're going to build the cars in Mexico and think, they think, that they're going to sell those cars into the United States with no tax at the border. Let me tell you something to China, if you're listening President Xi, and you and lare friends, but he understands the way I deal. Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you're building in Mexico right now, and you think you're going to get that, you're going to not hire Americans, and you're going to sell the cars to us? No. We're going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you're not going to be able to sell those cars. If I get elected. Now, if I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath, for the whole — that's going to be the least of it. It's going to be a bloodbath for the country. That'll be the least of it. But they're not going to sell those cars.
September 20, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Updating my AI policy for this semester and am including the link to this article.

So the "expert" thinks education should just be entering prompts into our LLM.

That's gonna be a no for me, dawg. Holy shit.
Screenshot of an article about AI changing our brains. ___ But some experts aren’t sold. AI&U author Tracy Sheen had one big question: “Does it matter?” “[AI is] the new literacy skill,” she said. “It’s more important than reading, writing or arithmetic. “I had someone really come at me the other day saying, ‘But kids will never learn how to write’. And I’m like, ‘But do they need to?’ That’s the whole thing with all of this. We need to keep challenging.” She also argued that different people learn in different ways, and so one study showing an extreme case of blinkered LLM use might not have all that much to teach us. Regardless, Sheen said, if using LLMs improves your ability to prompt LLMs, that might actually be the No. 1 skill for the future. ___ https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/careers/ai-changes-your-brain-some-experts-are-asking-whether-it-matters-20250624-p5m9vd
August 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Pentagon spokesman not knowing how to spell soldier is the only funny thing about this horrible story.
Screenshot of text from the article which reads "Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson has never promoted antisemitism," Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement to NPR. "The ADL and other left-wing groups like it have erroneously attacked Mrs. Wilson's character because she is a fighter for President Trump and a loyal solider [sic] of Secretary Hegseth. We will continue to dismiss this false accusation and focus on delivering President Trump's America First agenda at the Department of Defense."
August 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Hey. I have one of those from Barcelona. Cool
Photo of statue of Christopher Columbus with my extended middle finger in the foreground
August 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Just spent a few weeks in Spain, visiting sites of massacres from the Civil War. One night, we were talking w friends, and they asked about Trump. I cried as I told them about the disappearances, the ending of civil liberties, a social safety net, and institutional independence.

It’s all here now.
Sign at the site of mass death at La Barranca outside Logroño where hundreds of people were shot unceremoniously. The sign reads No hay nada en el mundo que haga olvidar una injusticia (there is nothing in the world that will make us forget an injustice). The sign is red, yellow, and purple similar to the flag of the second Spanish Republic. Monument in Madrid of a massacre that started the war. It was supposed to be a quick coup, but the people of Madrid fought back, filled the streets, and killed the soldiers ordered to seize the levers of government. Image is of a wall made to mimic sandbags. Across the wall is an abstract statue of a mangled person on their side. Etching by Goya titled Esto es lo peor! (That’s the worst of it!) depicting a beast teaching the people. Part of a series called Los Desastres de la guerra (The Disasters of War) Monument in the tiny village of Olite commemorating the women who were disappeared by the fascists. Image is outdoors. The ground is laid with a square of stones that mimic hardwood floors. The sculpture is of an open door with a pair of women’s shoes left behind.
July 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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I’ve been intending to do it so thanks for the push.
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July 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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The weirdest thing. I cut open this spaghetti squash and the seeds had sprouted! I’ve never seen anything like it.

(Still struggling to use these nails i got before a recent wedding I attended)
June 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Photo of a Men’s Wearhouse storefront
June 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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In 2023, my partner and I were visiting my mom in St Mary’s, GA and came upon this replica of Magellan’s ship. My bf told them that about ten years earlier he saw another replica in Lake Michigan. The people we met were on that ship too!

Such a cool life and eccentric way to see the world. Kudos!
Photo of replica of a wooden sailing ship Photo of a replica of a wooden sailing ship Photo of information about the Trinidad
May 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I said it when Cal Cunningham’s dumb ass (even before the affair scandal) was running and I said it again about Biden, I care about enacting Dem policies.
Screenshot from an Intelligencer article from 2016 - In 2012, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist argued that the only thing the GOP needed in its next president was "enough working digits to handle a pen." More specifically, Norquist wanted a president who would use those digits to sign Paul Ryan's austerity budget. On Thursday, the Speaker of the House endorsed Norquist's argument - by (belatedly) endorsing Donald Trump.
May 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The only thing I look for in a president is his signing hand, amirite Republicans?
Screenshot of from an article in The Intelligencer: In 2012, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist argued that the only thing the GOP needed in its next president was “enough working digits to handle a pen.” More specifically, Norquist wanted a president who would use those digits to sign Paul Ryan’s austerity budget. On Thursday, the Speaker of the House endorsed Norquist’s argument — by (belatedly) endorsing Donald Trump.
May 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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They were on SNL together, and I thought the same thing!
Screenshot photo of Sabrina Carpenter and Quinta Brunson on the SNL stage
May 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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This little independent rag called The New York Times
Screenshot of the Spotify Podcast of today’s episode of the New York Times The Daily titled “A Vulnerable China Comes to the Table”
May 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM