Rip
@hrippy.bsky.social
Clinical Psychology M.A., B.S.
Pro 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️🌈
Pro BLM
Pro choice
Pro women
Pro education
Pro religious freedom
Pro HUMAN RIGHTS
Pro 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️🌈
Pro BLM
Pro choice
Pro women
Pro education
Pro religious freedom
Pro HUMAN RIGHTS
It’s interesting that many right-wing US leaders criticizing our academic institutions as “liberal indoctrinators” have themselves received Ivy League educations. A bit hypocritical to discredit the very system from which they benefitted, and one that has produced vastly diverse political views.
October 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It’s interesting that many right-wing US leaders criticizing our academic institutions as “liberal indoctrinators” have themselves received Ivy League educations. A bit hypocritical to discredit the very system from which they benefitted, and one that has produced vastly diverse political views.
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“Human nature is such that American democracy must be defended from Americans who would exploit its freedoms to bring about its end.”
Timothy Snyder - On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder - On Tyranny
March 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
“Human nature is such that American democracy must be defended from Americans who would exploit its freedoms to bring about its end.”
Timothy Snyder - On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder - On Tyranny
Books are a form of free speech, and our constitutional right to read them is protected under the first amendment.
#booksky #bannedbookclub
#booksky #bannedbookclub
In 1942, the American President opposed censorship because books were weapons in the fight against tyranny.
March 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Books are a form of free speech, and our constitutional right to read them is protected under the first amendment.
#booksky #bannedbookclub
#booksky #bannedbookclub
DEFEND INSTITUTIONS.
“We tend to incorrectly assume that they will protect themselves. This was the mistake made by German Jews in 1933. We assume rulers won’t attack the institutions that gave them power. It took less than a year for the Nazi order to consolidate.”
Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
“We tend to incorrectly assume that they will protect themselves. This was the mistake made by German Jews in 1933. We assume rulers won’t attack the institutions that gave them power. It took less than a year for the Nazi order to consolidate.”
Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
March 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
DEFEND INSTITUTIONS.
“We tend to incorrectly assume that they will protect themselves. This was the mistake made by German Jews in 1933. We assume rulers won’t attack the institutions that gave them power. It took less than a year for the Nazi order to consolidate.”
Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
“We tend to incorrectly assume that they will protect themselves. This was the mistake made by German Jews in 1933. We assume rulers won’t attack the institutions that gave them power. It took less than a year for the Nazi order to consolidate.”
Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
Currently struggling to understand how legal book bans aren’t a violation of our constitutional first amendment rights. We have a protected right to receive information.
#booksky #bannedbookclub
#booksky #bannedbookclub
March 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Currently struggling to understand how legal book bans aren’t a violation of our constitutional first amendment rights. We have a protected right to receive information.
#booksky #bannedbookclub
#booksky #bannedbookclub
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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March 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
As consumers, we have power in how we spend our money. In capitalism, that’s our leverage. I’ve made many changes actively choosing to support businesses whose values align with my own.
I’ll happily lose convenience to be more aligned. In this case, money DOES buy happiness. Spend intentionally.
I’ll happily lose convenience to be more aligned. In this case, money DOES buy happiness. Spend intentionally.
February 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
As consumers, we have power in how we spend our money. In capitalism, that’s our leverage. I’ve made many changes actively choosing to support businesses whose values align with my own.
I’ll happily lose convenience to be more aligned. In this case, money DOES buy happiness. Spend intentionally.
I’ll happily lose convenience to be more aligned. In this case, money DOES buy happiness. Spend intentionally.
Alright folks…as I’m at odds with myself and what power I, as an individual, have in this dystopian hellscape that is the US…I’m taking book recs. Please share anything relating to educating against and fighting racism, fascism, classism and any other isms that continue to pervade American culture.
February 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Alright folks…as I’m at odds with myself and what power I, as an individual, have in this dystopian hellscape that is the US…I’m taking book recs. Please share anything relating to educating against and fighting racism, fascism, classism and any other isms that continue to pervade American culture.
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Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options.
Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.
Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.
We all like to yell at the Democrats, but it’s really Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune who are letting Elon Musk and his faceless goon squad make a mockery of their power as leaders of a coequal branch without uttering a peep or lifting a finger.
February 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options.
Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.
Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.
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You bout to get all this DEI
Happy Black History Month...
Black history is America history
Happy Black History Month...
Black history is America history
black history is not a month it 's a lifetime written on a yellow background
ALT: black history is not a month it 's a lifetime written on a yellow background
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February 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
You bout to get all this DEI
Happy Black History Month...
Black history is America history
Happy Black History Month...
Black history is America history
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The disappearance of the various federal databases is reminding me all too vividly of the memory hole in Orwell's 1984 (as are many other things).
If we were going to live a fictional futuristic dystopia, Brave New World would have been more fun tbh
If we were going to live a fictional futuristic dystopia, Brave New World would have been more fun tbh
February 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The disappearance of the various federal databases is reminding me all too vividly of the memory hole in Orwell's 1984 (as are many other things).
If we were going to live a fictional futuristic dystopia, Brave New World would have been more fun tbh
If we were going to live a fictional futuristic dystopia, Brave New World would have been more fun tbh
