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academic in digital media & rhetoric // dog lover, beer snob, gamer
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”

Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Compare to Democracy Docket's coverage on its from page. This is why we need to support independent media.
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
Insanity
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Dropkick Murphys undefeated man
This band walks the walk. @dropkickmurphys.com lead singer Ken Casey drove an ambulance to Ukraine and recorded this single from a studio in Kyiv.

Somehow, I got thrown in on backup vocals. I dare you not to feel something watching this.

"Who'll Stand With Us?"
New single by @dropkickmurphys.com just dropped. Helluva Veterans Day tribute, filmed IN UKRAINE. Watch and share. And BZ to all who wore the uniform—and who still stand for freedom.

"Who'll Stand With Us?"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3rt...
November 15, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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This band walks the walk. @dropkickmurphys.com lead singer Ken Casey drove an ambulance to Ukraine and recorded this single from a studio in Kyiv.

Somehow, I got thrown in on backup vocals. I dare you not to feel something watching this.

"Who'll Stand With Us?"
New single by @dropkickmurphys.com just dropped. Helluva Veterans Day tribute, filmed IN UKRAINE. Watch and share. And BZ to all who wore the uniform—and who still stand for freedom.

"Who'll Stand With Us?"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3rt...
“Who’ll Stand With Us” featuring O’Hamsters [Recorded in KYIV 🇺🇦]
YouTube video by VALOR Media Network
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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mafia president
corrupting the DOJ

“…the only offer on the table was that I needed to
resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA…If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block 100s of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate.”
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.

It's a surreal--and troubling--read.

drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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if your moderation team bans someone for a harmless unactionable exclamation of disgust, but permits a govt account to say stuff like this,

you need a new moderation team.
November 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.

You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.

He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.

Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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If releasing the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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If this is what they are doing with the AI, what do you think they are doing with the much simpler and easier to control algorithm that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are seen by others?
High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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“There’s no real appetite to oust Schumer, though. Nor is there any interest from another Democrat to challenge him, according to interviews with more than a dozen Democratic senators.” @punchbowlnews.bsky.social

Oh Sen Dems are not in disarray - they are in array - in their collective cowardice.
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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it's all fun and games until someone threatens our moderate senators' precious vacation travel
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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I have to hand it to Democrats. I'm one of the feds working and not getting paid and they manage to make reopening the government feel worse than the alternative.

Like, why did I miss 2.5 paychecks to end up right back where we were before the shutdown started?
Not a political consultant but I’m not sure “standing up to trump doesn’t work” is the best midterm message, even if if accurately represents senate dems position. Not much point in putting you in power then bsky.app/profile/atru...
Sen. Angus King: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work"
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Jeffries and Schumer are a team. h/t @aaronparnas.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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We tried to show them after the last surrender. There's no sense in trying to convince them anymore. Primaries are the only path to a fighting opposition party now.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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The Cave Caucus could’ve just given Trump everything he wanted from the start and millions of federal workers wouldn’t have missed paychecks, SNAP beneficiaries wouldn’t have been scrounging for food, travelers wouldn’t be stranded. They just wasted everyone’s time and made shit worse for everyone
Let’s be real here. The senate Dem Cave Caucus just dragged the entire country for 40 days for nothing. Zero. They helped Trump and the GOP wreak much havoc and misery upon millions of federal workers, SNAP dependents, etc for bullshit

They didn’t even get the 3 magic beans
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
so currently defectors are:

Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not.

If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM