Iohannes Rhetor
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Iohannes Rhetor
@jmnewman.bsky.social
Assistant, Library of Jürgen Leitner
https://youtube.com/@IohannesRhetor
pronouns: he/him
adverbs: well/actually
Can-Am NY diasporan in Missouri, woke social engineer
NOBYVFU VPR
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I've decided to become a crank
I think I could work up at least 7-10 minutes of stand-up material on the ambivalence I would feel about adding my name to a class actions suit on behalf of Walmart Whippet consumers
November 15, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I hope I'm not being orientalist or anything, but the Vogue India horoscope is the best. www.vogue.in/horoscope
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November 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Conservative acrobatics and contortionism.over Epstein outdo cirque du soleil
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Happy Circulatory System Walking in the Kitchen Day to all who celebrate
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
What's the over-under on how long it will take for online leftists to called Mamdani a sellout/shill/shitlib? I said 6 months, but my friend who lives in NYC said 6 weeks.
November 6, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Mamdani is a radical islamist like Bernie is a Kahanist.
November 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Happy for the results, concerned about the inevitable spasm of regime violence
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Why was I under the impression Dick Cheney was already dead?
November 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives
November 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
In America it's called the ninth inning but in Canada it's inning 9.
November 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Bassitt's got one of those great depression/WW2 faces
November 2, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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I can't get into the psyche of people who would cut off the world's best researchers from teaching their students because they happened to be born farther away from you than you are comfortable with. www.chronicle.com/article/flor...
Florida’s Public Universities Should No Longer Hire Foreign Employees, DeSantis Says
The Republican governor’s directive on H-1B visas comes as President Trump has initiated his policy of charging employers a new $100,000 fee to hire people from outside the United States.
www.chronicle.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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America’s Team: the Toronto Blue Jays
October 30, 2025 at 3:20 AM
My students called Andrew Marvell a "reddit NiceGuy" and I'm very amused
October 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The other night in my dream I was arguing with Bari Weiss because dream Bari Weiss was making fun of my disable brother.

I think this means I've been spending too much time on Bluesky.
October 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Every so often I think "maybe I'll get into baseball again" (avid as a child) and then I come to the conclusion that it's too much work. I might have speedrun that process last night.
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Man, shit's crazy
October 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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A striking visual of what Trump and his cronies have been doing to government: to Medicaid, the CDC, the EPA, USAID, and many, many other agencies.
October 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.

Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
October 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
So is George Soros actually as cool as the right makes him out to be?
October 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Five of the six private universities invited to join Trump's "Compact" have rejected it: Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Penn, and USC.

Vanderbilt is the only private university still considering selling academic freedom and civil rights in exchange for an unfair advantage in competing for federal grants.
October 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
October 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM