John O'Connell
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Free Palestine. China is not the enemy
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The weird thing to me is how fact-free all of the arguments against the humanities are, as you suggest (we do punch way above our weight). Humanities generally makes universities $$$, touches tons of students, have terrific lifelong earning and vocational stats, AND teach people how to think.
a woman with long black hair is making a funny face and the words and yet are behind her .
Alt: a woman with long black hair is making a funny face and the words and yet are behind her .
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August 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The weird thing to me is how fact-free all of the arguments against the humanities are, as you suggest (we do punch way above our weight). Humanities generally makes universities $$$, touches tons of students, have terrific lifelong earning and vocational stats, AND teach people how to think.
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Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
March 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
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On this day in 1986, Tommy Douglas died.
Considered one of the most important Canadians of the 20th century, he served as premier of Saskatchewan, led the federal NDP, and was instrumental in the creation of Medicare in Canada.
Let's explore his life :)
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Considered one of the most important Canadians of the 20th century, he served as premier of Saskatchewan, led the federal NDP, and was instrumental in the creation of Medicare in Canada.
Let's explore his life :)
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February 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
On this day in 1986, Tommy Douglas died.
Considered one of the most important Canadians of the 20th century, he served as premier of Saskatchewan, led the federal NDP, and was instrumental in the creation of Medicare in Canada.
Let's explore his life :)
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Considered one of the most important Canadians of the 20th century, he served as premier of Saskatchewan, led the federal NDP, and was instrumental in the creation of Medicare in Canada.
Let's explore his life :)
🧵1/16
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When someone says we are going to build Nuclear to 'protect our energy supply' and you find out it will take 20-25 years and cost 10x as much per Watt as Renewable.
Do you not realize it is a scam?
Do you not realize it is a scam?
February 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
When someone says we are going to build Nuclear to 'protect our energy supply' and you find out it will take 20-25 years and cost 10x as much per Watt as Renewable.
Do you not realize it is a scam?
Do you not realize it is a scam?
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It's sad that it's hard to find any respectable voices who'll stand up for immigration. I wish we'd welcome people from all over the world, whether they're just regular workers or Nobel material.
"Nobel Prizes have been awarded to 142 immigrants to the United States. Nearly half of the companies in the Fortune 500 were founded by immigrants or their children. Blue jeans, Tesla, basketball, 'God Bless America' — all the work of immigrants."
February 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
It's sad that it's hard to find any respectable voices who'll stand up for immigration. I wish we'd welcome people from all over the world, whether they're just regular workers or Nobel material.
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First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.
January 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.
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College freshmen saying "from the river to the sea" is an existential threat to Jewish people. America's shadow president giving Nazi salutes at a rally is not.
by Bret Stephens and Bill Ackman
by Bret Stephens and Bill Ackman
January 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
College freshmen saying "from the river to the sea" is an existential threat to Jewish people. America's shadow president giving Nazi salutes at a rally is not.
by Bret Stephens and Bill Ackman
by Bret Stephens and Bill Ackman
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I voted for Trump. But when he said he would end birthright citizenship, I didn’t know that he would strip me of my own birthright citizenship
January 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I voted for Trump. But when he said he would end birthright citizenship, I didn’t know that he would strip me of my own birthright citizenship
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broke: china is bad
woke: china is good
bespoke: china is a nation-state with its own challenges, nationalists, disastrously bad elements, and genuinely incredible things
woke: china is good
bespoke: china is a nation-state with its own challenges, nationalists, disastrously bad elements, and genuinely incredible things
January 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
broke: china is bad
woke: china is good
bespoke: china is a nation-state with its own challenges, nationalists, disastrously bad elements, and genuinely incredible things
woke: china is good
bespoke: china is a nation-state with its own challenges, nationalists, disastrously bad elements, and genuinely incredible things
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misinformation is a very real issue, the problem was it was folded into a power-flattering pseudo epistemology where only grimy foreigners and YouTubers were capable of doing it when some of the biggest promoters of misinformation are the NYT and Atlantic. This bred cynicism and indifference.
Still wild to me that so many "savvy" folks on left and right have bought into the idea that online misinformation is overblown and doesn't really matter. From lies about migrants to transgender people to crime to election denial to climate denial, it's literally driving our country's politics.
January 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
misinformation is a very real issue, the problem was it was folded into a power-flattering pseudo epistemology where only grimy foreigners and YouTubers were capable of doing it when some of the biggest promoters of misinformation are the NYT and Atlantic. This bred cynicism and indifference.
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Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source.
January 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source.
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I had to go to the hospital this morning for a sudden severe headache followed by collapsing.
While our system does need work. The Canadian healthcare system worked for me today. Ambulance, CT and all blood work done in 3 hours.
Follow up neurology appointment in a week.
While our system does need work. The Canadian healthcare system worked for me today. Ambulance, CT and all blood work done in 3 hours.
Follow up neurology appointment in a week.
January 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I had to go to the hospital this morning for a sudden severe headache followed by collapsing.
While our system does need work. The Canadian healthcare system worked for me today. Ambulance, CT and all blood work done in 3 hours.
Follow up neurology appointment in a week.
While our system does need work. The Canadian healthcare system worked for me today. Ambulance, CT and all blood work done in 3 hours.
Follow up neurology appointment in a week.
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A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.
January 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.
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After hearing how eating too much sugar and carbohydrates affects the human body I’ve decided to cut back on the amount of people I listen to
December 31, 2024 at 2:05 PM
After hearing how eating too much sugar and carbohydrates affects the human body I’ve decided to cut back on the amount of people I listen to
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Happy New Year.
2024 was a difficult year for transgender people, and yet at the turning of the year, I find myself holding on tightly to the small moments of peace we have right now.
2025 will be difficult, and it is essential that we find space for peace and rest to prepare for it.
2024 was a difficult year for transgender people, and yet at the turning of the year, I find myself holding on tightly to the small moments of peace we have right now.
2025 will be difficult, and it is essential that we find space for peace and rest to prepare for it.
December 31, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Happy New Year.
2024 was a difficult year for transgender people, and yet at the turning of the year, I find myself holding on tightly to the small moments of peace we have right now.
2025 will be difficult, and it is essential that we find space for peace and rest to prepare for it.
2024 was a difficult year for transgender people, and yet at the turning of the year, I find myself holding on tightly to the small moments of peace we have right now.
2025 will be difficult, and it is essential that we find space for peace and rest to prepare for it.
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Recently took a peek at Twitter and the disinformation is getting substantially more dangerous. Someone could get killed.
The tactics of constantly repeating outright lies, targeting specific people, repurposing years-old footage and presenting them as new is getting to another level. It’s scary.
The tactics of constantly repeating outright lies, targeting specific people, repurposing years-old footage and presenting them as new is getting to another level. It’s scary.
December 23, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Recently took a peek at Twitter and the disinformation is getting substantially more dangerous. Someone could get killed.
The tactics of constantly repeating outright lies, targeting specific people, repurposing years-old footage and presenting them as new is getting to another level. It’s scary.
The tactics of constantly repeating outright lies, targeting specific people, repurposing years-old footage and presenting them as new is getting to another level. It’s scary.
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I hope the jail who houses the United Healthcare CEO assassin understands that they are going to need extra people to work in their mail room for incoming inmate mail for a while. A LOT of extra people.
December 10, 2024 at 1:40 AM
I hope the jail who houses the United Healthcare CEO assassin understands that they are going to need extra people to work in their mail room for incoming inmate mail for a while. A LOT of extra people.
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We wanted to understand what's wrong with the US health care system. So we talked to a lone gunman at a McDonald's in Altoona, PA.
December 9, 2024 at 7:16 PM
We wanted to understand what's wrong with the US health care system. So we talked to a lone gunman at a McDonald's in Altoona, PA.
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I WILL FIGHT WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING FOR SOCIAL SECURITY, AS A PATIENT ADVOCATE & WITH MY ALLIES LIKE SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS. JUST BECAUSE SENATOR MIKE LEE PUT THE BLUE PRINT OUT TO DESTROY SOCIAL SECURITY, HE WILL HAVE TO GET THROUGH US FIRST. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY DESPICABLE!
WILL YOU JOIN US? ✋
WILL YOU JOIN US? ✋
December 3, 2024 at 4:52 PM
I WILL FIGHT WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING FOR SOCIAL SECURITY, AS A PATIENT ADVOCATE & WITH MY ALLIES LIKE SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS. JUST BECAUSE SENATOR MIKE LEE PUT THE BLUE PRINT OUT TO DESTROY SOCIAL SECURITY, HE WILL HAVE TO GET THROUGH US FIRST. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY DESPICABLE!
WILL YOU JOIN US? ✋
WILL YOU JOIN US? ✋
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If genuine representative democracy requires free and fair elections based on universal suffrage, then America didn't become a democracy until the passing of the voting rights act in 1965.
December 3, 2024 at 11:20 PM
If genuine representative democracy requires free and fair elections based on universal suffrage, then America didn't become a democracy until the passing of the voting rights act in 1965.