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Exhausted idealist, entering my crone era

Here for: news, opposition, higher ed, info literacy, unraveled Christians, pop culture, laughs, whimsy

my places: Spokane/PNW, Midwest, DC/MD, Ukraine 🇺🇦.
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I can never forget this image from the 2024 Republican National Convention.

Not sure I can forgive them, either.
September 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Again, for our civilized country friends, these are per month premiums.
$2,700->$4,000
November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This is the way to frame these stories.

More evidence of White House bias toward sexual predators.
News of the White House's intervention on behalf of accused sex traffickers Andrew and Tristan Tate comes as Trump is under fire over his ties to notorious child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
This story first appeared at ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Great 😑
November 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Great 😑
November 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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See if we had kept the Me Too men cancelled the first time so much of this could have been avoided
November 18, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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i want to put this in front of conservative pundits who defended this raid bsky.app/profile/raws...
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Yes. And I'm careful to say "online discourse" because actual educators typically do not think like Josh does. Unfortunately many politicians and powerful people listen more to guys like Josh than to actual educators! bsky.app/profile/cars...
I work at a university and this guy is a massive asshole who would be laughed out of any room with actual educators in it. Accommodations help people succeed and are available to every student. It’s GOOD that people do better when they have support.
November 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Not to lay my cards on the table but I think this narrow focus in online discourse on who deserves to be rewarded really elides the actual societal value of the education system (teaching members of society important stuff that it's valuable for them to know)
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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“This can’t continue” yes it can

“This can’t get worse” yes it can

“This can’t be fixed” yes it can
November 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Remember this the next time you have flight delays: the Biden plan would have forced airlines to give passengers “between $200 and nearly $775 for delays ranging from three hours to over nine hours, along with guaranteed meals and lodging”

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
November 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Wait. She stole the styling of my 1980s Western Ken Doll.

I still have him and this outfit somewhere.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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I think a lot, especially living where I do now, that Ruby Bridges (now 71) is younger than my mom.

Today I’m thinking about how she walked into William Frantz Elementary School when she was younger than my Small Niece is now.
November 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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So we are going to bring forth a world where anyone who wants to be a lone wolf is welcome to walk into the woods without a single damn thing a global community made for him, and perish howling at the moon.

The rest of us will live in a society.
November 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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For real, you all think the problem is "white guys don't see themselves in this party" but the problem really is "white guys are uncomfortable belonging to a party with women and BIPOC in leadership." That problem doesn't get solved by centering arrogant white guys more.
November 14, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Hey, @bsky.app! I am not interested in one single thing on the Trending List here - and why are they all stale items from yesterday?

Come on. Trending Topics should display from the last couple of hours.
November 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I can see why her post got flagged. Mods & users shouldn’t have to know every pop culture reference to give context to death threats.

ALSO, Bluesky should have communicated clearly and quickly to identify the problem post and make clear that it was a 3-day suspension not permanent.
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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When a far right pundit on a CNN panel with me ‘joked’ about my beeper going off live on air & then got banned by CNN, Megyn Kelly had him on her show & they both laughed about it.

Yet here is Kelly getting super offended when someone else makes the beeper threat against her. Oh, the hypocrisy.
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Michael Wolff, Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein taking time out of their day covering up the world's most famous pedophile ring to complain about Ta-Nehesi Coates.
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet.”

Great work by @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social & the @propublica.org a.org team piecing together what really happened in that war-like raid of a Chicago Apt bldg.
November 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM