Dr. D'Amato
@mdamato1111.bsky.social
Ph.D in Ancient Mediterranean.History. Mostly unemployed community college adjunct, and girl dad. I love spending time with my family.
Dissertation approved and submitted. The end run to finish this was no joke, but I did it.
December 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Dissertation approved and submitted. The end run to finish this was no joke, but I did it.
Making my final pass at the edits for this dissertation, need to get this whole thing to my comittee by mid-November or before, I just want it done. I took at least 2 years longer than I wanted, but a lot of tough life moments happened alomg the way. #dissertation
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November 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Making my final pass at the edits for this dissertation, need to get this whole thing to my comittee by mid-November or before, I just want it done. I took at least 2 years longer than I wanted, but a lot of tough life moments happened alomg the way. #dissertation
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I can say that all the parts of my dissertation have been fully drafted as of today, two years late pretty much. Last editing and formatting bits to do before I can get it in, this summer is it.
July 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I can say that all the parts of my dissertation have been fully drafted as of today, two years late pretty much. Last editing and formatting bits to do before I can get it in, this summer is it.
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Imma tattoo this on the forehead of every single techbro, C-Suite, and university upper admin person I can hold down.
July 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Imma tattoo this on the forehead of every single techbro, C-Suite, and university upper admin person I can hold down.
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That explains a lot.
FYI: New study from Cornell Uni shows that the more you use ChatGPT, the stupider you get - cognitive debt accumulates. "Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels." arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
arxiv.org
June 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
That explains a lot.
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AOC: “They’re making people undocumented by removing LEGAL status, then having the audacity to call them illegal… correct?”
@govpritzker.illinois.gov: “Taking their legal right to be here away.”
@aoc.bsky.social: “The Republican majority is anti-LEGAL immigration, I want to make that very clear.”
@govpritzker.illinois.gov: “Taking their legal right to be here away.”
@aoc.bsky.social: “The Republican majority is anti-LEGAL immigration, I want to make that very clear.”
June 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
AOC: “They’re making people undocumented by removing LEGAL status, then having the audacity to call them illegal… correct?”
@govpritzker.illinois.gov: “Taking their legal right to be here away.”
@aoc.bsky.social: “The Republican majority is anti-LEGAL immigration, I want to make that very clear.”
@govpritzker.illinois.gov: “Taking their legal right to be here away.”
@aoc.bsky.social: “The Republican majority is anti-LEGAL immigration, I want to make that very clear.”
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This is an opportunity. If ICE officers start quitting en masse, Stevie Miller won’t have the people he needs to carry out his fascism.
Keep publicly shaming them.
Keep publicly shaming them.
Yes. I have heard this from both liberal and conservative people with sources inside the agency. It’s not just the pushback, it’s also that many officers want to believe they’re targeting the “bad guys” and this admin is telling them “screw you, grab families.”
Genuinely, morale is way down.
Genuinely, morale is way down.
I think people are sleeping on how catastrophically bad ICE morale is right now.
June 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This is an opportunity. If ICE officers start quitting en masse, Stevie Miller won’t have the people he needs to carry out his fascism.
Keep publicly shaming them.
Keep publicly shaming them.
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Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out
It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts
This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts
This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
June 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out
It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts
This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts
This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history
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Sha.eful and sad, but not shocking. Pride began as, and still is, a protest. Most corporate sponsors are fair weather friends. It is telling when you pay attention to who stays.
May 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Sha.eful and sad, but not shocking. Pride began as, and still is, a protest. Most corporate sponsors are fair weather friends. It is telling when you pay attention to who stays.
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According to a study by Penn Wharton, Trump's "big, beautiful bill" that pays for tax breaks for the rich by cutting Medicaid leads to a $700 LOSS in income for the working class, a $1,000 LOSS in income for the poor & a $389,000 INCREASE for the top 0.1%.
We must defeat it.
We must defeat it.
May 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
According to a study by Penn Wharton, Trump's "big, beautiful bill" that pays for tax breaks for the rich by cutting Medicaid leads to a $700 LOSS in income for the working class, a $1,000 LOSS in income for the poor & a $389,000 INCREASE for the top 0.1%.
We must defeat it.
We must defeat it.
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Aaaand there it is.
May 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Aaaand there it is.
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If they suspend Habeas Corpus, it won't just be for "migrants" or "illegals" or "criminals." If they suspend Habeas Corpus it will be for you and me and whomever this regime decides is unfit, undesirable, and a threat or a problem. This is how it works. This is how it's always worked.
May 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
If they suspend Habeas Corpus, it won't just be for "migrants" or "illegals" or "criminals." If they suspend Habeas Corpus it will be for you and me and whomever this regime decides is unfit, undesirable, and a threat or a problem. This is how it works. This is how it's always worked.
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So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
May 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
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periodic reminder that uchicago press will give you a free ebook every month.
this month’s looks especially relevant.
this month’s looks especially relevant.
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May 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
periodic reminder that uchicago press will give you a free ebook every month.
this month’s looks especially relevant.
this month’s looks especially relevant.
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This is the 20th straight hour of Booker speaking. This is the energy and honesty we need in a Senate leader, not what we have been getting. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
April 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is the 20th straight hour of Booker speaking. This is the energy and honesty we need in a Senate leader, not what we have been getting. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Kill a white millionaire, get the death penalty. Kill two black protesters, get invited to CPAC to be celebrated.
April 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Kill a white millionaire, get the death penalty. Kill two black protesters, get invited to CPAC to be celebrated.
A percentage of us knows, but the majority of Americans are uninformed, uneducated, and think all these policies are good. We are prisoners of the blissfully stupid folks. I say stupid because they choose lies and ignorance.
I think this will become clearer as we approach summer and tourist $$ start to dry up
I wonder if my American friends understand how much Trump has destroyed the US as a travel destination. People are legitimately afraid that they might be detained for weeks in conditions that violate human rights standards, and have no idea how to avoid that outcome. So they aren't coming.
March 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
A percentage of us knows, but the majority of Americans are uninformed, uneducated, and think all these policies are good. We are prisoners of the blissfully stupid folks. I say stupid because they choose lies and ignorance.
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The onset of autocracy begins quietly, in hushed tones, under the surface, behind closed doors & drawn curtains. It creeps in subconsciously. An insidious fear of speaking up, resisting, being singled out, watched, online activity monitored. The fear of retribution, losing a job, is real & palpable.
March 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
The onset of autocracy begins quietly, in hushed tones, under the surface, behind closed doors & drawn curtains. It creeps in subconsciously. An insidious fear of speaking up, resisting, being singled out, watched, online activity monitored. The fear of retribution, losing a job, is real & palpable.
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I will remind you that under Biden, America had the lowest inflation rates of any first tier economy (which was largely driven by corporate price gouging), the lowest unemployment rates, record union membership rises, and record small business startups, plus record investment in America.
March 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I will remind you that under Biden, America had the lowest inflation rates of any first tier economy (which was largely driven by corporate price gouging), the lowest unemployment rates, record union membership rises, and record small business startups, plus record investment in America.
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A university’s duty is to steward knowledge, not surrender it. Northwestern’s decision isn’t just about one conference—it’s part of a broader collapse of institutional courage. What happens when academia stops defending the very ideas it was built to uphold?
March 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A university’s duty is to steward knowledge, not surrender it. Northwestern’s decision isn’t just about one conference—it’s part of a broader collapse of institutional courage. What happens when academia stops defending the very ideas it was built to uphold?
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Under the terms of the ceasefire deal, Israel should have been withdrawing from Gaza by now, but instead they have violated the ceasefire by carrying out nothing less than a massacre.
There is a moral obligation on all governments to stop arming Israel and hold them accountable for their actions.
There is a moral obligation on all governments to stop arming Israel and hold them accountable for their actions.
March 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Under the terms of the ceasefire deal, Israel should have been withdrawing from Gaza by now, but instead they have violated the ceasefire by carrying out nothing less than a massacre.
There is a moral obligation on all governments to stop arming Israel and hold them accountable for their actions.
There is a moral obligation on all governments to stop arming Israel and hold them accountable for their actions.
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I am putting together what I am calling: "Pentagon Syllabus." It will include a list of essential readings on subjects that the Trump administration doesn't want Americans to know anything about.
Please share suggestions that cover subjects and individuals, whose webpages have been deleted. 🗃️
Please share suggestions that cover subjects and individuals, whose webpages have been deleted. 🗃️
March 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I am putting together what I am calling: "Pentagon Syllabus." It will include a list of essential readings on subjects that the Trump administration doesn't want Americans to know anything about.
Please share suggestions that cover subjects and individuals, whose webpages have been deleted. 🗃️
Please share suggestions that cover subjects and individuals, whose webpages have been deleted. 🗃️