Dr. Ryan Skinnell
@rhetrickery.bsky.social
Writer, professor, speaker. I know a lot about rhetoric, burritos, and Nazis. I only like the first two. Words at @wapo, @newsweek, @salon, &tc. #TeamRhetoric www.RyanSkinnell.com ~views mine~
I was on the German teevee machine yesterday to talk Trump and Musk. h/t to @jenmercieca.bsky.social for sending them my way. My part starts around 6:30. #rsa #public_scholarship #teamrhetoric
The Day with Phil Gayle – DW – 06/07/2025
The relationship between Donald Trump and Elon Musk unravels in a flood of social media posts after Musk criticizes the centerpiece of the US president's legislative agenda -- the One Big Beautiful Bi...
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June 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I was on the German teevee machine yesterday to talk Trump and Musk. h/t to @jenmercieca.bsky.social for sending them my way. My part starts around 6:30. #rsa #public_scholarship #teamrhetoric
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In which I welcome David Brooks to the resistance and urge Gayle King to get on board. biblioracle.substack.com/p/nope-not-n...
Nope, Not Normal
Welcome to the Resistance David Brooks
biblioracle.substack.com
April 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
In which I welcome David Brooks to the resistance and urge Gayle King to get on board. biblioracle.substack.com/p/nope-not-n...
This piece by @sivav.bsky.social gave me a lot to think about. I'll admit, the fear to find somewhere to flee to is strong, but there's also a lot to be said for standing up to the threats we face at the moment. A lot to think about.
newrepublic.com/article/1933...
newrepublic.com/article/1933...
In the Academy and the Legal World, It’s Time to Stay and Fight
Stay or run? Let’s not presume this is a simple question or that everyone’s situation is the same. But I know who my heroes are.
newrepublic.com
April 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This piece by @sivav.bsky.social gave me a lot to think about. I'll admit, the fear to find somewhere to flee to is strong, but there's also a lot to be said for standing up to the threats we face at the moment. A lot to think about.
newrepublic.com/article/1933...
newrepublic.com/article/1933...
He will 💯 use this to defend his selfless service to the US.
March 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
He will 💯 use this to defend his selfless service to the US.
This thread treats questions of free speech on campuses with the kind of care and measure that it would be revolutionary for the NYT to employ. Alas.
This article’s approach is super gullible and as far as I can tell not in an ironic way.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It
President Trump and state politicians are pushing new laws and policies that crack down on curriculum, protests and speakers.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This thread treats questions of free speech on campuses with the kind of care and measure that it would be revolutionary for the NYT to employ. Alas.
Every time I get a camel, I just pile all the straw on it. As much as I can find.
March 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Every time I get a camel, I just pile all the straw on it. As much as I can find.
In case you were wondering about what underlies anti-DEI measures and/or the curious partnership in the Oval Office. Is America finallygreat again? www.npr.org/sections/sho...
'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.
www.npr.org
March 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
In case you were wondering about what underlies anti-DEI measures and/or the curious partnership in the Oval Office. Is America finallygreat again? www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
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Ok I know this is old-man irritability but I don’t care if Mahmoud Khalil has a pregnant wife, I don’t care if he and his wife are childfree, I don’t care if he’s in a fucking polycule with a hedgehog and a jar of mayonnaise, NOBODY should be detained for protected speech, including singletons.
March 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Ok I know this is old-man irritability but I don’t care if Mahmoud Khalil has a pregnant wife, I don’t care if he and his wife are childfree, I don’t care if he’s in a fucking polycule with a hedgehog and a jar of mayonnaise, NOBODY should be detained for protected speech, including singletons.
“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy,” Elon Musk said.
I need you to understand that this is *literally* Nazi rhetoric. Hitler attacked empathy and humanitarianism as a Jewish plot to unsettle natural human inequality. It’s not hyperbole to call this what it is: Nazi shit.
I need you to understand that this is *literally* Nazi rhetoric. Hitler attacked empathy and humanitarianism as a Jewish plot to unsettle natural human inequality. It’s not hyperbole to call this what it is: Nazi shit.
March 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy,” Elon Musk said.
I need you to understand that this is *literally* Nazi rhetoric. Hitler attacked empathy and humanitarianism as a Jewish plot to unsettle natural human inequality. It’s not hyperbole to call this what it is: Nazi shit.
I need you to understand that this is *literally* Nazi rhetoric. Hitler attacked empathy and humanitarianism as a Jewish plot to unsettle natural human inequality. It’s not hyperbole to call this what it is: Nazi shit.
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If you have to wait until a genocide happens again before it's ok to call a nazi a nazi, then it's too damn late. The phrase "never again" refers to fascist rhetoric as well for this very reason.
March 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If you have to wait until a genocide happens again before it's ok to call a nazi a nazi, then it's too damn late. The phrase "never again" refers to fascist rhetoric as well for this very reason.
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honestly wild to me that, at this late date, any ostensibly informed person would insist that we could ignore trump’s words as just bluster
March 8, 2025 at 4:16 AM
honestly wild to me that, at this late date, any ostensibly informed person would insist that we could ignore trump’s words as just bluster
Things aren't worse than I feared, but we are certainly moving down the path toward what I feared.
March 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Things aren't worse than I feared, but we are certainly moving down the path toward what I feared.
I’m so discombobulated by the onslaught, I can’t even regrender my chorf.
February 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I’m so discombobulated by the onslaught, I can’t even regrender my chorf.
No one tells you it’s a long game.
My doctor is getting stronger. I’m up to six apples a day and he just keeps inching closer
February 19, 2025 at 3:06 AM
No one tells you it’s a long game.
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Why are the richest men so petty and vindictive?
mr. burns from the simpsons is wearing a suit and tie and making a face .
ALT: mr. burns from the simpsons is wearing a suit and tie and making a face .
media.tenor.com
February 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Why are the richest men so petty and vindictive?
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We all need to start using the word "coup." They're well past the point where Hitler starts dictates his Enabling Act. I talk to Very Serious People who actually believe courts telling Trump that they he is breaking the law will stop this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...
Vance Says ‘Judges Aren’t Allowed to Control’ Trump’s ‘Legitimate Power’
The declaration by the vice president came as court orders have temporarily blocked parts of the Trump administration’s agenda.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
We all need to start using the word "coup." They're well past the point where Hitler starts dictates his Enabling Act. I talk to Very Serious People who actually believe courts telling Trump that they he is breaking the law will stop this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...
I wanted to re-up my Valentine's Day invitation. Less than a week away, and probably a million new complicating events between now and then. Come watch me try to make any sense of things. #teamrhetoric
February 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I wanted to re-up my Valentine's Day invitation. Less than a week away, and probably a million new complicating events between now and then. Come watch me try to make any sense of things. #teamrhetoric
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I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons
February 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons
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Are we all referring to the DOGE kids as the “Shitler Youth?”Cause I’m ready to go with that! 🙌
February 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Are we all referring to the DOGE kids as the “Shitler Youth?”Cause I’m ready to go with that! 🙌
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Elon Musk is a terrible president.
February 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Elon Musk is a terrible president.
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I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.
There’s not.
There’s not.
February 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.
There’s not.
There’s not.