Rachel Durso
@rudescholar1804.bsky.social
Sociology Professor studying social movements, prisons, and gender violence. Occasional home for wayward dogs. Brain full of 30 Rock & Brooklyn 99 quotes.
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Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more
December 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more
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very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
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One of the worst parts of the modern condition is having to listen to billionaires airing out the stupidest policy ideas, random musings, and other mental detritus. It’s unbearable.
December 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
One of the worst parts of the modern condition is having to listen to billionaires airing out the stupidest policy ideas, random musings, and other mental detritus. It’s unbearable.
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I am honestly having some trouble following “the health care industry is a huge powerful malevolent machine ripping off America and we want you to negotiate directly with it for your insulin.”
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I am honestly having some trouble following “the health care industry is a huge powerful malevolent machine ripping off America and we want you to negotiate directly with it for your insulin.”
This! And they usually promote said fires as accomplishments when they go on to the next job!
In my experience, nearly all administrator-led initiatives were launched as CV fodder for their next job. If they happened to help their current school, it was a fringe benefit.
In my experience, nearly all administrator-led initiatives were launched as CV fodder for their next job. If they happened to help their current school, it was a fringe benefit.
The worst thing to happen to academia was the emergence of a nomadic administrative class like the one in corporations who just move from institution to institution setting fires and walking away.
Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.
Say what you will about the flaws of faculty governance, but at least they believe in the mission.
December 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This! And they usually promote said fires as accomplishments when they go on to the next job!
In my experience, nearly all administrator-led initiatives were launched as CV fodder for their next job. If they happened to help their current school, it was a fringe benefit.
In my experience, nearly all administrator-led initiatives were launched as CV fodder for their next job. If they happened to help their current school, it was a fringe benefit.
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James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
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It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI
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It is journalistic malpractice to be within a city block of Vance and not read him this tweet through a bullhorn
November 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
It is journalistic malpractice to be within a city block of Vance and not read him this tweet through a bullhorn
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Never let them say you can’t be a mensch AND a hater
Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Never let them say you can’t be a mensch AND a hater
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Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.
June 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Zohran Mamdani is saying things like “poverty is a policy choice and politicians have a duty to their constituents to make their lives affordable” and it is making a lot of politicians very very scared that they may actually have to start doing some actual service in their public service jobs.
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New York City: where apparently it's a grand conspiracy theory when the immigrants are replacing the immigrants that replaced the immigrants that replaced the immigrants that replaced the immigrants that replaced the Native Americans.
So, these people are white supremacists of a very specific, American kind. The idea that the right to govern belongs only to a select, racially defined group was *the* political theory of the antebellum and redeemed south. Ask who is being replaced and why that’s a problem, you’ll see it.
June 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
New York City: where apparently it's a grand conspiracy theory when the immigrants are replacing the immigrants that replaced the immigrants that replaced the immigrants that replaced the immigrants that replaced the Native Americans.
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Some U.S. media (such as the Washington Post here) trace U.S.-Iranian animosity back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, conveniently forgetting that the CIA helped overthrow a democratically elected Iranian government in 1953, forcing Iranians to endure decades of the Shah’s brutal rule.
June 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Some U.S. media (such as the Washington Post here) trace U.S.-Iranian animosity back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, conveniently forgetting that the CIA helped overthrow a democratically elected Iranian government in 1953, forcing Iranians to endure decades of the Shah’s brutal rule.
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the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
June 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
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not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
June 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
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Nothing like getting sanctimonious law and order lectures from Republicans who refused to vote convict Trump after 1/6.
June 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Nothing like getting sanctimonious law and order lectures from Republicans who refused to vote convict Trump after 1/6.
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And thanks to a generation of reactionary centrists, feckless Dems, autocratic GOPers, and a TV culture of non-stop crime shows and bleeds-it-leads news, we spent TWENTY-FIVE YEARS of declining and low crime rates building out that police-state style police system at EVERY level of government.
Been saying this for weeks. In order to build a mass deportation machine to round up and deport 4% of the entire goddamn population, you must first build the police state.
June 7, 2025 at 3:20 AM
And thanks to a generation of reactionary centrists, feckless Dems, autocratic GOPers, and a TV culture of non-stop crime shows and bleeds-it-leads news, we spent TWENTY-FIVE YEARS of declining and low crime rates building out that police-state style police system at EVERY level of government.
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Everything you need to know is that :
Even though the sitting president and an unelected tech baton have admitted to compromising the election
officials have spent more time
:
- scolding people for being amused
- trying to invite the law breakers back into the fold
Even though the sitting president and an unelected tech baton have admitted to compromising the election
officials have spent more time
:
- scolding people for being amused
- trying to invite the law breakers back into the fold
June 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Everything you need to know is that :
Even though the sitting president and an unelected tech baton have admitted to compromising the election
officials have spent more time
:
- scolding people for being amused
- trying to invite the law breakers back into the fold
Even though the sitting president and an unelected tech baton have admitted to compromising the election
officials have spent more time
:
- scolding people for being amused
- trying to invite the law breakers back into the fold
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We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.
MIKE JOHNSON: From the people who mandated mask wearing for years, it's absurd. They need to back off ICE & respect our agents
Q: So you're ok w/agents not identifying themselves when they're arresting migrants?
J: Why, so they can target them? So they can put names and faces online and dox them?
Q: So you're ok w/agents not identifying themselves when they're arresting migrants?
J: Why, so they can target them? So they can put names and faces online and dox them?
June 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.
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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
June 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
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Mainstream media needs to stop pointing out what "RFK Jr. gets right," because there are many, many trained public health officials who get the same things right without all the batshit crazy eugenics and woo.
May 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Mainstream media needs to stop pointing out what "RFK Jr. gets right," because there are many, many trained public health officials who get the same things right without all the batshit crazy eugenics and woo.
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Trump's entire dealmaking strategy in this term is to constantly kick the can 90 days down the road, which does not exactly seem like a stable foundation for the explosive economic growth we were all promised
May 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Trump's entire dealmaking strategy in this term is to constantly kick the can 90 days down the road, which does not exactly seem like a stable foundation for the explosive economic growth we were all promised
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i’m getting van hollen pilled
Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?"
Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."
Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."
April 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
i’m getting van hollen pilled
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Import Chinese battery: 145% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Chinese laptop: 20% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Vietnamese laptop: 0% tariff
Fuckin brilliant. A+ work here team. I am so glad there are such smart people working on our trade policy.
Import Chinese battery inside Chinese laptop: 20% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Vietnamese laptop: 0% tariff
Fuckin brilliant. A+ work here team. I am so glad there are such smart people working on our trade policy.
April 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Import Chinese battery: 145% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Chinese laptop: 20% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Vietnamese laptop: 0% tariff
Fuckin brilliant. A+ work here team. I am so glad there are such smart people working on our trade policy.
Import Chinese battery inside Chinese laptop: 20% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Vietnamese laptop: 0% tariff
Fuckin brilliant. A+ work here team. I am so glad there are such smart people working on our trade policy.