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History/Civics teacher | Educational Leadership M.A., Humanities M.Ed. | Jewish Studies brain + religion/history nerd | #GoBirds | Radiohead soul | 5786 | Class Wish List https://shorturl.at/Yn3df
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picture i wish i could put into my veins #election #schadenfreude
cuomo in his feelings after losing the election on November 4. A table with New York loves Cuomo signs a few drinks and Cuomo with his hand on his forehead, looking down to his phone, sad and alone.
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Victorians ate some crazy soups.
kinds of soup from the 1900s, oxtail, tomato, chicken, bouillon, consommé, vegetable, tomato, okra, mocked, turtle, mulligatawny, vermicelli, tomato, chicken gumbo okra, clam bouillon, clam chowder, mutton, broth, printanier, asparagus julienne, celery, beef, pea
October 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
JVL says Democrats are negotiating about policy when they should be negotiating about power. The only compromises Democrats should accept and exchange for bailing out. The Republican controlled. Congress are the ones that would either a rebalance, the structure of government or be put limits on executive power.
October 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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the worst person you know
September 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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I used Fight the Power in the classroom for students to ID what the claims were in the music/video.
white board with “Fight the Power” claims and some student responses on Post it Notes.
September 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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This meme has been getting heavy use.
worse person you know…
September 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Ya’ll. wtf. First John Yoo now this.
The worst person you know…
September 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Make no mistake, this is dangerous af. Anyone will be able to make a submission that could ruin your life.
Any wrongthink will be punished.
Make a submission to snitch on your neighbors, friends, and families who have wrong think about Charlie Kirk.
September 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Tweet screenshot from @conorgoldenboy that reads, “the world should never mourn for someone who actively makes the world a worse place, especially for the most vulnerable.” 9/10/25
September 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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“One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” -Omar El Akkad
An editorial cartoon drawn and in color, of a starving Palestinian boy with a red shirt, sorrow and trauma in his eyes, holding an empty bowl with tanks that have Israel flags filling his stomach. The background are smoke filled air, and broken buildings and dirt, surround him a Palestinian flag in the background on the side of a damaged building.
May 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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@jvl.bsky.social is right. liberalism sees state violence as a monopoly restrained by law. Fascism sees violence as a tool, unleashed when in power, and outsourced when not.

It’s not hypocrisy. It’s a worldview.

Call it what it is.
A screenshot from the Bulwark. If you were sketching out, liberalism approach to state sanctioned violence, it would go something like this: the state has a near monopoly on the sanctioned use of violence. This awesome power must be scaffold by a legal framework in which of the rule of law is regular, transparent, and durable. Meanwhile, fascist, take a different view: the purpose of the state power is the subjugate the disfavored classes. Therefore, the power of the state to commit violence must be unchecked when the fascists control it; but must be tamed by private sector, violence in the period, leading up to the fascist takeover. I bring all of this up because it’s important. Not to view this disparity as an example of garden variety, hypocrisy. It’s not. It’s a coherent world view. And we should call that world view by it’s proper name
May 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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is it normal to feel this amount of jealousy over good polite people who say “aboat” and “eh”? #CanadianElection #Canada
April 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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My favorite thing that truly changed my life from Pope Francis is this:
One thing people may tell themselves to feel better about not giving anything. The pope said is “I give money and then he spends it on drinking a glass of wine“ but the pope said if “a glass of wine is the only happiness he has in life that’s OK instead ask yourself what do you do on the slide? What happiness do you seek in secret?“ Or another way to look at it the pope said is recognize “you are luckier with a house a wife children” then ask why should the responsibility to help be pushed onto someone else? The way one reaches out to the person asking for help is important he said, and must be done by looking them in the eyes and touching their hands.
April 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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today in peak irony: the guy who lost the popular vote twice, did an insurrection, and praises authoritarian leaders is now calling ranked-choice voting is a system designed to reflect majority will “threat to democracy.”
April 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Hmmm… he thought things would “change for the better” with Trump as president.
April 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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50501 March, Sacramento 2/17/2025 #Protest #FuckFascism #Sacramento
Poster with GOP depicted as a fish being eaten by a larger fish “Trump” being eaten by a larger fish “Musk” California State Capitol building with posters written as “You Reap What You Vote” “Respect the Rule of Law” “Fuck Fascism” Crowd at CA capitol, Sacramento, with numerous signs “No one is illegal on stolen land” “stop the coup” “tax the rich” “No Elon” and “F-Elon” Sacramento, California’s Capitol Building with dozens of people in frame holding signs that are anti Trump and Elon.
February 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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#Sacramento 2/16/2025
State capitol Sacramento. Protestors. Punch Nazi In The Face Today Sign I’ve seen better cabinets at IKEA sign
February 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Shit is about to get real.
VP casts tie breaking vote for Hegseth- a white supremacist, woman hating, drunk, asshole for Defense Secretary.
January 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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“uber eats guy stealing lemons nearby”
Ring notification via Apple Intelligence: Uber eats guy stealing lemons nearby
December 21, 2024 at 6:17 AM
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I stopped listening on Spotify in June, but this still tracks.
Spotify wrap up with Beyoncé in first place, then The Smiths, Radiohead, Kendrick, and Kings of Leon following.
December 5, 2024 at 3:28 AM
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Holy shit Ira Glass is a whole MOOD.
Glass: “ no I do not. I think that’s bullshit. I don’t care about all of that. Fuck legacy. Fuck people of the future. Fuck people who will be after all of us are dead. Fuck the people who will be alive, having lunch and seeing movies. Fuck them. I hate them. I’m not making a radio show for them. I’m making a show for people who hear it now. And when it’s done and we don’t make it anymore, it’s perfectly fine for it to vanish into the midst of time. Like everything will, and it’s fine if that happens very quickly. It doesn’t matter.”
December 1, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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How to be More Like Kendrick For Dummies
Kendrick Lamar in a blue sweatshirt reading a book says how to be more like Kendrick for dummies
November 25, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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Best boy I ever had. Grew to be a beast. Miss him everyday.
German Shepard puppy in a passenger seat. His huge paws on the center console, indicative of his future tall stature.
November 25, 2024 at 8:04 AM
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Beyoncé’s Renaissance
November 25, 2024 at 6:15 AM
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This survey also reflects optimism for deportations, lower prices, and tariffs, and the economy is much better already according to R’s. Because nothing is real and it’s all just vibes.
tinyurl.com/mvkbux85
November 24, 2024 at 9:57 PM