jake from farm state
@slowlytyped.bsky.social
teacher guy from the upper midwest. thoughts are my own or stolen from a really good episode of the Simpsons.
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i honestly have never seen a political leader so thoroughly destroy their credibility so quickly and, on the other side, it is abundantly clear that if anyone can claim a genuine leadership of large parts of the democratic party, it is AOC.
Folks is it good when your own party's leadership in the House is dropping "listen to the women" and MLK quotes on you while swing state members of your caucus are talking about new leadership
March 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
i honestly have never seen a political leader so thoroughly destroy their credibility so quickly and, on the other side, it is abundantly clear that if anyone can claim a genuine leadership of large parts of the democratic party, it is AOC.
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Made myself chuckle imagining the next pitch meeting to draft Democratic Party fundraising texts/emails
March 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Made myself chuckle imagining the next pitch meeting to draft Democratic Party fundraising texts/emails
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There’s no reason to have a Democratic Party if it won’t go to the mat to save the Department of Education. It’s a fundamental belief that children in America deserve better futures. It’s tremendously simple. You cannot continue funding a government that would close this.
The Department of Education will begin sweeping layoffs tonight with about half of its 4,400 employees expected to be let go, sources tell CNN.
Read more: cnn.it/41IhB4h
Read more: cnn.it/41IhB4h
March 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
There’s no reason to have a Democratic Party if it won’t go to the mat to save the Department of Education. It’s a fundamental belief that children in America deserve better futures. It’s tremendously simple. You cannot continue funding a government that would close this.
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I know this is extremely vulgar idealism, but I do think we should try to aggressively reassert the norm that lying is bad. Not in a "Four Pinnochios" fact-checking kind of way, but in a way that frames this kind of lying as moral degeneracy that is fundamentally corrosive to the human spirit.
Elon Musk says "10% of federal expenditures" are due to people having fake Social Security numbers, claiming it is "half a trillion dollars."
March 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I know this is extremely vulgar idealism, but I do think we should try to aggressively reassert the norm that lying is bad. Not in a "Four Pinnochios" fact-checking kind of way, but in a way that frames this kind of lying as moral degeneracy that is fundamentally corrosive to the human spirit.
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re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
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This meme continues undefeated.
March 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This meme continues undefeated.
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"There isn’t some 22-year-old putting together a 'Most Defiant Moments At The State Of The Union' listicle this morning. Twenty-two-year-olds don’t have jobs anymore."
Unfortunately for the Democrats, no, you cannot flashmob your way out of a coup.
www.garbageday.email/p/democrats-...
www.garbageday.email/p/democrats-...
March 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"There isn’t some 22-year-old putting together a 'Most Defiant Moments At The State Of The Union' listicle this morning. Twenty-two-year-olds don’t have jobs anymore."
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relatedly, why is the entire political press completely uninterested in the verifiable fact that JD Vance has close relationships with online nazis?
Seems like why the meeting imploded was more like "Trump is senile and has lost all impulse control and JD Vance is pickled in online fash propaganda" www.semafor.com/article/02/2...
Why the Trump-Zelenskyy meeting imploded
It happened in part because the White House perceived a loss of focus on the reason they were even gathering.
www.semafor.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
relatedly, why is the entire political press completely uninterested in the verifiable fact that JD Vance has close relationships with online nazis?
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“If you’re so rich, why aren’t you smart?” — on venture capital and education technology 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/nobodys-busi...
Nobody's Business
“If you’re so rich, how come you’re not smart?”
The quotation above, from Dan Davies's new book The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions – And How the World Lost Its Mind...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
“If you’re so rich, why aren’t you smart?” — on venture capital and education technology 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/nobodys-busi...
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In college I kept finding the words Who Is John Gault written on stuff around campus and I started carrying a sharpie with me and any time i’d find one I’d cross out John Gault and write “Weiner Dave”
December 8, 2024 at 7:26 AM
In college I kept finding the words Who Is John Gault written on stuff around campus and I started carrying a sharpie with me and any time i’d find one I’d cross out John Gault and write “Weiner Dave”
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.
November 27, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.
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harrowing.
I’ve made a lot of jokes about the J.D. Vance sparkling water story from Hillbilly Elegy, to the extent that it probably sounds made up, but you owe it to yourself to read the real thing if you haven’t
November 25, 2024 at 1:05 PM
harrowing.
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You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today. You have never made a film before and it would take a long time to figure out.
November 19, 2024 at 3:14 AM
You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today. You have never made a film before and it would take a long time to figure out.
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what if its all a trick
November 19, 2024 at 11:58 PM
what if its all a trick
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what i am saying is that before you start commenting on the internet in a text based medium you should try to learn to read
November 18, 2024 at 2:55 PM
what i am saying is that before you start commenting on the internet in a text based medium you should try to learn to read
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It’s so funny that instead of batarangs or a sword or something his accessory is getting hands where he points so kids can lecture Batman over he ramifications of surveillance
November 15, 2024 at 3:28 PM
It’s so funny that instead of batarangs or a sword or something his accessory is getting hands where he points so kids can lecture Batman over he ramifications of surveillance
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i can name a dozen people who will be saying it is "hysterical" to warn of authoritarianism as people are being rounded up and sent to detention camps
It’s darkly hilarious that the very same circles who, four years ago, derided the idea that Trump might not accept the result of the 2020 election as pure “alarmism” are now telling us that it’s “hysterical” to warn of authoritarianism - and they still get to dominate the op-ed pages.
November 9, 2024 at 5:31 PM
i can name a dozen people who will be saying it is "hysterical" to warn of authoritarianism as people are being rounded up and sent to detention camps
because children famously believe whatever their parents want them to believe without question.
June 14, 2024 at 12:25 PM
because children famously believe whatever their parents want them to believe without question.