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· Jan 4
Surely I can't be the only one who wishes Bluesky gave us the ability to set our accounts to "private"... 😒
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“We owe it to our young people not to lie to them anymore. A democracy whose citizens operate with fundamentally different understandings of the past and its implications cannot sustain itself.”
I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
www.theatlantic.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
“We owe it to our young people not to lie to them anymore. A democracy whose citizens operate with fundamentally different understandings of the past and its implications cannot sustain itself.”
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This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
Mildly pissed that they didn't ask me why...😒
October 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Mildly pissed that they didn't ask me why...😒
Holy moly....little Monticello Fla has folks protesting at the courthouse. Hell yeah 😎 #NoKingsDay
October 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Holy moly....little Monticello Fla has folks protesting at the courthouse. Hell yeah 😎 #NoKingsDay
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We are losing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has helped educate, inform, and entertain millions of Americans.
Instead, we’re getting a vulgar new gold ballroom, which none of us will ever see.
Instead, we’re getting a vulgar new gold ballroom, which none of us will ever see.
August 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
We are losing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has helped educate, inform, and entertain millions of Americans.
Instead, we’re getting a vulgar new gold ballroom, which none of us will ever see.
Instead, we’re getting a vulgar new gold ballroom, which none of us will ever see.
An annual reminder
‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR
YouTube video by NPR
m.youtube.com
July 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
An annual reminder
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If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to
July 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government.
But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.
Where is the outrage over that?
But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.
Where is the outrage over that?
June 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government.
But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.
Where is the outrage over that?
But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes.
Where is the outrage over that?
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The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.
May 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
-FDR, 1937
-FDR, 1937
May 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
-FDR, 1937
-FDR, 1937
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"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that caused rebellion." ~ #FrederickDouglass
May 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that caused rebellion." ~ #FrederickDouglass
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This checks and balances / separation of powers thing really doesn’t work when the majority in congress doesn’t agree with it.
May 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
This checks and balances / separation of powers thing really doesn’t work when the majority in congress doesn’t agree with it.
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Global average temperature is expected to rise to almost 2C above preindustrial in the next five years, according to the WMO, with falls in crop yields and more than a third of the world’s population being exposed to extreme heat.
People, I'm sorry but we have to deal with this. Later is too late.
People, I'm sorry but we have to deal with this. Later is too late.
May 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Global average temperature is expected to rise to almost 2C above preindustrial in the next five years, according to the WMO, with falls in crop yields and more than a third of the world’s population being exposed to extreme heat.
People, I'm sorry but we have to deal with this. Later is too late.
People, I'm sorry but we have to deal with this. Later is too late.
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Dear science journalism,
Please start including the funding source and whether it has been imperiled by the coup in your coverage of cool new science papers. The public should know the floor is being cut out from under us.
Please start including the funding source and whether it has been imperiled by the coup in your coverage of cool new science papers. The public should know the floor is being cut out from under us.
May 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Dear science journalism,
Please start including the funding source and whether it has been imperiled by the coup in your coverage of cool new science papers. The public should know the floor is being cut out from under us.
Please start including the funding source and whether it has been imperiled by the coup in your coverage of cool new science papers. The public should know the floor is being cut out from under us.
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Today, we remember Uvalde.
We remember the 19 children and 2 teachers who were mercilessly gunned down.
The kids who hid underneath their dead classmates to survive.
The parents who had to submit DNA to identify their own babies.
We need an assault weapons ban. Now.
We remember the 19 children and 2 teachers who were mercilessly gunned down.
The kids who hid underneath their dead classmates to survive.
The parents who had to submit DNA to identify their own babies.
We need an assault weapons ban. Now.
May 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Today, we remember Uvalde.
We remember the 19 children and 2 teachers who were mercilessly gunned down.
The kids who hid underneath their dead classmates to survive.
The parents who had to submit DNA to identify their own babies.
We need an assault weapons ban. Now.
We remember the 19 children and 2 teachers who were mercilessly gunned down.
The kids who hid underneath their dead classmates to survive.
The parents who had to submit DNA to identify their own babies.
We need an assault weapons ban. Now.
This explains why it's so painful to live in Florida
the world watches with bemused concern as america repeatedly slams its penis in the car door of history
May 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This explains why it's so painful to live in Florida
Check out all the reasons why you should join me outside Sky Valley, GA on June 1! (Holy crap, that's next weekend!! 👀)
Some of the things that make the Rabun Half Marathon a little different?
🔴 The race fee has never gone up. It's been the same price for over a decade. (Yes, the cost of goods has risen.)
🟠 Race day registration is 💯 % allowed. (This seems unheard of these days.)
1/...
🔴 The race fee has never gone up. It's been the same price for over a decade. (Yes, the cost of goods has risen.)
🟠 Race day registration is 💯 % allowed. (This seems unheard of these days.)
1/...
May 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Check out all the reasons why you should join me outside Sky Valley, GA on June 1! (Holy crap, that's next weekend!! 👀)
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Correct, Harvard today the rest of the universities tomorrow
HARVARD PROF David Armitage: “We’re being made an example of by Trump — authoritarians across the world go for the universities first, because they’re set up for freedom of thought and provide critical opposition.”
May 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
🤞🤞
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Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles
May 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles
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When you are elected president, you are supposed to be president of the whole country.
And protect the whole country, from natural disasters and more.
No state should be denied critical funding simply because of how they voted.
And protect the whole country, from natural disasters and more.
No state should be denied critical funding simply because of how they voted.
May 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
When you are elected president, you are supposed to be president of the whole country.
And protect the whole country, from natural disasters and more.
No state should be denied critical funding simply because of how they voted.
And protect the whole country, from natural disasters and more.
No state should be denied critical funding simply because of how they voted.
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HARVARD PROF David Armitage: “We’re being made an example of by Trump — authoritarians across the world go for the universities first, because they’re set up for freedom of thought and provide critical opposition.”
May 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
HARVARD PROF David Armitage: “We’re being made an example of by Trump — authoritarians across the world go for the universities first, because they’re set up for freedom of thought and provide critical opposition.”
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The people sent to El Salvador are being condemned to life sentences under brutal conditions for allegedly committing the *civil offense* of being in the United States illegally without ever being tried or convicted.
May 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The people sent to El Salvador are being condemned to life sentences under brutal conditions for allegedly committing the *civil offense* of being in the United States illegally without ever being tried or convicted.