Troy Distelrath
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Troy Distelrath
@troydistelrath.bsky.social
Sociology PhD student, UMD-College Park; interested in economic inequality, authoritarianism, and the relationship between them.

Fmrs: Founder, Sunrise Movement at Michigan State University; AmeriCorps Member; middle school teacher

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It was sarcasm, ma’am
August 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
lol the famously accurate and not at all undercounted poverty line
July 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I wasn’t commenting on the veracity so much as on the change in behavior that occurred afterward
May 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“We’re going to build the most masculine, kickass military ever!”😤👊🇺🇸🦅💣

*scared of books*
May 29, 2025 at 9:42 AM
It’s all about creating what sociologist Dr. Jessica Calarco calls a “DIY society”: radical individualism in place of the social safety nets we need to de-radicalize those swept into the far right by their precarity.
May 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I saw a formulation that’s really stuck with me on this topic: AI art, in that intangible quality it lacks, is proof of the existence of the human soul.
May 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM
That assassination attempt just ~barely~ missing somehow - instead of humbling him as fragile and mortal - gave the most narcissistic man in human history the god complex of an Egyptian pharaoh.
May 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Literally says that they are expelling critics🙃
May 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is just saying you prefer perpetrators to bystanders
May 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Free speech for me, but not for thee.

Policies like this are the hate speech equivalent of the United States Government guaranteeing it will invade The Hague if any of our elected officials are brought up on charges there.
May 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
‘Universities can keep doing what they are doing as long as what they are doing is exactly what the Executive wants them to do’ is some one-party state BS lol
May 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM