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Writing educator. Contingent faculty. Baker. Taking a pause while I consider what the next adventures may be and where they may lead.
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Smart move to alert the police and smart politics to publicize it. This is serious.
Important: House Dem leaders just said Trump's call for execution of Dems has prompted them to contact US Capitol Police and House Sergeant at Arms to "ensure the safety of these members and their families."

Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.
November 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This.
I thought it was just me 😭
This is...sort of brilliant.
November 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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H5N5 Bird Flu jumping from animal to person for first time is just as devastating to hear as H5N1 Bird Flu jumping to person-to-person transmission. Potential pandemics brewing to add to the ongoing Covid pandemic which is still killing & disabling.

Is this the back to normal you ditched masks for?
November 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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The Trump administration is now literally *fighting* to deny food to 42 million people, more than a third of them children.

Read that again.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Or SNAP.
November 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
And RFK Jr. just walking away -- my other cat. But seriously -- how not to live.
Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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And now, a physical metaphor for "LLMs can be just as good as human writers and artists!"

(And I know, I shared it twice. But it's just that nice!)
just....enjoy this
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.
November 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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EAT SHIT BOOK BANNERS
November 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Too many today don't realize how recent women's rights and liberation really are. And we're on the cusp of losing it all.
November 3, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103.

12 days of work in 103 days.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
November 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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The SpEd system in this country is set up in a way that families know they're entitled to certain things but also know they have to fight tooth and nail to get what they deserve.

They're tenacious experienced fighters who'll do anything for their kids. These assholes just sucker punched them all.
October 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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This.

If you don’t remember it: NPR read the charges against the King from the Declaration.

Enraging MAGA, who thought they were talking about DJT
For those who don’t remember, @npr.org tweeted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2017 and MAGA had a meltdown because they thought NPR was concocting subversive propaganda.
Some Trump supporters thought NPR tweeted ‘propaganda.’ It was the Declaration of Independence.
Some Twitter users reacted angrily to the thread, accusing NPR of spamming them or pushing an agenda.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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the trump administration is selling its war on higher education as a strike against the elites who have disadvantaged ordinary americans. in actuality, the administration is destroying advanced education for *everyone* in pursuit of its effort to deskill the american public
Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.
www.nytimes.com
August 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Just saw someone repost this so I thought I'd resurface it for everyone. It's still relevant.
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:

1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;

2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;

3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
August 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Call your reps and ask them to push back against this
August 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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$200 million is enough to provide a year of Housing Choice Vouchers to about 13,000 low-income American families, enabling them to pay their rent & preventing homelessness.

President Trump's 2026 budget proposes slashing housing assistance programs by 44%.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Jul 31
After at least 15 years of talking about it, President Trump is building a ballroom at the White House. Work will begin this coming September, with a price tag of $200 million, the White House says.
Trump's dream of building a ballroom at the White House is becoming a reality
After at least 15 years of talking about it, President Trump is building a ballroom at the White House. Work will begin this September, with a price tag of $200 million, the White House says.
n.pr
July 31, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Save hard copies of books. What LLMs don't erase from the internet, fascists will erase from public life. Nothing digital or temporary (like a museum exhibit) is safe. Keep hard copies of history. Slavery. The Holocaust. Civil rights. Everything.
Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum
A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Maybe the Trump administration should withhold federal funds from
Donald Trump until he proves he has addressed his antisemitism problem?
Shylock is a slur. It means Jewish bankers who fleece people for high interest. Trump knows it. He’s referred to Jews using this slur more than once. Where are all the people that love to shout antisemitism on both sides of the aisle? Nowhere. Cause they don’t actually fucking care about Jews.
Trump's argument for the elimination of the estate tax is that the heirs of the super rich will no longer have to go beg a predatory Jewish banker for a bridge loan to overcome cash flow problems associated with the $15 million dollar estate they're about to get.
July 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Hey wait a second: Trump pledged that he would pass a caregiving tax credit during the final leg of the campaign. The One Big, Beautful Act DOES NOT HAVE THAT! He campaigned on that in the final days! I know! I saw him do it in Gastona, NC!
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump’s latest policy announcement is aimed at women voters. It doesn’t stand up
This is a ‘concept of a plan’ with no real economic backbone, experts tell Eric Garcia
www.independent.co.uk
July 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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One of the most popular government programs in the history of government programs. The tax preparer service corporate lobby wins again.
July 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM