Rebecca
@westofbecca.bsky.social
Tennis, rhetoric, books, teaching
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That Dunkin commercial should be launched into the sun
February 9, 2026 at 1:01 AM
That Dunkin commercial should be launched into the sun
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I turned on the Super Bowl because I wanted to see the halftime show and saw that Dunkin Donuts ad and a crypto ad and I hate absolutely everything now. Burn it all to the stumps.
February 9, 2026 at 1:02 AM
I turned on the Super Bowl because I wanted to see the halftime show and saw that Dunkin Donuts ad and a crypto ad and I hate absolutely everything now. Burn it all to the stumps.
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These commercials have been flopulous.
February 9, 2026 at 1:03 AM
These commercials have been flopulous.
These commercials are bottom of the barrel.
February 9, 2026 at 1:03 AM
These commercials are bottom of the barrel.
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Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
February 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
Every single software program associated with my job sucks: Outlook, Qualtrics, Watermark, Oracle, etc. How are they all this clumsy? What happened to user experience?
January 28, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Every single software program associated with my job sucks: Outlook, Qualtrics, Watermark, Oracle, etc. How are they all this clumsy? What happened to user experience?
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I have been of the opinion for about five years now that we are all mostly clinging to the *idea* of social media. But that it has not existed, as we mean it, since Jack sold Twitter. The minute capital lined up to fold social media into its technocratic political consolidation, it stopped existing.
January 27, 2026 at 3:40 PM
I have been of the opinion for about five years now that we are all mostly clinging to the *idea* of social media. But that it has not existed, as we mean it, since Jack sold Twitter. The minute capital lined up to fold social media into its technocratic political consolidation, it stopped existing.
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Minnesota is the best of us.
January 23, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Minnesota is the best of us.
Lacoste should be fined for these shorts.
January 18, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Lacoste should be fined for these shorts.
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Done and donated.
"This is a verified page fundraising support for the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO and Working Partnerships' 2026 rapid response effort to meet the needs of impacted union members, worker center members, and their families..."
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Support Impacted Union Families! | Working Partnerships
workingpartnerships.betterworld.org
January 17, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Done and donated.
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“I think that’s a very useful way to understand what that projection of power is. It is a rejection of any kind of obligations to one another.”
"People ask me, 'What should I do?' And I say 'Do something.'"
Listen to Masha Gessen.
Gift link.
Listen to Masha Gessen.
Gift link.
Opinion | Venezuela, Renee Good and Trump’s ‘Assault on Hope’
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 3:41 PM
“I think that’s a very useful way to understand what that projection of power is. It is a rejection of any kind of obligations to one another.”
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Whenever a law enforcement officer shoots an unarmed person or even an armed person for that matter, those who would justify that behavior are doing so under the belief that the death penalty, without judge or jury, is an appropriate response.
January 8, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Whenever a law enforcement officer shoots an unarmed person or even an armed person for that matter, those who would justify that behavior are doing so under the belief that the death penalty, without judge or jury, is an appropriate response.
The Delta is poor by design. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/08/b...
Book excerpt: Actions of political class led to hunger that has devastated Mississippi Delta - Mississippi Today
Book excerpt: "Through a historical lens, the story of the Mississippi Delta begins to come into focus as a story of how we as a nation have failed the poor."
mississippitoday.org
January 8, 2026 at 5:24 PM
The Delta is poor by design. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/08/b...
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I refuse to stay silent while Secretary Noem breaks the rule of law and terrorizes our communities. I am introducing Articles of Impeachment against her for violating the public trust, obstructing Congress, and self-dealing. Read my full statement: robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...
Rep. Kelly announces plans to impeach Secretary Kristi Noem
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (IL-02) announced plans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem following the fatal shooting by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.
robinkelly.house.gov
January 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM
I refuse to stay silent while Secretary Noem breaks the rule of law and terrorizes our communities. I am introducing Articles of Impeachment against her for violating the public trust, obstructing Congress, and self-dealing. Read my full statement: robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...
January 6, 2026, The world descends into might makes right, and I rage at Outlook's inability to send an email without first hiding it in the drafts folder and the fake stakes of The Wedding People.
January 6, 2026 at 3:30 PM
January 6, 2026, The world descends into might makes right, and I rage at Outlook's inability to send an email without first hiding it in the drafts folder and the fake stakes of The Wedding People.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Best read of 2025. The courage and love of Roy reads like an antidote.
December 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Best read of 2025. The courage and love of Roy reads like an antidote.
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I point this out for clarity. I also have a long-term interest in how my crafting of ideas is sometimes confused for the very serious idea being crafted. So to be clear: AI is political attack on labor with few limited cases for social value and an absolute ecological disaster.
August 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I point this out for clarity. I also have a long-term interest in how my crafting of ideas is sometimes confused for the very serious idea being crafted. So to be clear: AI is political attack on labor with few limited cases for social value and an absolute ecological disaster.
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Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
August 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
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Paul Musgrave is 100% correct here
Classroom Technology Was a Mistake
Hopes that AI will improve higher ed need to reckon with the dashed hopes of the past
open.substack.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Paul Musgrave is 100% correct here
Will Sinner and Alcaraz redeem Cincinnati? The matches I have caught looked like evidence of how heat (aka climate change) ruins sport.
August 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Will Sinner and Alcaraz redeem Cincinnati? The matches I have caught looked like evidence of how heat (aka climate change) ruins sport.
"Compassion was out of fashion."
Earlier this year, I made two trips to Sudan, where a terrible civil war has displaced 14 million people. The state is absent, international institutions are weak.Outside powers, motivated by greed and nihilism, have stepped into the vacuum
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
This Is What the End of the Liberal World Order Looks Like
In a post-American world, greed and nihilism are destroying Sudan.
www.theatlantic.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"Compassion was out of fashion."
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I miss when republics declined because of lead pipes or something. instead my culture got digital access to the entirety of human knowledge and went immediately insane
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
August 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I miss when republics declined because of lead pipes or something. instead my culture got digital access to the entirety of human knowledge and went immediately insane