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Educator, Substacker, Novelist, Walker of Dog. Husband of Heather (producer of the CraftLit podcast). Father of two amazing young artists.
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Republicans used to love talking about government being the enemy of the people, and now they're working hard to prove their case.

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open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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More of this, please. @johnfetterman.com, my senator, what say you?

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Bring. Him. Home.

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I am not the property of the state, to be disposed of however the state chooses. My liberty is not the state's possession, to be bestowed or withheld depending on my opinion of them or my words about them. My rights to control my life and protect my liberty are INALIENABLE--beyond foundational.

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The rule for Trump, his whole life, has been, "if nobody stops me, then I have the right to do it." That is the only law he knows or heeds.

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Looks like bodily autonomy turns out to be kind of Important.

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I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of detainees being removed from the United States to foreign prisons until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.

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"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.

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Chop, mix, return to childhood. Good Pesach to my landsmen and friends.

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Some thoughts on Passover, poetry, and the meaning of freedom brokenhand.substack.com/p/2025-re-po...

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Sanity check. youtu.be/4rHKwHQUa78?...

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A little less Me First and a little more After You would do us all a lot of good.

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This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen

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From "How We Learn," by Stanislaus Dehaene. #edusky #AIinEducation

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The god-king makes all of his opinions into law and all of his laws into commandments. It is a glorious thing.

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Peaceful evening

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Connecting the dots on Trump education policy. #edusky #historyofeducation educationwars.substack.com/p/connecting...

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If you cared about human beings, and if you believed that government services should be funded and implemented more locally than federally, you would plan an incremental shift of resources and staffing out to the states over your four-year term to avoid causing pain. This profoundly is not that.

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Madness. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Whan that Aprille with His shoures soote, the droghte Of March hath perced #booksky

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"To be only masculine or only feminine is to be half a human. Reactionary camp wants you to deny half your soul. But you never can."

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Holy shit this piece is absolutely savage. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-gend...

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Will AI really replace professionals like teachers and doctors, as @billgatess.bsky.social predicts? open.substack.com/pub/brokenha...

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"Fuck around and crash the world economy" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

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"Cory Booker’s filibuster didn’t 'accomplish' anything. But by God, Cory Booker’s filibuster mattered.*" Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/why-cory-b...

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When criminal has his eye on something, it doesn't matter whether taking it is legal. All that matters is whether anyone will stop him.

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For all those who aspire: "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced" - Vincent van Gogh. Remembering van Gogh on his birthday. 💐💐💐

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Looking for something new and interesting to read? Why not sample some of my wares? brokenhand.substack.com

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How can it be fair to the vulture if some meat has been left on the bones of the gazelle?

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When all official business is conducted on an app, and nothing is collected or saved, we'll never know what really happened, or who was in the room, or how the evil sausage we'll be forced to eat was made. Cui bono? Not us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwfN...

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