derrelldurrett.bsky.social
Ex physics. Software. Life-long observer of the public morality. Devoté of Poe's Law.
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Sure. You and I know this. But apparently Mr Sirota done forgot.
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The GOP and conservatives just pretend the Southern Strategy didn't happen. The very idea of a white Southerner who will die before he votes for the "party of Lincoln" has been forgotten, though I met many of those people when I was young.
The "up is down" started decades ago.
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“ Courted “ is a euphemism here for being assailed and strong armed like, I don’t know, a sexual predator.
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that's a very dangerous game to play
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put a little differently, trump is creating a clear hierarchy of states based on nothing other than his arbitrary political preferences. some states, and thus some citizens, will be disadvantaged for no other reason than that the president does not like they don't obey his will.
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so does this qualify as “corruption”, or is it just sparkling graft
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I really fail to grasp why "bad thing bad" is a controversial thing to say.
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Immediate impeachment hearings for any non-Trump President and blasted on every front page
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I’m an artist, man. Quality is a thing we sneak into people’s consumption like parents putting broccoli under cheese. You think most people care if it goes away?
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Hey kinda weird you wrote a sympathetic article about a guy who shared CSAM with millions of people, you sick fucks
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/t...
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Sharing a gift link: A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia?
"Maura Finkelstein is one of many scholars discovering that the traditional protections of academic freedom are no longer holding."
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Seeking to understand your subject is a good thing.
Simply regurgitating their side of the story isn’t.
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Apparently they aren't as turned off by the Federalist as they are made out to be.
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also, with love, I think people ascribe too much power to headlines. I see this discourse that seems to assume that, if the headline was different, it would somehow be a KO to make the subject of the story act different? but when subjects call to complain about a story, it's almost always a detail.
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mostly I think we just want you to read past the headline and into all the stuff we care the most about — the details!
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I think readers get frustrated with headlines for the same reasons writers do — a lot of nuance just gets cooked out. when there’s backlash, you’ll see writers say, “I didn’t write it." but we have the opportunity to weigh in and pull the e-brake if we hate it, so it’s kinda a cop-out.
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Article: It wasn't until March 2021 that half of schools had reopened!
Me: I dunno, seems about right.
fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...