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Contingent, itinerant, and hopefully not mendicant sociology professor. I’m a yogi and a cyclist to keep my soul and body free. https://provisionalunderstanding.substack.com/
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Listening to "Just a Bum" by Greg Brown “No matter how we plan and rehearse, we're at pink slip's mercy in a paper universe And we're afraid that we're just a bum Someday when all our stuff is gone and we're left without a dime Time ain't money when all ya got is time” https://gofund.me/e1c64861

As of yesterday, I had no fixed address. With your help, I could have one by Monday: https://gofund.me/4c06555f (Edited 7:12 AM via @skeetsapp.com)

I’ve gained this impression watching Washington Week (with the Atlantic) on PBS.

I’ve never been prouder of her.

I’ll try!

It’s astonishing he was confirmed.

To journalists: Flashes is launching next Tuesday, February 25th! I’ve set up a website where you can find the Press Kit (under “In the Press”) and a link to the FAQs: www.flashes.blue

« Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.» “In the midst of winter, I found that there was, within me, an invincible summer.” - Albert Camus

Listening to "Hawkmoon 269" by U2. Earlier in the week, it was a hawk and the moon that spurred memory of this song. Today it’s the black coffee.

#wtforecast

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According to the Trump Golf Tracker, Donald Trump has spent 27% of his presidency golfing so far.

Downtown Bath, ME, USA

In Gainesville, Texas an eleven year old girl committed suicide because her classmates were bullying her over her immigration status in the pro life state.

Listening to "Four Winds" by Bright Eyes

After jeopardising airline safety, food safety, disease protection, foreign aid & nuclear safety, today Elon Musk starts on his new target: Removing the people who warn communities of incoming hurricanes. If Russia wanted to kill Americans, it would invent DOGE. Or maybe it did.

Trump on civil servants working from home: “Nobody’s going to work from a home. They’re going to be going out. They’re going to play tennis. They’re going to play golf. They’re going to do a lot of things. They’re not working.” Trump 1.0 - 293 golf days, $150m to taxpayers Trump 2.0 - $10.7m

Teenage Mutant Ninja Goebbels.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau uncovered $21 billion of cheating and returned it directly to Americans. That little agency is proof that we can make the government work for people. Trump and Musk want to take that away, but we won't stop fighting to protect it.

“You should have never started it.” Such ignominious ignorance. Such betrayal of our ally. Such a cowardly surrender.

Trump’s poll numbers are crashing. Enjoy!

Listening to "Mr. Man Feat. Prince" by Prince & Cornel West “Raise your Socratic questions to the system.”

By now you have your Senators on speed dial. You know what to do. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/18/ed-martin-nominee-us-attorney-washington-dc (Edited 8:05 AM via @skeetsapp.com)

NEW: Three former U.S. Attorneys ask to file a brief in Eric Adams' case before Judge Dale Ho "in support of the Court’s authority to conduct a factual inquiry" into DOJ's actions leading to its Friday request to dismiss the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Tom Homan lies about what ICE is actually doing.

President Donald Trump wants the Supreme Court to allow him to remove the head of the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates whistleblower reports.

NEW: Elon Musk's position to reform the federal government is an unprecedented attempt to split the traditional role of the president and create a shadow government that fundamentally alters our constitutional order, argues John C. Ronquillo of the Institute for Public Leadership.

Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country, according to three people familiar with the activities, sparking alarm within the tax agency.

Only one of them was born in Africa.

The United States government has been turned into a subsidiary of Elon Musk's companies.

The Trump administration has started firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration probationary employees who maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure, according to their union. cnn.it/42Ymbxy

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

Folklore tells us that when sunlight kisses the earth, it doesn’t just nurture crops—it awakens the spirit of the land itself. The warmth of the sun is seen as a blessing, an invisible ally strengthening those who work and dream under its golden rays. 🌻☀️ #FolkloreSunday Art: Wonju Hulse

#satire

Any one talking to Putin is having “a dialogue with a terrorist.” Zelensky tells Kristen Welker

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/kennedy-rfk-antidepressants-ssri-school-shootings/ Susan Collins is running for reelection. #justsaying

If he comes for Cannabis we ride at dawn!

trump: we are going to conquer canada and make it a state canadian hockey fans: fine, we will boo your anthem at games media: these two actions are exactly the same level of bad