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I'm at this phase in the writing process.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I've held up pretty well through the whirlwind of stupidity and cruelty so far, but seeing Trump signing the order banning trans kids from school sports surrounded by all those young girls in their athletic uniforms just broke me. The damage will be with us for generations. Deeply upsetting.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Has anyone checked with the integralists to see how “armed agents of the state invading churches in search of refugees” fits with Leo XIII’s encyclicals?

submitted 37 days ago • 7 comments

I'm actually doing this.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Important PSA for Floridians currently under a winter storm warning: If you salt your driveway, you do not also need to Sazón your driveway.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I think instead of saying “namaste” at yoga we should say “ohhh BIG stretch” like we do with our pets

submitted 46 days ago • 41 comments

Took a break from syllabus prep today to pick out Billie Eilish's "Birds of a Feather" on the guitar. Haven't been moved to do that in years. Such a beautiful little song.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Political scientist Scott Yenor, known for calling colleges and universities the "citadels of our gynecocracy" and insisting that young women eschew higher education and become mothers, has just been appointed to the board of the University of West Florida by Gov. Ron Desantis.

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

Peer reviewing an article that mixes up Florida's HB 1557 (aka "Don't Say Gay") with Florida's HB 7 (aka "Stop Woke"). I hate that being a political scientist in this state has required me to become a pedantic connoisseur of anti-intellectualism and bigotry.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

I believe this storm is illegal to be viewed online in several of these states.

submitted 56 days ago • 203 comments

The physics of a spinning dreidel is quite a bit different in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station, as demonstrated by astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli. 🧪

submitted 64 days ago • 17 comments

I just remembered that time in 2023 when Florida State Representative Webster Barnaby issued an apology to transgender voters for "referring to you as demons" on the House floor and laughed. The 2020s have really broken me.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

It is 38 degrees Fahrenheit this morning. This should be a snow day by Florida law.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

I've got Intro. to Political Thought I students sending me memes over Thanksgiving break. Career milestone!

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Last night, an old song, "The Freshman," popped into my wife's head. We pulled it up on YouTube and leaned into the nostalgia. The vocal isn't technically great, but it has a lot of emotional depth. Are men losing their minds nowadays cuz we took away their acoustic guitars? Can we give them back?

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Last reads of the semester in LGBTQ Politics and Intro. to Women's Studies. Sobering way to end the year.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Does anyone really know what an h-index score means?

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Mr. Drain the Swamp sure seems to like Florida's menagerie of Swamp creatures. Pam Bondi? Oh, dios mio.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

You know things are bad when you're celebrating that only three rapists instead of four are likely to be in charge of the executive branch

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

If I ever run off to the mountains to train as a guerilla fighter, the email I got yesterday from the Democratic Party asking me to sign an e-card for Joe Biden's birthday will be the reason.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.

submitted 101 days ago • 262 comments

How do we expand Trump's opposition to gender transitions into opposition to presidential transitions? 🤔

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

“Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the two Georgia poll workers defamed by Rudolph W. Giuliani after the 2020 election, received his watch collection, a ring and his vintage Mercedes-Benz on Friday.”

submitted 104 days ago • 156 comments

Never let them steal your joy!

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

We need a "radical feminism intensifies" GIF like the "Marxism intensifies" GIF but with Andrea Dworkin instead of Marx. Who knows how to make GIFs?

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.

submitted 105 days ago • 813 comments

darkly funny that the end result of qanon was making a pedophile in charge of law enforcement

submitted 106 days ago • 329 comments

(Thinking about how to slowly break in my new followers to the fact that I’m a communist) do you guys like sharing

submitted 109 days ago • 234 comments

The algorithms these days are mostly gateways to the most cursed content imaginable, but Amazon Music just turned me on to the Dolly Parton/Pitbull collab 9 to 5 remix, which appears to be on some sort of Daytona 500 themed album Pitbull made. What a time to be alive!

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

"Postliberalism" is actually just preliberalism. Fight me.

submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments

Things are going according to plan at New College of Florida, I see.

submitted 137 days ago • 1 comment

One of the most traumatic things about living through a hurricane is seeing all the journalists standing around sopping wet with wind and debris whipping around them. I literally just shouted at the TV, "Bill Brangham? No! Go inside! You're an inside guy!"

submitted 141 days ago • 1 comment

Hurricane Milton downside: Hometown may be blown to matchsticks. Hurricane Milton upside: Faculty senate meeting canceled. Who's to say what's good or bad?

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

One reason the "weird" attack has proven so effective against JD Vance is that its impossible for an adherent of post-liberal ideology to talk about politics, family, culture, economics, etc. and come off sounding like a normal, red-blooded American patriot. Louis Hartz lives!

submitted 196 days ago • 0 comments

The "Tampon Tim" attack makes even less sense when you remember that episode of Running Wild with Bear Grylls when Bear teaches Kate Winslet how to start a fire with lip balm & a tampon. Pretty butch stuff right there. A tampon is basically a Leatherman. Every real man should have at least one.

submitted 198 days ago • 0 comments

Genius.

submitted 214 days ago • 1 comment

Strange how the first wave of criminal bans on abortion in the US was fueled by WASP demographic anxiety and anti-Catholic bigotry, while this second wave is fueled by the demographic anxiety of reactionary Catholics like JD Vance. I guess this is what passes for progress in America.

submitted 218 days ago • 0 comments