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Professor, columnist, novelist. I teach stuff. I write stuff. I never grew out of my ‘why’ phase. michaelleppert.com michaelleppert.substack.com
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This picture alone would eliminate him from consideration of any real job.

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Watch JD get sent to Greenland again. Immediately.

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In addition to the end of the nastiest bromance in history, Aaron Rodgers is signing with the Steelers. He and Mike Tomlin are gonna looove each other.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

When a dollar amount can be assigned to the boss’s fuck up…

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Seriously eyeliner. Speak up.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Nailed it.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

This feud with Elon has the real potential to ruin the wannabe dictator‘s birthday. Cold. That’s really cold. 😐

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

So many Chipotle tortilla chips to eat, so little time.

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One obvious economic implication of the latest travel ban is that genuinely international conferences will no longer be held in the U.S.

submitted 20 hours ago • 67 comments

A young, friendless, admirer of Stephen Miller has entered the fray…

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Birdie sometimes plays dead when he doesn’t want to give up control of the bed.

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Do Bluesky vids freeze about halfway through for everyone?

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DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2

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#Pride The "rainbow beast" is out and lurking among us, according to...checks notes...the sitting LG of Indiana! The weekly column and pod on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/michaell...

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Right on queue… Indiana AG: Butler, DePauw universities' DEI policy may violate law, warrant legal action www.indystar.com/story/news/p...

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Dakich and Banks were meant for each other. 🙄 Jim Banks says Indiana Fever fans deserve apologies after WNBA hateful speech investigation www.indystar.com/story/sports...

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"The official also said that the timing of the announcement -- occurring during Pride month -- was intentional." I've seen enough. We can confidently declare the Trump administration to be the biggest collection of assholes in American history.

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Governor Braun, contact 7-11. Or tell Micah too…

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Meet The Press is a joke.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

That review took an absurd amount of time. #pacers

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Harvard president receives standing ovation during commencement.

submitted 7 days ago • 568 comments

When the next pandemic comes and it's a bird flu pandemic, every dead body will be on the head of Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and I truly hope they're charged with a criminal offense—before they pass on of natural causes—for every needlessly deceased American. This is premeditated evil.

submitted 7 days ago • 91 comments

Trump's fight with Harvard is a fight with all of us. My weekly column/audio on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/michaell...

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For Trump and his supporters, knowledge is the enemy. The weekly column. indianacitizen.org/leppert-comm...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

submitted 10 days ago • 763 comments

It’s like he just got here, you know, on Earth.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

The Pacers are just better than the Knicks.

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I didn’t bring enough fried chicken for much of a rain delay at #Indy500

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They say it can’t be done, but here we are, California is generated 106% of California’s entire state electricity demand from renewables. California has a population bigger that 154 other countries around the world. It’s the 4th largest economy, in the world. Let that sink in. #energysky #greensky

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