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I exist, and now it’s everyone’s problem. Academic Advisor, research and writing instructor, interested in the intersection of food, civilians and Federal policy during Civil War. Knitting, camping and flagrant mediocrity.
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Fuck Kim Reynolds and everyone who voted for her.

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There’s a special place in Hell for Kim Reynolds and Iowa Republicans.

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I am apparently in a mood today.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

"The introduction of a purely utilitarian individualist system of social behaviour, the theoretically justified jungle anarchy of bourgeois society . . . appeared to men brought up in traditional societies as little better than wanton evil." - Eric Hobsbawm, "The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848."

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This is important, because it's true. In the past, Iowa led the way in the expansion of rights, starting before it was even a state. In 1839, the Territorial Supreme Court granted freedom to an enslaved man known only to history as Ralph, after his enslaver wrongly sought to return him to servitude.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Support the boycott today, but we really need a #generalstrike planned to bring everything to a stop.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I am so ashamed of my home state. The republicans of Iowa are complete trash. So tomorrow we fight.

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We really need the "Iowa Nice" guy to come out of retirement and make a response to this, that we're not nice anymore. We've forgotten the lessons and the battles of the past. That we've chosen to piss on everything we've done from Ralph forward.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I've had a large number of new followers lately, and I just want you to know that I am a deeply disappointing person who occasionally attempts to say things that are insightful. Please prepare to be underwhelmed.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is delusional, and yet he's allowed to run rampant across academia and wherever else he's afraid brown people and The Gays may be endangering tiny dick.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Oh my god. My 14 year old son has spent most of the day going full raging teenage asshole because we made him do something away from his computer.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

100%

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I've kind of gotten to the point that my goal in life is to shame each and every person I know that voted for Trump. They need to know that they can never live this down. Everything he does lays directly at their feet.

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This is weak tea. The Democratic Party is leaning in to the case that they have no power, and they're willing to sit back and do nothing so one day they might get a Republican to side with them. I ask again, at what point do we realize that the Democratic Party has gone the way of the Whigs?

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Elon #Musk is the best possible counter argument against STEM education. To prevent Elon Musk you have to fund the humanities.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

International human rights violations sold separately.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

This is what you say. When they say they oppose DEI, just ask them if they support segregation and racism. Because that's what they're doing.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Kash Patel's lips are moving. That's how you know he's lying.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Style. Grace. Panache. This is how you handle a delicate situation.

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I’m just going to say that AOC is the acting leader of the Democratic Party until someone proves otherwise. At least insofar as she is responding to the moment with leadership.

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