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palmcanoe.bsky.social
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thousands of folks marching for #handsoff in downtown san antonio as the final four kicks off about 10 blocks away

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

37 degrees rain and snow, ruby red west Texas Hands Off

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Don’t forget that Hungary is where it started in 89

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

cri de coeur

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

What if the secret to winning elections is somehow Trump's syntax. We need a guy to say stuff like "But we're going to abolish billionaires and we'll be doing it very soon. They'll be paying very high taxes but it'll be very fair. And frankly they haven't paid taxes in a very long time"

submitted 22 days ago • 168 comments

When the 4 of us (incl 2 small children) were on Fulbright in 1993, our university had us on unpaid leave. If we’d had to come back (on our own dime) in the middle of the semester, we’d have come back to no salaries

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

electricliterature.com/omar-el-akka...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.

submitted 49 days ago • 342 comments

Q: how to 6x DOGE savings ($2.5b)? A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)

submitted 51 days ago • 129 comments

An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

submitted 58 days ago • 30 comments

I wrote more about the campus, the DOGE onslaught and the long shadow of just searching for shit on websites as a form of institutional critique open.substack.com/pub/adrianda...

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

There was a post on social media recently about how men like to rename things into turbo-charged language. Diet = “biohacking” Basic Grooming= “looksmaxxing” Trump + Elon trying to break the government and fire people = “masculine maximalism”

submitted 63 days ago • 30 comments

if you were an unreconstructed segregationist from jim crow alabama, what would you do differently than this administration with regard to civil rights enforcement?

submitted 71 days ago • 534 comments