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History prof at TX A&M-San Antonio, father of two, retired skater, grouch. Historian of kids and justice systems. Opinions shared here are mine alone and don’t represent my employer.
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Executive orders aren’t laws and neither are tweets.

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“Final Mission” - I guess “Final Solution” was too on the mark.

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And for my kids

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These people want us all to get sick and die.

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The EU was formed as a bulwark against an authoritarian Russian regime abd you are now selling us all out to the current version of that regime.

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This person was on the board of a once respected honors liberal arts college.

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Better late than never I guess. I really hope we don’t get an outbreak in San Antonio.

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Spelling America with a K now

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This is how every elected Democrat should talk.

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Worth your time to read this.

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Exactly

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J *F* C

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Like the government itself, degrade it enough to justify selling it off to some private entity.

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If only Democrats showed this much fire.

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It’s a good idea

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Is it OK to tell Musk to “go the f—k back to Africa?”

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Translation: “we won’t do much of anything but piss and moan unless our voters make us act”

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I don’t think I can ever get past how easily American voters, opinion makers, and electeds just memory holed this.

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for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

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That plus the ads seem like a repudiation.

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This man has never bought an egg in a grocery store in his life

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Takes self-dealing to another level

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The carceral state just went transnational

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Looks like the Texas school voucher bill proposes to loot the teacher retirement fund used by K-12 and higher education employees. www.wfaa.com/article/news...

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It's interesting how the immigrant most responsible for costing Americans their jobs is Elon Musk

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It isn’t

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Better reporting than we are getting from our news media

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But now Guy Who Didn’t Do the Reading is in charge

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Texas legislators should read this excellent article as they consider juvenile justice policy this session: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/m...

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“Senior advisor” shouldn’t mean “senior in high school”

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My STEM colleagues are freaking out right now as I expect are many others.

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Really important thread

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👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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Otherwise known as “ethnic cleansing.”

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Burn down the Democratic Party and rebuild it with people who will fight

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Visited the FDR memorial in DC this week. Man it hit home in a way it didn’t last time I visited.

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Justice Brennan once described originalism as “arrogance cloaked as humility” in the way it imputed its own biases to the framers. But it’s even dumber. It’s legal New Criticism- reading text without context. And embarrassingly amateurish history. Laughable if not for the harm it has caused.

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I've been writing about birthright citizenship for 20 years. This thread strings together my opinion pieces (not law review tomes, which I will post separately). I wrote a book about the Fourteenth Amendment and I debated John Eastman 20 years ago about his vile plan to end birthright citizenship./1

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🎯🎯🎯

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The bot / spam accounts with half-naked profile pix are becoming a daily nuisance on this site.

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“Fallen” is the word I would use

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Enter the year you turned 10ish into the gif bar and see what was popular back then…

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Yes to this thread

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I don’t know what kind of dream world these fools are living in but reality will hit hard and fast

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