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spinaspinetta.bsky.social
Teacher, writer, theater maker, equal opportunity reader of fanfic, progressive socialist, aspiring Italian, once had a dream I was a Marx brother and honestly, Groucho was cool but I still think I prefer Karl in a fistfight
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Since they seem to think that being unelected and unqualified gives them the right to demand anything they like, I think as fellow unqualified people we should demand a few things from them. And oops, they gave us their email address

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For anyone struggling with a cough and stuffy nose and losing your mind- try camphor liquid in a vaporizer. When I had COVID then RSV and was waking up coughing every night, no matter how many medications I loaded up on, this let me sleep. FYI, if you have pets, limit their exposure.

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A little counter to the doom scrolling despair: www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

This is your brief reminder that private insurance is as scam and that insurance companies do not provide any service.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I honestly don't know why anyone could have thought he would do anything else... Trump wants U.S. to take ownership of Gaza and redevelop it after Palestinians are resettled elsewhere ground.news/article/trum...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

When I said, "I wish I could understand how so many Germans in the 1930's didn't do anything to stop the rise of Nazism," I was being rhetorical, it was not actually meant to be one of my three wishes, sorry everybody

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

As far as I can tell, one of the secrets to being a teacher is learning everything your students need to know at least five minutes before they do

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Given all these critical webpages are being taken down, this might be a good time to familiarize yourself with the Wayback Machine on Internet Archive. It can pull up pages that are no longer active: web.archive.org

submitted 21 days ago • 86 comments

Frustrated with how much more expensive things have gotten on the past decade? Well hold onto your butts, because it's about to get suddenly at least 25% more expensive than that. White House Confirms Tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China Will Start Saturday ground.news/article/whit...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

This is the first thing that has given me hope in a while

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

if Democrats were smart they would open up a war room for democracy and maintenance of basic stability that is public facing and all it does is message on basic tenants of a free society and democracy as well as giving true fact-based reporting on what is going on as well as coordinating response

submitted 25 days ago • 64 comments

If you do sweat to put a tyrant down, You sleep in peace

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

Sometimes you're talking to someone and they know way too much about ropes and then they're like, "I'm also a magician," and you're like, "Well that was my second guess"

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Just a reminder America, right now we could have had an intelligent, educated woman and everyone's favorite Midwest dad, but noooooooooh

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Hey, remember when we told you he's a fascist and you told us we were being hyperbolic? Well actually no, there's no way you're up to that level of word

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

submitted 27 days ago • 902 comments

One of the best tricks politicians and corporate media have pulled is calling Karl Marx's anti-capitalist commentary "radical" and "leftist" and acting like it's wild and new, and continuing to say the same thing for over 150 years as each successive generation continues not to catch on

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Right, who picked up the damn conch shell in the haunted cabin

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

America is swiftly falling to fascism and nearly all the politicians are rolling over and showing their bellies and all the big corporations are loving it because let's be honest, they were fascist to begin with, but at least there's Stephen Briggs narrating all the Discworld novels on audiobook

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Ahahahahaha "Study shows teens with authoritarian leanings exhibit weaker cognitive ability and emotional intelligence"https://search.app/LQ9Ytycsvu67v2TQ6

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

✨🌈 The more you know 🌈✨

submitted 29 days ago • 297 comments

When you're so overstimulated that you want to calm down but everything you can think of doing seems too overstimulating including lying on your back on the floor and staring at the ceiling

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

#wikipedia Says the Same Thing - 😁

submitted 32 days ago • 118 comments

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

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