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Dad. Historian of recent American [Media] History. Not a lover of current events these days.
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Wall Street Journal Editorial Board comes out swinging against JD Vance. Indeed, key moment in downward spiral was Vance lashing out in response to Zelenskyy's point on diplomacy with Putin WSJ: "It is bewildering to see Mr. Trump’s allies defending this debacle as some show of American strength."

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NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

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“Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.”

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They look like they accidentally wore each others’ suits

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Trump and Vance just made Zelensky one of the most popular leaders in the world.

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Russia, Russia, Russia.

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When was the last time a VP had the floor at something like this? Trump seems wholly disinterested unless the discussions are economic. But a showing like that has international consequences.

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Trump and Vance are doing Putin’s dirty work. Senate Democrats will never stop fighting for freedom and democracy.

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US President Donald Trump said his proposed 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods will go into effect on March 4 as scheduled because drugs are still pouring into the US from those countries reut.rs/4h3LEsZ

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said this before and i wasn't exaggerating: RFK has the exact personality type of the kind of person that, in a different sort of regime, oversees mass starvation.

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We’ve received too many reports about GOP voicemails being full for this to be a coincidence. If your Republican representative is avoiding you, show up to one of their local offices. You can also send an email to make it clear you don’t want to pay the price for the GOP’s billionaire tax breaks.

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Tesla stock is down 14% since close of markets last Friday. What happened during that time? One answer: mass protests. I describe what it was like at one such protest. What I saw fulfills what I describe as neuroscience-based requirements for effective action. samwang.substack.com/p/the-effect...

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The NIH summer internship program was cancelled today. www.reddit.com/r/NIH/commen... Another important summer program that allowed young researchers pathways into STEM, gutted.

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Another exciting thing about being an adjunct is getting a request for course materials for next term for a course no one asked you to teach, or told you that you were teaching.

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There’s a branch of this (unaffiliated, but same message) being planned at RIT in Rochester , NY (3 hours from our capital in Albany) so that the density of students in western New York can also take part. 12pm walkout!

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If this goes into effect, it will crush higher ed in the U.S.: mass layoffs, slashed services, and even higher tuitions. When coupled with the government firings, it will cause a sharp recession just as the Republicans slash nutritional and medical support for the poor. And that’s the point.

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26 February 1943 | The 1st transport of Roma and Sinti from Germany arrived at #Auschwitz. They were placed in an unfinished BIIe sector of Auschwitz II-Birkenau. So-called family camp for Gypsies was created. Lesson: https://buff.ly/3CuYNg6 Podcast: https://buff.ly/40DS5wM

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“The Senate has held 91 floor votes in the new Congress, and the attendance record is clear: Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has the worst record, missing 18 votes.” Pablo Manríquez dives into Fetterman's poor voting record. Read the full piece: zeteo.com/p/whos-showi...

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Two weeks ago Q: Will Elon Musk secure new government contracts while he is working on DOGE? Trump: No... We won’t let him

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Reporter: Migrants who were in Guantanamo Bay say they were shackled and placed in cages and say they were not treated as human beings. Any response to those conditions? Leavitt: It’s a promise the President campaigned on

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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

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Forty-five years ago today: The Miracle on Ice game between the United States and Soviet Union at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. Feb, 22, 1980.

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Multiple reports of drivers doing spontaneous sieg heil salutes at protesters today, including in one case from someone I know personally. What is being normalized is monstrous and dangerous; every day we step closer to the abyss

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I think it’s a mistake to think of the pro-natalist polygamy of Elon Musk as a departure from the “traditional” sexual conservatism. The tradition, really, is not primarily about male monogamy so much as male domination; the collection of multiple women affirms this, rather than subverting it.

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Current mood

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#OTD (Feb 22) in the year 1946: The "Long Telegram", proposing how the United States should deal with the Soviet Union, arrives from the US embassy in Moscow. #OTDIH #history 🗃️

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Idiocracy was a documentary

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This is a good moment to thank the federalism gods. States choose their election technology, not the federal government. In blue states the read out will be GTFO Elon. And given how toxic he’s getting probably in a lot of red states too.

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"Erasing History" from the U.S. to Germany: "Wars Are Won by Teachers," Says Yale Prof. Jason Stanley

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Not in your head

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Macron has just urged the French to join the military reserve. “We are entering a new era”. France will have to spend more on defence. “The threat that Russia represents imposes choices on us” (Live exchange on social media)

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In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

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When he declares himself king, he is insulting you—and the nation. You have rights. The government is YOURS. And our loyalty is to the Constitution—the profound and fundamental essence of our nation. Not him. True patriots don’t bow down to kings.

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Murphy: "The game is clear. We can see it. They're not even hiding it. There is not a rule of law anymore. There is one set of law for people who are loyal to Donald Trump, and there is one set of law for people who care criticize him. That is not democracy."

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Trump administration keeps USAID contracts frozen despite court order reut.rs/414bbMQ

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What is happening right now is not just a targeting of minority groups and our integration into society. It is the targeting of minority groups as part of remaking the United States government and the theory of democracy that has organized it for over two centuries.

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So.... "Trump signed more executive orders including one that 'reestablishes the long-standing norm that only the president or the attorney general can speak for the United States when stating an opinion as to what the law is,' Scharf said." Huh?!? abc7.com/post/trump-w...

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(1) this is not how university finances work (2) without humanities, you don’t have a university, you have a glorified trade school.

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Congrats to everyone who insisted they were better off four years ago -- you made it right back to the safety and security of "early COVID pandemic"

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Agree.

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"No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent." -- Susan B. Anthony, born #OTD 1820

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