@proflac.bsky.social
Professor, IUBloomington. Shakespearean, Dog mom, private pilot, landlocked surfer. Author of Notorious Identity (Harvard UP); Hamlet’s Heirs (Routledge); assorted products in the Divine Right to Democracy aisle. Political Psychology at eye-level.
He didn’t want the actual job of being president. He wanted one thing: to stay out of prison. Secondary—getting pending cases dropped; taking revenge on anyone who prosecuted or investigated him; capitalizing on the emoluments of the office. He got all that. And handed Musk the rest of the job.
03.02.2025 14:24 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Still and forever
20.01.2025 17:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This goes out to the 34% of eligible voters who sat it out last November.
20.01.2025 17:38 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Ubermensch, jah.
18.01.2025 18:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He’s gotta keep that newly-regenerated miracle ear warm that’s why.
17.01.2025 21:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is SO sick. This is them. Guardians of our Republic.
17.01.2025 20:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0Someone needs to ask Hegseth if he’s had a drink today. He’s way too wratched up.
14.01.2025 20:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hegseth is not a patriot, he is a zealot for Trump. He talks like a rapist, pushing pushing against others, beating them over the head with his rhetorical holyrollerdom.
14.01.2025 20:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hegseth is effing terrifying.
14.01.2025 20:22 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Mr Trump’s criminality is patent, extreme, treasonous, and anti-American. He is befouled by his own irredeemable corruption. It’s plain as day. We’ve become a nation half of whom simply don’t care.
14.01.2025 18:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well this isn’t good.
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I remember all of them, and some took years to recover from. A good NY🥳’s resolution to think twice.
31.12.2024 14:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bury him in his own words. OD:
29.12.2024 14:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And a total racket it is, too. It’s not even as moral as garden -variety extortion, where at least you get something in return for your enforced payment.
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N95–it’s not just for Covid anymore!
28.12.2024 17:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0💀💀💀
28.12.2024 17:51 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0💀💀💀
28.12.2024 17:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0in the David Brooks school of dewy-eyed discovery
26.12.2024 21:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The pressure of normalizing him grows exponentially with each passing week. The insanity of his “merry Christmas go to Hell” post should be front page news; but the shrug of inevitability has kicked in. I don’t know how to deal with it.
26.12.2024 17:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0He is a plague, to be sure, and we have to survive his corrosive recrudescence and make sure that something like him—and his enablers— are never again able to mortally sicken our body politic. So say we all.
26.12.2024 17:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Think. Think harder.
25.12.2024 16:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The facts. No travesty of SCOTUS hocus pocus or willful irrationality by 47% of low-information/brainwashed voters will or can change those facts. Shakespeare wrote “Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning,” and he was right.
19.12.2024 22:38 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Remember when Dump wanted a military parade, like those in Russia and North Korea? I’m predicting that he’ll have one—the first in US history— parading IBMs, armored tanks, goose stepping soldiers, and heavy weapons—within his first year.
15.12.2024 17:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0British aristocrat SIR Andrew Witty, new CEO of United Healthcare Corporation, given editorial space to tell his lies in the NYT. I haven’t read anything quite so snooty and condescending since, well, David Brooks’s last column.
14.12.2024 14:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Americans—We deserve this. We pay for a service we don’t receive. Enough is enough. This should be the top goal for the Democratic and Independent parties. Demand it and don’t stop until all voters understand that it will protect ALL of us from needless death, despair, misery, and bankruptcy.
14.12.2024 14:13 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0