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I’ve liked plenty of students just fine. But love is a weird term to use. Regular people who won’t love other people’s children need to be able to do this job without this messaging.

Teaching in the US has so many weird cult-y vibes. I’ve taught effectively for years and haven’t loved a single student. I guess that’s why I’ll never be NTOY material ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Ok but I was born in the 1980s and social media still broke my brain lol.

But at least I’m aware of it and am actively working to change that. No longer being on Twitter has helped a lot. No algorithm is huge.

the whole structure of this argument — independent agencies are politically unaccountable therefore the president must have removal power — treats congress as if it were a total nullity, or as if only the president truly represents the public.

I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there

Well, Senators Bill Cassidy and Thom Tillis, you wanted RFK Jr. to “go wild” at HHS.

Congratulations. You’ve achieved your goal. He is well on his way to completely destroying the US vaccine program.

like so much of what Silicon Valley is up to these days, it's almost impossible to figure out how much of this "Network State" stuff is serious efforts at techno-fascism, and how much is just grifting a childish elite with gobs of cash and a child's understanding of politics

Sitting in a comfortable home with a steady income; living a life of almost unbearable tedium and routine; fantasizing about the psychopathologies potentially unleashed by the fall of civil society, the only freedom still possible for him.

anyways. the struggle between maga and freedom is not new, but a struggle that goes back to the founding of the republic--a slow-rolling religious civil war, two sides of a schism on what the meaning of america ever was

now it is simply our turn to take up that fight

you: "what are you talking about, 'sacred scriptures,' bullshit--"

me:

this is why trump and vance and maga are not just traitors to the republic: they are committing sacrilege. they profane what is most holy. they do this deliberately, because they hate us for our freedoms.

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I know much less about this but this is likely true across the Americas. It is a New World ethos and it should be cherished as such.

Birthright citizenship is probably not integral to liberal democracy, but it is integral to *American* liberal democracy. Our vision of what we are as a country, as a nation beyond an ethnicity, requires it.

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*More than half of the GOP believe the 2020 election outcome was the result of fraud
*More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job
*37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate
*36% believe NASA faked the moon landing
*1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism

It’s pretty funny that this is almost the exact same amount of money Netflix paid for Warner Bros and HBO and CNN, all that for this

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looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign

At no point during the five-year span that Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on the BBC, from October 1969 to December 1974, could the greatest comedic minds of their time come up with a skit more grotesquely absurd than Trump placing a fake peace-prize medal over his own head.

Terrible graphic but also just listening to her speak and the complete goober nature of anyone in government right now is off the charts, sounds like a damn middle school book report

Wow. Tracy Beth Høeg, the FDA's new acting director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) just put this slide up during her presentation to ACIP.

We have left reality.

#OtD 6 Dec 1907 the worst mining disaster in US history took place in West Virginia killing all but 5 of 367 workers. It left over 1000 mostly Italian children fatherless and inspired the first Fathers' Day the following year stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1059...

The ACIP decision to discontinue the recommendation for a universal hepatitis B birth dose vaccine will cause harm.

As the federal government continues to fail children's health, families can rely on our nation's physicians to continue to put children's health first.

And if you want to pin it on a particular case, an instance when they were not merely wrong but did immense violence to the Constitution itself, it's the immunity ruling. There's your properly impeachable offense. They concocted and imposed on us an overtly royalist and anti-constitutional doctrine.

Been cry laughing at this shit for an hour. Bubs face in the payoff is killing me

it is impossible to overstate the extent to which this country is now being run by people you would leave a party rather than talk to for five minutes

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