Joe Crook ☑︎

Me when I was 12yo: “so, it’s not actually spelled ‘adjunked’” 🤔

If all Virginians are currently encouraged to protect water supplies by minimizing water use, monitoring drought conditions, and detecting and repairing leaks.

Then how bad does the drought need to be before they advise us not to use ĄĮ?

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Who will be our “Martin Luther,” and when will they nail their "95 Theses" to the door of the White House, protesting the Federal Government's sale of indulgences?

To think I graduated from Florida State University with a BS in Interdisciplinary Social Science and an MA in Interdisciplinary Humanities. It’s just too much to consider that the classroom discussions that fostered understanding and the topics studied will not be repeated in the foreseeable future.

For the evening crowd interested in student loans policy.

I wrote about how stripping away visuals trackers for IDR not only hurts accountability and transparency to keep the government and servicers honest - it harms borrowers mental health.

@insidehighered.com

High School English and the Making of American Readers Abstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars

Most R1 English departments, my entire career: *very skeptical of English education*

@manshel.bsky.social: The high school English classroom is the most important literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars.

Me: 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾

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Isn't there something in the good book about not getting your honey where you get your money?

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

@wm.edu!?!

Hi attorneys! Want to not be able to get to sleep tonight? Here's Judge Rakoff (probably the single most well-respected judge in SDNY) saying that the use of AI destroys both attorney-client privilege and work-product privilege.

Lost Katrina Dogs Returned To Owner Florida Women Who Adopted 2 Dogs Lost After Hurricane Agree To Give Them Back After Custody Dispute

“A tearful Bondi said she would be able to visit the dog she called Noah and the Coutures call Master Tank.”

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I was led to believe there were more “Benji Ray(s)” working in these positions

👽👽👽

Listening to this man brought to mind the following torture:

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🤔

YouTube video by ParryGripp Space Unicorn - Parry Gripp and Brianne Drouhard

Space 🌌 unicorn 🦄 still slaps

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Homeland (TV series) - Wikipedia

Are we currently in Season 6 or Season 7 of Homeland?

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We need to be worried about our family, friends, and neighbors who volunteer their time to work all day on Election Day. Most workers are 64+ y.o., and what will we do if they stay home or quit volunteering their time to work these elections?

Add a hyphen immediately followed by “AI”, like: [ London Surveillance -AI ] to a Google search, that way you're using a negative search operator

Bitcoin ATM fraud rises as FBI reports $333 million stolen in 2025 — Business Insider Bitcoin ATM fraud hit $333 million in losses in 2025, the FBI said. Over 10,000 people have fallen victim to bitcoin ATM scams, with older adults being the most affected. Bitcoin ATM fraud losses have...

Bitcoin ATM fraud rises as FBI reports $333 million stolen in 2025 - Business Insider

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In Viriginia, it is unlawful for any person to hinder, intimidate, or interfere with any qualified voter so as to prevent the voter from casting a secret ballot. …

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Quickly scrolling, and I see this picture. With the black-bar down the middle, my first thought was:
“That’s a strange redaction from the most recent Batch of files released.” 🤷‍♂️

Unlike the “wings on a drone” - the real work is done by the cows in service of the queen

@mtgillikin.bsky.social 🤔

From the E.R. at County General to The Pitt, we are shown how the Ideological State Apparatus (ISA) has evolved.
Now, from the Hill Street Blues Hill Street Station to American Blue, we can experience the full growth of the most dramatized Repressive State Apparatus (RSA).

That’s a lot of Virginia flips on that list!

“The agents open the door, which unlocked automatically when she put the gearshift in park, they drag her out and force her to the ground.”

So, unless we can change the settings on the car, I guess the thing to do now is place the gearshift into (N) and use the parking break? 🤔

Maybe this can get “fixed” next year?

@maynivar.com @delciaprice85.bsky.social @lashrecseaird.bsky.social

I bet the Ozark Stovers of this country agree with this assessment. Wilfully dismissing any possible implication for themselves or their followers.