You give me hope
13.07.2025 00:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@jengolight.bsky.social
18th-C literary and cultural history. Digital Teaching & Research Specialist and Lecturer in History @ Colorado College; Instructor at U of Denver. Technologist by day, scholar whenever I can. I have a lot of animals.
You give me hope
13.07.2025 00:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends
17.06.2025 21:27 β π 21454 π 5486 π¬ 496 π 446I think multiple elected officials just nonchalantly being like βElon Musk is not a government employee and has zero authority so his words are basically toilet paperβ would probably result in one of the most epic public breakdowns and illegal threats against federal officials weβve ever seen
25.02.2025 02:10 β π 1811 π 473 π¬ 19 π 14My history of law is very rusty, but I recall one prof telling me the reason why laws exist at all is to pacify the hoi polloi enough that they wouldn't shank the aristocracy wherever they go.
31.03.2025 02:13 β π 432 π 54 π¬ 8 π 13There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com
22.03.2025 01:19 β π 6536 π 2104 π¬ 116 π 176And 11,000 people in Greeley. Greeley!!
22.03.2025 03:16 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0At-will employment also makes leaving work to protest risky. Structurally, weβre set up to discourage the kinds of protests that happen in other places like France.
22.03.2025 03:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Hmong American woman who has lived in the Milwaukee area since she was 8 months old was deported last week to Laos, a country she has never visited, and says she is stranded in a rooming house surrounded by military guards.
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
Hereβs hoping
14.03.2025 02:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Linking these kinds of diseases to βpoor diet and healthβ is classist, fatphobic bullshit.
11.03.2025 02:20 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.
10.03.2025 18:14 β π 12319 π 4485 π¬ 31 π 156Unbelievable. Just utterly spineless and weak.
06.03.2025 17:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0youβre fired. wait youβre rehired. email us a list of things youβve done today wait forget it youβre fired again. come back your job was important. youβre fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
05.03.2025 22:34 β π 97747 π 27062 π¬ 1559 π 1278a tiny white dog stands on a tile floor and looks up at you. theyβre wearing a big plush yellow star around their teensy noggin, like the worldβs most congratulatory lion mane. we really needed to see her today.
We've been saving this little pup for when we thought you all might really need a gold star. And, given the current circumstances, here she is. 13/10
05.03.2025 19:00 β π 22909 π 3203 π¬ 422 π 243Trump didn't win 50% of the popular vote.
The GOP has slim margins in both the House and Senate.
His approval ratings are tanking.
He does not have a mandate.
Do not let him gaslight you into believing he is all powerful.
He's not.
WTF is happening
04.03.2025 03:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Iβd like to speak up
28.02.2025 23:50 β π 2551 π 653 π¬ 46 π 28Our president is a Russian asset.
This nation cannot abide that.
Ukraine deserves our resistance.
We have to stand up to this now or our nation will fall, too.
DOGE recommended firing workers at:
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
It is
20.02.2025 19:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We are living in the upside down
20.02.2025 18:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0ALL THE SEXES ARE BELONG TO US #c18
16.02.2025 17:28 β π 23 π 4 π¬ 0 π 05 sentence summary of 50 years of right wing culture warriors
10.02.2025 03:53 β π 31 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0Finally some more comprehensive reporting on the fall of the republic. Weβre 10 steps behind. Gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
Itβs a very common question these days in light of all these attacks upon our Republic: Is somebody doing something?! The good news is, they are. I break it down and discuss the four kinds of responses that are happening today. Link in the replies.
03.02.2025 18:50 β π 1192 π 250 π¬ 41 π 22SCOOP: Many of the pages that went missing on Friday from the CDC website on Friday have reappeared β in response to intense media coverage, backlash from the scientific community and concern for the publicβs health.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/h...
Senate phone system is currently unstable - it's not just you
03.02.2025 19:58 β π 267 π 56 π¬ 5 π 3Note the use of passive voice here. βMust be stoppedβ? By whom? Congress needs to act now.
03.02.2025 20:18 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Reposting with alt text. In case it inspires anyone else out there to hold the line.
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