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02.03.2026 20:34 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@hermagoras.bsky.social
Professional underachiever. Hedgehog sometimes mistaken for fox. I read too much, write too little. Poetry, rhetoric, science/anti-science, politics, Ireland, Singapore. (Also: Associate Professor of English, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC)
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02.03.2026 20:34 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Kobayashi Maru Training Exercise for people with "In This House We Believe" signs in their yard.
23.02.2026 19:26 β π 418 π 59 π¬ 8 π 0I remember when this song came out and I hoped sheβd be huge. I still hope that.
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πThe federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.
"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Just a reminder that the Trump administration canceled all of the electrical grid improvement projects the DOE funded for Puerto Rico. Oh, and all of the solar projects, too.
09.02.2026 17:09 β π 135 π 39 π¬ 4 π 1man Iβm sorry to be all corny here but when I see a βthe city is beautiful! Thereβs more to it than homeless people!β I gotta say you know whoβs also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you donβt see that thatβs on you
08.02.2026 04:42 β π 10263 π 1656 π¬ 113 π 65
The files they say your name about a thousand times
But when you partied with Epstein you didnβt do no crimes
Your lawyer screams itβs time to simply turn the page
And besides the girls you paid for seemed to be of age
YOU GOTTA FIGHT β¦
The subject of a Chotining always thinks heβs going to be the first to avoid his inevitable fate
02.02.2026 00:04 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Bari Weiss at the end omg
27.01.2026 14:18 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0tfw when the imperialism is boomeranging
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When I went to bed last night, the New York Times home page headline read βVideos Appear to Contradict Federal Account of Fatal Shooting.β This morning, the headline is βVideos Contradict Federal Account of Fatal Shooting.β
Small victories.
BREAKING: New angle released of the federal agent involved shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
24.01.2026 18:44 β π 99 π 81 π¬ 28 π 100The dreaded falafeloofitis
24.01.2026 18:07 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yes, but the number has been limited to 435 since 1929, when the US population was less than 130 million. The size of the EC is determined by number of senators plus house members. Doubling the house would give high population states more EC clout.
24.01.2026 14:04 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If we double the size of the House, which would dilute the lopsided power of the big empty states, I'd be more likely to support the Electoral College. Easier, too: no Constitutional Amendment needed.
24.01.2026 05:12 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I think people should be allowed to vote from prison too
19.01.2026 21:46 β π 243 π 39 π¬ 3 π 1This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
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I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
CBS News on X: BREAKING: The ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis, Jonathan Ross, suffered internal bleeding to the torso following the incident, according to two U.S. officials briefed on his medical condition. 10:51 AM
Zero percent chance this is true.
14.01.2026 16:40 β π 23191 π 3501 π¬ 3681 π 1440dilbert, dogbert, grimbert reaperbert
13.01.2026 19:12 β π 111 π 6 π¬ 5 π 0
One thing that is getting conflated:
ICE is not law enforcement.
ICE is immigration enforcement.
There's a BIG difference between the two.
This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryanβs removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...
11.01.2026 20:02 β π 3901 π 1082 π¬ 71 π 90As a Kellogg, I endorse this
11.01.2026 00:40 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."
09.01.2026 19:55 β π 9191 π 2766 π¬ 11 π 229
I am begging Democratic leadership to recognize that funding and legitimizing your authoritarian opponentβs secret police is a bad idea.
This should not be a difficult concept.ββββββββββββββββ
The βprosecute the former regime at every levelβ candidate has my vote in 2028.
07.01.2026 20:26 β π 86943 π 21352 π¬ 1614 π 1511Trump has 50 Cent level hate
05.01.2026 15:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0An exit sign on a wall right above a sign reading MAXIMUM OCCUPANCY 69
Just leaving your momβs house.
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