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Comm Studies lecturer and debate coach in NorCal (Goudi’ni). Author: The Alien Movie Project: Studying the Narrative, Affective and Production Politics of Alien Stories in Cinema. Co-host: Alien Movie Project, Reel War Project, Fields of Glory Podcast

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Latest posts by apdonaldson.bsky.social on Bluesky


Why wasn’t Nicki Minaj involved in the MAGA Patriot halftime show?

Can you imagine being a rapper and going all in on trump only for them to pick Kid Rock as their musical brand?

Like she has hits from the 2020’s but, nope, they want old floppy floor sausage. Just brutal.

09.02.2026 05:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The "ICE is using military tactics suited for a warzone, not for American streets" rhetoric kinda misses the point that warzones are not naturally occuring. The US military creates war zones from residential neighborhoods and the tactics are not more justifiable just because it's overseas

18.01.2026 01:42 — 👍 4186    🔁 1138    💬 35    📌 31

My family shut off Empire Strikes Back to put in Return of the Jedi because they wanted the one with the Ewoks and I get it but no.

18.01.2026 05:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hey, does anyone remember the huge flap about Jade Helm?

Apparently now you CAN mess with Texas, as long as you are a Republican.

12.01.2026 17:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.

08.01.2026 17:44 — 👍 9185    🔁 1985    💬 240    📌 47

I will never condone AI but if someone were to drop Julia Louise Dreyfus in as the Vice President my complaints would be a lot more hypocritical.

09.01.2026 02:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bowl season is a good time to say that Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy is irreversible, degenerative, and intrinsicly linked to sports like football.

State dollars are subsidizing brain damage, but if you bring that up you are ”being too political.”

02.01.2026 06:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just finished Dawn by Octavia Butler and just thinking lots of thoughts. Really good. INTENSE.

#booksky

27.12.2025 02:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There's a lot of debate about whether trans athletes have an advantage, but if folks are going to have that conversation, they must also consider whether trans athletes also have disadvantages or a mix of both. The one-way, homogenized debate is inherently transphobic.

17.12.2025 15:50 — 👍 643    🔁 78    💬 67    📌 4

chronic traumatic is irreversible, degenerative, and intrinsicly linked to football.

17.12.2025 15:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What actors facial expression in a movie will stay with you the rest of your life?

13.12.2025 04:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is degenerative, irreversible, and linked directly to games like football.

12.12.2025 02:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What a time to be alive man.

06.12.2025 01:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Mother and Child” by Topsy
#AbolishICE

03.12.2025 22:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One Battle After Another started with Black revolutionary women and ended with “Bob Ferguson.” How is he the more interesting plot line?

#Filmsky

02.12.2025 18:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When will the first AI candidate win an election?

Just thinking thoughts.

02.12.2025 18:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fruit.

16.10.2025 05:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

University of Oregon football will damage the brains of their students on national television in a stadium that holds tens of thousands of people all Fall but the high school debate tournament they have hosted for generations is too expensive.

Everybody got that?

14.10.2025 17:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Reading about symbolic convergence theory and thinking about what happens to Others when they are included in “we” as opposed to when they are not.

06.10.2025 16:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

From the Falls of Multnomah to the college dorms at Reed

we will fight our nation’s battles in the air on land and sea …

03.10.2025 15:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“This machine surrounds hatred and forces it to surrender .”

30.09.2025 15:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Debate topic of the night:

If they were all horse sized, which barnyard animal is the most majestic to ride into battle

The answer is chicken, or duck.
#CoachCuts

26.09.2025 16:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you believe in “2nd Amendment Solutions” then you gotta expect some dubiousness when you try to lecture people on how bad political violence is.

15.09.2025 16:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A lot of the same people saying you should not celebrate political violence are also calling for retribution if not civil war. That’s confusing.

13.09.2025 18:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Supreme Court says colleges can’t consider race. But ICE can. So much for the justices' promise of a "colorblind Constitution."

The Supreme Court is forging an America where weighing race can be used to harm minorities, but not to protect them.

11.09.2025 16:55 — 👍 582    🔁 236    💬 38    📌 20

Every day the Yankees are out of
first place is a good day.

27.08.2025 14:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Snoop Dog is threatened by same sex couples but more than willing to profit from misogyny - everybody got that?

27.08.2025 00:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy is degenerative, irreversible, and inexorably linked to football.

23.08.2025 15:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“The future of democratic education will be determined by the extent to which democratic values can triumph over the spirit of oligarchy that seeks to silence diverse voices, prohibit free speech, and deny citizens access to education.”

bell hooks (2010)

#coachcuts #booksky

20.08.2025 14:40 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy is degenerative, irreversible, and inexorably linked to football.

20.08.2025 14:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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