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Kevin Gannon

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Educational developer, historian, abolitionist, purveyor of fine doggo content | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, technology and teaching, 18th-19th century history | Wrote: wvupressonline.com/node/823 | Fueled by coffee and spite.

Kevin Gannon 's avatar Kevin Gannon @thetattooedprof.bsky.social
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All these "independent thinkers" somehow end up in the same fuckin place don't they

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I know this is all obvious, and has been discussed far more effectively and coherently than my rage-posting here. But damn it, when you sit back and take it all in, it's maddening

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Kevin Gannon 's avatar Kevin Gannon @thetattooedprof.bsky.social
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Meanwhile, legitimate and talented journalists are being laid off by the score, because the same dudes funding this wingnut welfare complex have also steered our economy to a place where private equity chews up any entity working for the public good and spits out the bones

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Kevin Gannon 's avatar Kevin Gannon @thetattooedprof.bsky.social
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Also, the author bio is a perfect encapsulation of the incestuous network of right-wing institutes, fellowships, and "think tanks" designed to prop up mediocre intellects so long as they lick the right boots.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)

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Dave Levitan's avatar Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social
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Writing for the NYT requires either having or pretending to have a degree of gullibility that could not occur in the wild

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis's avatar Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.bsky.social
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This is not a defense of Biden, the Democrats or anyone else. It is a critique of the media (which is kind of what I do a lot of) that outside of kind of the fringes is treating everything as normal instead of plainly detailing the risks the US are facing.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis's avatar Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.bsky.social
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IDK kind of feels like we should be paying more attention to a prominent conservative think tank saying we're in the midst of a second american revolution that will remain bloodless as long as long as the left lets it be, then whether or not Biden should step down.

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JL Sigman's avatar JL Sigman @jlsigman.bsky.social
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These ladies are INSANELY GOOD. I'm glad they're getting more listens on this side of the globe!

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Kevin Gannon 's avatar Kevin Gannon @thetattooedprof.bsky.social
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Yes. That was the epicenter of industrialization for sure

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Last spring the Heritage Foundation sponsored a Leadership Summit by the "Bull Moose Project." Here's the leader of that project talking about his racist and homophobic, "blood and soil" version of what America should be about.

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Kevin Gannon 's avatar Kevin Gannon @thetattooedprof.bsky.social
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Feel like the Dutch have a pretty good claim to the financial and merchant capitalism varieties at least #teamwork

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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Propaganda works

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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"As an Indian don't you support Rishi Sunak" I very much do I think he is a crown jewel of England and therefore should be kept locked in the Tower of London and only taken out once a year for public display

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Greg Pak's avatar Greg Pak @gregpak.bsky.social
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7/1/2024 will go down as one of the worst days in American history, and this is how the NYT website was covering it yesterday, under seven (7)(VII) articles about Biden's age.

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Kevin Gannon 's avatar Kevin Gannon @thetattooedprof.bsky.social
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 3/20
#booksky

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Kevin Gannon 's avatar Kevin Gannon @thetattooedprof.bsky.social
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Thread. A perceptive and accurate assessment of where we are (and where we've been for a while even if lots of folks refused to see it)

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Liam Hogan's avatar Liam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social
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Peter Fritzsche: “It should be stated clearly that Germans became Nazis because they wanted to become Nazis...”

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Nails Nathan's avatar Nails Nathan @chadstanton.bsky.social
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Again, selectively ignoring blatant corruption and the criminalization of the press because “oh well that’s just Mississippi, they should move out the state lol” is how you signal there’s no commitment at all for a true politics of solidarity, commitment to principles.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.

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Anthea Butler's avatar Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social
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African Americans will tell you that this country has never been fully a democracy, and white people are about to find out how the little democracy left is about to go up in a puff of smoke should Trump get back in the White House.

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Adam Kotsko 's avatar Adam Kotsko @adamkotsko.bsky.social
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"The Republicans really have engineered a situation where the only way to be certain that constitutional democracy will endure is if certain named individuals were dead and buried."

itself.blog/2024/07/02/w...

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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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People like Fallon start from the premise, "Can I imagine some explanation in which this thing, standing alone, can be fitted into a principled legal system?" I mean, yeah, sure, that can be done for anything. But doing so makes you a collaborator and a propagandist, not an honest & wise scholar.

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Kevin Gannon 's avatar Kevin Gannon @thetattooedprof.bsky.social
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As long as you make sure you get you boogie-woogie flu shot

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Your honor, with all due respect, Saturday night is all right for fighting

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Charles C. Mann's avatar Charles C. Mann @charlescmann.bsky.social
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Fine WaPo piece from a couple weeks back that both highlights the empty rationales provided by Duke administrators for closing the university's herbarium, one of the nation's biggest, and explains why herbarium collections like the one at Duke can be so scientifically valuable.

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Coach Finstock's avatar Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social
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Team Trump admitting the immunity bullshit was just to slow walk the case and didn't in a million years expect to win it tells you just how fucked we are

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Brooke Binkowski's avatar Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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They also coordinated funds to Clarence Thomas and probably others on the Supreme Court. They are thoroughly corrupt and horribly powerful. In short, if you want a villain to go after, it's Heritage and all its shell groups.

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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲's avatar Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com
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I subscribed to the Flaming Hydra recently because it's the kind of thing I want to see more of in the world -- independent journalist cooperative -- and the articles are great.

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Lupita Nihongo's avatar Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social
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Makes my skin crawl that these people have to spend the twilight of their lives being denied justice by people who weren’t even alive when they were brutalized and that what were supposed to be the best years of their lives was stained by an overt rejection of justice.

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Allie, Demon of Djent, Fiend of the Pit's avatar Allie, Demon of Djent, Fiend of the Pit @alliesadventuring.party
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the thing about a right wing revolution is they have no actual view for the future. they just hate the left and are so angry it makes them horny to eradicate an enemy. it’s a repugnant moral sickness with no real end game. the anger persists beyond any possible “victory” it’s endless anger and pain

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them. I haven’t believed this for a while. Other than “I prefer to be alive and not dead” and “I like pudding,” I do not share values with these people.

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Kevin Gannon 's avatar Kevin Gannon @thetattooedprof.bsky.social
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I mean, Giménez was most likely going to score, but you gotta at least try to throw him out, don't you? Naylor's fly ball wasn't that deep.

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Kevin Gannon 's avatar Kevin Gannon @thetattooedprof.bsky.social
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If my pitcher was 6'3", 220, and built like a brick wall, I wouldn't tank it on the game-deciding play. But that's just me.

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I'll take the win, but Luis Robert just gave up. Inexcusable. Kopech may punch him in the locker room, given the way the White Sox are going lately

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Catbus 's avatar Catbus @catbus.bsky.social
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I kneel in the direction of Google HQ chanting my mantra, "the electricity needs of AI supercede the human requirement of an inhabitable planet" outside the window a choir of Boston Dynamics robot dogs bark the national anthem

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Asher Elbein's avatar Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social
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Resist inevitability. It doesn't exist. It's an invention of people trying to convince you to shut up and go along so that they don't have to fight you, because fighting is hard and there's generally a very good possibility that they'll lose

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Preeti Chhibber's avatar Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social
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apropos of uhhhhhhh everything, reposting this again

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