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In 2020 several Canadian polling firms did a hypothetical 2020 election poll of the Canadian electorate. Alberta was the most Republican province and it was several points bluer than Vermont.

My constructive question to this student is, how would you articulate your concerns and your reasoning to someone who does not share your faith in the Bible as an authority? Being able to do this is an important objective for education, both for self-awareness and for living in society.

"Why is there grade inflation? Why do our courses lack rigor?' "Also we will immediately throw any graduate student TA or instructor who upsets an influential constituency under the bus, no matter how obviously manufactured their outrage is." 🤷‍♂️

Will someone please ask the 89 million Americans who didn't vote in the last election if they are being affected by anything this administration is doing to the other Americans?

I continue to not understand why a single person ever—ever—goes out on a limb for Trump considering that one of the most consistent things about him is he will dump whomever he needs to the second it becomes necessary to save his own skin.

Translation: Pete may well go down for this. But I’m not going with him.

I was struggling to teach close reading in grad school fifteen years ago, and I got this very simple and effective description from @diodotos.bsky.social, but when I passed it on to a coworker at my previous job, it became known as “the Joel rule”

unironically Labour needs to be taking notes on policy from Mamdani instead of Blue Labour's socially conservative statist corporatism

Strong Floor Because Otherwise The Guillotines Are Going To Break Through Into The Basement

I think it works as a conceptual description of a left-ish liberalism, but it’s clunky phrasing and doesn’t address how the people without a ceiling have spent 50 years dismantling the floor.

Hegseth’s only qualification for the job of Secretary of Defense was his TV punditry in support of war crimes. Of course he would do that. That’s why Trump hired him.

Strong floor, no ceiling

Similar principle to all the Persian Republicans in LA who love to be right wing rabble rousers; meanwhile, they would lose their minds if they had to move outside a blue metro area.

there’s something so depressing from recognition of the fact that somehow hakeem jeffries is without a doubt the better of the two dem legislative leaders

“The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

unbelievable. the canonical example of an illegal order in the Law of War Manual is "an order to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana have completely discredited themselves with this shambolic joke of a party

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of: -ABC, which bribed the president -CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans -WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor Fools.

[hearing about britain's tax system] oh i get it. it's like europe without the social safety net and america without the growth. brilliant!

Having established myself, I think, as a “college writing instructor who’s panicking about how the kids can’t read or write or study”…not only was a 0 was not warranted here, but I wonder what manner of writing this instructor is letting slide. You can’t blow your 0 wad on this kind of thing

"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. " www.wired.com/story/poems-...

My building does exactly one thing collectively (a dance of moving parked cars out of the driveway, taking the trash cans out, returning them, and then resuming parking) and if course the people upstairs have fucked it up and our bins have been sitting empty outside for more than a day.

I’m kind of a “vote blue no matter who” type, but when the incumbent cuts you out of decision-making and the district is safely D, I say go crazy.

Repeat after me: I am not badder than Jeffery Epstein. I am not badder than Vince McMahon. I am not badder than Keemstar. I am not badder than Andrew Tate. But if I stand back and watch and learn, I will be badder than I am.

Is it normal for a police department to have ‘arrest quotas?’ As reported by Fox 11, the Glendora Police Department has an arrest quota of 1,700 people per year.

Very disrespectful that the White House media-hating blog deadnames MS NOW.

Who could have seen this coming except literally everyone share.google/GFaMy3K2Jjlo...

who up reëntering

Zohran being a more popular dem socialist and winning must have scrambled his brain

The left/YIMBY realignment is leaving more and more trust fund kids without jobs and untethered from reality

it’s pretty cool that this unhinged left-NIMBY got primaried by a progressive YIMBY

I just want to be able to afford a house, man

"My political opponents have not expressed <abhorrent views>. However, what this tweet presupposes...."

"There's no rule that says a dog can't escape the wheel of Saṃsāra!"

I have no words for how annoying I find the preferential parking program in LA. You have to have your car registered at your address to get proper annual permits, which most of my building can’t be bothered to do

I feel like the two dimensional political compass for local elected democrats are: 1. Mod or Prog 2. Interested in solving any local problems whatsoever vs deferring to local gatekeeper assholes.

I like Zohran a lot, and there certainly is a lot of red tape, but overall I tend to think that small business is best helped by better regulating big business.

A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees. I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?

"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!" "no problem boss. i'm on it"

Also funny for me (as a Greek and Latin knower on the west coast) how this shows up in Buddhist settings. One guy started talking about how Buddha is related to the word “bud” and I walked out.

My boyfriend’s dad is staying with us, and he is like “The unfortunate thing about Kentucky was that people there didn’t know any Black people and that made them more racist” and I appreciate the candor from a working class white guy with a lot of populist beliefs.

New Yorker next year: “Ghislaine Maxwelł coöperated with a reëlected president—so why does it feel like the media are slowŵalking her comeback?”

people trying to do the dieworkwear shit about a bland but probably reasonably palatable dinner just because they hate who’s serving it is cringe sorry

Don't piss in my face and tell me it's raining, only Trump goes for that - living in the Soviet Union was ass, at the end of the day the capitalist world got access to /all/ the cultural wealth of all the world and we only got whatever we made ourselves within strict parameters!

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2