Joe Ava 🗃️🍕
@joeava.bsky.social
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Bearded dad and AP Euro / World History teacher. MA student - Transatlanticism, Political Ecology, Empire. New Jersey gavone. COYG.
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radleybalko.bsky.social
The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.
joeava.bsky.social
Classic big talker who does fuck all unless it’s convenient.
joeava.bsky.social
Get his ass.
paleofuture.bsky.social
"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc
joeava.bsky.social
Any kid who has to be outed by their school are inherently in danger at home. I’ll not participate in making my students less safe, thank you.
joeava.bsky.social
In other words, fuck you make me.
joeava.bsky.social
I’m not a public figure but am still careful about how I talk about this stuff.

Anyway, it’s increasingly clear to me that this court is illegitimate and we are knee deep in a crisis over the rule of law.
mjsdc.bsky.social
Alito, joined by Thomas and Gorsuch, suggest that public schools violate the Constitution when they help a student transition (by acknowledging them as trans) without their parents' knowledge or consent.

Would force schools to out trans kids to their parents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
JONATHAN LEE, ET AL. v. POUDRE
SCHOOL DISTRICT R–1
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED
STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT
No. 25–89. Decided October 14, 2025
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
Statement of JUSTICE ALITO, with whom JUSTICE
THOMAS and JUSTICE GORSUCH join, respecting the denial
of certiorari.
I concur in the denial of certiorari because petitioners do
not challenge the ground for the ruling below. But I remain
concerned that some federal courts are “tempt[ed]” to avoid
confronting a “particularly contentious constitutional questio[n]”: whether a school district violates parents’ fundamental rights “when, without parental knowledge or consent, it encourages a student to transition to a new gender
or assists in that process.” Parents Protecting Our Children, UA v. Eau Claire Area School Dist., 604 U. S. ___,
___–___ (2024) (ALITO, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari) (slip op., at 1–2) (citing Troxel v. Granville, 530 U. S.
57, 70 (2000) (plurality opinion)). Petitioners tell us that
nearly 6,000 public schools have policies—as respondent allegedly does—that purposefully interfere with parents’ access to critical information about their children’s genderidentity choices and school personnel’s involvement in and
influence on those choices. Pet. for Cert. 24. The troubling—and tragic—allegations in this case underscore the
“great and growing national importance” of the question
that these parent petitioners present. Parents Protecting
Our Children, 604 U. S., at ___ (slip op., at 1).
joeava.bsky.social
Seconded. Anderson is definitive as far as I know.
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
“Yes but judgement of any system or a priori relation of phenomena exists in any rational or metaphysical or at least epistemological contradiction to an abstract and empirical concept such as being or to be or to occur in the thing itself or of the thing itself.”

RIP to a great one.
Dianne Keaton
joeava.bsky.social
I don’t WANT to like him to be clear.
joeava.bsky.social
The whole persona rubs me the wrong way but ‘Sorry I’m Here for Someone Else’ is an undeniable pop banger for me.
joeava.bsky.social
He sounds like a poppier version of Sameer Gadhia from the early Young the Giant stuff. I don’t hate it!
joeava.bsky.social
Finally listened to a Benson Boone song (against my will) and I think I actually like him?
joeava.bsky.social
After reading a bit more about her this is going to age worse than the Aung San Suu Kyi prize.
joeava.bsky.social
I remember very clearly watching the end of that series and thinking to myself, “well that’s not good for business.”
joeava.bsky.social
I like how this is the most personally offensive choice they could make for him.
reuters.com
BREAKING: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 reut.rs/42uh3Aw
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mtsw.bsky.social
the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries
costasamaras.com
Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
jael.bsky.social
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
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angus.bsky.social
You could at least have the decency to endorse Mamdani before you swipe his schtick.
schumer.senate.gov
The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:
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stevenlandgraf.com
Another confirmation of the "everyone is twelve now" theory.
Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer:
 working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

"I'm strong and want to have like fifty kids and a farm" of course you do. You're twelve. "I don't want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal" hell yeah homie you're twelve. "Maybe if there's crime we should just send the army" bless your heart my twelve year old buddy
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ihavethatonvinyl.com
this picture is from los angeles 1992, not portland 2025. journalism malpractice
cnn.com
CNN @cnn.com · 9d
"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr
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kenwhite.bsky.social
It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.
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chronicleflask.katday.com
Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔
zeldawilliams 
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross. And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.
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shoutingboy.bsky.social
Fundamentally a big part of the story of Trump 2.0 is going to be “people taking jobs they’re wildly unqualified for and thinking ‘how hard can it be, I’ll have ChatGPT help me’”
idgordon.bsky.social
If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!