DrEnglish
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@drenglish.bsky.social
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,668,693!
I tried to be an elder but I never got an invite until much later! I kept trying, though!
I tried to be an elder but I never got an invite until much later! I kept trying, though!
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As Matthew Sitman points out — like @zohrankmamdani (and MLK, etc) ‘1984’ author George Orwell was a Democratic Socialist who fought for workers.
He also opposed communism because the two are not the same things and words have meanings.
theconversation.com/orwells-oppo...
He also opposed communism because the two are not the same things and words have meanings.
theconversation.com/orwells-oppo...
November 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
As Matthew Sitman points out — like @zohrankmamdani (and MLK, etc) ‘1984’ author George Orwell was a Democratic Socialist who fought for workers.
He also opposed communism because the two are not the same things and words have meanings.
theconversation.com/orwells-oppo...
He also opposed communism because the two are not the same things and words have meanings.
theconversation.com/orwells-oppo...
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Crockett: "Marjorie has been an instigator of a lot of this hate that we see as it relates to MAGA. I don't know if she really fully understood how bad she was making it for other people, and now that they're doing it to her, why is it that everyone else is able to stand and you can't?"
November 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Crockett: "Marjorie has been an instigator of a lot of this hate that we see as it relates to MAGA. I don't know if she really fully understood how bad she was making it for other people, and now that they're doing it to her, why is it that everyone else is able to stand and you can't?"
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CROW: We wanted to start a conversation about the dangerous rhetoric this president is using and threats he's made to use our military in an unlawful way
BRENNAN: Specifically what?
CROW: Send troops into Chicago, into polling stations, kill terrorists' families, shoot peaceful protesters ...
BRENNAN: Specifically what?
CROW: Send troops into Chicago, into polling stations, kill terrorists' families, shoot peaceful protesters ...
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
CROW: We wanted to start a conversation about the dangerous rhetoric this president is using and threats he's made to use our military in an unlawful way
BRENNAN: Specifically what?
CROW: Send troops into Chicago, into polling stations, kill terrorists' families, shoot peaceful protesters ...
BRENNAN: Specifically what?
CROW: Send troops into Chicago, into polling stations, kill terrorists' families, shoot peaceful protesters ...
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Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."
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It sure looks like Axios got played here. Ukraine held the line, but it was Axios who put them under terrible pressure. The only clear things about this shitshow are that Axios owes us an explanation, and that media must stop printing 'scoops' from motivated sources while granting them anonymity. 5/
Ukraine is rejecting Trump’s plan right now at the UN Security Council.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
It sure looks like Axios got played here. Ukraine held the line, but it was Axios who put them under terrible pressure. The only clear things about this shitshow are that Axios owes us an explanation, and that media must stop printing 'scoops' from motivated sources while granting them anonymity. 5/
Excellent piece, @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS on the incredible shrinking Speaker of the House.
Least. Speaker. Ever.
When it comes to American politicians who say little and do less, the gold standard remains former President Calvin Coolidge.
As most people know, Coolidge was quiet, deeply reserved, and generally u...
campaign-trails.ghost.io
November 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Excellent piece, @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
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Keith Kellogg’s daughter posted this
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Keith Kellogg’s daughter posted this
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🕯️🇺🇦 Holodomor: History of Attempts to Erase the Ukrainian Nation
According to the most reliable demographic research, around 3.9 million people died within the borders of the then Ukrainian SSR. The real number may be higher.
Read more ⤵️
theukrainianreview.info/holodomor-hi...
According to the most reliable demographic research, around 3.9 million people died within the borders of the then Ukrainian SSR. The real number may be higher.
Read more ⤵️
theukrainianreview.info/holodomor-hi...
Holodomor: History of Attempts to Erase the Ukrainian Nation
For decades, Russia’s aim has remained the same: to exterminate Ukrainians.Every year, on the fourth Saturday of November, Ukraine commemorates the victims of
theukrainianreview.info
November 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
🕯️🇺🇦 Holodomor: History of Attempts to Erase the Ukrainian Nation
According to the most reliable demographic research, around 3.9 million people died within the borders of the then Ukrainian SSR. The real number may be higher.
Read more ⤵️
theukrainianreview.info/holodomor-hi...
According to the most reliable demographic research, around 3.9 million people died within the borders of the then Ukrainian SSR. The real number may be higher.
Read more ⤵️
theukrainianreview.info/holodomor-hi...
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To anyone who justified their Trump vote by saying he’s good for the economy, what’s your excuse now?
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
To anyone who justified their Trump vote by saying he’s good for the economy, what’s your excuse now?
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They want to exploit them, they don't care about making it making it habitable. Robots and AI will do the work for them, just like they will be here by the time we get around to going to other planets.
Humans will NEVER colonize another planet. Never.
If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.
If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.
November 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
They want to exploit them, they don't care about making it making it habitable. Robots and AI will do the work for them, just like they will be here by the time we get around to going to other planets.
Everyone should read this poignant piece.
In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Everyone should read this poignant piece.
Having lost my lifelong friend to glioblastoma 4 years ago (has it been four years already?), I cried my eyes out reading this. And I loathe her cousin Bobby because he can’t even see how his thinking causes so much pain and loss.
Absolutely beautiful writing. Thank you, Tatiana.
Absolutely beautiful writing. Thank you, Tatiana.
In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Having lost my lifelong friend to glioblastoma 4 years ago (has it been four years already?), I cried my eyes out reading this. And I loathe her cousin Bobby because he can’t even see how his thinking causes so much pain and loss.
Absolutely beautiful writing. Thank you, Tatiana.
Absolutely beautiful writing. Thank you, Tatiana.
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I said this in my most recent @theatlantic.com article: The lawmakers had to make that video because it's so likely that Trump is, in fact, giving illegal orders, as @gregsargent.bsky.social discusses here.
What's weirdly missing from coverage of the Dem video is any discussion of this Q: Is it reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal orders, or not? The answer is, yes, of course it is.
On the boat bombings, for instance, evidence is extensive. Here's a look at it:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
On the boat bombings, for instance, evidence is extensive. Here's a look at it:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
November 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I said this in my most recent @theatlantic.com article: The lawmakers had to make that video because it's so likely that Trump is, in fact, giving illegal orders, as @gregsargent.bsky.social discusses here.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social received this note in your email today. Just wanted you to know. You may have already been informed.
November 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social received this note in your email today. Just wanted you to know. You may have already been informed.
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If you’re wondering why MTG is waiting for January 5 to resign….it’s always about the money
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
If you’re wondering why MTG is waiting for January 5 to resign….it’s always about the money
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This is a new and dire development in the ongoing American constitutional crisis. The voters, Congress, and, yes, the U.S. military must all now be more vigilant than at any time in our modern history.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The President Is Losing Control of Himself
Donald Trump’s outbursts on social media this week were different than usual.
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
This is a new and dire development in the ongoing American constitutional crisis. The voters, Congress, and, yes, the U.S. military must all now be more vigilant than at any time in our modern history.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is generously praised by Trump in the Oval Office on the same day Majorie Taylor Greene announces a bizarre resignation from Congress.
One of the weirdest days of this era.
One of the weirdest days of this era.
November 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is generously praised by Trump in the Oval Office on the same day Majorie Taylor Greene announces a bizarre resignation from Congress.
One of the weirdest days of this era.
One of the weirdest days of this era.
It looks like this may be true. The statement is straightforward. I did not expect this. But after she rudely yelled during Biden’s State of the Union speech, I think she deserved some of the karma she has received—especially now from her own MAGA crowd.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will resign, after fallout with Trump
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene supported a bill compelling the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the DOJ, putting her on the bad side of President Trump.
www.cnbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
It looks like this may be true. The statement is straightforward. I did not expect this. But after she rudely yelled during Biden’s State of the Union speech, I think she deserved some of the karma she has received—especially now from her own MAGA crowd.
This is so spot on. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
There's no mystery to why Trump is kissing Mayor-elect Mamdani's ass.
Trump loves two things: 1) winning and 2) extraordinary media influence.
Trump is a PR whore. He recognizes the exceptional media skills of Mr. Mamdani and wants to draft off him.
That's pretty much it.
Trump loves two things: 1) winning and 2) extraordinary media influence.
Trump is a PR whore. He recognizes the exceptional media skills of Mr. Mamdani and wants to draft off him.
That's pretty much it.
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
This is so spot on. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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guy looked like a make a wish kid meeting Mamdani
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
guy looked like a make a wish kid meeting Mamdani
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Periodic reminder to the media and the Dems and the Universities that standing up to Trump and sticking to your guns earns you a lot more respect from this guy than just handing your money and balls to him in a shoebox
This might be the single funniest thing that has happened during this incredibly cursed year
November 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Periodic reminder to the media and the Dems and the Universities that standing up to Trump and sticking to your guns earns you a lot more respect from this guy than just handing your money and balls to him in a shoebox
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If the anti-Christian persecution and Trump is a "messiah" groups both believe in their causes, why are they so quiet about Trump hosting a dinner for a tyrant whose regime persecutes Christians?
November 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
If the anti-Christian persecution and Trump is a "messiah" groups both believe in their causes, why are they so quiet about Trump hosting a dinner for a tyrant whose regime persecutes Christians?
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.