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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 2d

This was in LaPorte, Indiana

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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 4d

are you really name searching for people criticizing you

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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 5d

I thought about sharing it with the class, but there's no obvious howler of a line to dunk on. Just bad faith argumentation and flawed reasoning.

MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 5d

He's arguing specifically about Mississippi too, and all but accuses then of falsifying their data.

I think his opinions on the efficacy of education are backfilled from rationalist-style racial beliefs (i.e. pseudoscientific racism).

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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 5d

He seems to think that all educational interventions have modest effects, but also that students always level out to their "natural ability," a concept that he never bothers to defend or provide evidence for.

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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 5d

I don't know why I read this (because I'm a sicko), but if you look up question begging in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy you'll see a picture of freddie that I pasted in there. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Is Phonics Instruction a Reading Panacea? (The Answer is No)

and a few other Mississippi Miracle thoughts

substack.com

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lonevoice.bsky.social @lonevoice.bsky.social · 6d

Why @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, @chucktingle.bsky.social et al won't is clear: they THINK their reelection is locked up. They know the Americans who care don't have another option. And the second level leadership in the party is doing what they did with Biden: pretending nothing is wrong!

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 7d

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

BIB L I OGRAPH Y
STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO
(These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un-
fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.)
Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876.
Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky.
Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida.
Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic .
Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc·
tion.
Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee.
Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana.
Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama.
--, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907.
Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina.
Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 .
Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas .
Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850.
Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War.
Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas .
Studies in Southern History and Politics . Inscribed to William Archibald
Dunning.
Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson.
The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips.
Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith.
Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil-
liam K. Boyd.
Southern Legislation in Respect to Freedmen, 1 865- 1 866. By J. G. de
Roulhac Hamilton.
The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis.
The New South, Economic and Social . By Holland Thompson.
Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley.
Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction.
Thompson, Clara M., Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Po-
litical, l 805-1 872.
Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.

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j-salvo.bsky.social @j-salvo.bsky.social · 8d

Word to the wise: do not fly internationally into Logan. All of the major public detainments of Legal Residents and Citizens at airports have been out of Logan.

Kat Stuart @luckykatstuart.bsky.social · 8d

Anyone in Boston an immigration lawyer or know one who can help this woman? Her husband is detained at Logan over a dismissed misdemeanor from 2017. He’s a legal resident of the US. She just asked for help an hour ago.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 8d

1. lets start with the PM

doesn't clearly name either domestic or global fascism, doesn't link the two, or draw a values contrast, anti-trans rights,

- holding him to the standard of an average US dem its hard to award many points

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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 10d

I have a spreadsheet of all the takes and correspondence I said I'd send people but never did. In 30 years @daviec.bsky.social will get a 5 page essay on why The Florida Project is such an amazing film.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 20d

Okay I don't have time to dig into this but what on earth

*APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF GOD-CHILDERSBURG RAISES $500M ; OFFERING $500M : FORM D
www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 21d

We're 5 years away from recreating debt slavery

ProPublica @propublica.org · 21d

The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate.

It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders.

(Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)

This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.

The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...

www.propublica.org

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 23d

Hi. It's me. 2 weeks later. This is done. 58 frames over 3 seconds, *50* layers in the final image. WOO. This was a long edit, felt like ACTUAL work so unless I get it again with the actual sunset I doubt I'll be editing more like this. Psyched for the final piece tho! 🪶

Three pelicans diving after sunset, with a sailboat and a tanker in the distance, 2 terns also fly, the pelicans are shown in their dive motion

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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 24d

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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 25d

I am craving near-future, cyberpunkish sci-fi novels or short stories that explore this in a nuanced way. They might exist. I have no idea. But they haven't been marketed to me.

MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 25d

A conversation with a friend reminded me of this old article by Paul Krugman. It aged poorly for a while, but now is trending back towards prescient. www.nytimes.com/1996/09/29/m...

$A paragraph of text that says: "But computers are proficient at analyzing symbols; it is the messiness of the real world that they have trouble with. Furthermore, symbols can be transmitted easily to Asmara or La Paz and analyzed there for a fraction of the cost in Boston. Therefore, many of the jobs that once required a college degree have been eliminated. The others can be done by any intelligent person, whether or not she has studied world literature."$

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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 27d

My wife would buy that just to troll me

MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 27d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/d...

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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 27d

The answer is because there's been a huge rise in prepackaged convenience and grocery store sushi

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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · 27d

Because it's delicious?

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Sep 19

honestly 2020-era Sohrab and John Milbank should be treated as postliberal dril tweets

Sometimes I smoke cigars as if they're cigarettes, and it hurts real bad the next morning.

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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · Sep 19

Ezra Klein has become Fox News. You will have a better understanding of the state of reality by actively avoiding him rather than listening to his show

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MyPowerGrows @mypowergrows.bsky.social · Sep 19

Who's the Naval War College guy

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