Sherry Howard
@showard477.bsky.social
community college humanities/humanity educator (and West Virginian lost in Ohio)
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“Don’t call us the Gestapo or we’ll have to summarily execute people.”
Bovino: "When politicians, community leaders, & some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric we keep talking about, when they make the choice to vilify law enforcement calling law enforcement 'Gestapo' or using the term 'kidnapping,' that is a choice & there are actions & consequences."
January 26, 2026 at 12:25 AM
“Don’t call us the Gestapo or we’ll have to summarily execute people.”
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The director of the FBI just reiterated the Trump uber-message: We can kill you.
Alex Pretti was not attacking the agents. If he was resisting as he was being assaulted by them, under no law enforcement protocol is that alone cause for a summary execution.
This is police-state tactics.
Alex Pretti was not attacking the agents. If he was resisting as he was being assaulted by them, under no law enforcement protocol is that alone cause for a summary execution.
This is police-state tactics.
BARTIROMO: There is outrage across the country that there is another killing. Someone is dead at the hands of Border Patrol. What can you tell us?
KASH PATEL: You do not get to attack law enforcement officials in this country without any repercussions. We not messing around.
KASH PATEL: You do not get to attack law enforcement officials in this country without any repercussions. We not messing around.
January 25, 2026 at 3:40 PM
The director of the FBI just reiterated the Trump uber-message: We can kill you.
Alex Pretti was not attacking the agents. If he was resisting as he was being assaulted by them, under no law enforcement protocol is that alone cause for a summary execution.
This is police-state tactics.
Alex Pretti was not attacking the agents. If he was resisting as he was being assaulted by them, under no law enforcement protocol is that alone cause for a summary execution.
This is police-state tactics.
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“Comply or die” is what they’re going with.
BARTIROMO: There is outrage across the country that there is another killing. Someone is dead at the hands of Border Patrol. What can you tell us?
KASH PATEL: You do not get to attack law enforcement officials in this country without any repercussions. We not messing around.
KASH PATEL: You do not get to attack law enforcement officials in this country without any repercussions. We not messing around.
January 25, 2026 at 3:42 PM
“Comply or die” is what they’re going with.
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Patel is lying about the law as it is traditionally understood, as it is written. He’s telling the truth about law under Trumpism: you only have a right if they deign to acknowledge it; you have no right to do anything they don’t want you to do.
Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have a right to break the law." (Pretti was carrying a gun legally.)
January 25, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Patel is lying about the law as it is traditionally understood, as it is written. He’s telling the truth about law under Trumpism: you only have a right if they deign to acknowledge it; you have no right to do anything they don’t want you to do.
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Men with permits to carry handguns are this week's annoying lesbian wine moms
by Bret Stephens and Ross Douthat
by Bret Stephens and Ross Douthat
January 24, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Men with permits to carry handguns are this week's annoying lesbian wine moms
by Bret Stephens and Ross Douthat
by Bret Stephens and Ross Douthat
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ICE officers tell media that the conduct in Minneapolis is part of a plan by Stephen Miller to provoke as much violence and death as possible—which in turn will be taken as pretext for more. “They’re essentially operating now in a resource constraint-free environment and doing very dangerous things”
Former members of ICE say recent violence is "by design"
"What has changed is there has been an encouragement from the top to be much more aggressive in enforcement."
www.motherjones.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:39 PM
ICE officers tell media that the conduct in Minneapolis is part of a plan by Stephen Miller to provoke as much violence and death as possible—which in turn will be taken as pretext for more. “They’re essentially operating now in a resource constraint-free environment and doing very dangerous things”
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Interesting how all the gun rights absolutism melts away in defense of federal death squads -- who are allegedly the reason for gun rights absolutism.
Early DHS spin (via Fox News) is that the person shot repeatedly by Border Patrol officers in Minneapolis was armed -- note that open carrying firearms is legal with a permit and notably, they are not (yet at least) claiming that the person fired or even brandished a gun, just had one.
January 24, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Interesting how all the gun rights absolutism melts away in defense of federal death squads -- who are allegedly the reason for gun rights absolutism.
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Even if having “pronouns in her bio” were a bad thing, the shooter wasn’t looking at her bio, he was looking at her FUCKING FACE. DID SHE HAVE PRONOUNS ON HER FUCKING FACE, YOU NAZI FUCK?
Jesse Watters highlights that Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by ICE, had "pronouns in her bio" and "leaves behind a lesbian partner and a child from a previous marriage"
January 8, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Even if having “pronouns in her bio” were a bad thing, the shooter wasn’t looking at her bio, he was looking at her FUCKING FACE. DID SHE HAVE PRONOUNS ON HER FUCKING FACE, YOU NAZI FUCK?
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One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.
October 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.
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I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
If you don’t teach your students how to use AI, you’re doing them a huge disservice because they won’t have jobs in the future.
September 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
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Vague, open-ended designations of "terrorism" are a signature of authoritarian regimes. Antifa isn't a group but the label can be attached to whomever the regime disfavors.
September 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Vague, open-ended designations of "terrorism" are a signature of authoritarian regimes. Antifa isn't a group but the label can be attached to whomever the regime disfavors.
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The point of college is not to enter with a set of beliefs and stick to them, defending them in debates.
Students learn to question received wisdom, understand multiple perspectives, and value evidence, guided by expertise.
In fact, that's what many attacking higher ed actually object to.
Thread.
Students learn to question received wisdom, understand multiple perspectives, and value evidence, guided by expertise.
In fact, that's what many attacking higher ed actually object to.
Thread.
The right sets the terms of our political discourse in so many ways, one of which is the idea that there isn't enough "debate" and "free speech" on campus.
We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/
We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/
September 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The point of college is not to enter with a set of beliefs and stick to them, defending them in debates.
Students learn to question received wisdom, understand multiple perspectives, and value evidence, guided by expertise.
In fact, that's what many attacking higher ed actually object to.
Thread.
Students learn to question received wisdom, understand multiple perspectives, and value evidence, guided by expertise.
In fact, that's what many attacking higher ed actually object to.
Thread.
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If a single semester at Utah State could turn a kid from a conservative background into a wild eyed leftist, pretty sure we’d see armies of revolutionaries graduating after four full years at universities across the nation.
September 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
If a single semester at Utah State could turn a kid from a conservative background into a wild eyed leftist, pretty sure we’d see armies of revolutionaries graduating after four full years at universities across the nation.
Voices from the Fields—a Substack from the amazing Katie Frey, a writer, mom, and leader who refuses to let MAGA cruelty become the norm for her children or her community
Hope? It's for the Birds
You Fielded A Question. A Humanidemocratiliberaprogressarian Shares An Answer.
open.substack.com
August 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Voices from the Fields—a Substack from the amazing Katie Frey, a writer, mom, and leader who refuses to let MAGA cruelty become the norm for her children or her community
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1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar
2025: ohhh ok
2025: ohhh ok
July 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar
2025: ohhh ok
2025: ohhh ok
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i feel like the entire media is the kid who doesn't read the syllabus, but the syllabus is the constitution
THE WAR POWER IS IN ARTICLE I
THE WAR POWER IS IN ARTICLE I
THE WAR POWER IS IN ARTICLE I
THE WAR POWER IS IN ARTICLE I
THE WAR POWER IS IN ARTICLE I
June 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
i feel like the entire media is the kid who doesn't read the syllabus, but the syllabus is the constitution
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A federal officer cannot be “doxxed.” The public has a right to know who is operating in our government, especially if they have the power to imprison someone.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons: "If you look before January 20, and even after January 20, the men & women of ICE did not have to have masks on their face. Me personally, I don't want those officers having to wear masks bc it's hot, it's dangerous. But ICE agents are being doxxed at a horrible rate"
June 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
A federal officer cannot be “doxxed.” The public has a right to know who is operating in our government, especially if they have the power to imprison someone.
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1/2 Marker of our times:
Public discuss has normalized idea that whatever is churning around in Trump's mind can, *w no restraint or involvement from anyone else,* plunge world into recession ("my tariffs") or major war (Iran)
And that he'll make "reveal" of his whim something like 'Survivor.'
Public discuss has normalized idea that whatever is churning around in Trump's mind can, *w no restraint or involvement from anyone else,* plunge world into recession ("my tariffs") or major war (Iran)
And that he'll make "reveal" of his whim something like 'Survivor.'
June 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
1/2 Marker of our times:
Public discuss has normalized idea that whatever is churning around in Trump's mind can, *w no restraint or involvement from anyone else,* plunge world into recession ("my tariffs") or major war (Iran)
And that he'll make "reveal" of his whim something like 'Survivor.'
Public discuss has normalized idea that whatever is churning around in Trump's mind can, *w no restraint or involvement from anyone else,* plunge world into recession ("my tariffs") or major war (Iran)
And that he'll make "reveal" of his whim something like 'Survivor.'
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New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
April 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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This “genius” genuinely believes that healthcare budget analysts can simply be reassigned to making toasters.
April 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This “genius” genuinely believes that healthcare budget analysts can simply be reassigned to making toasters.
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Why? Because if Trump can legally say “We can’t bring him home” without having to prove it, that means he doesn’t have to bring anyone home. And if he doesn’t have to bring anyone home, he can send anyone there forever. END/
April 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Why? Because if Trump can legally say “We can’t bring him home” without having to prove it, that means he doesn’t have to bring anyone home. And if he doesn’t have to bring anyone home, he can send anyone there forever. END/
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this guy should call his senator tbh
While markets plunge and retirement accounts reel from Trump’s tariffs:
Elon and DOGE are taking a blowtorch to Social Security
They shut down local offices
They shut down phone services
They shut down website services
And now they’re proposing another round of mass layoffs
Elon and DOGE are taking a blowtorch to Social Security
They shut down local offices
They shut down phone services
They shut down website services
And now they’re proposing another round of mass layoffs
April 8, 2025 at 12:31 AM
this guy should call his senator tbh
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This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
April 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
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These are the same people that were willing to let their grandparents die so they could eat at Arby's again without a mask
April 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
These are the same people that were willing to let their grandparents die so they could eat at Arby's again without a mask