@amyburtner.bsky.social
Community college professor. Messy gardener.
“All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful.” (Elizabeth Bishop)
“All the untidy activity continues, awful but cheerful.” (Elizabeth Bishop)
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As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President.
I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH.
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I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH.
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This is a First Amendment question combined with a practical question. The answer is as follows.
First, the First Amendment protects advocating the moral and practical necessity of breaking the law in the abstract.
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First, the First Amendment protects advocating the moral and practical necessity of breaking the law in the abstract.
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Being a lawyer and all, do you know what the tipping point is for it to become acceptable to openly advocate for political assassinations? Just a little curious, is all.
February 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President.
I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH.
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I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH.
/1
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Democratic leaders:
I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working.
Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.
I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working.
Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.
February 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Democratic leaders:
I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working.
Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.
I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working.
Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.
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Even if our institutions aren’t reading this analysis it feels valuable for us to do so. Thx to @raceip.bsky.social for sharing with me:
Regulation By Intimidation: OCR's Title VI Dear Colleague Letter
In a move that appears motivated more by intimidation than actual enforcement power, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights issued a Dear Colleague Letter late in the evening on Fri...
educationcivilrights.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Even if our institutions aren’t reading this analysis it feels valuable for us to do so. Thx to @raceip.bsky.social for sharing with me:
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The answer was not the point. The answer was never the point. The process of searching is the process of learning.
February 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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I wrote about the worst people in the world, charting the depths of their depravity and vastness of their incompetence, and offered some thoughts about the opportunity presented by their failure to acknowledge reality and their refusal to access any form of human virtue.
www.the-reframe.com/the/
www.the-reframe.com/the/
The Worst and the Dimmest
It's not a coincidence that we're being led by the least qualified monsters available; it's a deliberate strategy. Facing the Worst - a series about directional alignment.
www.the-reframe.com
February 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I wrote about the worst people in the world, charting the depths of their depravity and vastness of their incompetence, and offered some thoughts about the opportunity presented by their failure to acknowledge reality and their refusal to access any form of human virtue.
www.the-reframe.com/the/
www.the-reframe.com/the/
Some Mary Midgley to start the day.
![From Wickedness (1984) by philosopher Mary Midgley:
“If there can be no basis of agreement on these subjects—if each of us wanders alone in a moral vacuum, spinning values out of our own entrails like spiders, making them up somehow out of our own originality, taking nothing from anybody else and passing nothing on to others—then we have ceased to be social creatures altogether. Most of the occupations that interest us must then evaporate, because they are essentially social. They depend on shared values. And we shall certainly then have no shared vocabulary in which to say what we think about actions such as devising death-camps.” [p. ix]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4ji5lykjrl7epkr6dpltyxcz/bafkreihpucrqn4dwx6hbaxb4wfhp5xdqxeojmqv33u7l4jmckd7u4efoma@jpeg)
January 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Some Mary Midgley to start the day.
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This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...
November 17, 2024 at 7:43 PM
This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...
There’s a Kay Ryan poem for every moment and feeling.
November 10, 2024 at 10:15 PM
There’s a Kay Ryan poem for every moment and feeling.
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until the day I die I will never understand why he was even still allowed to run after this
November 5, 2024 at 3:13 AM
until the day I die I will never understand why he was even still allowed to run after this
New here, transferring my lurking self from the Other Place. Obligatory cat photo. This is Henry David.
November 10, 2024 at 6:10 PM
New here, transferring my lurking self from the Other Place. Obligatory cat photo. This is Henry David.
“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
November 10, 2024 at 5:21 AM
“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina