El Why
@elwhyed.bsky.social
Writer. Higher education. Equity in education. #AshevilleStrong
How am I going to stay up for another hour?
January 1, 2026 at 3:59 AM
How am I going to stay up for another hour?
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I'm I wrenched my back doing the exercises I do to prevent my back from wrenching up years old.
December 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I'm I wrenched my back doing the exercises I do to prevent my back from wrenching up years old.
Not the obituary I most want to see, but I’ll take it
"RIP to the Heritage Foundation, which functionally died this week, as its most prominent staffers made a beeline for the exit."
Good riddance!
Boom from @lizdye.bsky.social in @atrupar.com's latest PN.
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Good riddance!
Boom from @lizdye.bsky.social in @atrupar.com's latest PN.
open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
Heritage Foundation killed by MAGA
Antisemitism in the GOP? The devil you say!
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Not the obituary I most want to see, but I’ll take it
But will the new battleships have ballrooms?
oh my god its literally Long Beach's wario
December 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
But will the new battleships have ballrooms?
Theatre kids for the win!
Theatre kids are the best people i know FYI
Move Aside, Snowflake: ‘Theater Kid’ Is the New Go-To Political Insult
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Theatre kids for the win!
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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This is a great clip. Say no to the future they want.
But also actively build the future we want. Honestly, I think that's the part we're really struggling with. In the absence of our own vision to give us direction, we'll still get dragged along with whatever is happening.
But also actively build the future we want. Honestly, I think that's the part we're really struggling with. In the absence of our own vision to give us direction, we'll still get dragged along with whatever is happening.
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is a great clip. Say no to the future they want.
But also actively build the future we want. Honestly, I think that's the part we're really struggling with. In the absence of our own vision to give us direction, we'll still get dragged along with whatever is happening.
But also actively build the future we want. Honestly, I think that's the part we're really struggling with. In the absence of our own vision to give us direction, we'll still get dragged along with whatever is happening.
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and no, transgender rights are not a "distraction"
THEY ARE THE FIGHT
THEY ARE ALL THE FUCKING FIGHT
THEY ARE THE FIGHT
THEY ARE ALL THE FUCKING FIGHT
December 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
and no, transgender rights are not a "distraction"
THEY ARE THE FIGHT
THEY ARE ALL THE FUCKING FIGHT
THEY ARE THE FIGHT
THEY ARE ALL THE FUCKING FIGHT
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Congratulations, those of you who decided to platform fringe voices and create a climate of fear and hate out of ignorance because those voices insisted a non-problem was a problem. They're now on an HHS stage trying to ruin children's lives. You will live with the harm you have done forever.
December 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Congratulations, those of you who decided to platform fringe voices and create a climate of fear and hate out of ignorance because those voices insisted a non-problem was a problem. They're now on an HHS stage trying to ruin children's lives. You will live with the harm you have done forever.
Raise your hand if your rent has gone down in the last four months (or, really, ever).
Vance: "Why have rents gone down for 4 consecutive months? Because we're starting to get those illegal aliens out of the USA. Those criminals, those gang members, those people that are taking homes that ought by right go the people in this room. It's simple economics."
December 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Raise your hand if your rent has gone down in the last four months (or, really, ever).
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feels like a pretty obvious layup for Democrats to say, "this is an egregiously disgusting statement, even for him, and it underlines that the President is undergoing significant physical and mental deterioration, and either he is lying about it or is not aware of it."
December 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
feels like a pretty obvious layup for Democrats to say, "this is an egregiously disgusting statement, even for him, and it underlines that the President is undergoing significant physical and mental deterioration, and either he is lying about it or is not aware of it."
I no longer have teenagers in my house. Yet, forks and spoons in my house seem to continue to disappear. What gives?
December 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I no longer have teenagers in my house. Yet, forks and spoons in my house seem to continue to disappear. What gives?
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I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
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Invite for VP’s Hanukkah Party Says ‘Celebrating 50 Years of Christmas’
Invite for VP’s Hanukkah Party Says ‘Celebrating 50 Years of Christmas’
The invitation for a Hanukkah celebration at the Vice President's residence included glaring errors referencing the wrong holiday.
The post Invite for VP’s Hanukkah Party Says ‘Celebrating 50 Years of Christmas’ first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
December 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Invite for VP’s Hanukkah Party Says ‘Celebrating 50 Years of Christmas’
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“.. American Bitcoin, which was co-founded by Eric Trump, is now down 75% after the big drop on Tuesday.”
@bloomberg.com #crypto
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@bloomberg.com #crypto
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
December 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
“.. American Bitcoin, which was co-founded by Eric Trump, is now down 75% after the big drop on Tuesday.”
@bloomberg.com #crypto
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@bloomberg.com #crypto
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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One of my best friends from grad school described something Trump said as "something Gertrude Stein might write if her absinthe had gone past its expiration date," and I cannot stop laughing.
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
One of my best friends from grad school described something Trump said as "something Gertrude Stein might write if her absinthe had gone past its expiration date," and I cannot stop laughing.
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yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
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The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.
Normalize wearing sweatpants to Thanksgiving
November 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Normalize wearing sweatpants to Thanksgiving
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What everyone knows, but the Ivy Leagues won't admit: The SAT is great if you want to perpetuate inequality by giving opportunity to the students who have the most opportunity, but a weak tool to predict freshman GPA.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Why the SAT Is a Poor Fit for Public Universities (opinion)
The SAT may suit the Ivies, but it undermines the mission of America’s public institutions.
www.insidehighered.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
What everyone knows, but the Ivy Leagues won't admit: The SAT is great if you want to perpetuate inequality by giving opportunity to the students who have the most opportunity, but a weak tool to predict freshman GPA.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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The plan was leaked by the Russians and no one in America’s historically inept administration knew what anyone else was doing so people started getting behind it because they thought it was official policy.
Putin totally played the US, knowing full well he was up against incompetents and idiots.
Putin totally played the US, knowing full well he was up against incompetents and idiots.
November 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The plan was leaked by the Russians and no one in America’s historically inept administration knew what anyone else was doing so people started getting behind it because they thought it was official policy.
Putin totally played the US, knowing full well he was up against incompetents and idiots.
Putin totally played the US, knowing full well he was up against incompetents and idiots.