bobbi
@ibbobreklaw.bsky.social
community college professor, Hoosier in Chicagoland, doctoral candidate, architecture, history, brick co-ops, black cats
Next year's bobbleheads gonna be wild...
May 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Next year's bobbleheads gonna be wild...
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No. Americans shouldn't have to toil in brutal factories assembly dolls. But, also, people around the world shouldn't be exploited like this either.
We have to change the framing of this stuff. Protecting Neoliberal Globalism to maintain American privilege is just authoritarianism light.
We have to change the framing of this stuff. Protecting Neoliberal Globalism to maintain American privilege is just authoritarianism light.
May 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
No. Americans shouldn't have to toil in brutal factories assembly dolls. But, also, people around the world shouldn't be exploited like this either.
We have to change the framing of this stuff. Protecting Neoliberal Globalism to maintain American privilege is just authoritarianism light.
We have to change the framing of this stuff. Protecting Neoliberal Globalism to maintain American privilege is just authoritarianism light.
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We should all stand behind the @apnews.com, despite the fact that it has elided the difference between "over" and "more than."
April 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
We should all stand behind the @apnews.com, despite the fact that it has elided the difference between "over" and "more than."
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"Burn a Tesla, Save Democracy" is trending because of the protest in New York.
You don’t need to burn a Tesla. They catch fire on their own.
Let’s burn racism instead 🔥
You don’t need to burn a Tesla. They catch fire on their own.
Let’s burn racism instead 🔥
March 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
"Burn a Tesla, Save Democracy" is trending because of the protest in New York.
You don’t need to burn a Tesla. They catch fire on their own.
Let’s burn racism instead 🔥
You don’t need to burn a Tesla. They catch fire on their own.
Let’s burn racism instead 🔥
...from poverty to professor.
I went from poverty to a graduate degree because of public schools and Pell grants.
Fuck Trump.
Fuck Trump.
March 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
...from poverty to professor.
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This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.
February 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.
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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
February 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.
Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
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I approach teaching with excess kindness.
I assume if someone misses a class or an assignment, it’s because they are having a hell of a time existing right now.
I frequently encourage them to tell me if they need extensions or to meet outside of office hours. These students are paying to be here.
I assume if someone misses a class or an assignment, it’s because they are having a hell of a time existing right now.
I frequently encourage them to tell me if they need extensions or to meet outside of office hours. These students are paying to be here.
January 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I approach teaching with excess kindness.
I assume if someone misses a class or an assignment, it’s because they are having a hell of a time existing right now.
I frequently encourage them to tell me if they need extensions or to meet outside of office hours. These students are paying to be here.
I assume if someone misses a class or an assignment, it’s because they are having a hell of a time existing right now.
I frequently encourage them to tell me if they need extensions or to meet outside of office hours. These students are paying to be here.
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They don’t care. They don’t care about our moral outrage. They don’t care if people die. They don’t care about their gleeful cruelty and hatred. They don’t care about the law. They don’t care. Start from there.
January 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
They don’t care. They don’t care about our moral outrage. They don’t care if people die. They don’t care about their gleeful cruelty and hatred. They don’t care about the law. They don’t care. Start from there.
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Failing to build housing is a kind of migration control for people displaced by climate catastrophe within the US.
January 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Failing to build housing is a kind of migration control for people displaced by climate catastrophe within the US.
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Possibly the best clap back against ignorant antivaxxers.
January 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Possibly the best clap back against ignorant antivaxxers.
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Abolish the phrase "sex with a minor," please.
December 23, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Abolish the phrase "sex with a minor," please.
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I’m so exhausted by decision-makers in education refusing to invest in long-term solutions. If you don’t have the resources to do it right, you don’t have the resources to do it at all.
December 11, 2024 at 11:47 PM
I’m so exhausted by decision-makers in education refusing to invest in long-term solutions. If you don’t have the resources to do it right, you don’t have the resources to do it at all.
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Terrible decision.
Penny choked to death Jordan Neely
(a homeless man with mental health issues)
on a subway train.
Being disruptive is NOT A DEATH SENTENCE.
Penny choked to death Jordan Neely
(a homeless man with mental health issues)
on a subway train.
Being disruptive is NOT A DEATH SENTENCE.
December 9, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Terrible decision.
Penny choked to death Jordan Neely
(a homeless man with mental health issues)
on a subway train.
Being disruptive is NOT A DEATH SENTENCE.
Penny choked to death Jordan Neely
(a homeless man with mental health issues)
on a subway train.
Being disruptive is NOT A DEATH SENTENCE.
Filling a gap in the move from Miami to Chicago research: tear your cuticles off in advance; don't wait for winter to assist.
December 8, 2024 at 3:27 AM
Filling a gap in the move from Miami to Chicago research: tear your cuticles off in advance; don't wait for winter to assist.
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Was it insane to think we could use the internet to read and express ourselves and talk to each other without the machine swallowing us and selling us for parts? Was it naive to think we might use it instead of it using us?
December 7, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Was it insane to think we could use the internet to read and express ourselves and talk to each other without the machine swallowing us and selling us for parts? Was it naive to think we might use it instead of it using us?
Today I confessed my dislike of the Farnsworth house....an architect unfriended me IRL.
November 26, 2024 at 2:39 AM
Today I confessed my dislike of the Farnsworth house....an architect unfriended me IRL.
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NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"What Boomer commercial real estate owners will lose if you don't get back into office"
March 11, 2024 at 1:51 PM
"What Boomer commercial real estate owners will lose if you don't get back into office"
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I've come to realize over the years that, just as much as I hope my classes foster *knowledge* about our subject matter, I also want to cultivate general, enduring curiosity; to encourage students to browse, search, and collect; to foster intrinsic motivation to pursue wonder + delight
January 18, 2024 at 2:15 AM
I've come to realize over the years that, just as much as I hope my classes foster *knowledge* about our subject matter, I also want to cultivate general, enduring curiosity; to encourage students to browse, search, and collect; to foster intrinsic motivation to pursue wonder + delight
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News coverage of the Speaker situation would be greatly improved by more context that explains the role of gerrymandering. We see mention of GOPers in a few "Biden districts" without explanation that these people are redistricting anomalies up against safe colleagues with no incentive to compromise.
October 20, 2023 at 5:07 PM
News coverage of the Speaker situation would be greatly improved by more context that explains the role of gerrymandering. We see mention of GOPers in a few "Biden districts" without explanation that these people are redistricting anomalies up against safe colleagues with no incentive to compromise.
15 followers....nearly enough people for a Florida-winter, backyard gathering in which we argue about mustard vs. mayo-based potato salad.
October 15, 2023 at 7:38 PM
15 followers....nearly enough people for a Florida-winter, backyard gathering in which we argue about mustard vs. mayo-based potato salad.
Too many days being the only woman in and the least-senior member of my department exhausts and defeats me.
October 11, 2023 at 9:02 PM
Too many days being the only woman in and the least-senior member of my department exhausts and defeats me.