I want to keep it very vague, but I see a huge potential for "woke grifters," or people who performatively represent diversity and mimic Trumpist populist language for money

The System can harvest our attention and monetize our righteous indignation that SHOULD spur on justice, in a better world

I had a moment where I realized that this was an exception and it would be bad if it became the norm. People should be engaged in THEIR local politics, not rubbernecking and sending firey takes about a place you've never seen.

If you ran a campaign on "Freedom of Commerce" or something and tried to court the libertarians...

You know what, in this climate I'm terrified of the buying power a consistent conservative argument could have.

UBI-
Universal Bribery Instrument

I think it's funny they've managed to create a bribe that the president can receive publicly and for which *his supporters are proud of him for taking*

Certainly not because they will crawl into our DMs and beg for sexual favors, as a class.

Seriously nice guys need to start calling out the bad ones bc they're equivocating on very basic stuff rn.

Like we know that CPS drills are a real thing and that alone warrants investigation as a cultural practice.

Showing a fundamentalist a picture of Trump smiling with Mamdani and giving them an aneurysm on the spot.

We really need a Supersize Me style exposé but for fundie homeschool groups.

The woman who was calling churches to see if they'd give formula to her hypothetical starving infant on Tiktok was scratching the tip of the iceberg... it's so much worse than merely community negligence.

A lot of adults I am forced to associate with could take a lesson from young girls right now, who are experiencing among the brunt of the social fallout right now.

The number of times I've seen girls crying in a classroom bc they can't go 25 seconds without an interruption...

When I was 30, it was a yard whistle for duty on the playground. When I was 40, it was a rape whistle.It was on a key chain. I liked the plastic ones. When I was pushing 50, it was for ERA demonstrations. Now I am pushing 90, same whistle, same Republican reactionaries. What next?

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww <3

Also the Vietnam war is taught in a really wacky way where you are not asked to think about causes or effects. It's pretty much just "Yeah we wanted to stop communism so we did Vietnam and then Korea and it was unpopular 🤷‍♀️ Gotta fight communism though!"

I'm a history teacher who recently escaped from Texas.

The way they do history there is that you pretty much only learn through the Civil War until Junior year, when you spend 1 semester of post-civil war US History.

Anything after MLK is usually a paragraph that is paired with a picture of 9/11.