Don LaPlant
@quixoticdon.bsky.social
Fond of endangered things like books, libraries, education, theatre, honesty, the climate, and democracy.
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Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
July 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
I’m old enough to remember when the news was all about the President’s desire to colonize Greenland. Those were the days.
June 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I’m old enough to remember when the news was all about the President’s desire to colonize Greenland. Those were the days.
What if the plan is to screw everything up so badly that more and more people are motivated to protest? Nationwide protests and civil unrest could then serve as the pretext for declaring martial law and suspending elections. And what if worrying about this frightens people into silent compliance?
March 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
What if the plan is to screw everything up so badly that more and more people are motivated to protest? Nationwide protests and civil unrest could then serve as the pretext for declaring martial law and suspending elections. And what if worrying about this frightens people into silent compliance?
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If conceding everything doesn't gain you anything, then it seems better to concede nothing
March 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
If conceding everything doesn't gain you anything, then it seems better to concede nothing
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“Low information voters” is such a nice way of saying “ridiculous fucking buttheads.”
March 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
“Low information voters” is such a nice way of saying “ridiculous fucking buttheads.”
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There’s something happening in this country.
Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.
February 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
There’s something happening in this country.
One can almost hear the growls of the face-hungry leopards.
February 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
One can almost hear the growls of the face-hungry leopards.
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
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February 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
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Democratic lawmakers need to understand something:
Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain."
And just stand there.
This is how many of you are coming across.
Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain."
And just stand there.
This is how many of you are coming across.
February 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Democratic lawmakers need to understand something:
Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain."
And just stand there.
This is how many of you are coming across.
Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain."
And just stand there.
This is how many of you are coming across.
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How to write: Stop not writing. Keep your butt in the chair. Write really bad small sections of the whole—passages, moments, episodes, memories—til you have an incredibly shitty 1st draft. Then take out the boring parts, the lies and pretensions. Then write a better 2nd draft.
January 7, 2025 at 6:51 AM
How to write: Stop not writing. Keep your butt in the chair. Write really bad small sections of the whole—passages, moments, episodes, memories—til you have an incredibly shitty 1st draft. Then take out the boring parts, the lies and pretensions. Then write a better 2nd draft.
I read 106 books in 2024. These were my 10 favorites. (Open to suggestions for 2025.)
January 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I read 106 books in 2024. These were my 10 favorites. (Open to suggestions for 2025.)
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Folks, we're living in a Second Gilded Age.
It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the First Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back. Watch.
It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the First Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back. Watch.
From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich
We’re now in the Second Gilded Age. As in the first, America’s wealth is in the hands of a few, conspicuous consumption exists alongside homelessness and hun...
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December 27, 2024 at 2:00 AM
Folks, we're living in a Second Gilded Age.
It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the First Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back. Watch.
It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the First Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back. Watch.