Rick
@ricksindt.bsky.social
ramblings of an unknown midwesterner.
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Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
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April 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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My retirement savings strategy of "save nothing and wait for world-historical disaster that sorta levels the whole playing field" doesn't look so dumb now, does it
April 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
My retirement savings strategy of "save nothing and wait for world-historical disaster that sorta levels the whole playing field" doesn't look so dumb now, does it
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The left is so busy in-fighting and having a puritanical dick measuring contest that we are failing to rise or resist
March 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The left is so busy in-fighting and having a puritanical dick measuring contest that we are failing to rise or resist
@podsaveamerica.crooked.com, @jonlovett.bsky.social, I do not disagree with your criticism of higher education institutions like Colombia but—as someone who works in higher education advancement—I have to say that you’re misrepresenting how endowments function and think it is dangerous to do so.
March 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
@podsaveamerica.crooked.com, @jonlovett.bsky.social, I do not disagree with your criticism of higher education institutions like Colombia but—as someone who works in higher education advancement—I have to say that you’re misrepresenting how endowments function and think it is dangerous to do so.
“The American people are with us,” is a rich statement from someone who is providing a milquetoast defense of said people. Get off your asses and do something meaningful instead of this “waiting for the right pitch” bullshit.
House Republicans have just been ordered to stop holding Town Hall meetings.
They can run from their extreme agenda.
We will never let them hide.
They can run from their extreme agenda.
We will never let them hide.
March 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
“The American people are with us,” is a rich statement from someone who is providing a milquetoast defense of said people. Get off your asses and do something meaningful instead of this “waiting for the right pitch” bullshit.
Our inability to collectively empathize is evident by the fact that we do not have the ability to look at recent events from an outside perspective. Perhaps we wouldn't be so blinded by denial, waxing poetic about if we are in a crisis yet, if we could.
February 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Our inability to collectively empathize is evident by the fact that we do not have the ability to look at recent events from an outside perspective. Perhaps we wouldn't be so blinded by denial, waxing poetic about if we are in a crisis yet, if we could.
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In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.
February 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.
When my #horoscope for 2025 indicated I would travel less this year and more locally, “planes falling out of the sky on near daily basis” is not the reason I anticipated.
February 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
When my #horoscope for 2025 indicated I would travel less this year and more locally, “planes falling out of the sky on near daily basis” is not the reason I anticipated.
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One thing that I'm increasingly coming to believe is that stories are going to be central to what comes next. Stories of the harm done. Stories of the great things achieved by government in the past. Stories of valor kindness and quotidian simple resistance.
February 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
One thing that I'm increasingly coming to believe is that stories are going to be central to what comes next. Stories of the harm done. Stories of the great things achieved by government in the past. Stories of valor kindness and quotidian simple resistance.
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As the internet gets shittier it’s gotten easier to be off it and read more books lately
February 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
As the internet gets shittier it’s gotten easier to be off it and read more books lately
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Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out.
Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.
Say equity, which a just society should pursue.
Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.
Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.
Say equity, which a just society should pursue.
Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.
February 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out.
Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.
Say equity, which a just society should pursue.
Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.
Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation.
Say equity, which a just society should pursue.
Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.
I’ve started a new writing project. Read one of the first posts:
A Brief History of Origins
In Sunday School, I was on a competitive Bible trivia team called Junior Bible Quiz.
open.substack.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I’ve started a new writing project. Read one of the first posts:
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I used to be quite ignorant as a young adult. But do you know what changed my mind each time? Art.
Art is the best thing to get into the hearts of others and help them see something new. Just make something completely sincerely. Everything else falls into place. There is a reason for what we do.
Art is the best thing to get into the hearts of others and help them see something new. Just make something completely sincerely. Everything else falls into place. There is a reason for what we do.
January 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I used to be quite ignorant as a young adult. But do you know what changed my mind each time? Art.
Art is the best thing to get into the hearts of others and help them see something new. Just make something completely sincerely. Everything else falls into place. There is a reason for what we do.
Art is the best thing to get into the hearts of others and help them see something new. Just make something completely sincerely. Everything else falls into place. There is a reason for what we do.
I have started something new:
Preamble
I will begin by unequivocally stating that I do not know what I am doing.
open.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I have started something new: