Sam Golter
samfloot.bsky.social
Sam Golter
@samfloot.bsky.social
Musicologist, flutist, and high school English teacher. Living in Charlottesville, Va.
The attack on the Department of Ed in order to ‘bring education back to the states’ shows that the right has never gotten over the Scopes Monkey Trial.
February 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The removed the fucking T
February 1, 2025 at 5:02 AM
“Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back, so we’re going to send them out to Guantánamo.”

So, indefinite detention? 30k capacity for the ‘worst of the worst’ doesn’t pass the smell test.
January 30, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Will there be national elections in 2 years? I think everything depends on how the rest of the government, especially the courts, respond to the last few days.
January 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Reposted by Sam Golter
Book banning was relentless even during an administration that was genuinely against it. I cannot imagine what’s coming when now that the Department of Education says it doesn’t exist.
January 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
So is this basically supposed to be Twitter, but from an alternate timeline where Musk remained an emerald mine baron in South Africa?
January 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM