Joe Terry
@terryjl.bsky.social
I teach college students 💯 | Moonshadow is my favorite canine 🐾 | Plant eater 🌿 | Feminist ♀️ | Black Lives Matter ✊ | UIUC, UGA, and CU-Boulder 🎓
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In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons…
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
December 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons…
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
What an amazing act of kindness by Rick Steves! Merry Christmas, indeed!
Rick Steves buys ‘the most beautiful Christmas present’ for homeless neighbors
Five years after the Lynnwood Hygiene Center opened, serving hundreds in poverty, the landlord planned to sell. Steves stepped in to buy it.
www.seattletimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
What an amazing act of kindness by Rick Steves! Merry Christmas, indeed!
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“OK, you can gerrymander to cheat in elections, but only if it hurts nonwhite voters.”
- US Supreme Court
- US Supreme Court
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
“OK, you can gerrymander to cheat in elections, but only if it hurts nonwhite voters.”
- US Supreme Court
- US Supreme Court
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I had the absolute pleasure of joining @hcrichardson.bsky.social for a conversation yesterday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15L...
American Conversations: Zohran Mamdani
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I had the absolute pleasure of joining @hcrichardson.bsky.social for a conversation yesterday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15L...
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Iceland has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a national security concern and an existential threat.
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for worst-case scenarios, the country's climate minister told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a national security concern and an existential threat.
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Today, the president of the United States said that multiple US senators should be put to death for treason and articles of impeachment have not been filed yet. This country is cooked. Done. Finished.
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Today, the president of the United States said that multiple US senators should be put to death for treason and articles of impeachment have not been filed yet. This country is cooked. Done. Finished.
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The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
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Trump's peace plan for Gaza totally biased towards Israel, fascist genocidal imperialist.
Trump's peace plan for Ukraine totally biased towards Russia, fascist genocidal imperialist.
Anyone see a pattern here?
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Trump's peace plan for Ukraine totally biased towards Russia, fascist genocidal imperialist.
Anyone see a pattern here?
share.google/LaXcGHUcLOBk...
Zelenskyy to negotiate with Trump over US-Russia peace deal requiring painful concessions
Ukrainian president’s office issues statement after other officials condemn ‘absurd’ plan to end conflict
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November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Trump's peace plan for Gaza totally biased towards Israel, fascist genocidal imperialist.
Trump's peace plan for Ukraine totally biased towards Russia, fascist genocidal imperialist.
Anyone see a pattern here?
share.google/LaXcGHUcLOBk...
Trump's peace plan for Ukraine totally biased towards Russia, fascist genocidal imperialist.
Anyone see a pattern here?
share.google/LaXcGHUcLOBk...
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One third of the country supported the January 6 2021 attempted take over the government & are the same ones who voted him back in. They are traitors in my book.
November 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
One third of the country supported the January 6 2021 attempted take over the government & are the same ones who voted him back in. They are traitors in my book.
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Some rando LLC is trying to build a huge data center in Hermantown, which just up the hill from Duluth.
long suspected they’d be coming for Lake Superior and here it is.
@senatordoronclark.bsky.social I hope you’ll support legislation to protect our Big Lake.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
long suspected they’d be coming for Lake Superior and here it is.
@senatordoronclark.bsky.social I hope you’ll support legislation to protect our Big Lake.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Lawsuit alleges Hermantown kept public in dark over data center proposal
The Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy and a grassroots group called "Stop the Hermantown Data Center" filed the lawsuit. It alleges the city's review didn't describe the proposal as a data c...
www.mprnews.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Some rando LLC is trying to build a huge data center in Hermantown, which just up the hill from Duluth.
long suspected they’d be coming for Lake Superior and here it is.
@senatordoronclark.bsky.social I hope you’ll support legislation to protect our Big Lake.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
long suspected they’d be coming for Lake Superior and here it is.
@senatordoronclark.bsky.social I hope you’ll support legislation to protect our Big Lake.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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There’s a narrative that resistance to Trump’s second term is weaker than the first. Data indicates the opposite.
There have actually been over 3x more protests in Trump’s second term than the first, and No Kings 2 was the largest single-day political protest in US history.
There have actually been over 3x more protests in Trump’s second term than the first, and No Kings 2 was the largest single-day political protest in US history.
October 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
There’s a narrative that resistance to Trump’s second term is weaker than the first. Data indicates the opposite.
There have actually been over 3x more protests in Trump’s second term than the first, and No Kings 2 was the largest single-day political protest in US history.
There have actually been over 3x more protests in Trump’s second term than the first, and No Kings 2 was the largest single-day political protest in US history.
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Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.
September 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.
Kimmel wasn’t fired for his remarks on Kirk—he was fired for using his platform to expose and critique our government. Enough! We especially need large corporations, with the money and influence they have, to fight back. sign.moveon.org/petitions/ki...
Reinstate Jimmy Kimmel and stop caving to authoritarian censorship!
Kimmel wasn’t fired for his remarks on Kirk—he was fired for using his platform to expose and critique our government. Enough! We especially need large corporations, with the money and influence they ...
sign.moveon.org
September 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Kimmel wasn’t fired for his remarks on Kirk—he was fired for using his platform to expose and critique our government. Enough! We especially need large corporations, with the money and influence they have, to fight back. sign.moveon.org/petitions/ki...
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"The glory of art is that it can not only survive change, it can lead it." - Robert Redford
September 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
"The glory of art is that it can not only survive change, it can lead it." - Robert Redford
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Trans rights are human rights.
September 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Trans rights are human rights.
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I somehow missed this incredible story last month. Apparently the cops who killed Tyre Nichols will get a new federal trial.
Why? Because someone shot a clerk for the judge who presided over the original trial, and the judge believes the shooter is in a gang that's connected to one of the cops.
Why? Because someone shot a clerk for the judge who presided over the original trial, and the judge believes the shooter is in a gang that's connected to one of the cops.
Judge Orders New Federal Trial in Tyre Nichols Case
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I somehow missed this incredible story last month. Apparently the cops who killed Tyre Nichols will get a new federal trial.
Why? Because someone shot a clerk for the judge who presided over the original trial, and the judge believes the shooter is in a gang that's connected to one of the cops.
Why? Because someone shot a clerk for the judge who presided over the original trial, and the judge believes the shooter is in a gang that's connected to one of the cops.
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NYC Mayoral Averages Among September Polls:
🔵 Mamdani: 48%
🟢 Cuomo: 27%
🔴 Sliwa: 15%
🟣 Adams: 10%
Read it here -> open.substack.com/pub/usapolli...
🔵 Mamdani: 48%
🟢 Cuomo: 27%
🔴 Sliwa: 15%
🟣 Adams: 10%
Read it here -> open.substack.com/pub/usapolli...
Mamdani Steamrolls His Rivals in the Polls
New polling averages suggest the race for NYC mayor is his to lose
open.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NYC Mayoral Averages Among September Polls:
🔵 Mamdani: 48%
🟢 Cuomo: 27%
🔴 Sliwa: 15%
🟣 Adams: 10%
Read it here -> open.substack.com/pub/usapolli...
🔵 Mamdani: 48%
🟢 Cuomo: 27%
🔴 Sliwa: 15%
🟣 Adams: 10%
Read it here -> open.substack.com/pub/usapolli...
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9/11 this, 9/11 that; some of y’all need to put down the 9 ELVEN rings gifted to the race of men, who above all else, desire power <send>
September 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
9/11 this, 9/11 that; some of y’all need to put down the 9 ELVEN rings gifted to the race of men, who above all else, desire power <send>
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Holy shit we’re legitimately at “some cancer screenings are too woke.”
July 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Holy shit we’re legitimately at “some cancer screenings are too woke.”
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So, as I suspected, the police response to the shootings of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota was actually a complete disaster www.startribune.com/new-details-...
July 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
So, as I suspected, the police response to the shootings of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota was actually a complete disaster www.startribune.com/new-details-...
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Welcome to America;
where our president
is publicly
saying nice things about,
giving immunity to,
and suggesting a possible pardon for
a well-connected
child sex trafficker.
But I’m sure he’s got a good reason.
where our president
is publicly
saying nice things about,
giving immunity to,
and suggesting a possible pardon for
a well-connected
child sex trafficker.
But I’m sure he’s got a good reason.
July 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Welcome to America;
where our president
is publicly
saying nice things about,
giving immunity to,
and suggesting a possible pardon for
a well-connected
child sex trafficker.
But I’m sure he’s got a good reason.
where our president
is publicly
saying nice things about,
giving immunity to,
and suggesting a possible pardon for
a well-connected
child sex trafficker.
But I’m sure he’s got a good reason.
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It’s hard to overstate how devastating the Big Ugly Bill is for our country.
It’ll make us poorer, sicker & less secure. People will die & energy costs will skyrocket.
All to put money in the pockets of the rich.
It’s evil & pure lunacy. Welcome to life in a country governed by a cult.
It’ll make us poorer, sicker & less secure. People will die & energy costs will skyrocket.
All to put money in the pockets of the rich.
It’s evil & pure lunacy. Welcome to life in a country governed by a cult.
Opinion | Lawrence Summers: This Law Made Me Ashamed of My Country
www.nytimes.com
July 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
It’s hard to overstate how devastating the Big Ugly Bill is for our country.
It’ll make us poorer, sicker & less secure. People will die & energy costs will skyrocket.
All to put money in the pockets of the rich.
It’s evil & pure lunacy. Welcome to life in a country governed by a cult.
It’ll make us poorer, sicker & less secure. People will die & energy costs will skyrocket.
All to put money in the pockets of the rich.
It’s evil & pure lunacy. Welcome to life in a country governed by a cult.
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Analysis of the flash flooding in TX last week finds climate change contributed to the intense rainfall: "Natural variability alone cannot explain the changes in precipitation associated with this very exceptional meteorological condition."
www.climameter.org/20250704-tex...
www.climameter.org/20250704-tex...
ClimaMeter - 2025/07/04 Texas Floods
Heavy rain in July 2025 Texas floods locally intensified by human-driven climate change
Contact Authors
Davide Faranda, IPSL-CNRS, France 📨[email protected] 🗣️English,French, Italian
Mir...
www.climameter.org
July 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Analysis of the flash flooding in TX last week finds climate change contributed to the intense rainfall: "Natural variability alone cannot explain the changes in precipitation associated with this very exceptional meteorological condition."
www.climameter.org/20250704-tex...
www.climameter.org/20250704-tex...
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Ted Cruz claims it’s “not time for partisan finger-pointing” about the Texas floods - but he sure didn’t hesitate to blame “leftist policies” for the horrific California wildfires in January.
We don’t need to tolerate constant MAGA hypocrisy about when its appropriate to “politicize” tragedy.
We don’t need to tolerate constant MAGA hypocrisy about when its appropriate to “politicize” tragedy.
July 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Ted Cruz claims it’s “not time for partisan finger-pointing” about the Texas floods - but he sure didn’t hesitate to blame “leftist policies” for the horrific California wildfires in January.
We don’t need to tolerate constant MAGA hypocrisy about when its appropriate to “politicize” tragedy.
We don’t need to tolerate constant MAGA hypocrisy about when its appropriate to “politicize” tragedy.