Dick Mullen

America Must Adopt Education Policy from Abroad Donald Trump suggests US education should emulate the success of Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and even China. He's right, but he would never.

Fixing American education is not impossible. It just takes more than our politicians are willing to give.

A Republican Guide to Putting Yourself Out of a Job Over the course of the next four years, Linda McMahon will be tasked with the paradoxical objective of firing herself.

Linda McMahon is going to sit idly by as this administration suplexes American education off the top rope

There Is No Winning Here. Only Waiting. When checks and balances prove ineffective, we are left to bear witness and bide time.

In a lot of ways, what Trump and Elon are doing is unprecendeted. In others, it's as American as it gets.

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Public funds for private schools is a blatant scam, it’s right there in the fucking phrase. It is welfare for the wealthy.

Indoctrination Nation Within a flurry of executive orders, two key actions mark the start of this administration's dismantling of American education.

These executive orders are a glimpse of the fights Republicans are willing to take on, and a litmus test for what they can really get away with.

The Stars At Night Are Dull And Dim Greg Abbott's fight for school vouchers in Texas resumes, fitting right in with the Republican demolition derby writ large.

As the fallout from the election winds down, I am unfortunately reminded that we have these same idiots right here at home.

Normalcy Got Us Here. Now Get It Out. As the Biden administration leaves office, it's time to let their most integral selling point leave with them.

Fuckin Democrats man

America's Oligarchs At Work Mark Zuckerberg's right-wing PR tour is an attempt to humanize one of your new rulers, and keep America stupid.

We're getting Zucc'd right to our face

OKC is so damn good, please don’t break my heart come playoff time

Vivek Ramaswamy Has The Answers Vivek gives us one of the best tweets of 2024. A perfect summation of the right-wing reality distortion field.

Had to talk some shit about Vivek bc it’s one of my favorite things to do

Just finished When The Clock Broke by John Ganz. Great read, and my immediate reaction is that the more things change the more they stay the same (or at the very least they get worse). Also fuck Bill Clinton

Budgetary Birds of Prey American public education bears the brunt of a continued negligence to solve the country's most pressing crises

“Too much spending” is a bogus excuse for continuing to ignore the country’s most pressing issues

Feel like all of the problems with College Football today are a microcosm of how completely unfettered capitalism has become. Alabama thinking they deserve a spot with 3 awful losses immediately comes to mind

American Boogeymen Psst, I see rich people

If Elon is calling the shots in the House, then we can’t pretend we’re anything but an Oligarchy.

What election did Elon and Vivek win?

More than 120 House Democrats send letter to Biden urging him to ratify Equal Rights Amendment A coalition of more than 100 lawmakers wrote a letter on Sunday urging President Biden to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would outlaw gender discrimination in the Constitution.  “We…

The Equal Rights Amendment has met all the requirements to become the 28th Amendment. All it takes is one stroke of President Biden’s pen.

I’m joining 121 of my colleagues in urging President Biden to #PublishTheERA & protect gender equality in the Constitution!

There is zero political pretense for Daniel Penny being JD Vance’s guest of honor at the Army/Navy game. All he did was kill an unhoused black man. One of the most disgusting Republican co-opts ever.

NY Times Doesn’t Want You to See Mangione’s Face Management directs staff to “dial back” Luigi Mangione headshots

Yesterday the New York Times instructed staff to avoid publishing photos of Luigi Mangione's face, internal company messages leaked to me reveal.

"The news value and public service of showing his face is diminishing," Times management told staff.
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Winning the NBA Cup should net you home court advantage through the playoffs regardless of what your seed ends up being

Luigi had the Pokemon “Breloom” in his Twitter banner.
A friend just pointed out to me that Breloom’s pokedex # is 286…

The jury verdict notwithstanding, it remains the case that Penny choked an unarmed man to death on the subway.

Please arm yourself with knowledge. Birthright citizenship is not a policy choice it is a constitutional imperative (14th Amendment). It can no more be signed away by Executive Order than the First Amendment.

Education Protection Program Stupid is as stupid does

American education is on the verge of getting absolutely cooked. How'd we get here, and what's to come?

How a potential panel shakeup will test Ocasio-Cortez's influence Her possible bid to lead Democrats on the Oversight Committee comes amid a generational shakeup in the caucus.

This is significant.

AOC heading the Oversight Committee and Jamie Raskin heading the Judiciary Committee would be a welcome and necessary leadership shakeup that weights actual, you know, *politics* over seniority.
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I do not give a single modicum of a fuck about Joe Biden pardoning Hunter. It feels so inconsequential in the grand scheme of anything, that it bears emphasizing: presidents have pardoned so many shittier people for so many shittier things.

Oh look! It’s a gallery of things I must now order online because it takes 20 minutes to find the Keeper of the Deodorant Key

Came across one of the most shameless pieces of Trump merch last night at a Christmas event in Boerne, TX. A 2025 calendar consisting of only AI Trump images

Never forget how much responsibility Merrick Garland has for Donald Trump’s second presidency and total evasion of legal accountability.