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ASU ed policy PhD student β€’ education writing in Newsweek, Hechinger Report, Clarion Ledger, and others β€’ creative writer, sort of β€’ link below πŸ‘‡ https://linktr.ee/johnmattfred

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he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

12.09.2025 10:24 πŸ‘ 14672 πŸ” 2779 πŸ’¬ 155 πŸ“Œ 45

This is actually not far off from what it’s like talking to a PhD

07.08.2025 22:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter β€˜is a fake thing.’

Maybe he signed it with autopen

www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

18.07.2025 03:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump to Resume Sending Weapons to Ukraine The U.S. will send additional defensive arms because Moscow is hitting Kyiv β€œvery hard,” the president said.

This is a good example of how Trump’s obsession with exaggerated/fake news forms his initial point of view on a subject and then, when confronted with actual facts, he’s basically forced to change course on a major policy initiative.

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

08.07.2025 13:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œNo predictive model” is telling because it relies on the assumption that predictive models are somehow objective and rational and not, for instance, built within a social system that prioritizes white supremacy. A better qualifier would be β€œOur predictive models” aka white people.

29.06.2025 16:24 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a close up of a man with a beard says to war ALT: a close up of a man with a beard says to war

America every two years

22.06.2025 17:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Figured it was always Haley Barbour

17.04.2025 14:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Morgan Wallen abruptly leaves 'SNL' stage: 'Get me to God's country' Country singer Morgan Wallen has sparked backlash after abruptly exiting the stage at the end of "SNL," failing to stick around for the full signoff.

Gods country is the rooftop bar in Nashville where he was arrested for throwing a chair off the ledge

www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

31.03.2025 14:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The right’s obsession with holding onto their guns in case they need to defend themselves against a hostile government is a misrecognition of their true desirec which is to facilitate violence on others through a hostile government

26.03.2025 23:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Y’all acting like you’ve never accidentally added a journalist to your conspiracy to commit war crimes group chat.

25.03.2025 01:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Me in the national security group chat

24.03.2025 23:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And to insist that you’re too busy saving lives to care about the lives of the students who attend your university and the lives of those in a war torn region in another part of the world is exactly why people are skeptical of academics.

12.03.2025 04:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hiding behind the perceived apolitical nature of the hard sciences won’t save you. They are coming for your funding regardless of whatever resolution your faculty senate passes.

12.03.2025 04:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Faculty-on-Faculty War Erupts at Columbia as Trump Targets Elite School Humanities professors clash with scientists over the handling of campus protests.

This is an absolute gem from this article.

β€œWe’re actually quite busy. We’re actually doing our job,” said Geskin. Medical doctors and scientific researchers β€œare trying to save lives. We don’t have the time to ruminate on all this.”

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

12.03.2025 04:26 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œNobody is using Microsoft Teams!!” is how you know a CEO is in charge.

26.02.2025 14:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Monday: β€œTrump does insane thing.”
Tuesday: β€œCan Trump really do insane thing? Experts weigh in.”
Wednesday: β€œJudge temporarily blocks insane thing.”
Thursday: β€œInside the 24 hours where insane thing was in place.”
Friday: β€œInsane thing: a retrospective.”

08.02.2025 13:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Polemics! Love it.

05.02.2025 20:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Against the Female Gaze To my mind, what we need is not a β€œfemale” gaze, but a feminist one. I have a confession: I’m getting sick of all the cultural conversation about β€œgirlhood.”  Perhaps this is a bad position fo…

baby’s first polemic!
i wrote about why i object to the term β€œthe female gaze” for @mid-theory.bsky.social’s forum on the gaze πŸ‘€
mid-theory.com/2025/02/05/a...

05.02.2025 15:30 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 5

A Different Man is a terrific, weird, dissonant movie. Loving this Sebastian Stan career 180.

02.02.2025 04:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The NFL as an organization needs to be talking about these issues more openly. We need a culture shift from the sport that sets the zeitgeist.

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Many stopped waiting and hoping in 2020. Some did before the first of two impeachments. I did when he published that newspaper ad condemning five innocent young men. We need to be honest about why others still support this incompetent, divisive, lying hypocrite. That is the real question.

30.01.2025 19:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We keep waiting β€” hoping β€” that somehow Trump will act presidential in the face of a tragedy. This day will never come. His playbook was and is race baiting. Nothing more.

30.01.2025 19:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m going to start rescinding emails but now what I actually said in the emails.

29.01.2025 20:45 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The thing about Trump is he provides equal opportunity to all grifters even remotely close to his orbit. That has always involved the press, no matter whether they fall on the ideological spectrum.

21.01.2025 18:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Dithering over whether this was or wasn’t does not dilute its meaning to those who are always looking to the trump camp for affirmation.

21.01.2025 17:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence? Economists have long helped to shape policy on issues like taxes and health care. But flawed forecasts and arcane language have cost them credibility.

This is absolutely both a failure to communicate to the general public with narrative-driven arguments that humanize data combined with a profession that insists it’s a hard science and is impervious to critique.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/b...

11.01.2025 16:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I was out in the backyard when the local wolf chorus started up. Such an amazing sound. There was one calling from north east of my cottage and the pack was answering from the southwest. I apologize for my breathing. I had to run into the house and find my phone. I’m still vibrating.

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Letter: School vouchers undermine public education Janet Midthun writes, "For those North Dakotans that live in rural communities, the question of β€œschool choice” is moot – who would send their kid 100 miles to the closest private school?"

Letter: School vouchers undermine public education https://www.inforum.com/opinion/letters/letter-school-vouchers-undermine-public-education #SchoolVoucherScam

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