I wouldn't vote for her, but I'm completely in favor of her name.
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09.03.2026 13:01
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I wouldn't vote for her, but I'm completely in favor of her name.
turnipseedforcongress.com
A non-profit with a for-profit business model, the College Board's endowment is $1.6 billion.
Over the years, AP courses have metastasized to every high school subject and now bestow college credit to 9th [sic] graders.
It's time for some reconsideration. #mapoli
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/03/m...
An excellent article by Dusty Christensen
This is a movement worth watching. #mapoli
theshoestring.org/2026/03/07/e...
Trump is the symptom. The Republican Party is the disease.
Should be easy enough.
(From W to Palin to Trump: the GOP is devolving).
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/u...
"Platner, in other words, comes off as a flawed, complicated, and sometimes contradictory human being whose political views don’t always fit neatly into a box. In that, he resembles millions of Americans..."
jacobin.com/2025/10/plat...
Epic Fury is pretty revealing though.
It's no consolation to say, they broke it, they bought it. Democrats need to spend less time blaming Trump and more time pinning the blame on Republicans.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
We need to change our focus from Trump to the Republicans. They make him possible.
Coming soon to Amazon Prime.
Seems to be a popular adjective: "Beloved retailer going out of business after 25 years, no longer accepting gift cards"
The chaos is a means and an end. The political version of the tech bros “move fast and break things.” The senselessness keeps everyone off-balance and allows those in position to exercise power.
Fetterman was a media creation.
Beyond Braddock and his hoodie, nothing about him says working class.
Platner plays up his working class cred & he may just be another bro.
What interests me is that he's a different type of candidate. Like Talarico and Mamdani. This diversity is important.
One of my friends complained about his prep school background.
As someone who supported John Edwards, I always wonder what there is that I don't know, but his explanation of the Totenkopf seemed plausible to me.
The issue I take with the vibe: what's authentic working class supposed to be?
Other than I find him interesting--like I do Talarico and Mamdani--I don't have a opinion on Platner.
I do think that many on the Left are bashing him for not fitting some sort of ideal type of working class guy. He'd fit right in where I live.
The "long" and "small" of it. Probably a joke in there somewhere.
I forgot about her. I wasn’t missing much.
“Walter Mitty Moment”
I have to keep reminding myself that CBP is not CPB.
My students used the word "gooning," so I learned about that vicariously.
We're living in a time when words have a half-life of weeks. I can't keep up.
I know I'm superannuated, but what are these words?
Public schools are the last vestige of civil society.
The one place people still come together to share a common experience.
Naturally, DFER want to sacrifice public education for test scores. #mapoli #neoliberalism
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/o...
"an economy that seemingly doesn’t have much need for people"
kyla.substack.com/p/buying-fut...
I'd compare her to a bag of hammers, but that wouldn't be fair to hammers.
Hammers are almost always up to the job and can't be blamed for thinking everything looks like a nail.
Running out of ideas before she moves off the starting block.
I think he's just big-boned.
It's not enough to not be Republican, we now have to earn their support.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/backlash-t...