Academic Dad
@AcademicDad
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Tenured at a slipping state college in the US. Married with a 6 and a 9. Pro-worker. Anti-lecture. Clem Fandango's middle initial is H.
Joined January 2020
People say, "You're a professor, you must be rich.", and I say uh...no...I'm not...but I *live near* rich people and teach their children, and I've studied them, and I've seen how they make other people's lives miserable, including mine.
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When I started earning a paycheck at minimum wage 30 years ago I was making the equivalent of $9-10 in today's dollars. The fact that the Democratic party hasn't gotten the minimum wage raised in 15 years is an indictment. Useless party.
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Oh helllll yeah AJ
Who are the top 5 World Series Champions since 2000? @ajpierzynski12 gave us his list 👀 See our full rankings of all 25 World Series Champs here ➡️ https://t.co/YsTabm2cFj
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🚨 No one is above the law — not even ICE agents. I’m making it clear: tampering with or removing license plates is illegal in Illinois — and it will not be tolerated. If you see it, report it. Call us at 312-814-1730.
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It's my view that promising people hope and change and then bailing out bank donors as they threw 10 million families out of their homes was the defining political moment that birthed this era & it's my view that liberals/Dems still refusing to reckon with this & discard the
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"Program assessment" is the mechanism by which non-profit do-gooders get punished and profited off of for not having outcomes that can be measured in quarterly revenue increases.
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Barely any coverage of yesterday's demonstrations on CNN dot com or NYT
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“If you were able to overlook a genocide and cast a vote for Harris, you already know how a conservative was able to overlook Trump’s extremism and vote for him.”
Historian Robin D.G. Kelley discusses Donald Trump's election victory and why the Democrats failed to mount a successful challenge.
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"what if the professor punishes me for disagreeing with their argument" Professors seeing a student show any kind of passion about anything in the course at any time
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It’s really telling they put up big signs screaming YOUR TAX DOLLARS HARD AT WORK whenever a road gets fixed or a new culvert goes in. Like bitch should we be surprised you spent money on infrastructure that helps us or surprised you haven’t sold the road to Black Rock yet?
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Actor Michael Keaton on Trump supporters: “When Trump said ‘I could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue and they’d still vote for me,’ basically what he’s saying is these people are so stupid, they’d still vote for me. They have no respect for you, trust me”
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How bout all them wild text messages from the Young Republicans?!
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They should start gilding their signs in gold.
Trump on protesters: "You see these violent incidents and then you see people holding this gorgeous sign, with beautiful wood and beautiful cardboard wood everything. Everything's perfect. Perfect paint job. And they're all the same. You know that they weren't made in the
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This is why I've been critiquing neo/liberals as complicit in eugenics and fascism as republicans for years now. Y'alls research ignorance is violent as fuck, regardless of whether you ever admit it to yourselves or not.
There's a NYT writer over on Blue Sky with ~700K followers saying that masking is a response to irrational fear. It's no wonder we are where we are
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At this point I'm starting to not listen to people from outside the USA asking "What's wrong with you guys?" What's your leader doing?
One day we may find a way to understand the mass psychosis whereby world leaders, the richest tech CEOs, members of Congress, and so many others voluntarily, publicly, and happily debased themselves, humiliated themselves, time and again, for the ridiculous guy from Home Alone 2.
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STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time. VANCE: No, George, I sai-- STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
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