Angus Johnston
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Historian of, and advocate for, American student activism. CUNY prof. Former yacht chef. https://t.co/5biUl4VczI
New York City
Joined February 2009
Not deactivating my Twitter account, but since the election I just can't bring myself to post here, or even lurk much. You can find me where the sky is clear.
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LESS THAN AN HOUR.
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Because my students know that *I'm* not in the cabal, and if I'm not in the cabal, and I hung out with him, maybe he's not in the cabal either.
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It's why, when I'm discussing flat earth with my students, after giving the various simple scientific proofs, I tell the story of the day when I serendipitously wound up hanging out with an astronaut who'd spent six months on the ISS, peppering him with questions.
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So you can say "The sun stays up all night in Antarctica, which isn't possible in your model," and they can say "Says who?" And when you say "the people who work in Antarctica," they reject it, because they hear "the cabal.".
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The premise of so much conspiracy thinking is that there's a cabal who are pulling the strings, and that what they do is hidden from the rest of us—that there's a wall between "us" and "them.".
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Thinking a lot about the expedition to Antarctica that just showed a group of flat-earthers the midnight sun, and about what it is exactly that's so powerful about it.
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RT @ElectProject: Exit polls are used to help us understand why people voted the way they did. They are not to project who will win. Use th….
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RT @AyannaPrescod: Who are the brave souls seeing SUFFS tonight? You are tasked with reporting the energy in the room.
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On the one hand, it seems like turnout is really high. On the other, it seems like a lot of people are making “turnout is really high” claims that aren’t taking population growth into consideration.
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Vote so I don't have to completely reconceptualize my novel-in-progress.
Vote like you don't want me to die writing the decidedly unfunny, multi-volume series "America: The Extremely Preventable Collapse."
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Cassie is on a real roll right now. She's got so much smart stuff to say about how we carry ourselves in conversations, online and off, and how the work of building coalitions across difference is done.
I’ve noticed this tone a lot in organizing conversations. One where, when there’s a disagreement, one or both parties take a presumption that they are “correcting” the other party, like a school teacher to a naughty child.
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RT @jeffwilen: No YOU’RE getting emotional about the inscription on the National Postal Museum building
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Champion of the sun.
No YOU’RE getting emotional about the inscription on the National Postal Museum building
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Hoisting a cup of coffee in companionship and solidarity, mindful of the ongoing horrors committed in our names yet aware of this opportunity to make many lives materially better. Let's remember both of these truths, today and tomorrow, and keep our shoulders to the wheel.
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Always after me lucky charms.
This is the guy who ran for judge under his real name (Phil Spiwak) and lost, so he changed it to an Irish name.
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As well as parts of Florida, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont!.
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Good morning! Election-Day polls are now open in Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, DC, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Virginia!.
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RT @hecubian_devil: I do genuinely blame social media for this, where we can’t really organize meaningfully but we can shame and bully peop….
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