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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
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@studentactivism
Angus Johnston
11 months
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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Angus Johnston
4 months
LESS THAN AN HOUR.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
4 months
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Angus Johnston
10 months
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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Angus Johnston
10 months
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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Angus Johnston
10 months
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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Angus Johnston
10 months
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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Angus Johnston
10 months
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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@ElectProject
Michael McDonald
11 months
Exit polls are used to help us understand why people voted the way they did. They are not to project who will win. Use the actual election results to know who wins
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@AyannaPrescod
Ayanna P.
11 months
Who are the brave souls seeing SUFFS tonight? You are tasked with reporting the energy in the room.
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Angus Johnston
11 months
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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Angus Johnston
11 months
Vote so I don't have to completely reconceptualize my novel-in-progress.
@AlexisCoe
Alexis Coe
11 months
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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Angus Johnston
11 months
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.
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@jeffwilen
Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky
1 year
No YOU’RE getting emotional about the inscription on the National Postal Museum building
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Angus Johnston
11 months
Champion of the sun.
@jeffwilen
Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky
1 year
No YOU’RE getting emotional about the inscription on the National Postal Museum building
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@studentactivism
Angus Johnston
11 months
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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Angus Johnston
11 months
Always after me lucky charms.
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Angus Johnston
11 months
As well as parts of Florida, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont!
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Angus Johnston
11 months
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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Angus Johnston
1 year
There have been election days when I walked into the voting booth not knowing who I was going to vote for, and days when I changed my mind in the booth. I suspect tomorrow will see a significant number of those among American leftists and progressives. (And in both directions.)
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Haus of Decline
1 year
It would be funny if the Kamala camp launched one of those "Vote Harris. Nobody has to know." ads but targeted specifically at leftists.
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Angus Johnston
1 year
Ignore the fluctuation for a second. What this shows is that in every NBC poll since 2008, men and women have been within one point of each other in voter enthusiasm—twice with men up by one point, twice with women up. This year they have women up by SIX.
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Dave Wasserman
1 year
NEW: per @NBCNews final poll, share of voters who rate their election interest as at least 9 out of 10, by gender... Year: Men/Women 2008: 79%/78% 2012: 79%/80% 2016: 76%/77% 2020: 84%/83% 2024: 74%/80% If Harris wins tomorrow, this will be a big reason why.
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