Dov

Dov

@drnelk.bsky.social

All fire, no chill. Husband/Father. I philosoPHizeD about Ethics @ UVA, and ever true to Brown. I teach text and thought to HS students in NYC.

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This is crazy. Daily Show posted a clip of the Ramaswamy campaign's horrific ad and did a joke about Family Drama.

This weekend was Leonard Cohen's tenth yahrzeit. He dedicated this poem/song to the author of a book on the kaddish, the prayer we recite on the anniversary of somebody's dying according to the Jewish calendar. May LC's memory be a blessing.

There's got to be a line somewhere in Catch 22 about violating a ceasefire that doesn't exist based on the testimony of a man not there who never tells the truth

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump claims without evidence that Ukraine is violating a ceasefire

Did anybody else miss that Hegseth's macho livestream execution involves soldiers firing at a guy who's paraplegic and wheelchair bound?

Hit *like* when you get to the part of the Leonard Cohen Festival description that made you say "huh?"

Can't believe Curtis Yarvin is milkshake duck, if the duck was originally wearing a swastika when it first went viral.

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Is he describing what he did to the reflecting pool? And offering to resign?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "When the blues get in, everything becomes dirty. The streets are dirty. The doorknobs going into stores are dirty. The sidewalks are filthy dirty. Everything becomes dirty and has a bad smell. But we're gonna escape all that lawlessness and corruption ... "

"[M]en do not trust themselves any more, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coattails." Steinbeck, East of Eden

Unreal.

Joe Patrice@joepatrice.bsky.social

The Constitution makes ONE simple demand of officeholders. Like instructing Adam & Eve to lay off the fruit, the Framers said, "you may want a fancy European title but the nation's integrity demands you refuse." Alito just ignored the Constitution's command.

Can't stop thinking about the Kaveret lyric "טוֹבְעִים הַשְׁנַיִים מִן הָאֶחָד"

From the geniuses behind DOGE and the saints who brought you Project 2025, it's the Federal Universal Computerized Klan-approved Election Disenfranchisement—Updatable Process

Oh, so they ARE basing their rulings on historical understandings. Checkmate libs

Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social

By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Oh yeah well I'm directing a new minions movie where the minions all speak Nadsat

Magistra Cohen (she/her)@magistracohen.bsky.social

Oh yeah well I’m directing a new Ten Commandments film where the characters all speak in the original Koine

This is super cool, as is any time settled science is upended. That said, did nobody try growing a cell from the brain stem before now?

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Arula Ratnakar@arula-ratnakar.bsky.social

I wrote a thread about hindbrain patterning some months ago. Otx and Gbx were discussed in textbooks already and I talk about them here. The research in that article is really cool but “the brain is 2 organs” is a bit of a sensationalist description imo.

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If only we had historical records from the most prosperous period in American history when the ultra rich were taxed at 90%+ rates. Alas.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

Jim Cramer: "I now meet people who think that capitalism is evil... You want me to take my wallet and give it to you? What do you want? 'Oh, I want the rich to make less.' Well, hey Lenin, game plan, how'd it go?"

I'm beginning to understand why these people are so impressed with AI outputs.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

🚨NEWS: Vivek Ramaswamy states he would vote to "significantly constrain and attach work requirements to most of the welfare state," explicitly highlighting Social Security and Medicaid.

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Replying to @swilua.bsky.social

The world did not end because WE DID NOT LET IT END The atmosphere has no hole in it BECAUSE WE FIXED THE HOLE WE BUILD THIS WORLD FROM DUST; IT WILL RETURN TO DUST THE MOMENT YOU STOP BUILDING IT anyway, yeah I've been thinking a lot about age and why it's important to talk to older people lol

If Trump hadn't been elected, social media would all be filled with delights like this.

Auntie Social@auntiesocial.bsky.social

Why'd they go to all the trouble of calling it an ocular migraine when eyegraine was RIGHT THERE?

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A couple days ago, Mike Johnson mocked Thomas Massie for suggesting House leadership could keep Congress out to avoid the new Epstein Files Transparency Act, calling the idea “stupid” and “nonsensical.” Now he has canceled the final two weeks of September.

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After Trump gutted the IRS workforce — including the unit tasked with auditing billionaires — the agency's annual audit revenue plunged by 35%. Trump's attacks on the IRS were never about "efficiency." They were about making it easier for the wealthy and powerful to skirt what they owe.

Real patriots make jokes about September 11th memorial events

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance on the 25th anniversary of 9/11: "As you guys can probably guess, I'm really looking forward to hanging out with Joe Biden. I'm sure we'll have many many intense intellectual conversations. We'll have a great time."

And true patriots mock our combat veterans as well.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "America has fought a lot of wars since I've been alive. 42 years. And we have won almost none of them until Donald J Trump became the president."

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