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@bfwriter.bsky.social
PhD candidate, Educational Studies. MA, Human Development, Learning, and Culture. gamer (not the bad kind), budoka, NOLA girl. I blog about POTS at barefootwriterhaspots.com
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It’s not even like any of them, or their political cohort, DON’T want to defeat Trump. It’s just that in the end, other things seem way more important to them. This is why we’ve all gone mad.
Harris, Biden, Obama, the Clintons … they all have their good points. But I don’t want to hear from them about how to beat Trump. No fund pitches and certainly no advice. If they knew how to do it they’d have done it.
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pay Nicole as a consultant. she hears what the people want all day long.
Detroiter Nicole Williams when asked if Abdul El-Sayed is ‘a bit too left wing to win in Michigan’: “At this point what do we have to worry about? Anything but what we have. We're on our way to hell, so at this point: socialist, socialize, social, dont matter to me, lower my cost of living!”
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Young ‘uns: this stuff happened once a week during Obama’s presidency. Dijon mustard. Moving a bust of Churchill. Inviting a rapper to the White House. Putting his feet up on his desk. They’d scream and cry for days about how effete and snobby and Black he was and how misinderstood they were.
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"El Sayed dug up the buried implication of Tommy's question, held it up for all to examine, and then, one shovelful after another, question by question, buried Tommy in the hole left behind." www.the-reframe.com/taking-our-c...
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RFK talks about autistic and Arabic people the exact same way. He assumes they are not capable of ordinary or extraordinary achievements because of who they are. He considers them sub-human because they are not like him. This makes it plain that his is a white supremacist eugenicist project.
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell
New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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maybe try not calling a vote when people aren't excited to show up and vote for you?
"Even if everybody who voted Green had heeded Eby’s warnings on the campaign trail about vote-splitting and voted NDP instead, the Conservatives would still have won a majority government with a nine-seat margin." @macleodandrew.bsky.social writes. #BCPoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...
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"Even if everybody who voted Green had heeded Eby’s warnings on the campaign trail about vote-splitting and voted NDP instead, the Conservatives would still have won a majority government with a nine-seat margin." @macleodandrew.bsky.social writes. #BCPoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...
I like that he seems to walk the line here of being clinical and not demeaning about what those tests are for, but about Trump's bragging and egotistical misreading of what those tests are for.
El-Sayed on Trump's cognitive tests: "I went to medical school...In my neurology unit, I would have to give that MoCA exam...The only people that you give a MoCA test to are people who you worry may have cognitive deficits. By definition, if you're taking one of those tests, something's wrong."
I am not sure they even know about other faith leaders? except maybe the Archbishop of Canterbury, but she's a woman, so. . .
The AI bro obsession with the pope is really, truly fascinating and bonkers. They are hounding him for approval (as near as I can tell, they are not doing this with any other faith leaders) If not this pope, a pope. It’s inevitable, Mr. Pope, how many models are you running?
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maybe leave some money for the kids and they will start having babies earlier but right now many of them think being 28 and having four roommates and three jobs is not the best time to give you a baseball prodigy
Grandmas and grandpas are discovering what it means to get a later start to grandparenthood as many American families wait longer to have children. “I won’t be able to teach him to play football or baseball or anything like that.” 🔗: on.wsj.com/4ifIjtl
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The House Judiciary Committee Democrats have released a report containing testimony from 11 women regarding allegations of sexual assault, including a new rape allegation, against President Trump in relation to Jeffrey Epstein that the lawmakers say has been deliberately covered up by the DOJ.