Professor Plum

I contain multitudes: professor, feminist, foodie, occasional fangrrl, and m💜m.

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

You know what really bugs me these days? We can't own anything. Everything is a subscription service, like literally everything. You can't buy Microsoft Office, you have to purchase a subscription for a year. You literally have to pay for everything FOREVER. Isn't anyone else bothered by this?

[Professor Plum @J_Sliv]

@IrishEcocritic Good God.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Jeff Bezos fired more than 300 people and didn’t even arrange for them to get safely home.

Staffers were abandoned in foreign countries and war zones and are having to crowd source to get home.

One of the richest men in the world left them behind.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Due to federal budget cuts, PBS News had to make the difficult decision to rework our staffing and programming.

This Sunday, our PBS News Weekend team will sign off the air.

[Professor Plum @J_Sliv]

Grifters gonna grift. This administration is so corrupt they don't even hide it anymore.

[Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog @DougWahl1]

SHOULD HE BE IN JAIL?

Pam Bondi dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away Covid-19 vaccines, giving saline shots instead of the vaccine and selling faked vaccination cards.

Your thoughts?

[Professor Plum @J_Sliv]

@IrishEcocritic

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

AOC just detonated the House floor:

🔥🔥

“Eight senators are giving themselves over $1 million each while robbing Americans of food assistance and healthcare. How is this even on the floor? How can Congress enrich itself by stealing from the American people?”

This is the truth of the shutdown deal, millions lose care so senators can cash out.

[Professor Plum @J_Sliv]

@IrishEcocritic Yeah I've been good for awhile but L.O. started public school and we all caught a nasty cold. Sigh.

[Professor Plum @J_Sliv]

@thisismailife @broadwaybabyto @CarlottaPini Ppl below the poverty line are often obese bc cheap foods are often unhealthy foods. Many live in food deserts where there are not affordable healthy options.

[don’t blame me, I voted for the other person @RHAJr5150]

@alfranken

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power.

The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.

Every single major Democratic politician condemned the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Meanwhile, before EVEN KNOWING WHO THE SHOOTER WAS, the Republican president gave a speech calling for VIOLENCE against Democrats.

There are masked thugs running through the streets dragging people out of cars at gunpoint.

There was an attempted violent coup at the Capitol building brought on by the President himself.

Hell he threatened to INVADE an American city FOUR DAYS AGO.

I’m genuinely sad the man died. Not because I agreed with a word he said but because he was a misguided person who was himself caught up in the culture of violence.

He deserved to be shouted down for his backward ideas, not murdered.

The most sickening part of this whole ordeal is the excitement you see in Republicans, how quickly they moved past any respect for the dead, any reflection on the environment they helped foster, straight into who should be murdered next.

THEY DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO THE SHOOTER IS, yet they are ignoring the obvious marks of a professional killer who clearly had a highly trained military background, and the fact that these guys tend to be right wing nut jobs with an obscure axe to grind.

But they’ve already given him (and we all know it’s a him not a her) an identity: the faceless embodiment of everything they hate and fear with a clearly coordinated messaging campaign to call him a “leftist.”

So it’s clear what they want and it’s not peace. They want a justification for more violence. They want a bloody shirt they can point to and say, “See? THIS is why there are thugs in the streets in masks pulling people from cars at gunpoint. THIS is why we must end the American experiment in democracy.”

And the most pathetic part of all is that none of it is necessary. Violent crime is down. Everywhere. This is all INVENTED. And it was done so to protect the pursuit of power of one man: a dim-witted child rapist who became a violent extremist simply because selling his dark vision of America was the only way his corrupt, soulless ass could stay out of jail.

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

The photos coming from Trump’s birthday parade are just incredible. No one showed up.

[Cynthia Scott @BombshellNana]

@ABC They’re just itching to go to war.

Netanyahu WILL DO ***ANYTHING*** TO AVOID PRISON.

MUCH LIKE .@realDonaldTrump

[Professor Plum @J_Sliv]

@IrishEcocritic Oh that's awful! I'm so sorry!

[Patricia Correll @Author_PCorrell]

The Chicago Sun-Times published an upcoming summer books list that is obviously AI. The clues are that there is no byline and at least 8 of these titles do not exist.

[Harvard University @Harvard]

“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber https://t.co/6cQQpcJVTd

[Jasmine Crockett @JasmineForUS]

THIS IS A TEST:

What is due process; who is afforded due process; is it a partisan thing or an American thing?

I’m asking because I’m seeing too much debate about something that isn’t debatable which leads me to believe more people than I thought have no idea of what it actually is.

[Professor Plum @J_Sliv]

@AnnLambert22 @BartemyS @ABC So? Everyone gets due process regardless of citizenship status. Also, a federal judge granted him permission to stay permanently years ago.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

For the rest of my life, I will never understand how a country full of people busting their asses, working paycheck to paycheck, allow the fucking richest guy on Earth to call them "parasites" while calling the Social Security we contributed to our entire lives "a Ponzi scheme."

It will NEVER make sense.