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Dad. Teacher. Coach. Believer in Occam's Razor, the disaster that is Jerry Jones, the mediocrity of the StL Cardinals ownership, and the kids I teach/coach.

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@_iamlougotti Gale Sayers

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@TheSports_Shift Not a Bucs fan (or hater), but what about the "Throwin' Samoan?" Jack Thompson! Other likely mentioned him. Steve Young had some coffee with the Bucs, too

[Ryan Shead @RyanShead]

Stop what you’re doing, @bryanandrews_ has something to say! 👀

I co-sign every single word Bryan Andrews said in this video.

I’m admittedly not the biggest country music fan. However, I have a small list of artists in my playlist. This is someone I can support and give money to.

It would be cool if we could all go support this artist. We need to get back to lifting up the right people. 🇺🇸🙏🏼

YouTube: https://t.co/ffj4RRj4Oa
Spotify: https://t.co/GobIPB9piD
Twitter: https://t.co/EvHXWTNT2r

Source: @couriernewsroom

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #trumpstopthewar #TrumpIsARussianAsset

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A different type of Brown Shirt 90 years later.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This is America.
This is sick.
This is not what I voted for.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Calling this an “insurrection against sovereignty” isn’t just overheated—it’s intellectually dishonest. A crowd surrounding a detention center in protest of immigration enforcement isn’t a coup; it’s a constitutional act of dissent. We don't have to agree with the message to recognize the right to send it. Protest has always been part of America’s story—it’s how we expanded the vote, ended child labor, and demanded civil rights. Rebranding it as sedition to score political points cheapens the term and disrespects the gravity of real threats to our democracy.

Let’s not confuse volume with violence or disagreement with disloyalty. There’s a world of difference between storming the Capitol to overturn an election and demonstrating against policies you believe are unjust. If words still matter—and they should—then calling this an “insurrection” isn’t just wrong, it’s reckless. Because if protest becomes treason, then democracy becomes theater. And some of us still believe this country is more than a stage.

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@LakotaMan1 I teach a Century of Dishonor, the Dawes Act (1887), the so-called Termination Policy, and sterilization into the '70s wrought havoc on Native culture. We use Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee as a secondary source. This doesn't include other references. First Nations for a reason!

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@DailyNoahNews @ABC Have you ever actually watched PBS News Hour? Honest question. It is one of the few outlets that still practices the Fairness Doctrine. And Frontline? I feel like so many Americans are so far down their own rabbit hole they wouldn't recognize objectivity if it smashed their face.

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@krassenstein @BurtMaclin_FBI This is the problem with echo chamber, not understanding Occam's Razor, and Dunning-Kruger: there is a tendency to practice equivocation to the extreme and be particularly susceptible to moral equivalency.

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@StephenM First, you don't need all 677. 2nd, that's why Madison wrote Federalist #51 where ambition is needed to check ambition. The FFs believed in Checks and Balances. You believe in the Unitary Executive Theory. That, sir, rejects our FFs' ideals on Checks and Balances.

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@SpotJ You're probably 1 of about 100 ppl who know who Dorsey is. I would add private equity and possibly hedge funds in that ballpark, too.

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@hooah_mac @lakersdana @kdnerak33 @doug_wk Of course, it's not possible that the a Prez could assign a VP a role in overseeing anything. Bush certainly didn't do that with Cheney and Foreign Policy did ...oh wait. If that's the logic, then stop holding VPs accountable for policies of their Prez since they have no power.

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@clairecmc Can we just change the name of the disinformational "RNC Research" to RNC Desearch?

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This sh** is insane. Ppl like this have no business being ANYWHERE near power in a DEMOCRATIC system if they believe only 1 view of "democratic power" belongs to them.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

North Carolina GOP gov nominee Mark Robinson endorses political violence in June 30 video surfaced by @newrepublic: "Kill them! Some liberal somewhere is gonna say that sounds awful. Too bad! ... Some folks need killing! It's time for somebody to say it." https://t.co/GVKCE7QvVV

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@LakotaMan1 Too many so-called Americans know VERY little about the Dawes Act, the Indian Reorganization Act, etc. I always ask my students what would US History look like if it was taught from the perspective of <insert group name> as a way to get them to think more deeply and broadly.

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@LakotaMan1 Abso-freaking-lutely

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

I mean. This. Is. Just. Nuts.

NUTS.

h/t: @SteveRattner

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Everyone should read this.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder in the USA

https://t.co/IQ9Ym0DOQr