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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Cheney was an exception, important to point out. Biden, Harris, and Pence were the more common type of VP - their purpose was to occasionally say thing the President couldn't say, and take the sacrifice.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the Vice Presidency, as has been said, isn't worth a bucket of warm spit

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Vance vs Hegseth vs Some "Moderate" Republican a vision of your future in the 2028 GOP Primary

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

OK! Send me questions and I'll answer them!

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Folks, you should check out the podcast I'm on with @nickmortensen.com. It's a show about how the world is falling apart, and we can save it together, one deep dive at a time.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think that the humanities' only possible future is to own the fact that what we do is important and difficult, not to change what we do so it seems like an easy A in comparison to STEM. Then again, I'm a Lecturer with no power. We'll just retreat some more.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But it ISN'T our job to change the goalposts so students can do them without learning new skills and information, or without trying hard. Suggest that in a physics class regarding an exam and they'd say "Yes, it's hard. This is college. I'm here to teach you to do something hard."

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Several students said, of a recent midterm, that they had never been asked to answer multiple questions in a single prompt before, or that they didn't know how to make historical arguments. Fine! First year of college, it's our job to teach you!

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I got in something of a debate with a colleague yesterday about to evaluate students after LLMs. Granted I'm a pessimist and also a dinosaur, but I fundamentally disagree with the idea that we need to bend evaluation to where students are *already* at and what they are *already* capable of.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don't see much on UC Berkeley campus, where the campus GOP had been the largest student group for years

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

what if Trump just says "Congress is fake and I'm ignoring it"

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

basically my position is: everything google and twitter used to do (so, much of what bluesky does) should be a nationally or internationally owned utility everything facebook/instagram does should be illegal

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I like Daffy more because he loses even in episodes that are his episodes!

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I could hear an argument for Coyote

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#academicsky what kind of in class assessments do you use as midterms and exams?

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Daffy Duck is the best Loony Toon and I will not be taking further questions at this time

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

what's that sci fi libertarian book where a gorilla becomes the President and a dolphin develops interdimensional travel

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

someone asked me to share my syllabus for their own scholarly work now, due to LLMs, I must constantly ask myself - is this going to be stolen from me just by sharing it with a colleague?

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Is there space for this student. Are their bodily needs being met. Is the time enough time. Where are they looking. What are they listening to. Are they writing. Am I answering. Etc.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I simply can't work on academic things right now. No brain space for it. That Foucault guy was really onto something when he said that education consisted of the manipulation and regulation of the human body. Feel like most of my job is: are the students in the right spaces at the right times.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

so many podcasts/lists/etc about all the evil guys we are missing the evil forests for the evil trees

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

as a person who memorizes evil guys on the regular - there are too many evil guys these days

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

not getting enough sleep plus global fascist takeover plus record heat wave is not the best plan Craig

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this sounds like one of those moribund symptoms

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

most people will think about changes in their actual lives, and with Trump's veto they might not change much with a Dem Congress

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

agreed - Trump didn't innovate this form! Jair Bolsonaro had been doing this for decades, Orbán the same, arguably Berlusconi, etc

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

makes sense! i'm just teaching the Cold War right now and always caution students to recall that any stability it brought in the US was at the cost of the devastation of WWII in Europe and the violence of decolonization and the early Cold War elsewhere

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

my interest in roguelikes directly corresponds to how much of my free time exists in 15-25 minute chunks rather than several hour ones

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

not quite my field so I'm just curious - would you define stability as growth that benefits workers as well as capitalists? or does it also involve relative geopolitical peace?

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

there's no work like the work you get done while the students are taking a midterm

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

very much not true! some of them are revaunchists

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I guess I don't know what a situation of normalcy would even constitute - has one ever existed?

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dems will try to sweep it all under the rug, again they might win this election by doing that! then they'll lose the next one, the line will move, and they'll sweep it under the rug - again, and again, and again

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

yeah Milei has always been a guy with a HOI4 run on one monitor and Kalshi on the other one

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Spain's government calls for snap election - folks, even if the Dems win the midterms in the US, basically the ENTIRE REST OF THE DEVELOPED WOLRD is controlled by conservative or right-wing parties this is VERY DIFFERENT from the 1920s-30s. as Thatcher said: there is no alternative

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Pedro Sánchez, único líder socialdemócrata en una UE derechizada, activa el súper año electoral en Europa

El español ha sido el referente de la izquierda europea con su postura sobre Gaza, la defensa, Trump y la agenda verde

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Milei is SO DAMN EXCITED for another Bolsonaro to be in office

Pres Javier Milei of Argentina and Congressperson Flavio Bolsonaro of Brazil posing next to a banner reading, in Spanish, "Victory in war doesn't depend on the quantity of solders but on the will of heaven"

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

called my friend and said "I have a middle aged man question, do you have a sawhorse" "yeah lemme check the tool shed" he said old folks behavior

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

fair! I struggle with what this website is for - is it for takes conversations with people who are involved and informed? or is it for propaganda?

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

fair! I just always caution people re US puppetry of Latin American politics

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the old world is dying, the new one struggles to be born

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

yup GOP losing Texas would be completely devastating to party morale and signal a major political vibe shift, now way they just roll over and let it happen the math is there for that this cycle, but not for the next several decades

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the US got involved in the Brazilian election for sure, no doubt about that but we can't hide behind that excuse all the time: millions of people just like the guy, liked his dad, and hate Lula

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

as @grabagabo.bsky.social says, the press will now be acting as if Flavio is the President and the election is a done deal it isn't! don't bend to that!

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