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Old Fitz

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E pur si muove. Retired teaching scholar and public servant.

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati... One of the world's greatest advocates for democracy has died. The timing could not be more poignant
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Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96
The German philosopher died on Saturday March 14, 2026, at the age of 96 in Starnberg, a spokesperson for the Suhrkamp publishing house said.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Just to be clear...
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Trump is bragging again about acing a cognitive test. Fortunately for him, they removed the Armenia v Albania screen
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Nancy Mace just discovered MAGA is misogynistic. Next people who are not White might also notice another conspicuous pattern. Who knows where this leads?
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The drive to strip birthright citizenship is much more than one of Trump's anti-immigrant antics--its an attack on the Constitution and all of its protections
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Smells like Lame Duck Flambé for Thanksgiving!
Charts the decline in the 3-day floating average of Trump support over the last month from over 44% to under 41%
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Trump: the Other White Meat
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Watch out, everyone—a narcissist is never so dangerous than when he faces rejection
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Who are you going to believe: Kristi Noem, puppy killer, or your own eyes
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Rarely does photojournalism capture the realities of the front lines in urban warfare so vividly! This has Pulitzer written all over it!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Reminder that most of our political rules & institutions are purely extra-constitutional norms, held together by shared beliefs in democracy & a lot of duct tape, & we’re all out of shared norms & have shredded our last rolls of tape. “Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections”
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Batman on METV: Egghead, played by Vincent Price, takes over Gotham City and fires everyone competent, and bans the dynamic duo—prophetic?
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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Jane Goodall was actually the only one keeping the apes in control. Now there's a power vacuum
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
A beautiful person has left us--we were elevated as a species for having her as a member www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie...
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Primatologist and ethologist Jane Goodall has died at age 91
The work carried out in Tanzania by the British researcher revolutionized the way we look at chimpanzees, and consequently, at humans. A pioneer of modern ethology, she became an ambassador for the pr...
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
AP: “On Sunday, federal agents marched along Michigan Avenue and the Chicago River, attracting attention from shoppers and families dining at sidewalk cafes. Many pulled out cameras to record.” If it weren’t tragic, it would be hilarious
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I smell a plot. Prison populations have been dropping for a decade GEO and CoreCivic have unused capacity in their private prisons If we start putting people in prison for lying to Congress the cells will be full fast Trump’s entire first administration would be eligible
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Eat, drink and be merry For tomorrow will bring More chaos and cruelty Let loose on the World
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Trump before the UN: “I’m really good at this stuff,” Mr. Trump said. “Your countries are going to hell.” Which Roman Emperor does Trump most resemble? A. Caligula B. Commodus C. Nero D. Elagabalus
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The lack of a healthy public sphere means most of the public has little idea how the US economy is structured--and that to pull the leg out of this part of the labor market can break the stool
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The word of the day is ‘dystopia’
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The EvanMiya Blog blog.evanmiya.com?r=1yiun3&utm...
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The EvanMiya Blog | Evan Miyakawa | Substack
From time to time I will share analytically-driven anecdotes, largely based on statistical trends at EvanMiya.com. Click to read The EvanMiya Blog, by Evan Miyakawa, a Substack publication with thousa...
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
apnews.com/live/donald-... Must be the trans kids fault
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Live updates: US employers added just 22,000 jobs last month amid uncertainty over Trump's policies
The Labor Department is set to release its August job report a month after a previous disappointing report enraged President Donald Trump, leading him to fire the economist in charge.
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Star Trek is about anti-vaxers—here is the RFK Jr character
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
“Thy hand great Dulness! lets the curtain fall,
And universal Darkness covers all."
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
“Thy hand great Dulness! lets the curtain fall,
And universal Darkness covers all.
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Judge rules Trump illegally deployed National Guard to L.A. A simple flaw in the Courts as a practical way to keep the Constitution intact is the pace at which damage can be done compared to the glacial tempo of the Courts
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
America: a Fox “security expert” says Mass “creates safety challenges rarely seen in public schools” and must be altered Land of the free, home of the brave
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Disasters and the Gulf Coast, 20 Years after Hurricane Katrina www.urban.org/stories/disa... What are we doing to improve this situation? We need action, and we are getting disinvestment in our collective capacity to respond to collective challenges
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Disasters and the Gulf Coast, 20 Years after Hurricane Katrina
Place-based data about how disasters have affected the Gulf Coast since Hurricane Katrina and the federal government’s role in managing extreme events.,On August 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made lan...
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Justice should be a practice, not an application of theory
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
A considerable source of populist anger came as backlash to authorities policing speech to advance an ideological agenda The Trump Administration is announcing that it is the official policy of the US that the word ‘gender’ should not be used in international documents #gender
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Basic human decency shouldn't be "political."
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The sociopath really has no concern for the consequences of actions--who cares if the little girls didn't get a warning in time? He scored political points in the budget process!
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Putin's spokesperson says Trump is all hat and no cowboy
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The dismantling and politicization of the administrative state in the US is a foolish error with mounting costs overtime
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The Sun Dog
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Suspect: Sprout Wanted on suspicion of getting on the kitchen table and eating an entire loaf of fresh, homemade bread
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/05... I would seriously like to know if RFK, the Lessor, or anyone in his orbit, really understands what meta-analysis is, how it works methodologically, and why dozens of consistent such studies make for really strong evidence for a conclusion
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Black Box Warning: Beware any sentence that begins with the proper noun "The Democrats." What follows is almost always based on a figurative position that there is some central entity with a unified will that makes univocal decisions. That is the authoritarian model.
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Long Live Pope Leo XIV!
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
NYT gets it dead wrong in the lede: the President of Harvard acknowledges real problems, and takes responsibility to change—the right response when an institution loses its way—honest and responsible action are the antithesis of Trump, not agreement with him
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
wapo.st/3EM3SCa “Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal Darkness buries all” Alexander Pope
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RFK Jr. will order placebo testing for new vaccines, alarming health experts
The potential change outlined in a statement would require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, sparking concerns among medical experts.
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
For the record, I’m a 30 dolls Christmas kind of guy
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
POTUS is using its powers to jawbone vendors away from sharing information with consumers about how much the administration’s policy cost—used to be these powers were used to help consumers get information, not to supress it
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
There is a sense in which the Trump Administration puts the US back on the moral plane it was in under Dred Scott--some persons born here are stateless, and may be repatriated to a place they have never visited
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Breaking: The conclave to pick the next Pope is scheduled to begin May 7. On the delay a Vatican spokesperson noted: “We couldn’t sequester them before the running of the Kentucky Derby, the Cardinals love to play the ponies.”
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Conclave to select new pope will begin May 7, Vatican announces
With 135 cardinals eligible to vote, the coming conclave is set to be the largest in the history of the Catholic Church and one of the most unpredictable in decades.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
U.S.-citizen pediatric cancer patients are getting deported, 401k's have plummeted, Head Start/school lunches/anti-lead-poisoning programs are getting defunded, global allies hate us, Pentagon chief is leaking war plans But at least Trump is pumping up a fake holiday that comes in October
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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Weak Donald Trump, who was going to end the Ukraine War immediately, is pouting because is buddy Putin continues to bomb civilian targets, as if Putin listens to Trump instead of the other way around. Weak, Weak, weak
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