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Derek John Boczkowski

@derekboczkowski.bsky.social
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Writing center guy (The Ohio State University at Newark). Composition and literacies researcher. Chicago Cubs fan. Teacher, learner, molder of minds and minder of molds.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1h
Governor Pervert sides with the Perverts. He is the future of the party.
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Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · 20h
Baby elephant taking a bath.. 😊
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 3h
ICE has notified me that another person has died in their custody. This is the 58th death under ICE’s watch since Trump returned to office. That’s 58 too many. We need to dismantle ICE, eliminate private, for-profit detention centers, and reform our broken immigration system.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 15h
Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”
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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 18h
A screenshot of part of the quoted Hanania post above--just the last line of it, "Women need to be told the truth"--and the picture underneath of the concept of Misery in human form, Michael Tracey, looking impossibly sweaty for a man whose ass gets chair withdrawal when he walks to the bathroom. Michael Tracey, who, when no one is watching (which is, like, nearly all the time, because, ew), unzips his human costume and lets his natural self, a slug who has only recently been released from slug jail for sweaty slug voyeurism, looks perplexed in the image, as if someone were trying to explain to him the health and social benefits of regular hygiene. Michael Tracey, the answer to the question "Which human being looks most like the pile of triceratops droppings from Jurassic Park" has no truth to share with women save this one: women should avoid Michael Tracey at all costs.
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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 23h
The extra "s" is for "super"!
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23h
I'm reminded of the case in 2018 where cops in California coerced a man into confessing that he'd killed his dad. The cops lied, saying they'd found a body and that they were going to kill his pet dog if he didn't confess. He attempted suicide. The "missing" dad was later found alive and well.
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Fontana pays nearly $900,000 for ‘psychological torture’ inflicted by police to get false confession
Detectives grilled Thomas Perez Jr. for 17 hours, deprived him of medications and threatened to have his dog killed if he didn’t confess to killing his father, who was actually alive.
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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kim Richards as Frankie Croyden in the movie Tuff Turf, being forced to call Morgan Hiller (James Spader) by her abusive ex Nick Haiser (Paul Mones) for the movie’s final showdown.
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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Okay, seriously, what the fuck is this?
The top of the Google results when I went looking to see just what Mamdani's tweet that mentioned the Talmud actually said (a search for "mamdani talmud"). This top search reasult appears to link to Mamdani's Twitter account ("NYCMayor" on "X"), then has a truncated header ("Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on ...") and then it has a vile lying antisemitic screed that ABSOLUTELY DID NOT COME FROM MAMDANI and I can only assume is some typical-for-Elon's-Nazi-website antisemitism someone wrote *about* Mamadani's post, but it's presented in the Google search results as if it's from Mamdani.

(text of the screed below, if you want to read it)
The Talmud teaches that the best of Gentiles should be killed, Jesus is boiling in excrement, and that non-Jewish souls are inferior and impure.
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Mamdani's post, linked from that vile preview, in full (but a screenshot, so it doesn't include the video). Text below:

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

Together, we will ensure Jewish New Yorkers are safe and celebrated. We will invest in their protection, their history, and their future.

Our safety and our thriving are tied together.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cruz could have just written "I don't really like writing or teaching much" instead of pulling inaccurate conclusions from articles he cites while extrapolating his (assumed) experience with AI at an elite school for all of education.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Team Animal Voice @tav4accmedicals.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#TuesdayCuteness "A love muffin w/ extra zoom" Snowbean nycacc.app#/browse/265640 #AdoptMe This happy, patient, tippy tap master lives in a Pop-up Crate, no Adoption Fee. NYCACC blames him for too much energy when he is released from his crate🙄
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
why this is notable: the alpr photos show martinez and ruiz in the 30 days *before* the crash in brighton park. during that time, neither was under investigation for a crime, but police were able to retrace their movements anyway in an attempt to fabricate pretense for criminal charges.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
DOJ has charged Wilber Garcés with felony assaulting, resisting, or impeding a federal officer, based on the allegation he struck an ICE officer with his sideview mirror when driving off after the initial traffic stop. He was then chased for 8 minutes, rammed, and then shot.
Image 1: the agent is standing in front of the driver’s side mirror, with the mirror at waist height.Image 2: the agent now has has hands on the car as it starts to move. The mirror appears to be very slightly in contact with his waist.Image 3: the agent has pulled his hips back and the mirror is no longer touching the agent.
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump & ICE have done this to 25,000 people & counting. The government is abducting our neighbors and disappearing them to places with abhorrent human rights records. Often, they’re stranded there without money or identity papers. These aren’t deportations - they’re renditions.
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 29/09/2026
Starting to suspect Conman’s team has given up and the’ve hit the open grift stage.
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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At the beginning of August, watch that Crow fly.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 27/09/2026
"Our internal polling indicates that football remains incredibly popular. Even the general idea of Charlie Brown successfully booting a football, which we concede has never come close to happening, nevertheless polls modestly well across most major neighborhood demographics." buff.ly/X2RjqP5
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“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party
“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...
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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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6:47 AM • 9/26/26 • 274K Views
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The actual, historic location of the Heartbreak Hotel was on the northwest side of Chicago, from a certain point of view. (Though one commenter says “not according to Ai.” The commentator doesn’t even have the courtesy to say it to my face so I can smack them in the face with a pie).
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Well yeah she's an adult
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Ben Schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Idk why Tommy Tuberville is so furryphobic, but i'm guessing Auburn's mascot Aubie the Tiger has some stories to tell about Tommy. Well, @davidjroth.bsky.social, what are you waiting for? Get down there.
the photo shows tommy tuberville and auburn mascot aubie the tiger hugging during tommy tuberville's coaching days.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why is no one in Congress retiring?
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cops put this woman in solitary for three days on the strength of Flock "evidence" that she had killed people in a hit and run. Her car, meanwhile, had zero visible damage. But cops told her the "damage" was consistent with the accident. They believed Flock over their own eyes.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every taxpayer, no matter your party, should be outraged by this. Your money is being used to fund campaign ads for Trump. It’s totally completely illegally. He’s stealing your money for his campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
nytimes.com
‘Love Me’ Ad Promotes Trump With Public Money Ahead of the Midterms
A disclaimer says the ad was paid for by the U.S. government, which could violate federal law.
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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Creating an AI flyer to spread the word of your white power rally is just putting a hat on a hat—specifically, a dunce cap on a dunce cap.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to 5 yrs in prison over a voting error, will end with an acquittal The wife of the current district attorney, who fought to keep her conviction in place, asked Crystal if she would consider voting for him
theguardian.com
Texas woman triumphs as court upholds acquittal in voting error case
Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
all these people sound like this:
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Gene Rayburn @generayburn.com · 09/03/2026
I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.
Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And here I thought Ivan Albright was long dead.
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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This isn’t really a “try” situation or even a “should”; it’s a “must.”
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Jeff @gojeffgo.com · 23/09/2026
Pretty good group costume idea: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Sheldon
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Cute Pets Boston @cutepetsboston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hi, I'm Carmelo 7mo! I'm a Labrador Retriever / Mixed looking for a forever home in Sterling, MA. Male Learn more and adopt me: sterlingshelter.org/pet-finder/#act… #AdoptDontShop #Boston #Sterling #DogsOfBluesky
Photo of Carmelo 7mo, a Labrador Retriever / Mixed available for adoption
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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“It’s not my fault because I told Grok to be as _______ as possible” will be the “mistakes were made” of the 21st century.
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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This thread makes me feel exactly the opposite of when I see a roll call of extinct species.
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Derek John Boczkowski @derekboczkowski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This and Nabiscoworld (wiffle ball!) used to dominate my slack time in my first office job.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Astonishing to see it even being discussed. One highly placed person told me they supported AI grading in large classes because “it’s better than nothing.” when I asked why the university couldn’t hire enough people to grade those students’ work he said “well that’s not realistic.”
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026
for your future voting knowledge, Gavin Newsom was central in pressuring the AGs to settle their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount:
deadline.com
Done! Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount agreed to settle an antitrust suit by a dozen State Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to its merger with WBD.
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