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John M. Fredericks

@johmattfred.bsky.social
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ASU ed policy PhD student • education writing in Newsweek, Hechinger Report, Clarion Ledger, and others • creative writer, sort of • link below 👇 linktr.ee/johnmattfred

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Maybe he signed it with autopen www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
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Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.
The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
This is a good example of how Trump’s obsession with exaggerated/fake news forms his initial point of view on a subject and then, when confronted with actual facts, he’s basically forced to change course on a major policy initiative. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Trump to Resume Sending Weapons to Ukraine
The U.S. will send additional defensive arms because Moscow is hitting Kyiv “very hard,” the president said.
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
America every two years
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a close up of a man with a beard says to war
ALT: a close up of a man with a beard says to war
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Figured it was always Haley Barbour
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Gods country is the rooftop bar in Nashville where he was arrested for throwing a chair off the ledge www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
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Morgan Wallen abruptly leaves 'SNL' stage: 'Get me to God's country'
Country singer Morgan Wallen has sparked backlash after abruptly exiting the stage at the end of "SNL," failing to stick around for the full signoff.
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The right’s obsession with holding onto their guns in case they need to defend themselves against a hostile government is a misrecognition of their true desirec which is to facilitate violence on others through a hostile government
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Y’all acting like you’ve never accidentally added a journalist to your conspiracy to commit war crimes group chat.
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Me in the national security group chat
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This is an absolute gem from this article. “We’re actually quite busy. We’re actually doing our job,” said Geskin. Medical doctors and scientific researchers “are trying to save lives. We don’t have the time to ruminate on all this.” www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Faculty-on-Faculty War Erupts at Columbia as Trump Targets Elite School
Humanities professors clash with scientists over the handling of campus protests.
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
“Nobody is using Microsoft Teams!!” is how you know a CEO is in charge.
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Monday: “Trump does insane thing.” Tuesday: “Can Trump really do insane thing? Experts weigh in.” Wednesday: “Judge temporarily blocks insane thing.” Thursday: “Inside the 24 hours where insane thing was in place.” Friday: “Insane thing: a retrospective.”
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olivia stowell @oliviastowell.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
baby’s first polemic! i wrote about why i object to the term “the female gaze” for @mid-theory.bsky.social’s forum on the gaze 👀 mid-theory.com/2025/02/05/a...
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Against the Female Gaze
To my mind, what we need is not a “female” gaze, but a feminist one. I have a confession: I’m getting sick of all the cultural conversation about “girlhood.”  Perhaps this is a bad position fo…
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
A Different Man is a terrific, weird, dissonant movie. Loving this Sebastian Stan career 180.
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DarrenHumanity @darrenhumanity.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Many stopped waiting and hoping in 2020. Some did before the first of two impeachments. I did when he published that newspaper ad condemning five innocent young men. We need to be honest about why others still support this incompetent, divisive, lying hypocrite. That is the real question.
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
We keep waiting — hoping — that somehow Trump will act presidential in the face of a tragedy. This day will never come. His playbook was and is race baiting. Nothing more.
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The thing about Trump is he provides equal opportunity to all grifters even remotely close to his orbit. That has always involved the press, no matter whether they fall on the ideological spectrum.
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Dithering over whether this was or wasn’t does not dilute its meaning to those who are always looking to the trump camp for affirmation.
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
This is absolutely both a failure to communicate to the general public with narrative-driven arguments that humanize data combined with a profession that insists it’s a hard science and is impervious to critique. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/b...
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Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence?
Economists have long helped to shape policy on issues like taxes and health care. But flawed forecasts and arcane language have cost them credibility.
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I was out in the backyard when the local wolf chorus started up. Such an amazing sound. There was one calling from north east of my cottage and the pack was answering from the southwest. I apologize for my breathing. I had to run into the house and find my phone. I’m still vibrating.
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Network for Public Education @network4pubed.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Letter: School vouchers undermine public education www.inforum.com/opinion/letters/let… #SchoolVoucherScam
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Letter: School vouchers undermine public education
Janet Midthun writes, "For those North Dakotans that live in rural communities, the question of “school choice” is moot – who would send their kid 100 miles to the closest private school?"
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olivia stowell @oliviastowell.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Mid Theory Collective (@mid-theory.bsky.social) is BACK from our holiday hiatus, with an absolute powerhouse of a piece from Sarah Sgro and Mike Walton on digital afterlife services and the economics of grief in the digital age: mid-theory.com/2025/01/08/m...
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Mourning On-Demand: Digital Afterlife Services and Lamentation Economics
When the dead become avatars for the living they are always present, but as on-demand services rather than messy intrusions, as applications to open or close.  Last year your mother died–now, …
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Who’s seen CONCLAVE? Apparently it’s triggering Megyn Kelly on the other place.
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
From avocado toast to millennials all want a big house, more paternalism from baby boomers. One thing I will say about this essay is maybe speak to one or two people who don’t live in NYC or LA. www.wsj.com/economy/what...
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Essay | What Happens When a Whole Generation Never Grows Up?
As American 30-somethings increasingly bypass the traditional milestones of adulthood, economists are warning that what seemed like a lag may in fact be a permanent state of arrested development.
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
In three years I need the pop tarts bowl to be a playoff game
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Oh you mean people who are acting…deplorable?
Elon Musk learning things.
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
I wrote a small poem about eating disorders for Thimble Lit Mag, which you can read below 👇 This has been a subject of interest of mine for a long time but I rarely figure out a way to write about it that makes any sense. www.thimblelitmag.com/2024/10/10/n...
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Naked Parrot
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
New poem in Assignment titled “Your Father’s DUI” on page 30 of their newest issue! heyzine.com/flip-book/c3...
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Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Thanks to @thimblelitmag.bsky.social for publishing my poem, “Naked Parrot,” in her fall issue! You can read it here 👇 www.thimblelitmag.com/2024/10/10/n...
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Naked Parrot
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Every once in a while you get a good Thursday night football game
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Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
My story "Souvlaki," published in New Letters this fall, can be read here. It's a tight 3k words about winter, grief, and food-delivery anxiety. Check it out: www.newletters.org/souvlaki-by-...
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“Souvlaki,” by Christopher Coake – New Letters
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Twitter/X truly is a wild place. Some dude on there just tweeted like 20 threads about how the Iowa Writer’s Workshop is a CIA controlled government conspiracy.
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
A little Sunday reminder ICMYI — my essay on the cultural production of Donald Trump is up @mid-theory.bsky.social 👇 mid-theory.com/2024/12/09/a...
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Ali Abbasi’s ‘The Apprentice’ and the Myth-Making Machine of American Democracy
The American biopic offers us linearity, a simplified relationship to time and history. The biopic is a staple of contemporary American cinema. In 2024 alone, moviegoers have been treated to biopic…
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olivia stowell @oliviastowell.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
this week was a powerful one for @mid-theory.bsky.social — featuring essays, reviews, and interviews on: —Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice —Rage Against the Machine and the Zapatistas —iCarly —Musical theater in Germany —Fragrance we have the range if i do say so myself 🙂‍↕️
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Vincent Denis @vjdenis.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Bel essai sur The Apprentice et sa rupture avec les codes du biopic, ou comment faire l’histoire du phénomène Trump et les US.
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
That was my favorite part of the Grundrisse www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/p...
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Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Defense pick, says allowing gay troops to serve openly reflects a Marxist agenda | CNN Politics
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, has repeatedly criticized policies allowing gay people to serve openly in the US military, calling them part of a “Marxist” ...
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Love @mid-theory.bsky.social — give them a follow if you don’t already
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olivia stowell @oliviastowell.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
happy two month anniversary to @mid-theory.bsky.social! i'm so proud of what we've already accomplished in these first weeks, and excited for all we have in the pipeline for the coming weeks (&months&years). can't say enough how grateful i am for the support so many have given to MTC. mid-theory.com
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Mid Theory Collective
the contemporary and its curiosities
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olivia stowell @oliviastowell.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
reupping for the afternoon: @johmattfred.bsky.social for @mid-theory.bsky.social on THE APPRENTICE: "Abbasi shows us the American myth-making machine at work: we watch as history, with all its discontinuities, is smoothed and sutured into a coherent cultural story" mid-theory.com/2024/12/09/a...
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Ali Abbasi’s ‘The Apprentice’ and the Myth-Making Machine of American Democracy
The American biopic offers us linearity, a simplified relationship to time and history. The biopic is a staple of contemporary American cinema. In 2024 alone, moviegoers have been treated to biopic…
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olivia stowell @oliviastowell.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
so so so great to work with you, and so thrilled to see this live today so everyone can read it! and on the day that Stan & Strong got their golden globe nominations for the film too!
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Thank you @oliviastowell.bsky.social for the kind words!
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Really happy to have my new essay on photography in Ali Abbasi’s, The Apprentice, published by @mid-theory.bsky.social and thanks a ton to @oliviastowell.bsky.social whose revisions — and team — helped improve this piece A LOT! Read below 👇 mid-theory.com/2024/12/09/a...
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Ali Abbasi’s ‘The Apprentice’ and the Myth-Making Machine of American Democracy
The American biopic offers us linearity, a simplified relationship to time and history. The biopic is a staple of contemporary American cinema. In 2024 alone, moviegoers have been treated to biopic…
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
This week's education digest, including @thejosevilson.com @nancyflanagan.bsky.social @flbaloney.bsky.social @benjaminjriley.bsky.social @audreywatters.bsky.social @masspolprofmo.bsky.social and more curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2024/12/icym...
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ICYMI: Blizzard Edition (12/8)
The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Seventh OT.
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Well…
S.5348 - A bill to abolish the department of education
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The Chronicle has been publishing a lot of these op-eds about how academe is out of touch lately. Deresiewicz offers no evidence of the rampant progressivism he claims is occurring on campuses. I’m shocked it took him until the end of the essay to plug his book. www.chronicle.com/article/acad...
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The Politics of the Academy Have Been Defeated
Americans are fed up, and not just people who voted for Trump.
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Brace for impact. www.ft.com/content/02ed...
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Coffee futures hit 47-year high on global supply and EU law fears
Commercial buyers ‘go into panic mode’ to secure high-quality arabica beans
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Twitter is offering me 40% off to subscribe to premium lol
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John M. Fredericks @johmattfred.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Save democracy?
NYTimes headline: What Bondi Might Do as Attorney General
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