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Raoul Meyer

@mistermeyer.bsky.social
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Writing about civics and government; making things; dad & husband. Working with my brother on a documentary about American teachers. Yes, I did write all those Crashcourse history videos for John Green.

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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This NYT article is going to get a lot of attention, so here is my two cents: It should not surprise anyone that student achievement has declined since students are now asked to do much more in the same amount of time (or less). Consider how much more time it takes to use a computer than a pencil,
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
October will see the release of two of the movies I am most excited to see, both documentaries!
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Thing should have his own stand-alone MCU movie.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Take of the Day #2: Any education reform needs to start with doubling the number of teachers so that class size is 16-18 and each MS/HS teacher is responsible for 90 students MAX (+ pay them MIN $75K).That’s what rich people in cities like NYC are paying $75K per year for and what all kids deserve.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Take of the day #1: Billionaires pushing a.i. wake up every day knowing that nothing they do matters. Their money will keep growing regardless of their actions, they don’t help people, they don’t make anything useful. They want the rest of us to feel as empty and meaningless as they feel.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As my contribution to the Mamdani discourse, I’m going to leave this here: www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/why-do-...
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Why Do Urban Storefronts Stay Empty for So Long?
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Apropos of nothing in today’s news, it’s ok to forbid certain purchases and sales. You can’t buy or sell organs, or children, or certain drugs or weapons no matter how much money you have or what your politics are. Some prohibitions are good.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This Halloween I'm going to dress as a cartoonishly priapic soldier to make fun of Pete Hegseth. Who's with me?
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The new military fitness test:
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Trump lies again, offering impossible ‘dividend’ checks in desperate attempt to buy your vote” — this should be the headline.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day! If you find yourself tempted to complain about the job protections, wages, and benefits of unionized workers, take a breath and ask yourself, "Why don't I have those benefits, too?"
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My hot take of the day: We need to be talking more about Olivia Miles and the Minnesota Lynx.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We do not 'have to' embrace AI.
losingmyperspicacity.beehiiv.com
No, I don't have to 'embrace' AI
And neither do you
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"If I can pay for it I should have it" and "If I don't wan't to pay for it I shouldn't have to" are two sides of the same coin and that coin is the currency of the GOP realm.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I'm definitely not watching a speech by an addled dimwit who presided over the beginning of an epidemic that nearly killed him, passed massive tax give away to the rich and repeatedly blamed everything on his predecessor tell me that the ONLY reason he lost an election SIX YEARS ago was fraud.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I know it’s my Arsenal bias, but why not bring on Saka after the goal? He’s a better defender than Rogers who was moved to the left anyway. Too many center backs and not enough players defending at the top of the box where the danger came from.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The GOP should just put a magic 8 ball out to answer questions at confirmation hearings at this point.
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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com I am begging you to re-consider your editorial policies. Too many of your articles are so long and almost gleefully abstruse as to be nearly unreadable and frequently unpersuasive. If your goal is to persuade us that we need a new Reconstruction, hone your rhetoric.
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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Sigh: just because some Americans proclaimed it to be so, 'Murica was not actually independent until 3 Sept 1783 when the Treaty of Paris was signed
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Also, "semiquincentennial" is way too optimistic and less accurate than "250th anniversary" My 50th birthday was not my semicentennial. That's just dumb.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The U.S. celebrates independence on the wrong day. It should be celebrated on September 3, the date that the Treaty of Paris was signed. If the colonists had lost the war, the Declaration of Independence would be a footnote, and the U.S. would be Canada.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I truly believe that the normalization of nighttime bookstores would change the world.
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Richard de Nooy @richarddenooy.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This lunch includes all five of the main Dutch food groups: cheese, cucumber, geometry, boredom and sorrow, with most of the vitamin content provided by the soul-destroying view of endless flatness spilling off the far-flung horizon.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Along with John J. Cafaro, I need photos of Curtis E. Wood, the CEO of the "woman owned" company that resurfaced the reflecting pool for $14 million.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
petition to stop calling it the "MOU" and label it "Trump's Iran Deal," until it becomes an actual treaty or whatever it's going to be.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I stopped into two bookstores on the UWS today and neither had a display of LGBTQIA+ books for Pride. It's still June, right? What is going on?
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
What a contrast, in so many ways: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fmj...
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Bicentennial U.S.A. - circa 1976 film
YouTube video by Delaware Public Archives
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Mike Brown appreciation thread. I will never give credit to James Dolan for anything except hiring Mike Brown, and I’m not even sure how much that was him and how much was Leon Rose. In the future when books are written about this Knicks season, I hope that Brown gets the attention he
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I don’t want to hear anything about whatever Trump is doing for his birthday until tomorrow when we have some sense of how many people paid to watch his violence party.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Three years ago, when I turned 53 and realized that the Knicks hadn't won the championship in 50 years, I considered that it was a real possibility that they would never win it again in my lifetime. Thank you Coach Brown, Jalen, Josh, KAT, OG, Mikal, Deuce, Mitchell, Jose, Landry, and the rest.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Don't let it get lost in the joy that Mike Brown utterly out-coached Mitch Johnson over five games. That the Knicks could go 4-26 in the first half and still pull out a win, with KAT only scoring 2 points is incredible.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Any story about Musk becoming a trillionaire that doesn't start and end with this being evidence of the failure of capitalism is not worth reading. A system where markets efficiently allocated resources to where they are most desired would not allow for this.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Behind every historic come-from-29-points-down win is an equally historic lost-a-29-point-lead collapse.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Has anyone else noticed distinctly muted/missing pride displays at bookstores this year? Or is that just in NYC?
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Musk seems to mistake an increasing number of people wishing that he would die for people wishing all white people would. Nope, Elon, it’s just you.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
My take on the Knicks game: Bad refereeing stole it from the Knicks. Wemby should have been ejected in the first for violent conduct. Castle’s block on Brunson, also flagrant. Brunson’s closeout, not flagrant. Knicks in the penalty for 8 minutes in the 4th and Spurs get 10 free throws? Bullshit.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This "who is a New Yorker" discourse is getting out of hand. Today my daughter (who was born in New York City and never lived anywhere else) asked me (who was born in New York City and lived here for 48/55 years) what makes a New Yorker. I said that anyone who moves here intending to stay (not
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The fact that Trump is coming to New York to fuck up the Knicks game not only shows how detached from reality he is, it also shows that no one around him has the ability to point out what a terrible idea this is. Nothing good will come of this for him. Nothing.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Maybe one of the best things about knowing some history is that it provides ready answers to the question: “but how can we live without this [new technology].” Sometimes, as with vaccines and clean water, the answer is “we can’t,” but not always.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
All these macho troglodytes need to take their misogyny to a place like this and get offline:
Image of Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble at a meeting of the Loyal Order of the Water Buffaloes.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
If Trump comes to a game at MSG and the Knicks lose the championship, he will be blamed more than OJ for the Knicks losing in '94. And if he shows up and they win, he will try to take credit and none will be given to him.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
James Dolan could go a long way towards rehabilitating his NYC reputation by banning Trump from any Knicks games. He probably won’t and he should share in the opprobrium that Trump will rightly receive at MSG.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We need more art classes in schools to make visible the combination of dedication, time, and talent that is required to become proficient at pretty much anything of value.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Has anyone studied whether it is more efficient and effective to modify behavior rather than adding personnel to solve a problem? If my house is messy, I can work to develop habits to keep it clean, or I can hire someone to clean it. Which strategy works better? One is certainly cheaper.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I'm pretty far from being a "decline of western civilization" guy, but remember when rich people patronized Michelangelo and Bernini? Now they throw their money at Bari Weiss.
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I propose that we begin using the term "bossism" to describe the form of rule that most closely resembles the relationship of a boss, particularly a CEO, to workers, because that seems the best way to link Trump, Musk/Thiel et al, and the Ellisons into a single conceptual framework.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 03/06/2026
82-0 is the basketball game for our times: aftermath.site/82-0-free-bask...
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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
After watching this sickening farce of an administration approve one incompetent, venal, toady after another, I don't EVER want to hear a Republican talk about meritocracy again. These cretins are proof that hard work and expertise are meaningless compared to sucking up to power.
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