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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I guess the NYTimes can't print "free pussy in alum pu" (because readers are fragile flowers), but does anything think that describing that Snapchat post as "encouraging [other frat members] to enter the bedroom where Jane Doe was undressed" is an accurate summary of its meaning?

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I can't wait for Ezra Klein to have Shapiro back on his show so he can not ask him about this piece of shit film.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

100% The Roberts court, using the shadow docket, just sanctioned the rendition of immigrants to third party countries they have never known and where they will likely be imprisoned, tortured or killed. Fuck John Roberts' vacation. Fuck civility. It's the only accountability he will ever know.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

100%. The two "good wars" in our history are the ones he think we fought on the wrong side of.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Brings to mind the Britishism, "it's all gone horribly pear shaped."

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I like and respect your work, but I'm thinking maybe serial mass murder isn't a great subject for humor.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I guess if your vision of the future includes exhausting the freshwater supply in order to cool your servers, this makes some sense.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The education corrollary is obvious. Students don't want a lesson plan or feedback on their work if it was generated by a bot. Education is about human interaction.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't know whether AI is involved, but the number of scam invites I'm getting from old acquaintances/friends I've lost touch with has exploded recently. And it's always a gut punch because my first reaction is always, "how nice to hear from them!" And then I realize that they were hacked.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Surely someone can get his license plate number from that video. . .

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The man doesn't know that "to the victor goes the spoils" international law, which very clearly requires that an aggressive victor return the spoils. (Hague convention, Art. 46 - "Private property cannot be confiscated.")

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When we visited our neighborhood school when my daughter was 4, every classroom was integrated (the neighborhood hadn't yet gentrified), except the G&T classroom, which was 19 white kids and 2 Asian kids (I counted). I wondered what message was received by the other kids in the school.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Red coats, communists, Islamists. . . hmmm. One group of enemies notably missing in that list (and the one most point to as the enemy in "the Good War").

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Why is a 5 year old *doing homework*? I'm not liking that, either. 5 year olds should be playing. That's their homework.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Maybe depends on where you live a bit. Statistically. . . .

CDC chart showing flu activity highest during month February, followed by December, then January/March, averaged out since 1982.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

But . . . at least some doctors will tell you to wait a few weeks, since you want the vaccine fresh further into the winter months. Definitely put it in your calendar, tho!

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sheeran is an international superstar, and the rest of the world has woken up to the genocide. He has to worry about an international boycott. Maura Healey worries about Boston. fin

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The anti-genocide forces have made great progress in terms of lowering public support for pro-Israel/AIPAC forces, but centrist politicians like Maura Healey aren't going to challenge Kraft on this. You're right that structural forces matter, but appeals to the conscience can work, too. 1/

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

that "clip" is nearly 7 hours long.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

AI is entirely antithetical to the project of education, because the project of education is learning, and AI does the learning for you. The forklift at the gym is a tired analogy, but it's accurate.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

100%. "Liberals" aka centrists like Klein, Leonhardt and Yglesias are still telling us Dems need to be moderate on immigration, not talk about routes to naturalization, only about securing the border. Meanwhile, we have actual gestapo (now with lethal shock gloves!) and concentration camps.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

He just wishes he had enough facial hair to grow the toothbrush mustache.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social 100% this piece. Ken Martin epitomizes the old, broken digital fundraising strategy, while Ben Wikler is the organizer. It was a disaster to choose Martin over Wikler. Why haven't the Dems changed horses? Wikler clearly wants the job.

nytimes.com

Opinion | Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Organizers?

Democrats are going to have to organize voters — not just fund-raise off them.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I don't understand how any elected official who signs an NDA for anything, but especially a data center deal, expects to win the next election. It should be an obvious litmus test for voters - has your representative agreed to keep you in the dark?

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Making an exception from my "no posting, only replies" policy to urge everyone who is wondering what the Tate brothers are about to read Heidi Blake's long article in the New Yorker. A judge in Florida is deciding whether to release them on bail, and I hope she's read it. @heidiblake.bsky.social

newyorker.com

Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse

How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

2/ So he challenged the Great Neck parents, would you be willing to switch budgets with the Bronx schools, if the spending doesn't matter? Like I said, it's great to have quantitative data to make the point. But everyone already knew it was true.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Quantitative data is great, for sure. But I remember 30 years ago, after Jonathan Kozol's Savage Inequalities was published (in which he compared the per pupil spending of public schools in Great Neck v. the Bronx), when the same arguments were made that school spending didn't affect outcomes. 1/

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yes - DSA and organizing are an overlapping Venn diagram.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"I want to tell you a story," Adams opened. "Is the story true?" a heckler responded.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Owners of >$5mill homes can afford to hire someone to put the paperwork together for them.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Well, yes, but they will then fall back to "wait for the general election. When he loses, we'll have a giant told-you-so moment." And I'll confess to being a bit nervous about that, though it wouldn't make me vote for Stevens if I lived in Michigan.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I think viewers of these shows view the pundits like coaches of professional teams who give each other advice as though they were coaching the other team. Or, at least, that's how the producers of these shows hope viewers see them. But it's ridiculous, as Hamilton makes clear.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

disagree. Here in NYS (where I’m a recently retired HS principal), we banned cell phones 3 years ago and everyone agrees it was the best thing we’ve done. You can put some genies back in the bottle.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Dem governors need to be telling their Rep. counterparts that if they don't speak out, the same rules will apply when a Dem is president.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

”AI’s arrival in the classroom” is the fumble.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The piece makes a great point - these "reforms" require time intensive activities by teachers to be effective. The problem is that rather than make classes smaller, the solution we're being offered is increased use of AI to provide the "individual attention" students need. By a robot.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Can't find the clip, but many years ago, Robin Williams - maybe on the tonight show - ad-libbed a response to then Chief Justice Rhenquist, telling him he'd "have to take the hood off his robe." There are 6 of them, now.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

2/ He's apologizing because he got caught, and he's been caught a few times. Not great. But the Fetterman-esque approach would be to refuse to apologize at all, no? Is it not true that his policies are inclusive? It's the refusal to acknowledge the other part of him that I'm noting, is all.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

If you would prefer Collins to a Democrat - even one as poor as Fetterman - I think we'll agree to disagree. But as herky-jerky as Platner is - and again, my main point is that I don't think anyone can say with any confidence what he'll be like in office - his apologies aren't bad. 1/

wmtw.com

'I'm endeavoring to improve': Graham Platner apologizes for using slur in interview

The candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine was quoted using a slur against people with intellectual disabilities.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

With anybody adjacent to adjacent to adjacent to Trumpworld, it's cash up front. The Iranians are catching on.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

How? Seriously. I find this fascinating. I skeeted criticism at Platner about a month ago when he went on the right wing podcasts and got slammed by his supporters. Now I suggest he's more complicated than obvious Fetterman.2 and get slammed by his haters.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I'm really not that interested in defending him. I stopped promoting him when the tattoo stuff came out. It's definitely problematic. I just don't think it's a foregone conclusion that he's Fetterman redux, as though there's no data to the contrary. Anyway, the solution is to vote for Mills?

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Yeah. Either his "lawyers" are the stupidest folks around (for letting him file this suit) or they hate him. Both are possible. He's walking across a yard full of rakes, blindfolded. And probably drunk.

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Guthrie'sGuitar @modernthaddeus.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

But so many comments just ignore the OTOH and assume he'll be another Fetterman, calling anyone who doesn't agree 100% an idiot. They may turn out to be right! But they may not! And my understanding of the polls is that it's him or Collins, and is another Fetterman worse than Collins?

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