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Sharon Manna

@profmanna.bsky.social
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Canadian-American. Community College professor and dean; Harry Potter nerd; mediocre golfer; sports geek. Stuck in Texas. Confusing the algorithm.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h
More Democrats need to be telling the online casino owners behind Polymarket to shut the fuck up
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 13h
that's not an American eagle, this is
coat of arms found on the seal of the Executive Office of the President of the United States and the flag of the Secretary of State. Eagle has curved wings that point up, an olive branch, and arrows.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“There are always people who profit from war or government policies. The difference is that the people profiting should not be the people making the decisions to make that policy. And that is what is happening here...” www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...
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Jared Kushner’s company has large stake in firm with Israeli military links | CNN
At the same time Jared Kushner has negotiated in the war in Gaza, his company has held the largest stake in a firm backing businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h
Could do without another "The Man in the High Castle" reboot if I'm being honest
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Sharon Manna @profmanna.bsky.social · 14h
Keep going, sweetie, you're doing great!
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Senator Schmitt-Head, "I'd like to solve it. The Atlanta Hawks"
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this is why Veep had to go off the air. it couldn’t compete with real life anymore.
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
One of my formative political experiences is the anger that I felt when, after Clinton achieved robust short-term federal fiscal health, every GOP-run state used the opportunity to cut their taxes, *then* Republicans gutted federal revenue the moment they had the chance.
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Sharon Manna @profmanna.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A complete lack of self-respect.
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Evan Procknow @eprocknow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is a sick joke
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer
College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dismantling ICE means dismantling the surveillance regime that powers it.
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I never thought I’d see the U.S. government try to whitewash Richard Nixon’s crimes & defend his profound abuse of the presidency. But here we are. Crooks protecting crooks.
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Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rare you get live visuals of state capture.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Much needed reality check on Chris Rufo. The mainstream media gave this guy oxygen, treating him like he was raising legit questions when he's always been the nasty racist you see exposed here.
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Sharon Manna @profmanna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do-nothings
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Connie Schultz @connieschultz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The first guy in this ad reminds me of my straight-talking dad. I love him for that.
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Sharon Manna @profmanna.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ooh ooh, lemme guess: Starlink and Cybertanks.
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Being asked to share a stage with JD is officially the GOP equivalent of testing positive for mono.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026
i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker
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Sharon Manna @profmanna.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No big events coming up, so this will only drop.
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Andrew Sinclair @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hegseth is attacking our country more effectively than he is attacking Iran.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
everyone knows the most important thing about a military officer is if he has a beard which is why Grant so famously was a worse general than McClellan
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.
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Sharon Manna @profmanna.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SCOTUS thinks it's acceptable to send people to indefinite detention and torture in countries not their own....until they get around to it. Maddening. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid
senator schmitt and his two idiot staffers after making a generational fuck up
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
absolutely gutting
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Sharon Manna @profmanna.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Vouchers don't work. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts (Gift Article)
Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?
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Sharon Manna @profmanna.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There has to be reckoning for this.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They're arguing that the Trump name is so valuable it alone will pull the Kennedy Center back to financial success and (gestures broadly) what the fuck are you talking about?
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New Democratic candidate talking point just dropped.
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Sharon Manna @profmanna.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All. Of. This. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Opinion | I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This. (Gift Article)
A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.
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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m sorry. Is the message “invest in us OR we’ll destroy humanity” or “invest in us AND we’ll destroy humanity“?
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 28/09/2026
Every day, this administration continues to target LGBTQIA+ kids. It’s incredibly harmful and does the exact opposite of what our shared goal should be: protecting kids. The LGBTQIA+ community and all our students deserve better.
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Sharon Manna @profmanna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just cartoonish levels of corruption. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
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Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Supreme Court literally implied that he is immune to any kind of legal limit - or sanction, at least.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Mike Rogers and Donald Trump think that their proximity to power is worth more than your ability to live your life. It’s why we have to stand up to Bad Men…
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/09/2026
Beyond the fact that it’s incredibly illegal and corrupt to use taxpayer dollars to run political ads on television, there’s another problem with re-running old ads like this: the messaging only reminds everyone what a fraud you are.
Black-and-white image of Donald Trump standing in a hallway from a recent ad he ran on TV with taxpayer funds. White subtitle text on a black bar at the bottom displays what Trump’s voiceover says in the ad: “we will expel the warmongers from our government.”
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Dan Wilbur @danwilbur.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Release the essays, Cornell. We want to see how persuasive they are about being spared expulsion or arrest for something we’d use to block visas for whole countries if we heard this happened there.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people have no idea what’s happening in America right now. And, they don’t care. White House Deputy Chief of Staff post last night ⬇️
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So is he just going to keep running ads until election day and then courts rule they are illegal sometime in December?
Frame from another illegal Trump ad featuring his constipated face in black and white and captioned Paid for by the US Government.
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screaming until the void tells me to shut up @mutedscreaming.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'll never forget the student journalists at Columbia who continued to cover the university bringing in an army of cops to dismantle the Pro-Palestine student encampments. Even when the folks at the SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM were prohibited from covering it, they stayed and kept covering. Amazing kids
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess
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