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MAGA activists are criticizing Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s inclusion of a white man in her Arkansas political ad—a lurid reminder of how influential identitarianism has become in segments of the American right, @dgraham.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/BYdEcwp8 📸: Markus Schreiber / AP

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"We are headed in a direction where what comes after Trump...It’s going to be even nastier, it’s going to be even more corrupt, it’s going to be even more hateful. You can lose people by behaving this way. And Texas GOP is showing that." — Alan Elrod, political theorist 🧾 t2m.co/RvmBhCY

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Transcript: Fox Drops Brutal Poll on Trump as GOP Panics: “Wake Up!”

As the Trump-GOP position worsens, a political theorist explains why Trump-MAGA’s corrupt and depraved misrule has created space for a values-based Democratic politics to emerge.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Most schools note an improvement, but it's unlikely that results will be "amazing".

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I will defend their inability to address an envelope. I haven't done that in 20 years. It's almost an obsolete skill.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's such a moronic claim. And even if it were true, there's the glaring challenge of succession. How do you ensure the next dictator is benevolent?

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To be fair, people often have wildly incoherent belief systems.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You mean the humanities, not liberal arts. Liberal arts includes, for instance, computer science and other STEM subjects. Still, I'm baffled that people advance this argument for the humanities; it's the source of many of the worst ideas, as well as the good ones.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Some argue that these rectum stories were spread to tarnish the gay community, like the oft-debunked story of gerbils.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Most other glues don't bond instantly, though. All the ones that do come in tiny tubes. Because they don't last, I suppose.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It was instantly implausible to me: crazy glue comes in very tiny tubes.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yep and by doing that, it lends credibility to the Republican claim that "something must be done". What must be done is for them to stop lying.

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peteworld.bsky.social @peteworld.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

that distrust didn't come from nowhere. It was started and is spread by baseless fraud claims from Republicans, and this WaPo piece leaves that out ... it's missing the central part of the story.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Perhaps, but the defining characteristic of the religious right is that they are *right*, not that they are religious.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Utterly wasted as a SC justice. Aggressive, competent, patriotic AGs are hard to find.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No, but he should be concerned about crazed, knife-wielding MAGA folk.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I get the impression that a significant portion of the population is deeply disturbed in some way and it's only with the advent of social media that these folk have found others like themselves.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, I don't see it either, but there are millions who obviously find his personality attractive.

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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Corrupt taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You mean promising not to do stuff you have no opportunity to do?

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The article mentions one of the pedagogy experts I mentioned, Carl Hendrick. It's slightly concerning that he might be sacrificing his reputation to be involved with this by sipping a bit of the Kool-aid.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not sure what's describe is totally discovery learning; it *sounds* more like students are to search out sources of explicit instruction. Still not good. However, the fact they they told to figure out for themselves what are reliable sources of information could be seen as discovery learning.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The pedagogy experts I mentioned are very much *against* discovery learning, so I'd be surprised if that were true. I would think discovery learning would even be hard to implement with AI.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

To be fair, humans at McDonald's screw up my order almost every time. I use the kiosk or I don't eat there.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm also skeptical of Alpha schools, but, to be fair, they are using well known experts in pedagogy to help with curriculum design.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ugh, so many questions, complicated by the husband being transgender, because there are questions you're not supposed to ask. So the husband is a biological female: where did the three children come from?

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Chait admits the defense of meritocracy wasn't genuine in that very paragraph. Perhaps his choice of "forthright" wasn't appropriate, but the sense of the word doesn't necessarily include the notion of genuineness, but rather "direct and unambiguous".

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He admits the defense of meritocracy wasn't genuine in that very paragraph. Perhaps his choice of "forthright" wasn't appropriate, but the sense of the word doesn't necessarily include the notion of genuineness, but rather direct and unambiguous.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sure, but not wherever they want and not doing whatever they want, particularly on property allocated by the University.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Seems clear to me that immigrants don't consider themselves to be an identity group. Lots of immigrants embraced MAGA to varying degrees.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They'll fail because it's a stupid idea, but they could succeed in destroying the government. We'd end up with a new one, but probably a much worse one, because we had wiser men 250 years ago.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And the Heritage Foundation is doing the work of the Tech Oligarchs, who want to replace the government with a network of corporations.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That would be 77 million Americans and there are about 350 million of us. Your statement is an example of bigotry, something that actually characterizes Trump and his fans.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Weird how you think all Americans are like Trump.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

True, but there are a lot of vertical strokes crammed together and a quick glance could see an "m". I think everyone in this thread would have misread it had they not been prepared.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My bet is that most cursive writers would misread it and see the more familiar word. We didn't because we were forewarned about the confusion.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You don't write a b or h that way in cursive, though. This is more a reading comprehension thing: even if you read it as "Obama", you should stop and think about whether that made sense in context.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Maybe it's a Schmitt-related joke.

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Taylor Grayson @taylorgrayson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That's not how you form a cursive b or h, though.

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