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Foster care alumnus and adoptee. Attorney and union member. Chess player and baker in my free time

Alexandria, Virginia
Joined May 2016
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begging twitter men to stop thinking they're the forefathers of some lineage that will go down in history and move their families to remote areas where they won't provide for them and get. a. job.
My dear friends and fellow radicals, the day finally came where I'm genuinely in need of one of these. I aimed for the least amount to get us over the hump. Any help would be appreciated, especially in sharing this. Pray much and suffer well 💪⚜️ gofund.me/56f2dcd37
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Stuff Chris Hedges and Ralph Nader were saying in the Obama Era now coming from a Democratic Senator from Texas. We have entered the new world.
James Talarico traces 50 years of trickle-down back to one 1971 document, the Powell memo, a corporate blueprint to buy power “In fact, you can, you can pinpoint this one document called the Powell memo, 1971.” “But if you read this memo, it's basically a blueprint for how corporate interests can start to dismantle the Great Society and the New Deal” “They're going to spend massive amounts of money in our politics, buying politicians in both parties, elevate corporate voices in media, appoint sympathetic judges.” “And that has really been the story of the last 50 years in this country, last five decades.” w/ @jamestalarico
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Senator-elect James Talarico cameos during tonight’s #SNL cold open!
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Como no me voy a sentir intelectualmente superior a esta peña
Me acabo de enterar de que los niños abortados pueden no ir al Cielo porque se quedan con odio y rencor vagando por ahí.
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Abdul El-Sayed: I am going to be JD Vance’s greatest nightmare and bully in the Senate. Dr. Annie Andrews: Hold my beer.
I mean this with every ounce of respect that you deserve, @JDVance FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF
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The entire point of congestion pricing is that people hate it enough to take alternative means of transportation
The sentiment is mocked pretty heavily by urbanist twitter, but Long Islanders (including many people in Brooklyn and Queens) *hate* congestion pricing and the dezoning attempts put forth by Hochul.
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“ruin the texture” wrong “make the taste worse” wrong “lower the nutritional value” don’t care and also probably wrong
by cooking a carrot you can ruin the texture, make the taste worse and lower the nutritional value. what a steal !
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I suspect that ship sailed
Replying to @mushycrouton
She isn't going to notice you, Sam. 🙄
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FUCK I SAW MAMDANI AND EL-SAYED YAOI ART ON MY FEED BUT IT AUTO-REFRESHED
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“Under Woke 2, a queer woman will be the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court” sounds like a shitpost but now it’s just straight up fucking true
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He has to swear her in. 🤭
I mean this with every ounce of respect that you deserve, @JDVance FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF
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Raul retweeted
It’s so clear that AI-generated content is a supply in search of demand. People want things made by other people If you, like Buzzfeed Jonah, have become AI red pilled, do us all a favor and go get a tech job creating AI dashboards that show you how to read your other dashboards
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Not going to litigate this, but in general, and specifically in the case of a PhD, "you can just teach yourself" is utter, complete, dangerous, right-wing, anti-education horseshit ultimately intended to attack civil society at its roots.
Also, anything you do in a PhD, you can do in your own time. With platforms like substack, research, reading, reflection, and reaching out to audiences have become democratised and widely available. The PhD is about credentialism, membership of a club deemed prestigious, baubles.
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Raul retweeted
anyone who tells you that reading or writing substacks is the same kind of intellectual engagement as a phd is lying to you lmao
Also, anything you do in a PhD, you can do in your own time. With platforms like substack, research, reading, reflection, and reaching out to audiences have become democratised and widely available. The PhD is about credentialism, membership of a club deemed prestigious, baubles.
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I would expect a professor to know that graduate students are essentially junior faculty/research fellows. Tuition remission is offered by every serious programme, and the number that the students aren't paying is entirely irrelevant.
Does this guy realize he's getting a Harvard PhD education for free (tuition is 60k per year at Harvard, and most PhD students don't pay it)? Does this guy realize the extensive margin effect of these strikes? At UCI, PhD enrollment fell 30.3% from F22 to F23 after the strike.
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normal person: “oh wow nice grilled cheese sandwich!”
How am i supposed to react when my non vegan friends show me pics of stuff they cook like "look what i made!" Genuinely what am i supposed to do
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her kid can never ask her for homework help💔💔
Replying to @aeryonxo
Your dumb af to is sending a letter to someone
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I’m going to write more about this, but everyone saying Texas went blue because of transplants is totally missing the point that a lot of these new residents are anti-social Republican freaks from California doing politics tourism
I've never necessarily been directly affected by an election. But after Texas turning blue we just had 3 people back out of buying our house. All from California all said we see the writing on the wall and can't live in another place like Cali. Hope the socialist talking points are worth it.
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trust me bro it's gonna cure cancer bro just 100 more datacentres bro I swear just 1 trillion more investment bro honest it's gonna cure cancer bro
Slowing down AI is not just about waiting a few more years for better tech. It means losing millions of people who will die from diseases that AI could have cured.
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Annie Andrews is the first good person SCs class 2 seat has ever elected.
Annie Andrews now holds a seat that was occupied by John C. Calhoun, Benjamin "Pitchfork" Tillman, and Strom Thurmond.
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