Steve Daugherty retweeted
It can take time and effort and fancy footwork. But addressing people as persons can be done. (visual provided by @stepd0c) daviddark.substack.com/p/the…
"The Country" is an abstraction you can tell yourself you love, and make sacrifices for, in a bid to excuse your material mistreatment of actual human beings. And many of those human beings will thank you for it.
Steve Daugherty retweeted
I have two MAs and a PhD. I have a book coming out with Yale University Press and another from Lexington Press. I have my dream job at a University, where I get to teach great students and do philosophy and cultural studies with amazing colleagues … all because I am religious.
Steve Daugherty retweeted
This afternoon, three Democrats in the NC Senate - @waddellsenate40, @PaulLowejr and former minority leader @DanBlueNC - joined all Republicans to vote for this outrageously corrupt bill.
The literal former president of @DukeEnergy's North Carolina operations, @SenPaulNewton (R-Duke Energy), is sponsoring a bill in the NC Senate that would not only allow Duke to hike customers' rates in advance for work they might finish in the future; but also eliminate all of the carbon reduction goals the company agreed to just 4 years ago.
Duke Energy, NC Republicans, and @RoyCooperNC negotiated a hard deal in 2021 for North Carolina's energy future. It was a bipartisan compromise, where no one got everything, but everyone got something. Now, Republicans and @DukeEnergy are tearing up the deal and going back on it.
This should be a lesson to anyone considering doing other deals with these guys in the future.
Having taken on this precise assignment, I second…
Steve Daugherty retweeted
Because the media is already getting everything as wrong as they possibly can, let's go over what actually happened with Colombia yesterday.
Under Biden/Harris, Colombia accepted more than 400 deportation flights, 120 just in 2024 alone. These were normal commercial planes. 1/
When my kids were teenagers, their writing, texts to the family, etc had eloquence & thoughtful turns of phrase that wowed me. They sounded attuned & experienced beyond their years.
It helps to recall this when I see articulate hate online; One can speak clearly without clarity.





















