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Not deactivating my Twitter account, but since the election I just can't bring myself to post here, or even lurk much. You can find me where the sky is clear.
Angus Johnston
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Angus Johnston
@studentactivism
Historian of, and advocate for, American student activism. CUNY prof. Former yacht chef. angus.bsky.social
- A note for tomorrow: ANYONE WHO IS TRICK-OR-TREATING AT FIFTEEN IS PRESUMPTIVELY CLINGING TO THE RITUALS OF CHILDHOOD AT THE MOST DISCOMBOBULATING MOMENT OF THEIR LIVES. THROW CANDY AND KINDNESS AT THEM
- Taliesin Meche, 2016 graduate of Reed College, was murdered yesterday while defending strangers from racist abuse. A role model and a hero.
- Milo Yiannopoulos is now threatening to sue people who say he encouraged vigilantes to start gunning journalists down. Speaking of which, Milo Yiannopoulos recently encouraged vigilantes to start gunning journalists down.
- "Step-parents aren't real parents" is a hell of a campaign pitch.Really simple, underdiscussed reason why Kamala Harris shouldn’t be President No children
- Anne Frank would have turned 92 today. If the United States had approved her father's visa application, she could be an old lady in Brooklyn, celebrating with her family and showing her great-grandkids the diary that told the story of how she got here.
- John Lewis was the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington—where MLK gave the "I have a dream" speech—and the speech Lewis wrote that day was so incendiary that the march organizers wouldn't let him deliver it as written.
- The United States is already turning away climate refugees who are attempting to enter the country under longstanding international agreements, in case you were wondering how far along we were.Big problems on the ferry from Freeport to Florida — announcement just made that any Bahamian without a visa must now get off. This is not normal. Nornally Bahamians can travel to USA with passport and a printout of their police record. This is a mess.
00:00 - Note to pundits: If you don't understand that "lock him up" was a sardonic reference to the chants at Trump's own rallies, and thus simultaneously an act of collective defiance against his authoritarianism and an expression of schadenfreude at his current predicament, be quiet.
- "Vote for Kamala and you never have to think about Donald Trump ever again, for the rest of your life." There are worse campaign themes.Sen Tim Kaine (D-VA) just now to @CBSNews - “Donald Trump is yesterday’s news. Kamala Harris is today’s and tomorrow’s news”
- Statutory rape laws don't make it illegal for 15-year-olds to have sex. They make it illegal for adults to have sex with 15-year-olds. How are you confused by this?I stand by the constitutional (not moral) argument I offered in my controversial oped: if a 16 year old has the constitutional right to have an abortion without state or parental interference, how could she not have the constitutional right to engage in consensual sex? 1/
- Ben Shapiro says Harvard's "don't use the n-word" admissions stance is "an insane, cruel standard no one can possibly meet."Regardless of what you think of @KyleKashuv -- and for the record, I think he, like many other Parkland survivors, has handled the public limelight with grace and strength -- Harvard's auto-da-fe sets up an insane, cruel standard no one can possibly meet. dailywire.com/news/47971/hol…
- In this article “wokeness” literally just means “black people.”
- Elon: “I’m gonna take away the blue checks on 4/20!” Twitter employee: “Okay.” Elon: “Get it? 4/20?” Suddenly about to be fired Twitter employee: “Hitler’s birthday, yeah.”
