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@gallaginator

Travel, film, photography and politics. 17 years teaching in a city classroom. Interested in all things IEP and MultiLingual Learners. Trust Teachers.

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Annotating the Judge’s Decision in the Case of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-Year-Old Detained by ICE (Gift Article) Our critic annotates the barbed wordplay of a decision challenging the Trump administration’s theory of executive power.
04.02.2026 02:59 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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All this far-fetched theorizing about Trump's ailments has gotten totally out of hand.

As always, it's best to apply Occam's razor: The simplest explanation is usually the right one.

Satan probably smacked him upside the head last week for getting too kinky.

03.09.2025 12:35 👍 2042 🔁 301 💬 175 📌 22
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WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

24.07.2025 23:40 👍 24208 🔁 4774 💬 498 📌 1151

Word of the Day: OBLITERATED

Which is:

What America's airstrike did to Iran's nuclear stockpile

OR

What POTUS did to America's status in the world

26.06.2025 21:58 👍 29311 🔁 4902 💬 1384 📌 252
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Opinion | Antisemitism Is an Urgent Problem. Too Many People Are Making Excuses.
14.06.2025 19:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A tuition-free school created by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan will shutter next year | CNN Business In 2016, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, opened a free school for low-income families in California’s Bay Area, where Meta is headquartered.

They wanted to address "toxic stress" in students...so they are closing their school and abandoning students. Students are not experiments. #edusky

30.05.2025 11:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Please put "Never went to therapy" on my gravestone

Kekius Maximus & @elonmusk Subscribe Please put "Never went to therapy" on my gravestone

men will literally dismantle the federal government instead of going to therapy

17.05.2025 20:18 👍 13873 🔁 1987 💬 657 📌 238
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I'm in the mood to pull out my vinyl copy of Greetings From Asbury Park tonight and listen to a true patriot serenade our home.

17.05.2025 00:28 👍 16323 🔁 2450 💬 286 📌 80

Reading the story about the woman in Georgia who is brain dead and on a vent but not allowed to die with dignity because she was 9 weeks pregnant when she was declared brain dead. Even in death, our bodies are not our own.

State-owned property.

15.05.2025 20:31 👍 12928 🔁 3766 💬 717 📌 244
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For women who love the Ravens, the end of the Justin Tucker era is fraught Tucker’s sudden departure has become a Rorschach test for Ravens fans, who before his miserable 2024 knew him mostly as the most accurate kicker in NFL history and a minor folk hero in Baltimore.

"And then I see people [on social media] say, ‘Why didn’t they come out [with these allegations] immediately?’ It’s because people like you don’t believe them!” 🎯🎯🎯

08.05.2025 11:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion | Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ Deal Made Hollywood Lose Its Mind (Gift Article) The obsession with a Black director’s ownership package reflects the themes of his film.
04.05.2025 02:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Black people and women are more likely to select into public sector work partly b/c of the stability, but also (and related) b/c of stronger protections against discrimination built into public personnel policies. The massive federal cuts and instability will affect them disproportionately.

27.04.2025 14:33 👍 414 🔁 115 💬 10 📌 6

When we call for politicians to "do something," this is what we mean. Not speeches or op-eds or campaign rallies, but using every tool available to disrupt the advance of fascism.

26.04.2025 23:05 👍 3823 🔁 1055 💬 28 📌 22

The volume at which men talk on the phone in airport lounges should be studied.

23.04.2025 21:50 👍 2205 🔁 79 💬 100 📌 15

Say. This.

24.04.2025 00:23 👍 6710 🔁 1371 💬 55 📌 34

It is good that Stanley Tucci put out that documentary last year so that we all know what happens now.

21.04.2025 22:10 👍 845 🔁 42 💬 23 📌 5

DOGE staffers instruct Vatican to sell St. Peter’s and end all ministering to the poor.

21.04.2025 12:11 👍 1964 🔁 273 💬 36 📌 12

*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this.

The Secretary is unfit to lead.

21.04.2025 00:01 👍 72713 🔁 14886 💬 1305 📌 468

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

20.04.2025 02:08 👍 22753 🔁 4705 💬 270 📌 161
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On this Good Friday- a reminder. Most evangelicals will be moved to tears as they remember a humble man who gave his life for others.

Yet- they VOTED FOR AND STILL DEFEND this piece of shit who mocked a man with a disability.

Their Easter celebrations are tributes to their hypocrisy.

18.04.2025 13:06 👍 756 🔁 214 💬 35 📌 6

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything,

Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT.

~ All of Us

18.04.2025 01:23 👍 53372 🔁 13888 💬 878 📌 703

Sorry, America. We can pay cancer research teams or we can pay to fly Trump and his entourage to a UFC fight in Miami. We can’t afford both.

13.04.2025 16:09 👍 2245 🔁 441 💬 19 📌 11
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Opinion | Palm Sunday Was a Protest, Not a Procession (Gift Article) Jesus’ procession was a parody of imperial power — a deliberate mockery of Roman spectacle and a prophetic enactment of a kingdom not built on violence but on justice.

"Either he (Jesus) I didn’t care about the poor, the marginalized and the oppressed — in which case we’ve built our religion on a hollow figure. Or he did care, deeply, and we’ve chosen to ignore that part because it challenges our comfort, our politics and our priorities."

13.04.2025 11:51 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Maine Governor, Staring Down Trump, Says She Is Unfazed by ‘Loud Men’ (Gift Article) Observers of her political rise — and some who have sparred with her — say Gov. Janet Mills’s refusal to bow to President Trump is right in character.

"I have spent the better part of my career listening to loud men talk tough to disguise their weakness"

12.04.2025 01:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.

09.04.2025 22:25 👍 4704 🔁 1337 💬 68 📌 47
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Junior has never worked a day in his life. He was born with a golden spoon up his ass. He doesn’t get to lecture people about student loans and debt.

08.04.2025 13:52 👍 265 🔁 29 💬 25 📌 6
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They Work All Day and Go Home to Shelters (Gift Article) Thousands of working people in New York City now live in shelters, unable to afford apartments despite holding down jobs that pay them $50,000 or more.

"New York City is becoming more for the wealthy, and I don’t think that’s going to end well,” Mr. Sancho-Persad said. “You know why? Poor people make this city go.”

08.04.2025 11:57 👍 92 🔁 27 💬 3 📌 3

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

07.04.2025 04:13 👍 62918 🔁 13019 💬 1080 📌 582
The camera focuses on two yellow lines in the middle of Ocean Ave, Asbury Park New Jersey. In the background one sees the famous Tillie on the Wonder Bar (left) and the Asbury Park Convention Center (right).

The camera focuses on two yellow lines in the middle of Ocean Ave, Asbury Park New Jersey. In the background one sees the famous Tillie on the Wonder Bar (left) and the Asbury Park Convention Center (right).

Greetings From Asbury Park New Jersey.

06.04.2025 03:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s still hard to believe the simple fact that this is all self-imposed. Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country. We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.

02.04.2025 23:11 👍 36164 🔁 7410 💬 1308 📌 484