Andy Vitek
@avitek
Political science professor. Teacher/researcher of terrorism and extremism with a focus on the far-right. As likely to post about 40k, gaming, hip-hop or football as stuff that actually matters. #BillsMafia
While it doesn't make up for backing this creep, at least she's not doubling down.
This asshole is cooked. Congrats to Susan Collins for managing to Mr Magoo her way to re-election yet again. I hope the Pod Save and Majority Report crews are ready to hold a big piece of this L. Equal parts embarrassing, farcical, and depressing.
I would like to urge everyone on this app to not let their totally justified hatred of the United States to prevent them from indulging in truly toxic levels of anti-Belgium bigotry over the next 24 hours.
That Democratic number is wrong. 49 million was the peak in 2021, and it shrunk by 5 million during the 4 years of the Biden administration. Also, the 19 states that don't report partisan breakdowns include major GOP strongholds like Texas, so take from that what you will.
Pick your poison, brother. Massive declines in '24 Democratic raw vote share nationwide, not just leftist corridors? How about margins? Or what about a double-digit drop in Harris's share of the Latino vote compared to Biden? Pretty sure most of them weren't leftists pissed off about Gaza.
Am I totally crazy or has the writing on House of the Dragon taken a truly outrageous nosedive? Like this is an actual line they made Emma D'Arcy say on camera. I'm honestly impressed they didn't piss themselves from sheer embarrassment. Also don't get me started on the editing so far this season.
So Lupe Fiasco is currently in the middle of a truly legendary multi-day crashout. The man has always been a reply guy but holy hell this is wild.
Just when it's looking like my opinion of Hasan is starting to improve somewhat after pounding the pavement with progressive candidates around the country, he nips that shit right quick by platforming this crackpot.
The 4 favorite films they have on their letterboxd account support Cantor's analysis.
To be clear, I have plenty of bones to pick with the DSA, but the shit being put out by shook centrists right now is beyond delusional. Magdi, my sister in Christ, centrist dems have been ceding power to Trump for two. straight. years.
Ok yall, time to solicit some feedback. I've started designing my 'international politics in sci-fi film/tv' course and this is the rough course outline I've put together so far. There is also technically room for 1 more week. Bear in mind this is for a gen ed audience with no prereqs. Thoughts?
I know there are plenty of reasons to roll your eyes at Letterboxd, but sometimes reviews there just capture the essence of a film better than I ever could. *gold star if you can guess which film they're talking about