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Writer. Teacher. Scholar of rhetoric, media and democracy.
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 6 hr
Having spent my teens in Cincinnati, I was shocked to learn it’s now located in Appalachia
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 13 hr
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 14 hr
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 16 hr
gonna try to push the main journals in my disciplines to switch to a not-for-profit platform
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 16 hr
only seeing this now (b/c it's from the Bad Place), but there is nothing to disagree with here. not one thing.
Thread by @drvolts on Thread Reader Appthreadreaderapp.com @drvolts: I haven't written much about politics since the debate, mainly because I'm so overwhelmed by disgust & contempt toward this country's media & commentariat that it has rendered me inarticulat...
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · a day
Michelle Obama
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · a day
Could be. His own Jodie Foster
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
70s, but the commonality is probably Cold War nationalism
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
Now they just hand you a Tek-9 after clipping your umbilical cord
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
I’ve long been of the view that immigrants are more American than natives. We choose to come here
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
And he was trying to play on it
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
Lousy game, but Argentina is inevitable
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
My wife is. She adored 90210, and two of them are now dead prematurely
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
Would you be happier if I’d said western Pennsylvania?
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
Close enough
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
Better to ask forgiveness than permission, especially if you don’t expect to survive
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
I got to work with real Kalashnikovs at age 10 in the Soviet Kyiv. It’s bonkers, but it’s normal in certain places
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
It’s rural Pennsylvania
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
They think elections are won during the gerrymander
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
Vance and the GOP have clearly been enriched
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
He was an advisor, but his advice was unsolicited
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
Has all the hallmarks of Chuck Schumer
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
Never send a Cuban to police Colombians and Argentinians during a final.
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
He apparently failed to make his HS rifle team, even the JV, which makes me wonder if he wasn’t trying to prove something to his former classmates
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
The Colonizers’ Cup goes to Spain. Who will win The Colonies’ Cup?
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
España!
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
Do we even know that the shooter’s motive was political? Hinckley’s wasn’t
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 2 days
How do you take Yamal off just before a key corner kick?!