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Mike Riggs

@MikeRiggs
Editing at @rootsofprogress. Heavily invested in tomorrow being better than today.
North Carolina
Joined January 2008
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    Mike Riggs
    @MikeRiggs
    Aug 13
    take my money plz
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    olli
    @OlliPayne
    Aug 13
    This has been a LONG TIME coming. I'm extremely proud to be bringing you THE magazine for optimistic, realistic sci-fi, in print (and online again soon as well!)
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    Mike Riggs
    @MikeRiggs
    Aug 12
    This is wild. I was an English Lit major at a small liberal arts school, and even the two post-colonial profs assigned actual English lit. I guess I was lucky that the Restoration drama track meant reading Dryden, Behn, Wycherley, and (unfortunately) Congreve, rather than Derrida
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    Liza Libes
    @pensandpoison
    Aug 11
    I found this photo from my sophomore year dorm room at Columbia. Take a look at the authors we read in my English classes: Fanon, Derrida, Said, Foucault, Hegel, Baudrillard, Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, Freud, Barthes, Zizek, Heidegger, Lacan, Benjamin. Then you have your the
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    Mike Riggs
    @MikeRiggs
    Aug 8
    The China stat, my goodness.
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    Mike Riggs
    @MikeRiggs
    Aug 7
    My god, this entire story was already insane, but this report is stomach-turning. How is Arday the only person resigning amid all this?
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    Tom Nichols
    @RadioFreeTom
    Aug 7
    Many of the critics of higher education are crackpots, but that doesn't mean that the problems in academia aren't real. This story by @danengber is brutal: theatlantic.com/books/2026/08/…
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    Mike Riggs
    @MikeRiggs
    Aug 6
    I actually stopped our mail carrier (a young white dude with a ponytail, tie-dye t-shirt, and a dad hat) after he drove past my box when the flag was up. When I explained what the flag means, he rolled his eyes and said basically the same thing as below.
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    Clark Neily
    @ConLawWarrior
    Aug 6
    Went to my @USPS office about my outgoing letters not getting picked up. The clerk got my letter-carrier on the phone, and she said she doesn’t bother to pick up unless she’s got mail to deliver. At first, I thought there might be some possibility of fixing this problem. But no.

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