Dave Neal
@daveneal.bsky.social
Retired Sociologist and Disaster Researcher. Co-Author of Introduction to Emergency Management and Disaster Science (2022, 3rd ed.) The Doors, Sweden, Rock and Roll, and Fika. BGSU, THE OSU. Survived Guillaine-Barré Syndrome.
Andrew Napolitano, a retired judge and Newsmax legal commentator, is backing Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the Senate race and sharply criticizing Republican Mike Rogers, Mediaite reported.
Newsmax analyst bashes MAGA 'two-bit thug' candidate — and backs his Dem rival
Andrew Napolitano, a retired judge and Newsmax legal commentator, is backing Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the Senate race and sharply criticizing Republican Mike Rogers, Mediaite reported.Speaking on an upcoming episode of Katie Halper’s show, in a clip she posted Monday, Napolitano said he’d...
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TMZ says this 24-year-old is Trump's new press secretary. She reposted the story on Facebook, so I guess that's confirming it? This is a photo she posed for previously. Trump's malevolence and corruption are clearly more important. But the coarsening of the presidency makes me sick.
We already know that every single Republican supports rape and rapists. They have made that perfectly clear over the last decades with both their money and their votes. Deplorable was too generous a word for them.
You know what’s more dangerous than a trans athlete? 7 Frat boys at Cornell University.
The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off.
Matthew Eadie@mattheweadie.bsky.social · last mo.BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
Here is AOC and Mamdani laughing at the solemn 9/11 commemoration. Oh wait…
The current lack of federal and state disaster response in Gary, IN punctuate the salience of DEI in the classroom.
Clearly many academics are not familiar with the sociological theory or Symbolic Interaction and/or The Thomas Theorem. Maybe I am just lucky my PhD advisor trained at Chicago, and his thesis advisor was Herbert Blumer.
LIKE TRUMP/MILLER, ALL ICE AGENTS ARE LOSERS! Many are scared racists, White Nationalist ”Patriot Front, KKK, Proud Boys, Boogaloo Boys, Neo-NAZIS; too full of Trump’s fear/hate/lies to know that THEY’re the true criminals, NOT the innocent families they destroy. Some are just soulless opportunists.
Larry Mitchell@drlarrymitchell.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe two ICE agents who murdered a civilian in Biddeford, Maine today. Let's make them famous.
Anything trump touches dies - including USA 🇺🇸 World Cup Soccer 🥅 ⚽️.
Disaster researchers - My wife (Brenda Phillips) just published her second edition of Qualitative Disaster Research by Oxford University Press. Congrats!
Trump's attitude towards Medicaid fraud is demonstrated by the 77 persons he pardoned who were convicted of Medicaid fraud. They're all Republicans, Trump supporters, who made payments to him and his campaign. In most cases he also eliminated their duty to make restitution for the money they stole.
And ONLY one man! That man is.... <drum roll>..
Kidnapped girl saved by Yemeni immigrant at a gas station in Detroit.
Clerk says girl mouthed 'help' to him after alleged kidnapping in Hamtramck
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1/ Post-Artemis II launch thread Some context (1) my dad piloted the second US manned spaceflight, an orbital mission, as part of NASA's Project Mercury. (2) My mom broke with NASA convention and took the four kids to witness the launch from Cocoa Beach. A first for astronaut families.
My last job before retiring in 2019 was Professor of Political Science at OK State. I was Oklahoma political scientist of the year in 2006. My PhD is in Sociology, with a specialty in organizations and disaster behavior. I can no longer keep up with all of trump’s bullshit and lies.
Remember when some of us said the Patriot Act and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security were *really bad ideas*? Well, this is what we were warning about.
The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.
First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says
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Even at the age of 72, per the law, I still have my draft card.
shrek from the movie shrek is smiling and looking at something
ALT: shrek from the movie shrek is smiling and looking at something
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Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville Junction@richardallensmith.com · 8mo agoLou Holtz was fired as head coach at Arkansas because he kept taping campaign ads for Jesse Helms. He was too racist for Arkansas. In 1983.