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11 Nov, 16 tweets, 2 min read
Multi-millionaire sings about having a busted truck. 🤣 These country performances always crack me up.
I maintain that country singers front way more than rappers. Way more.
At some point we have to let the Black Country singers perform without a history montage
Luke Bryant been eating during COVID like I been eating during COVID. Done lapped.
Another year of the CMAs, another year of me asking aloud of no one, “wait, Dan and Shay *aren’t* country’s first gay duo?!!”
I have to google this every year. One year, google will confirm that Dan and Shay are, indeed, country music’s first gay duo.
I have to hang in there for the Aretha tribute by Jhud for a work thing. But my booster arm is killing me 😭
When Luke Combs has his middle age life crisis glow up, I think he is gonna blow y’all’s minds. I just caught a little glimpse. He got the Steve Harvey in him.
That is an extremely niche tweet.
Im gonna google again to be sure
I’ve been to drag shows with less drag.
Ms Yearwood has arrived, that’s how I know it’s Aretha tribute time. They had to find the real singers.
Jennifer with Chris Stapleton. She about to blow the roof off this joint.
SHE SANG THEM OFF THE TV OMG
I cannot say another thing because right now 500 people are looking for a news hook for their hot take and you got to get your own. BUT OMG
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I spent about five years on the road talking to institutions, media, faculty, students about how tertiary “partners” like 2U brought the #LowerEd model into not-for-profit universities. I got tired. Money talks.
I had to tell my own institution that I would not partner with third-party vendors to create online graduate degrees. Because I had, uh, written a book called Lower Ed.
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Okay, here is one that needs translating. Someone in my neighborhood had an issue with a roofing company. Said company took 1/2 the roof off her house before realizing they had the wrong house. She posts about it online & people are mad at the homeowner. AM I TRIPPING?!
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Like, a person came home and half their roof was gone and yeah the company would patch it BUT THEY REMOVED YOUR ROOF.
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For the millionth time, I’m begging non-profits to help me help you. For the love of 21st century god, figure out a mobile payment option.
“You should care enough about our mission to get up and get a credit card!”

I should…but do I? That’s the question you should be asking.
I give up on all these for-profit online business hustlers who don’t have PayPal or something similar. You just not about that life and it’s okay if we part ways.
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What @louise_seamster does in our conversation about student loan debt is an exemplar of public intellectualism and sociology at work. She connects observations about how tired her students are to macro wealth inequality.
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Why are they doing this opportunity hoarding? Because the pressure of indebtedness shifts their relationship to time and achievement. They are trying to individually turn their debt into “good” debt, or the kind that will pay off.
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