Atlanta based these days. Pragmatist (in the Deweyan sense). Writer. Lecturer.
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Cullen Martin retweeted
Everyone saying we shouldn't investigate Elon Musk still has a picture of Hunter Biden's dick on their phone.
Cullen Martin retweeted
It's incredible how stupid this discourse is. Johnson eases to be Speaker
Cullen Martin retweeted
The path forward for the anti-Netanyahu opposition is cutting a deal with the Arab and Islamist parties and perhaps encourage some MKs to break from Netanyahu. There is no path to Netanyahu having a governing coalition unless the opposition is foolish enough to break ranks.
This is moronic.
Did you eat dinner at the Cheesecake Factory *designed by Saddam Hussein*?
THAT was the reference in Obama's joke.
He wasn't laughing at ANY *real* restaurant. He was poking fun at how tasteless/ugly the TRUMP White House has become, using a nightmare image.
Cullen Martin retweeted
In a more perfect world, the Free Press would hire some Temu Nate Silver to produce a bunch of charts showing that Cheesecakeghazi was hurting Democrats
Cullen Martin retweeted
I keep telling you the likes of Cenk and Piker are hurting AES and instead of blaming the people undermining AES, many of the hard left blame those of us who were rightfully warning of the damage. Keep all this away from the campaign for the Love of God.
El-Sayed campaign statement: "This ad is not affiliated in any way with the Abdul for Senate campaign. Abdul is focused on pushing back against Trump’s agenda that is raising prices for Michiganders. No one speaks for Abdul but himself and his campaign." #MISEN
Cullen Martin retweeted
I’m old enough to remember when leftists argued that Dems should throw reproductive rights under the bus in order to get M4A through.
Of course that’s kind of moot now that they helped get Roe overturned anyway.
Cullen Martin retweeted
Someone fill me in why are we doing Mao dead-enderism in 2026
Under “dictator” Mao, life expectancy in China increased by 30 years, literacy rates went from 20% to 70%, steel output grew from 1 million to 23 million tons, 47 million hectares of land was taken from landlords and given to peasants, and China was unified under a strong central state and got nuclear weapons.
Despite his failures, it does not take a rocket scientist to understand why Mao is revered in China.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Mao's Great Leap Forward and related policies caused an estimated 30-45 million famine deaths in 1959-1961 alone, with total excess deaths under his rule often estimated at 40 million or higher.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chi…
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC43…
chinafile.com/library/nyrb-c…
Cullen Martin retweeted
Glad we had 3 days of discourse about how she wasn't being enough of a team player in her most recent CNN appearance
NEW from me: With under a week to go in what many polls are showing as a still tight Senate race, Abdul El-Sayed hasn’t called his former primary opponent Haley Stevens in months — and there are no plans for them to campaign together before election day.
cnn.com/2026/10/28/politics/…
Cullen Martin retweeted
Average Republican scandal: took a $3 million dollar bribe to cover for a rapist
Average Dem scandal: as a teacher, there were 10 less students than I initially said, in my severely underfunded classroom.
James Talarico’s campaign website says: “When I entered the classroom, the Texas Legislature had just gutted the public education budget by $5 billion — so I had 45 kids in one classroom.”
Public records show the most students ever assigned to his class was 30, @nytimes reports.
Cullen Martin retweeted
I never want to hear about how Americans are propagandized again. We learn about the founding fathers' slaves in middle school, meanwhile grown ass adults in China think Mao was under democratic constraints somehow.
Cullen Martin retweeted
Steel output definitely grew when he forced every farmer to melt down their equipment and give it to the state. Not great for food output though.
Under “dictator” Mao, life expectancy in China increased by 30 years, literacy rates went from 20% to 70%, steel output grew from 1 million to 23 million tons, 47 million hectares of land was taken from landlords and given to peasants, and China was unified under a strong central state and got nuclear weapons.
Despite his failures, it does not take a rocket scientist to understand why Mao is revered in China.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Mao's Great Leap Forward and related policies caused an estimated 30-45 million famine deaths in 1959-1961 alone, with total excess deaths under his rule often estimated at 40 million or higher.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chi…
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC43…
chinafile.com/library/nyrb-c…
Cullen Martin retweeted
Gen Z have completely cooked their brains
NEW: I spent a night out at one of America's top party schools to see how ketamine has taken hold on college campuses.
The drug jumped into the spotlight in the “Cornell 7” case, where Jane Doe told investigators that ketamine left her incapacitated and unable to fend off sexual assault.
At Tulane, students pass it around in plastic baggies at fraternity houses, mix it with cocaine to create “Calvin Klein,” and call the psychedelic effects “going horse mode,” a nod to the drug’s use as a horse tranquilizer.
