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Audie Klotz

@audieklotz.bsky.social

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Expertise on International Relations especially norms and migration I mute excessive self-promoters (including humble braggers) and mansplainers I block fundraising (or weirder) and haters

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Audie Klotz @audieklotz.bsky.social · Nov 16

Reminder, here’s what happened with gender pay gap at Syracuse University (unlike Boulder ⬇️, no forward looking remedy):

www.syracuse.com/syracuse-uni...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 15h

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the Gaza ceasefire will not affect his country’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ aje.io/mbmr4o

South Africa says ICJ genocide case will continue despite Gaza ceasefire

President Cyril Ramaphosa says progress and healing hinge on the case against Israel being heard.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 15h

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

“.. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) posted .. a potential [health insurance] premium increase, sent to him by a constituent, from $307 per month to $964 per month.

“.. The post has 6.5 million views.”

@axios.com
www.axios.com/newsletters/...

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

2/2

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mkwarren2.bsky.social @mkwarren2.bsky.social · 10h

45 billion on I.C.E.

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 21h

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 16h

The incomparable @anntelnaes.bsky.social from her Substack, Open Windows.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 17h

One person on this list is a school counselor at a high school down the street from me and she’s been purged from the website so fast Google cache doesn’t know about it yet

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 19h

I just want you all to know that when we told you that they wanted to destroy everything and you thought Black women were exaggerating? This was the "ironic" racism you said we were overreacting to 10 years ago. Racism has never had generational limits

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Audie Klotz @audieklotz.bsky.social · 11h

Tell me again about ‘woke’ universities?

Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 14h

Anyone want to wager on how much coverage this scandal will get? I'm guessing it gets press coverage for about a day and then disappears.

If this were the Young Democrats doing something similarly awful, we'd be in for weeks and weeks of non-stop reporting.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 18h

Incredible photo from @chicago.suntimes.com ‘s Anthony Vazquez. Pointing what looks to be a teargas launcher at someone’s head at nearly point blank range is incredibly dangerous. This is why I prefer a ballistic helmet in the field.

Feds ram SUV in chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N on Chicago's East Side, resulting in dozens of residents showing up to protest the federal immigration agents.

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 14h

The order takes affect Wednesday and bars the civil arrest of any “party, witness, or potential witness” while going to, remaining at or returning from court proceedings inside the courthouse or its parking lots, sidewalks or entryways.

Judicial warrants can still be served.

Top Cook County judge bars civil arrests at courthouses, citing chilling effect

The Cook County public defender’s office and legal aid organizations had sought the move, saying they had clients who were avoiding court out of fear of being detained by federal immigration authoriti...

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 17h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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sjh65.bsky.social @sjh65.bsky.social · 13h

“They should resign from any leadership position immediately and reflect on how far they have strayed from basic human respect and decency.”

Really? How about you throw them out!

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‘It’s revolting’: More Young Republican chat members out of jobs as condemnation intensifies — POLITICO

POLITICO report on private Telegram chat filled with racist slurs and tropes ignites debate from New York to Washington.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 15h

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 14h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 12h

@schumer.senate.gov
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
@kaine.senate.gov
@markwarner.bsky.social
are you paying attention?

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23h

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22h

And they‘re all such overt creepy losers. Subormals.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 22h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Daniel Biss @danielbiss.bsky.social · 22h

Evanston will not allow federal agents to use city-owned property for immigration enforcement. We will not hesitate to protect our neighbors.

Evanston Now @evanstonnow.bsky.social · 1d

Evanston to create its own ‘ICE-free zones’

Enforcement measures remain unclear as Evanston mirrors Chicago’s order.

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Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 22h

105/N. Feds rammed a car that crashed into another, then a foot chase. Neighbors protested. Gas deployed by feds earlier today. Here's what they left behind. A thread of photos. #chicago

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 22h

O’Hare and Midway international airports are refusing to play a video from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that accuses Democrats of causing the ongoing government shutdown.and its impacts on flight operations.

O'Hare, Midway refuse to play video of Kristi Noem accusing Democrats of government shutdown

They join a growing list of airports refusing to play a video from Department of Homeland Security Secretary due to its partisan messaging.

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