Jan McVicker
@jmcvicker.bsky.social
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Professor, SUNY (English, INDS) focusing on lit/theory/culture/media. Virginia Woolf studies/modernism. Opinions my own.
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The Oregon clarinet player was released after spending three nights in the Clark County Jail: "This has only strengthened my commitment to social justice."

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Band’s clarinet player speaks out after her federal arrest
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You have to understand that there is NO accountability for ICE even in theory. You can't sue an ICE agent. They won't be criminally prosecuted for violating your rights. They won't be fired. THE ONLY WAY TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM ICE IS TO RUN FROM ICE.
Here's another Kavanaugh stop in action. Agent says: "Why are you running?" Admitting that he had no cause to stop and tackle this boy.
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All of this, in violation of the Constitution.
Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.
MacKenzie Scott Gives $40 Million to Help Preserve Black History
The gift is twice the amount Ms. Scott contributed to the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund in 2021.
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MacKenzie Scott Gives $40 Million to Help Preserve Black History
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I’ve been evicted from the Pentagon, a building I’ve covered for 18 years, Nancy A. Youssef writes. I’ll keep doing my job anyway. https://theatln.tc/hBoHf5y5
Trump Administration Decimates Birth Control Office in Layoffs The layoffs have raised fears that the administration could be effectively ending an initiative that provides contraception for millions of low-income women.
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Trump Administration Decimates Birth Control Office in Layoffs
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Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed
While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.
Video: Pentagon Reporters Walk Out, Rejecting New Press Rules
Journalists with access to the Pentagon turned in their badges on Wednesday instead of agreeing to a revised press policy that newsroom leaders say violates the First Amendment
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Video: Pentagon Reporters Walk Out, Rejecting New Press Rules
Journalists with access to the Pentagon turned in their badges on Wednesday instead of agreeing to a revised press policy that newsroom leaders say violates the First Amendment. The New York Times and...
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what the actual f? where is Congress????!

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Suggests Ground Strikes on Venezuela Could Be Next www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Suggests Ground Strikes on Venezuela Could Be Next
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Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People
The proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one that gives preference to mostly white people who say they are being persecuted.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People
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The Letter Was Addressed ‘Resident.’ The Message Was a Time Capsule
Stacks of Victorian-era photos, books and other documents discovered in Ohio have taken a winding path back to New York, bringing two strangers together.
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The Letter Was Addressed ‘Resident.’ The Message Was a Time Capsule.
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Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela
The development comes as the U.S. military is drawing up options for President Trump to consider, including possible strikes inside the country.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela
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JUST IN: US judge extends block on Trump deploying National Guard in Portland, Oregon reut.rs/4nToqtZ
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Bessent’s friends have huge investments in Argentina.

Elon Musk does too.

Bessent is sending $40 billion of our money to Argentina with more to come.

There is zero oversight. Congress not involved.

One unelected man is sending a fortune to Argentina and nobody will stop him,
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Sherrilyn Ifill - The Two Section Twos
The Protection Against Racial Gerrymandering in Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is Constitutional. Just Read Section 2 of the 14th Amendment.
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The Two Section Twos
The Protection Against Racial Gerrymandering in Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is Constitutional. Just Read Section 2 of the 14th Amendment.
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