Sam G. Howard
@samghoward.riliberator.com
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Rhode Islander, education union data organizer and Democratic ward committee member. Recovering comms pro, RI's leading vexillologist (probably). Occasionally blogs at riliberator.com
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years
Peacemaker looks at a mural embedding Hitler into American symbols
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sky.skymarchini.net
again, it’s an open secret in DC that basically all of the GOP staff class are unabashed (literal swastika flags in their cubicles!) Nazis
santiagomayer.com
Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
Brown is out! They had to do more dancing in their letter because they previously capitulated and needed to reference their previous agreement but, at its core, this reiterates MIT's letter.

The clock is now on for all other institutions.

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
www.brown.edu
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jamisonfoser.bsky.social
the good news is the Trump administration knows they don't have enough U.S. Nazis to retain power.

the bad news is they're recruiting Nazis from abroad to help.
paulwaldman.bsky.social
So Nazis. They want to give refugee status to Nazis.

OK, maybe not JUST Nazis. Also certain other white people who hate non-white immigration. But Nazis can definitely come.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
The proposals also advise Mr. Trump to prioritize Europeans who have been “targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”

That appeared to be a reference to the European far-right political party Alternative for Germany, whose leaders have trivialized the Holocaust, revived Nazi slogans and denigrated foreigners. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Germany for trying to suppress the views of the group, which is known as the AfD.
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dcinbox.bsky.social
Rep. Cory Mills interpretation of the Great Seal of the United States
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samthielman.com
One of them was a Catholic high school guidance counselor!
nathantbernard.bsky.social
the "kids" were mostly 30+ years old and said they love hitler
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education
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irhottakes.bsky.social
They can be 27 year-old “kids“ or they can be political operatives, but the idea that they get to play contact sports but everyone else has to play flag football with them is transparent horseshit.
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jamellebouie.net
“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
mcpli.bsky.social
Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.
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sifill.bsky.social
Not to be outdone, the Trump Solicitor General says you have to overturn Thornburg v Gingles, the 1982 precedent upon which all Section 2 claims are evaluated.
sifill.bsky.social
This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
This is the result of a lot of people pretending racism is one of the greatest taboos in our culture while failing to address racism substantively. People are appalled by the idea of being called racist while being totally committed to upholding racism throughout society.
uhactually.bsky.social
Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”
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uhactually.bsky.social
Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”
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victorerikray.bsky.social
I fear that schools being willing to drop diversity programs without a fight shows how flimsy their commitment to inclusion was in the first place. People fight for things they truly believe in.
Victor Ray, a sociology professor at the University of Iowa who studies race, said in an email that OSU’s decision to interpret federal guidance in this way “reflects the real pressure universities face as the Trump administration and Republican legislators attack higher education.”

But, Ray added, it may also be exposing the true colors of many universities that were broadcasting their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion when it was politically expedient to do so just a few years ago.

“The swiftness with which these organizations have complied with legally dubious orders shows that their commitments to diversity were often paper-thin before this administration’s pressure,” he said. “In many cases, administrators with existing qualms about diversity, perhaps going too far, now have political cover to take anti-equitable actions.”
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tompepinsky.com
ATTN: your banking system now has AI in it. It’s in the walls, gnawing on the wires.

There is a reason why financial institutions have relied for decades on extremely well-tested legacy code, and it’s not because people like to learn COBOL
fintwitter.bsky.social
BOFA HAS SAVED ABOUT 10% ON CODING WORK USING AI, CEO SAYS
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jamieson.bsky.social
The UAW has waded into the Maine Senate race with an endorsement for oyster farmer (and former Tune Inn bartender!) Graham Platner
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mcopelov.bsky.social
👇🎯💯

Unprecedentedly good fiscal & monetary policy. Again, I hope everyone likes Lost Decades, because the lesson the Democrats have now learned, for at least a generation, is that you should never again try & avoid them, because you will be destroyed in the media & the court of public opinion.
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lilymasonphd.bsky.social
Unfortunately, reality is only apparent *after* elections.
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chrisgavin.bsky.social
Major airports in New England (including TF Green) are not playing a TSA video featuring Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in which she levels blame against congressional Democrats for the government shutdown and any attendant travel delays.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/14/m...
Logan Airport not running Kristi Noem shutdown video at TSA checkpoints, officials say - The Boston Globe
Massport, which oversees Logan Airport and other facilities, has not received a request to display the video, which blames Democrats for the government shutdown.
www.bostonglobe.com
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johnpfaff.bsky.social
To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids
Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.
abcnews.go.com
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vermontgmg.bsky.social
It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...
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normative.bsky.social
There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.
chrislhayes.bsky.social
Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.
amaramarasingam.bsky.social
The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
samghoward.riliberator.com
Is there a (preferably free) solution we should consider for next year’s forum, particularly given it will be an election year?
samghoward.riliberator.com
Would you have preferred it later or earlier, because I can see drawbacks with either of those? Like I know I have a very narrow 5-6 window where we could maybe attend something with the 1-yr-old in tow, but everything else requires childcare or risks a bedtime disaster.