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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

“What’s the benefit for 🇺🇸 in sending $20 BILLION to Argentina?”🤔

Trump says he just really likes their philosophy and will only send the $20 Billion if his pal Milei wins.

Imagine not being able to see this blatant corruption for what it is. (While our farmers struggle)

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3h

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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

Forcing them to watch the boss's speech and telling them they'll get in trouble for making fun of him.

That's just a sign of a respected and capable leader, folks.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

Trump has cancelled $18B of spending in blue states. He fired more than 4,000 federal employees the same day he sent $20B to Argentina. He is propping up the government of the guy on the left, while firing government officials working for the guy on the right. But those employees also work for us!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

First they came for the woodwind section, and I said nothing ...

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

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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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 6h

Otto Preminger Comes to Marquette, presentation last night by local historian Dan Rydholm about 1959 making of Anatomy of a Murder. Dan's father Fred was Mayor of Marquette in 1959.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18h

As I've noted, central to Stephen Miller's propaganda is the claim that the Chicago complex targeted by ICE was "filled" with Tren de Aragua "terrorists."

Now @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reports that the number of TdA members netted in that raid is down to *one.*

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17h

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 1d

Actual his title is Vice-Chancellor for Academic and Health Affairs and Chief Academic Officer. nmu.edu/executive-se...

NMU Presidential Candidate | Executive Search

John C. Hayek, Ph.D. Vice Chancellor for Academic and Health AffairsTexas State University SystemAustin, Texas, USA

nmu.edu

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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 1d

Northern Michigan University might hire the Provost of Texas State to be our next President.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

If you make "controversial statements" outside of classroom, that the President of the university dislikes, you can be summarily fired even if you are tenured.

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 1d

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps with a roll-on/roll-off rail ferry? The SS Badger was originally constructed as such - in 1953! I took one of these recently in Europe, part of the Hamburg-Copenhagen route. Lots of fun!

gentleman johnny's party train @fripperskitter.bsky.social · 3d

furthermore,

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

They cannot talk about the shutdown without lying.

There is no connection between troop payments and federal employee layoffs. Zero.

They are paying the troops with multiyear R&D allocations within DOD. This is also illegal by the way! But completely disconnected to the layoffs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 4d

JOURNALISM IS NOT A CRIME. BEARING WITNESS IS NOT OBSTRUCTION.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 5d

“This is JB Pritzker, reporting from war-torn Chicago. It’s quite disturbing. The Milwaukee Brewers have come in to attack our Chicago Cubs. We’ve seen people being forced to eat hot dogs with ketchup on them.”

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 5d

When I decided to go to Ann Arbor to get my PhD, my mom, who lives in rural Colorado, was so concerned that I was going to live so close to Detroit. She was sure I was going to be murdered.

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 6d

People who live in big cities and have MAGA relatives in rural and suburban areas are getting deja vu, that's for sure.

We've all had conversations with relatives who insist they know better than us what our cities are like. That we must be deluded not to see the constant riots and muggings.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 5d

Hilarious Onion Story, right?

James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 5d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Chet DeFonso @chetdefonso.bsky.social · 5d

Scott Beaulier, Dean of the School of Business at the University of Wyoming, speaking at Northern Michigan University where he is a candidate for the Presidency. Scott is a graduate of NMU, having double-majored in History and Economics in 2000. And a former student of mine!

Scott Beaulier speaking at Northern Michigan University.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6d

In a Chicago suburb, Berwyn, IL, multiple ICE goons and a cameraman surrounded a resident who blew his horn and walked down the street in his own neighborhood. They demanded his ID and threatened to arrest him for impeding their audit.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6d

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6d

One of the most perverse ideas on the anti-trans side is that trans people are instantly affirmed and celebrated by everyone when they come out and that acceptance is driving a social contagion.

It's the ultimate form of gaslighting against our community.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/pew-survey...

Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents

The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

www.erininthemorning.com

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