gophergrad צדק צדק תרדף
@gophergrad.bsky.social
Three bags of broken glass and concertina wire in a trenchcoat.
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Golden Gopher Bn alum. Veteran. Progressive. Tikkun olam. Big Sky.
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Policy, technology, human rights, banjos, SABR.
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Love like a warrior ~ Matisyahu
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gophergrad.com
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Golden Gopher Bn alum. Veteran. Progressive. Tikkun olam. Big Sky.
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Policy, technology, human rights, banjos, SABR.
.
Love like a warrior ~ Matisyahu
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gophergrad.com
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The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Washington Post editorial board really speaking truth to power
December 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Quid
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Pro
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Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Quid
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Started / Going
December 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Started / Going
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Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms.
It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.
It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.
Foreign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories under Trump administration plan
The Customs and Border Protection proposal would apply even to countries that don't require visas to enter.
www.nbcnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms.
It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.
It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.
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Just showing prices isn’t gonna help shit. Seeing the price of gas or the price of groceries or, a more apt analogy, the price of utilities does not LOWER those prices. It’s healthcare. You pay what they demand for what you need because the alternative is paying for a funeral.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Just showing prices isn’t gonna help shit. Seeing the price of gas or the price of groceries or, a more apt analogy, the price of utilities does not LOWER those prices. It’s healthcare. You pay what they demand for what you need because the alternative is paying for a funeral.
December 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
What could possibly go wrong
December 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
What could possibly go wrong
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Literally decreeing that one can use “men” but not “women.” How incredible.
According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
December 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Literally decreeing that one can use “men” but not “women.” How incredible.
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ALERT: blue line trains are single tracking because of a great miracle occurring at Metro Center
The D.C. Metro is selling these nonsense dreidels as part of the holiday merchandise collection — kind of love it?
December 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
ALERT: blue line trains are single tracking because of a great miracle occurring at Metro Center
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WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly:
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
December 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly:
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.
The Coasties are going to fly pirate flags now, right?
December 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The Coasties are going to fly pirate flags now, right?
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Funny how they claim the economy is booming, then turn around and blame Biden for it being terrible. Both cannot be true at the same time.
December 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Funny how they claim the economy is booming, then turn around and blame Biden for it being terrible. Both cannot be true at the same time.
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Skagit County, WA: "ALL RESIDENTS LIVING WITHIN 100-YEAR FLOOD PLAIN AT
LEVEL 2: GET SET FOR IMPENDING EVACUATION "
#flooding #wawx #skagitcounty
LEVEL 2: GET SET FOR IMPENDING EVACUATION "
#flooding #wawx #skagitcounty
December 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Skagit County, WA: "ALL RESIDENTS LIVING WITHIN 100-YEAR FLOOD PLAIN AT
LEVEL 2: GET SET FOR IMPENDING EVACUATION "
#flooding #wawx #skagitcounty
LEVEL 2: GET SET FOR IMPENDING EVACUATION "
#flooding #wawx #skagitcounty
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Me at 9 a.m.: "Looks like a slow news day. Not much content for the next couple of days." Me at 6 p.m.: Finishes editing sixth story of the day, bald spots from pulling hair out.
December 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Me at 9 a.m.: "Looks like a slow news day. Not much content for the next couple of days." Me at 6 p.m.: Finishes editing sixth story of the day, bald spots from pulling hair out.
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Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."
Federal agents are arresting American citizens.
This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."
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THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SKIPPED A GANG OF EIGHT MEETING????!!!!
Mike Johnson on video of the second September 2 strike: "My admission here is I was not in the Gang of 8 briefing yesterday because we were working on the healthcare stuff"
December 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SKIPPED A GANG OF EIGHT MEETING????!!!!
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You can tell E-day is getting close
Trump: "It's been an interesting day from the standpoint of news. As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela. Largest one ever seized actually. And other things are happening."
December 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
You can tell E-day is getting close
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Does this look like a president or a dictator?
December 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Does this look like a president or a dictator?
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America for sale
The Trump administration debuted a website that opens up applications for a “gold card,” an expedited visa that the U.S. government plans to sell for at least $1 million apiece. nyti.ms/3KQM23Y
What Is a Trump Gold Card? Applications Open for a New Visa Program.
President Trump has framed the program as a way for the government to raise billions of dollars and prioritize the admission of successful entrepreneurs and investors.
nyti.ms
December 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
America for sale
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When I was a judicial law clerk in Montana, Pres Bush flew into the Billings airport for a rally.
I wanted to see Air Force One and asked the judge I clerked for if I could go. He said no, that it wouldn’t be appropriate.
And I was just a clerk. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
I wanted to see Air Force One and asked the judge I clerked for if I could go. He said no, that it wouldn’t be appropriate.
And I was just a clerk. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
Judge Emil Bove Faces Ethics Complaint for Attending Trump Rally
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
When I was a judicial law clerk in Montana, Pres Bush flew into the Billings airport for a rally.
I wanted to see Air Force One and asked the judge I clerked for if I could go. He said no, that it wouldn’t be appropriate.
And I was just a clerk. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
I wanted to see Air Force One and asked the judge I clerked for if I could go. He said no, that it wouldn’t be appropriate.
And I was just a clerk. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
Cool
Now we're pirates
Now we're pirates
BREAKING: U.S. seizes sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela
www.ms.now/katy-tur/wat...
www.ms.now/katy-tur/wat...
U.S. seizes sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela
President Trump is ramping up the pressure on Venezuelan President Maduro, saying the U.S. has seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. New York Times Chief White House Correspondent...
www.ms.now
December 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Cool
Now we're pirates
Now we're pirates
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"Can she help unite a fractured America?"
When CBS and Bari Weiss show you who they really are...
When CBS and Bari Weiss show you who they really are...
In case it wasn’t already clear - cbs is fox now under Bari Weiss
December 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"Can she help unite a fractured America?"
When CBS and Bari Weiss show you who they really are...
When CBS and Bari Weiss show you who they really are...
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The ECHR was set up after WWII to ensure that fascism never again arose in Europe. Why do the right want to curb/limit/leave/abolish the ECHR? Because it does what it was intended to do, that's why...
How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The ECHR was set up after WWII to ensure that fascism never again arose in Europe. Why do the right want to curb/limit/leave/abolish the ECHR? Because it does what it was intended to do, that's why...
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On the internet, age verification doesn't know you're a dog.
I see the Australian social media ban is off to a great start.
Nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet. 🐕
Nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet. 🐕
December 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
On the internet, age verification doesn't know you're a dog.
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NEW: Pentagon lawyers asked State Dept. if US could send survivors of Trump's boat strikes to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Then Pentagon pushed to have survivors sent anywhere but the US — to prevent any US court cases. Gift link to our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
NEW: Pentagon lawyers asked State Dept. if US could send survivors of Trump's boat strikes to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Then Pentagon pushed to have survivors sent anywhere but the US — to prevent any US court cases. Gift link to our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...