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Patrick Clarkin

@patrickclarkin.bsky.social

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He/him UMass Boston biological anthropologist. Ph.D. War and health, growth, embodiment, DOHaD, refugees. Binghamton grad. Child of PVD. kevishere.com

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · Jul 31

Donate to World Central Kitchen.

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World Central Kitchen | Supporting Palestinian families displaced by conflict in Gaza & West Bank

In Gaza, relentless shelling and a ground offensive have killed tens of thousands of civilians and forced nearly two million more from their homes. Despite restrictions on humanitarian aid entering Ga...

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 6h

I wonder how to calculate what percentage of his speech is myopic lack of self-awareness and how much is cynical Machiavellianism.

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Obama Closes Out WTF Podcast

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19h

Impeachable acts every day

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The Trump administration has blocked or slowed almost $28 billion in federal aid since the shutdown began, largely harming Democratic-led cities, congressional districts and states, underscoring how the president has weaponized a fiscal stalemate

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 22h

Not surprising, but still tragic.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

“Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined”

If you ever had any doubt that the youth wing of the GOP is fully radicalized and proudly racist these days:

‘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.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 1d

Two people told me I looked tired today, and asked if life as chair was getting to me.

a man wearing a bucket hat with a striped band

ALT: a man wearing a bucket hat with a striped band

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 1d

"The Trump administration is trying to seed a panic about «antifa,» one which, if it succeeds, brings the media and the result of us along as collaborators in authoritarian regime change. So let’s be thoughtful."

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The Truth about Panics

One is being generated right now

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 1d

I love baseball. Please proceed.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

Unprecedented corruption

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 2d

ICE refusing to allow an ambulance to leave with an injured protester and threatening to shoot the ambulance driver represents, imo, a degree of escalation that warrants coverage beyond the pages of a Portland alt-weekly

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 2d

Again, dictatorships are really good at preventing street crime because they militarize the police and do away with due process. But corruption crimes skyrocket because agents of the state are unaccountable.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 2d

“Today the president is taking credit for a cease-fire in Gaza. But who, in America, was first in calling for that exact thing?

Students on campuses.

And what happened to them? They were banned from their own public spaces, all over the country.”

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Gaza and Protest

Why freedom of speech matters

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 2d

Being funny and informative is hard to pull off.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 2d

from the Tao Te Ching (#31) on humility & military victory:

“Triumph is not beautiful. He who thinks triumph beautiful Is one with a will to kill, And one with a will to kill Shall never prevail upon the world…

The death of a multitude is a cause for mourning: Conduct your triumph as a funeral.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s ice goons pull guns on an unarmed guy on a bike in Rogers Park. Terrorizing neighborhoods

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 2d

Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

the more things change, the more they stay the same in college football (coaches being showered in cash for not working)

Firings so far this season by Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Penn State, UAB, UCLA and Virginia Tech have those schools committed to buyouts totaling $93.9 million, subject to mitigation and offset, but not including amounts that also will be owed to assistant coaches

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

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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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d

"Look at the picture... One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in a violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 3d

"After two terms of cultural conditioning, the American public has been anesthetized by the permanent adrenaline of outrage. Every assault on democratic norms lands as déjà vu. What once felt like scandal now feels like weather."

www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...

The Quiet Coup: How Trump Is Undermining Democracy From Within

Trump’s second term weaponizes distraction and bureaucracy, consolidating power and wealth while eroding democratic norms—an urgent wake-up call.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @jesseduquette.bsky.social )

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

This Is Fascism

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

ICYMI — Trump lied that Chicago had “4000” murders, when it’s projected to have 380 this year (way down from last year)

If it’s so bad there why does he have to keep lying about it?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

Clearly someone who grew up here, she has no accent; really want to know what was going on here. Looks like they were following her already at the start of the video. Why?

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 4d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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