Jeremy Pressman
@djpressman.bsky.social
politics, US and Arab-Israel-Palestine, protests.
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“tantrum management”
Really something to think that one man--Donald Trump--is letting his minions freelance the fate of not one but two countries' citizens (Ukraine and Venezuela), and those minions don't agree on much but most want to sell out one and bomb the other, and the world is reduced to tantrum management.
One man -- Marco Rubio -- serves this country as both National Security Adviser and Secretary of State.
And he was nowhere near the drafting of that Ukraine 'peace plan,' which was instead devised by the president's real-estate buddy and his son-in-law.
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www.wsj.com/world/russia...
And he was nowhere near the drafting of that Ukraine 'peace plan,' which was instead devised by the president's real-estate buddy and his son-in-law.
🎁
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
“tantrum management”
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Does the BBC think it's improper for a speaker to state their opinion that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history?
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Does the BBC think it's improper for a speaker to state their opinion that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history?
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
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One aspect of the lawful orders discussion boils down to this:
Is premeditated killing lawful if the executive branch manufactures a non-existent armed conflict and then declares by fiat and without a factual basis that certain people are "combatants" and certain objects are "military objectives?"
Is premeditated killing lawful if the executive branch manufactures a non-existent armed conflict and then declares by fiat and without a factual basis that certain people are "combatants" and certain objects are "military objectives?"
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
One aspect of the lawful orders discussion boils down to this:
Is premeditated killing lawful if the executive branch manufactures a non-existent armed conflict and then declares by fiat and without a factual basis that certain people are "combatants" and certain objects are "military objectives?"
Is premeditated killing lawful if the executive branch manufactures a non-existent armed conflict and then declares by fiat and without a factual basis that certain people are "combatants" and certain objects are "military objectives?"
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“America needs to secure his release NOW.” Amen!
Israel has held 16-year-old American, Mohammed Ibrahim, without trial, for 9 months.
He has been denied contact with family & his health is deteriorating. He says he falsely confessed to throwing a rock after being beaten.
America needs to secure his release NOW.
He has been denied contact with family & his health is deteriorating. He says he falsely confessed to throwing a rock after being beaten.
America needs to secure his release NOW.
November 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
“America needs to secure his release NOW.” Amen!
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Scientists (especially early career researchers): How has your career been impacted over the last year of policy changes and funding cuts? Contact me here or on Signal if you have a story to share.
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Scientists (especially early career researchers): How has your career been impacted over the last year of policy changes and funding cuts? Contact me here or on Signal if you have a story to share.
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We have reasonable contract demands, @uconn.bsky.social Time for you to step up.
#uconn
@uconnaaup.bsky.social @uconngeu.bsky.social
#uconn
@uconnaaup.bsky.social @uconngeu.bsky.social
LTTE: Support UConn Faculty’s Reasonable Contract Demands
For months now, the UConn-AAUP negotiating team has made minimal progress at the bargaining table across from the UConn administration’s negotiators.
dailycampus.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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We have reasonable contract demands, @uconn.bsky.social Time for you to step up.
#uconn
@uconnaaup.bsky.social @uconngeu.bsky.social
#uconn
@uconnaaup.bsky.social @uconngeu.bsky.social
LTTE: Support UConn Faculty’s Reasonable Contract Demands
For months now, the UConn-AAUP negotiating team has made minimal progress at the bargaining table across from the UConn administration’s negotiators.
dailycampus.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We have reasonable contract demands, @uconn.bsky.social Time for you to step up.
#uconn
@uconnaaup.bsky.social @uconngeu.bsky.social
#uconn
@uconnaaup.bsky.social @uconngeu.bsky.social
"The U.S. Coast Guard specializes in at-sea interdictions. And using Reaper drones and Hellfire missiles against boats is...like “trying to cook an egg with a blowtorch.” One wonders: Is this what U.S. pilots and drone operators enlisted to do?" (George Will)
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
"The U.S. Coast Guard specializes in at-sea interdictions. And using Reaper drones and Hellfire missiles against boats is...like “trying to cook an egg with a blowtorch.” One wonders: Is this what U.S. pilots and drone operators enlisted to do?" (George Will)
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THREAD- 🛡️ COMMUNITY PROTECTION TOOLKIT 🛡️
🚨ATTENTION CHARLOTTE AREA
How to Organize ICE & CBP Resistance in Your Neighborhood
This toolkit is based on what has worked in Chicago as communities organize to keep their neighbors safe and informed. (reposting, H/T original author!) (1)
🚨ATTENTION CHARLOTTE AREA
How to Organize ICE & CBP Resistance in Your Neighborhood
This toolkit is based on what has worked in Chicago as communities organize to keep their neighbors safe and informed. (reposting, H/T original author!) (1)
November 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
THREAD- 🛡️ COMMUNITY PROTECTION TOOLKIT 🛡️
🚨ATTENTION CHARLOTTE AREA
How to Organize ICE & CBP Resistance in Your Neighborhood
This toolkit is based on what has worked in Chicago as communities organize to keep their neighbors safe and informed. (reposting, H/T original author!) (1)
🚨ATTENTION CHARLOTTE AREA
How to Organize ICE & CBP Resistance in Your Neighborhood
This toolkit is based on what has worked in Chicago as communities organize to keep their neighbors safe and informed. (reposting, H/T original author!) (1)
This is crazy.
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This is crazy.
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Disgusting. Nothing more than hired thugs. We could jail them, but TACO will pardon them anyway…
DEVELOPING: ICE and Border Patrol assaulted a U.S. citizen in Charlotte, NC — and called it “routine.”
He proved his citizenship during the first stop.
A second team smashed his window, dragged him out, and beat him anyway.
WCNC has confirmed the incident.
He proved his citizenship during the first stop.
A second team smashed his window, dragged him out, and beat him anyway.
WCNC has confirmed the incident.
November 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Disgusting. Nothing more than hired thugs. We could jail them, but TACO will pardon them anyway…
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Those boats we are sinking in the Caribbean and Pacific are small and at best very lightly armed and we have the most powerful Navy in the world. Yet somehow we can’t stop them, detain the crews, seize the drugs (if any), and we prefer to just kill people instead. Not a good look…
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Those boats we are sinking in the Caribbean and Pacific are small and at best very lightly armed and we have the most powerful Navy in the world. Yet somehow we can’t stop them, detain the crews, seize the drugs (if any), and we prefer to just kill people instead. Not a good look…
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Just learned that the memo I wrote for this can be shared, so voila: quick overview of my research on INGO responses to NGO restrictions stats.andrewheiss.com/2025-11_carn...
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Just learned that the memo I wrote for this can be shared, so voila: quick overview of my research on INGO responses to NGO restrictions stats.andrewheiss.com/2025-11_carn...
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On top of refusing to fully fund SNAP during the shutdown, the Trump regime has:
-Cut $1 billion from USDA programs supporting food banks
-Enacted tariffs that have caused food prices to rise
-Made the largest cut to SNAP in history
-Canceled the annual food security survey
Shameful.
-Cut $1 billion from USDA programs supporting food banks
-Enacted tariffs that have caused food prices to rise
-Made the largest cut to SNAP in history
-Canceled the annual food security survey
Shameful.
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
On top of refusing to fully fund SNAP during the shutdown, the Trump regime has:
-Cut $1 billion from USDA programs supporting food banks
-Enacted tariffs that have caused food prices to rise
-Made the largest cut to SNAP in history
-Canceled the annual food security survey
Shameful.
-Cut $1 billion from USDA programs supporting food banks
-Enacted tariffs that have caused food prices to rise
-Made the largest cut to SNAP in history
-Canceled the annual food security survey
Shameful.
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Protests are spreading to counties Trump won handily in 2024.
Here's the data.
@chenoweth.bsky.social @djpressman.bsky.social
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resi...
Here's the data.
@chenoweth.bsky.social @djpressman.bsky.social
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resi...
The resistance reaches into Trump country
As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.
wagingnonviolence.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Protests are spreading to counties Trump won handily in 2024.
Here's the data.
@chenoweth.bsky.social @djpressman.bsky.social
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resi...
Here's the data.
@chenoweth.bsky.social @djpressman.bsky.social
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resi...
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Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
@nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com immediately revert to tired framing of Democrats as just progressives vs moderates about to fight each other. That's not yesterday's election story.
November 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
@nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com immediately revert to tired framing of Democrats as just progressives vs moderates about to fight each other. That's not yesterday's election story.
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
Hot take: Democratic landslide
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Hot take: Democratic landslide
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I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
Thread.
Mamdani's policy content or Mamdani's campaigning and communication skills? The latter are very powerful.
Mamdani's policy content or Mamdani's campaigning and communication skills? The latter are very powerful.
1. Look, Zohran Mamdani is not the future of the Democratic Party.
I know this is true, because the same was said of Eric Adams. New York City’s outgoing mayor did not live up to his billing. Its incoming mayor (presumably) is almost certainly not going to live up to his.
I know this is true, because the same was said of Eric Adams. New York City’s outgoing mayor did not live up to his billing. Its incoming mayor (presumably) is almost certainly not going to live up to his.
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Thread.
Mamdani's policy content or Mamdani's campaigning and communication skills? The latter are very powerful.
Mamdani's policy content or Mamdani's campaigning and communication skills? The latter are very powerful.
“We have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution,” Mr. Cheney said. (NYT)
November 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
“We have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution,” Mr. Cheney said. (NYT)