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Judd Taube
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Adjunct Professor of Jewish Studies and Social Justice, University of San Francisco

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Ok I’m doing it: Thread of all the unquestionable antisemitism by trump admin and associates, because as a Jew, I refuse to be used to further their cynical assault on civil liberties. 1/x
I'm not going to speak for other Jews, but for me personally: I find it pretty fucking galling for the Trump administration, which is staffed in large part by Nazi sympathizers, to use antisemitism as an excuse for their racism and xenophobia.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Apr 9
Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
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Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.

This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban https://aje.news/ljjuww
January 29, 2026 at 4:33 AM
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
January 28, 2026 at 5:25 AM
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I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.

I don’t let bullies win.

Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
January 28, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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As a Canadian, what I've learned so far:

- Minnesotans are very nice and VERY organized
- Mainers are aggressively xenophobic but in a way that lCE will not like
- Philadelphians crave the blood of their enemies
- LA is ground zero for chaos tactics that never lose
- New Yorkers love gay hockey
January 27, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus
January 26, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Between Pretti in Minnesota today and Rittenhouse in Kenosha in 2020, there is likely no starker illustration of the unsaid maxim of conservative politics that "[t]here must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." - FW
People might say this is hypocritical given the GOP embrace of Kyle Rittenhouse, but really the only conservative principle is that we should be able to do whatever we want while you suffer the consequences
Q: Did he brandish a gun?

KRISTI NOEM: This individual showed up to impede a law enforcement operation and assaulted our officers. I don't know of any peaceful protester that shows up with a gun and ammunition rather than a sign. This is a violent riot when you have someone showing up with weapons
January 24, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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Melissa Joan Hart is a legit card carrying conservative republican we are through the looking glass.
Clarissa explains it all to the DHS Instagram account
January 24, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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the 45,000 gun deaths we suffer each year are just the price we pay to live in a society made safe from government tyranny by an armed populace
January 24, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c

1. continuing, not 1 off.
2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it
3. literally at hand of federal government, which is
4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.
January 24, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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Folks in the replies truly working this metaphor OUT
i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory
January 20, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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In fact, every university that hosts Duke should unnerve the visitors with chants of "STE-PHEN MIL-LER 👏👏 👏 👏 👏"

It'd be a great way to rattle them but also a nice middle finger to this administration in a non-news forum
I mean, if they aren't chanting "ICE is your fault" or some such when the Dookies show up at the Smith Center this year I don't even know if I still want to wish that Maryland was back in the ACC anymore.
January 20, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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Like so many, I’ve been affected by the new US federal stance against science. As a result of this and seeking a better life balance, I have accepted a new Full Prof position at the University Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮🤩

I will miss CA deeply, but a new adventure awaits 🐟

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers
Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.
www.nature.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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I uh, un-recommend Best Bus
January 20, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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The U.S. is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich and just before the start of World War II.

A critical read: degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-a...
Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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They nearly killed this woman. Then they went on national TV and tried to smear her.
Woman Seen Pulled from Car Speaks Out: 'Lucky to be alive'

Aliya Rahman "said she was driving to an appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when the incident occurred."

She asked for a doctor and was taken to a detention center where she lost consciousness.
abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...
January 17, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO

this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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Holy shit.

Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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"He said he saw guards choking Lunas Campos and heard Lunas Campos repeatedly saying, 'No puedo respirar' — Spanish for 'I can’t breathe'..."

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Medical examiner believes death of man in ICE custody was homicide, recording says
A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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can I share my all time favorite picture of myself
January 16, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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With a hat tip to @mtsw.bsky.social for his posts about messaging and editing, I made this (very rough) example of what such an ad might look like.
January 15, 2026 at 3:02 AM
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 17d
The woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week served on the board of her son’s school, which linked to documents encouraging parents to monitor ICE and directing them to training. https://cnn.it/49yoNEa
January 14, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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This is completely fucking unacceptable. Shut this terrorist government down until it stops brutalizing its own citizens.
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
January 13, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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This is why they mask. It isn’t about safety. It’s because they know that if decent people learn what they do, they’ll be social outcasts.
January 13, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.
Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'
A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department.The killing of 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross last...
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January 13, 2026 at 6:31 PM