Pat Inman
@patinman.bsky.social
Austin & Raleigh. Writer. democrat. Cat dad. Spouse. Theater kid. Ultimate player. Bookworm: news, SFF, YAF, pol theory, history & lit of US (esp. South, Carolinas, Texas), España, Deutschland, Europe, Latin America. English, Español, Deutsch. He/him/él.
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Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care.
Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school
A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, a scared 5-year-old, drew attention to a detention center in Dilley, Texas. Advocates say his experience reflects what hundreds of children have endured out of public vie...
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February 6, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care.
Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
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Things you learn reading district court rulings about US immigration policies.
![Alexander Moritz Frey was the first to use “shithole” as a descriptor of a “wretched place,”
doing so in his seminal antiwar novel, The Cross Bearers (1930). See Shithole, Oxford English
Dictionary, https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=shithole.
Frey’s life story confirms the role democracies can play in welcoming, as George
Washington did, “the oppressed and persecuted.” Frey, a prolific author and pacifist, served as a
medic in the trenches of World War I alongside Adolf Hitler. Hitler later tried to convert him to
Nazism, but Frey staunchly refused. He fled Germany in 1933, as Nazis burned his books,
raided his apartment, and issued a warrant for his arrest. He lived his remaining years in exile,
first in Austria and then in Switzerland. See Von David Gordon Smith, Eye-Witness Account of
Hitler’s WWI Years Found, Spiegel International (April 30, 2007), https://www.spiegel.de/
international/zeitgeist/ rediscovering-alexander-moritz-frey-eye-witness-account-of-hitler-s-wwiyears-found-a-478359.html [https://perma.cc/RU49-2Y4U].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do/bafkreia5bereotohoiq4vd5ghkrzdfijx7dkmrlgvzkdbg5omlgirlt4ke@jpeg)
February 4, 2026 at 5:06 AM
Things you learn reading district court rulings about US immigration policies.
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A journalist asks about justice for Epstein survivors.
He responds by attacking her; her face, her demeanor, her smile.
When the question is dangerous, he goes after the woman asking it. Not her facts. Not her reporting. Her existence.
And survivors are watching.
So are our daughters.
He responds by attacking her; her face, her demeanor, her smile.
When the question is dangerous, he goes after the woman asking it. Not her facts. Not her reporting. Her existence.
And survivors are watching.
So are our daughters.
February 3, 2026 at 11:20 PM
A journalist asks about justice for Epstein survivors.
He responds by attacking her; her face, her demeanor, her smile.
When the question is dangerous, he goes after the woman asking it. Not her facts. Not her reporting. Her existence.
And survivors are watching.
So are our daughters.
He responds by attacking her; her face, her demeanor, her smile.
When the question is dangerous, he goes after the woman asking it. Not her facts. Not her reporting. Her existence.
And survivors are watching.
So are our daughters.
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A disabled man named Wael Tarabishi died last week after ICE abducted his father and full time caregiver.
Wael begged for his dad’s release.
He told ICE that losing his caregiver would kill him.
His father didn’t even get to say goodbye and has been denied the right to attend the funeral.
Wael begged for his dad’s release.
He told ICE that losing his caregiver would kill him.
His father didn’t even get to say goodbye and has been denied the right to attend the funeral.
Disabled US citizen's family says ICE stopped his father from attending his funeral
Wael Tarabishi died three months after his caregiver father, Maher Tarabishi, was detained during a routine check-in with ICE in October.
abcnews.go.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:30 AM
A disabled man named Wael Tarabishi died last week after ICE abducted his father and full time caregiver.
Wael begged for his dad’s release.
He told ICE that losing his caregiver would kill him.
His father didn’t even get to say goodbye and has been denied the right to attend the funeral.
Wael begged for his dad’s release.
He told ICE that losing his caregiver would kill him.
His father didn’t even get to say goodbye and has been denied the right to attend the funeral.
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Remember her name: Aliya Rahman
Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.
It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.
ICE MUST GO‼️
Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.
It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.
ICE MUST GO‼️
February 3, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Remember her name: Aliya Rahman
Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.
It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.
ICE MUST GO‼️
Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.
It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.
ICE MUST GO‼️
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Masked thugs on the streets.
Measles outbreaks across the nation.
Blatant government corruption.
Coverup of group of elite sex offenders.
Ruling party trying to rig elections.
Leader building grandiose monuments to himself.
Collapse of remnants of nonpartisan civil service.
Third world America.
Measles outbreaks across the nation.
Blatant government corruption.
Coverup of group of elite sex offenders.
Ruling party trying to rig elections.
Leader building grandiose monuments to himself.
Collapse of remnants of nonpartisan civil service.
Third world America.
February 4, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Masked thugs on the streets.
Measles outbreaks across the nation.
Blatant government corruption.
Coverup of group of elite sex offenders.
Ruling party trying to rig elections.
Leader building grandiose monuments to himself.
Collapse of remnants of nonpartisan civil service.
Third world America.
Measles outbreaks across the nation.
Blatant government corruption.
Coverup of group of elite sex offenders.
Ruling party trying to rig elections.
Leader building grandiose monuments to himself.
Collapse of remnants of nonpartisan civil service.
Third world America.
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Given the timing, we consider this to be targeted harassment as punishment for exercising our First Amendment rights.
We're still handing out free whistles. And we just got in hundreds of new yard signs.
Keep resisting, Minnesota. We love you.
We're still handing out free whistles. And we just got in hundreds of new yard signs.
Keep resisting, Minnesota. We love you.
January 17, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Given the timing, we consider this to be targeted harassment as punishment for exercising our First Amendment rights.
We're still handing out free whistles. And we just got in hundreds of new yard signs.
Keep resisting, Minnesota. We love you.
We're still handing out free whistles. And we just got in hundreds of new yard signs.
Keep resisting, Minnesota. We love you.
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Texas A&M canceled Dr. Bright’s Ethics in Public Policy course a day after he appeared on local television criticizing the institution’s banning of Plato & other academic texts.
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#academicsky
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#academicsky
Texas A&M Administrators Will Cancel Your Course If You Don’t Tell Them Exactly Where And What Its Race And Gender Parts Are* - Daily Nous
Texas A&M University (TAMU) administrators cancelled "Ethics in Public Policy," a graduate course in the university's Bush School of Government and Public Service, because they rejected as too vague i...
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January 16, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Texas A&M canceled Dr. Bright’s Ethics in Public Policy course a day after he appeared on local television criticizing the institution’s banning of Plato & other academic texts.
@drleonardbright.bsky.social
#academicsky
@drleonardbright.bsky.social
#academicsky
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Yes. Do you know how many families are being supported by their neighbors right now? Families afraid to leave home being fed by their neighborhoods; immigrant communities feeding the old hippies standing on their street corners with whistles in 10-degree snowstorms. They cannot break us
Is everyone in MN a hero?
January 17, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Yes. Do you know how many families are being supported by their neighbors right now? Families afraid to leave home being fed by their neighborhoods; immigrant communities feeding the old hippies standing on their street corners with whistles in 10-degree snowstorms. They cannot break us
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The myth of traditional Italian cuisine has seduced the world. The truth is very different | Alberto Grandi
The myth of traditional Italian cuisine has seduced the world. The truth is very different | Alberto Grandi
The comforting tourist-brochure idea of what Italian food looks like obscures a story shaped by hunger, migration and innovation, says Alberto Grandi, author and professor of food history
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:13 AM
The myth of traditional Italian cuisine has seduced the world. The truth is very different | Alberto Grandi
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This review was in the crossword this weekend. I have to cherish a (bygone) world where a movie maker could have a flop, could err, could live to create another thing for the world. We should do what we can to let all the robs Reiner flourish and tell their stories.
One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.
December 15, 2025 at 4:12 AM
This review was in the crossword this weekend. I have to cherish a (bygone) world where a movie maker could have a flop, could err, could live to create another thing for the world. We should do what we can to let all the robs Reiner flourish and tell their stories.
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A woman from the FDA’s Center for Devices & Radiological Health explains how her entire department was gutted
That means there’s no staff to alert you if your pacemaker is recalled
If an implantable device in your body is toxic or broken
This could have catastrophic health impacts & cost lives
That means there’s no staff to alert you if your pacemaker is recalled
If an implantable device in your body is toxic or broken
This could have catastrophic health impacts & cost lives
October 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
A woman from the FDA’s Center for Devices & Radiological Health explains how her entire department was gutted
That means there’s no staff to alert you if your pacemaker is recalled
If an implantable device in your body is toxic or broken
This could have catastrophic health impacts & cost lives
That means there’s no staff to alert you if your pacemaker is recalled
If an implantable device in your body is toxic or broken
This could have catastrophic health impacts & cost lives
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The wealthiest 10% of Americans now account for nearly half of all spending—the highest level since 1989.
Meanwhile, lower-income Americans face stagnant wages and the rising cost of essentials.
So naturally Republicans gave billionaires and corporations trillions in tax breaks.
Meanwhile, lower-income Americans face stagnant wages and the rising cost of essentials.
So naturally Republicans gave billionaires and corporations trillions in tax breaks.
October 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The wealthiest 10% of Americans now account for nearly half of all spending—the highest level since 1989.
Meanwhile, lower-income Americans face stagnant wages and the rising cost of essentials.
So naturally Republicans gave billionaires and corporations trillions in tax breaks.
Meanwhile, lower-income Americans face stagnant wages and the rising cost of essentials.
So naturally Republicans gave billionaires and corporations trillions in tax breaks.
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For the record.
My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.
I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."
My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.
I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."
September 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
For the record.
My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.
I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."
My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.
I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."
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Sooknanan starts off by asking Ensign if he's aware that she just entered a new TRO on the docket to bar the removal of the putative class of minor children.
He says no, he's not.
She asks him to take minutes to circulate that order to his clients.
We're in recess for 5 min while he does so.
He says no, he's not.
She asks him to take minutes to circulate that order to his clients.
We're in recess for 5 min while he does so.
August 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Sooknanan starts off by asking Ensign if he's aware that she just entered a new TRO on the docket to bar the removal of the putative class of minor children.
He says no, he's not.
She asks him to take minutes to circulate that order to his clients.
We're in recess for 5 min while he does so.
He says no, he's not.
She asks him to take minutes to circulate that order to his clients.
We're in recess for 5 min while he does so.
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BREAKING: Judge Sooknanan says the children are being removed right now so has advanced today’s hearing to 12:30pm. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
August 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
BREAKING: Judge Sooknanan says the children are being removed right now so has advanced today’s hearing to 12:30pm. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education
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August 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education
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Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance
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August 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance
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An important thread to read through; particularly this part about the 2026 midterms stood out:
August 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
An important thread to read through; particularly this part about the 2026 midterms stood out:
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"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
April 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
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"Othering" from Republican Senator Orrin Hatch
August 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"Othering" from Republican Senator Orrin Hatch
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Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats.
Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
August 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats.
Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
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How America falls as a democracy:
Documents obtained by FOX News show planning for activations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming – with status effective from August through mid-November.
August 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
How America falls as a democracy:
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this is little more than a vendetta being pursued by the federal government against a man it unlawfully removed from the country and was forced to bring back
UPDATE: Hours after Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release in Tennessee, Fox News reports that the Trump administration may deport him to Uganda as early as next week.
August 23, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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