Paul Knudson
@paulthomask80.bsky.social
Sociologist, urban planning, climate change. Methodist University professor.
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The Trump Administration is vowing to stop Leftist hate speech, which apparently includes directly quoting Charlie Kirk.
September 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The Trump Administration is vowing to stop Leftist hate speech, which apparently includes directly quoting Charlie Kirk.
The New American Inequality: The Cooled vs. the Cooked www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
Opinion | The New American Inequality: The Cooled vs. the Cooked
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August 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The New American Inequality: The Cooled vs. the Cooked www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
apnews.com/article/trum... threatens 50% tariffs on EU and 25% penalties on Apple as his trade war intensifies
Trump threatens 50% tariffs on EU and 25% penalties on Apple as his trade war intensifies
President Donald Trump is threatening a 50% tax on all imports from the European Union as well as a 25% tariff on Apple products unless iPhones are made in America.
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May 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
apnews.com/article/trum... threatens 50% tariffs on EU and 25% penalties on Apple as his trade war intensifies
This is an outstanding book. My students are going to read several chapters from it this fall in my new class on social conflict
May 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This is an outstanding book. My students are going to read several chapters from it this fall in my new class on social conflict
My students are gonna be reading part of this book this fall.
May 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My students are gonna be reading part of this book this fall.
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April 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Reminder: Dr. Oz had to pay $5.25 million to settle a class action suit for promoting phony weight loss cures.
He is a conman. No wonder Trump likes him.
Now he's in charge of running Medicare and Medicaid.
He is a conman. No wonder Trump likes him.
Now he's in charge of running Medicare and Medicaid.
April 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Reminder: Dr. Oz had to pay $5.25 million to settle a class action suit for promoting phony weight loss cures.
He is a conman. No wonder Trump likes him.
Now he's in charge of running Medicare and Medicaid.
He is a conman. No wonder Trump likes him.
Now he's in charge of running Medicare and Medicaid.
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This asshole raised prices and ruined your retirement savings, and now he's out golfing for the rest of the weekend.
April 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This asshole raised prices and ruined your retirement savings, and now he's out golfing for the rest of the weekend.
Will American voters ever learn that Republicans are awful for the economy?
Reagan = 1987 stock market/ S & L crash
Bush Sr. = commercial real estate crash
Bush Jr. = worst financial crash since 1929
Trump 1 = Covid crash
Trump 2 = tariff crash, possible fiscal crash.
Reagan = 1987 stock market/ S & L crash
Bush Sr. = commercial real estate crash
Bush Jr. = worst financial crash since 1929
Trump 1 = Covid crash
Trump 2 = tariff crash, possible fiscal crash.
April 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Will American voters ever learn that Republicans are awful for the economy?
Reagan = 1987 stock market/ S & L crash
Bush Sr. = commercial real estate crash
Bush Jr. = worst financial crash since 1929
Trump 1 = Covid crash
Trump 2 = tariff crash, possible fiscal crash.
Reagan = 1987 stock market/ S & L crash
Bush Sr. = commercial real estate crash
Bush Jr. = worst financial crash since 1929
Trump 1 = Covid crash
Trump 2 = tariff crash, possible fiscal crash.
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She appears to have been taken to an ICE facility in Louisiana, against a judge’s orders
NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine
“I can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,” says a witness to the “kidnapping” of Rumeysa Ozturk as she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast.
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March 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
She appears to have been taken to an ICE facility in Louisiana, against a judge’s orders
If Democrats can't make something out of a billionaire member of the president's cabinet talking to billionaire podcast hosts about how people can go a week without a social security check then they should probably disband.
March 22, 2025 at 3:13 AM
If Democrats can't make something out of a billionaire member of the president's cabinet talking to billionaire podcast hosts about how people can go a week without a social security check then they should probably disband.
Former commissioner of Social Security Administration is warning Democrats to get their shit together to stop DOGE, saying he believes that DOGE has already taken 90 percent of of the actions necessary to crater the social security system.
March 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Former commissioner of Social Security Administration is warning Democrats to get their shit together to stop DOGE, saying he believes that DOGE has already taken 90 percent of of the actions necessary to crater the social security system.
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As recently as 2024, denouncing microplastics was a key part of RFK Jr.’s political identity. Yet, he’s part of an administration doing more than any in history to dismantle every mechanism that we could use to address this danger.
RFK Jr Is Running Away From the One Thing He’s Ever Been Right About
Microplastics really are a public health emergency. But instead of talking about his signature issue, he’s babbling about irrelevant moral panics and being dangerously vague about a measles outbreak.
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March 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
As recently as 2024, denouncing microplastics was a key part of RFK Jr.’s political identity. Yet, he’s part of an administration doing more than any in history to dismantle every mechanism that we could use to address this danger.
John A. Hemingway, Last Survivor of the Battle of Britain, Dies at 105 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/w...
John “Paddy” Hemingway, Last Surviving Pilot of the Battle of Britain, Dies at 105
A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help stave off a Nazi land invasion of Britain.
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March 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
John A. Hemingway, Last Survivor of the Battle of Britain, Dies at 105 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/w...
So if you're a tourist visiting the US, and ICE decide you're a Venezuelan gang member, they can put you immediately onto a plane to El Salvador where you'll be locked in prison for a year with no charges, no hearing, no trial, no right to consult a lawyer, no phone call?
March 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
So if you're a tourist visiting the US, and ICE decide you're a Venezuelan gang member, they can put you immediately onto a plane to El Salvador where you'll be locked in prison for a year with no charges, no hearing, no trial, no right to consult a lawyer, no phone call?
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.
Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
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March 17, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.
Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.
Trump’s Commerce Secretary Confirms Plan to Gut Medicare—and More newrepublic.com/post/191740/... via @newrepublic.com
Trump’s Commerce Secretary Confirms Plan to Gut Medicare—and More
Howard Lutnick has revealed Donald Trump’s true plans.
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March 14, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Trump’s Commerce Secretary Confirms Plan to Gut Medicare—and More newrepublic.com/post/191740/... via @newrepublic.com
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Republicans cut Democrats entirely out of their process for the CR, didn't want any of our input, and would have been blamed by a majority of the American public for a government shutdown.
There was no reason to cave to them.
Chuck Schumer has to go.
There was no reason to cave to them.
Chuck Schumer has to go.
March 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Republicans cut Democrats entirely out of their process for the CR, didn't want any of our input, and would have been blamed by a majority of the American public for a government shutdown.
There was no reason to cave to them.
Chuck Schumer has to go.
There was no reason to cave to them.
Chuck Schumer has to go.
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I am quite sure that around 80% of Americans want to keep the Education Department and the same for USAID. Are we really going to let 20% of the dumbest people in the country completely dismantle our federal government?
March 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I am quite sure that around 80% of Americans want to keep the Education Department and the same for USAID. Are we really going to let 20% of the dumbest people in the country completely dismantle our federal government?
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🧵Here's Why Democrats Can't Meet This Moment
And How We Can Fix It
The Professional Left Can’t Save Us Because It Doesn’t Exist (Yet)
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And How We Can Fix It
The Professional Left Can’t Save Us Because It Doesn’t Exist (Yet)
Read for free and please repost!!! open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Here's Why Democrats Can't Meet This Moment
And How We Can Fix It
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March 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
🧵Here's Why Democrats Can't Meet This Moment
And How We Can Fix It
The Professional Left Can’t Save Us Because It Doesn’t Exist (Yet)
Read for free and please repost!!! open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
And How We Can Fix It
The Professional Left Can’t Save Us Because It Doesn’t Exist (Yet)
Read for free and please repost!!! open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...