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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 18h
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h
See this for what it is:
*Trump wants to make the military/FBI loyal to him
*GOP refuses bipartisan legislation to pay the military
*Trump creates a new executive power: that he and he alone decides if the military/FBI is paid during shutdown

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This bothers me, and I think it should bother you. At a time when the President is politicizing the military, it strikes me as a deeply troubling development that their paychecks depend upon his willingness to dig into the treasury, as opposed to it being a bipartisan matter of law. Such a dependence is exactly the opposite of what we want to see in a regime built around the logic of personalist loyalty.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 19h
These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"
We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h
would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute
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Reuters @reuters.com · 23h
White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT
White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers
White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 20h
As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.
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Reposted by Melanie C. Green, Henry Jones

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 20h
NEW: A huge ice sculpture of the word “DEMOCRACY” is currently melting away in front of the US Capitol.

Organized by artists and activists, it was commissioned by the Up In Arms campaign, an effort led by Ben Cohen, the cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 20h
Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 21h
I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 21h
Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
America Needs a Mass Movement—Now
Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 23h
White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT
White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers
White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d
ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.
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Reposted by Melanie C. Green, Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan , and 3 more

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d
Wow. Trump's masked federal agents tear-gassed a crowd in Chicago and ended up gassing a bunch of local Chicago cops who were there to *deescalate tensions.* One local cop was captured on film washing out his eyes with a hose:

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Reposted by Melanie C. Green, Will Jennings, Linda J. Skitka , and 3 more

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d
Trump has a very simple worldview: the Presidency is not a public office, it is his property. He can use it to satisfy his personal or partisan whims, or to enrich himself.

So here, he threatens to reorganize an international competition, cohosted by Mexico and Canada, to settle a vendetta.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."
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Reposted by Melanie C. Green, Jane E. Fountain, Henry Jones

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d
Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.
An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side. Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side. Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side. Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d
ICE is recklessly throwing tear gas into our neighborhoods and busy streets, including near children at school and CPD officers.

The Trump Administration must stop their deployment of dangerous chemical weapons into the air of peaceful American communities.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d
Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.
Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 1d
Adelita Grijalva won her Congressional race fair and square THREE WEEKS ago.

Mike Johnson’s refusal to seat her is an absolute disgrace.

Seat her now. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Who is Adelita Grijalva and why hasn't she been sworn in to Congress yet?
Democrats are ramping up the pressure on House Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat who won a special election last month to succeed her late father.
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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d
The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d
If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 3d
Book banners really are judging books by their covers 📚

More than 80% of banned titles show people on the cover — and most of those feature women or people of color.

Research by @alexwermercolan.bsky.social:

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#bannedbooks #polisky #books
Many book bans could be judging titles mainly by their covers
A study of more than 1,600 books suggests that book ban advocates may not look past the cover art.
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by Lisa W. Fazio — Reposted by Melanie C. Green, Efrén O. Pérez, Michael Jones‐Correa

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 3d
"However, if you are debating whether the Trump administration’s proposed changes to university policies are reasonable or not, you are missing the point entirely. The compact is a thinly veiled invitation for universities to relinquish their self-governance"

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From the Community | We must refuse the 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education'
Associate professor Greg Martin writes on behalf of the Stanford's AAUP chapter to condemn the White House's compact on higher education.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d
Solipsism as a service. www.wsj.com/tech/persona...
With Sora, you can do exactly that, in 10-second increments. Soon, your phone might be filled with hundreds of fond memories of things that never happened and places you never went, moments you can sit back and “relive” when there’s nobody else around except your AI pals.  Generative AI already has the power to put us in little boxes, isolated from one another. Why wait for a friend to answer your text when ChatGPT will cheerfully answer right away? Why go through the trouble of making a new friend when you can turn to digital companions embedded in apps like Instagram or X? These new forms of entertainment are becoming the lake to our Narcissus: You can gaze into your phone and see yourself staring back, having all kinds of thrills, spills and chills.
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by Kate Starbird — Reposted by Melanie C. Green, Brendan Nyhan, Scott A. Imberman

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 4d
I’ve seen posts claiming this “truth” is evidence of dementia, but IMO that’s not the right frame. This is strategy. Since 2021, the right has been rewriting history, bending timelines, to connect their grievances (Covid) and conspiracy theories (Jan 6, censorship, etc) to the Biden administration.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 4d
That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 4d
I’ve covered and participated in protests where cops worked with organizers and then stayed back a bit and they’ve always been peaceful. With very few exceptions, all of the violence I’ve seen at protests—and I’ve seen a huge amount—started with aggressive policing.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 4d
I missed this yesterday: the AAU has come out against the compact. I am pleasantly surprised. I think it makes it pretty hard for any university to accept the deal now, with a possible exception of Texas. www.aau.edu/newsroom/pre...
We have significant concerns, however, about any compact or policy that could damage or depart from our nations competitive merit base system for research grant funding. That system has been the foundation for science and and innovation for decades. Since World War II that special partnership among the federal government, industry, and research universities has fueled tremendous growth in our economy and educated the next generation of highly skilled American workforce contributed to the health of our people and made our nation more safe and secure.
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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 4d
Law experts appalled as cops swoop on 77-year-old for writing 'innocuous' postcard

www.rawstory.com/florida-2674...
Law experts appalled as cops swoop on 77-year-old for writing 'innocuous' postcard
Florida resident James O’Gara received a surprise visit from law enforcement at his home last week in what First Amendment experts have labeled a clear attempt at intimidation in response to a “pretty...
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by Alan J. Dettlaff — Reposted by Melanie C. Green, Anna O. Law, Steven Heydemann , and 11 more

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 4d
Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d
WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 4d
In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.
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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 5d
There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.
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