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craignewman.bsky.social
Just another dude fleeing Elonistan. Public school teacher and baseball coach in Chicago. Former ink-stained wretch.
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And now a live lookin at Dow futures trading as investors cheer trade talks with China.

Look at the hellscape she's fleeing!

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Just ordered the books for my first class in my American History MA program. Seems like a good start.

Stop taking this administration at its word

JFC … but she might actually be better than the Jan. 6 guy abcnews.go.com/amp/US/trump...

Nothing says teacher appreciation like gutting the Department of Education and firing half of the people that make the agency run.

The Great Lakes Don't Technically Have Tides Like The Ocean, Here's Why Read More: www.sciencing.com/1846294/grea...

The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall flip.it/Mz7c3G

We're already living under authoritarianism. It's not "coming" or "approaching" - it is here now. Lots of vulnerable people need help. These are serious times.

This is real

Sean Spicer, whose Newsmax show was canceled two years ago, is asking Karoline Leavitt questions as part of the White House's "new media" briefing

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A two year old baby forced onto a plane by her government—our government. That’s what Ilan Wurman and Kurt Lash and their academic collaborators and defenders have been paving the way for with their bullshit articles. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Conservative people in the US distrust science way more broadly than previously thought Even chemistry gets side-eye now. Trust in science is crumbling across America's ideology flip.it/VB.7zY

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The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery.

O less bonkers than rallies on trump saying “psych!” To tariffs on China and his thirst to fire Jerome Powell. It’s all bullshit.

Conservative people in the US distrust science way more broadly than previously thought Even chemistry gets side-eye now. Trust in science is crumbling across America's ideology. flip.it/gArdM1

U.S. to place 3,251% tariffs on Southeast Asian solar panels flip.it/f8-t8U

Federal Education Cuts and Trump DEI Demands Leave States, Teachers in Limbo Many conservative-led states rely heavily on dollars from Washington. flip.it/k.fkMl

In 1982, Gophers Were Dropped Onto Mount St Helens And Amazing Things Happened To The Ecosystem flip.it/Hzu28K

GIVE HAITI THEIR MONEY BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s the incompetence layered on the fascism.

Manufacturing jobs are never coming back Putting Americans back to work in factories isn’t just hard. It’s impossible. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

200 years ago, France extorted Haiti in one of history’s greatest heists – and Haitians want reparations theconversation.com/200-years-ag...

People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs Workers for the National Civilian Community Corps were sent home due to “new operational parameters.” The program’s long-term fate is unclear. www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

And they weren’t exclusive to Jews. Artists, academics, lgbtq, social critics, scientists, Romani and other enemies of the state and undesirable were all rounded up in the name of a pure society. Look the other way at your own peril.

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Got a new one today when the press secretary accused him of being a "human trafficker" just absolutely out of thin air!

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

This from @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Van Hollen: "If the president gets to shred the Constitution and ignore the Supreme Court in this case, it is a very short path to the president ignoring court orders in other cases. So every American should care about this."

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

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🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I’m afraid this is correct. bsky.app/profile/grav...

Trump Administration Freezes $2.2 Billion in Funding to Harvard The move came hours after the university refused to agree to the government's demands to change its governance structure over campus antisemitism concerns. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

The Many Ways Kennedy Is Already Undermining Vaccines www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/h...

Appropriate response.

BREAKING: Days before she was detained by ICE, the State Department had determined Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk did NOT engage in antisemitic or terrorist activities. Rubio revoked her visa anyhow. Gift article: wapo.st/4j8d5Uh

Wait, what?

This is to the shame of our country

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Trump’s China tariff shocks U.S. importers: a Chicago-area CEO calls it ‘end of days’ chicago.suntimes.com/business/202...

Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED has learned. www.wired.com/story/palant...