rocroc.bsky.social
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I have to admit being tired of people pinning Israel’s every amoral move as Bibi’s work.
When are we going to accept that their country has chosen just as amoral a regime as ours (the US) has? That most people of both countries want this?
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Yes, and they are not going to relent until the American people take to the streets and force them.
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That's cute and all, but I'm looking for a Dem who is angry and vocal about prosecuting Trump and his criminal enablers with all legal, and even borderline, means come 2028.
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You make a strong, exhaustive, and well-reasoned case. Still, I am going to stick with my view despite your superior argument.
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As much as I had grown sick of spotty ride availability on Lyft, this made it exceedingly easy for me to decide to delete Uber.
Eat s&!+ Khosrowshahi.
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The whole “shame for being white” thing is such a cop-out.
*You* control your reaction to the fact of privilege, @daveportnoy.bsky.social. You just couldn’t think of a constructive way to acknowledge that privilege and give back in a way that at least attempts to make the world a little more just.
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Of course, if CA does defy Trump, much will depend on whether other states help in that resistance. The feds can likely bring CA on its own to heel, but CA plus IL plus CO plus the Northeast would be a lot for the feds to chew on. I doubt the admin has a plan for that scenario.
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I think you can’t “dig into” this without thinking about what Trumps end-game is here.
Whether Newsom and CA go into open defiance of him or not, I think Trump feels he will win.
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Not sure how this plays out. Depends on how serious Newsom is, I suppose. Surround himself with known-loyal state law enforcement, and dare Trump and Homan to come at him?
He then gets quite the high-stakes confrontation.
Trump lost the state of CA long ago, but what does he gain??
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What does Jennings think currently happens when illegal aliens show up in the ER? Their immigration status is checked, and then they are turned away?
We're *already* paying for their healthcare. The question is *how* we should pay, and whether there's a more humane and cost-effective way.
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Exactly.
Moreover, we don't currently have the high-end semiconductor fabs nor enough people trained to work in one.
This thinking is end-to-end dumb, clearly dreamed up by someone who built companies that just do branding. Next he'll require Apple name the next Gen the "T1 chip".
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I think the media is approaching these WH pressers all wrong. As long as they are pure gaslighting such as this, boycott them.
Everyone should have followed AP out the door. Now, another org will need to get booted so everyone can “boycott” while not taking all the blame.
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Says the guy whose henchman was offering people a million dollars to vote for him.
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Wait, that’s an Onion headline, right?
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Perverse I know, but in theory judges at each level could rule for the feds, all the way up to SCOTUS, allowing the litigants to appeal in order to get a nationwide ruing on the EO.
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Israel is making a choice: starve Gazans until Hamas returns hostages. This is not an easy choice, but neither is it morally defensible to create suffering at that scale in order to secure the return of remaining hostages.
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Bull. Palestinians could "surrender" all day long, and Israel would continue their current campaign of starving them out of Gaza. Because Hamas would not surrender.
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If there were justice in this world, those Afrikaners would be picking cotton on Southern plantations - with black overseers - to earn their visas.
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Grace? Grace??!!!??
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@ciw.bsky.social Is there a petition from alumni yet, urging Alivisatos to sign?
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One effect of this is clear:
More immigrants will be paid under the table, leading to less tax revenue and, I assume, more cheating on taxes.
Moreover, as you drive immigrants into the grey-market, they will be taken advantage of more often. The only ones who win here are shady employers.
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Joining the indirect costs lawsuit is a good way to preserve Uni finances, but not to protect your organization's academic freedom and free-speech rights.
president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/04...
@dartmouthartsci.bsky.social
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Indeed, I looked for Beilock's name in the signatories. I was not surprised to find her absent, given her administration's reaction to Pro-Palestinian protests and hiring of a pro-Trump lawyer.
She is a huge disappointment.
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I am not in the least surprised that Beilock has not signed, based on her administration's reaction to pro-Palestinian protests and hiring of a Trump-insider lawyer.
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Local police should be present - or called to the scene - and tasked with assuring that only federal agents acting lawfully are detaining people.
@repgoodlander.bsky.social @hassan.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov
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Here comes the money pitch from a Canadian journalist... she serves up the softball that would resurrect Canadian tourism and imports from the US... aaaaand Leavitt takes a third strike looking... backwards.
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I think the "40% of adults, and 76% of Republicans say Trump should continue deporting people despite a court order" says it all.
Americans seem to think that showing respect for immigrants, or any moral stance that requires immediate sacrifice in the pursuit of longer-term gains, is for suckers.
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Trump, power-hungry narcissist that he is, will always sidestep all responsibility even as he seeks more power. This is how we can all be assured that his Presidency will be a deepening disaster.
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I cannot 🧡 this enough. Thank you for the uplift!
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By shielding our automakers, all you're doing is making them less competitive on the world market. But if you want to hasten our decline, by all means let's retreat behind the wall we're building for ourselves.