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Higher Ed PhD who loves excellent coffee, strength training, belly laughs, dogs, cats, equity and inclusion, mixtapes, kettlebells, and J&H ❤️ End Genocide and Zionism now. He/Him
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For decades, US presidents from both parties used a simple formulation for defining a tyrant: a leader who threatens or uses military force to suppress their domestic political opposition. Now we have a president doing just that and conservatives are cheering. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

A powerful message to opposition leaders, dissidents, cooperators, operatives and allies in Iran, Russia, and around the globe. After you are done risking your life to help us, we will sell you out and screw you over. Because the current govt will use you and discard you.

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

We should make June 14th No Kings Day permanently.

So it was the "No Kings" marches versus the "No Crowds" parade

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

House Republicans have a plan that would force schools to reimburse the government for a share of the federal loans their students don't repay.

What a rotten reality to have a White House occupant who hates so many Americans and hates everything our democratic nation stands for.

Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.

This is important. But it is a timely and disgusting DISTRACTION. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

Why is ICE arresting employees but not employers? DOJ policy is to charge the most culpable people. The employers would seem to qualify.

Hypocrisy. Leave it to Leavitt.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called Los Angeles a “city of criminals” and not a city of immigrants. But like its name, Los Angeles is a city of angels. We protect and look out for one another, especially the most vulnerable.

CNN’s Jason Carroll was zip-tied and escorted away—for reporting the news. But they claimed he wasn’t under arrest? Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists? We still have a First Amendment.

The Battle of Los Angeles tidal.com/browse/album...

This album is incredibly relevant today. Play it loud! Fuck magats! Who controls the past now controls the future Who controls the present now controls the past Who controls the past now controls the future Who controls the present now? Now testify #MusicSky #NowPlaying youtu.be/Q3dvbM6Pias?...

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards

yeah I'm not sure this is so much a petty feud between two men as it is the president of the United States sending troops to attack the people they're supposed to protect

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.

At least five women have died as a result of abortion bans since Roe v. Wade was overturned.

The Trump administration is looking to cut funding for already underfunded tribal colleges and universities by nearly 90%. College leaders had not been warned of the proposed cuts nor consulted during the budgeting process. By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social‬

Some youth in Maryland spend more than a year in adult jails before seeing their day in court. Without a fix, the state may lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding every year.

And pay for abortions!

What the fuck is the point of paying money to a police department if they won’t protect people from hostile masked kidnappers?

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

Let's keep our transgender servicemembers and kick out Hegseth.

Georgia’s governor promotes his Medicaid work requirement as a national model for reform. Yet the program has cost taxpayers more than $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled only 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible. (Published Feb. 2025)

Can we all just call it what it is at this point? MAGA is not a political movement. It's a highly effective and successful marketing strategy. Ultimately, it is only a marketing strategy (that borders on cultism) and otherwise hollow. And now it will fully burn to the ground.

it’s funny that they’re both on their own personal websites posting their little posts

Watching Trump and Elon fall out is like watching two thieves argue over who got caught on camera. Newsflash: it was both of y’all.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!

This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received. Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙

Linda McMahon has never taught in a classroom, can't define DEI, and has no concept of the issues facing students today. She couldn't even define the Tulsa Race Massacre. Trump's regime is full of uneducated and corrupt, anti-American idiots just like him. It's equally frustrating and disappointing.

What Elon saw: