davidmluebke.bsky.social
Historian of the Reformation, early modern world, social movements, uprisings. Helped create the permanent exhibition at Holocaust Museum in DC, ages ago. Union activist. Amateur cook and photographer. Opinions are my own, RT ≠ endorsement. 💙🌊
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Thanks for the shout-out, Clay! 💙💙
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"...it reduces Jewish identity to a political litmus test – one that erases the rich diversity of Jewish thought and experience. This erasure has real consequences for Jewish students and faculty who don’t conform to Harvard’s preferred stereotype."
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"The same principle applies when universities assume all Jewish people share identical views about Israel and Zionism. When Harvard treats criticisms of Israeli violence as antisemitism or of Israel as a state for Jews above the other people who live there..."
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“These assumptions aren’t just empirically wrong – they’re legally dangerous. As the US supreme court established in Students for Fair Admissions, universities cannot operate on the 'belief that minority students always express some characteristic minority viewpoint on any issue'.”
#Edusky
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"This narrative relies on three false assumptions: that Jewish communities hold monolithic pro-Israel views, that Jewish students cannot tolerate different perspectives on Israel-Palestine, and that exposure to criticism of Israel constitutes a civil rights injury."
#Israel
#Palestine
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The total bill for the entire project, including the research to which he refers, is not “tens of millions” but $10,451,439.
#Hegseth
#StupidTwit
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For those not following the drama earlier, it's for sharing this piece advocating for nonviolence (but not being judgy about how targeted people respond either). And saying some things about governmental/ institutional violence.
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Historical data are not your friend
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If you went into Target and asked the teenager selling you a bottle of shampoo to represent 200+ clients in a complicated class action lawsuit, and they said yes, you would wind up with an experience akin to Pamela Jo Bondi being our nation's Attorney General.
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This deliberate provocation is part of the loophole Project 2025 to move America into martial law.
If protests can get portrayed as aggressive, Felon47 uses the Insurrection Act.
If not, they abuse protesters and get to martial law slower with a 3-step process: bsky.app/profile/lent...
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No resident of Portland is surprised by this.
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Before or after the regime nationalizes his companies?
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Because this was never really about saving money or finding waste; it was always only ever about replacing professionals with MAGA hacks.