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“There’s no doubt that there will be very deep and lasting chilling effects on speech on campuses as a result of these actions.” Former Columbia University President Lee Bollinger speaks with @chronicle.com

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A teacher in Idaho has been told to remove posters reading "Everyone is welcome here" - specifically because it features different skin tones. As I wrote last week, this is a global political movement that has explicitly set the goal of eradicating the very concept of equality.

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Fascism places emotion over reason. Words become just tools to achieve the vision of the Leader. In our post-truth world, this takes the special form of the inversion of meaning: fascists call other people "fascists" and antisemites call other people "antisemites" snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...

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This is the most unhinged government email I have seen since January 20 — and, likely, ever (and I reviewed all of the Clinton White House's DOMA records).

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Not confident about this, but I think Schumer and the Senate Democrats are making a mistake by letting the budget resolution pass. You only lose to an autocrat by going along quietly. You must team up and fight back. The cuts @ Columbia & Johns Hopkins are hurting medical research & public health.

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Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup for their 10-year-old U.S. citizen daughter, who has pediatric brain cancer. Parents were detained at an immigration checkpoint and deported. Their American children were removed to Mexico too. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

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I wonder whether small business owners who voted for him expected Trump to give their most personal data—medical, mental health, tax returns—to a narcissistic billionaire. Didn’t they want less government control? Essential heads-up from a UChicago law professor.

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Yep. Yep.

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The House just voted that “each day for the remainder of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day for purposes of section 202 of the National Emergencies Act.” A day is not a day. Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, and Franz Kafka must all be chuckling — or weeping.

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🇭🇺 The Hungarian government deleted a post stating that the preservation of Ukraine "should not happen." The now-removed message quoted Viktor Orbán criticizing EU funding for Ukraine, claiming it would "destroy the European economy." Hungarian media noticed its disappearance after backlash.

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A group of Democrats said lawmakers should not be offering such classes through their legislative office because, ultimately, taxpayers are footing the bill. Interviewed here along with @johnfea1.bsky.social and @andrewlseidel.bsky.social.

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Tomorrow at 7 p.m. (ET), our own @briankaylor.bsky.social and Beau Underwood will join Sarah Bogue, @gregcareyphd.bsky.social, and Riddick Weber for a free webinar to talk about church-state separation, Christian Nationalism, and the need to protect democracy and our gospel witness. Sign up now!

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Hegseth's "DEI" purge at Defense is so broad that photos of the Enola Gay got flagged. That tidbit is funny. The larger story is grotesque, including Hegseth ending the policy barring racial segregation in the workplace. www.salon.com/2025/03/10/e...

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The Christians who want to whitewash* US history seem unaware that Israel’s history not only records horrific behavior, it also attributes those crimes to Israel’s ancestors and heroes. * intentional word choice

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Available for preorder. Publication September 9. Don’t have endorsements yet, but here’s the first alert. www.eerdmans.com/978080287812...

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JD Vance last month: "If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there’s nothing America can do for you" www.politico.com/live-updates...

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He looked around at them with anger; he was grieved at their hardness of heart. (Mark 3:5)* * The context is highly problematic, a polemic against Pharisees that likely has little if anything to do with Pharisees. But the sentiment jumped out at me this morning.

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This is ominous. Commerce Secretary suggests new GDP calculations might deliberately exclude government spending to obscure impact of DOGE cuts. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Just asking questions.

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GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office. ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

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Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

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In light of Zelenskyy’s visit to the White House, let’s remember our reasons to know that Trump serves Putin. We don’t know why, but we do know. Trump and Vance planned to humiliate Zelenskyy: that will backfire. The great Russian patriot Garry Kasparov reminding us what world we’re in. 🇺🇦

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Loving all the winning.

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It hurts to say goodbye, @washingtonpost.com—but Jeff Bezos should just sell you to someone with integrity. #washingtonpost

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To spare you all the posts, I’m back to my little blog. Today: let’s admit that federal democracy is gone. Now what? 1 Our own government persecuting Jack Smith’s lawyers 2 Trump and the disgusting Gaza video 3 The tax bill But we are not helpless. What might work?

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Book of the Year. If you want to understand how so many contradictory forces-oil billionaires, tech oligarchs, think tank wonks, media propagandists, resentful workers, militia types, charismatic prophets, Christian dominionists, reactionary Catholics, etc.—have brought us to this moment, read. 🧵

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All we need to stop Trump’s rampage is a Republican representatives who would be willing to speak up for their people—like yours and mine. www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...

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NEW: Judge warns Trump appointees not to try to evade his order halting a blanket pause to foreign-aid payments, but stops short of holding officials in contempt. Minutes later, aid groups file new evidence Rubio may have violated court order www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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A majority of Americans worry that Elon Musk's drive to slash the federal government could hurt services their communities depend on and believe that billionaires have too much influence on President Trump's administration, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found reut.rs/3EKIE7o

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For eight decades, alliances have formed the bedrock of American foreign, trade and cultural policy. But not any more. Europeans, but also America's Asian allies, need to accept this new world, and learn how to live in it. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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Breaking:

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JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

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In South Carolina, tonight: “I have an ectopic pregnancy. It’s on my ovary. They’re making me risk my ovary even though I don’t want to. They refuse to do the surgery.” #ForcedBirthNation Original Post: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2yCKENt/

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New interview: Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social told me U.S. may be "months" from "irreversible" destruction of democracy; "most serious moment since the Civil War.” We had a blunt talk about how Dems need to wake up and change approach fast and what you can do. the.ink/p/watch-dem-...

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No surprise for a guy with more incarnations than a Hindu god, but JD Vance — once the media darling who tried to paulrevere about Trump’s Hitlerian potential — has become the concubine in a governing triumvirate that wants to jail U.S. reporters and free German neo-Nazis. the.ink/p/free-speec...

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