johnwcurtis.bsky.social
Sociologist learning about US higher education, labor and careers, and urbanization in Kenya, among other things. Father and grandfather. Washington Nationals fan.đź“ŤWashington, DC.
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Trump is manufacturing a crisis and deliberately escalating the situation.
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This morning, Trump thanked the National Guard for handling protests they weren’t even present for. That’s how far they’ll go to sell the lie. Trump wants this fight, not to keep peace, but to justify using the military against Americans. A textbook authoritarian move.
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made a minor tweak to this to make the text more legible, that I doubt anyone else will care about or notice, but if you want the cleanest version, here you go
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Stop. We're not rioting here in Los Angeles. Trump isn't removing criminals. He's scooping up our friends and neighbors and denying them due process. We're protecting them with our bodies and making it difficult for ICE to commit these crimes. There is a difference.
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The Trump administration is bypassing state authority by invoking Title 10 of the U.S. Code, a federal power usually reserved for major insurrections. This is a dangerous overreach, and it’s how martial law begins in the so-called land of the free.
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There is no insurrection. There is no legal justification for invoking the insurrection act. We are not being invaded. Birthright citizenship is the law of the land. It’s all bullshit.
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I would also venture to guess that Dom Lucre’s audience, much like that of Candace Owens, is overwhelmingly white. The market niche they fill is “Black voices willing to tell racist white people what they want to hear while assuring them that they’re not racists.”
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For nearly 160 years, federal govt has been producing a statistical report on condition & progress of education. In 2002, Congress gave Ed Dept annual deadline for that report: June 1.
For first time ever, Ed Dept just failed to meet this statutory obligation.
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
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Let that sink in: a sitting member of Congress, who chairs the House subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Government Innovation, weaponized social media using deception and fake identities.