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thisyank.bsky.social

Political junkie. Liberal. Law stuff. #NFFC. Vegetarian, but you eat what you want. Italian-American, British by marriage. Views do not represent my employer's views.

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It’s worth noting that JK Rowling is not only funding meritless legal challenges against trans people until they can appeal up to the court that will back them, she openly gloats about how this is where her money is going. This is what the Harry Potter TV show is bankrolling.

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Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.

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NEW from @johnphudson.bsky.social: No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Exactly 250 years ago Americans confronted a mad king bent on an imperialist and vindictive trade policy that threatened to wreck the economy bsky.app/profile/250y...

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If you abduct someone and send them involuntarily and without recourse to a country where they've never lived to be imprisoned, that isn't deportation, it's human trafficking

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90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Mmmmm so Philip K. Dick did this already and it was Not Good.

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Great question!!! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

The penguins of Antarctica are not happy.

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

And sometimes there's a health and wellness table at your workplace and your TA knows exactly what you need.

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RFK on the accidental layoffs (via the Guardian). Tell me again how business sensibilities help government?

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I'm usually pretty good at focusing but what with the world burning down and all I've been really distractible. It's been hard to get through my grading, even though I believe my work remains valuable. Add to that that a good chunk of my 8:30 class was awakened by a 4:30 fire alarm and....

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Reminder that Congress could undo this if it wanted to

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I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold