Grudgie the Whale

Yup bsky.app/profile/elkm...

I don't say this lightly: The New York Times should fire the reporter and editor who chose to present a leak from the white house as if it was a leak from Harvard.

Don't print lies in the newspaper

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

Abbott & Paxton are inventing a crime here. “The legislature shall meet” is not the language of a law that has criminal consequences.

The Trump regime is trying to make it illegal to oppose them politically. They want to ban freedom of speech and end competitive elections.

Full blown fascism

UPDATE: Governor Abbott just threatened to REMOVE THE TEXAS DEMS FROM THEIR SEATS if they don’t return by 3pm Monday (so Republicans can steal 5 seats in Congress using a special session about the flooding as cover) — and charge them with FELONIES.

We are over the cliff.

Trump stole from a kid’s cancer charity

They created fake electoral certificates.

There’s no bottom.

“There’s no valid government that disagrees with Republicans.”

The guy who calls every black person Low IQ thinks you can decrease prices by more than 100%. The fucking gall of this dumb racist asshole.

🚨 Ken Paxton wants Dems arrested for refusing to help rig an election.

That’s rich coming from a guy indicted on three felony counts of securities fraud, accused by his top deputies of bribery, abuse of office, while allegedly using burner phones, secret emails & fake names to dodge accountability.

Been saying this for months. I know so many people across so many industries who are saying things are bad, very bad. Huge glaring warning signs everywhere.

Trump engineered a recession for no good reason at all.

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Trump preyed on families desperate to have a child, lying to them for votes.

Fordham University confirms Cohen warned it not to disclose Trump’s grades Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen said Trump directed him to write letters threatening legal action against schools if they made his grades or SAT scores public.

www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

This is,,,, not correct.

BEFORE the revision, the jobs numbers were inconsistent w/ the 1.2% avg growth we saw the first half of this year. It looked as though we had significantly higher job growth than our econ growth implied.

Now that the jobs numbers have been revised down, they’re consistent.

The word gaslighting gets thrown around a lot these days, but I gotta say that the neo-Nazi party claiming to be so concerned about antisemitism that they have to destroy American higher education is a profoundly weird experience.

Luis Alfonso Juarez, 90, lived the American Dream, his family said. “He immigrated to the United States, got his citizenship, bought a home and made a career as an iron worker.” Javier Rodriguez, 15, was the youngest victim. He was honored at what should have been his graduation ceremony in 2022.

Obviously not. Ear doesn’t grow back! And he has no signs of injury.

Unfortunately the sign is aspirational rather than factual

Appreciation post for this incredible American showing up in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s own district to say HELL NO to the chaos, cruelty, and coverups. When grandmas are grabbing neon signs and oxygen tanks to speak truth you know the tide is turning.

The agreement includes a controversial provision that commits Columbia University to decreasing international student enrollment. The measure has received little attention. On page nine, the agreement states, “Columbia will examine its business model and take steps to decrease financial dependence on international student enrollment.”

First I’d heard of this. Trump’s agreement with Columbia also commits them to reducing their enrollment of international students. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Trump has also misspelled easier words than potato many many times

“On June 15, 1992, [Dan] Quayle altered 12-year-old student William Figueroa's correct spelling of "potato" to "potatoe" at the Muñoz Rivera Elementary School spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey. He was the subject of widespread ridicule for his error.” — @wikipedia.org

Republicans couldn’t get away with opposing voting rights and racist gerrymandering if their voters didn’t want them to cheat to win

I want to be clear about one thing since the Chicago press isn't getting it: This is NOT about gerrymandering. JB Pritzker is NOT a hypocrite. Texas is already gerrymandered.

This is happening because Texas law dictates that redistricting is to take place every 10 years. 🧵

The Dems at the presser are calling it Trump's Texas takeover cause that's what it is

It's all to protect him ffs

That he just sent his buddy Maxwell to a Texas prison should be part of this conversation

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