Isaac Speer

Operation Trojan Horse Quote Matt Finn @MattFinnFNC · 29m Breaking: DHS arrives in Penske trucks at a Home Depot in McArthur Park area of LA for early morning immigration enforcement. The area was filled with migrants who scattered. DHS says MS 13 has a chokehold on this area, which is one reason they’re carrying out the highly. Underneath is a screenshot of an 8 second video showing agents lifting the door of a rental truck from the inside as they get ready to jump and out and grab people.

This morning, Border Patrol agents hiding in Penske rental trucks raided a Home Depot in Los Angeles to grab day laborers standing around, which the Border Patrol's current CA lead Gregory Bovino called "Operation Trojan Horse."

Raises very serious questions about violation of the court order.

It's too bad university leaders don't understand strategy at all (or prefer capitulation).

In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this.

Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?

JD Vance and other pedophile protection party officials are holding an emergency meeting tonight over their strategy on the Epstein files.

This cover-up is a disgrace to Epstein’s victims. The American people deserve transparency and accountability.

Release the Epstein files.

Think back just a few years ago. Would the American public have accepted the president refusing to rule out a pardon for an imprisoned felon who raped children as young as age 14?
The Republican Party has brought our country to this.

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

Top Trump officials will discuss Epstein strategy at Wednesday dinner hosted by Vance | CNN Politics Top Trump administration officials will gather at the vice president’s residence Wednesday evening as they continue to weigh whether to publish an audio recording and transcript of Deputy Attorney Gen...

They’re having a Trump-Epstein coverup dinner meeting at the vice president’s residence? www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/p...

Trump winning office again was bad but watching the “opposition” let him confirm his picks in record time is a huge part of why things got so bad so quickly.

The most pathetic opposition in American history.

Why So Many Key Institutions Have Folded Rather Than Challenge Trump Yes, they’re under pressure. But maybe a lot of these leaders kinda like what Trump’s doing. Just remember: They were defeated once before.

Fantastic piece by @perrybaconjr.bsky.social that drills down on why so many elite institutions have given Trump what he wants. It’s not just an appeasement strategy (bad enough on its own) but also reflects deeper reactionary tendencies among those leading these institutions.

Higher education really is in an existential crisis, facing a two-pronged attack from government repression and "AI", a transparent effort to destroy free thinking and open debate. Yet most university leaders are capitulating instead of fighting back.

Well, now I remember why I wanted to run away to nature for a few weeks. The Trump onslaught is exhausting, and the lack of leadership opposing him is deeply demoralizing.

And the idea that it's appropriate for students to use AI "as a writing partner," without notifying the professor that they've done so? Preposterous. Ridiculous. That's an invitation to plagiarism, and a muddying of the waters as to what plagiarism IS.

This guidance from the AHA is appalling.

Once again, this time in re: the AI cancer that is rapidly metastasizing & is going to destroy higher education, if the fascism & the budget cuts do not kill it first:

UCLA will negotiate with Trump over $339 million in medical and science grant freezes UCLA and University of California officials said Monday that it will negotiate with Trump over $339 million in medical and science grant freezes.

NEW: Senior UCLA and University of California officials say they will negotiate with the Trump administration over lifting $339 million in medical and science grant freezes. No decision has been made about terms of an agreement, including a potential fine www.latimes.com/california/s...

Where is @governor.ca.gov on protecting UCLA from federal extortion and unprecedented overreach?

This is the guy that America's institutions are surrending to. It is baffling.

Reporters shouted to ask what he was doing up there and he said he was "taking a little walk." He said something about the White House ballroom and made some gestures but it's not really making a ton of sense yet. Normal stuff

This is beyond infuriating. Everyone should know by now that negotiating with Trump is futile because he will come back demanding even more. Collective resistance (not capitulation) remains the best option for protecting academia from Trump.

SHIT. We need to mobilize against this fast.

They used to stick to fig leafs and flimsy excuses. They don't even do that any more.

It would be hilarious if it wasn't our institution being attacked and our leaders failing us, yet again.

The Trump admin's strategy of using Jews as human shields to shut down every sector of US public goods, from higher education to disaster aid, is almost certainly going to lead to more antisemitism in the US, not less. And unfortunately, a lot of US Jewish orgs have decided to go along with that.

Does that mean I'll get paid to take prescription drugs? Sounds like a great deal! /S

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

I'm not saying it would change much but I do kind of wish reporters with access would repeatedly, like every day, ask Republicans in Congress why they have decided that blatant corruption of the sort that has been consensus illegal for centuries is now basically entirely legal for this one guy.

We knew this was coming. The admin is going to want to fold immediately, so it’s up to the students, staff, faculty, and alumni—the people who really *are* the university—to agitate for our integrity.

Picking them off one by one.
Hang together or hang separately.

Sure seems like the President of the United States is going to pardon a convicted sex trafficker and serial abuser who ran a pedophilia ring with his best friend in the whole wide world.

It is almost comical how guilty Trump appears here.

The firing of the BLS Commissioner, favorable treatment of Maxwell, intimidation of the universities—a notable week on the slide to a banana republic.