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"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

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Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look' The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

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When my colleagues want to know why I’m singing this all day, I’ll be sure to show this to them.

Sara Jane Moore, Would-Be Assassin of President Ford, Dies at 95 A mother of four on the fringes of radical leftist movements, she fired at the president outside a San Francisco hotel in 1975. She had hoped to spark a revolution, she said.

Sara Jane Moore, who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, has died at 95.

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.

• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin

The many many women & BIPOC who‘ve been endlessly repeating ourselves (& being erased) since the dawn of computing were not & are not prescient or ahead of their/our time…

Eugenics isn’t a bug—it’s a feature! We were & are excluded by design & intention…these predicted outcomes aren’t accidents!

Officer Dicksmack McPowerTrip is working the scanner at the Independence entrance today.

Jobs & Internships Job openings are listed here when available.

Smithsonian Folklife Festival is hiring for all sorts of different seasonal festival positions, applications due Oct 14 festival.si.edu/jobs

Come work with me at the University of Arizona!

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You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

It’s sometimes difficult to not explain my high level of caffeine intake to my colleagues for what it is: I caffeinate until I stop singing little songs to myself about how *waves hands around* makes me want to jump off a tall building.

This is really not a good time for me to encounter books with NSDAP property stamps.

Map of Sinclair-owned local affiliates/stations.

Although ABC is bringing Jimmy Kimmel back tomorrow night, Sinclair Broadcasting is indicating that it will not air his program on their stations/affiliates.

Please go to the link below.

If one of their stations is in your area, CALL THEM AND TELL THEM WHAT YOU THINK.

sbgi.net/tv-stations/

If any of y’all get raptured, can I have your stuff?

If the Nats are going to suck, they can at least wreak a little havoc on playoff chances.

Sorry, Mets fans!

Tweet by Matt Zoller Seitz from January 28, 2016: "If Trump becomes president it will be because right up until the end, the media treated him as a great story rather than a potential Hitler."

We're coming up on the 10th anniversary of this Tweet. I feel like I should buy it a birthday cake.

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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

I can’t believe I still have to say this in 2025: only covering your mouth with your mask doesn’t do jack shit.

Same. I have my emergency ramen and pancake mix on deck.

People in my neighborhood: “If we tell the NG troops outside schools that they’re scaring children, maybe they’ll stop?”

Y’all, scaring people is the entire reason they’re here.

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Note: he has never set foot in the buildings, and Dr. Hayden’s erstwhile deputy is still the acting Librarian of Congress.

All of *waves hands around* this is making me utterly exhausted. Physically, mentally, emotionally, existentially exhausted. All I want to do is sleep.

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

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How the fuck do you think I’m feeling, Finch?

Been meaning to share this for a while: BROKEN RECORD: GENDERED ABUSE IN ACADEMIA ft 40+ contributors & THE Sara Ahmed from @sunypress.bsky.social.

Because higher ed is not a bastion of the radical left. It's A WORKPLACE where abuses happen all the time & it's NOT OK. sunypress.edu/Books/B/Brok...

What is accelerationism, the White supremacist ideology promoting power station attacks | CNN An alleged plot that could have left thousands in Tennessee without power is the latest example of America’s power grid seen as a target of extremists.

Accelerationism!

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