@fpopper.bsky.social
Semi-retired land-use planner. From Chicago, live in Manhattan. BA (psychology), Haverford; MPA, PhD (political science), Harvard. Taught at Rutgers, 1983-2019, teaching at Princeton with my wife Deborah Popper, 2001-present. Google has the woowoo details.
"A citizens group in Ontario, California is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving federal immigration agents.
They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..."
abc7.com/post/ontario...
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This is real. Our govt is Tweeting like a 14 year old and calling Americans imbecilic morons. We worry about children being bullied but this is the example set by the U.S. GOVERNMENT. This is so shameful. I’m embarrassed for any of you that think this is okay or make excuses for it.
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Trump plans to invade Venezuela without giving any justification. Some liberal critics cry foul.
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Blending family and governance
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This picture says everything about the state of our nation right now, peaceful clergy being arrested and forced face-down on the pavement.
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This needs to get a LOT of traction.
15.11.2025 16:44 — 👍 13050 🔁 5481 💬 1842 📌 632Alan Dershowitz is out there embodying the arrogance of Epstein like some sort of living history reenactor.
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if you’re a journalist who wants to talk about how embarrassing this week has been for our profession (the michael wolff, landon thomas jr, nuzzi/bernstein of it all) message me on signal
15.11.2025 00:25 — 👍 2700 🔁 383 💬 42 📌 8the nuzzi profile in nyt feels like… a betrayal to political reporters who do deep & serious investigative work *without* hiding their love affairs with the candidates they were trusted to report on…
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Mike Johnson is a liar, fraud, and fake Christian who has held leadership positions in multiple organizations that have covered up sex abuse.
14.11.2025 18:56 — 👍 9129 🔁 3027 💬 418 📌 129Can't wait for the Headline, "Survivors of Epstein and Maxwell take down President Trump."
Any day now...
Nothing will happen to any of the prominent people who continued to fraternize with Jeffrey Epstein after he was convicted of sex trafficking. Here’s why cancel culture has gone too far.
15.11.2025 00:56 — 👍 858 🔁 95 💬 14 📌 2I'd love to say yes, but have no confidence that will actually happen. It SHOULD. Just as Eisenhower insisted on film of the concentration camps so people would believe the stories and understand what had happened, we should demand their release and accept no demurral.
14.11.2025 18:27 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I did not realize that Kara Swisher is the one who told NY Mag's leadership that Nuzzi was breaching all journalist norms.
Good thing such a basic but huge breech of journalism ruined her career.
She's an editor at Vanity Fair now.
Reminder to those who've somehow managed to miss it, this is a no-brainer!
14.11.2025 18:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0When ppl speak of elite impunity and a draw a direct link to complicit elite media, this is what we’re talking about.
14.11.2025 18:23 — 👍 154 🔁 30 💬 3 📌 0In reviewing the Epstein emails, I was repulsed by the heartless arrogance of Epstein himself, but I must admit I was taken by the polite civility of Ghislaine Maxwell.
by David Brooks
NEW EPISODE: What if the entire government shutdown was actually about concealing the Epstein Files? It raises the question: In what other ways have these Files been driving the president’s actions? www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVJ2...
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Why is no one calling for Jim Jordan to resign from the House? the victims of the abuse he was involved in have also been asking for justice for a long time. No problem for anybody?? How come @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social wasn’t fighting for them? Help me understand.
14.11.2025 00:07 — 👍 364 🔁 88 💬 27 📌 2I suspect this is happening across government and will lead to one of the hardest problems to fix if/when we are digging out of this.
14.11.2025 19:03 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I do not like thinking about how vulnerable the U.S. now is to genuine terrorism thanks to this fucking clown show
14.11.2025 18:45 — 👍 451 🔁 117 💬 20 📌 3Unbelievable how much work goes into writing a scholarly book
14.11.2025 19:18 — 👍 29 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0MAGA's problem is that they're acting like they just figured out Trump is a pedophile...while the rest of us, being able to read and all, have known this from square one.
14.11.2025 13:11 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0It’s 2025. Americans have already been figuratively shit on by the president of the United States. Now upon new evidence of his pedophilia, we are left wondering what fresh hell is next. What a stupid time to be alive.
13.11.2025 22:24 — 👍 56 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 0Remember that Nimarata Nikki Randhawa ran as Nikki Haley
Piyush Jindal ran as Bobby Jindal
Raphael Cruz ran as Ted Cruz
Meanwhile—Barack Obama ran as Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani ran as Zohran Mamdani, and MAGAs accuse Dems of identity politics
Every MAGA accusation is a confession
