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YouTube video by CNBC-TV18 "This is Not The End, Just The Beginning" Sen. Bernie Sanders Addresses No Kings Rally in DC | N18G

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It's all made up, and the points don't matter.

🚨 “They put black people in one van and immigrants an another… Trucks and military style vans were used to separate children from their parents.” THIS. IS. HAPPENING. People need to see this. We all need to see it. Nobody gets a pass here. Please share with your networks. 1/2

Dialogue and the Democratic Classroom

“While practicing hope in the classroom may not guarantee that students engage politically, Matesan wants these principles to at least counter the growing sense of despair about the state of the world.” Wesleyan University’s Emy Matesan on empowering students to have difficult discussions #HigherEd

I was just thinking the same. I know everyone needs to pay their rent, but I can think of a million jobs I'd rather do than to violate people's civil rights and the constitution. People in the National Guard didn't sign up to occupy DC. why don't they all just quit?

People in the arts and humanities are resigning rather than oversee their institutions be used in unethical ways. Kinda makes you wonder about the leadership of the national guard........

This is fascinating. I realized the same a few years ago when my cousin from WI came to visit us in CT a few years ago and brought mace, just in case. I grew up in Manhattan, lived on the south side of Chicago and have traveled around the world and it never crossed my mind to buy mace.

there were a surprising number of vegan restaurants in Berlin when I was there too. it's apparently the new thing, which is crazy when you think about traditional German food......

The Orphanage by Waltrudis Buck - CRAFT Nothing hangs together. There are big holes in the daughter’s memory. She cannot fathom the passage of time. Half a century ago when she was ten, sixty was an old woman. She does not think of herself ...

I'm really proud of my mom - her short memoir piece was published in Craft literary magazine. It is weird to read about people you know as if they were fictional though....... www.craftliterary.com/2025/08/13/o...

Wesleyan University's sociology dept is searching for an assistant professor this fall - especially interested in scholars of space with an interest in questions of method. Non-sociology PhDs are encouraged to apply! Feel free to share and reach out with questions!

And they won't. This was exactly how the Soviet Union ruled - don't define a term/rule so that you can crack down when and where you feel like it and people self-police out of fear.

Income driven repayment is the only way I managed, so I hate to take that away from anyone. But it's a bandaid on the corrupt student loan banks stockpiling the interest for later. We need free tuition/full tuition remission for people who go into necessary fields. student loans are debt slavery

so proud of being a small part of getting these amazing articles out into the world!

hey hey it's a job! 📣 🙌

The American Studies department at Wesleyan is hiring TT in Ethnic Studies! We're a pretty nice department, all things considered lol.

Please apply & share with your people!

FEMA has the capacity to do top notch rescue and response. But not under Secretary Noem. She shut down the emergency phone system days after the floods. She sent only a few dozen rescue workers when the state had nearly 2000 of it's own people doing that work. A woeful response.

You need to know what's going on at "Alligator Alcatraz."

It's grossly immoral - no human being should be treated like that.

It's political theater - many of the detainees have no criminal record.

It's a taxpayer funded boondoggle - enriching DeSantis's political cronies.

To my Republican colleagues in the House. Don’t let Trump terrorize you. Be BETTER than him. Vote no on this bill.

Shameful

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

This is still part of the Constitution, FYI: "[N]o Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust... shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."

Thank YOU for everything you do. You are a real inspiration to everyone everywhere! And thank you for pushing them to change the rules about babies on the Senate floor!

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch

🧢 @trumpfile.org

I don't see these as separate. Or the separation is part of the problem. “This can’t be permitted.” Passive voice, all of which begs, “by whom?” By us. People feeling powerless enabled his rise. A better day won't come without alternative power structures. No one is coming to save us.

(next to an image of Trump wearing a crown that has been crossed out) NO KINGS MASS PROTEST JUNE 14, 2025

So what's next after today's May Day mobilizations?

On June 14, Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday.

But real power isn't staged in DC. It rises up everywhere else. That's why we're planning a nationwide day of action to say No Kings. 🧵

may the 4th be with you is written on a blue and black background Alt: may the 4th be with you is written on a blue and black background

Trump, you are the Sith Lord. Perhaps watch the movies? #MayTheFourth NOT be with him. But may the Force of Others be with all of us in the Rebellion and the Resistance.

SO true. so how do we build a better order? That's the real question.

I don't check the news for two days and now we're shipping American babies off to other countries for the crime of having an immigrant parent? I was born in the US to an immigrant parent. AS WERE Trump's own kids. But our immigrant moms came from Europe so......

When Trump said he would consider deporting US citizens, he wasn’t joking.

And he’s starting with American babies.

If he can deport a single citizen without due process, he can do it to anyone.

And if he comes for your baby, it won’t matter if you voted for him or not.

So now the government is making databases to track immigrants, people with autism, anyone who ever said anything nice about Palestine or defended the right of students to protest, and Jewish faculty at Barnard. I feel like I've seen this movie already........