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@antheabutler.bsky.social

Professor, Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker. Comedic truth teller.

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Why we can’t allow Trump to ban that other f-word | Will Bunch The column the Trump regime wants to ban: America has to call out surging fascism in order to defeat it.

Must read from @willbunch.bsky.social
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“Defeating fascism requires a very different type of posture-both politically and morally-than might an old-fashioned political quarrel between liberals and conservatives…we must declare ourselves anti-fascists.”
www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

06.10.2025 00:49 — 👍 86    🔁 35    💬 2    📌 4

UTTER GARBAGE

05.10.2025 20:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

they are cheating on us and what the hell is happening at the Linc because this is some BS

05.10.2025 20:06 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

NFL is and continues to be total dogshit. QB bails and throws it away and it falls within the grounding rules 100% of the way, they go ahead and throw the flag, and then magically all of a sudden someone somewhere says no, and WITHOUT EXPLANATION it’s not. Fuck them. Unwatchable product

05.10.2025 20:04 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

04.10.2025 14:30 — 👍 5434    🔁 3229    💬 239    📌 205
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Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

This is not a drill: Chicago

04.10.2025 03:20 — 👍 18212    🔁 8915    💬 695    📌 501
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The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine and the Compact for Excellence Members of the Trump administration love to say that federal funding is a privilege not a right and therefore something that can be granted or withheld based on changing administrative priorities.

The Trump Administration’s “Compact of Excellence” for Universities is... far from excellent! Indeed, it’s unconstitutional. In this post, let me count the ways.

blog.dividedargument.com/p/the-uncons...

03.10.2025 22:03 — 👍 564    🔁 234    💬 5    📌 11
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Opinion | Conservatives are angry at Pope Leo for sharing Catholic thinking The pope’s statement calling out the inhumane treatment of immigrants by the United States predictably infuriated conservatives and prompted a response by the White House.

Pope Leo letting folks know he's not going to be played..my latest for @msnbc.com

03.10.2025 23:58 — 👍 102    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 5
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BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

03.10.2025 20:36 — 👍 6292    🔁 1762    💬 78    📌 105

This will do numbers everyone. Always remember you don’t have to have qualifications if you’re the correct hue

03.10.2025 13:25 — 👍 60    🔁 19    💬 8    📌 2
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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

03.10.2025 10:08 — 👍 745    🔁 335    💬 12    📌 16
New York Times: "Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference."

The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.

New York Times: "Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference." The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.

IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY.

CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.

02.10.2025 20:34 — 👍 7410    🔁 2032    💬 256    📌 248
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Trump says US cities should be military training grounds - BBC News The US president warned military leaders of a "war from within", and signals they will be tasked with intervening.

It's hard for some of my fellow Europeans to understand why Trump is sending the military to US cities.

It's hard for me to understand why some of my fellow Europeans support Trump wannabes in the EU and UK.

www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

01.10.2025 06:36 — 👍 119    🔁 30    💬 5    📌 2
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Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

01.10.2025 01:18 — 👍 882    🔁 273    💬 4    📌 12

You know I really love naive answers. And you don't think that they can't be compromised at the local level?

01.10.2025 06:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

you know all of this is to make sure there won't be any elections in 26 or 28, right?

30.09.2025 16:32 — 👍 178    🔁 42    💬 7    📌 1

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

30.09.2025 14:43 — 👍 50011    🔁 15671    💬 683    📌 724
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CHRISTIAN IDENTITY IS A WHITE POWER THEOLOGY, not just identifying as Christian. Christian Identity believes that white people are the lost tribe of Israel and all people of color and Jewish people are descended from beasts or from Satan. (1)

29.09.2025 13:43 — 👍 615    🔁 169    💬 18    📌 18

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

28.09.2025 20:26 — 👍 12259    🔁 2698    💬 347    📌 92

I can only hear the line "Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?" in the confused quiet voice my mom had went her dementia got really bad.

28.09.2025 20:08 — 👍 2317    🔁 508    💬 92    📌 12

Most of the gray hairs I have are because of the @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social

28.09.2025 20:21 — 👍 32    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

GOOOOOO Birds!!

28.09.2025 20:21 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Police: Deadly shooting in North Carolina was 'highly premeditated' and location was 'targeted' A North Carolina man is accused of opening fire from a boat into a crowd at a waterfront bar, killing three and injuring five others.

apnews.com/article/nort...

28.09.2025 17:12 — 👍 62    🔁 33    💬 4    📌 1

He always does!!!

28.09.2025 16:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Exactly. As long as they could hold on to the fantasy that black people were lesser than , their fragile egos could survive. Obama broke them

28.09.2025 16:49 — 👍 21    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Long story and I'm not LDS so....

28.09.2025 16:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This on top of the LDS president dying? Smh no place in this country is safe.

28.09.2025 16:23 — 👍 30    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

thank you sir, you know I appreciate you!

28.09.2025 15:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

dm me, and I'll be happy to meet up!

28.09.2025 15:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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