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RUIN his phone lines. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is about to see how loyal the American people are to democracy.

I just called and left a message.

Why did @govpritzker.illinois.gov send out Illinois police to limit protests at Broadview? Why is a progressive governor shielding illegal ICE activity from peaceful protesters? Why are our state tax dollars devoted to Trump’s agenda?

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

Not as good as this one, probably:

THIS!

Idk why he and so many other allegedly smart men in this country keep pretending like trump has any ability or desire to behave in any good faith. It’s perhaps the most frustrating part of all of this for me

The Executive possesses enormous powers to prosecute and to deport, but with powers come restraints. If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?∗ And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies? The threat, even if not the actuality, would always be present, and the Executive’s obligation to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed” would lose its meaning. U.S. CONST. art. II, § 3; see also id. art. II, § 1, cl. 8.

Judge Wilkinson: "If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will
not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you pay attention: everything they say they don’t like for Black people: affirmative action, diversity hires, quotas, identity politics, ideological litmus tests, they are trying to mandate and enforce for white people.

Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

More in No, Other People:

New poll:

“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”

• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree

“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”

• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory

Trump Assures Wall Street He’ll Go Back To Just Fucking Over Poor People Soon WASHINGTON—In response to market panic about his new wide-ranging tariffs, President Donald Trump reportedly offered Wall Street assurance Friday that he would soon go back to just fucking over poor people. “While my trade policy might cause some temporary hardships for investors, it’s ultimately intended to completely fucking destroy the livelihoods of the financially destitute,” […]

“While my trade policy might cause some temporary hardships for investors, it’s ultimately intended to completely fucking destroy the livelihoods of the financially destitute,” said Trump
theonion.com/trump-a...

But it looks as if officials set the tariffs using a formula that takes America's bilateral trade deficit as a share of goods imported from each country and halves it-which is almost as random as taxing you on the number of vowels in your

Your tariff rate is half your age plus seven.

www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

I think unless you’ve been so poor you’ve stolen toilet paper from public bathrooms to bring home you should not be allowed to effect economic policy

University of Minnesota says ICE detained a graduate student U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials Thursday detained a University of Minnesota graduate student at an off-campus residence. The international graduate student was enrolled at the schoo...

www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

Yes!

& the way I see it, EO’s are being used as propaganda right now. While the administration is trying to push some of these orders through, the main objective seems to be projecting action while promoting/amplifying right-wing ideology.

This!!!!!

This is the US MO under any administration though…

Press release about a new boycott of Columbia

Nearly 1000 teachers, academics, and more are mounting an academic boycott of Columbia.

Columbia "is colluding with the current U.S. government's project to destroy higher education and criminalize protest," they say.

Signers include Noura Erakat, Marc Lamont Hill, Ruha Benjamin.

Some good news: a small land-back victory in my state!

They are disappearing graduate students as political prisoners. Cool cool cool

How is this their headline?! Laughable.

The safer you are in an environment of rising authoritarianism, the more obligation you have to make some noise on behalf of the people who are more vulnerable than you. Indeed, this is the only way you might avoid having the leopards eat your face.

Soooooo we thinking old Pete was drunk or the job or what? It would be funny, if it wasn’t scary! Maybe we need some DEI (definitely earned it) hires to get this shit together because the incompetence is OVERWHELMINGLY problematic.

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Also, yeah maybe we shouldn’t be bombing Yemen…🤔