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Professor of technical writing, rhetoric, and media. Community literacy sponsor working to strengthen indigenous language and ties to land.
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
Sending thoughts and prayers to everyone employed or represented or by Brad Finstad this morning.
27.01.2026 12:14 — 👍 4924 🔁 908 💬 159 📌 156It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.
27.01.2026 13:58 — 👍 34573 🔁 8093 💬 1086 📌 374Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic.
The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.
Trump’s ICE purge in Minnesota sets up his invoking martial law and cancelling the midterm elections.
15.01.2026 17:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.
“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
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This is the video.
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The J6 Pipe Bomber stated that the reason he placed the pipe bombs at the DNC & RNC because he believed that the 2020 election was stolen, & no one in Congress was taking it seriously.
Now who was the one that kept on saying that the election was stolen??
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A president cannot defend a nation if he is not held accountable to its laws.
30.12.2025 01:54 — 👍 7461 🔁 1489 💬 183 📌 53If you voted for Trump in 2024 and finally realize that he lied to get your vote and things aren't going well, it's okay to change your mind.
Write your representative in Congress and tell them how you want them to vote. Tell them how things are going. Tell them to hold Trump accountable.
Donald Trump is a terrorist leader and the administration is a terrorist cell. They belong in prison for a very long time.
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There's a long history of authoritarians hiding infirmity because fascism demands the performance of immortality.
11.12.2025 16:18 — 👍 53 🔁 12 💬 5 📌 2
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us
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Send in your proposals! This is a wonderful little pre-conference that can really *ahem* make an impact!
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers with banners hanging from their building: Pity the nation whose leaders are liars Whose sages are silenced and whose bigots haunt the airwaves Pity the nation that praises conquerors and acclaims the bully as hero Pity the people who allow their freedoms to erode and their rights to be washed away My country tears of thee Sweet land of liberty!
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced and whose bigots haunt the airwaves
Pity the nation that praises conquerors & acclaims the bully as hero
Pity the people who allow their freedoms to erode & their rights to be washed away
My country tears of thee
Sweet land of liberty!
RSA banner and announcement reading "IN two days! RSA Remote: Navigating Choppy Waters - Key Legal Issues Faculty Need to Know. Friday, October 24, 3:00-4:00 PM ET"
RSA members please join me this Friday for an informative conversation about legal issues in academia. If you are an RSA member, you should have received emails with the link. Hope to see you there!
22.10.2025 21:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The tall red mountains of Zion national Park
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
“When this president says something is illegal does he have any credibility? This is a guy who thinks the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are three different things!”
27.09.2025 13:08 — 👍 172 🔁 27 💬 7 📌 0Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.
Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.
People have power. Ask Target
Remember folks, social media is a vulnerability. We try to use these platforms for democratic deliberation, but they're not designed for that. They're better designed for propaganda. You're in the information wars.
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“No to the Russian Regime! Protect Visa-Free!” — Protesters are now marching from Tbilisi State University towards Rustaveli Avenue. Today marks Day 290 of the non-stop #GeorgiaProtests.
13.09.2025 15:59 — 👍 164 🔁 55 💬 3 📌 5I used to wonder how the great and enlightened Arab empire of the 15th century could go from gifting the world with the basics of modern science to knuckle-dragging superstition based medieval ignorance.
Now, looking at the anti-scientific movements in the U.S. and elsewhere, I wonder no more.
The irony, as others have pointed out, is that while Kirk may have said “we have to engage in debate,” it’s precisely that — debate — many supporters of Kirk want to stop about his life and legacy. It’s certainly why folks are getting fired.
14.09.2025 14:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
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Don’t we all feel so much safer? America is truly Great Again (tm)!
29.08.2025 02:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nichols makes a good point that the comparisons to Nazi Germany might not be the best. The real comparison here is with the USSR. Trump is Stalin, not Hitler, willing to make examples rather than scapegoats of perceived enemies. It’s all about party loyalty and Trump is the party.
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I would buy this album in a heartbeat
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