You know Alex Pretti & Renee Good—the 2 white people ICE killed. ICE has also killed Keith Porter, a Black man, Parady La, a Cambodian man, & 5 Latinos—Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos. 9 TOTAL. ABOLISH ICE.

Disney's highest grossing film is about falsely demonizing minorities so you can colonize and gentrify.

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Watched Disney’s animated Wish tonight with my kids and couldn’t help but think Trump supporters would’ve cheered for Magnifico If only Asha and the people had just complied, as they should have 🙄, Magnifico could have controlled all the power & controlled their lives #NoKings #Disney #NoFascism

Showed a trailer of Spielberg’s ET to my kids for the first time and couldn’t help but think that MAGA and Trump would cheer for the government to get ET and boo when he went home

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Today marks the 90th ann. of the #UAW Sit-Down Strike. From @brettolmsted.bsky.social's MAKING MICHIGAN HOME: "Mexicanos participated in the union’s first major victory during the Strike, their involvement only growing in subsequent years" www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

It’s times like this, when elected “leaders” think they are extra special, I think of Joe Pesci’s great speech from With Honors Pesci: “the president is not an elected king…he’s just a bum” youtu.be/R9hFB9Crxh4?... #WithHonors #NoKings

First: who talks like this? Second: whose inauguration? Third: why would you have a president inaugurated inside where average people cannot attend when they are supposed to be “we the people’s” elected president, not some dictator… …oh wait, that’s his plan

I will not use it at the beach I will not use it when I teach I do not want it in a church I do not want it for research I see no reason to concede I will not use it when I read Although its hype should have no end Upon it I will not depend

I do not like your AI slop I do not like it, make it stop I do not want an AI house I do not want an AI mouse No AI box. No AI fox— That AI slop can go kick rocks I would not AI here or there I would not AI anywhere No AI car, no AI czar Your AI slop is killing trees I do not like it, let me be!

"I want readers to unlearn that Mexicanos are just transient, exploitable migrants, but rather are neighbors that contribute and bring value to their cities, towns, and workplaces." The Q&A for MAKING MICHIGAN HOME is live! www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/?p... cc: @brettolmsted.bsky.social

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How fascism works

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The actual war on Christmas

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

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When art is real life "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" - Donald Trump, January 23, 2016

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Everyone’s new doctor - wholly unqualified but willing to do anything for cheap

So Mullin wants to punish poorer people who are stuck living near a dump or factory that emits toxic pollution because they constantly get sick and can’t afford to move It punishes kids who have no choice where they live People also can’t change their genetics His ideas, like him, is idiotic

Some good news for a change, at least for now apple.news/AQsPYknjGQgO...

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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

Nothing says there’s no such thing as structural racism quite like banning discussion of structural racism

Let me fix that for you: Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.

Santa: Dear President Trump, due to your tariffs the cost to make toys this year is too costly Trump: WHAT?!? How dare you question the affordability of goods. Haven’t you heard, prices are down everywhere. No one has done a better job than me Now, for Christmas I want everything gilded in gold

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Christianity Today is an influential magazine in Evangelical circles, and it's a noteworthy signpost that they're doing stories like this because it's the kind of story that pops bubbles.

There are so many words historically that are just catch-all “boogeyman” terms Socialist Communist Marxist CRT Woke Liberal In Reconstruction some Republicans were called “Radical” because they had the audacity to push for racial equality R’s today just want to starve people

Must read thread about the cruel and inhumane treatment of people by the Trump admins gestapo #AbolishICE

I give you the president of the United States What kind of human being, let alone president, should have to be court-ordered to use money set aside to FREAKIN USE THAT MONEY TO HELP PEOPLE EAT And the same day stand by unmoved as someone needs medical attention not 10 feet away Sociopath

He feels the need to display strength so much he doesn’t want to be seen with sick, disabled, or “weak” people. What he is, is weak, uncaring (sociopath) even when there is someone with a medical emergency just 10 feet from him in the people’s office. Trump won’t even look at him/her

When people voted last night it was/is still about price of food. Trump went on 60 minutes and lied that prices were going down. Here is the sale price of steak per pound from 2023 to 2025. Price is up more than 45% #TrumpFlation

Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

🥂 The Great Gatsby was supposed to be a warning, not a lifestyle guide for the rich. But here we are. 🎭 #ModernGatsby #WealthGap

[taps mic]: and what about the victims?

How about we stop focusing on the very few “undeserving poor” who abuse aid and focus instead on the wealthy corporations who abuse the benefits like SNAP to exploit their workers and keep wages depressed Walmart did this while making record profits and giving huge CEO salaries #TaxTheRich

People like Stephen Miller et al who disappear people, even if it’s technically legal, are ALWAYS on the wrong side of history Capturing Black Americans under the fugitive slave act was “legal” but those who did it are still seen as racist a-holes And let’s not forget Solomon Northrop

Historian here: Reagan quote on tariffs in 1987: “And today many economic analysts and historians argue that high tariff legislation passed back in that period called the Smoot-Hawley tariff greatly deepened the depression and prevented economic recover” www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/spe...

I know the laundry is long but this, all by itself, should be grounds for immediate impeachment He’s really going back to his old declaration of he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and they would still vote for him This is straight up murder - no due process, no oversight, just cold-blooded murder

The White House hasn’t seen this much destruction since the British burned it in the War of 1812 wapo.st/3KXIBs1

Alexander Stephens VP Confederacy, Cornerstone Speech: [the Constitution] rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error… Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid…upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man