Trump had $270M in debt forgiven, after failing to repay lenders at Trump Tower Chicago. IRS records show Trump claimed duplicate losses in multiple tax filings abc7.com/post/donald-... Trump paid no federal income taxes in 10 out of 15 years after 2000, reporting over $1 billion dollars in losses.

Caolan Robertson Debunks Shirley's Infamous Kyiv Propaganda Video - Nick is flustered youtu.be/ODTuFypXCWI?... via @YouTube Nick Shirley pretends Putin's war in Ukraine is all Ferris Wheels and luxury cars. Nick loses his bearings when trying to back-track his absurd story.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/31/trump-administration-childcare-funding-freeze#img-1... Trump freezes childcare payments, based on bogus claims by his young stooge, Nick Shirley. The infamous deadbeat and tax cheat who ran on deregulation is requiring massive data to support taxpayers' kids.

wapo.st/3MYnSW1 Nick Shirley visited centers before hours. Typical hours for two were 12:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. to serve children whose parents work afternoons and evenings. GOP operatives knew this and sent Nick to create a fraud story. Undocumented immigrants pay $200M in Minnesota taxes annually.

The professional agitator: This is Nick Shirley. Social engineer behind the situation in Minneapolis. He is an agent provocateur for the Kremlin and Republican Political Party. Heavily endorsed by JD Vance, Sen Mike Lee and Elon Musk. He is costing tax payers millions, engineering chaos & division.

and for fucks sake, stop berating the ONLY people who are doing ANYthing to keep their neighbors safe. every regular resident of MSP who's been out there has more guts and more sense of duty that you're currently showing

tim dear, what he wants is what you're offering: submission with only token resistance. he's not going to "lower the temperature". and we both know that you know this.

Backing down, finding the middle ground with fascists, only gives them more time to bolster their forces. Only moves what is acceptable closer to what they want- till eventually the Gestapo are knocking down your door, because you said something dear leader doesn't like. America needs to stop him.

Be an American, and actually fight this shit! You can't make a deal with the devil, because in the end, he always gets your soul! Look at his history, he will not meet you in the middle. He is America's enemy, and if you don't treat him as such, you--- we, are lost.

Send in the National Guard to protect your people, or else resign and let someone take over who’s willing to do what needs to be done.

"As I told those ICE guys—" is pretty fierce. I'm a big advocate of making sure to say "fuck you" even if you can't win the day. You will know that we hate you, and you'll hear it from me. But Evelyn Normielib (D-MN) is going to fucking win.

This lady is everywhere. Every day I show up for school patrol there are three more versions of her looking to put in work.

It's stuff like this which gives me confidence that they'll never truly occupy this place. If you can get little old Minnesotan white ladies this angry (and make no mistake, this lady is ready to break mountains with her fists) then everyone else will eventually tear you apart.

This dude is intense and correct

Circle Pines, MN: "They were just waiting for any person of color to come out of that building. It could have been any of us." youtu.be/5ELCvyDP_vg?...

The frigid Twin Cities temperatures will hurt the homeless; so do not gloat about the impact on ICE without also stepping up here:

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

WHY are news stations reading DHS statements out loud as if they have ANY credibility at all? They literally murdered a woman in cold blood LAST WEEK and are still lying about what happened, even though we can see what happened. That any credibility would be given to their statement is insane

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

“You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.” ― Octavia E. Butler

Hydrology Paper of the Day @alidacantor.bsky.social on landscapes of resource extraction related to lithium mining in the McDermitt Caldera of Oregon: political ecology and socio-environmental perspectives; opposition and challenges; and understanding resource usage and ecological perspectives.

Check out @raulpachecovega.bsky.social 's blog. He has tons of tips and tricks on note taking! www.raulpacheco.org/blog/

today: went to the gym this morning, overhear folks sharing stories of how they're protecting people. bestie walks dogs & they tried to pick her up (luckily neighbors kept her safe). my fav restaurant closed early bc an employee was violently detained.

As an outside person with extensive MPLS connections, this is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT TRUE. Literally every one of them. In all the neighborhoods, all social strata. "They tear gassed outside my bagel place" "yeah they tried to take one of my kids art teachers" "yeah their building was raided." etc.

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

this fucking headline and the lede is that she *served on a fucking school board*

Trump thugs are killing, brutalizing, and torturing American citizens. That is not an “immigration crackdown.” It’s domestic repression and occupation.

The absolute insanity of separate faucets for hot and cold water. Yes, United Kingdom, I am absolutely delighted to burn my hands or freeze them instead of washing them with water at decent temperature through a mixer tap.

@cathrynpearce.bsky.social I am in Portsmouth this week! Sorry I did not mention this earlier! I will be working out of Park Building tomorrow through Friday, so if you have a few minutes to spare, maybe we could meet up? Would love to see you!

Day 2 of my research visit to University of Portsmouth to work with @jacqpriego.bsky.social

As I work on my lit review, I once again am indebted to @raulpachecovega.bsky.social for his lit review matrix. It's turned what could have been a monumental task into a manageable, scalable, and understandable practice.

Jonathan Ross was a firearms trainer and led a team that included multiple federal agencies. All this training didn't stop him from shooting Renee Nicole Good. His training *facilitated* the shooting. No amount of training will solve the problem that ICE is a violent ethnic cleansing squad.

“Universal healthcare is not some utopian fantasy. It is Tuesday in Toronto. Affordable higher education is not an impossible dream. It is Wednesday in Berlin. Sensible gun regulation is not a violation of natural law. It is Thursday in London... There is another America inside this one.”

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

BREAKING: Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul sue Noem and others over DHS immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, seeking TRO to block the surge and stop unlawful actions detailed in the complaint.

Dear Hamburg based friends and colleagues, Come join us for an incisive roundtable event Thursday at noon, where our regional experts discuss the global political and strategic Implications of US Intervention in Venezuela. Details below @giga-hamburg.de www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/co...

As Trump ramps up his cruel deportation machine, it's more important than ever to know your rights if ICE comes to your door. Spread the word.

"The raison d’être of art and literature is to disrupt the status quo: and one doesn’t have to be a student of history to know that art in the service of “social cohesion” is propaganda."

We need less research framing the problem facing our country as "polarization" and more research framing the problem as "anti-democratic radicalization".

It always astonishes me that so many people who are aware of American history absolutely do not take seriously the empirical fact that movements actually*change*what is possible during the course of their political activity.Why is the “sensible”position the rejection of this basic,evidentiary fact?

Really happy to see that @apsa.bsky.social is hosting a webinar on depression and anxiety in graduate school (and beyond). These events are FREE and open to everyone! politicalsciencenow.com/webinar-anxi...

Caro did the work. Over 50 years later, it still holds up. Every student of public policy should study it.

This is a well-developed theory of power and the public policy process in action (which is why my students will be reading it)

Some of y'all don't stay up to read my late night missives about the The New Yorker excerpts of The Power Broker so I'm resharing. This single paragraph does more to explain the public policy process in the United States than all 5 editions of Theories of the Policy Process.

At no point did I frame it as all or nothing. I said that uncritical adoption of LLMs will lead to more bullshit research, for multiple reasons (hallucinated references, lack of an actual ability to reason, just for starters). People are welcome to dissent and offer counterpoints.

Academics’ enthusiastic (and often uncritical) embrace of LLMs and generative artificial intelligence will be a factor in the junkification of research. You can’t outsource thinking nor the cognitive task of gradually absorbing knowledge. Nor discernment and creativity.

I realised I follow several journals and now I learn about new publications and interesting papers often here first - so I made a Starter Pack with journal accounts in case you wanted to as well. Let me know if I missed an important journal and I'll add it. go.bsky.app/L57tAru

« La Société des Nations (1919), et l’Organisation des Nations unies, qui la remplace en 1945, témoignent de la volonté d’institutionnaliser la paix au 20ᵉ siècle. Avec quels succès/échecs ? » Guillaume Devin invité de @xaviermauduit.bsky.social @franceculture.fr www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

"On page 9 of Beardsley’s CV, he claims to have “Published over 70 peer-reviewed and/or edited articles, books, research papers …” We reviewed Appendix A... We counted the entries. Excluding op-eds, there are 32 entries, not “over 70.”" augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

Will Bunch, Philadelphia Inquirer —"If the American Experiment dies, it will be because we didn’t stop the immorality of a white supremacy that calls Somali refugees “garbage” and a patriarchy that mutters “f---ing bitch” as it murders a woman in ice-cold blood." www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...