Corruption is endemic within the administration.

A Dad cradles the coffin of his son. Russia killed 1,5 year old Nazar, his sister Kamila and their mom on November 19th in #Ternopil. Deepest condolences...

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The Trump administration openly says that it will use its domestic spying capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions. And ICE has been bulking up on the latest surveillance technology.

The US proposed peace plan is capitulation in every aspect. It is the abdication of leadership by the US and the pandering of the US to a revisionist authoritarian and genocidal regime. Our allies in NATO should be extremely concerned about US credibility.

Multiple things can be correct simultaneously. 1. The ACA caused inflation in insurance markets. 2. Congress failed to find an alternative plan to provide health insurance for millions of Americans 3. Democrats have no leverage to protect millions of an Americans healthcare except for a shutdown.

This is a very good paragraph. From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... By Nancy A. Youssef

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth,

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I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES (sound) DAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2025 THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES OUR FREEDOMS... RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU NOW UNDER ATTACK PROJECT 2025 FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS OUR RIGHT PLEASE LISTEN "When society is under threat comedians are sent away first" Please understand what is at stake

So… we have entered a period where the 1st amendment is under direct assault by the ruling regime.

Political violence should never be tolerated and should be universally condemened regardless of political affliation.

Political violence is always bad. Regardless of motivation & echoes a decline in civil discourse & should be universally condemned. Rather than divide our nation such acts should have us all asking where we’re going & whether we are amplifying rhetoric that makes violence more or less likely.

For anyone looking for a source on TPUSA’s contribution to threats of violence. “Academics in the US have faced threats of death, rape and harm to their children after being singled out by ‘Professor Watchlist.’”

I am opposed to political violence but, it is important to point out that Charlie Kirk developed programming that actively and knowingly directed political violence against academics. www.npr.org/sections/ed/...

Fahrenheit 451 was supposed to be fiction...

Kids: Study causal inference

ICE just reactivated its contract with an Israeli firm that makes phone-hacking spyware. Here's what you should know. #ICE #NewsUS #Hacking #spyware

This hits harder than when I saw this movie the first time. #CaptainAmerica

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Go blue.

Soon we will be w/out weather data due to the dismantling of NOAA, without health services due to the loss of the CDC/NIH and HHS, and then we will be without economic data due to the dismantling of gov statistics offices. And the fed will be run be sycophants. The future is looking bleak…

Republicans are like a sports team that tries to rig games by buying off refs, changing the rules, and breaking the legs of their opponents. They may "win," but its no longer a game, and everyone loses.

The United States is no longer a democracy with the rule of Law. We are governed by a wannabe autocratic regime and a sycophantic political party that cares more about political power than constitutionality and moral or ethical behavior. All of this has transpired in 7 months.

💙👇🗳️THIS 🗳️👇💙

The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery. Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.

President Macron: We are talking about an imperialist and revisionist power that is today's Russia, which since 2008 has constantly sought to conquer new territories, has constantly revised international borders, and has never kept its promises of peace and non-aggression.

“Building alternative institutions outside of government that reduce reliance on the authoritarian regime, lessen its power and relevance over day-to-day life, and preserve sites of independent thought can be vital both in preserving science and in defending democracy”

The execution is 🔥

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

Michael Weiss in 2023: Russia once controlled 20 percent of U.S. territory. That legacy helps explain its aggression against Ukraine. @politico.com @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social

"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."

Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

Ignorance and stupidity rule the day and the beneficiaries are corruption and authoritarianism.

The ignorance and stupidity of the administration is astounding.

Let them eat code and metal…

And here I was thinking the way to solve hunger was food.

OONI data suggests that BSKY is not censored in Russia. Probably very low penetration in country also but still interesting.

The alarms should be ringing not just from the creation of this database, but also from the inevitable mistakes within it and secondary uses of it

This administration has moved us from a functioning democracy to an authoritarian state in 5 months and congress has abdicated its responsibility.

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

This is Kyiv tonight because of terrorist Russia. Every single day the war criminals carry out terrorist attacks across all of Ukraine and there are some who want negotiations.. who can negotiate with terrorists?

The level of corruption in this administration is like nothing we have ever seen before.

🔴 Russian strike kills young mother near Kyiv. Ania, 27, shielded her 4-year-old son Mark with her body. She died. Mark is alive but badly injured. His grandparents were also wounded.

I can't help but think that Andor is giving a pretty good road map for how we should be behaving and organizing under the Trump administration. Rebellions are built on hope.

In his paper “Targeting the Weak: Exploring Transnational Digital Repression” Aaron Brantly @afterwestphalia.bsky.social offers an analysis of an emerging issue of hostile activities of state actors against diaspora communities seeking refuge in third-party nations. Read it at tinyurl.com/287meybw