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Another @aaup.org win
A huge district court victory for the University of California.
District courts find facts. This one found "overwhelming evidence" that the Trump administration has pervasively violated the First Amendment in its efforts to coerce and intimidate the University of California.
News story here—
District courts find facts. This one found "overwhelming evidence" that the Trump administration has pervasively violated the First Amendment in its efforts to coerce and intimidate the University of California.
News story here—
‘Unlawful coercion’: Trump can’t withhold funds or demand payment from UC, federal judge rules
A federal judge ruled Donald Trump cannot demand that UCLA pay a $1.2 billion settlement that would have restricted academic freedoms.
calmatters.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Another @aaup.org win
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What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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The only way to stop a bad dog with a gun is a good dog with a gun!
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The only way to stop a bad dog with a gun is a good dog with a gun!
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An op-ed from Chris Christie (!!) that says "Regulated betting, when done right, strengthens the integrity of sports."
No discussion of gambling's deleterious effects on people!
No discussion of gambling's deleterious effects on people!
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
An op-ed from Chris Christie (!!) that says "Regulated betting, when done right, strengthens the integrity of sports."
No discussion of gambling's deleterious effects on people!
No discussion of gambling's deleterious effects on people!
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The White House shutdown of Voice Of America has opened the door to propaganda by Russian and Chinese influencers in countries from Africa to Asia. www.press.org/newsroom/voa... #SaveVOA
VOA Staffers Urge Public To Rally Around Crippled News Service
The White House shutdown of Voice Of America has opened the door to propaganda by Russian and Chinese influencers in countries from Africa to Asia, furloughed staff of the news service warned last nig...
www.press.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The White House shutdown of Voice Of America has opened the door to propaganda by Russian and Chinese influencers in countries from Africa to Asia. www.press.org/newsroom/voa... #SaveVOA
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Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
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this story was sort of lost in the last few days of the epstein news but it’s wild how many republicans appear to be pedophiles or okay with pedophilia
'Beyond horrific': Observers aghast as teen at center of Gaetz sex scandal comes forward
www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-t...
www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-t...
'Beyond horrific': Observers aghast as teen at center of Gaetz sex scandal comes forward
Reactions mounted Thursday after a woman sharing her story for the first time said that then-Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) sexually abused her when she was just 17, while she was living in a homeless shelter...
www.rawstory.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
this story was sort of lost in the last few days of the epstein news but it’s wild how many republicans appear to be pedophiles or okay with pedophilia
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Clear sky, clear message in Vilnius
🇱🇹 💙 💛
🇱🇹 💙 💛
November 15, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Clear sky, clear message in Vilnius
🇱🇹 💙 💛
🇱🇹 💙 💛
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He’s totally gone.
Trump: I had an MRI and the result was outstanding.
Reporter: Was it your brain?
Trump: I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well.
Reporter: Was it your brain?
Trump: I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well.
November 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
He’s totally gone.
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President Donald Trump has again claimed that former President Bill Clinton was at Jeffrey Epstein's private island. Here is what his emails say.
Epstein's email says Bill Clinton 'NEVER EVER' went to his island. Trump says otherwise.
President Donald Trump has again claimed that former President Bill Clinton was at Jeffrey Epstein's private island. Here is what his emails say.
bit.ly
November 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
President Donald Trump has again claimed that former President Bill Clinton was at Jeffrey Epstein's private island. Here is what his emails say.
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Coercive sterilization in ICE detention. Eugenics.
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody
More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Coercive sterilization in ICE detention. Eugenics.
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🚩Republicans, aware they are going to lose, are attempting to cast doubts about the election.
They tried to overturn the will of the voters in 2020. They are at it again.
They tried to overturn the will of the voters in 2020. They are at it again.
My statement on Republican lawmakers' request that the DOJ oversee Michigan's 2026 elections:
November 15, 2025 at 4:08 AM
🚩Republicans, aware they are going to lose, are attempting to cast doubts about the election.
They tried to overturn the will of the voters in 2020. They are at it again.
They tried to overturn the will of the voters in 2020. They are at it again.
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Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence!
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
Trump Boat Bombings Take Dark, Unnerving Turn with Leaked Memo Stunner
A new Trump administration memo argues that those carrying out the boat attacks can’t be prosecuted. Why? Because the administration says so!
newrepublic.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence!
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
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Yikes 😬 an official U.S. government account just referred to Americans as “imbecilic morons.” That’s… a choice.
November 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Yikes 😬 an official U.S. government account just referred to Americans as “imbecilic morons.” That’s… a choice.
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Why are tech billionaires fixated on doomsday?
Because "apocalypse capitalism" is the business model— existential threats as trillion-dollar opportunities.
New at the Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Apocalypse Capitalism
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Because "apocalypse capitalism" is the business model— existential threats as trillion-dollar opportunities.
New at the Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Apocalypse Capitalism
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Silicon Valley Apocalypse Capitalism
“Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Why are tech billionaires fixated on doomsday?
Because "apocalypse capitalism" is the business model— existential threats as trillion-dollar opportunities.
New at the Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Apocalypse Capitalism
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Because "apocalypse capitalism" is the business model— existential threats as trillion-dollar opportunities.
New at the Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Apocalypse Capitalism
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
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excellent analysis at "The Nerd Reich"
Why are tech billionaires fixated on doomsday?
Because "apocalypse capitalism" is the business model— existential threats as trillion-dollar opportunities.
New at the Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Apocalypse Capitalism
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Because "apocalypse capitalism" is the business model— existential threats as trillion-dollar opportunities.
New at the Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Apocalypse Capitalism
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Silicon Valley Apocalypse Capitalism
“Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
excellent analysis at "The Nerd Reich"
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it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax
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Canadians hardly pollute at all compared to...<insert country person doesn't really know much about>
I'll just leave chart here for your perusal.
I'll just leave chart here for your perusal.
November 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Canadians hardly pollute at all compared to...<insert country person doesn't really know much about>
I'll just leave chart here for your perusal.
I'll just leave chart here for your perusal.
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Bluesky says it suspended author Sarah Kendzior because she was "expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article."
But there's more to the story:
But there's more to the story:
Bluesky Is Clearly Not a Johnny Cash Fan
A user was banned for making a Johnny Cash reference. Where's the dividing line between serious threat and jokey pop culture reference?
gizmodo.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Bluesky says it suspended author Sarah Kendzior because she was "expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article."
But there's more to the story:
But there's more to the story:
Meritocracy was just a ruse and people like Joe Rogan fell for it hook line & sinker.
Ingrassia withdrew his original nomination b/c even his own party couldn’t support him after his racist comments and harassment allegations. Installing him as GSA’s deputy GC, despite being just > 1 yr out of law school, shows how professional standards are replaced with loyalty.
President Trump has tapped Paul Ingrassia, who withdrew his nomination for the Office of Special Counsel after racist remarks emerged, to become deputy general counsel of the General Services Administration.
November 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Meritocracy was just a ruse and people like Joe Rogan fell for it hook line & sinker.
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Trump says, “no one cares about veterans more than me.”
But his playbook says something else:
📌 Strip disability pay from veterans
📌 Cut 30,000+ VA jobs that help disabled vets
The Project 2025 agenda:
Gut the government, gut veterans, and funnel the money to Trump’s billionaire friends.
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But his playbook says something else:
📌 Strip disability pay from veterans
📌 Cut 30,000+ VA jobs that help disabled vets
The Project 2025 agenda:
Gut the government, gut veterans, and funnel the money to Trump’s billionaire friends.
1/2
November 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Trump says, “no one cares about veterans more than me.”
But his playbook says something else:
📌 Strip disability pay from veterans
📌 Cut 30,000+ VA jobs that help disabled vets
The Project 2025 agenda:
Gut the government, gut veterans, and funnel the money to Trump’s billionaire friends.
1/2
But his playbook says something else:
📌 Strip disability pay from veterans
📌 Cut 30,000+ VA jobs that help disabled vets
The Project 2025 agenda:
Gut the government, gut veterans, and funnel the money to Trump’s billionaire friends.
1/2
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Jeffrey Epstein had 1,571 names of contacts in his little black book.
Fewer than 40 names—just 2.4%—were circled.
Donald Trump’s was one of them.
Epstein had 14 phone numbers for Trump. Fourteen ways to reach him.
If that’s not “being on the Epstein List,” what the f*ck is?
Fewer than 40 names—just 2.4%—were circled.
Donald Trump’s was one of them.
Epstein had 14 phone numbers for Trump. Fourteen ways to reach him.
If that’s not “being on the Epstein List,” what the f*ck is?
November 14, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Jeffrey Epstein had 1,571 names of contacts in his little black book.
Fewer than 40 names—just 2.4%—were circled.
Donald Trump’s was one of them.
Epstein had 14 phone numbers for Trump. Fourteen ways to reach him.
If that’s not “being on the Epstein List,” what the f*ck is?
Fewer than 40 names—just 2.4%—were circled.
Donald Trump’s was one of them.
Epstein had 14 phone numbers for Trump. Fourteen ways to reach him.
If that’s not “being on the Epstein List,” what the f*ck is?
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Millions of people have, probably unknowingly, streamed a dreadful country song created entirely by AI. This is a harbinger of things to come.
It's going to get increasingly more difficult to hang on to our humanity, but we have to keep at it. My latest:
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/todays-ai-...
It's going to get increasingly more difficult to hang on to our humanity, but we have to keep at it. My latest:
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/todays-ai-...
Today’s AI Slop Panic That Is Both Fake and Real, In the Worst Way
What's here now is bad, and what's coming is worse. Hang on to your humanity.
paulwaldman.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Millions of people have, probably unknowingly, streamed a dreadful country song created entirely by AI. This is a harbinger of things to come.
It's going to get increasingly more difficult to hang on to our humanity, but we have to keep at it. My latest:
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/todays-ai-...
It's going to get increasingly more difficult to hang on to our humanity, but we have to keep at it. My latest:
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/todays-ai-...
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NIH scientist Dr. Jenna Norton was just placed on nondisciplinary leave.
She led a team who wrote a sign-on letter critical of The Regime.
A person at NIH asked to give a reason for her leave called her “radical leftist”; while the NIH Director has claimed that “dissent is productive”.
She led a team who wrote a sign-on letter critical of The Regime.
A person at NIH asked to give a reason for her leave called her “radical leftist”; while the NIH Director has claimed that “dissent is productive”.
N.I.H. Worker Who Criticized Trump Health Policies Says She Is on Administrative Leave
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
NIH scientist Dr. Jenna Norton was just placed on nondisciplinary leave.
She led a team who wrote a sign-on letter critical of The Regime.
A person at NIH asked to give a reason for her leave called her “radical leftist”; while the NIH Director has claimed that “dissent is productive”.
She led a team who wrote a sign-on letter critical of The Regime.
A person at NIH asked to give a reason for her leave called her “radical leftist”; while the NIH Director has claimed that “dissent is productive”.