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Jeanann Verlee
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Poet. Performer. Former punk rocker.

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jarvissquarebooks.bsky.social
Apropos of nothing, we still have a few of these @joseolivarez.bsky.social broadsides available.
"The Democrats Need to Stop Asking Me for Five Dollars" poem by José Olivarez
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Trumpism is bad, he doesn’t want to end foreign wars and he’s not gonna make things cheaper. Democrats, this is your moment to narrate what’s happening.
June 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
jeaverlee.bsky.social
And legacy media.
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · May 16
This one is largely on Democrats.

They could easily make Stephen Miller the face of the administration — emphasizing how out of control Trump is and how far right the actual policies are, prompting the media to follow their lead — but they’re largely giving him a pass. It’s bizarre.
espiers.bsky.social Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · May 16
It is truly amazing how little scrutiny Stephen Miller gets—not because he’s an architect of Trumpism; that gives him too much credit. But because he is openly the most bigoted and malicious person there and he behaves and sounds like a petulant child.
May 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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theferocity.bsky.social
I sincerely pray that the weight of your mediocrity and cowardice weighs on your ballsack every night heavier than lead.
schumer.senate.gov Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · May 10
Mayor Ras Baraka has been released, but he should never have been arrested by Trump to begin with.
May 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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gabrielmalor.bsky.social
They're firing black people from the federal government. That's it. There's no nuance to this. It's just racism straight up.
May 10, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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deanobeidallah.bsky.social
The Klan and ICE agents both wear masks. And they do so for the same reason.
May 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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hellafitzgerald.bsky.social
fun fact three fighter jets is roughly equivalent to the NEA’s 2024 budget
May 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
jeaverlee.bsky.social
That’s terror you’re feeling.
ericcolumbus.bsky.social Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · May 6
🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants.

Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.
THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION WASHINGTON, DC 20202 May 5, 2025 Dr. Alan Garber Office of the President Harvard University Massachusetts Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 Dr. Garber, The Federal Government has a sacred responsibility to be a wise and important steward of American taxpayer dollars. Harvard University, despite amassing a largely tax-free $53.2 billion dollar endowment (larger than the GDP of 100 countries), receives billions of dollars of taxpayer largess each year. Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right. Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these "students" come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country—and why is there so much HATE? These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give straightforward answers to the American public? Harvard University has made a mockery of this country's higher education system. It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus. In every way, Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations, its ethical and fiduciary duties, its transparency responsibilities, and any semblance of academic rigor. It had scrapped standardized testing requirements and a normalized grading system. This year Harvard was forced to adopt an embarrassing "remedial math" program for undergraduates. Why is it, we ask, that Harvard has to teach simple and basic mathematics, when it is supposedly so hard to get into this "acclaimed university"? Who is getting in under such a low standard when others, with fabulous grades and a great understanding of the highest levels of mathematics, are being rejected? Harvard has even been embroiled in humiliating plagiarism scandals, exposed clearly and plainly in the media, with respect to your then… running the institution in a totally chaotic way. Harvard alumnus and highly successful hedge fund manager Bill Ackman noted that, under her leadership, Harvard has become "a political advocacy organization for one party." Ackman has called for the resignation of Pritzker, concluding that the "[t)he mismanagement here is Penny Pritzker" and noting that any serious corporation would have removed her after a litany of recent failings and the fact that, incredibly, "Harvard is not in a good financial position." According to Ackman, one of the world's foremost finance experts, Harvard's so-called S53 billion endowment is "massively overstated as far as what it's really worth," and Harvard has irresponsibly taken out $8 billion in debt. If this is true, it is concerning evidence of Harvard's disastrous mismanagement, indicating an urgent need for massive reform-not continued taxpayer investment. If Harvard prefers not to change, then Harvard should have no problem using its overflowing endowment to fund its bloated bureaucracy. At its best, a university should fulfill the highest ideals of our Nation, and enlighten the thousands of hopeful students who walk through its magnificent gates. But Harvard has betrayed this ideal. Perhaps most alarmingly, Harvard has failed to abide by the United States Supreme Court's ruling demanding that it end its racial preferencing, and continues to engage in ugly racism in its undergraduate and graduate schools, and even within the Harvard Law Review itself. Our universities should be bastions of merit that reward and celebrate excellence and achievement. They should not be incubators of discrimination that encourage resentment and instill grievance and racism into our wonderful young Americans. The above concerns are only a fraction of the long list of Harvard's consistent violations of its own legal duties. Given these and other concerning allegations, this letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek GRANTS from the fede… Federal Agencies. The Administration's priorities have not changed and today's letter marks the end of new grants for the University. These requests will advance the best interests of Harvard University, so it can reclaim its status as a respected educational institution for the future leaders of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter! Sincerely, Linda E. McMahon Secretary of Education
May 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
jeaverlee.bsky.social
Fucking evil.
April 29, 2025 at 3:03 AM
jeaverlee.bsky.social
I’m over half a century old. I can guarantee that being “inconvenienced by strangers”(aka dominated by said stranger) has never once been okay. Please trust your gut on my “don’t-talk-to-me expression.”
nancyfrench.bsky.social Nancy French @nancyfrench.bsky.social · Apr 25
Unpopular opinion: I know it's cool to wear your earbuds and carry a book while pasting a disinterested, don't-talk-to-me expression on your face, but I like to talk to the person sitting beside me on airplanes. I liked it when we were willing to be inconvenienced by strangers.
April 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
jeaverlee.bsky.social
This alarm has been ringing in my chest since the Jan 6 coup attempt. Capitalism kills.
theferocity.bsky.social Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Apr 9
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
April 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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merri24.bsky.social
to all of the Democratic senators who voted yes, on Bondi, how are you sleeping at night knowing that our government is kidnapping, torturing, and imprisoning innocent people?
April 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
jeaverlee.bsky.social
In under 80 days.
jaywillis.net Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · Apr 7
If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
Respondents emphasize that Abrego Garcia was improperly removed to El Sal- vador because, although he could be removed anywhere else in the world under a 2019 order of removal, that order granted statutory withholding of removal to El Sal- vador alone. But, while the United States concedes that removal to El Salvador was an administrative error, see App., infra, 60a, that does not license district courts to seize control over foreign relations, treat the Executive Branch as a subordinate dip- lomat, and demand that the United States let a member of a foreign terrorist organ- ization into America tonight. For starters, because MS-13 members such as Abrego Garcia have since been designated members of a foreign terrorist organization, they are no longer eligible for withholding of removal under 8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3)(B). Fur- ther, the United States has ensured that aliens removed to CECOT in El Salvador will not be tortured, and it would not have removed any alien to El Salvador for such detention if doing so would violate its obligations under the Convention Against Tor- ture. Moreover, respondents treat the relief here as “routine,” Resp. C.A. Stay Opp. 1, but that relief goes far beyond merely facilitating an alien’s return, which is what courts have ordered in other cases. This order—and its demand to accomplish sensitive foreign negotiations post-haste, and effectuate Abrego Garcia’s return to- night—is unprecedented and indefensible.
April 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
jeaverlee.bsky.social
The clearest interpretation yet of this nonsense windbagging.
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 6
you, a rube: “i want my kid to grow up to be a doctor or an engineer or a teacher”

lutnick, a genius: “to make america great again your child will make iphones that they will not be able to afford”
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 6
Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."
April 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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nywolforg.bsky.social
Let's get loud 🐺

#ScienceMatters #HandsOff
April 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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ryanhwalsh.bsky.social
To the Common. #Boston #HandsOff
April 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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mcuban.bsky.social
There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.

Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
April 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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nhannahjones.bsky.social
Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.
April 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
Sen. @corybooker has committed to filibustering the business of the Senate to bring attention to the lawlessness of the Trump Administration until he can no longer stand or speak.

The least we can do is keep him company for awhile.

Watching www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
mattmfm.bsky.social Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · Mar 31
Cory Booker has taken the Senate floor and plans to filibuster as long as he’s physically able to protest the complete disregard for the rule of law by Trump and Musk.

Watch here: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
April 1, 2025 at 1:06 AM
jeaverlee.bsky.social
America: Where folks with power do nothing to bridle him because they’re *afraid of being yelled at* …while folks with zero power are afraid of not surviving.
petersagal.bsky.social Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · Mar 17
From the end of this morning’s WP article on Trump’s economic plans everybody’s mad about.

1) Nobody — not even powerful rich CEOs — contradict Trump to his face because they’re afraid of being yelled at.

2) Their strategy is hoping they can survive this until he leaves.
Last week, the president met with corporate leaders assembled by the Yale CEO Caucus and the Business Roundtable. Many are deeply skeptical that global supply chains developed over years can or should be quickly unwound. But their closed-door sessions with the president were devoid of fireworks. "They don't want to get Zelensky-ed," said the Republican, who attended one of the meetings, referring to Trump's public humiliation of the Ukrainian president during a recent Oval Office meeting. Some business leaders hope to redirect Trump from attacking Canada and Mexico to a more narrow focus on combating China's trade practices. Foreign companies already see their presence in China as under threat, given President Xi Jinping's effort to boost his country's self-reliance. So they are prepared to see Trump erect further trade barriers on Chinese goods, if they can salvage their manufacturing footprint closer to the United States, this person said. The president's mercurial nature and limited time in office also make them cautious about dramatic changes in their supply chains or operations. Some are hoping to run out the clock on Trump's economic revolution. "The president's not going to be around forever," said another Republican business executive. "In four years, you have a different administration."
March 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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jbf1755.bsky.social
Attacking knowledge, information, learning, science, libraries, schools: to keep people clueless and compliant.

Fight back: read, speak out, communicate, learn, and share with others.
March 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
In this interview Schumer is so delulu and out of touch and wrong. I vote in CA but if you’re a NY voter, I hope you alll can find someone to primary him. He is unfit for the moment as are many of his colleagues.
March 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM