Laura Collins
@lcollins100.bsky.social
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Hello Bluesky! We are Education & Democracy United (EDU), a new organization of students, faculty, and staff working to support and defend academic freedom at colleges and universities across the US.
Hoping we can connect with other organizations and individuals with related missions!
#organizing
Hoping we can connect with other organizations and individuals with related missions!
#organizing
May 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Hello Bluesky! We are Education & Democracy United (EDU), a new organization of students, faculty, and staff working to support and defend academic freedom at colleges and universities across the US.
Hoping we can connect with other organizations and individuals with related missions!
#organizing
Hoping we can connect with other organizations and individuals with related missions!
#organizing
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This is the best 100-day recap I’ve seen — and it begs the damn question:
Why is his approval rating still 39%? Are folks in a coma?
Why is his approval rating still 39%? Are folks in a coma?
April 30, 2025 at 5:32 AM
This is the best 100-day recap I’ve seen — and it begs the damn question:
Why is his approval rating still 39%? Are folks in a coma?
Why is his approval rating still 39%? Are folks in a coma?
"Trickle Down Economics" 🙄
April 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
"Trickle Down Economics" 🙄
Pritzker is ON IT!
Pritzker: And we have a president who claims to love America but hates our military so much that can’t be bothered to delay his golf game to greet the bodies of four fallen U.S. soldiers.
April 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Pritzker is ON IT!
Yes!
Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…
April 29, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Yes!
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On the bright side for Trump, no one’s talking about the stock market in freefall—because Hegseth’s Pentagon circus is sucking all the oxygen out of the room.
April 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
On the bright side for Trump, no one’s talking about the stock market in freefall—because Hegseth’s Pentagon circus is sucking all the oxygen out of the room.
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Raskin: The president derives his powers only either from the Constitution explicitly or from an act of Congress and Congress certainly has never given the president the power to relocate prisoners to foreign countries and there's nothing in the constitution that remotely vests that power…
April 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Raskin: The president derives his powers only either from the Constitution explicitly or from an act of Congress and Congress certainly has never given the president the power to relocate prisoners to foreign countries and there's nothing in the constitution that remotely vests that power…
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A judge blocked Musk staffers from accessing Social Security data, but of course, they’ve ignored those orders. We warned this was happening: Musk operatives have been marking individuals in the Social Security system as dead in an effort to pressure immigrants to self-deport.
April 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
A judge blocked Musk staffers from accessing Social Security data, but of course, they’ve ignored those orders. We warned this was happening: Musk operatives have been marking individuals in the Social Security system as dead in an effort to pressure immigrants to self-deport.
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Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.
April 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.
Disgusting
Put aside the lies and the open defiance of the Supreme Court, as well as the cruelty, and ask yourself: who talks like this? This is the *official* account of the *White House* - is it being run by a six year old?
April 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Disgusting
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Tonight is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. May his memory remind us all to resist the tyranny forming in our government.
April 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Tonight is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. May his memory remind us all to resist the tyranny forming in our government.
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
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"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."
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The student paper at the college at which I teach reports a "tsunami of takedown requests" from international students terrified of being targeted for innocuous, legitimate op-eds & opinions.. Many ask in person--leave no trace in writing. Reminds me of my father's account of studying in the USSR.
April 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The student paper at the college at which I teach reports a "tsunami of takedown requests" from international students terrified of being targeted for innocuous, legitimate op-eds & opinions.. Many ask in person--leave no trace in writing. Reminds me of my father's account of studying in the USSR.
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“But if federal courts cannot order the return of someone exiled to a foreign gulag by mistake, then the administration is free to exile citizens and then claim they did so in error, while leaving them to rot”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
‘A Path of Perfect Lawlessness’
The Trump administration’s arguments in a high-profile immigration case have much broader implications.
www.theatlantic.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“But if federal courts cannot order the return of someone exiled to a foreign gulag by mistake, then the administration is free to exile citizens and then claim they did so in error, while leaving them to rot”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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MUST SEE THIS!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QmW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QmW...
What records show about the migrants sent to Salvadoran mega-prison
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
www.youtube.com
April 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
MUST SEE THIS!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QmW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QmW...
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They’re eating the checks, they’re eating the balances!
April 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
They’re eating the checks, they’re eating the balances!
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April 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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The back of a t-shirt
April 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The back of a t-shirt
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