LTurculet
@lturculet.bsky.social
Chemistry prof at Dalhousie University. Canadian 🇨🇦, Maritimes ⚓️. Opinions my own.
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this dweeb doesn't even seem to be a US citizen. He's a student from the UK. hard to prove from the evidence online that he's not naturalized. (even then the below would be pretty rich). But he seems to be some posh brit here on a student visa.
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
this dweeb doesn't even seem to be a US citizen. He's a student from the UK. hard to prove from the evidence online that he's not naturalized. (even then the below would be pretty rich). But he seems to be some posh brit here on a student visa.
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Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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yell at your Senators. no deal! www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
U.S. Senate: Contacting U.S. Senators
www.senate.gov
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
yell at your Senators. no deal! www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
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DURBIN'S NOT EVEN RUNNING AGAIN, the gutless fuck.
CALL ALL OF THEM. SAY PRIMARY.
"Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.), Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),Jon Ossoff (Ga.), Gary Peters (Mich.) &Dick Durbin (Ill.) were among the Democrats who participated in secretive negotiations to end the shutdown & are considered possible “yes” votes for the deal."
"Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.), Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),Jon Ossoff (Ga.), Gary Peters (Mich.) &Dick Durbin (Ill.) were among the Democrats who participated in secretive negotiations to end the shutdown & are considered possible “yes” votes for the deal."
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
DURBIN'S NOT EVEN RUNNING AGAIN, the gutless fuck.
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If you're looking for something to dislodge that Gordon Lightfoot earworm, tomorrow is ALSO the 50th anniversary of Patti Smith's debut album. Like Bruce Springsteen says, starts with "probably the greatest opening line of anyone’s debut album in rock ’n’ roll."
This is a fun piece:
This is a fun piece:
Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary (Gift Article)
In 1975, she transformed poetry into punk. Neither would ever be the same. More than 20 artists who made and admired the album share their memories.
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
If you're looking for something to dislodge that Gordon Lightfoot earworm, tomorrow is ALSO the 50th anniversary of Patti Smith's debut album. Like Bruce Springsteen says, starts with "probably the greatest opening line of anyone’s debut album in rock ’n’ roll."
This is a fun piece:
This is a fun piece:
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Pretty much. Suckers.
Doing this even after this past Election Day and how the public thinks the shutdown is Republican’s fault (because it is).
Political malpractice.
Doing this even after this past Election Day and how the public thinks the shutdown is Republican’s fault (because it is).
Political malpractice.
If Democrats get no concessions, then what they are doing is casting blame on themselves for the shutdown,
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Pretty much. Suckers.
Doing this even after this past Election Day and how the public thinks the shutdown is Republican’s fault (because it is).
Political malpractice.
Doing this even after this past Election Day and how the public thinks the shutdown is Republican’s fault (because it is).
Political malpractice.
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DNC Vice Chair calls Chuck Schumer's shutdown deal a "mistake"
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
DNC Vice Chair calls Chuck Schumer's shutdown deal a "mistake"
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Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?
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Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
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I swear to god, a second grader trying to get rid of bedtime is a fucking better negotiator than Chuck Schumer.
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I swear to god, a second grader trying to get rid of bedtime is a fucking better negotiator than Chuck Schumer.
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I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
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The thing this always reminds me of is the apocryphal stories of, like, a cargo cult or somesuch hearing a radio for the first time and thinking there must be a tiny man trapped inside.
Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
November 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The thing this always reminds me of is the apocryphal stories of, like, a cargo cult or somesuch hearing a radio for the first time and thinking there must be a tiny man trapped inside.
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This speech in 1 sentence: we are staying in power, come hell or high water.
Listen to him carefully. No, seriously, listen! These guys aren’t joking.
Be as deadly serious as they are.
Listen to him carefully. No, seriously, listen! These guys aren’t joking.
Be as deadly serious as they are.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This speech in 1 sentence: we are staying in power, come hell or high water.
Listen to him carefully. No, seriously, listen! These guys aren’t joking.
Be as deadly serious as they are.
Listen to him carefully. No, seriously, listen! These guys aren’t joking.
Be as deadly serious as they are.
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“HOW ELON MUSK IS BOOSTING THE BRITISH RIGHT: For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does.” news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“HOW ELON MUSK IS BOOSTING THE BRITISH RIGHT: For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does.” news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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I have been loudly, persistently anti-Trump since the beginning. And tonight's election results just make me more sure: *there are more of us than there are of them* A good hard look at Trumpism in action has made that impossible to ignore.
Let's take this country back, and let's make it better.
Let's take this country back, and let's make it better.
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I have been loudly, persistently anti-Trump since the beginning. And tonight's election results just make me more sure: *there are more of us than there are of them* A good hard look at Trumpism in action has made that impossible to ignore.
Let's take this country back, and let's make it better.
Let's take this country back, and let's make it better.
Sarah Mclachlan, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy 30th anniversary tour. Amazing 🤩
November 5, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Sarah Mclachlan, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy 30th anniversary tour. Amazing 🤩
Great….but apparently we’re gonna be in Eurovision, so….SMH
I’ll tell my students to start working on our entry 🙄
I’ll tell my students to start working on our entry 🙄
As far as I can tell, Carney is "generously" "only" cutting research funding by 2%. The rest is Harper-ish plans for international recruitment (vs. funding those of us already here) and directing research funding toward industry needs (specifically, defence).
November 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Great….but apparently we’re gonna be in Eurovision, so….SMH
I’ll tell my students to start working on our entry 🙄
I’ll tell my students to start working on our entry 🙄
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As far as I can tell, Carney is "generously" "only" cutting research funding by 2%. The rest is Harper-ish plans for international recruitment (vs. funding those of us already here) and directing research funding toward industry needs (specifically, defence).
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
As far as I can tell, Carney is "generously" "only" cutting research funding by 2%. The rest is Harper-ish plans for international recruitment (vs. funding those of us already here) and directing research funding toward industry needs (specifically, defence).
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Here's the biggest PSE story you haven't heard yet: the Canada Student Grant for low-income students is being cut from $4200/year to $3000/year as of next August. It's implicit in the budget tables but the government is too chickenshit to actually say so directly.
November 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Here's the biggest PSE story you haven't heard yet: the Canada Student Grant for low-income students is being cut from $4200/year to $3000/year as of next August. It's implicit in the budget tables but the government is too chickenshit to actually say so directly.
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The charge being, "Assault With A Deli Weapon."
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The charge being, "Assault With A Deli Weapon."
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Y’all remember what didn’t happen when Biden was president? *Any* of this shit. Tariffs, war with Venezuela, masked secret police grabbing people off the streets, people about to lose food aid, health care premiums skyrocketing, none of this.
October 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Y’all remember what didn’t happen when Biden was president? *Any* of this shit. Tariffs, war with Venezuela, masked secret police grabbing people off the streets, people about to lose food aid, health care premiums skyrocketing, none of this.
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Two years ago. Two. Now here we are.
Two years ago, Nick Fuentes was so toxic that, after I reported on a secret meet he had with a top Texas GOP donor, the party was engulfed in scandal and voted to explicitly ban Holocaust deniers/Neo Nazis.
Today, Heritage Foundation effectively said that "no enemies to our right" includes Fuentes.
Today, Heritage Foundation effectively said that "no enemies to our right" includes Fuentes.
Heritage president backs Tucker Carlson after interview with Holocaust-denier Nick Fuentes
Kevin Roberts denounced the “venomous coalition” that has criticized the former Fox News host.
www.politico.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Two years ago. Two. Now here we are.
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From government policy emphasizing only STEM or trades, to AI, to assholes with MBAs trying to turn every university into fucking McDonald's, it's amazing things aren't even worse. But we're on the edge of a generational downturn in education, and the long-term repercussions might be existential.
October 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
From government policy emphasizing only STEM or trades, to AI, to assholes with MBAs trying to turn every university into fucking McDonald's, it's amazing things aren't even worse. But we're on the edge of a generational downturn in education, and the long-term repercussions might be existential.