Maggie
@maggiepdx.bsky.social
Many more questions than answers. Public education is the key to healthy democracy. Libraries are the bulwark of the republic.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court rejects long-shot effort to overturn same-sex marriage ruling. The court turned away an appeal filed by Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky who was sued after refusing to issue a marriage license to a gay couple. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Supreme Court rejects long-shot effort to overturn same-sex marriage ruling
The court turned away an appeal filed by Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky who was sued after refusing to issue a marriage license to a gay couple.
www.nbcnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
BREAKING: Supreme Court rejects long-shot effort to overturn same-sex marriage ruling. The court turned away an appeal filed by Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky who was sued after refusing to issue a marriage license to a gay couple. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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I teach my students a concept called Group Threat Theory, outlining how members of a larger group feel threatened when a smaller group in their number grows in power. This explains that unfortunate NYTimes story better than anything. But this comes close: https://loom.ly/UZ_eOdM
Women of Vanity Fair Consider: Wait, Did We Ruin the Workplace?
Today, The New York Times published a conversation between the conservative columnist Ross Douthat and two writers about just how bad ladies have screwed up corporate culture with their presence. We felt we should engage.
www.vanityfair.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I teach my students a concept called Group Threat Theory, outlining how members of a larger group feel threatened when a smaller group in their number grows in power. This explains that unfortunate NYTimes story better than anything. But this comes close: https://loom.ly/UZ_eOdM
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I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.
October 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.
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Portland Waterfront is jammed for the #NoKings protest. Shout out to the Unpresidented Brass Band --you can break their clarinets but not their spirit. #Oregon #FrogStrong @wyden.senate.gov
October 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Portland Waterfront is jammed for the #NoKings protest. Shout out to the Unpresidented Brass Band --you can break their clarinets but not their spirit. #Oregon #FrogStrong @wyden.senate.gov
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Everything about this is bonkers. The arrest, the charge, the possible sentence, the **$2 million bail.**
reason.com/2025/10/10/t...
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Tennessee man arrested, gets $2 million bond for posting Facebook meme
Larry Bushart posted a meme on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk. He now faces years in prison.
reason.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Everything about this is bonkers. The arrest, the charge, the possible sentence, the **$2 million bail.**
reason.com/2025/10/10/t...
reason.com/2025/10/10/t...
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As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...
October 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...
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I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...
ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls
Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...
people.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...
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ILLINOIS — BROADVIEW POLICE CHIEF ON ICE: “I was shocked. I’ve never been spoken to by a fellow law enforcement officer in such a way.”
ICE is routinely gassing cops and negatively impacting the community as their detention facility faces protests.
ICE is routinely gassing cops and negatively impacting the community as their detention facility faces protests.
September 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
ILLINOIS — BROADVIEW POLICE CHIEF ON ICE: “I was shocked. I’ve never been spoken to by a fellow law enforcement officer in such a way.”
ICE is routinely gassing cops and negatively impacting the community as their detention facility faces protests.
ICE is routinely gassing cops and negatively impacting the community as their detention facility faces protests.
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BREAKING NEWS: Oregon sues Trump administration over unlawful federalization of National Guard. Read more.
September 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Oregon sues Trump administration over unlawful federalization of National Guard. Read more.
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In a string of rapid-fire reposts tonight, President Trump amplified messages saying:
1) Islam will suffocate the United States
2) The great replacement theory is real
3) Adam Schiff should be in prison.
1) Islam will suffocate the United States
2) The great replacement theory is real
3) Adam Schiff should be in prison.
September 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
In a string of rapid-fire reposts tonight, President Trump amplified messages saying:
1) Islam will suffocate the United States
2) The great replacement theory is real
3) Adam Schiff should be in prison.
1) Islam will suffocate the United States
2) The great replacement theory is real
3) Adam Schiff should be in prison.
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to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)
Opinion | This Is About So Much More Than Lisa Cook
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)
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I'm just gonna keep reposting this inane BS from Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence on the roving immigration patrol case from LA.
September 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I'm just gonna keep reposting this inane BS from Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence on the roving immigration patrol case from LA.
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David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel: "This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."
September 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel: "This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."
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Just take a moment. The whole thing is a scam. They are terrible at governing. Terrible. And all the noise is to distract from their fundamental incompetence in governance.
September 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Just take a moment. The whole thing is a scam. They are terrible at governing. Terrible. And all the noise is to distract from their fundamental incompetence in governance.
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BREAKING: Hella sketchy. Billions of dollars on these parallel crypto & chip deals with the UAE. Trump, friends and family pocketed the money.
Don't miss. My guest tomorrow will be @ericlipton.nytimes.com who broke this story with a @nytimes.com team
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmE2...
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Don't miss. My guest tomorrow will be @ericlipton.nytimes.com who broke this story with a @nytimes.com team
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmE2...
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Jen Taub LIVE - Eric Lipton on the Trump Sheikh Deals
YouTube video by Jen Taub
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September 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
BREAKING: Hella sketchy. Billions of dollars on these parallel crypto & chip deals with the UAE. Trump, friends and family pocketed the money.
Don't miss. My guest tomorrow will be @ericlipton.nytimes.com who broke this story with a @nytimes.com team
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmE2...
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Don't miss. My guest tomorrow will be @ericlipton.nytimes.com who broke this story with a @nytimes.com team
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmE2...
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Follow the money:
How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein
Over the years, JPMorgan processed more than $1 billion in wire transfers and cash withdrawals alone for Epstein.
🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...
How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein
Over the years, JPMorgan processed more than $1 billion in wire transfers and cash withdrawals alone for Epstein.
🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...
How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Follow the money:
How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein
Over the years, JPMorgan processed more than $1 billion in wire transfers and cash withdrawals alone for Epstein.
🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...
How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein
Over the years, JPMorgan processed more than $1 billion in wire transfers and cash withdrawals alone for Epstein.
🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
Complicit upper management ignored rank and file warnings that red flags on Epstein's immense cash withdrawals made him suspicious for human trafficking.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...
Complicit upper management ignored rank and file warnings that red flags on Epstein's immense cash withdrawals made him suspicious for human trafficking.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...
How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
Complicit upper management ignored rank and file warnings that red flags on Epstein's immense cash withdrawals made him suspicious for human trafficking.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...
Complicit upper management ignored rank and file warnings that red flags on Epstein's immense cash withdrawals made him suspicious for human trafficking.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...
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This is sick and a war crime.
You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
September 4, 2025 at 2:48 AM
This is sick and a war crime.
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oh God. I mean ofc but God
You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
September 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
oh God. I mean ofc but God
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Live your life so your attorney never has to file a brief with the topic heading "the meaning of prostitution has changed over time"
Diddy dockets: Just now, Combs' lawyers filed reply for a new trial, incl "The Meaning of 'Prostitution' Has Changed Over Time" &"Combs Was Producing Amateur Porn" - Inner City Press story, with 30 page filing, coming next
September 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Live your life so your attorney never has to file a brief with the topic heading "the meaning of prostitution has changed over time"
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5/ These statements by Secretary Rubio make the legal case against the U.S. strike even stronger.
(h/t @johnphudson.bsky.social reporting)
(h/t @johnphudson.bsky.social reporting)
September 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
5/ These statements by Secretary Rubio make the legal case against the U.S. strike even stronger.
(h/t @johnphudson.bsky.social reporting)
(h/t @johnphudson.bsky.social reporting)
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4/ If law of armed conflict does not apply (and it does not), then...
DoD has long-standing view that assassination and murder are part of customary international human rights law that applies to U.S. military action beyond U.S. borders.
2024 Operational Law Handbook⤵️
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DoD has long-standing view that assassination and murder are part of customary international human rights law that applies to U.S. military action beyond U.S. borders.
2024 Operational Law Handbook⤵️
tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...
September 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
4/ If law of armed conflict does not apply (and it does not), then...
DoD has long-standing view that assassination and murder are part of customary international human rights law that applies to U.S. military action beyond U.S. borders.
2024 Operational Law Handbook⤵️
tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...
DoD has long-standing view that assassination and murder are part of customary international human rights law that applies to U.S. military action beyond U.S. borders.
2024 Operational Law Handbook⤵️
tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...
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1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat.
Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.
Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.
Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
Legal Issues Raised by a Lethal U.S. Military Attack in the Caribbean
The Trump administration’s extraordinary lethal attack on this purported smuggling vessel raises significant potential legal issues.
www.justsecurity.org
September 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat.
Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.
Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.
Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
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This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
FECOHP – Federal Employees and Contractors Oral History Project
www.fecohp.org
August 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org