Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical)
@tenuredradical.bsky.social
Opinion writer, reviewer & essayist | Emeritus History prof | podcaster | http://clairepotter.substack.com | antifascist | NYC & Northampton, MA | Repped by Roz Foster, Francis Goldin Literary Agency
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@neiljyoung.bsky.social and I can't stop talking about #minneapolis: today, after the news summary, we discuss internal pushback against the Trump administration, particularly from the 2A crowd.
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ICE Out of Minnesota
YouTube video by Political Junkie Substack
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January 30, 2026 at 4:54 PM
@neiljyoung.bsky.social and I can't stop talking about #minneapolis: today, after the news summary, we discuss internal pushback against the Trump administration, particularly from the 2A crowd.
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Repellent. You know what’s too costly? ICE.
The Labor Department has proposed rescinding an Obama-era rule that gave home care workers the right to overtime pay and other wage protections. The administration says the rule made care too costly. n.pr/4a1rrSZ
Caregivers for the elderly could lose wage protections under Trump proposal
The Labor Department has proposed rescinding an Obama-era rule that gave home care workers the right to overtime pay and other wage protections. The administration says the rule made care too costly.
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January 29, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Repellent. You know what’s too costly? ICE.
Woody Guthrie would have been so proud of you, @brucespringsteen.net. Thank you. We needed this.
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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January 28, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Woody Guthrie would have been so proud of you, @brucespringsteen.net. Thank you. We needed this.
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Translation: "If I go down, they go down too."
Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"
January 28, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Translation: "If I go down, they go down too."
Bill Belichek was not voted into the hall of fame because he is a d!ck. Even Patriots fans will admit he is a d!ck.
January 28, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Bill Belichek was not voted into the hall of fame because he is a d!ck. Even Patriots fans will admit he is a d!ck.
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Fucktard.
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
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January 27, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Fucktard.
In an emergency pod drop, historian Michael Kazin and I discuss the historical context for Minnesota's resistance to the ICE surge.
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Is Minnesota Winning?
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January 26, 2026 at 10:02 PM
In an emergency pod drop, historian Michael Kazin and I discuss the historical context for Minnesota's resistance to the ICE surge.
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Dear Senators, I phoned your offices and made this request. Now I’m asking on you here on social media to speak out and refuse to fund DHS.
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@markey.senate.gov
@ewarren.bsky.social
@markey.senate.gov
Dear Senators, I phoned your offices and made this request. Now I’m asking on you here on social media to speak out and REFUSE to fund DHS.
@padilla.senate.gov
@schiff.senate.gov
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@schiff.senate.gov
Dear Senators, I phoned your offices and made this request. Now I’m asking on you here on social media to speak out and refuse to fund DHS.
@slotkin.senate.gov
@peters.senate.gov
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@peters.senate.gov
January 24, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Dear Senators, I phoned your offices and made this request. Now I’m asking on you here on social media to speak out and refuse to fund DHS.
@ewarren.bsky.social
@markey.senate.gov
@ewarren.bsky.social
@markey.senate.gov
On this week's podcast, @neiljyoung.bsky.social and I talk about the rise of #BariWeiss from campus activist to media disruptor.
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The Front Page
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January 24, 2026 at 1:41 PM
On this week's podcast, @neiljyoung.bsky.social and I talk about the rise of #BariWeiss from campus activist to media disruptor.
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"#MAGA has put numerous terms back in circulation on social media that properly belong on a playground or in the men’s room of a pole dancing club."
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January 21, 2026 at 4:09 PM
"#MAGA has put numerous terms back in circulation on social media that properly belong on a playground or in the men’s room of a pole dancing club."
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They are stupid, incompetent, and rotten.
New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.
My story:
My story:
Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home
DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.
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January 20, 2026 at 1:33 AM
They are stupid, incompetent, and rotten.
What can past peace movements teach us about the extremism and violence the Trump administration is wreaking on Democratic cities? Listen to me and The New School historian Jeremy Varon talk about the people who tried to stop the War on Terror.
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January 17, 2026 at 7:30 PM
What can past peace movements teach us about the extremism and violence the Trump administration is wreaking on Democratic cities? Listen to me and The New School historian Jeremy Varon talk about the people who tried to stop the War on Terror.
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Right. Because the police would have arrested the murderer and be in the process of investigating and prosecuting it, as opposed to blaming the victim for her own death.
Tricia McLaughlin on Renee Good: "I think if the individual was killed last week by an illegal alien, I don't think we would be seeing any protest."
January 13, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Right. Because the police would have arrested the murderer and be in the process of investigating and prosecuting it, as opposed to blaming the victim for her own death.
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AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
It is worth noting that it was not long ago that when a citizen was killed by law enforcement, federal officials did not insist right off the bat that such a person was at fault for their own death and obviously a notorious criminal in their own right.
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January 13, 2026 at 2:08 AM
It is worth noting that it was not long ago that when a citizen was killed by law enforcement, federal officials did not insist right off the bat that such a person was at fault for their own death and obviously a notorious criminal in their own right.
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Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."
January 12, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."
Well, not all of them. Have you phoned Gaza lately?
January 11, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Well, not all of them. Have you phoned Gaza lately?
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We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
January 10, 2026 at 1:47 AM
We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.
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Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal:
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
January 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal:
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
“No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle.
“What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.”
Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
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More people are going to be murdered by ICE. It’s clear. The tactics ensure it, ICE is getting more furious and being disagreed with or resisted in any way, the verminous administration supports them and has shown they will tell any lie to support ICE murdering people.
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January 9, 2026 at 3:45 PM
More people are going to be murdered by ICE. It’s clear. The tactics ensure it, ICE is getting more furious and being disagreed with or resisted in any way, the verminous administration supports them and has shown they will tell any lie to support ICE murdering people.
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"All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience."
Opinion | By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All
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January 9, 2026 at 1:41 PM
"All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience."
On today's Political Junkie podcast, @neiljyoung.bsky.social and I talk about what it means that Renee Good was shot by an ICE agent--and no one in the GOP spoke a word of regret, comfort or concern.
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January 9, 2026 at 2:22 AM
On today's Political Junkie podcast, @neiljyoung.bsky.social and I talk about what it means that Renee Good was shot by an ICE agent--and no one in the GOP spoke a word of regret, comfort or concern.
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It's hard to imagine that after all these years it is the GOP that is planning to consign 23.4 million people to godless Communism, but here we are.
January 9, 2026 at 1:23 AM
It's hard to imagine that after all these years it is the GOP that is planning to consign 23.4 million people to godless Communism, but here we are.