VCarlson
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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
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Read this very carefully. A man who emigrated to the US as a child, as a WWII refugee, has been taken by ICE for being in the country "illegally."
In no world, never mind in a country that claims to support the rights of individuals, should that sort of thing happen.
In no world, never mind in a country that claims to support the rights of individuals, should that sort of thing happen.
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Read this very carefully. A man who emigrated to the US as a child, as a WWII refugee, has been taken by ICE for being in the country "illegally."
In no world, never mind in a country that claims to support the rights of individuals, should that sort of thing happen.
In no world, never mind in a country that claims to support the rights of individuals, should that sort of thing happen.
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This is how you know that it's not about the money. Because if it were, then libraries would not keep being defunded.
November 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
This is how you know that it's not about the money. Because if it were, then libraries would not keep being defunded.
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I mean.
It's just.
"Quiet, piggy."
How. How does.
The president. Of the United States of America.
It's just.
"Quiet, piggy."
How. How does.
The president. Of the United States of America.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I mean.
It's just.
"Quiet, piggy."
How. How does.
The president. Of the United States of America.
It's just.
"Quiet, piggy."
How. How does.
The president. Of the United States of America.
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i am going to continue to maintain that normal people hate this shit, and people will *especially* hate *this* shit
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
i am going to continue to maintain that normal people hate this shit, and people will *especially* hate *this* shit
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"What did Trump think Epstein was 'stealing' these girls for? Epstein did not own a resort hotel. The answer is that he was recruiting them for his sex trafficking operation. The idea that Trump would have had any uncertainty on that point is absurd." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
Why Trump can't make the Epstein scandal go away
His ordinary scandal management techniques are not working.
www.publicnotice.co
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"What did Trump think Epstein was 'stealing' these girls for? Epstein did not own a resort hotel. The answer is that he was recruiting them for his sex trafficking operation. The idea that Trump would have had any uncertainty on that point is absurd." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
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Prometheus stole fire from the gods to give to the people.
Techbros, through AI, are stealing fire from the people and using it to warm themselves.
What precious fucking irony that is.
Techbros, through AI, are stealing fire from the people and using it to warm themselves.
What precious fucking irony that is.
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos has a new job.
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Prometheus stole fire from the gods to give to the people.
Techbros, through AI, are stealing fire from the people and using it to warm themselves.
What precious fucking irony that is.
Techbros, through AI, are stealing fire from the people and using it to warm themselves.
What precious fucking irony that is.
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bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on
i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on
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This applies to all his Minions also...
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This applies to all his Minions also...
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If my 7-year-old engaged in this sort of bigotry and name calling I would expect to find myself in a parent-teacher conference by tomorrow afternoon. Meanwhile, the White House Press Secretary is out here on national television, living her best life
After calling Schumer a "Palestinian," Leavitt refers to "Gavin Newscum." So she's just ripping off her boss's smears now.
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
If my 7-year-old engaged in this sort of bigotry and name calling I would expect to find myself in a parent-teacher conference by tomorrow afternoon. Meanwhile, the White House Press Secretary is out here on national television, living her best life
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Has Mr. Respect, Ezra Klein, ever written a column on how Republicans are so disrespectful of Democrats that they refuse to call the party by its real name and instead use a McCarthyite slur?
Leavitt on Epstein: "This is truly a manufactured hoax by the Democrat Party"
November 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Has Mr. Respect, Ezra Klein, ever written a column on how Republicans are so disrespectful of Democrats that they refuse to call the party by its real name and instead use a McCarthyite slur?
All the recent tax breaks for rich folk were allowed through as not adding to the debt per law, because they were “temporary,” hence the most recent Big Horrible Bill making them permanent, as everyone knew would happen (happened with GWB’s budget buster, too).
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 AM
All the recent tax breaks for rich folk were allowed through as not adding to the debt per law, because they were “temporary,” hence the most recent Big Horrible Bill making them permanent, as everyone knew would happen (happened with GWB’s budget buster, too).
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The Gospel of Professional Christian Mike Johnson:
November 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Gospel of Professional Christian Mike Johnson:
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Literally every dem should be shouting from the rooftops that republicans are giving Americans two choices: die from starvation or from a lack of affordable healthcare.
USDA orders states to stop paying full SNAP benefits and "immediately undo" steps taken to issue them for November. Follow live updates.
https://cnn.it/47LOq3z
https://cnn.it/47LOq3z
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Literally every dem should be shouting from the rooftops that republicans are giving Americans two choices: die from starvation or from a lack of affordable healthcare.
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So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
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Did Donald post this because he is deeply dishonest or irreparably stupid? I'm thinking both . . .
With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Did Donald post this because he is deeply dishonest or irreparably stupid? I'm thinking both . . .
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NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.
Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends
equal protection principles than displaying their country of
birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to
a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential
treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to
establish that the Government’s choice to display biological
sex “lack[s] any purpose other than a bare . . . desire to
harm a politically unpopular group.” Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the
State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by de-
clining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress ex-
pressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiacrtgoecxjy5y7ojz7xzbun4c4nwutjcvqn4qb4p25ldpt6va5lu@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Turning Point USA continues to carry on the sainted work of Charlie Kirk by singling out innocent high school teachers for death threats.
Math teachers at Cienega High School in Arizona are facing death threats and calls that they be fired after a Turning Point USA employee falsely accused them of wearing Halloween costumes mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Arizona teachers' costumes weren't about Charlie Kirk. They're facing death threats anyway
Math teachers at Cienega High School in southern Arizona are facing death threats and calls that they be fired after a Turning Point USA employee falsely accused them of wearing Halloween costumes mocking the assassination of the organization’s co-founder, Charlie Kirk.
n.pr
November 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Turning Point USA continues to carry on the sainted work of Charlie Kirk by singling out innocent high school teachers for death threats.
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He has openly announced that he refuses to follow the law. This is a blatant claim to be above the law and beyond the reach of the US justice system.
Trump says the SNAP money that he’s been ordered by a court to release won’t be released until the government shutdown ends.
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
He has openly announced that he refuses to follow the law. This is a blatant claim to be above the law and beyond the reach of the US justice system.
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Directly defying a court order so that he can withhold food from the poor
Trump says the SNAP money that he’s been ordered by a court to release won’t be released until the government shutdown ends.
November 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Directly defying a court order so that he can withhold food from the poor
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Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.
November 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.
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Left: The statutes Aileen Cannon analyzed when declaring unconstitutional Jack Smith's appointment as special counsel: www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...
Right: The statutes Pam Bondi cited when retroactively reappointing Lindsey Halligan as special attorney: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Right: The statutes Pam Bondi cited when retroactively reappointing Lindsey Halligan as special attorney: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 4, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Left: The statutes Aileen Cannon analyzed when declaring unconstitutional Jack Smith's appointment as special counsel: www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...
Right: The statutes Pam Bondi cited when retroactively reappointing Lindsey Halligan as special attorney: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Right: The statutes Pam Bondi cited when retroactively reappointing Lindsey Halligan as special attorney: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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imagine coming up with "Mumdumi" and then not being too embarrassed by your inferior wit to share it on the planet where Dorothy Parker once walked
Elon Musk endorses Cuomo for mayor of New York and makes sure to add some racism in there: “…Mumdumi or whatever his name is.”
November 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
imagine coming up with "Mumdumi" and then not being too embarrassed by your inferior wit to share it on the planet where Dorothy Parker once walked
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I heard Cuomo got last-minute endorsements from ingrown toenails, guys who turn right from the left-hand turn lane, and Lyme disease
November 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I heard Cuomo got last-minute endorsements from ingrown toenails, guys who turn right from the left-hand turn lane, and Lyme disease