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Posting a lot about climate and environment and their advocates.
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Trump’s DOJ Sues Fulton County and Four States to Seize Voter Ballots newrepublic.com/post/204366/...
Trump’s DOJ Sues Fulton County and Four States to Seize Voter Ballots
The Justice Department is expanding its effort to gain access to sensitive voter data in key states.
newrepublic.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Trump’s DOJ Sues Fulton County and Four States to Seize Voter Ballots newrepublic.com/post/204366/...
those who think they were good at it, and think it is their job to be gatekeepers (may have never understood what it is and what it is for); plus their colleagues down the hall who were not good at it and think the whole thing is a game for the mediocre to beat the system, manage the pain.
In summary, yes: The problem with education is that the people who are in charge of improving it were good at it and therefore have no interest in making real changes.
Coda to a wise thread. Part of the problem is that those most attracted to teaching tend to be those for whom schools as-is worked well.
December 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
those who think they were good at it, and think it is their job to be gatekeepers (may have never understood what it is and what it is for); plus their colleagues down the hall who were not good at it and think the whole thing is a game for the mediocre to beat the system, manage the pain.
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Wow. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels writes: “Like Soviet commissars in World War II…today's Washington-based enforcers demand maximum, sacrificial loyalty or else… It's an odd way to build a winning party. Especially when, unlike the Soviet army, you don't start with overwhelming numerical superiority.”
December 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Wow. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels writes: “Like Soviet commissars in World War II…today's Washington-based enforcers demand maximum, sacrificial loyalty or else… It's an odd way to build a winning party. Especially when, unlike the Soviet army, you don't start with overwhelming numerical superiority.”
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When a tyrant threatens you, and you stand strong – that's courage.
Thank you, Indiana.
Thank you, Indiana.
December 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
When a tyrant threatens you, and you stand strong – that's courage.
Thank you, Indiana.
Thank you, Indiana.
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The Shakedown: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism www.propublica.org/article/ucla...
Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence that UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
An investigation by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
www.propublica.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The Shakedown: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism www.propublica.org/article/ucla...
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Trump Rages at Cratering Polls as GOP Losses Reveal Surprise Weakness newrepublic.com/article/2043...
Trump Rages at Cratering Polls as GOP Losses Reveal Surprise Weakness
As this week’s brutal GOP election losses show Latinos shifting hard against Trump and the GOP, the author of a piece on Trump’s agenda of ethnic persecution explains why naked bigotry is also backfir...
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December 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Trump Rages at Cratering Polls as GOP Losses Reveal Surprise Weakness newrepublic.com/article/2043...
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JUST GOING TO LEAVE THIS HERE.
December 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
JUST GOING TO LEAVE THIS HERE.
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November
Lake Superior
Two Harbors
Minnesota
Lake Superior
Two Harbors
Minnesota
December 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
November
Lake Superior
Two Harbors
Minnesota
Lake Superior
Two Harbors
Minnesota
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Don't miss the chance to hear from award-winning scholar Kelly Lytle Hernández on Monday at 7pm ET.
She will provide an introduction to the new Mapping Deportations site, including how the history of anti-immigrant legislation and racism are intertwined. ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/mapping...
She will provide an introduction to the new Mapping Deportations site, including how the history of anti-immigrant legislation and racism are intertwined. ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/mapping...
Mapping Deportations Curriculum Workshop
Mapping Deportations co-creator and award-winning historian Kelly Lytle Hernández will provide an introduction to the purpose and design of the site, including how the history of anti-immigrant legisl...
www.zinnedproject.org
December 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Don't miss the chance to hear from award-winning scholar Kelly Lytle Hernández on Monday at 7pm ET.
She will provide an introduction to the new Mapping Deportations site, including how the history of anti-immigrant legislation and racism are intertwined. ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/mapping...
She will provide an introduction to the new Mapping Deportations site, including how the history of anti-immigrant legislation and racism are intertwined. ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/mapping...
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Putin sits in Moscow claiming that his armies have taken a town that the Ukrainian president is personally visiting. There are cowardly tyrants and there are courageous elected leaders and it is good to know the difference.
Putin said Russia had taken Kupiansk weeks ago.
Today, Zelenskyy visited Ukrainian troops there.
Today, Zelenskyy visited Ukrainian troops there.
December 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Putin sits in Moscow claiming that his armies have taken a town that the Ukrainian president is personally visiting. There are cowardly tyrants and there are courageous elected leaders and it is good to know the difference.
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In the last few weeks, I’ve become increasingly convinced that Trump and his regime are totally cooked.
They can only stay in power by stealing elections—but they can only do that if enough people are willing to help them.
They’re in a downward spiral and can’t pull themselves out of it.
They can only stay in power by stealing elections—but they can only do that if enough people are willing to help them.
They’re in a downward spiral and can’t pull themselves out of it.
December 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
In the last few weeks, I’ve become increasingly convinced that Trump and his regime are totally cooked.
They can only stay in power by stealing elections—but they can only do that if enough people are willing to help them.
They’re in a downward spiral and can’t pull themselves out of it.
They can only stay in power by stealing elections—but they can only do that if enough people are willing to help them.
They’re in a downward spiral and can’t pull themselves out of it.
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I observe that total moral degeneracy tends to have a corrosive effect on a political movement, if it has no genuine standards or principles then it will tend to get devoured by progressively more insane grifters
December 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I observe that total moral degeneracy tends to have a corrosive effect on a political movement, if it has no genuine standards or principles then it will tend to get devoured by progressively more insane grifters
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Bennie Thompson on Noem: "Her arrival was short lived. She left in the middle of the hearing ostensibly to go to another meeting. We found that the meeting had been canceled, so she could've stayed. But nonetheless, we're not surprised, because this is who she is."
December 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Bennie Thompson on Noem: "Her arrival was short lived. She left in the middle of the hearing ostensibly to go to another meeting. We found that the meeting had been canceled, so she could've stayed. But nonetheless, we're not surprised, because this is who she is."
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It was @dahlialithwick.bsky.social who described these executive orders as "letters to Santa," I believe.
Statement on Trump’s Executive Order Restricting State Regulation of AI
December 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It was @dahlialithwick.bsky.social who described these executive orders as "letters to Santa," I believe.
Truth is truth. No regrets.
On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four.
I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
🧵
December 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Truth is truth. No regrets.
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You said this officer’s behavior was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”
So why was he reinstated three days later?
Secretary Noem, I await your response. Your fellow Republicans may not recognize that Congress is a co-equal branch, but I do.
Accountability isn’t optional.
So why was he reinstated three days later?
Secretary Noem, I await your response. Your fellow Republicans may not recognize that Congress is a co-equal branch, but I do.
Accountability isn’t optional.
December 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
You said this officer’s behavior was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”
So why was he reinstated three days later?
Secretary Noem, I await your response. Your fellow Republicans may not recognize that Congress is a co-equal branch, but I do.
Accountability isn’t optional.
So why was he reinstated three days later?
Secretary Noem, I await your response. Your fellow Republicans may not recognize that Congress is a co-equal branch, but I do.
Accountability isn’t optional.
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“Once you lower that free speech bar it’s hard to raise it back up.”
@thefireorg.bsky.social’s David Rubin says liberal ex cop Larry Bushart being jailed in Perry County for a Trump meme should alarm even Republicans — and why Trump 2.0 “has exceeded our worst expectations” speech-wise
@thefireorg.bsky.social’s David Rubin says liberal ex cop Larry Bushart being jailed in Perry County for a Trump meme should alarm even Republicans — and why Trump 2.0 “has exceeded our worst expectations” speech-wise
December 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“Once you lower that free speech bar it’s hard to raise it back up.”
@thefireorg.bsky.social’s David Rubin says liberal ex cop Larry Bushart being jailed in Perry County for a Trump meme should alarm even Republicans — and why Trump 2.0 “has exceeded our worst expectations” speech-wise
@thefireorg.bsky.social’s David Rubin says liberal ex cop Larry Bushart being jailed in Perry County for a Trump meme should alarm even Republicans — and why Trump 2.0 “has exceeded our worst expectations” speech-wise
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Celebrity chefs told Californians that PFAS-coated pans were “safe,” and successfully lobbied Gavin Newsom to veto a bill phasing them out
They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans.
New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:
They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans.
New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:
Why are famous chefs fighting PFAS bans?
The answer, in retrospect, is obvious—and it’s part of a larger campaign to stop bans on Teflon cookware nationwide.
heated.world
December 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Celebrity chefs told Californians that PFAS-coated pans were “safe,” and successfully lobbied Gavin Newsom to veto a bill phasing them out
They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans.
New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:
They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans.
New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:
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In an ironic twist - after tormenting much of the East with a super cold start to December - the Grinch pulls the rug out just before it could manifest into a White Christmas! 🎄 ❄️
Warm Christmas for many? Such a Grinch thing to do.
Here’s hoping the forecast changes.
Warm Christmas for many? Such a Grinch thing to do.
Here’s hoping the forecast changes.
December 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
In an ironic twist - after tormenting much of the East with a super cold start to December - the Grinch pulls the rug out just before it could manifest into a White Christmas! 🎄 ❄️
Warm Christmas for many? Such a Grinch thing to do.
Here’s hoping the forecast changes.
Warm Christmas for many? Such a Grinch thing to do.
Here’s hoping the forecast changes.
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And a bunch of you ninnies deride it.
This is the moment when more than 30 million Americans received affordable healthcare in 2010.
Today, Republicans have voted to make healthcare UNAFFORDABLE for more than 40 million.
The #RepublicanHealthCareFailure and greed will cost thousands of lives.
Vote and make Trump a lame duck in 2026.
Today, Republicans have voted to make healthcare UNAFFORDABLE for more than 40 million.
The #RepublicanHealthCareFailure and greed will cost thousands of lives.
Vote and make Trump a lame duck in 2026.
December 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
And a bunch of you ninnies deride it.
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Child laughed reading the word "tiddlywinks", so I explained. Took a while to convince her I wasn't making this game up.
[pityingly] Is that what you had to do before they invented iPads?
[pityingly] Is that what you had to do before they invented iPads?
December 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Child laughed reading the word "tiddlywinks", so I explained. Took a while to convince her I wasn't making this game up.
[pityingly] Is that what you had to do before they invented iPads?
[pityingly] Is that what you had to do before they invented iPads?
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public opinion is simply more nuanced than what can be expressed in issue polls. and voters think about broad issues in a number of different ways. there are ways to fight on immigration that do help trump. but there are also ways to fight on it that hurt him.
December 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
public opinion is simply more nuanced than what can be expressed in issue polls. and voters think about broad issues in a number of different ways. there are ways to fight on immigration that do help trump. but there are also ways to fight on it that hurt him.
95K photos-- but, but, but the GOP said they had been "cherry picked." They would never lie.
🚨 BREAKING: Oversight Dems received 95,000 new photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate. These disturbing images raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world.
Time to end this White House cover-up. Release the files!
Time to end this White House cover-up. Release the files!
December 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
95K photos-- but, but, but the GOP said they had been "cherry picked." They would never lie.
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Gestapo (=ICE) refused to release body cam footage taken by goons in violation of order by U.S. Federal Judge
Judges must criminally & civilly (= $$$$$) sanction individual goons in their personal NOT professional capacities for failure to comply w/orders
#Trump
newsone.com/6677298/ice-...
Judges must criminally & civilly (= $$$$$) sanction individual goons in their personal NOT professional capacities for failure to comply w/orders
#Trump
newsone.com/6677298/ice-...
ICE Says It Doesn’t Have Bodycam Footage Of Chicago Raids
ICE’s refusal to release bodycam footage continues the Department of Homeland Security’s pattern of refusing to abide by public records laws.
newsone.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Gestapo (=ICE) refused to release body cam footage taken by goons in violation of order by U.S. Federal Judge
Judges must criminally & civilly (= $$$$$) sanction individual goons in their personal NOT professional capacities for failure to comply w/orders
#Trump
newsone.com/6677298/ice-...
Judges must criminally & civilly (= $$$$$) sanction individual goons in their personal NOT professional capacities for failure to comply w/orders
#Trump
newsone.com/6677298/ice-...
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My God. How much more do Republican members of Congress need to see before they stop pretending the country isn’t on fire?
December 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
My God. How much more do Republican members of Congress need to see before they stop pretending the country isn’t on fire?