Aaron Sojourner
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Labor econ @upjohninstitute.bsky.social & @IZA.org. Formerly senior economist for labor at White House CEA, UMinn prof, union organizer, bike courier, house painter, dishwasher... Minneapolis. Views mine.
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Be kind • Work hard • Have fun
Rather than empower you, I prefer to leave you trapped in bad circumstances so you are dependent on me.
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Rather than empower you, I prefer to leave you trapped in bad circumstances so you are dependent on me.
As the self-proclaimed champions of free speech and opponents of cancel culture take power, a golden age of free expression dawns...
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Terrifying account of traveling to the United States of Ideological Litmus Tests and Police State Intimidation.
How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
As the self-proclaimed champions of free speech and opponents of cancel culture take power, a golden age of free expression dawns...
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Immediately after he releases his healthcare plan.
2020: "Trump has promised an Obamacare replacement plan five times so far this year. And the plan is always said to be just a few weeks away."
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2020: "Trump has promised an Obamacare replacement plan five times so far this year. And the plan is always said to be just a few weeks away."
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November 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Immediately after he releases his healthcare plan.
2020: "Trump has promised an Obamacare replacement plan five times so far this year. And the plan is always said to be just a few weeks away."
kffhealthnews.org/news/back-to...
2020: "Trump has promised an Obamacare replacement plan five times so far this year. And the plan is always said to be just a few weeks away."
kffhealthnews.org/news/back-to...
In parenting, days are long and years are short.
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
In parenting, days are long and years are short.
Brownshirts assemble.
Redeemers ride. bsky.app/profile/alka...
Redeemers ride. bsky.app/profile/alka...
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
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And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
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He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Brownshirts assemble.
Redeemers ride. bsky.app/profile/alka...
Redeemers ride. bsky.app/profile/alka...
This guy voted for Trump believing he was planning to go after undocumented immigrants who had since committed crimes in the U.S., not all undocumented immigrants. This is the kind of case I have in mind.
www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This guy voted for Trump believing he was planning to go after undocumented immigrants who had since committed crimes in the U.S., not all undocumented immigrants. This is the kind of case I have in mind.
www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...