Ann
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Further proof (as if we need it) that
1) we need to keep fighting for strong shared governance that can push back against/resist top-down policies, and
2) we need strong faculty unions more than ever. If your campus has one, join it! If you’re not yet unionized, start organizing
1) we need to keep fighting for strong shared governance that can push back against/resist top-down policies, and
2) we need strong faculty unions more than ever. If your campus has one, join it! If you’re not yet unionized, start organizing
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
December 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Further proof (as if we need it) that
1) we need to keep fighting for strong shared governance that can push back against/resist top-down policies, and
2) we need strong faculty unions more than ever. If your campus has one, join it! If you’re not yet unionized, start organizing
1) we need to keep fighting for strong shared governance that can push back against/resist top-down policies, and
2) we need strong faculty unions more than ever. If your campus has one, join it! If you’re not yet unionized, start organizing
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This is so perfect. In 2012 CPAC banned the John Birch Society. In 2023 they were welcomed back into the fold. And now here they are working together with TPUSA.
December 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This is so perfect. In 2012 CPAC banned the John Birch Society. In 2023 they were welcomed back into the fold. And now here they are working together with TPUSA.
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On the accelerating crisis of vaccine preventable disease, the significance of the drop in vaccination rates, and how this relates to differing responses across the US. This week, an entire school district in Iowa closed to stop a measles outbreak, while hundreds are in quarantine in South Carolina.
The signal in the noise: pertussis, measles & the cost of anti-vaccine rhetoric — Jessica Kant
In the year 2000, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced that measles, a deadly and highly infectious disease which disproportionately harms children, was successfully declared eliminated. Tw...
jessk.org
December 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
On the accelerating crisis of vaccine preventable disease, the significance of the drop in vaccination rates, and how this relates to differing responses across the US. This week, an entire school district in Iowa closed to stop a measles outbreak, while hundreds are in quarantine in South Carolina.
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House Republicans unveil new health plan. Here's what's in it www.axios.com/2025/12/12/h...
House Republicans unveil new health plan. Here's what's in it
House Republicans are bringing GOP ideas aimed at lowering health care costs for votes next week.
www.axios.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:11 AM
House Republicans unveil new health plan. Here's what's in it www.axios.com/2025/12/12/h...
Link to NBC article in comments
December 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Link to NBC article in comments
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This is probably the clearest indication yet that the administration understands what they’re doing in the Caribbean is illegal.
They’re now threatening the ICC with sanctions if they investigate Trump and his team.
They’re now threatening the ICC with sanctions if they investigate Trump and his team.
The U.S. is not a member of the ICC, but the court can still prosecute individuals for actions carried out on the territory of ICC member nations.
Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump ...
www.reuters.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is probably the clearest indication yet that the administration understands what they’re doing in the Caribbean is illegal.
They’re now threatening the ICC with sanctions if they investigate Trump and his team.
They’re now threatening the ICC with sanctions if they investigate Trump and his team.
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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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DOJ has sued Maine, Oregon, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont for access to its most sensitive voter data.
My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.
My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.
December 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
DOJ has sued Maine, Oregon, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont for access to its most sensitive voter data.
My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.
My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.
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It is not! A “scrivener’s error” is for things like fixing typos or very minor non-material errors, not retroactively adding a deportation order that doesn’t current exist!
Is "correcting" a previous order like this a real thing?
December 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
It is not! A “scrivener’s error” is for things like fixing typos or very minor non-material errors, not retroactively adding a deportation order that doesn’t current exist!
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Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
Fiasco for Trump as Judge Issues Harsh Rebuke in Abrego Garcia Case
Judge Paula Xinis’s ruling temporarily freed Kilmar Abrego Garcia from custody. It also savagely indicted Trump’s lawless handling of this whole affair from start to finish.
newrepublic.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
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Look who’s circling Venezuela... During his interview of Maria Corina Machado, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale tells her: “We have a lot of friends here who’ve had to flee VZ & who are huge fans of yours, & we’re very excited to come back & invest & BUILD w/ u when u get to be a free country.” 1/
December 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Look who’s circling Venezuela... During his interview of Maria Corina Machado, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale tells her: “We have a lot of friends here who’ve had to flee VZ & who are huge fans of yours, & we’re very excited to come back & invest & BUILD w/ u when u get to be a free country.” 1/
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"Respondents did not just stonewall. They affirmatively misled the tribunal."
December 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Respondents did not just stonewall. They affirmatively misled the tribunal."
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1/ MUST READ: @dfriedman.bsky.social asked the Pentagon about a Goodreads page linked to the email of a top official that featured pornographic books. Then, MAGA influencer—and newly minted member of DOD press corps—Jack Posobiec threatened to smear him.
Quite the coincidence!
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Quite the coincidence!
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I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
ow.ly
December 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
1/ MUST READ: @dfriedman.bsky.social asked the Pentagon about a Goodreads page linked to the email of a top official that featured pornographic books. Then, MAGA influencer—and newly minted member of DOD press corps—Jack Posobiec threatened to smear him.
Quite the coincidence!
ow.ly/EpQp50XHpYo
Quite the coincidence!
ow.ly/EpQp50XHpYo
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The truth: inflation is up because of President Trump’s tariffs.
Powell: "Inflation for goods has picked up, reflecting the effects of tariffs."
December 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The truth: inflation is up because of President Trump’s tariffs.
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“The administration must release the OLC opinion(s), the Strike Bridge communications, and videos…Until then, this action stands as an unlawful attack on defenseless persons that violates the letter and spirit of the laws of war and of peacetime law enforcement.”
www.justsecurity.org/126802/exper...
www.justsecurity.org/126802/exper...
Expert Backgrounder: Law on Targeting Shipwrecked Traffickers
Expert Backgrounder on how, under different scenarios, international law and U.S. past practices apply to Sept. 2 boat strike on survivors.
www.justsecurity.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
“The administration must release the OLC opinion(s), the Strike Bridge communications, and videos…Until then, this action stands as an unlawful attack on defenseless persons that violates the letter and spirit of the laws of war and of peacetime law enforcement.”
www.justsecurity.org/126802/exper...
www.justsecurity.org/126802/exper...
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After 2 months of the new fiscal year - October & November - the federal deficit is already at $458 billion.
➡️Revenues: $740 billion
➡️Spending: $1.198 trillion
For those curious, tariffs totaled $62 billion in Oct/Nov
➡️Revenues: $740 billion
➡️Spending: $1.198 trillion
For those curious, tariffs totaled $62 billion in Oct/Nov
December 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
After 2 months of the new fiscal year - October & November - the federal deficit is already at $458 billion.
➡️Revenues: $740 billion
➡️Spending: $1.198 trillion
For those curious, tariffs totaled $62 billion in Oct/Nov
➡️Revenues: $740 billion
➡️Spending: $1.198 trillion
For those curious, tariffs totaled $62 billion in Oct/Nov
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just going to reiterate this.
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
If Immigrants Don’t Have Due Process, No One Has Due Process
How do you prove you’re a citizen?
www.everythingishorrible.net
December 11, 2025 at 4:43 AM
just going to reiterate this.
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
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ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
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Washington Post editorial board really speaking truth to power
December 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Washington Post editorial board really speaking truth to power
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COLLINS: You talk about 15 years of Obamacare. But that also means Republicans have had 15 years to come up with a solution and have not yet done so.
ROGER MARSHALL: I'm not sure what we can say
ROGER MARSHALL: I'm not sure what we can say
December 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
COLLINS: You talk about 15 years of Obamacare. But that also means Republicans have had 15 years to come up with a solution and have not yet done so.
ROGER MARSHALL: I'm not sure what we can say
ROGER MARSHALL: I'm not sure what we can say
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Read this on air to @sifill.bsky.social tonight.
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
December 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Read this on air to @sifill.bsky.social tonight.