Chris Ames
@camesxyz.bsky.social
Higher Ed, literature and contemporary fiction, jazz and blues—cats, too. Progressive Dem politics and human rights. Happy to live in the beautiful Hudson Valley.
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“I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.”
—Molly Ivins
—Molly Ivins
August 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.”
—Molly Ivins
—Molly Ivins
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Trump's so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" will screw the working class and poor. Take 5 minutes to read just how bad this bill is, then call your reps in Congress to tell them to VOTE NO!
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...
Opinion | How Awful Is the Republican Megabill? Here Are Four of the Worst Parts.
www.nytimes.com
June 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Trump's so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" will screw the working class and poor. Take 5 minutes to read just how bad this bill is, then call your reps in Congress to tell them to VOTE NO!
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...
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I confess: I’m in the pocket of Big Do Your Own G.D. Writing or Don’t Call Yourself a Writer.
June 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I confess: I’m in the pocket of Big Do Your Own G.D. Writing or Don’t Call Yourself a Writer.
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What they are saying: Make America Healthy Again
What they are doing:
- Removing millions from healthcare access
- Restricting vaccine access
- Slashing the budget for medical research in half
What they are doing:
- Removing millions from healthcare access
- Restricting vaccine access
- Slashing the budget for medical research in half
June 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
What they are saying: Make America Healthy Again
What they are doing:
- Removing millions from healthcare access
- Restricting vaccine access
- Slashing the budget for medical research in half
What they are doing:
- Removing millions from healthcare access
- Restricting vaccine access
- Slashing the budget for medical research in half
I’m sharing this important and timely essay on Memorial Day by historian Drew Faust (not incidentally the former president of a university under attack). It’s worth the read as we celebrate Memorial Day. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/o...
Opinion | We Are Not Being Asked to Run Into Cannon Fire. We Just Need to Speak Up.
www.nytimes.com
May 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I’m sharing this important and timely essay on Memorial Day by historian Drew Faust (not incidentally the former president of a university under attack). It’s worth the read as we celebrate Memorial Day. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/o...
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WATCH: Chris Murphy gives a masterclass in how to dismantle the cosplay queen, AKA Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.
When a government is out of control it’s time to say so
Chris Murphy gives a masterclass in how to dismantle the cosplay queen, AKA Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.
open.substack.com
May 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
WATCH: Chris Murphy gives a masterclass in how to dismantle the cosplay queen, AKA Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.
This is an important article, worth reading, and an index of how far our expectations of our elected officials have fallen. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/o...
Opinion | Donald Trump Is Selling the White House to the Highest Bidder (Gift Article)
Donald Trump has set a new standard for egregious and potentially illegal behavior.
www.nytimes.com
April 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This is an important article, worth reading, and an index of how far our expectations of our elected officials have fallen. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/o...
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This can't be said enough. The narrative is quickly becoming but universities need fed funds, when it should be that the fed govt needs universities. NCI/NIGMS funding to Harvard/MIT supported research that led to the discovery of Herceptin, a cancer drug that has saved 3 million lives to date! 🧪
The trope that universities are "dependent" on the federal government fundamentally misunderstands how vital this partnership has been for the US. The private sector can't replace it. If we kill it, we're all worse off. From @donmoyn.bsky.social and me: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...
April 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This can't be said enough. The narrative is quickly becoming but universities need fed funds, when it should be that the fed govt needs universities. NCI/NIGMS funding to Harvard/MIT supported research that led to the discovery of Herceptin, a cancer drug that has saved 3 million lives to date! 🧪
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Why the El Salvador cases are so much worse than the war on terror “renditions” and “transfers.”
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The Situation: Contracting Detention to a Lawless State
What law lets the Trump administration store Venezuelans in El Salvadoran prisons?
www.lawfaremedia.org
April 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Why the El Salvador cases are so much worse than the war on terror “renditions” and “transfers.”
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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ICYMI, the pope's letter on reading:
Letter of the Holy Father on the Role of Literature in Formation (17 July 2024) | Francis
Letter of His Holiness Pope Francis on the Role of Literature in Formation, 17 July 2024
www.vatican.va
April 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
ICYMI, the pope's letter on reading:
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Just before 1 a.m., #SCOTUS stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation with a (remarkable) ruling that suggests, among other things, that a majority of the justices is tiring of the Trump administration’s Calvinball.
For more, see the latest “One First”:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...
For more, see the latest “One First”:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...
144. The Supreme Court's Late-Night Alien Enemy Act Intervention
Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.
www.stevevladeck.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Just before 1 a.m., #SCOTUS stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation with a (remarkable) ruling that suggests, among other things, that a majority of the justices is tiring of the Trump administration’s Calvinball.
For more, see the latest “One First”:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...
For more, see the latest “One First”:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...
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We got the yips
First JPMorgan, now MetLife keeps its 60% recession call — titling today’s note “Damaged Goods”:
“Even if there is a near-term resolution of the tariff and other trade issues, damage has been done to the economy and to consumer expectations.”
“Even if there is a near-term resolution of the tariff and other trade issues, damage has been done to the economy and to consumer expectations.”
April 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
We got the yips
Article worth reading to see how chaotic and counterproductive the DOGE assault has been on the NIH and health-related scientific research. This ought not be a partisan issue; it’s just inexcusable. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...
‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the N.I.H., the Crown Jewel of American Science
Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Article worth reading to see how chaotic and counterproductive the DOGE assault has been on the NIH and health-related scientific research. This ought not be a partisan issue; it’s just inexcusable. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...
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Utterly unconscionable – though hardly surprising – for the New York Times to print such vile fabrications, completely untethered from empirical reality, and to keep platforming a man who would spread such extremist propaganda as one of their most prominent columnists.
March 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Utterly unconscionable – though hardly surprising – for the New York Times to print such vile fabrications, completely untethered from empirical reality, and to keep platforming a man who would spread such extremist propaganda as one of their most prominent columnists.
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And so here it is all laid out. The intention to overturn the Civil
Rights Act,to dismantle the Dept of Education, to bankrupt leading universities, to replace liberal arts education w/something that conservatives haven’t created & don’t have the educators to create. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...
Rights Act,to dismantle the Dept of Education, to bankrupt leading universities, to replace liberal arts education w/something that conservatives haven’t created & don’t have the educators to create. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...
Opinion | The Anti-D.E.I. Crusader Who Wants to Dismantle the Department of Education (Gift Article)
Christopher Rufo’s mission to make universities feel “existential terror.”
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
And so here it is all laid out. The intention to overturn the Civil
Rights Act,to dismantle the Dept of Education, to bankrupt leading universities, to replace liberal arts education w/something that conservatives haven’t created & don’t have the educators to create. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...
Rights Act,to dismantle the Dept of Education, to bankrupt leading universities, to replace liberal arts education w/something that conservatives haven’t created & don’t have the educators to create. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...
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When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies.
Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.
Funny how that works, huh?
Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.
Funny how that works, huh?
March 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies.
Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.
Funny how that works, huh?
Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.
Funny how that works, huh?
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“What’s transpired over the last three or four days just takes it to a whole new level of cruelty and inhumanity and, frankly, a whole new level of stupidity in doing this is the most non-strategic way.” Tens of thousands of people will die as a result of this action.
www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...
www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...
"A whole new level of cruelty": Health experts decry "devastating" cuts to HIV treatment programs
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation said the latest cuts will deprive 350,000 people of HIV treatment.
www.salon.com
March 9, 2025 at 5:04 AM
“What’s transpired over the last three or four days just takes it to a whole new level of cruelty and inhumanity and, frankly, a whole new level of stupidity in doing this is the most non-strategic way.” Tens of thousands of people will die as a result of this action.
www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...
www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Trump has dropped or halted more than 1 in 5 investigations and enforcement actions against corporate lawbreakers.
At least 34 of those companies — including Tesla, Amazon, and Wells Fargo — gave over $34M to Trump's inaugural.
It's a new Golden Age for corporate criminals.
At least 34 of those companies — including Tesla, Amazon, and Wells Fargo — gave over $34M to Trump's inaugural.
It's a new Golden Age for corporate criminals.
March 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Trump has dropped or halted more than 1 in 5 investigations and enforcement actions against corporate lawbreakers.
At least 34 of those companies — including Tesla, Amazon, and Wells Fargo — gave over $34M to Trump's inaugural.
It's a new Golden Age for corporate criminals.
At least 34 of those companies — including Tesla, Amazon, and Wells Fargo — gave over $34M to Trump's inaugural.
It's a new Golden Age for corporate criminals.
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Musk is trying to downplay the chaos he’s creating by saying it’s much the same as the cost-cutting efforts of the Clinton administration.
This is rubbish. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/musks-rubbish
This is rubbish. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/musks-rubbish
February 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Musk is trying to downplay the chaos he’s creating by saying it’s much the same as the cost-cutting efforts of the Clinton administration.
This is rubbish. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/musks-rubbish
This is rubbish. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/musks-rubbish
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The Eiffel Tower lights up Paris in the colours of Ukraine today🇺🇦
February 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The Eiffel Tower lights up Paris in the colours of Ukraine today🇺🇦
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The FBI warned us that white extremists are the greatest threat to our national security. www.fbi.gov/file-reposit...
February 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The FBI warned us that white extremists are the greatest threat to our national security. www.fbi.gov/file-reposit...
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European Parliament member 👇🏽
February 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
European Parliament member 👇🏽