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Retired Navy SWO. Teacher. FIRST Robotics mentor. Husband, Dad, and all around great guy. Supporter of the Oxford comma.
This is absolutely wrong.
People born on U.S. military bases overseas being stripped of their citizenship and deported...
Jermaine Thomas was born on a U.S. base in Germany where his dad was deployed in 1986. Last week he was deported to Jamaica
Now Thomas has no citizenship, according to court documents
Jermaine Thomas was born on a U.S. base in Germany where his dad was deployed in 1986. Last week he was deported to Jamaica
Now Thomas has no citizenship, according to court documents
Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported
He has no citizenship to any country, despite SCOTUS case
www.austinchronicle.com
June 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This is absolutely wrong.
This is a good read. “A free education is incompatible with fascism.” Exactly.
"How can John Dewey’s ideal of a thriving democratic education revitalize a American commitment to freedom and democracy?"
Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social shares remarks he delivered at the Iowa City Teach Truth Day of Action:
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/06/27/r...
Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social shares remarks he delivered at the Iowa City Teach Truth Day of Action:
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/06/27/r...
Reflections on Teach Truth Day of Action 2025
Nick Covington: How can John Dewey’s ideal of a thriving democratic education revitalize a American commitment to freedom and democracy?
www.bleedingheartland.com
June 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This is a good read. “A free education is incompatible with fascism.” Exactly.
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It me, in World Politics Review, talking about how Donald Trump is creating a shallow state that is paradoxically weakening his own policy agenda. www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trump-deep-s...
Trump’s War on the ‘Deep State’ Will Hurt His Own Agenda
Trump’s war on the “deep state” has meant eroding the federal bureaucracy. The result will be a shallow state that can’t even implement his own agenda.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com
May 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
It me, in World Politics Review, talking about how Donald Trump is creating a shallow state that is paradoxically weakening his own policy agenda. www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trump-deep-s...
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Friendly reminder that the most important things for most businesses to make decisions and investments are the rule of law and regulatory certainty.
May 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Friendly reminder that the most important things for most businesses to make decisions and investments are the rule of law and regulatory certainty.
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well this is some bullshit
PBS Edits Anti-Trump Section Out of Spiegelman Documentary
www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...
www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...
PBS Edits Anti-Trump Section Out of Spiegelman Documentary
It has been revealed that the recent documentary Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse was edited before PBS allowed it to be aired as part of their American Masters series. From Documentary Magazine: T...
www.dailycartoonist.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
well this is some bullshit
I call BS on this. This should be the purple connection!
May 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I call BS on this. This should be the purple connection!
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Very accurate.
Broken Record: You *cannot sustain* a functioning constitutional order if the general population is blasé about open violation of the Constitution. If voters don't care, your job is to make them care. This is not optional. If you don't, you lose even if you pick up seats in the next election.
May 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Very accurate.
Just ordered this. Looking forward to reading it. Learned a lot from the Grapevine and Southlake podcasts.
One year after releasing a book about the far-right push to remake education: Oklahoma kids are being taught 2020 election denialism. Millions of Texas kids can now use public money to attend private Christian schools. And the Trump admin has virtually halted enforcement of federal civil rights laws
May 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Just ordered this. Looking forward to reading it. Learned a lot from the Grapevine and Southlake podcasts.
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Good 🧵.
Obligatory preliminary note: I have not spoken about this to any of my relatives. That said: the framing of this article is vile. But the substance is interesting. If I were a university President who thought I might end up in a fight with the federal government, I would of course try to avoid it.
As the Times has elsewhere reported, Trump's higher education taskforce is full of ideologues who want to "take down" a prominent university, and it is hard to see a relationship between the administration's defunding of NSF and other grants and antisemitism....
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/u...
May 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Good 🧵.
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Mike Waltz has left the chat.
May 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Mike Waltz has left the chat.
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People need to check this Canary Mission site. It’s fucking awful. If it’s being used to find people to deport, it needs to be taken down.
I think the Ozturk case suggests that 1) yes, Canary is being used to ID students for deportation 2) someone in State is OVERRIDING evidentiary analyses (like the one WaPo reports that said there was no evidence against Ozturk) to sustain Canary "conclusions."
It looks very much like the Department of Homeland Security memo seeking to revoke Ozturk's visa copied language directly from the Canary Mission website. Is DHS just following the "deport list" from an anonymous website? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
April 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
People need to check this Canary Mission site. It’s fucking awful. If it’s being used to find people to deport, it needs to be taken down.
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This feels a lot like that early period of Covid when some people were shouting about how bad it was going to be while guys like Trump and Musk were predicting it would be over by April.
Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.
April 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This feels a lot like that early period of Covid when some people were shouting about how bad it was going to be while guys like Trump and Musk were predicting it would be over by April.
This is beautiful!!!
April 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This is beautiful!!!
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It’s only getting much play in the trade/transport niche press. But pretty real product shortages beginning in mid-May or so are already locked in. They’re maybe a thousand miles out in the Pacific Ocean. Modern trade takes place in gargantuan container ships. There are very detailed records …
April 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It’s only getting much play in the trade/transport niche press. But pretty real product shortages beginning in mid-May or so are already locked in. They’re maybe a thousand miles out in the Pacific Ocean. Modern trade takes place in gargantuan container ships. There are very detailed records …
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This is insane, and basically a way to encourage federal workers who support the president to bully those who don’t
My god, Trump admin has altered Hatch Act rules so that it is OK for federal employees to display campaign paraphenalia on the job -- but ONLY for the current President/VP, not for any challengers.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
Trump Officials Weaken Rules Insulating Government Workers From Politics
A reinterpretation of the Hatch Act announced by the administration lets officials wear campaign paraphernalia like MAGA hats, and removes an independent board’s role in policing violations.
www.nytimes.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This is insane, and basically a way to encourage federal workers who support the president to bully those who don’t
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Wow. Naval Academy prof to their 3-star Admiral in his letter of resignation: "your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Mein Kampf"
Prof McBride, USNA 1974, PhD Johns Hopkins, went on to say, “Your acquiescence was a repudiation of the Naval Academy’s historic mission. You may take some solace that the removal of these books was a lawful order. However, such an interpretation runs contrary to larger Constitutional issues ..
April 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Wow. Naval Academy prof to their 3-star Admiral in his letter of resignation: "your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Mein Kampf"
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New study finds that 25 million could die in the next 15 years if US cuts off global health spending via @nature.com
Study:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Study:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
April 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
New study finds that 25 million could die in the next 15 years if US cuts off global health spending via @nature.com
Study:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Study:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This is tragic. As someone who’s all too familiar (second hand) with the work of Dana-Farmer and BWH and BCH, I will say that these institutions are priceless gems in the catalog of things that makes America great. They need to be protected.
Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Trump Admin’s $9 Billion Review of Harvard’s Grants Could Hit Boston’s Hospitals Hardest | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Trump administration’s sweeping federal review of nearly $9 billion in multi-year research funding tied to Harvard has sparked uncertainty across the University — but the brunt of the planned cuts...
www.thecrimson.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This is tragic. As someone who’s all too familiar (second hand) with the work of Dana-Farmer and BWH and BCH, I will say that these institutions are priceless gems in the catalog of things that makes America great. They need to be protected.
People need to check this Canary Mission site. It’s fucking awful. If it’s being used to find people to deport, it needs to be taken down.
I think the Ozturk case suggests that 1) yes, Canary is being used to ID students for deportation 2) someone in State is OVERRIDING evidentiary analyses (like the one WaPo reports that said there was no evidence against Ozturk) to sustain Canary "conclusions."
It looks very much like the Department of Homeland Security memo seeking to revoke Ozturk's visa copied language directly from the Canary Mission website. Is DHS just following the "deport list" from an anonymous website? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...
April 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
People need to check this Canary Mission site. It’s fucking awful. If it’s being used to find people to deport, it needs to be taken down.
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"What emerges is a more intimate picture of Öztürk and how a child development researcher charged with no crime ended up in a crowded cell in Louisiana." www.propublica.org/article/rume...
American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have be...
www.propublica.org
April 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"What emerges is a more intimate picture of Öztürk and how a child development researcher charged with no crime ended up in a crowded cell in Louisiana." www.propublica.org/article/rume...