@jhlittell.bsky.social
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Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone?
Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate.
They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.
Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate.
They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.
October 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone?
Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate.
They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.
Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate.
They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.
Who came up with the idea of ceasefire in Gaza? Students did. And they were punished for it. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Gaza and Protest
Why freedom of speech matters
open.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Who came up with the idea of ceasefire in Gaza? Students did. And they were punished for it. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Spoken like a man found liable for sexual abuse.
Trump on Bowser: "She's gotta either allow it or we'll just do it. And she understands that."
September 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Spoken like a man found liable for sexual abuse.
Stop Acting Like This Is Normal www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
www.nytimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Stop Acting Like This Is Normal www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
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Let that sink in for a sec.
July 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Let that sink in for a sec.
Tracking Uddin v Elsevier et al., the landmark anti-trust class action lawsuit against academic publishers here: www.courtlistener.com/docket/69156...
Good summary here: www.kubiack.com/academic-pub...
Good summary here: www.kubiack.com/academic-pub...
Academic Publishing Faces Antitrust Scrutiny in Landmark U.S. Class Action Lawsuit - Kubiack Law
On September 12, 2024, Dr. Lucina Uddin, a neuroscience professor at UCLA, filed a landmark class action lawsuit against the six largest for-profit academic publishers and their trade association. The...
www.kubiack.com
July 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Tracking Uddin v Elsevier et al., the landmark anti-trust class action lawsuit against academic publishers here: www.courtlistener.com/docket/69156...
Good summary here: www.kubiack.com/academic-pub...
Good summary here: www.kubiack.com/academic-pub...
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This is what the NY Times chose to highlight from the Netanyahu/Trump meeting, compared to Al Jazeera.
You decide which is the important news.
You decide which is the important news.
July 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is what the NY Times chose to highlight from the Netanyahu/Trump meeting, compared to Al Jazeera.
You decide which is the important news.
You decide which is the important news.
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“Americans should be able to drink their water & breathe their air without being poisoned. & if they aren’t, then our government is failing,” said Amelia H., an environmental protection specialist at the EPA on admin leave.
Support her & brave #EPA employees here zurl.co/7A6RE
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Support her & brave #EPA employees here zurl.co/7A6RE
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EPA employees put names to 'declaration of dissent' over agency moves under Trump
A group of Environmental Protection Agency employees has published a declaration of dissent to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin over the agency's leadership and policies.
apnews.com
July 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
“Americans should be able to drink their water & breathe their air without being poisoned. & if they aren’t, then our government is failing,” said Amelia H., an environmental protection specialist at the EPA on admin leave.
Support her & brave #EPA employees here zurl.co/7A6RE
zurl.co/8jUuu
Support her & brave #EPA employees here zurl.co/7A6RE
zurl.co/8jUuu
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July 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Don't want billionaires to get even richer at your expense?
Have a Republican senator?
It's time to make some calls. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Have a Republican senator?
It's time to make some calls. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
June 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Don't want billionaires to get even richer at your expense?
Have a Republican senator?
It's time to make some calls. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Have a Republican senator?
It's time to make some calls. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Update on #NoKings livestreaming NOW at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECEb...
No Kings: What's Next in the Fight?
YouTube video by No Kings June 14
www.youtube.com
June 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Update on #NoKings livestreaming NOW at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECEb...
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This morning, people filled the sidewalks on both sides of the main street in Ardmore, PA for as far as my eyes could see. Joyful, peaceful protests! #Resist #MakeAmericaKindAgain #MakeAmericaThinkAgain #DueProcessForAll #ImmigrantsAreNotTheThreat #NoKings
June 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This morning, people filled the sidewalks on both sides of the main street in Ardmore, PA for as far as my eyes could see. Joyful, peaceful protests! #Resist #MakeAmericaKindAgain #MakeAmericaThinkAgain #DueProcessForAll #ImmigrantsAreNotTheThreat #NoKings
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Article is here, BTW. No paywall.
Trump Crypto Venture World Liberty Financial Partners With KuCoin, Exchange Banned In U.S., Fined $300 Million
Trump’s family controls World Liberty Financial, the crypto firm behind USD1—a new stablecoin now trading on KuCoin.
www.forbes.com
May 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Article is here, BTW. No paywall.
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Just got word that Secretary Noem is asking for an addition to her budget - a new private Gulfstream 5 jet for her personal national photo op tour. She's already got a private plane but wants a tricked out new one.
All while she supports kicking 13 million people off Medicaid.
All while she supports kicking 13 million people off Medicaid.
May 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Just got word that Secretary Noem is asking for an addition to her budget - a new private Gulfstream 5 jet for her personal national photo op tour. She's already got a private plane but wants a tricked out new one.
All while she supports kicking 13 million people off Medicaid.
All while she supports kicking 13 million people off Medicaid.
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"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
www.science.org
May 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
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I know that we’ve had a month worth of further constitutional crises but Kilmar Abrego Garcia is still in custody in El Salvador and that central crisis is a continuing fact.
The slope isn't slippery; the frog isn't gradually getting boiled. Within its first hundred days the Trump administration has openly asserted the right/ power to seize and imprison anyone— including political dissidents, including citizens— and deprive them of any legal recourse at all.
5/
5/
May 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I know that we’ve had a month worth of further constitutional crises but Kilmar Abrego Garcia is still in custody in El Salvador and that central crisis is a continuing fact.
Diversity and migration are healthy, natural phenomena: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfiY...
Spring Bird Migration Data Visualization
YouTube video by Cornell Lab of Ornithology
www.youtube.com
April 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Diversity and migration are healthy, natural phenomena: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfiY...
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Great news folks. Marco Rubio will not stand for the federal government or its agencies targeting institutions or organizations because of their political beliefs. That’s third-world stuff that can’t be allowed to happen here. You still believe all this, Marco, right? Right?
April 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Great news folks. Marco Rubio will not stand for the federal government or its agencies targeting institutions or organizations because of their political beliefs. That’s third-world stuff that can’t be allowed to happen here. You still believe all this, Marco, right? Right?
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“I can…assure you that were this a Republican president…targeting Democrats, I at least would speak out just as vigorously against it because if we are going to respect rule of law, the apparatus of the federal government cannot and should not be used as a partisan tool to bludgeon your enemies."
April 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
“I can…assure you that were this a Republican president…targeting Democrats, I at least would speak out just as vigorously against it because if we are going to respect rule of law, the apparatus of the federal government cannot and should not be used as a partisan tool to bludgeon your enemies."
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I believe that, despite the theoretically tricky politics of immigration, Democrats have a moral obligation to speak out against the illegal rendition of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
This is an argument we can win and here are my thoughts on how to win it: www.messageboxnews.com/p/how-dems-c...
This is an argument we can win and here are my thoughts on how to win it: www.messageboxnews.com/p/how-dems-c...
Why Dems Shouldn't Be Afraid to Fight for Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Believe it or not, public opinion is on our side -- if we make the case aggressively
www.messageboxnews.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I believe that, despite the theoretically tricky politics of immigration, Democrats have a moral obligation to speak out against the illegal rendition of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
This is an argument we can win and here are my thoughts on how to win it: www.messageboxnews.com/p/how-dems-c...
This is an argument we can win and here are my thoughts on how to win it: www.messageboxnews.com/p/how-dems-c...
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KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
March 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
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Thou shalt fire Chuck Schumer.
March 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Thou shalt fire Chuck Schumer.
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One of our best security experts sums it up:
Worth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political & economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, topple their president, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire w/out security guarantees.
March 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
One of our best security experts sums it up: