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“‘Over the next three years or so, unless Congress steps in, the Park Service will be pretty seriously damaged, you might almost say dismantled,’ says former NPS director Jonathan Jarvis, who served as the agency’s head from 2009 to 2017…
What’s the Trump Administration’s End Game for the National Parks?
We saw it in Yosemite. But you have to look beyond the bathrooms.
www.republic.land
October 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“‘Over the next three years or so, unless Congress steps in, the Park Service will be pretty seriously damaged, you might almost say dismantled,’ says former NPS director Jonathan Jarvis, who served as the agency’s head from 2009 to 2017…
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Pregnant women detained by ICE report horrifying treatment: shackling, solitary confinement, no prenatal vitamins, inadequate food. ICE's own directives and regulations require the agency to avoid detention of pregnant people in the first place. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say
The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.
www.nbcnews.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Pregnant women detained by ICE report horrifying treatment: shackling, solitary confinement, no prenatal vitamins, inadequate food. ICE's own directives and regulations require the agency to avoid detention of pregnant people in the first place. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Just disgusting.
October 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Just disgusting.
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basically all this shit is Roberts' fault, because the immunity made Trump feel like he could break the law as much as he wants without consequences. bsky.app/profile/jayw...
Here's a fun little nugget from Trump's demand that DOJ pay him, personally, $250 million: In his memo, he argues that prosecutors "should have foreseen" that he has "immunity from prosecution for officials acts." Thank you John Roberts, great rule of law-ing, sir! static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
![Moreover, as former U.S. Court of Appeals Judge and now-Attorney General Merrick
Garland should have foreseen, President Trump had immunity from prosecution for
official acts.23 As such, given the Supreme Court's immunity decision and Judge
Cannon's dismissal of the prosecution on grounds that the Special Counsel's
appointment violated the appointments clause and his office was funded through an
19 Superseding Indictment at 1-4, United States v. Trump et al., No. 23-80101-CR, 2024 WL 3404555
(S.D Fla. July 15, 2024) (the original indictment was dated June 8, 2023).
20 United States v. Trump, No. 23-80101-CR, 2024 WL 3404555, at * 1 (S.D. Fla. July 15, 2024)
(hereinafter " Dismissal Order”).
21 Order Denying Motion for Franks Hearing and Reserving Ruling on Balance of Motion Pending
Necessary Factual Development at 9, U.S. v. Trump et al., No. 23-80101- CR (S.D. FL June 27, 2024)
(Document 655) (“But the Court determines that some of the terms in that document ( e.g.,
'national
defense information' and ‘Presidential Records'), do not carry ‘generally understood meaning[ s]' such
that a law enforcement agent, without further clarification, would have known to identify such
material as 'seizable” property'[.]"); accord. id. at 10 ("the present record does not indicate , for example,
whether the clarifying information in the affidavit was attached to the warrant or expressly
incorporated into it [See ECF No. 567 p. 13] ”) .
22 Constitutional Questions After the Raid on Mar-a-Lago, National Constitution Center 2 ( August 18,
2022), https://constitutioncenter.org/media/files/Mar-a-lago_Raid_Transcript.pdf .
23 Trump v. United States, 144 S. Ct. 2312, 2327 (2024) .](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpna2qi2e44fafbhhtqjak3x/bafkreicz6cwnbxxtz5qt3avx6tftshxlv6atsp6k23hmvgdffohy2aigmq@jpeg)
October 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
basically all this shit is Roberts' fault, because the immunity made Trump feel like he could break the law as much as he wants without consequences. bsky.app/profile/jayw...
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As a group of former superintendents put it: “Our parks don’t run by themselves.” Without the dedicated staff who keep them clean, safe and functioning, the shutdown has left America’s greatest natural treasures more exposed to damage, danger, and neglect.
October 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
As a group of former superintendents put it: “Our parks don’t run by themselves.” Without the dedicated staff who keep them clean, safe and functioning, the shutdown has left America’s greatest natural treasures more exposed to damage, danger, and neglect.
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maybe cause I have canvassing on the brain but this is a Type of Guy I don't run into anymore but used to be everywhere in the Midwest. imagine being on this guy's high school football team
Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."
October 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
maybe cause I have canvassing on the brain but this is a Type of Guy I don't run into anymore but used to be everywhere in the Midwest. imagine being on this guy's high school football team
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If your grandfather was saying this you’d be looking into long-term care options.
Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."
October 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
If your grandfather was saying this you’d be looking into long-term care options.
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Over the past 9 months, @aaup.org and the 100's of branches have proven that WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN. We are building a "Wall of Wins" to help faculty, students, and staff see the power of unity. HELP US by quote-posting with links to your own stories about #AAUPwins to be collected on a new website.
October 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this
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Just want to add that reproductive rights are an economic issue and for many women a survival issue. If you can't control your body, you can't control your life.
Abortion is a bread-and-butter economic issue. We need to treat it that way | Rebecca Solnit
Parenthood, criminality or death: these are now the all-too-expensive options for many women in the wake of the Dobbs decision
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Just want to add that reproductive rights are an economic issue and for many women a survival issue. If you can't control your body, you can't control your life.
the thought police
Faculty should strike. Shut it all down. We teach from research not the whims of dummies.
Breaking: Texas Tech chancellor limits academic mentions of transgender and nonbinary identities at five universities.
September 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
the thought police
unbelievable
I want everyone who signed a Harper’s Letter , who ignored the attacks on Black and Queer teachers .
Every editor who refused to assign a piece on gender or silenced all those reporters who tried to be brought to the front and made to answer about how this isn’t free speech suppression
Every editor who refused to assign a piece on gender or silenced all those reporters who tried to be brought to the front and made to answer about how this isn’t free speech suppression
From a transcript of a faculty meeting discussing this:
Faculty are being told to not teach on gender and sexuality at all, regardless of their field, and the Dean isn’t even sure if the faculty *can accept papers from students that discuss these topics*.
Faculty are being told to not teach on gender and sexuality at all, regardless of their field, and the Dean isn’t even sure if the faculty *can accept papers from students that discuss these topics*.
September 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
unbelievable
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The violent incident was also witnessed by Fr. Vidal Rivas at nearby St. Matthews Episcopal Church. St. Matthews has served as a safe space for community members; Rivas has pledged to become legal guardian for any children whose parents were deported, signing documents on behalf of 14 children.” ⚓️
NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders.
I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...
I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...
September 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The violent incident was also witnessed by Fr. Vidal Rivas at nearby St. Matthews Episcopal Church. St. Matthews has served as a safe space for community members; Rivas has pledged to become legal guardian for any children whose parents were deported, signing documents on behalf of 14 children.” ⚓️
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proud of my union every day
September 26, 2025 at 3:43 AM
proud of my union every day
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The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured
September 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured
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the exact right question if you ask me
Scoop: a bunch of Hollywood A-listers are pressuring Gavin Newsom to sign legislation regulating AI.
"The question is — can we trust big tech companies to build AI for the public good? And the answer is — no, we can’t.”
www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
"The question is — can we trust big tech companies to build AI for the public good? And the answer is — no, we can’t.”
www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
Celebrities sign letter pressuring California Gov. Gavin Newsom to regulate AI
“There’s a consensus that after two years, California needs to do something,” said Sunny Gandhi, an AI oversight advocate.
www.sacbee.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
the exact right question if you ask me
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If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.
Now that summer is over, Chicago is still on track to have fewer homicides in 2025 than almost any other year since 2001. This is especially impressive considering that the five most violent years of the 21st century have all been in the past decade.
September 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.
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To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.
September 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.
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Italian Unions Lead General Strike Demanding End to Israel’s Assault on Gaza
Italian Unions Lead General Strike Demanding End to Israel's Assault on Gaza
In Italy, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of dozens of cities Monday as Italian labor unions led a nationwide 24-hour general strike to demand an end to Israel's assault on Gaza.
www.democracynow.org
September 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Italian Unions Lead General Strike Demanding End to Israel’s Assault on Gaza
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Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared
Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared
In immigration news, hundreds of people who were once detained at the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” have disappeared.
www.democracynow.org
September 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared
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if you dont stop calling us nazis we will have the secret police disappear you to a slave labor camp
September 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
if you dont stop calling us nazis we will have the secret police disappear you to a slave labor camp
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The regime has been overextending itself for a while, now.
But now that it has openly DEMONSTRATED that weakness, I think we are going to be seeing a lot of folks suddenly growing a spine
But now that it has openly DEMONSTRATED that weakness, I think we are going to be seeing a lot of folks suddenly growing a spine
Idk it feels like something is shifting. This tweet was also the language of the AP push alert, and just now the Times chimed in:
September 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The regime has been overextending itself for a while, now.
But now that it has openly DEMONSTRATED that weakness, I think we are going to be seeing a lot of folks suddenly growing a spine
But now that it has openly DEMONSTRATED that weakness, I think we are going to be seeing a lot of folks suddenly growing a spine
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Not a solitary citation to law. Any law. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization
Section 1. Antifa as a Terrorist Threat. Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States
www.whitehouse.gov
September 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Not a solitary citation to law. Any law. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
lol
Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene
RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth*
A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel”
Person watching on tv: well if they say so
RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth*
A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel”
Person watching on tv: well if they say so
September 23, 2025 at 2:37 AM
lol
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Such a great summary of the current moment in higher education and what needs to be done to defend it and create a better future for it too!
Trump is waging war on higher ed to advance his project to construct a fascist authoritarian regime. Campus workers are uniquely positioned to articulate an alternative vision and wage a united struggle to win it. New Dig w @higheredlabor.bsky.social’s Ian Gavigan www.thedigradio.com/podcast/clas...
Class Struggle for the University w/ Ian Gavigan
Featuring Ian Gavigan on how the bipartisan neoliberalization of higher education laid the groundwork for Trump’s all-out assault. Workers must unite on every campus, articulate an alternative vision for the university, and fight to win it.
www.thedigradio.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Such a great summary of the current moment in higher education and what needs to be done to defend it and create a better future for it too!