johan
@jraq.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at Northeastern University| Researching Community-Led Conservation | Interested in How Community Practice Translates into Public Policy
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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Republicans and Democrats hobnobbing together on Epstein’s island, while destroying the lives of working-class people, tells you everything you need to know about the US ruling class. Rotten to the core. The whole edifice needs to be brought down.
December 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Republicans and Democrats hobnobbing together on Epstein’s island, while destroying the lives of working-class people, tells you everything you need to know about the US ruling class. Rotten to the core. The whole edifice needs to be brought down.
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The US aggression against Venezuela is naked imperialism. All pretext has been exposed as farce. An invasion would cause tens of thousands of deaths. Every sane person must oppose this madness.
December 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The US aggression against Venezuela is naked imperialism. All pretext has been exposed as farce. An invasion would cause tens of thousands of deaths. Every sane person must oppose this madness.
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Oh god Matt Yglesias has an NYT op-ed arguing that Democrats need to embrace the fossil fuel industry. They already do!
December 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Oh god Matt Yglesias has an NYT op-ed arguing that Democrats need to embrace the fossil fuel industry. They already do!
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Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
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An ICE Air flight carried migrants from Alexandria, LA, to the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay today—the first migrants held at GTMO since October 17.
December 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
An ICE Air flight carried migrants from Alexandria, LA, to the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay today—the first migrants held at GTMO since October 17.
This!!!
The harm isn't just from the gross disinformation itself, but also resulting erosion of trust in federal science and guidance.
Rebuilding the latter will take far longer than correcting the former.
Rebuilding the latter will take far longer than correcting the former.
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
December 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This!!!
Disgusting fascists.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Disgusting fascists.
Yet the word corruption appears nowhere in the paper.
After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Yet the word corruption appears nowhere in the paper.
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ah yes, the *real* market failures.
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
ah yes, the *real* market failures.
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I disagree with John Feeley that the people pushing for war with Venezuela are "too stupid to read their own history" about Iraq. From their perspective, the Iraq war was a great idea & largely a success, so why not do it over again with Venezuela?
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I disagree with John Feeley that the people pushing for war with Venezuela are "too stupid to read their own history" about Iraq. From their perspective, the Iraq war was a great idea & largely a success, so why not do it over again with Venezuela?
Pure nazism. That's what the US is.
Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.
![@DHSgov on X: We’re taking father/son bonding to a whole new level.
JOIN.ICE.GOV
06 Aug 25
[Young man and old man in ICE gear]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreibrddxw227e4ldwrtdrf4nfz4riyb3yfyluczrelklrnnnp7e7l6m@jpeg)
![Wehrschiessen des Deutschen Volkes 1944
[Young man and old man sharing a rifle]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreibsutqtdx2tbxfm64xbjp4nspzgvdg6xvxewm244dbplmeuoznnvy@jpeg)
August 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Pure nazism. That's what the US is.
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Fact: The President of the United States has a worse criminal record than 99% of the people he is deporting.
July 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Fact: The President of the United States has a worse criminal record than 99% of the people he is deporting.
Drones y genocidio. Campos de concentración. Veneno y sangre. Suecia también exporta armas por doquier.
July 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Drones y genocidio. Campos de concentración. Veneno y sangre. Suecia también exporta armas por doquier.
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You cannot be so much of an institutionalist that you let the institutions bring us fascism. What was the value of the insitutions supposed to be in the first place?
June 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
You cannot be so much of an institutionalist that you let the institutions bring us fascism. What was the value of the insitutions supposed to be in the first place?
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Even when an Israeli newspaper quotes Israeli soldiers saying they shot civilians seeking food, some refuse to believe it and denounce it as a blood libel.
Nothing can convince such people. For them, Israel can do not wrong no matter how high the bodies pile up.
Nothing can convince such people. For them, Israel can do not wrong no matter how high the bodies pile up.
June 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Even when an Israeli newspaper quotes Israeli soldiers saying they shot civilians seeking food, some refuse to believe it and denounce it as a blood libel.
Nothing can convince such people. For them, Israel can do not wrong no matter how high the bodies pile up.
Nothing can convince such people. For them, Israel can do not wrong no matter how high the bodies pile up.
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Each time a remotely progressive candidate wins office in the US, the rich declare they're going to leave town. What do they actually do? Nothing. A 2016 study found only 0.04% of millionaires move in a given year due to tax increases. Rich people talk to feel important. Please properly tax them.
June 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Each time a remotely progressive candidate wins office in the US, the rich declare they're going to leave town. What do they actually do? Nothing. A 2016 study found only 0.04% of millionaires move in a given year due to tax increases. Rich people talk to feel important. Please properly tax them.
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and as we know, "viewpoint diversity" means, "you need to recruit, hire and reward white nationalists"
Jesus.
“In exchange, In exchange, Harvard would agree to take even more aggressive action than it already has to address issues such as antisemitism, race, and viewpoint diversity.
The White House has pushed Harvard to make new commitments to change its admissions and hiring practices..”
“In exchange, In exchange, Harvard would agree to take even more aggressive action than it already has to address issues such as antisemitism, race, and viewpoint diversity.
The White House has pushed Harvard to make new commitments to change its admissions and hiring practices..”
June 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
and as we know, "viewpoint diversity" means, "you need to recruit, hire and reward white nationalists"
June 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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the Brazilian replies to this post will take you on a fucking journey
A Brazilian comedian has been sentenced to 8 years in prison for ‘bigoted’ jokes told in 2022. The decision marks the latest effort by Brazil to place limits on freedom of expression.
Brazilian comedian sentenced to 8 years in prison for ‘bigoted’ jokes
The ruling against comedian Leo Lins for jokes told in 2022 is shaping up as the next front in Brazil’s escalating struggle over freedom of expression.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
the Brazilian replies to this post will take you on a fucking journey
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Rep. Gomez: LA County alone is 34% foreign born, 34%. So when he says they're going to liberate us, who is he going to liberate us from? Ourselves?
June 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Rep. Gomez: LA County alone is 34% foreign born, 34%. So when he says they're going to liberate us, who is he going to liberate us from? Ourselves?