Kim Shively
@kimlsh.bsky.social
Anthropologist of religion, book-lover, music-lover, traveler, activist, Moravian
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UC Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty, and staff as part of an investigation into antisemitism on campus. One of them is Judith Butler. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe
UC Berkeley gave the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty and staff and info about their “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism” — sparking due-process...
www.sfchronicle.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM
UC Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty, and staff as part of an investigation into antisemitism on campus. One of them is Judith Butler. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...
At least 2 students shot at a Denver-area high school, authorities say | CNN
At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
www.cnn.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...
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A reminder that we’re here because Trump pulled out of the JCPOA (Iran nuclear deal), allowing Iran to crank up its nuclear program, & then appointed a real estate investor with zero knowledge of the issue as his lead negotiator. The experienced Iranian negotiators apparently ran circles around him.
June 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
A reminder that we’re here because Trump pulled out of the JCPOA (Iran nuclear deal), allowing Iran to crank up its nuclear program, & then appointed a real estate investor with zero knowledge of the issue as his lead negotiator. The experienced Iranian negotiators apparently ran circles around him.
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Hypocrisy. Leave it to Leavitt.
June 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Hypocrisy. Leave it to Leavitt.
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He wants unrest. He wants a civil war. He wants to be able to rule by military decree.
And he is arranging things to get it.
And he is arranging things to get it.
June 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
He wants unrest. He wants a civil war. He wants to be able to rule by military decree.
And he is arranging things to get it.
And he is arranging things to get it.
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Excellent question.
June 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Excellent question.
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BREAKING: ICE deported a Burmese man who doesn’t speak English to South Sudan—a country he’s not from and on the brink of civil war. He refused to sign English-only papers.
They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.
They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.
May 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
BREAKING: ICE deported a Burmese man who doesn’t speak English to South Sudan—a country he’s not from and on the brink of civil war. He refused to sign English-only papers.
They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.
They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.
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This is quite a story from @propublica.org about how the Trump VA is ignoring the PACT ACT & other life saving care for our veterans. There’s no question that DOGE cuts are putting veterans lives at risk. Shameful.
NEW INVESTIGATION from me and @vernalcoleman.bsky.social:
Internal emails show doctors and others at VA hospitals around the country begging for help as cuts hurt veterans' care, including "live-saving cancer trials."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Internal emails show doctors and others at VA hospitals around the country begging for help as cuts hurt veterans' care, including "live-saving cancer trials."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Internal VA Emails Reveal How Trump Cuts Jeopardize Veterans’ Care, Including To “Life-Saving Cancer Trials”
Despite a congressional mandate to expand care for veterans, internal Veterans Affairs messages obtained by ProPublica paint a stark portrait of how chaotic cost cutting has already imperiled tests of...
www.propublica.org
May 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
This is quite a story from @propublica.org about how the Trump VA is ignoring the PACT ACT & other life saving care for our veterans. There’s no question that DOGE cuts are putting veterans lives at risk. Shameful.
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The fact that the government is using charges of antisemitism to justify sending people to concentration camps is the most enraging manipulation of discourse that the current fascists have engaged in thus far.
They’ll live out their Nazi fantasies all while claiming they are doing it for the Jews.
They’ll live out their Nazi fantasies all while claiming they are doing it for the Jews.
April 15, 2025 at 4:23 AM
The fact that the government is using charges of antisemitism to justify sending people to concentration camps is the most enraging manipulation of discourse that the current fascists have engaged in thus far.
They’ll live out their Nazi fantasies all while claiming they are doing it for the Jews.
They’ll live out their Nazi fantasies all while claiming they are doing it for the Jews.
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This always felt like the end stage for this
April 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
This always felt like the end stage for this
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Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
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this is straightforwardly concentration camp stuff.
just in very plain terms: we send people to camps now if we, the government, deem it necessary, without due process. you can file a habeas petition in the united states district court with jurisdiction over el salvador, i guess.
just in very plain terms: we send people to camps now if we, the government, deem it necessary, without due process. you can file a habeas petition in the united states district court with jurisdiction over el salvador, i guess.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
this is straightforwardly concentration camp stuff.
just in very plain terms: we send people to camps now if we, the government, deem it necessary, without due process. you can file a habeas petition in the united states district court with jurisdiction over el salvador, i guess.
just in very plain terms: we send people to camps now if we, the government, deem it necessary, without due process. you can file a habeas petition in the united states district court with jurisdiction over el salvador, i guess.
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— “Backbreaking work on turnip farms and factory lines is good for you, actually”
— Destroying universities
— “You don’t need so many things”
— Elites attacking elitism
— Hate/contempt for cities
— “Suck it up for the greater good”
Am I crazy, or is MAGA starting to sound kinda’ Mao-y?
— Destroying universities
— “You don’t need so many things”
— Elites attacking elitism
— Hate/contempt for cities
— “Suck it up for the greater good”
Am I crazy, or is MAGA starting to sound kinda’ Mao-y?
April 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM
— “Backbreaking work on turnip farms and factory lines is good for you, actually”
— Destroying universities
— “You don’t need so many things”
— Elites attacking elitism
— Hate/contempt for cities
— “Suck it up for the greater good”
Am I crazy, or is MAGA starting to sound kinda’ Mao-y?
— Destroying universities
— “You don’t need so many things”
— Elites attacking elitism
— Hate/contempt for cities
— “Suck it up for the greater good”
Am I crazy, or is MAGA starting to sound kinda’ Mao-y?
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This is correct. You will find no explanation for Trump's actions in economics or political science. You need to go deep into woke academic critical theory, and there it suddenly makes sense why white male nepobabies hate communal prosperity because it undermines their dream of personal superiority.
April 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
This is correct. You will find no explanation for Trump's actions in economics or political science. You need to go deep into woke academic critical theory, and there it suddenly makes sense why white male nepobabies hate communal prosperity because it undermines their dream of personal superiority.
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Glad that our board was able to issue this statement.
OTSA has issued a statement on Academic Freedom. To read the full statement, please visit: ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/news/
April 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Glad that our board was able to issue this statement.
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Americans wanting cheap consumer goods made in the United States by many workers getting paid high wages is similar to Americans wanting increased government benefits, decreased taxes, and a balanced federal budget all at the same time.
It doesn’t work that way, and can’t. You have to choose.
It doesn’t work that way, and can’t. You have to choose.
April 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Americans wanting cheap consumer goods made in the United States by many workers getting paid high wages is similar to Americans wanting increased government benefits, decreased taxes, and a balanced federal budget all at the same time.
It doesn’t work that way, and can’t. You have to choose.
It doesn’t work that way, and can’t. You have to choose.
The “immigrant crisis” is a ginned up “emergency” to provide this administration cover to carry out its anti-democratic, anti-Constitutional, racist final solution. Don’t buy into it!
April 1, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The “immigrant crisis” is a ginned up “emergency” to provide this administration cover to carry out its anti-democratic, anti-Constitutional, racist final solution. Don’t buy into it!
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A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
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This is why I always talk about Trump administration foreign policy, not Trump's foreign policy. Trump often appeared to be rubber-stamping decisions made by others in term 1 and it was always wildly unlikely that in term 2 he would be working harder or have more understanding of the issues.
This comes on top of Trump not being aware of The Atlantic bombshell story about his military and foreign policy officials planning an international attack (which Trump also seemed out of the loop on). Is he just not doing national security briefings, or does he not remember what he was told?
Trump is completely oblivious that 4 US troops died in Lithuania
March 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
This is why I always talk about Trump administration foreign policy, not Trump's foreign policy. Trump often appeared to be rubber-stamping decisions made by others in term 1 and it was always wildly unlikely that in term 2 he would be working harder or have more understanding of the issues.
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A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island.
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
www.nhpr.org
March 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island.
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
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"We now have federal agents going door to door to illegally arrest people who have taken positions the administration dislikes. If that isn’t fascism, then I don’t know what else to call it."
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/a-tale-of-...
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/a-tale-of-...
A Tale of Two Bigots
The stories of Marko Elez, Mahmoud Khalil, and the Camp Auschwitz guy show what the right means when it talks about “free speech.”
www.thebulwark.com
March 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"We now have federal agents going door to door to illegally arrest people who have taken positions the administration dislikes. If that isn’t fascism, then I don’t know what else to call it."
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/a-tale-of-...
Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/a-tale-of-...