@kirkbowman.bsky.social
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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
April 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
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Sorry, liberals, the United States is not an oligarchic democracy, it’s an oligarchic republic.
April 1, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Sorry, liberals, the United States is not an oligarchic democracy, it’s an oligarchic republic.
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All you need to know about Twitter
March 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
All you need to know about Twitter
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The provision of the 14th amendment that the Supreme Court unanimously wrote out of the constitution existed for a reason. Its drafters knew what would happen if you allowed insurrectionists back into power.
March 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The provision of the 14th amendment that the Supreme Court unanimously wrote out of the constitution existed for a reason. Its drafters knew what would happen if you allowed insurrectionists back into power.
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No bone spurs detected.
March 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
No bone spurs detected.
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No amount of letter writing has persuaded my lawmakers, but one thing has slowed them down:
Showing up in numbers that can’t be hidden or explained away. Marching in the streets. Testifying by the hundreds. Letting lawmakers know we see them and we know.
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Showing up in numbers that can’t be hidden or explained away. Marching in the streets. Testifying by the hundreds. Letting lawmakers know we see them and we know.
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
I Know Exactly What They Are Doing
Rural foresight
open.substack.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
No amount of letter writing has persuaded my lawmakers, but one thing has slowed them down:
Showing up in numbers that can’t be hidden or explained away. Marching in the streets. Testifying by the hundreds. Letting lawmakers know we see them and we know.
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Showing up in numbers that can’t be hidden or explained away. Marching in the streets. Testifying by the hundreds. Letting lawmakers know we see them and we know.
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
March 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
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As requested by a third grader in a letter to my office:
Happy Third Graders Day, Minnesota!
Happy Third Graders Day, Minnesota!
March 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
As requested by a third grader in a letter to my office:
Happy Third Graders Day, Minnesota!
Happy Third Graders Day, Minnesota!
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This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.
GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
February 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.
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She believed in free IVF because the media just repeated Trump's lies credulously.
She didn't believe he would enact Project 25 because the media just repeated Trump's lies credulously.
etc etc etc
Anyway, subsribe to WIRED and ditch WaPo.
She didn't believe he would enact Project 25 because the media just repeated Trump's lies credulously.
etc etc etc
Anyway, subsribe to WIRED and ditch WaPo.
February 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
She believed in free IVF because the media just repeated Trump's lies credulously.
She didn't believe he would enact Project 25 because the media just repeated Trump's lies credulously.
etc etc etc
Anyway, subsribe to WIRED and ditch WaPo.
She didn't believe he would enact Project 25 because the media just repeated Trump's lies credulously.
etc etc etc
Anyway, subsribe to WIRED and ditch WaPo.
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Look at this leader. Lift her up.
Colorado's Rep Brittany Pettersen (D) flew cross-country with her one-month-old to vote against the GOP budget tonight. Dems ended up one vote short. Pettersen was part of an unsuccessful bipartisan push to allow new mothers to vote remotely. #copolitics
February 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Look at this leader. Lift her up.
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Wow. 20+ DOGE staffers just resigned en masse, saying they refuse to use their expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”
“We swore to serve the American people... However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”
“We swore to serve the American people... However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”
21 federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE slash size of government
Twenty-one civil service employees have resigned from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they're refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle ...
apnews.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Wow. 20+ DOGE staffers just resigned en masse, saying they refuse to use their expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”
“We swore to serve the American people... However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”
“We swore to serve the American people... However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”
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Few people in American politics have ever exhibited less moral clarity than Nikki Haley has since 2016.
February 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Few people in American politics have ever exhibited less moral clarity than Nikki Haley has since 2016.
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What would a racist misogynist white nationalist authoritarian Putin-plant POTUS be doing different than exactly what Donald is doing right now? Name one thing.
February 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
What would a racist misogynist white nationalist authoritarian Putin-plant POTUS be doing different than exactly what Donald is doing right now? Name one thing.
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Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees.
Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law
Time to do things that make him react to you.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law
Time to do things that make him react to you.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has canceled Biden's ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of 'drain the swamp'
Donald Trump took office eight years ago pledging to “drain the swamp” of the dominance of Washington influence peddlers.
apnews.com
February 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees.
Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law
Time to do things that make him react to you.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law
Time to do things that make him react to you.
apnews.com/article/trum...
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This x10000000000
“In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.”
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...
“In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.”
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...
They Are a Minority
Get your mind right.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This x10000000000
“In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.”
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...
“In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.”
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...
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I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :)
Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.
Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.
February 20, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :)
Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.
Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.
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Here’s what I need from Democrats; get in the fucking way. Stand in front of those who will hurt others. We can say “constitutional crisis” all day long, but you have to get in front of them.
Refuse to budge. Don’t back down.
Refuse to budge. Don’t back down.
February 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Here’s what I need from Democrats; get in the fucking way. Stand in front of those who will hurt others. We can say “constitutional crisis” all day long, but you have to get in front of them.
Refuse to budge. Don’t back down.
Refuse to budge. Don’t back down.
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Everyone has things in their career of which they're ashamed.
Nothing...and I mean nothing...in my career in politics makes me more ashamed and regretful than supporting and promoting Marco Rubio.
He is the most craven betrayer of his stated ideals of any human I've ever met.
Nothing...and I mean nothing...in my career in politics makes me more ashamed and regretful than supporting and promoting Marco Rubio.
He is the most craven betrayer of his stated ideals of any human I've ever met.
February 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Everyone has things in their career of which they're ashamed.
Nothing...and I mean nothing...in my career in politics makes me more ashamed and regretful than supporting and promoting Marco Rubio.
He is the most craven betrayer of his stated ideals of any human I've ever met.
Nothing...and I mean nothing...in my career in politics makes me more ashamed and regretful than supporting and promoting Marco Rubio.
He is the most craven betrayer of his stated ideals of any human I've ever met.
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"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov
February 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov
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This is why you fight these cowards.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
a stammering Tom Homan on AOC: "She's the dumbest congresswoman ever elected to Congress."
February 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This is why you fight these cowards.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
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60 MINUTES: “Utter nonsense. The most accountable aid agency in the world is USAID… DOGE fired their top 58 officials within an hour of arriving…”
This was never about efficiency.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGLXa9r...
This was never about efficiency.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGLXa9r...
February 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
60 MINUTES: “Utter nonsense. The most accountable aid agency in the world is USAID… DOGE fired their top 58 officials within an hour of arriving…”
This was never about efficiency.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGLXa9r...
This was never about efficiency.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGLXa9r...
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The worst thing to happen to the Democratic Party is the consultant class
February 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The worst thing to happen to the Democratic Party is the consultant class