Kirk Radford
@kpradford.bsky.social
Professor | Expat 🇺🇸➡️🇨🇦 | OM System | Werder Bremen | Motor City
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So, the WH Deputy Chief of Staff says they're looking at suspending habeas and the mayor of a major city is arrested for seeking further information about possible ICE abuses in his city. In the past hour or two. We're already a police state but are teetering at the edge of something worse.
May 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
So, the WH Deputy Chief of Staff says they're looking at suspending habeas and the mayor of a major city is arrested for seeking further information about possible ICE abuses in his city. In the past hour or two. We're already a police state but are teetering at the edge of something worse.
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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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How does a person who behaves like this credibly make a deal later?
How does a country that elected such a person-twice-make credible deals even under future leaders?
How does a country that elected such a person-twice-make credible deals even under future leaders?
“Therefore, if China does not withdraw its 34% increase above their already long term trading abuses by tomorrow, April 8th, 2025, the United States will impose ADDITIONAL Tariffs on China of 50%, effective April 9th.”
April 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
How does a person who behaves like this credibly make a deal later?
How does a country that elected such a person-twice-make credible deals even under future leaders?
How does a country that elected such a person-twice-make credible deals even under future leaders?
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The kids are fighting:
April 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The kids are fighting:
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Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.
April 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.
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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 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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.
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This is painful, and saddening, and embarrassing. I feel like we're losing a member of the family - and for no good reason other than that some Americans wanted another season of the worst reality TV show in history.
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is painful, and saddening, and embarrassing. I feel like we're losing a member of the family - and for no good reason other than that some Americans wanted another season of the worst reality TV show in history.
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National Post and CBC report Trump admin is going to lift restrictions on Russian potash, partly as a way to screw Canada.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Premier Scott Moe says U.S. restoring Russian fertilizer market will fund death of Ukrainians | CBC News
"This is the most disturbing action that I think we've seen from [U.S. President Donald Trump] since his election," said Scott Moe.
www.cbc.ca
March 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
National Post and CBC report Trump admin is going to lift restrictions on Russian potash, partly as a way to screw Canada.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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broke: great man theory of history
broke: structural forces theory of history
broke: dialectical materialist theory of history
woke: colossal moron theory of history
broke: structural forces theory of history
broke: dialectical materialist theory of history
woke: colossal moron theory of history
March 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
broke: great man theory of history
broke: structural forces theory of history
broke: dialectical materialist theory of history
woke: colossal moron theory of history
broke: structural forces theory of history
broke: dialectical materialist theory of history
woke: colossal moron theory of history
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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
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Again, this should be the end of it, & the fact that we’re tolerating it is both a massive national security crisis & a massive constitutional crisis. Maybe nothing ever mattered, but I don’t think that’s actually true, & one wonders why we are so deeply unserious now.
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Trump: "When you take away that artificial line that looks like it was done by a ruler ... you look at that beautiful formation of Canada and the US, there is no place anywhere in the world that looks like that. And then if you add Greenland, that's pretty good."
March 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Again, this should be the end of it, & the fact that we’re tolerating it is both a massive national security crisis & a massive constitutional crisis. Maybe nothing ever mattered, but I don’t think that’s actually true, & one wonders why we are so deeply unserious now.
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