@libraryyoda.bsky.social
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Proof this guy is full of SITH.
In Star Wars. those who have embraced the Dark Side of the Force wield red lightsabers. So, in other words, perfect.
May 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Proof this guy is full of SITH.
In case you’re wondering what stage of fascism and global pariah status we’re at… 🫠
April 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
In case you’re wondering what stage of fascism and global pariah status we’re at… 🫠
Me reading the May 2025 issue of The Atlantic: Holy crap! David Brooks is finally starting to get it!
Me flipping to the next page…
Me flipping to the next page…
April 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Me reading the May 2025 issue of The Atlantic: Holy crap! David Brooks is finally starting to get it!
Me flipping to the next page…
Me flipping to the next page…
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11/ The tariffs aren’t economic policy. They are political weapons.
But as long as we see this clearly, we can stop him. Public mobilization is working. Today, a few Republicans joined Democrats to vote against one set of tariffs.
The people still have the power.
But as long as we see this clearly, we can stop him. Public mobilization is working. Today, a few Republicans joined Democrats to vote against one set of tariffs.
The people still have the power.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
11/ The tariffs aren’t economic policy. They are political weapons.
But as long as we see this clearly, we can stop him. Public mobilization is working. Today, a few Republicans joined Democrats to vote against one set of tariffs.
The people still have the power.
But as long as we see this clearly, we can stop him. Public mobilization is working. Today, a few Republicans joined Democrats to vote against one set of tariffs.
The people still have the power.
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4/ British kings used taxation to reward loyalty and punish dissent.
Our own revolution was spurred by the King’s use of heavy taxation of the colonies to punish our push for self governance.
The King’s message was simple: stop protesting and I’ll stop taxing.
Our own revolution was spurred by the King’s use of heavy taxation of the colonies to punish our push for self governance.
The King’s message was simple: stop protesting and I’ll stop taxing.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
4/ British kings used taxation to reward loyalty and punish dissent.
Our own revolution was spurred by the King’s use of heavy taxation of the colonies to punish our push for self governance.
The King’s message was simple: stop protesting and I’ll stop taxing.
Our own revolution was spurred by the King’s use of heavy taxation of the colonies to punish our push for self governance.
The King’s message was simple: stop protesting and I’ll stop taxing.
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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During El Salvador’s long civil war, university leaders in El Salvador advocated for marginalized communities, despite being labeled communists and targeted with death threats. How their leadership could inspire U.S. university presidents:
Lessons from El Salvador for US university leaders facing attacks from Trump
US college leaders would do well to reflect on the courage of their counterparts in 1980s El Salvador who opposed injustice despite grave personal risk.
theconversation.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
During El Salvador’s long civil war, university leaders in El Salvador advocated for marginalized communities, despite being labeled communists and targeted with death threats. How their leadership could inspire U.S. university presidents:
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
The story about @booker.senate.gov escorting his dad to the restroom made me cry because it was hitting home — my dad passed away due to complications from Alzheimer’s in 2020, so it breaks my heart that the research is being stopped. I appreciated the lighthearted twist at the end though. 1/2
April 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The story about @booker.senate.gov escorting his dad to the restroom made me cry because it was hitting home — my dad passed away due to complications from Alzheimer’s in 2020, so it breaks my heart that the research is being stopped. I appreciated the lighthearted twist at the end though. 1/2
Wait…there were more books that @booker.senate.gov’s staff wrote for this moment??? First of all, his staff is AMAZING for all their hard work, and second, does that mean…
a cartoon of homer simpson and marge simpson hugging a baby with the words sequel written on the bottom
ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson and marge simpson hugging a baby with the words sequel written on the bottom
media.tenor.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Wait…there were more books that @booker.senate.gov’s staff wrote for this moment??? First of all, his staff is AMAZING for all their hard work, and second, does that mean…
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Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits
If Sen. Cory Booker makes it to 7:19 p.m. EST, he will break segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's record for his 24 hour 18 minute Senate floor speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
April 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits
This has been such an inspiring display of democracy in action. Thank you, Sen. Booker! We the people have been asking for the Dems to do something, and you are meeting the moment!
“I’m not here because of his speech. I’m here despite his speech.”
— Sen. Booker on breaking Strom Thurmond’s record
“I’m not here because of his speech. I’m here despite his speech.”
— Sen. Booker on breaking Strom Thurmond’s record
April 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This has been such an inspiring display of democracy in action. Thank you, Sen. Booker! We the people have been asking for the Dems to do something, and you are meeting the moment!
“I’m not here because of his speech. I’m here despite his speech.”
— Sen. Booker on breaking Strom Thurmond’s record
“I’m not here because of his speech. I’m here despite his speech.”
— Sen. Booker on breaking Strom Thurmond’s record
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I want a jet ready to rush Cory Booker to South Carolina once he has broken the record so he can drop a microphone on Strom Thurmond's grave.
April 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I want a jet ready to rush Cory Booker to South Carolina once he has broken the record so he can drop a microphone on Strom Thurmond's grave.
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"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
www.chronicle.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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If you’re in the neighborhood…
March 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
If you’re in the neighborhood…
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Thank you for your service, Lucy.
This was up and gone incredibly quickly. I think it deserves to be seen. Resistance comes in many forms.
Conditions: "Hate does not grow in the rocky soil of Vermont."
Daily message in follow up. I hate text limits.
This was up and gone incredibly quickly. I think it deserves to be seen. Resistance comes in many forms.
Conditions: "Hate does not grow in the rocky soil of Vermont."
Daily message in follow up. I hate text limits.
March 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Thank you for your service, Lucy.
This was up and gone incredibly quickly. I think it deserves to be seen. Resistance comes in many forms.
Conditions: "Hate does not grow in the rocky soil of Vermont."
Daily message in follow up. I hate text limits.
This was up and gone incredibly quickly. I think it deserves to be seen. Resistance comes in many forms.
Conditions: "Hate does not grow in the rocky soil of Vermont."
Daily message in follow up. I hate text limits.
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From @reuters.com: President Donald Trump's sweeping foreign aid freeze has stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country's drug cartels, according to eight people familiar with the situation.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
February 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
From @reuters.com: President Donald Trump's sweeping foreign aid freeze has stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country's drug cartels, according to eight people familiar with the situation.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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NEW: DOGE workers now have access to the NIH department known as the "wallet" of the entire organization. From @mattreynolds.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/doge-i...
www.wired.com/story/doge-i...
DOGE Is Inside the National Institutes of Health’s Finance System
At least three people linked to Elon Musk’s DOGE task force have access to NIH systems that control budgets, procurement, and more, according to records and internal documents viewed by WIRED.
www.wired.com
February 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
NEW: DOGE workers now have access to the NIH department known as the "wallet" of the entire organization. From @mattreynolds.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/doge-i...
www.wired.com/story/doge-i...
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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
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I am really outdone. The Maryland National Guard cannot celebrate Frederick Douglass, the state’s native son and perhaps the greatest American this nation ever produced, because he’s Black and his chosen birthday happened to fall during Black History Month. (Ask me why he had to choose is b-day)
“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said.
Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.
Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.
Maryland National Guard out of Frederick Douglass parade after DoD order
Strict guidance from the national defense department crushed plans for a parade held in honor of Frederick Douglass’ 207th birthday because it was being held during Black History Month.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
February 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I am really outdone. The Maryland National Guard cannot celebrate Frederick Douglass, the state’s native son and perhaps the greatest American this nation ever produced, because he’s Black and his chosen birthday happened to fall during Black History Month. (Ask me why he had to choose is b-day)
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can’t teach the history of the navy to future naval officers, apparently
SCOOP: Naval Academy leaders sent an email to faculty this week that teaching about “divisive concepts” such as systemic racism + sexism is no longer permitted. Faculty also can’t talk about environmental justice or gender ideology. Our exclusive:
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...
Naval Academy faculty to stop teaching on racism, sexism
After President Trump's recent DEI-focused executive order, Naval Academy faculty were told to stop teaching about systematic racism and sexism.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
can’t teach the history of the navy to future naval officers, apparently
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Washington Post got their hands on internal documents from DOGE showing the entire plan to implement resegregation. They're going to purge minorities from government by calling them DEI.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
See inside DOGE’s playbook for eliminating DEI
Documents detail step-by-step plans by the U.S. DOGE Service to purge federal agencies of diversity, equity, and inclusion workers and offices. Here’s what comes next.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Washington Post got their hands on internal documents from DOGE showing the entire plan to implement resegregation. They're going to purge minorities from government by calling them DEI.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...