Stephen Demjanenko
@sdemjanenko.bsky.social
What’s to stop Trump from sending ICE to run around like this on Election Day in opponent battleground states, specifically cities? And how might that throw an election?
June 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
What’s to stop Trump from sending ICE to run around like this on Election Day in opponent battleground states, specifically cities? And how might that throw an election?
www.nbcnews.com/world/middle.... It’s ironic and dangerous that Katz claims Greta is anti-Semitic. He’s asking the world to understand the complexity of his actions and yet he isn’t giving the same benefit to others. This genocide needs to stop.
Israel vows to stop aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg from reaching Gaza
According to a live tracker on board the vessel, the Madleen was sailing north of the Egyptian coastal city of Rosetta on Sunday morning, roughly 300 miles from Gaza.
www.nbcnews.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
www.nbcnews.com/world/middle.... It’s ironic and dangerous that Katz claims Greta is anti-Semitic. He’s asking the world to understand the complexity of his actions and yet he isn’t giving the same benefit to others. This genocide needs to stop.
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McGovern: My state of Massachusetts funds states like Indiana where the gentlelady is from. We get back less than we give. And so how dare she or anybody else vote to steal our tax money and give it to billionaires?
May 22, 2025 at 6:14 AM
McGovern: My state of Massachusetts funds states like Indiana where the gentlelady is from. We get back less than we give. And so how dare she or anybody else vote to steal our tax money and give it to billionaires?
What’s more likely, someone voting illegally or a criminal impersonating an ICE officer with a mask and kidnapping someone? Anyone got numbers on it?
May 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
What’s more likely, someone voting illegally or a criminal impersonating an ICE officer with a mask and kidnapping someone? Anyone got numbers on it?
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Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.
May 22, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.
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Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
www.npr.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
The way in which powerful interests can scale their propaganda is unparalleled in history. Perhaps we should have some rules around it?
May 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
The way in which powerful interests can scale their propaganda is unparalleled in history. Perhaps we should have some rules around it?
It feels like so much of the news out of the White House is of the category, Good for Trump, Bad for America. Maybe that should be his next slogan.
If he wanted to show that accepting the plane was in the interests of America, he wouldn’t transfer it to his library. He would pass on the benefit.
If he wanted to show that accepting the plane was in the interests of America, he wouldn’t transfer it to his library. He would pass on the benefit.
May 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It feels like so much of the news out of the White House is of the category, Good for Trump, Bad for America. Maybe that should be his next slogan.
If he wanted to show that accepting the plane was in the interests of America, he wouldn’t transfer it to his library. He would pass on the benefit.
If he wanted to show that accepting the plane was in the interests of America, he wouldn’t transfer it to his library. He would pass on the benefit.
Loyalty over merit.
According to Kash Patel’s own financial disclosure statement, he pocketed $25,000 from a production company operated by a filmmaker associated with a Kremlin-subsidized propaganda project, a pro-Putin oligarch, and a pro-Kremlin disinformation agent.
@davidcorn.bsky.social's NEW video explains:
@davidcorn.bsky.social's NEW video explains:
The Curious Case of Kash Patel's $25,000
YouTube video by Mother Jones
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April 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Loyalty over merit.
“there are currently zero personnel available to process FOIA requests received by CDC”. Something smells fishy here.
House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, noting that that the public has a right to access federal records.
House oversight committee demands answers on gutting of CDC public records office
House Rep. Gerry Connolly is pushing CDC leadership to explain why the personnel who handle FOIA requests lost their jobs, noting that that the public has a right to access federal records.
www.npr.org
April 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
“there are currently zero personnel available to process FOIA requests received by CDC”. Something smells fishy here.
One page in the fascist playbook is to put poor folks of the majority race against minorities. The best way to fight back is to unionize all the poor folks, irrespective of race.
Glad @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social is calling that out here.
Glad @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social is calling that out here.
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:37 AM
One page in the fascist playbook is to put poor folks of the majority race against minorities. The best way to fight back is to unionize all the poor folks, irrespective of race.
Glad @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social is calling that out here.
Glad @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social is calling that out here.
“One of the most significant threats that a class hierarchy can face is a universally accessible and excellent public school system” (Jason Stanley).
Getting a good education is a right. Maintaining the class hierarchy level that you were born into isn’t.
Getting a good education is a right. Maintaining the class hierarchy level that you were born into isn’t.
April 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“One of the most significant threats that a class hierarchy can face is a universally accessible and excellent public school system” (Jason Stanley).
Getting a good education is a right. Maintaining the class hierarchy level that you were born into isn’t.
Getting a good education is a right. Maintaining the class hierarchy level that you were born into isn’t.
Loved going through this rich data visualization of Meta migration data www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First
These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.
www.nytimes.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Loved going through this rich data visualization of Meta migration data www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Some regulations need rework but many make just as much sense now as when they were implemented. To remind folks, most regulations were added because a bad actor screwed over people and society didn’t want that to happen again. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u.... Let’s be smart about our approach.
Trump and DOGE Are Planning Deregulation at a Massive Scale
The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more.
www.nytimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Some regulations need rework but many make just as much sense now as when they were implemented. To remind folks, most regulations were added because a bad actor screwed over people and society didn’t want that to happen again. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u.... Let’s be smart about our approach.
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Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.”
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April 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.”
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Trump is refusing to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US despite a Supreme Court ruling ordering him to do so.
This is a constitutional crisis.
How can it not meet the threshold for articles of impeachment?
This is a constitutional crisis.
How can it not meet the threshold for articles of impeachment?
COLLINS: Can President Bukele weigh in on this? Do you plan to return Garcia?
BUKELE: How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous
TRUMP: These are sick people
BUKELE: How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous
TRUMP: These are sick people
April 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Trump is refusing to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US despite a Supreme Court ruling ordering him to do so.
This is a constitutional crisis.
How can it not meet the threshold for articles of impeachment?
This is a constitutional crisis.
How can it not meet the threshold for articles of impeachment?
First it’s Abrego Garcia, next it’s a US citizen from a minority group, then it’s a political challenge, finally it’s you or me. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Trump needs to be impeached and removed as his administration just proved it doesn’t understand its duty.
Trump needs to be impeached and removed as his administration just proved it doesn’t understand its duty.
Trump administration contends it has no duty to return illegally deported man to US
The administration’s position suggests officials do not view the Supreme Court’s order as compelling them to seek Abrego Garcia’s return.
www.politico.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:22 AM
First it’s Abrego Garcia, next it’s a US citizen from a minority group, then it’s a political challenge, finally it’s you or me. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Trump needs to be impeached and removed as his administration just proved it doesn’t understand its duty.
Trump needs to be impeached and removed as his administration just proved it doesn’t understand its duty.
The juxtaposition of hockey stick growth (up and to right) in startup-land (www.feedough.com/hockey-stick...) versus Trumpcoin (down and to the right) coinmarketcap.com/currencies/o... has given me many laughs.
Hockey Stick Growth Explained
Hockey stick growth is the growth pattern where initially there is stagnant growth followed by a hockey stick growth chart.
www.feedough.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
The juxtaposition of hockey stick growth (up and to right) in startup-land (www.feedough.com/hockey-stick...) versus Trumpcoin (down and to the right) coinmarketcap.com/currencies/o... has given me many laughs.
Trump always wanted to destroy education, and he just needed a semblance of an excuse to give him some cover. People see through it though and won't put up with it much longer. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
I just made a donation to my alma mater Cornell to show that I stand with them. Go Big Red.
I just made a donation to my alma mater Cornell to show that I stand with them. Go Big Red.
Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern
The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Trump always wanted to destroy education, and he just needed a semblance of an excuse to give him some cover. People see through it though and won't put up with it much longer. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
I just made a donation to my alma mater Cornell to show that I stand with them. Go Big Red.
I just made a donation to my alma mater Cornell to show that I stand with them. Go Big Red.
I don’t want my tax dollars used to compensate rioters who stormed the capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u.... I suggest trump or Elon pay them with their own money if that want to be that wasteful and corrupt.
Trump Administration Considers Money for Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioters
President Trump said there was “a lot of talk about” creating a compensation fund because they had lost wages and other opportunities because they were prosecuted for storming the Capitol.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I don’t want my tax dollars used to compensate rioters who stormed the capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u.... I suggest trump or Elon pay them with their own money if that want to be that wasteful and corrupt.
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A few things to know about Trump's Trevor Milton pardon:
- he was convicted of crimes related to defrauding investors
- he was represented Pam Bondi's brother
- he started generously donating to Republicans late last year
- Trump seems to know very little about his case www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
- he was convicted of crimes related to defrauding investors
- he was represented Pam Bondi's brother
- he started generously donating to Republicans late last year
- Trump seems to know very little about his case www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Trump offers a problematic defense of his latest controversial pardon
Why did the president pardon a campaign donor who'd been convicted of crimes related to defrauding investors? Trump struggled with the question.
www.msnbc.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
A few things to know about Trump's Trevor Milton pardon:
- he was convicted of crimes related to defrauding investors
- he was represented Pam Bondi's brother
- he started generously donating to Republicans late last year
- Trump seems to know very little about his case www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
- he was convicted of crimes related to defrauding investors
- he was represented Pam Bondi's brother
- he started generously donating to Republicans late last year
- Trump seems to know very little about his case www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
March 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...