Shawn Connor
@shawnconnor.bsky.social
Teacher, writer, still hopeful
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June 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Not for nothing but if Biden had done this it would be a 2 week story.
Q: Your intelligence community says they have no evidence that Iran is building a nuke
TRUMP: Then my intelligence community is wrong. Who said that?
Q: You director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard
TRUMP: She's wrong
TRUMP: Then my intelligence community is wrong. Who said that?
Q: You director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard
TRUMP: She's wrong
June 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Not for nothing but if Biden had done this it would be a 2 week story.
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PUTIN WAS KICKED OUT OF G8 in 2014 WHEN HE ANNEXED CRIMEA. TRUDEAU WAS ELECTED IN 2015.
THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
June 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
PUTIN WAS KICKED OUT OF G8 in 2014 WHEN HE ANNEXED CRIMEA. TRUDEAU WAS ELECTED IN 2015.
THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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this is obviously something to take seriously but i am also struck by how the white house’s only move is to double down, no matter how unpopular or politically disastrous it might be
Trump declares war on cities
“We must expand efforts to detain & deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as LA, Chicago, & NY, where Millions of Illegal Aliens reside. These, & other Cities, are core of the Dem Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base”
“We must expand efforts to detain & deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as LA, Chicago, & NY, where Millions of Illegal Aliens reside. These, & other Cities, are core of the Dem Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base”
June 16, 2025 at 1:52 AM
this is obviously something to take seriously but i am also struck by how the white house’s only move is to double down, no matter how unpopular or politically disastrous it might be
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Lots of commentary on this piece already, all of which I agree with.
For historians, research is a fundamental part of writing.
To farm it out to AI changes the nature of this intellectual process in fundamental ways.
And as Stacy Schiff points out, it also takes all the fun out of it.
For historians, research is a fundamental part of writing.
To farm it out to AI changes the nature of this intellectual process in fundamental ways.
And as Stacy Schiff points out, it also takes all the fun out of it.
A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.
www.nytimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Lots of commentary on this piece already, all of which I agree with.
For historians, research is a fundamental part of writing.
To farm it out to AI changes the nature of this intellectual process in fundamental ways.
And as Stacy Schiff points out, it also takes all the fun out of it.
For historians, research is a fundamental part of writing.
To farm it out to AI changes the nature of this intellectual process in fundamental ways.
And as Stacy Schiff points out, it also takes all the fun out of it.
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‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co’s extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co’s extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term
Bitcoin, internet, EVs, private dinners for hire – the list of pay-for-play and quid quo pro goes on, and on … and on
www.theguardian.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co’s extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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RFK Jr. says his new vaccine panel has a GW University professor. The school says he doesn't work there
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/r...
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/r...
RFK Jr. says his new vaccine panel has a GW University professor. The school says he doesn't work there
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said one of his picks for a crucial vaccine advisory panel is a professor at George Washington University. But News4 found the doctor hasn’t w...
www.nbcwashington.com
June 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
RFK Jr. says his new vaccine panel has a GW University professor. The school says he doesn't work there
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/r...
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/r...
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This is — and I cannot stress this enough — a real government website right now.
It is hosted on the Department of Commerce website (the Department of Commerce has no immigration functions whatsoever that I am aware of).
It is hosted on the Department of Commerce website (the Department of Commerce has no immigration functions whatsoever that I am aware of).
![URL trumpcard.gov. Underneath it says “My name is [Blank] from Region [dropdown menu] and I'm interested as [dropdown menu says “an Individual”] for [dropdown menu says “Myself.”] My email is
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June 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
This is — and I cannot stress this enough — a real government website right now.
It is hosted on the Department of Commerce website (the Department of Commerce has no immigration functions whatsoever that I am aware of).
It is hosted on the Department of Commerce website (the Department of Commerce has no immigration functions whatsoever that I am aware of).
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Republican South Carolina state Rep RJ May III was indicted for distribution of child sexual abuse material. He used the username "joebidennn69".
June 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Republican South Carolina state Rep RJ May III was indicted for distribution of child sexual abuse material. He used the username "joebidennn69".
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this is well done and unsettling: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Here are the nearly 2,500 medical research grants canceled or delayed by Trump (Gift Article)
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
this is well done and unsettling: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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I’m sure the Palantir database will only be used against the people MAGA doesn’t like…
June 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I’m sure the Palantir database will only be used against the people MAGA doesn’t like…
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NEW: The National Sheriffs’ Association(!) puts out a statement saying the Trump admin’s publication, with no feedback first, of a list of Sheriff departments alleged to be sanctuary jurisdictions “violated the core principles of trust, cooperation, and partnership with fellow law enforcement.”
June 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
NEW: The National Sheriffs’ Association(!) puts out a statement saying the Trump admin’s publication, with no feedback first, of a list of Sheriff departments alleged to be sanctuary jurisdictions “violated the core principles of trust, cooperation, and partnership with fellow law enforcement.”
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SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...
May 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...
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Profoundly distressing article from @washingtonpost.com's @hannahnatanson.bsky.social and William Wan about the real-life personal impact of an administration that wants to traumatize federal workers:
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working.
Federal workers describe struggling with panic attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts. “Why doesn’t anyone care?”
www.washingtonpost.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Profoundly distressing article from @washingtonpost.com's @hannahnatanson.bsky.social and William Wan about the real-life personal impact of an administration that wants to traumatize federal workers:
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Great idea. We could stage it in a coliseum and make the contestants face off against each other. Then at the end, Trump can give thumb’s up or thumb’s down.
Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship
A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Great idea. We could stage it in a coliseum and make the contestants face off against each other. Then at the end, Trump can give thumb’s up or thumb’s down.
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Just a few days after Columbia announces the Pulitzers, the university goes and suspends its own student journalists.
Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library.
Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams.
Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams.
Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
Barnard suspends WKCR and Spectator reporters who covered Butler Library protest
Barnard and Columbia issued interim suspensions Thursday afternoon to four student journalists who covered a Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest in Butler Library, citing “information received” from Pub...
www.columbiaspectator.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Just a few days after Columbia announces the Pulitzers, the university goes and suspends its own student journalists.
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New from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach www.404media.co/the-signal-c...
The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked
TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.
www.404media.co
May 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
New from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach www.404media.co/the-signal-c...
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Love to have a government that monitors every college student op-ed, social media post, and tattoo for potential deportation but does absolutely nothing about a blatantly illegal pollution factory.
NEW from me: Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is operating 35 gas turbines without any pollution permits, belching asthma-worsening emissions into an area that leads Tennessee in ER visits for asthma.
www.eenews.net/articles/elo...
www.eenews.net/articles/elo...
Elon Musk’s xAI in Memphis: 35 gas turbines, no air pollution permits
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
www.eenews.net
May 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Love to have a government that monitors every college student op-ed, social media post, and tattoo for potential deportation but does absolutely nothing about a blatantly illegal pollution factory.
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just embarrassing and soulless organizations run by utterly feckless invertebrates
CBS Folds Like A Moist, Flushable Towelette In Response To Baseless Trump Threats
When last we checked in with CBS, the company was preparing to fold under pressure from the Trump administration, amidst bogus accusations that 60 Minutes had unfairly made Donald Trump look bad. A…
www.techdirt.com
May 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
just embarrassing and soulless organizations run by utterly feckless invertebrates
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An astonishing 80 percent of the Louisiana's death sentences between 1976 and 2015 were later reversed.
On Thursday, a judge vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who has been on the state's death row for decades. boltsmag.org/chris-d...
On Thursday, a judge vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who has been on the state's death row for decades. boltsmag.org/chris-d...
He’s Been On Louisiana’s Death Row for Decades. A Judge Just Vacated His Conviction.
Chris Duncan’s longtime claims of innocence were boosted by the discrediting of bite mark analysis, and by recent reforms now under threat from the state’s Republican leadership.
boltsmag.org
May 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
An astonishing 80 percent of the Louisiana's death sentences between 1976 and 2015 were later reversed.
On Thursday, a judge vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who has been on the state's death row for decades. boltsmag.org/chris-d...
On Thursday, a judge vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who has been on the state's death row for decades. boltsmag.org/chris-d...
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I know, I know, everything he says is nonsense, but claiming that the NY Times may have committed "tortious interference" for accurately quoting legal experts saying Trump's legal claims against CBS are baseless is... so beyond stupid.
April 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I know, I know, everything he says is nonsense, but claiming that the NY Times may have committed "tortious interference" for accurately quoting legal experts saying Trump's legal claims against CBS are baseless is... so beyond stupid.
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RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
www.wired.com
April 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
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Donald J. Trump having the same impact on trade as a literal plague fits nicely with my perception of him as a disaster of biblical scale. Like the wicked Old Testament kings God punished the Israelites with, he's a manifestation of American avarice and selfishness.
April 28, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Donald J. Trump having the same impact on trade as a literal plague fits nicely with my perception of him as a disaster of biblical scale. Like the wicked Old Testament kings God punished the Israelites with, he's a manifestation of American avarice and selfishness.
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Trump has set up a new club where CEOs, tech bros, and foreign oligarchs can pay $500,000 to join in order to get access to the Trump Cabinet who will all be there regularly.
Just because the grift is all public doesn’t mean this isn’t the most corrupt White House in history.
Just because the grift is all public doesn’t mean this isn’t the most corrupt White House in history.
April 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Trump has set up a new club where CEOs, tech bros, and foreign oligarchs can pay $500,000 to join in order to get access to the Trump Cabinet who will all be there regularly.
Just because the grift is all public doesn’t mean this isn’t the most corrupt White House in history.
Just because the grift is all public doesn’t mean this isn’t the most corrupt White House in history.