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Charlie Thomsen
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Geographer. Happiness, climate change, human rights.
“What appears to be coming at you is really coming from you.”
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jackjenkins.me
Organizers told me that at least 7 faith leaders were among those arrested on Friday.

In a statement posted on X, DHS referred to demonstrators as "imbeciles" who need to "get a job."

One pastor told me "this is our job," adding, "to advocate for the oppressed. religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
At least seven faith leaders arrested at Broadview ICE facility protest
(RNS) — 'I've got bruises all over my body,' the Rev. Michael Woolf, who was thrown to the ground and arrested by police, told RNS.
religionnews.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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cityatlas.bsky.social
The GI Bill (putting returning soldiers in college instead of breadlines), building suburbs, federally financed mortgages, and cars & refrigerators made the US boom. FDR & those around him didn't need to imagine what happens when returning soldiers don't have jobs.
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Bonus Army marchers clash with the police in DC Date July 28, 1932;
November 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
Article ends w/ a quote by me:
Academia is under assault right now by the right. And some institutions, I feel, are bending to that pressure. Inviting individuals from conservative think tanks, like Pielke Jr., is one way that some universities are attempting to demonstrate how balanced they are,” Mann said. “But there can be no balance between science and antiscience, between whether the Earth is round and whether it is flat.”
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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notalegalrecord.net
“I've seen the Punisher decal on the bumper, the stylized American flag denoting the thin blue line: *I'm an outlaw; also, anyone who disobeys the cops deserves to be killed.*”
I've seen this person many times—they occupy a hallowed place in American culture, catered to by so many of the nation's dominant cultural forces, from Monday Night Football to the Country Music Awards to the entirety of AM radio. It's the person who in self-image professes to be a rule-breaker, untamable, wild-and in the next breath sides unquestioningly with every facet of state power. I've seen the Punisher decal on the bumper, the stylized American flag denoting the thin blue line: I'm an outlaw; also, anyone who disobeys the cops deserves to be killed.
November 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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ddayen.bsky.social
A CAP spokesperson tells Dan Boguslaw: "Larry Summers is a non-resident, uncompensated fellow at CAP. We are reviewing this week's disclosures to determine appropriate next steps."
lmao
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ - The American Prospect
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
prospect.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM