Wake Harper
@wbharper.bsky.social
From Aotearoa, living in Utah (Sihivigoi). Minor academic bureaucrat. Classical music, cricket, books.
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RT if you would sooner dig your brain out with a fork than open a ChatGPT tab.
RT if you have zero interest in knowing how to open a ChatGPT tab 🙄
RT if you don't even know how the hell to open a ChatGPT tab
January 22, 2026 at 9:47 AM
RT if you would sooner dig your brain out with a fork than open a ChatGPT tab.
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Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
January 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
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“The Star Tribune could find only petty misdemeanor convictions like speeding tickets or DWI for roughly a dozen people on the list. Others have criminal histories that are decades old and have completed their sentences.” www.startribune.com/the-trump-ad...
The Trump administration calls them the ‘worst of the worst.’ Here’s what we found.
The federal government has identified only a fraction of the immigrants it has detained. Many have violent criminal records, but few were wanted by police.
www.startribune.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:21 PM
“The Star Tribune could find only petty misdemeanor convictions like speeding tickets or DWI for roughly a dozen people on the list. Others have criminal histories that are decades old and have completed their sentences.” www.startribune.com/the-trump-ad...
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Why is crime falling? We asked the worst and dumbest people in America to explain it
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
January 22, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Why is crime falling? We asked the worst and dumbest people in America to explain it
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
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Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.
January 21, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.
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It is fully irresponsible to argue for an American return to global leadership. This country is deeply unwell and has no business leading anything until that's no longer the case. There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We must tend to ours.
September 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It is fully irresponsible to argue for an American return to global leadership. This country is deeply unwell and has no business leading anything until that's no longer the case. There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We must tend to ours.
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The Democratic Party is not fit for purpose.
January 16, 2026 at 9:14 PM
The Democratic Party is not fit for purpose.
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One positive thing is not having to hear Charlie Kirk's opinion on any of this
January 15, 2026 at 5:05 PM
One positive thing is not having to hear Charlie Kirk's opinion on any of this
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And there it is.
January 15, 2026 at 3:41 PM
And there it is.
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Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
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150 Miles from Minneapolis, Some Nasty Bigots in a Bar Who'll Voice the Opinions We Wanted to Publish
January 15, 2026 at 3:25 PM
150 Miles from Minneapolis, Some Nasty Bigots in a Bar Who'll Voice the Opinions We Wanted to Publish
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I wrote about The Tantrum State and living in it. Personally I do not care for it very much. defector.com/fascists-are...
Fascists Are Pathetic | Defector
Two days before a shouting cluster of its agents surrounded the car of a Minneapolis mother and shot her to death last week, ICE was demanding answers from the Hilton hotel group on X.com. “Why did yo...
defector.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:33 PM
I wrote about The Tantrum State and living in it. Personally I do not care for it very much. defector.com/fascists-are...
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Democrats need to get more comfortable using terms like: paramilitary, state terror, secret police, occupation, and ethnic cleansing.
Then the hard part is that they actually need to take action commensurate with those threats.
Then the hard part is that they actually need to take action commensurate with those threats.
January 14, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Democrats need to get more comfortable using terms like: paramilitary, state terror, secret police, occupation, and ethnic cleansing.
Then the hard part is that they actually need to take action commensurate with those threats.
Then the hard part is that they actually need to take action commensurate with those threats.
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Oh look -- the "America First" party is tanking the global rankings of American universities because, actually, they hate America.
This is *exactly* what many of us predicted. And it'll hurt Americans overall, both short and long term.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
This is *exactly* what many of us predicted. And it'll hurt Americans overall, both short and long term.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Oh look -- the "America First" party is tanking the global rankings of American universities because, actually, they hate America.
This is *exactly* what many of us predicted. And it'll hurt Americans overall, both short and long term.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
This is *exactly* what many of us predicted. And it'll hurt Americans overall, both short and long term.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
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what sohrab ahmari wants most of all is a boot in his face
Sohrab Ahmari thinks that the officer was in danger and had a right to kill Renee Good.
He’s as bad as any MAGA.
He’s as bad as any MAGA.
January 9, 2026 at 8:14 PM
what sohrab ahmari wants most of all is a boot in his face
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January 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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These students are being brutally harassed by their government and still showing more bravery and integrity than most college presidents.
By Lila Dominguez, Editor in Chief of the Roosevelt Standard, news site of Roosevelt High School: "Later in the afternoon today my high school Roosevelt was paraded by ICE vehicles during dismissal. Our community and staff stepped up to protect one another."
ICE Needs To Get Out Of Minneapolis
On Wednesday January 7th at 3:20 pm I was working in the wrestling basement of Roosevelt Highschool to publish an article about the tragic event that occurred earlier today in South Minneapolis when a...
rooseveltstandard.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:54 PM
These students are being brutally harassed by their government and still showing more bravery and integrity than most college presidents.
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really wish the “opposition” party had not spent years upon years trying to outdo the GOP in lavishing money arms and deference on state security forces
January 7, 2026 at 8:49 PM
really wish the “opposition” party had not spent years upon years trying to outdo the GOP in lavishing money arms and deference on state security forces
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i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing
Donald Trump’s racist attack on Somali Americans
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing
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"This tragedy, this crime, is only to be expected from an administration that has always believed itself entitled to not just govern, but to rule over a free people."
From @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/murder-in-mi...
From @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/murder-in-mi...
Murder in Minneapolis
What this violent crime perpetrated by agents of the state means for the next three years.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:15 PM
"This tragedy, this crime, is only to be expected from an administration that has always believed itself entitled to not just govern, but to rule over a free people."
From @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/murder-in-mi...
From @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/murder-in-mi...
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masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.
This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.
January 7, 2026 at 7:36 PM
masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.
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"in a fight for our lives, I want leaders who instinctively hate those trying to kill us"
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
We Need to Get Off the Defensive About Immigration
Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:13 PM
"in a fight for our lives, I want leaders who instinctively hate those trying to kill us"
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
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Read the whole thing. It's good, I promise.
January 7, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Read the whole thing. It's good, I promise.
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keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense
After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields
After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area
Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.
capitalbnews.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:02 PM
keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense
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As Edward Said noted, “Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort.”
The Violence Prerogative
All oppressive, criminal, and genocidal governments cloak their atrocities in the language of virtue.
www.bostonreview.net
January 5, 2026 at 7:52 PM
As Edward Said noted, “Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort.”