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Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · 4h

Trump govt further gutted the CDC last night, while continuing the govt shutdown instead of protecting healthcare for Americans. Areas affected last night include policy, comms, intelligence, infrastructure, global health & more. This is an attack on national security
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 1h

Trump’s demented and demonstrably false descriptions of Portland are the rantings of an authoritarian lunatic. Why would @nbcnews.com merely say that this fascist propaganda “is disputed by local officials.” @nbcnews.com use words that convey what Trump is actually doing and their actual intent.l!

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 2h

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 1h

All of this is of course completely illegal. At some point people who can afford to spend the day in jail on bullshit charges up that will immediately get dismissed before ever reaching a judge need to just gum up the works and fill the jails, leaving fewer ICE folks to torment immigrants.

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 2h

every single dem should be taking notes. this is how you message around trans issues

(of note: i believe he is the only cis candidate for office to have trans people consult on his lgtbq+ policy platform)

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 4h

Trump Admin torn between racism, growing and eating food. wapo.st/48Iuil5

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 4h

If and when this is ever over, the evidence will be overwhelming that Stephen Miller was personally directing a huge range of crimes which Trump may have supported but was only dimly aware of. But Miller has no immunity. He is a racist gangster and should spend many years in prison for this.

CNN @cnn.com · 7h

In the hours after a chaotic confrontation in Chicago last week that culminated with a federal agent shooting a local woman, top White House aide Stephen Miller delivered an urgent order to Department of Defense personnel: Prepare to send in the troops.

Stephen Miller emerges as key architect of Trump’s offensive on Democratic cities | CNN Politics

In the hours after a chaotic confrontation in Chicago last week that culminated with a federal agent shooting a local woman, top White House aide Stephen Miller delivered an urgent order to Department...

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 4h

The one consistent through line among most Maga supporters is their racism, whether directed at Muslims or Latinos, or Palestinians. Everything else is flexible.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 5h

The Trump Admin is really engaged in an epistemological war, a war on knowledge and data that states need to perform basic functions and plan for a democratic society, rather than a personalist dictatorship.

NPR @npr.org · 6h

The federal government has long surveyed high schoolers to help track how their academic choices may have influenced the course of their lives. The Trump administration put an end to that effort.

The government has long researched high school experiences. Then DOGE cut the effort

The federal government has long surveyed high schoolers to help track how their academic choices may have influenced the course of their lives. The Trump administration put an end to that effort.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 6h

A random neighbor the other day was door knocking handing these out to everyone in the area. This day of protest is going to be huge, and Trump and Co. publicly denouncing everyone protesting as terrorists and Soros plants is just going to make it bigger.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 16h

Yes, but more you make the harder it gets.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 1d

These immigrant development economists who won the Nobel Prize in 2019 and are now leaving the US founded the Abdul Latif Poverty Action Lab at MIT to research global poverty elimination strategies. The Trump Admin is a bunch of racist arsonists. www.povertyactionlab.org

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 1d

Biden could have forced Netanyahu to accept a much better deal for everyone on Gaza at a moment when genocide could have been prevented, and he did not, and it is to his, Blinken’s, and many other Democrat’s eternal disgrace that they never viewed Palestinians as worthy of saving from annihilation.

Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social · 1d

This week has confirmed my suspicion that Biden’s Middle East policies will look worse, and will be even more embarrassing for Democrats, with the passage of time.

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Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 2d

New essay in the Atlantic today: How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution by Ned Blackhawk (with many lessons on how we ended up where we are as a nation, and a gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution

The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

www.theatlantic.com

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 2d

The NYT journalists who wrote this - Samuel Granados, Genevieve Glatsky and Annie Correal - devote not a single word to the blatant criminality of the Trump Administration extrajudically murdering people.

Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs

President Trump says striking drug traffickers from Venezuela will prevent deadly drugs from reaching the United States. But the major smuggling routes are elsewhere.

www.nytimes.com

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 2d

There is a debate to be had over whether or not the United States is veering in the direction of authoritarian Eastern European states of the early 1970s-1980s or Central/Latin American death squad regimes of the same era. I think the evidence suggests we are headed towards the latter.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Schiff: "You begin to wonder -- do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can't rule that out."

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 2d

This is, to put it bluntly, batshit crazy. wapo.st/48SLBj5

Hegseth’s sprawling hunt for Charlie Kirk critics spans nearly 300 investigations

The inquiry, resulting in a smattering of disciplinary action so far, follows an extraordinary directive aimed at silencing criticism of the slain activist and Trump supporter.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 2d

It sucks to have to cancel a subscription to your hometown paper, but I did that when they fired @karenattiah.bsky.social.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 2d

So I finally made a website with links/PDFs to much of my writing, media, and other stuff. Hoping soon to upload many of the primary sources from my self-determination book so others can use them as well. www.bradleyrsimpson.com

Bradley R. Simpson

www.bradleyrsimpson.com

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 3d

I used to do this in my US survey, but I would also ask “when is the West?”

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 3d

Academics - finally taking the plans to make an academic website. Which do you use, square space, Weebly, WordPress?

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID.

“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 3d

Frum was helping Israeli officials write speeches “during an Israeli military campaign in the Gaza Strip that killed over 2,200 Palestinians, including over 551 children, and wounded over 11,000.”

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 3d

The police in full view of the assembled cameras. They couldn’t very well beat little children trying to hit them with pillows on camera and so they slunk off, humiliated, and the standoff ended without violence. Nonviolence resistance can be a form of jujutsu - much more than passive resistance.

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