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Travis W. Jacobson

@halingogringo.bsky.social

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Cultural Anthropologist & Professional Tutor exploring the intersection of Language, Learning, & Politics. #langsky #politics Instructional Assistant—Math Lab, Sacramento City College (HaLingoGringo is unaffiliated) https://linktr.ee/HaLingoGringo

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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · Aug 24

The message we must convey is simple: We are not intimidated. We will not stand for this. We maintain our power, the power of The People.

This is how we resist. We dance in the face of tyranny.

We wash ourselves of defeatism & inspire our community to recognize its power, its worth, & its future.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 23

😆 🔥 some beautiful, creative resistance

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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 13h

Sometimes it’s very apparent that, collectively, the COVID has taught us nothing.

Yall nasty. 🤢

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 1d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 20h

I still tend to memorize numbers because cellphones don’t have infinite batteries and we know for certain that they are easily breakable.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 21h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 20h

And yall will still call us accelerationists and doomers for quoting exactly what they’ve been saying since June 2024.

There will be elections in 2026, don’t get me wrong.

It’s just that if not enough people show up to vote in ‘26, there will be no free or fair 2028 election.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

Don't forget that your homeless neighbors, the people living in the streets & out of their cars around you that you see every day, are part of your real world community.

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 1d

The bar is about to go from “my distant white relatives enabled slavery but I would never” to…..”I sat back and watched Latinos get kidnapped and put into slavery despite having the power to stop it”.

I’m taking to all of you.

All white people.

I know those of you that follow me have been

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Sybil Schwartzbach, LMT @greathands4you.bsky.social · 1d

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Smithsonian Museums And National Zoo Close Down As Government Shutdown Approaches Second Week

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 3d

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Non-violent resistance don’t mean peaceful.

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CITIZENS HAD ENOUGH! #deportation #immigration #usimmigration #NoBanNoWall #migrants #ICE #USA

YouTube video by PIANO CUMBIAMBERO TUTORIALES

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 3d

Release the Epstein Files.

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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 3d

ICE having disarms was always a sentence for catastrophe.

Now two people shot & killed and at least one dog.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 3d

Speaker Johnson just declared the House will remain in recess all next week. This will mark a full month off; the chamber has not been in session since September 19.

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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 3d

I’m just throwing it out there, but seminars are almost always a waste of time.

Classes conducted as seminars in which conversation takes place, but no application or debate are needlessly useless & disingenuous to student time & effort.

(Ik OP isn’t talking about class sessions)

Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social · 4d

This is feedback you rarely get following, say, seminars which for all the complaints in economics are often more superficial than a deep reading of a paper. Although you do often get from a good conference discussion.

Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 3d

Are they gonna say that @duckworth.senate.gov body slammed ICE agents like they did with LaMonica McIver?

I’d love to see them try that one with Tammy!

Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 3d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 3d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 3d

And many of those people are very probably Americans

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

I genuinely think that many people don't fully understand the situation in the USA.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 3d

The normalization of “public expression” causing arrest on a college campus is really something. People are blaming the Trump administration but this is the central building block of the fascist turn and it precedes Trump — the work of institutions maligned as bastions of woke. If only.

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 3d

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

An easel sign reads, “UCLA
ATTENTION
No events are permitted in this area today. Per Policy 852, this location is NOT designated for public expression activities.
Individuals participating in an event or a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest.
Scan for policy information.”

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

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LillianDCA @lillianorlando.bsky.social · 3d

Trump urged federal prosecutors to investigate billionaire philanthropist George Soros for supposedly funding “terrorism,” citing a report from a conservative watchdog group. But now that same watchdog group says that’s not what their report found.

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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 3d

Not the couch 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

Edgy Schumer.

Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 3d

That “Purple Revolution” shit is whack af.

MAGA voters need to put in the footwork and the hard work to save the democracy they directly destroyed.

If we don’t make this request of them, then it becomes a temporary slap on the wrist until they are comfortable enough to start cutting up again.

a woman in a black and white jacket is sitting at a table in a diner .

ALT: a woman in a black and white jacket is sitting at a table in a diner .

media.tenor.com

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Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 4d

Mediocrity has always been White America’s greatest enemy.

Never been a fan of Taylor Swift.

Travis W. Jacobson @halingogringo.bsky.social · 4d

It’s gonna be hard to investigate 10s of millions in the groups/partaking in group activities. 🤷‍♀️

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4d

There is nothing an authoritarian fears more than peaceful, organized people power. That’s why the White House is now turning its sights on us. 🧵

www.reuters.com

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 4d

“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution”

THAT PART!

Thank you, Judge Perry.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

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