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Joseph Schafer

@joseph-schafer.bsky.social

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Joseph Schafer (1867–1941) was the first academically trained historian in the U.S. state of Oregon. He studied with Frederick Jackson Turner, and chaired the history department at the University of Oregon from 1900 to 1920. He authored A History of the Pacific Northwest in 1905 and revised it in 1918; the book was considered the standard history of the region into the 1950s. .. more

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

This Is Fascism

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 12h

For those wondering, Wisconsin has a losing record, has lost three games in a row, tonight was their most winnable remaining game, and they are down 30-0 and Iowa has the ball

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 14h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Governor Tony Evers @govevers.wisconsin.gov · 15h

Happy #NationalComingOutDay! 🏳️‍🌈

Every person deserves to be their truest, most authentic self, and no matter where you are in your coming out story, here in Wisconsin, you belong, you are loved, and we celebrate you today.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 16h

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 16h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 16h

Portland, last night.

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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 17h

A great weekend to share Jeff Bridges making a perfect joke

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17h

👇👇

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 21h

On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey.

I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

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Don Comer @doncomer.bsky.social · 1d

A religion that requires
the strong-arm
of the state to
ram its views
down the throats
of unwilling people
is a religion that
isn't worth
a damn.

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Capt'n Amy, the Girl with the Sun in her Eyes @captnamy.bsky.social · 1d

She was amazing

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Jim Yale @jimyale-art.bsky.social · 1d

😢🤬 🚫🧊 Abolish ICE

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Capt'n Amy, the Girl with the Sun in her Eyes @captnamy.bsky.social · 1d

This morning we witnessed an ICE action on our block.

This afternoon I saw this woman standing where it happened.

She was still there this evening.

I took her a bottle of water and asked her if she was standing vigil.

She looked at me with pain on her eyes and said "It's all I can do"

A woman wearing a dark green hooded clock stands motionless on a sidewalk holding a candle. A candle burns at her feet.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump’s political agenda in exchange for favorable access to federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4qadGZG

MIT president rejects proposal to adopt Trump priorities for funding benefits

www.pbs.org

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

Ghana’s foreign minister just posted this to X:

“The Ghanaian Government is pleased to note that our refusal to accept Abrego Garcia has been duly acknowledged and complied with by the US Department of Homeland Security.”

Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa &
@S_OkudzetoAblak
X.com
The Ghanaian Government is pleased to note that our refusal to accept Abrego Garcia has been duly acknowledged and complied with by the US
Department of Homeland Security.
We have also followed with satisfaction that DHS has today taken the appropriate steps to inform Garcia's lawyers and amend court submissions to reflect the fact that Ghana cannot be an option for Garcia's deportation.
The Mahama Administration will continue to be transparent and truthful to Ghanaians at all times.
For God and Country E
anana was premature
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LAURA ROMERO
Fri, October 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM PDT|
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Joseph Schafer @joseph-schafer.bsky.social · 1d

Or how public health works. Or higher education. Etc.

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J6 Plaque @thejan6plaque.bsky.social · 1d

They came for Comey
They came for James
They came for Bolton

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

“[T]he factual conditions necessary for President Trump to have properly invoked Section 12406(3) [to send the National Guard to Chicago] simply do not exist.”

T any event, while decisions of the Ninth Circuit are "not binding" on this Court, Hays v.
United States, 397 F.3d 564, 567 (7th Cir. 2005), and the Court frankly does not agree that
"significantly impeded" is the same thing as "unable," the Court would still find that Plaintiffs
are likely to succeed on the merits even were the Ninth Circuit standard applied. As discussed,
there is evidence of protests, some of which have included acts of violence. There is also
evidence of property destruction, and discrete groups who have attempted to impede DHS
agents. At the same time, there is significant evidence that DHS has not been unable to carry out
its mission. All federal facilities have remained open. To the extent there have been disruptions,
they have been of limited duration and swiftly controlled by authorities. Pairing all this with
evidence that federal immigration officials have seen huge increases in arrests and deportations, see Doc. 13 at 34-35; id. at 34 n. 124, the Court concludes that even under the Ninth Circuit standard, the factual conditions necessary for President Trump to have properly invoked Section
12406(3) simply do not exist.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

"The University of Zurich said the married couple, who currently work at MIT, would join its economics faculty …. [They] will be moving … at a time when experts are warning that Trump's cuts to research funding and attacks on … freedoms could lead to a brain drain …."

www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

The entire American economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the economy works

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 1d

There it is: $20 billion for Argentina at the same time they’re taking markets away from our farmers.

But no $ for health insurance for Americans?

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome.

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Kevin St. Alder @kevinstalder.bsky.social · 2d

Statement from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee 👏 🙏

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Joseph Schafer @joseph-schafer.bsky.social · 2d

Well that’s Exhibit 1002 in journalistic malpractice in the 2020’s.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

The prosecutor put in office after the president who wants vengeance against his enemies told his AG that a WH lawyer was the person for the job — despite no prosecution experience — successfully sought an indictment against one of the named enemies, the second such indictment.

And you push this?

Notification Center
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NBC NEWS
Breaking news
Federal grand jury in Virginia charges Letitia James, the New York attorney general who investigated Trump's business practices, with bank fraud

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2d

The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history. It’s the moral foundation of America, Elaine Pagels writes—and it’s worth preserving.

The Moral Foundation of America

The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history. It’s worth preserving.

bit.ly

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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