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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 16h

And Russell Vought.

Not sure if what they are doing is a specific
Violation of law, since they have acted with congressional blessing, but surely they have trampled upon the constitution.

Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 18h

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.

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Reposted by Michael Oberg

Ally Boo-art 👻 @allystewart.bsky.social · 17h

I ask my students not to use AI because it means they are not fully engaging with their own learning. If they do, it’s a betrayal of my trust.

I don’t want to use AI to grade student work because it means that I am not fully engaging with their learning. If I do, it’s a betrayal of their trust

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 1d

Henry Kissinger won a Nobel Peace Prize for watching the end of a war that he helped start.

Awful people have won the award before and they will again. That the current peace prize winner has urged Trump to come in and unpeacefully overthrow her government seems unsurprising.

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 1d

When I used to teach Dante, I had an exercise where I had the students place various public figures, past and present, in the appropriate level of Hell. Dante, after all, made reference to contemporary and recently notorious figures

That exercise would be so cathartic right now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 1d

The only appropriate response to these fascist losers is “Fuck Off.”

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

MIT has rejected Fat Satan’s blackmail, making it the first university not to bend the knee.

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 2d

In Montana Election Day was a state holiday. It’s a great idea.

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 2d

I was a college student for 11 years and I’ve taught on college campus for 31 years. In those 42 years on campuses, only 4!were spent at a private school. The rest have been at underfunded public institutions.

Friends, please don’t think of Harvard as representative of higher ed in the US. I don’t.

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 2d

I think that 41% NOT being appalled by BrainWorm’s policies is pretty alarming.

NPR @npr.org · 2d

A new poll shows trust in federal health policies is plummeting, and what -- or who -- people believe increasingly depends on their politics. n.pr/3KF1CiO

59% of Americans disapprove of RFK Jr.'s moves as health secretary, a new poll says

A new poll shows trust in federal health policies is plummeting, and what -- or who -- people believe increasingly depends on their politics.

n.pr

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 2d

was quoted in this piece which appeared in NEWSWEEK, which I did not know still existed before their reporter reached out to have me comment on Columbus Day, a stupid holiday that celebrates an enslaver who never set foot in North America.

www.newsweek.com/maps-differe...

www.newsweek.com

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 3d

If POTUS views congressional appropriations as non-binding & acts as if he can do what he wants with the money, there is no reason for Democrats to agree to anything. They would be merely contributing to Trump tyranny.Fuck the GOP. They broke this. Have them let us know when they’ve fixed it.

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 3d

Thomas Paine had a girlfriend? And she’s still alive?

Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 3d

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 3d

I would love for the Times to focus on my small, underfunded public college in the Genesee Valley.

We do good work for NYers and it’s as if we don’t exist.

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 3d

Stephen Miller explaining how he is determined to acquire the ring from those “Bagginses.”

Kobold explains to woman that he is so hardcore he can totally take that dungeon party consisting of a cleric, a thief, a fighting man, and a magician.

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 3d

One week from today. Please join us at the Fairport Brewing Company location on University Avenue for some great history (and beer). All are welcome. Come
Support the Rochester Historical Society

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 5d

There will need to be hearings and criminal trials.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 5d

If and when America finds a way out of authoritarianism, not only will ICE have to be abolished: All these people will need to be held accountable in a court of law for the monstrosities they are committing - those who are ordering them as well as those who are carrying them out.

Every single one.

CNN @cnn.com · 8d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 5d

Peace.

A good family friend was a victim of this sort of evil business.

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 5d

I posted this piece a couple of weeks back. I am reposting because today SCOTUS announced that it would not intervene in Apache Stronghold’s legal fight to protect sacred Oak Flat.

This is a sad day for Indigenous justice and the health of the planet.

michaelleroyoberg.com/current-even...

The World Is God

I regularly teach a course called Indigenous Law and Public Policy, but I have little faith in the American legal system. Even when the law clearly recognizes an Indigenous right, the United States…

michaelleroyoberg.com

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 6d

Angry Josh Allen is due to appear soon

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 6d

Muted the TV after halftime.

No Collinsworth.

Bills TD.

Science.

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 6d

The Butt Fumble guy.

ProFootballTalk @profootballtalk.bsky.social · 6d

Mark Sanchez has been released from an Indianapolis hospital after an early Saturday stabbing. He was taken straight to jail to be booked on multiple charges.
www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...

Mark Sanchez is released from hospital, taken to jail

Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez was released from an Indianapolis hospital on Sunday.

www.nbcsports.com

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 7d

You might think this is a case of GI Joke drunk texting again, but the reality is that they are just a bunch of stupid fascists.

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 8d

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show

A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 7d

Narrator: “The law is quite clear.”

C’mon, NYT. If your reporter is lazy that’s fine, I suppose. If I KNOW from reading the story that your reporter is lazy, then we have a problem.

Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 8d

It is not clear that Mr. Trump’s image can be featured on a coin. An 1866 law enshrined a tradition that only deceased people could appear on U.S. currency to avoid the appearance that America was a monarchy. Trump admin is planning to do it anyway.
By Alan Rappeport

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin

www.nytimes.com

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 7d

Students in my Native American survey? Only 5 of 33 said they had read it an an earlier period in their education from top to bottom. Most had been given excerpts to read, but nothing more.

I’m NOT blaming students, but the educational system has effed things up entirely.

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 7d

It’s pretty clear that creating an educational system in NY in which students can go from pre-k through College without reading the Constitution in its entirety is a stupid system that helps explain the lack of outrage at what the Trumpzis are doing. Constitutional illiteracy is killing epidemic.

a cartoon character holding a scroll of the u.s. constitution says hello i 'm the u.s. constitution

ALT: a cartoon character holding a scroll of the u.s. constitution says hello i 'm the u.s. constitution

media.tenor.com

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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 9d

Nice work if you can get it?

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