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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

Mary Retta on the Trump admin's attacks on higher ed and diversity itself, from the "compact" to their hostility enabling colleges to seemingly stonewall their unions and dispose of roles @teenvogue.com

"I think the numbers of Black and certain other minoritized students and faculty will decrease.”

How The Trump Admin's Attack on Higher Education and DEI Are Impacting Campuses

Several colleges throughout the United States have eliminated funding, offices, and even staff associated with "DEI" — inspired in part by the Trump administration’s bluster.

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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 2d

Greg Bovino is the face of Trump's anti-immigration crackdown in blue cities, staging military-style raids to conduct civil immigration arrests.

“The level of violence has changed since he was put in charge,” Chicago alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez tells TPM.

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Greg Bovino Emerges as Trump’s Man For Conjuring Up a Blue-City Insurrection

Elected officials, activists, and at least one former high-ranking Department of Homeland...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

Bovino, a nice anglo saxon name. Definitely came over on the mayflower. bsky.app/profile/talk...

TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 2d

In Los Angeles and now Chicago, the White House's aggressive deportation operations have one hype man: Greg Bovino.
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Greg Bovino Emerges as Trump’s Man For Conjuring Up a Blue-City Insurrection

Elected officials, activists, and at least one former high-ranking Department of Homeland...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

Really good piece on someone everyone should be tracking, Greg Bovino.

"Bovino combines Bull Connor’s aggression with Don King’s showmanship:"

TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 2d

In Los Angeles and now Chicago, the White House's aggressive deportation operations have one hype man: Greg Bovino.
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Greg Bovino Emerges as Trump’s Man For Conjuring Up a Blue-City Insurrection

Elected officials, activists, and at least one former high-ranking Department of Homeland...

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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 2d

🥳 TPM is turning 25 🥳

We're having a 2-day celebration in NYC on 11/6 + 11/7. There'll be an oral history of TPM + the past 25 years of digital media! There'll be a live podcast recording!

We'll have tasty food + an open bar! We'll have surprises!

Buy tix here
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TPM's 25th Anniversary Event

A two-day celebration of TPM taking place Nov. 6th and 7th.

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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 2d

@davidkurtz.bsky.social: "The absurdism is an inextricable part of the corruption, retribution, and destruction. As historically significant as the ruination of the Justice Department is ... it's important to remember it's been gutted by clowns and imbeciles." talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Bondi’s Wedding Ring Made Trump Bleed … And Other DOJ Absurdities

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d

"A practice that would have been unthinkable under past administrations is becoming normalized: sending ICE detainees, without due process, to far-flung prisons in countries with notorious human rights records."

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ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump administration is trying to throw the book at anti-ICE protesters for minor infractions.

Their efforts have been rebuffed by grand juries in Illinois, Washington D.C. and California, who refused to indict the protesters.

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Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 2d

Here’s an incomplete list of federal data and statistics that’ve been deleted or tampered with since Trump took office.

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed

The scale and scope of federal data and statistics that have been...

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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 2d

Lindsey Burke, ex-Heritage Foundation policy director + lead author of Project 2025's education section, is now a top Education Dept advisor.

She wants to see a dramatic decline in public school enrollment: “We’re going to have a lot of empty school buildings.”
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Top Trump Education Officials Are Dismantling Public Schools: ‘We’re Going to Have a Lot of Empty School Buildings’

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big...

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 3d

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

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Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 3d

The political right's greatest project is discrediting experts. Only in a "do your own research" world can their cultural preferences - anti-abortion, anti-gender affirming care - claim equal legitimacy to the left's medically-backed positions on those issues. SCOTUS is a full partner in that effort

TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 3d

The Supreme Court's conservatives advanced the right's greater project of discrediting experts Tuesday, feigning that there is no medical consensus against conversion therapy.

The Medical Science Is Always ‘Uncertain’ When It Pushes Against Supreme Court’s Bias

If you came into Tuesday’s oral argument over Colorado’s conversion therapy ban...

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patrick @redford.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 4d

Funders or groups that promote 'anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity' could be treated as domestic terrorists, under recent directives from the Trump administration.

The Trump Admin’s Mostly Unnoticed Move to Crack Down on the Opposition

Last month, the White House issued two executive orders that direct federal...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9d

DHS used to have a program to stop politically motivated violence. Under Kristi Noem, this program was stopped and replaced with the incitement of political violence. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-had...

DHS Had a Program to Stop Political Violence. Trump Largely Abandoned It.

In July, Franklin School District Superintendent Dan LeGallo got a surprise letter...

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 7d

-“Some events? And that’s enough to call up the National Guard?”
-“Really? A social media post is going to count as a presidential determination that you can send the National Guard into cities?"

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‘That’s Enough To Call Up The National Guard?’ Trump-Appointed Judge Skeptical Of Portland Occupation

U.S District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, was brimming with skepticism...

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 7d

Having some degree of plausible deniability is one reason memes and cartoon imagery have gained traction in white supremacist circles. And now, some of those same memes and images are popular on the Trump administration’s social media. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-inc...

DHS Includes ‘White Supremacist’ Meme in Video Promoting Deportation Blitz

A video posted on X by the Department of Homeland Security included...

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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 9d

The shutdown is making Republicans' punitive approach to governance clear, @davidkurtz.bsky.social, writes.

"When in power, conservatives don't run the government, they occupy it like an invading force."

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 9d

New Washington Post poll on who voters blame for the government shutdown:

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 9d

Rep. Jared Golden of Maine, the only House Democrat that voted for the GOP's continuing resolution, blames the shutdown on "far-left groups." talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/sh...

Government Shutdown, Day One

Follow along with our coverage here:

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Zoe Tillman @zoetillman.bsky.social · 10d

The US Supreme Court refused to let Trump immediately oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook while she sues to keep her job, dealing a setback to his efforts to exert more control over the central bank. The justices deferred taking action, saying they'll hear arguments in January.
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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 10d

"We are actually having mock conversations with students because they're not used to having a conversation. They're used to [texting]," one teacher said.

"I like to be around people. Being on a phone, I feel like it really just takes you away," a student said.

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New York schools' 1st week with a cellphone ban is in the books. Here's how students, staff and parents are feeling.

Schools across New York state were required to come up with their own procedures to implement the full-day ban on cellphones.

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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 10d

The Trump admin has cut more than $15 million in targeted violence prevention grants nationally since taking office, per @joshkovensky.bsky.social. Some addressed domestic terrorism & targeted political violence that the US has seen multiple times this year.

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DHS Had a Program to Stop Political Violence. Trump Largely Abandoned It.

In July, Franklin School District Superintendent Dan LeGallo got a surprise letter...

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