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Anna Colo @annacolorado.bsky.social · Nov 12
“Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.”
~ Desmond Tutu
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Anna Colo @annacolorado.bsky.social · 10h
Colorado needs to do some thinking before our next senate elections. I’m very disappointed.
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Anna Colo @annacolorado.bsky.social · 10h
What the ——??? There is a drunken abuser running the pentagon sending troops to terrorize US cities! Shut it down until we get someone sane and ethical in there!
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d
It's so important to nip the framing of this reporting in the bud right now.

Don't accept the narrative that Trump and his team only just started discussing invoking the Insurrection Act. January 6 happened because his White House was in conversation with radicals about what it'd take to invoke it.
Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say
A decision isn't expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.
www.nbcnews.com
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Anna Colo @annacolorado.bsky.social · 1d
They think universities and academics are biased for similar reasons.
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.bsky.social · 2d
Cruelty was the point and the paycheck. 💰
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Anna Colo @annacolorado.bsky.social · 1d
So he’s being blackmailed too, now?
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Anna Colo @annacolorado.bsky.social · 1d
🙄 So he pardoned his scary boogyman enemy, the Antifa guys? And weren’t the maga fans singing special faux national anthems to them during his rallies? How do people make all of these plot lines work in their heads?
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Anna Colo @annacolorado.bsky.social · 2d
Seems like that’s what the GOP hired them to do. Wish I had any faith in the SC majority, but I have none left.
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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 2d
Nice to see Sen. Gallego and Kelly going to bat for Adelita Grijalva, as they and everyone else should be.
Speaker Johnson is stalling her swearing-in because her vote would help finally reveal the Epstein files.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d
NEW: A brief explainer for what the 9th Circuit just did with regard to the deployment of the National Guard to Portland. www.muellershewrote.com/p/live-with-...
The 9th Circuit Just Stayed the TRO Blocking National Guard to Portland, BUT the Guard Still Can't be deployed.
A recording from Allison Gill's live video
www.muellershewrote.com
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 2d
amazing fact check from yesterday's senate oversight hearing
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2d
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.
prospect.org
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Anna Colo @annacolorado.bsky.social · 2d
Public schools are required to use their budgets to prioritize private & charter school students???
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 2d
Columbus City Schools may have to stop bussing high school students entirely because Ohio law requires public school districts to prioritize bussing for charter and private school students - and the state is already fining Columbus more than $10 million/year for not complying enough
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Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 3d
Columbus City Schools Board of Education has voted to remove a requirement that the district provide busing for high schoolers as a potential cost-saving move amid district financial challenges.
www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...
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Philip Montoro @pmontoro.bsky.social · 4d
This year the Hyde Park Jazz Festival lost its NEA grant to the Trump regime's rampage of destruction. In response, the fest's supporters broke its donation record. These 64 wonderful photos capture its diverse community of performers, staff, volunteers, and fans. chicagoreader.com/music/music-...
The Hyde Park Jazz Festival defies federal defunding to shine brighter than ever - Chicago Reader
Photos from the Hyde Park Jazz Festival's 19th year overflow with joy and community that give the lie to Trump’s ugly vision of the world.
chicagoreader.com
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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 7d
There have been helicopters hovering over Hyde Park for days now.
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Anna Colo @annacolorado.bsky.social · 2d
Who took the photo?
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 2d
Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina Adam Scharpf and Christian Gläßel Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.
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Anna Colo @annacolorado.bsky.social · 2d
Personal liberty of who? Does he include women, girls, professors, journalists, people who criticize maga, trans people, company leaders who value diversity, people who look Latino during ice raids. People who speak more than one language, peaceful protesters, anyone in a US city? Liberty for them?
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Anna Colo @annacolorado.bsky.social · 2d
That’s the quote that stood out to me, too.
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Anna Colo @annacolorado.bsky.social · 2d
Oh hell no.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
COHEN: “Federal workers earned that pay, and the law makes it clear they’re entitled to it.”

US Rep. Steve Cohen rips into Trump for threatening to withhold back pay from federal employees who are working through the #republicanshutdown
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Anna Colo @annacolorado.bsky.social · 2d
Neat. He cut funding and now we are sending this clown $20 BILLION of our US tax dollars because he’s an utter failure. Are you aware of this? And musk didn’t event save us any money. We paid him and he cost us money to spread disease and famine. I can’t believe this is real life. 😞
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Anna Colo @annacolorado.bsky.social · 2d
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Anna Colo @annacolorado.bsky.social · 2d
This deadly policy was inspired by Milei and his chainsaw, carried about by Musk, the world’s richest man. Pure evil.
Opinion | Trump’s Most Lethal Policy
www.nytimes.com
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