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Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 8h

Exactly what someone who probably thinks Obama wasn’t president during hurricane katrina would say!

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 8h

You’re telling me the people who were convinced the sitting US VP choreographed the Olympics opening ceremony and determined the women’s boxing medalists also think the Democratic Party picks the Super Bowl halftime show?

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 14h

Saturday well spent with a 3-1 win and man of the match performance

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 1d

Universities need to combat liberal bias by making sure AT LEAST 50% of faculty agree that circumcision causes autism

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 1d

All level in the apartheid memorial derby

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 2d

Amphibious assault

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 2d

Obviously not the point, but pretty ironic that now anti fascists are fleeing to Spain… once the sanctuary of fascists

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

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Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 2d

Simultaneously telling of the times and shameful for a university administration to have 7 wannabe rental cops follow and intimidate a student march supporting NTT faculty.

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 3d

Doing politics the right way is when the far-right regime in power memorializes a fallen influencer by terrorizing an academic that the influencer's McCarthyist organization once baselessly singled out for abuse.

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Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 3d

Noted Weimar antifa operative

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 3d

I think that to combat liberal bias in higher education and fancy faculty lounge talk, AT LEAST 50% of law faculty should not know what habeas corpus is

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 3d

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 4d

I again reiterate my call to have Ian Smith and Vidkun Quisling play a harpsichord duet at halftime

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 4d

Certainties in life:
1. Death
2. Taxes
3. Republicans crying about the Super Bowl halftime show

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Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 4d

Tired: Battle of the Bands

Wired: Riff War

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 4d

Democrats talk funny! This is government by professor!

Actual government by professors: Estado Novo

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 4d

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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Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 4d

Undercover

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 4d

The final realization of “generic democrat” from pollsters

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 4d

Opinion | All the real-life potential 2028 Democratic nominees are weak. They should run an AI candidate instead.

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 4d

I get the urge to dunk on this, but mediocre plagiarism in photo filters are just indispensable to society

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 5d

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)

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Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 5d

I understand the urge to quote Anne Frank, but we need to ask if Anne Frank was too woke

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 5d

Onto week two of the university president’s office, which is in a class building being guarded by armed guards in suits?

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 5d

A couple I play soccer with - of hispanic lineage but born US citizens with parents born US citizens - was driving to one of their parents, were spotted by people in masks in an unmarked SUV (presumably ICE?) who then followed them to the parents and then sat outside the parents house for hours

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Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 6d

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