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Cornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social · 8h

Nature’s largest & coldest vacuum is not outer space, but the space between the ears of any human whose brain justifies the moral emptiness of the heart. Children are being zip-tied like serial killers, political enemies are on gov. “hit lists,” & the Constitution is morally & legally optional.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

WELKER: Is the DOJ acting on orders from the president to prosecute his political opponents?

JD VANCE: No ... You know who we haven't prosecuted? Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton ... he's allowed to have opinions about law enforcement

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Cornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social · 8h

Nature’s largest & coldest vacuum is not outer space, but the space between the ears of any human whose brain justifies the moral emptiness of the heart. Children are being zip-tied like serial killers, political enemies are on gov. “hit lists,” & the Constitution is morally & legally optional.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

WELKER: Is the DOJ acting on orders from the president to prosecute his political opponents?

JD VANCE: No ... You know who we haven't prosecuted? Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton ... he's allowed to have opinions about law enforcement

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Cornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social · 8h

If you can’t stand “big government” under liberals, how will you live with big government under autocracy?

If you can’t live without the 2nd Amendment and a house full of guns, how are you going to survive in a house with the National Guard & no Constitution?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Cornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social · 8h

If you can’t stand “big government” under liberals, how will you live with big government under autocracy?

If you can’t live without the 2nd Amendment and a house full of guns, how are you going to survive in a house with the National Guard & no Constitution?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Cornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING

Your government insults your intelligence & says you passed their IQ test. The SAME administration that fired an economist for reporting statistics on the economy is asking you to NOT BELIEVE lower statistics on crime, NOT SEE safer streets, & ACCEPT the #NationalGuard in your front yard.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

Cornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING

Your government insults your intelligence & says you passed their IQ test. The SAME administration that fired an economist for reporting statistics on the economy is asking you to NOT BELIEVE lower statistics on crime, NOT SEE safer streets, & ACCEPT the #NationalGuard in your front yard.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

Cornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social · 1d

This is a TRAIN WRECK of judicial Illegitimacy on the RAGGED EDGE of irreversible #autocracy —behind a DUMPSTER FIRE of a presidency👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Federal Judges Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

At a Boyle Heights hospital, ICE agents call the shots, doctors say

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 3d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7d

Again, Kavanaugh justified racial profiling by claiming that this doesn't happen--a justification that becomes more preposterous with each passing day as Trump's goons terrorize more people based on the color of their skin

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 3d

"hospital administrators are allowing federal immigration agents to interfere in medical decisions and block doctors from properly treating detainees who need emergency care... and to allow immigration agents to remain by a detained patient’s side, even during consultations."

HIPPA lawsuit when???

Anne 🩵🩷🤍 [נעמי יעל] @tranniehathaway.bsky.social · 3d

At a Boyle Heights hospital, ICE agents call the shots, doctors say
laist.com/news/politic...

Doctors say administrator directives allow immigration agents to interfere in medical decisions and compromise medical care.

laist.com

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Cornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social · 3d

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

Trump offers top universities funds if they boost conservative ideas

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Cornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social · 4d

WHERE in the #ICE training manual does it say:
“You point a CAMERA at us,
we point a GUN at you.”?

This is neither normal nor lawful nor sane.

www.wbez.org/immigration/...

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Cornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social · 4d

WHERE in the #ICE training manual does it say:
“You point a CAMERA at us,
we point a GUN at you.”?

This is neither normal nor lawful nor sane.

www.wbez.org/immigration/...

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Cornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social · 9d

“Cornell William Brooks …decried the compact as a ‘weapon to exert command & control’ … the ‘same administration that terminated federal grants to punish diversity groups at Harvard is now using federal grants to reward colleges for favoring conservative groups.’
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Brown and MIT among nine schools told to back conservative views or risk losing federal support, sparking free speech fears

Trump offers top universities funds if they boost conservative ideas

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Cornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social · 9d

“Cornell William Brooks …decried the compact as a ‘weapon to exert command & control’ … the ‘same administration that terminated federal grants to punish diversity groups at Harvard is now using federal grants to reward colleges for favoring conservative groups.’
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Brown and MIT among nine schools told to back conservative views or risk losing federal support, sparking free speech fears

Police say they are responding to an incident in Crumpsall, Greater Manchester Greater Manchester Police said a suspect has been shot and four people have suffered injuries caused by a vehicle and stabbings at a synagogue in Crumpsall north of the city. The force said: Police were called to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, on Middleton Road, Crumpsall, at 9.31am by a member of the public, stating he had witnessed a car being driven towards members of the public, and one man had been stabbed. GMP declared PLATO and a major incident at 9.37am. Shots were fired by Greater Manchester Police firearms officers at 9.38am. One man has been shot, believed to be the offender. Continue reading...

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Cornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social · 10d

HOLINESS & VIOLENCE

On the holiest day of the Jewish sacred calendar, a #HateCrime at a Brittish synagogue. #Antisemitism violently targets Jewish people—WITH our shared humanity as collateral damage. Unless ALL of us are safe, NONE of us are safe. #YomKippur

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10d

Manchester synagogue attack latest: police say suspect shot after four people injured by vehicle and stabbings

Police say they are responding to an incident in Crumpsall, Greater Manchester Greater Manchester Police said a suspect has been shot and four people have suffered injuries caused by a vehicle and stabbings at a synagogue in Crumpsall north of the city. The force said: Police were called to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, on Middleton Road, Crumpsall, at 9.31am by a member of the public, stating he had witnessed a car being driven towards members of the public, and one man had been stabbed. GMP declared PLATO and a major incident at 9.37am. Shots were fired by Greater Manchester Police firearms officers at 9.38am. One man has been shot, believed to be the offender. Continue reading...

Cornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social · 10d

HOLINESS & VIOLENCE

On the holiest day of the Jewish sacred calendar, a #HateCrime at a Brittish synagogue. #Antisemitism violently targets Jewish people—WITH our shared humanity as collateral damage. Unless ALL of us are safe, NONE of us are safe. #YomKippur

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10d

Manchester synagogue attack latest: police say suspect shot after four people injured by vehicle and stabbings

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Cornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social · 10d

The same administration that terminated federal grants to punish diversity groups at Harvard is now using federal grants to reward colleges for favoring conservative groups. Instead of weaponizing research dollars, why not treat everyone fairly & use taxpayer dollars lawfully?

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

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Cornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social · 10d

BREAKING

The Trump administration’s new #LowEducationPact is to higher education what #Project2025 is to American democracy: a weapon to exert command and control. Will the administration now disappear colleges like US AID or strip their independence like DOJ❓ @ap www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

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Cornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social · 10d

The same administration that terminated federal grants to punish diversity groups at Harvard is now using federal grants to reward colleges for favoring conservative groups. Instead of weaponizing research dollars, why not treat everyone fairly & use taxpayer dollars lawfully?

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 10d

“to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda.”

The North Korean model, "ideology-first" principles and absolute loyalty to the state.

Cornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social · 10d

BREAKING

The Trump administration’s new #LowEducationPact is to higher education what #Project2025 is to American democracy: a weapon to exert command and control. Will the administration now disappear colleges like US AID or strip their independence like DOJ❓ @ap www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

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Cornell William Brooks @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social · 10d

BREAKING

The Trump administration’s new #LowEducationPact is to higher education what #Project2025 is to American democracy: a weapon to exert command and control. Will the administration now disappear colleges like US AID or strip their independence like DOJ❓ @ap www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...