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ImmigrantsAreUS

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Human. Scientist, husband, father. Immigrant and polyglot. Futebol is my religion. Bethesda Declaration co-signer. Proudly anti-fascist. All posts are my own.

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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · Jun 13

@andreapitzer.bsky.social 'Next Comes What' podcast latest episode is out, featuring yours truly, on fhe #BethesdaDeclaration , the need and urgency for dissent, at NIH and elsewhere.
youtu.be/8U3A28UmWQ0?...

How We Dissent | #nokings lessons from LA & DC | Andrea Pitzer | Next Comes What

YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer

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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 2h

Puppy killer AND corrupt.
Probably Nazi too.
Impeach and remove.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 4h

In this particular case, causality goes: insanity causes heroin, brain worms, swimming in sewage, and eating roadkill.

ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 9h

One more step in the ladder down to fascist hell.
Stopping people LEAVING the country and the death threats they are receiving.

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 9h

Shee-it

Prof. Mark Bray of Rutgers University and his family were blocked from leaving the U.S. At the airport, after getting boarding passes, they learned their tickets had been mysteriously cancelled.

He was relocating the family fleeing death threats catalyzed by Turning Point USA and others.

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Mike Watkins @watkinsimmigration.bsky.social · 1d

USCIS Q3 data dropped today and woof, it's not pretty. Total pending cases at a new record high of 11.5m, net backlog increased from 4.9m to 5.4m cases, and "frontlog" bizarrely increased to 60K cases.

A lot of red flags in this data.

www.uscis.gov/tools/report...

Immigration and Citizenship Data

These reports provide data on various aspects of USCIS operations. In addition, certain tables list the USCIS office responsible for the adjudication.

www.uscis.gov

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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson can swear you in today, unrelated to ending the shutdown. He chooses not to.
The two statements are not related, unlike what your post implies.

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Antifa CEO @antifa.bsky.social · 17d

BREAKING: Antifa designates the Trump administration as a domestic terrorist organization.

DESIGNATING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AS A DOMESTIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATION
Antifa Executive Orders
September 22, 2025

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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 1d

Lee who?

ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 1d

In other words: they didn't adhere to law...

ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 1d

And yes, anti fascism (I still don't know what 'antifa' is) has existed for as long as fascism has existed. That's 100+ years, give of take.

ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 2d

If only someone would do that on the Epstein files ...

ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 2d

This. This. This.
Make congressional appropriation law again, not 'opinions' Russel Vought can/will ignore. Add jail time for derailing an appropriation bill without a vote in Congress.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 2d

State sponsored political violence.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 2d

The shutdown started on Jan 20, 2025. Federal workers know.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2d

My quote of the day

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 2d

These scare tactics make clear that the White House is not negotiating, it's scaremongering.

Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, they are. "Each employee of the United States Government or of a District of Columbia public employer furloughed as a result of a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse in appropriations..." 31 USC 1341. It's not even close.

www.axios.com/2025/10/07/t...

Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay

A move to deny backpay to up to 750,000 furloughed workers would dramatically escalate Trump's pressure on Democrats to end the shutdown.

www.axios.com

ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 3d

Who the f were the 3%?!?!?

ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 3d

This is another sign of weakness.
This administration is not even enticing enough to attract 'talent'.

ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 3d

The bench of this administration is LAME to non-existent.
The list of those doing 2 jobs, and doing both miserably grows:
Sean Duffy (DOT, NASA) Bisignamo (SSA, IRS CEO), Bessent (Treasury and IRS commissioner), Ellis (Deputy director CIA, and CIA's top lawyer - no conflict, never... ), ...

ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 3d

Once the pendulum swings, the US should join the International Criminal Court. That's where Miller, Homan, Noem, need to be judged, for crimes against humanity.

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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 3d

From Hatch act violations, selective firings of questionable legality, attacks (doxing, judicially charging them with made up crimes) on people purported as "Democrats", violence against communities and individuals...

This is an ongoing COUP.

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ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 3d

And for a short while, it was the most downloaded document on the internet...
Now imagine the Epstein files!! Another Trump record, for sure.

ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 3d

Some asked me (in person) about my Hatch Act violations rant: it's all about fair elections.
If the party in power can use the power of government to blame the other side for anything, fair elections are no longer possible.

ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 3d

Close to 20% decline in international student travel to US this summer to start university
Irreparable harm already done to the system. Other countries will benefit.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August

The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.

www.nytimes.com

ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 4d

I was in the stadium that day, I was in the stadium today, and 10mo on, Aubrey Kingsbury is still my Secretary of Defense. I am sure she beats the usurper Pete H. in doing pullups too.

Mel @doctormel7.bsky.social · Nov 17

Our Secretary of Defense, Aubrey Kingsbury!
#Spirit #NWSL

ImmigrantsAreUS @immigrantsareus.bsky.social · 4d

No amount of time will normalize the presence of military fatigues in peaceful cities.