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Patrick Clarkin
@patrickclarkin.bsky.social
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UMass Boston biological anthropologist. Ph.D. War and health, growth, embodiment, DOHaD, refugees. Binghamton grad. Child of PVD.

kevishere.com
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HOPE WALZ: “What world are we f*cking living in? I draw the line at Gus. You people are f*cking disgraceful.”

She says MAGA loyalists are now driving by their home and yelling “R*tard!” at her family and her special needs brother after Trump called GovTimWalz the R word.
December 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Perfect
December 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Especially helpful that this video includes photos of documents that ICE and CPB might show to try and gain entry or detain people
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.

New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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It could take decades to recover from where we are.
My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”

Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
December 7, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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The news from Oklahoma and Nebraska is so depressing. The US public university system is one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century, created to democratize liberal arts education, and it's being destroyed by greedy people who think only the rich are deserving of such learning.
December 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Like I was saying…

Defending the boat strikes is accepting that Trump can misuse the military however he wants, no limiting principles or need to justify his actions in law.

It is accepting the rule of one man over the rule of law.

Hegseth is saying it out loud:

apnews.com/article/hegs...
December 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 7, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Did I mention I like baseball?

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December 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Wealth ≠ wisdom
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
There is a high level of sociopathy that runs through this line of “thinking.”

bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
How Epstein Channelled Race Science and 'Climate Culling' Into Silicon Valley’s AI Elite
The Epstein files expose how racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling circulated inside Big Tech circles
bylinetimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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#GVerse 🚨 #BreakingNews: ICE/Border Patrol just illegally pepper-sprayed a sitting member of congress in Tucson, Arizona.
December 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Thursday's attack is the latest in the fighting between the paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, also known as the RSF, and the Sudanese military, who have been at war for over two years. n.pr/3Mlijkg
Sudanese paramilitary drone attack kills 50, including 33 children, doctor group says
Thursday's attack is the latest in the fighting between the paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, also known as the RSF, and the Sudanese military, who have been at war for over two years.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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“The Justice Department ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out”
So many scandals now but pay attention to this: DOJ has sued 14 states-12 led by Dems-to demand full unredacted voter files in order to turbocharge Trump voter suppression plans

@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & I detail threat this poses to voting rights ahead of 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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What we are watching - as U.S. citizens are dragged out of cars and illegal war is waged in the Caribbean - is the corruption of the most sacred power we give the President - the power of violence.

We are no longer a democracy if the regime can use violence without restraint.
December 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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This is literally neo-Nazi talking points that I've been tracking for years.

This is what white nationalists have been promoting & is the thesis of mass shooters and terrorists such as Anders Breivik.

Now? GOP talking points.

Are they doing politics "the right way?"

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump administration says Europe faces 'civilisational erasure'
European politicians have begun to react, with Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul saying his country did not need "outside advice".
www.bbc.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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No one in America has done more to incite political violence than Donald Trump. And it’s not close.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 2d
During interviews with the FBI, the suspect arrested in the pipe bomb probe told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen, people briefed on the matter said.
https://cnn.it/4a0FdXW
December 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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"Carbon capture & storage plan gets scraped for data center" really captures the 2025 energy scene in a nutshell
December 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Now official policy of the United States:

—Immigration is exclusively harmful

—All nations must “only rarely” grant citizenship to foreigners

—Immigration will “erase” Europe within 20 years and the US must act to prevent that

Read it yourself.
A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today.
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www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Should go without saying, but governing groups of people who do not share a reality is impossible
December 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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The boat was split in half. 9 men were dead. 2 more clung to a floating piece of wreckage and tried desperately to flip it over for 41 minutes straight. There was no possible way they were going anywhere.

Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military.
December 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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We are so far off the playing field here we can't even see the stadium.
December 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM