Mark D. White

@profmdwhite.bsky.social

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Professor, author, editor, and fan of comics, movies, and music

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-d-white-4a568730a/

See my books here: http://amzn.to/2aFC66M

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 3d

It seems "Batman and Ethics" is currently 25% off at Amazon: amzn.to/3NumZ7R

Batman and Ethics

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Brian Greiner 🇨🇦🍁 @mrfumblethumbs.bsky.social · 2h

Bunnies in my area typically show up at twilight or dawn to munch on any bird seed that might still be on the ground.
The chubby guy seemed to consider himself invisible when he steped behind the branches.

Bunny sitting like a loaf, on snow, with a few branches in front of it.

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2h

Seen today in Center City Philadelphia

Text printed on a white sheet of paper taped to a black wall: "It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character." - Joseph Heller,
Catch-22

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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 3h

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

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D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 5h

We have been rightly afraid of the threat of bad actors using AI to create disinformation.

It's appalling that one of the first of those bad actors is in the White House. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest

Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration

www.theguardian.com

Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 5h

Discovery would be a blast, LFG!

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5h

NEW:

Trump just said Jack Smith "should be prosecuted for his actions."

He adds: "At a minimum, he committed large scale perjury!"

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5h

NEW:

Trump just said Jack Smith "should be prosecuted for his actions."

He adds: "At a minimum, he committed large scale perjury!"

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 6h

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.

Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 7h

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

Screenshot from STAT article that says

"What we're going to have is a real-world experience of when unvaccinated people get measles," he said. "What is the new incidence of hospitalization? What's the incidence of death?"

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 7h

My ass is old enough to remember when a President sending masked armies into American cities while saying "sometimes you need a dictator" would've been the end of it and whatnot.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

What America will read this weekend while in line at the grocery checkout:

@peoplemag.bsky.social #ICE
people.com/ice-detains-...

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11h

Special Counsel Jack Smith in his Opening Remarks:

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 11h

We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

Musk’s Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Lawrence Freedman, Stephen M. Walt, Kori Schake , and 24 more Lawrence Freedman, Stephen M. Walt, Kori Schake, Gavin L. Foster, Steve Peers, Tim Bale, Ben Barr, Mark D. White, Leigh Sparks, Philip N. Cohen, Paul Davies, Juan Cole, Michelle Everson, Daniel W. Drezner, Jonathan Hopkin, Lindsay M. Tedds, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, R. M. Wilson, David M. Bailey, Michael H. Whitworth, Michael D. McDonald, Molly Scott Cato, Andrew Rudalevige, Nikki Fairchild, Christina Pagel, Andrew Kydd

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."

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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 18h

"Can ICE Enter a Home To Make an Arrest With Only an Administrative Warrant?" a deep dive for the law nerds new from me, posted over at Volokh.
reason.com/volokh/2026/...

Can ICE Enter a Home To Make an Arrest With Only an Administrative Warrant?

The Associated Press reports: Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says WASHINGTON (AP)…

reason.com

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 1d

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis.

Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 1d

An important piece from @radleybalko.bsky.social — "The lies this administration is telling about Ms. Good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything. They’re a projection of power." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

Opinion | I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

A five-year-old boy seized on his way home in Minnesota and now locked up in Texas. His family didn't know where he was for 24 hours.

Joe @joealv.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Senator Gallego weighs in as well. Note that at the start of 2025 he was considered a *moderate* on immigration and co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act. Him and many other Dems have been increasingly horrified at what ICE is doing and shifted away from a "more enforcement" focus.

Ruben Gallego
@RubenGallego
Yeah I am not voting to give whatever ICE has become more tax payer money.

It’s no longer an immigration enforcement arm of the US government.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

The Gravamen of the Disclosure

4. The gravamen of the disclosure is as follows:
a. By memorandum dated May 12, 2025 (“the May 12 Memo”), Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency.

b. Specifically, in the May 12 Memo, the Acting ICE Director authorized ICE Agents to rely on Form I-205 (which is not a judicial warrant) to enter the residence of an alien subject to a final order of deportation, without consent, including by “a necessary and reasonable amount of force.”2c. While addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the May 12 Memo has not been formally distributed to all personnel. Instead, the May 12 Memo has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the Memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the Memo and return it to the supervisor.

Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 1d

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's shambolic press conference raises new questions about Joe Biden's fitness for office.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's shambolic press conference raises new questions about Joe Biden's fitness for office.

Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations!

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Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social · 1d

happy 1st birthday to DMP www.kensingtonbooks.com/978080654317...

red Dear Miss Perkins book on a shelf with a statue, a prize, and rainbow books under it

Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 1d

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Mark D. White @profmdwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Preparing to go out in 8°F. (Scarf by me mum.)

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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 1d

A worm, H. miamia, appears to have a diffuse 'brain' without regional specialization. "Early brains may have arisen through the condensation of diffuse nerve nets into unregionalized brains, with regionalization evolving secondarily." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

THANK YOU to all who pre-ordered my book! In the category of New Releases in Immigration Policy. I'm at #3 and it's for a book that isn't out yet until March 10. I'm speechless and grateful to all of you who bought, or asked your libraries to order. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Anna O. Law's Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship--African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants with a picture of a US flag with an image of a person standing behind it. The book is #3 on Amazon's list of New Releases in Immigration Policy

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Shea Jordan Smith @sheajordansmith.bsky.social · 1d

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was spotted earlier today, January 20, 2026, on a plane heading to Laguna Beach as the state of Texas braces for a rare ice threat and arctic cold front.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

Aside from being ugly and vicious generally, the Dept. of Homeland Security's social media posts regularly steal music and other content against creators' and owners' wishes. Alas, our legal system is quite bad at enabling those creators and owners to vindicate their intellectual property rights.

The Trump administration's deportation reels keep getting copyright strikes for using music without permission

Without any real consequences for copyright infringements, the Department of Homeland Security doesn't have much incentive to follow the law.

reason.com

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