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Sanford Schram
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The Trajectory of Trumpism: Racism, Fascism, Civil War and Beyond (Oxford, 2025).

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Sanford Schram @sandysfs.bsky.social · Jun 21
My new book should be available electronically in October: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h
Chief Bovino is not a political appointee. He is a civil servant, subject to the same requirements to be nonpartisan as any other employee. These messages are being broadcast from an official government account.
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh •9h “BREAKING: Gov. Tim Walz says Somalians are ESSENTIAL to the Minnesota community - despite STEALING millions or even billions in taxpayer dollars. ‘They bring diversity and ENERGY to a place like Minnesota!’ Pathetic. Somalians LEECH - DEPORT THEM.” Response from Gregory Bovino’s official account: “Waltz is of the same class as newsome, stein, pritzker - gubners [governors] who choose illegal aliens over their own citizens. Amazing incompetence”

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 6h
📌This week alone, Trump, who is rotting from the inside out right in front of our eyes, has called female reporters, “Piggy, stupid, horrible and ugly.”
This burnt-orange, triple-chinned, slop-eating, mess of a man, who tapes a dead ferret to his head each morning, is mocking other people’s looks.

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Sanford Schram @sandysfs.bsky.social · 9h
Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime
www.nytimes.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h
Absolute debasement of academic standards
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
kissphoria.bsky.social gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 11h
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 10h
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.

If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.

It’s that simple.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h
🤷🏼

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 14h
Mark Kelly: “Pete Hegseth is not a serious person. He’s unqualified for this job. I think he is the least qualified Secretary of Defense in the history of our country by far. & this President thinks he can bully & intimidate people? He’s not gonna stop me from speaking out & holding him accountable”
Senator Mark Kelly outside of the Senate Chamber at the US Capitol

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?

KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18h
Agree or disagree?

Reposted by Mark D. White, Sanford F. Schram, R. M. Wilson , and 2 more

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19h
Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop
karoline.bsky.social Karoline @karoline.bsky.social · 1d
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com

Reposted by Steve Peers, Sanford F. Schram

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING:

Republican-led House and Senate committees say they will amplify their scrutiny of the Pentagon after a WaPo report revealing that Pete Hegseth gave a spoken order to kill all crew members aboard a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean several weeks ago.

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Ileana DuFour @bluessister91.bsky.social · 1d
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GOP senators to join Democrats in investigating Pete Hegseth ‘kill everybody’ allegations - NewsBreak
Senators from both sides of the political aisle will join forces to investigate allegations that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered there to be no surv
share.newsbreak.com

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Karoline @karoline.bsky.social · 1d
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com

Reposted by David Johnson, Sanford F. Schram

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d
Captured Court, funded by creepy billionaires, defending $700 billion annual U.S. subsidy for Big Oil.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
The Supreme Court’s Ethics Code Is a Joke. Big Oil Knows That.
Oil companies want the Supreme Court to intervene to dismiss lawsuits about climate change. Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito both have big conflicts of interest on that front.
newrepublic.com

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 1d
3/ The paper reports that "a cast of businessmen close to the Trump administration have been looking to position themselves as new economic links between the U.S. and Russia." Friends of the Trump family and Trump donors are working on lucrative deals with Russian companies.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 1d
2/ According to the WSJ, talks between Trump's golfing friend Steve Witkoff, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev have bypassed the US national security and diplomatic apparatuses to focus on economic benefits for well-connected American companies.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 1d
1/ The Wall Street Journal reports that the main focus of the US-Russia peace talks is to get commercial advantage for American companies, and personal benefits for individuals linked to the Trump Administration. European officials are said to be shocked by the plans. ⬇️

Reposted by Sanford F. Schram, David R. Miller, Timothy D. McBride

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
Stephen Miller’s wife Katie Miller: “We are removing every single illegal alien… a majority of those removed have had serious violent crimes.” 🤥

@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “That’s FALSE.”

Abby Phillip: “Based on DHS’s own data, a majority have NOT had violent criminal records.”

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Anna DNP, FNP, BC@ AccessToCareAdvocate @anna1900.bsky.social · 2d
The administration has withheld both the GDP and jobs reports.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d
I bet if you blow the dust of the DEPARTMENT OF WAR sign it’d reveal the word CRIMES right after that

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
🤔

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 2d
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d
REUTERS: “Trump blamed Biden-era vetting failures for the admission of an Afghan immigrant suspected of shooting two National Guard members — but the alleged gunman was granted asylum this year under Trump…” www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4d
This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 4d
A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Sanford F. Schram, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 4d
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

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tomwellborn3rd @patriotprogressive.bsky.social · 6d
Their exit screams guilt, cowardice, and betrayal of their oath. History will mark them as accomplices, not patriots.

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House Republicans look for the exits as White House treats members like 'garbage': insider
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson could lose his leadership position even earlier than the predicted Democratic wave in the 2026 midterms, according to new insider predictions.The political world was rocked on Friday evening when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced that she would be resigning half...
www.alternet.org

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 6d
BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...