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Audit. Police. Overtime.🧵
While adding billions in funding for police, the Senate budget bill also eliminates taxes on police overtime—likely fueling further abuses of overtime pay in departments across the country. theintercept.com/2025/07/01/b...
Senate Passes Trump’s Big, Beautiful Boon for Police
The Senate GOP passed its “megabill” on Tuesday — handing police billions in grants to fuel Trump’s deportation regime and tax write-offs.
theintercept.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Audit. Police. Overtime.🧵
Lubbock ski day this past Monday
January 29, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Lubbock ski day this past Monday
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Israel fears outbreak of violins.
Last night, israeli occupation forces raided Al Kamandjati Center located in Qalandiya Refugee Camp, destroying all musical instruments inside the center.
This will be met, yet again, with silence from our classical music industry
www.instagram.com/p/DUBUWwSiCxl/
This will be met, yet again, with silence from our classical music industry
www.instagram.com/p/DUBUWwSiCxl/
Al Kamandjati - الكمنجاتي on Instagram: " قامت قوات الاحتلال ليلة أمس باقتحام مركز الكمنجاتي الكائن في مخيم قلنديا لللاجئين والذي يعود ملكيته لجمعية مركز البرامج النسوية في المخيم. حيث قامت قوات ا...
427 likes, 15 comments - alkamandjati on January 27, 2026: " قامت قوات الاحتلال ليلة أمس باقتحام مركز الكمنجاتي الكائن في مخيم قلنديا لللاجئين والذي يعود ملكيته لجمعية مركز البرامج النسوية في المخيم...
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January 28, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Israel fears outbreak of violins.
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McGurk is part of a webinar "AI summit" hosted by Cisco where he will spend about an hour touting the benefits of letting the computer label everyone and everything as legitimate targets to facilitate genocide, but the meeting agenda only lists national security www.ciscoaisummit.com/ai-virtual-s...
Cisco AI Summit 2026 | The builders of the AI economy
Join the Cisco AI Summit February 3, 2026, a virtual event for leaders shaping how AI is built, governed, and scaled with insights from Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, and more.
www.ciscoaisummit.com
January 27, 2026 at 10:09 PM
McGurk is part of a webinar "AI summit" hosted by Cisco where he will spend about an hour touting the benefits of letting the computer label everyone and everything as legitimate targets to facilitate genocide, but the meeting agenda only lists national security www.ciscoaisummit.com/ai-virtual-s...
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Third-party deportations should be illegal. Everything about this case has been such a sham.
January 23, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Third-party deportations should be illegal. Everything about this case has been such a sham.
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103 days into the "ceasefire." Hours after Netanyahu joined Trump's "Board of Peace."
Israeli forces just killed 3 more journalists.
They were on assignment to film a camp in Gaza, to document the plight of Palestinians displaced by Israeli bombs.
Instead, Israel killed them.
Israeli forces just killed 3 more journalists.
They were on assignment to film a camp in Gaza, to document the plight of Palestinians displaced by Israeli bombs.
Instead, Israel killed them.
January 21, 2026 at 5:28 PM
103 days into the "ceasefire." Hours after Netanyahu joined Trump's "Board of Peace."
Israeli forces just killed 3 more journalists.
They were on assignment to film a camp in Gaza, to document the plight of Palestinians displaced by Israeli bombs.
Instead, Israel killed them.
Israeli forces just killed 3 more journalists.
They were on assignment to film a camp in Gaza, to document the plight of Palestinians displaced by Israeli bombs.
Instead, Israel killed them.
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European Union is silent:
"Israel has begun bulldozing the headquarters of UNRWA in occupied East Jerusalem.
The far-right government led by Netanyahu has been clamping down heavily on humanitarian groups that provide desperately needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza:"
bsky.app/profile/then...
"Israel has begun bulldozing the headquarters of UNRWA in occupied East Jerusalem.
The far-right government led by Netanyahu has been clamping down heavily on humanitarian groups that provide desperately needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza:"
bsky.app/profile/then...
Israel has begun bulldozing the headquarters of UNRWA in occupied East Jerusalem.
The far-right government led by Netanyahu has been clamping down heavily on humanitarian groups that provide desperately needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza:
The far-right government led by Netanyahu has been clamping down heavily on humanitarian groups that provide desperately needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza:
January 20, 2026 at 12:28 PM
European Union is silent:
"Israel has begun bulldozing the headquarters of UNRWA in occupied East Jerusalem.
The far-right government led by Netanyahu has been clamping down heavily on humanitarian groups that provide desperately needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza:"
bsky.app/profile/then...
"Israel has begun bulldozing the headquarters of UNRWA in occupied East Jerusalem.
The far-right government led by Netanyahu has been clamping down heavily on humanitarian groups that provide desperately needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza:"
bsky.app/profile/then...
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📢📢 On this MLK Day, a reminder that faculty at Texas public colleges and universities are now uncertain whether or not they can legally teach Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail.” ⬇️
thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/19/w...
thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/19/w...
What Can I Teach? Will Martin Luther King’s Work Be Censored Next?
I’ve taught “Letter From Birmingham Jail” more than 100 times and have never questioned whether I’d be violating university policy. Now I am.
thebarbedwire.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:25 PM
📢📢 On this MLK Day, a reminder that faculty at Texas public colleges and universities are now uncertain whether or not they can legally teach Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail.” ⬇️
thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/19/w...
thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/19/w...
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Texas A&M canceled Dr. Bright’s Ethics in Public Policy course a day after he appeared on local television criticizing the institution’s banning of Plato & other academic texts.
@drleonardbright.bsky.social
#academicsky
@drleonardbright.bsky.social
#academicsky
Texas A&M Administrators Will Cancel Your Course If You Don’t Tell Them Exactly Where And What Its Race And Gender Parts Are* - Daily Nous
Texas A&M University (TAMU) administrators cancelled "Ethics in Public Policy," a graduate course in the university's Bush School of Government and Public Service, because they rejected as too vague i...
dailynous.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Texas A&M canceled Dr. Bright’s Ethics in Public Policy course a day after he appeared on local television criticizing the institution’s banning of Plato & other academic texts.
@drleonardbright.bsky.social
#academicsky
@drleonardbright.bsky.social
#academicsky
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The total NSF budget was 9 billion. I doubt they spend 89% of it on quail.
January 15, 2026 at 9:21 PM
The total NSF budget was 9 billion. I doubt they spend 89% of it on quail.
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They're still trying to deport Rümeysa Öztürk after she was arrested in the street by plainclothes ICE agents and detained for six weeks for writing a column in her college newspaper that was critical of Israel.
Republican on CNN: You peacefully protest with a letter to the editor. You peacefully protest by starting a Substack or a podcast.
January 15, 2026 at 9:23 AM
They're still trying to deport Rümeysa Öztürk after she was arrested in the street by plainclothes ICE agents and detained for six weeks for writing a column in her college newspaper that was critical of Israel.
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(bringing this up next time someone asks me what you can do with a PhD in history)
Imagine doing a PhD in electricity, just so you knew how to blow up nuclear power plants and heavy water-producing facilities.
“I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them... I am not a pacifist.”
A profile in absolute courage.
“I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them... I am not a pacifist.”
A profile in absolute courage.
January 15, 2026 at 6:29 PM
(bringing this up next time someone asks me what you can do with a PhD in history)
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When [people] perceive that any man, in what station soever, is out of the bounds of the civil society they are of, and that they have no appeal, on earth, against any harm they may receive from him, they are apt to think themselves in the state of Nature, in respect of him whom they find to be so
January 7, 2026 at 10:14 PM
When [people] perceive that any man, in what station soever, is out of the bounds of the civil society they are of, and that they have no appeal, on earth, against any harm they may receive from him, they are apt to think themselves in the state of Nature, in respect of him whom they find to be so
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When you allow a class of people to act outside the law, you create a state of nature between them and society at large - and in a state of nature there is no deterrent to violent conflict
Subject the Police Equally to the Law
Because liberalism is often seen, particularly on the left, as enjoying ideological hegemony in the modern United States, there is an assumption that the current police system is a natural outgrowth o...
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:12 PM
When you allow a class of people to act outside the law, you create a state of nature between them and society at large - and in a state of nature there is no deterrent to violent conflict
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Statement from the AAUP–Texas A&M Chapter about the censorship of…Plato….
January 7, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Statement from the AAUP–Texas A&M Chapter about the censorship of…Plato….
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Israeli forces raided Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, firing live ammunition to disperse students during a protest and film screening. At least three students were injured as troops entered the campusand classrooms.
January 6, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Israeli forces raided Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, firing live ammunition to disperse students during a protest and film screening. At least three students were injured as troops entered the campusand classrooms.
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It’s official: I’m joining the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of Iowa as an assistant prof starting Fall 2026!
I’ll be recruiting multiple grad students and postdocs to join my lab, so if you’re into disturbance ecology and conservation science… watch this space!
I’ll be recruiting multiple grad students and postdocs to join my lab, so if you’re into disturbance ecology and conservation science… watch this space!
January 3, 2026 at 3:36 PM
It’s official: I’m joining the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of Iowa as an assistant prof starting Fall 2026!
I’ll be recruiting multiple grad students and postdocs to join my lab, so if you’re into disturbance ecology and conservation science… watch this space!
I’ll be recruiting multiple grad students and postdocs to join my lab, so if you’re into disturbance ecology and conservation science… watch this space!
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Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.
January 3, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.
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There's your Nobel Peace Prize winner, btw. Hats off to everyone involved. Great job.
January 3, 2026 at 10:03 AM
There's your Nobel Peace Prize winner, btw. Hats off to everyone involved. Great job.
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Europe is so fucking over dude. Trump is about to hand you guys to Putin on a silver platter and you're still groveling at his pedo feet and buying his pedo weapons. Congrats, losers.
January 3, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Europe is so fucking over dude. Trump is about to hand you guys to Putin on a silver platter and you're still groveling at his pedo feet and buying his pedo weapons. Congrats, losers.
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This Upton Sinclair quote never misses
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
But can anyone tell me what this bit means? “For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.”
January 2, 2026 at 1:56 PM
This Upton Sinclair quote never misses
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
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Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.