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Adam Reno @adamreno.bsky.social · 5d

Are you an alum outraged by Trump's attacks on universities? Defend your school now by signing this alumni petition in support of these 9 universities as well as campus communities across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

Trump attacks 9 universities: Sign the alumni petition to defend your school now

Are you an alum outraged by Trump's attacks on universities? Defend your school now by signing this alumni petition in support of these 9 universities as well as campus communities across America.

alumni.controlshift.app

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7d

From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Adam Reno @adamreno.bsky.social · 7d

if the progressive tent isn't big enough for Ezra fucking Klein it might as well be a cocktail umbrella.

Adam Reno @adamreno.bsky.social · 20d

Welp, it's time to find out if
@joerogantop.bsky.social believes any of the stuff he claims to about comedy and free speech.

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Adam Reno @adamreno.bsky.social · 27d

Charlie Kirk was murdered in front of thousands of people while literally answering a question about mass murders. And his killer has not been found b/c the the murderer carried a weapon that could be that precise from 200 yards away. A tragically American event.

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Adam Reno @adamreno.bsky.social · Aug 26

There are 3 flags displayed at my house, including 1 on my porch, 1 that draped my grandpa’s casket and a tattered flag that hung in my HS bedroom. I would never burn a US flag but I can tell you definitively that the reason I’ve always been proud to fly it is because I could burn it if I wanted to

Trump’s flag-burning order draws rare fire from conservatives

Conservatives gave rare criticism for President Donald Trump’s executive order on Monday cracking down on protesters who burn the American flag.

www.foxnews.com

Adam Reno @adamreno.bsky.social · Aug 12

Shoot. I meant umpteenth!

Adam Reno @adamreno.bsky.social · Aug 12

This is like the Epsteinth example of him doing something clearly autocratic.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 5

America under GOP rule.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 4

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...

Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility

Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

www.wthr.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 3

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

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Adam Reno @adamreno.bsky.social · Aug 4

Oh man, who's he gonna fire this time? Math? Maybe he'll fire math.

U.S. Factory Orders Declined in June

New orders from U.S. factories contracted 4.8% month over month to $611.7 billion in June. Orders have dropped for two of the past three months.

www.wsj.com

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Adam Reno @adamreno.bsky.social · Jul 21

Amazing stuff here...

www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...

The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI

Inside the chaotic review process of the Epstein and Maxwell files at the Bureau

www.muellershewrote.com

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · Jul 12

🚨 DON’T LOOK AWAY 🚨

U.S. Professor KIDNAPPED and DISAPPEARED by ICE!

He still remains detained.

Yesterday a California Faculty Association union leader, Professor Jonathan Caravello, was dragged away by four masked ICE agents while lawfully observing a raid.

This is NOT normal.

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · Jul 12

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Jul 4

Update on our trip to Alligator Alcatraz. We are being denied access.

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Adam Reno @adamreno.bsky.social · Jun 9

New Rule: Democrat Devolution | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

YouTube video by Real Time with Bill Maher

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · May 12

"The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“They’re trying to kidnap someone”

On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.

www.motherjones.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · May 12

The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.

What the fuck are we doing here?

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · Apr 18

How is it possible U.S. citizens are being held as illegal aliens in America even after they produce their birth certificate? This is intolerable. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia

Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez is being held even though a county judge found his birth certificate “authentic” and said there wasn’t reason to consider him an “illegal alien.”

www.nbcnews.com

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Adam Reno @adamreno.bsky.social · Apr 16

Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
[redacted] and [redacted], [redacted] and [redacted]
They are precious in His sight

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · Apr 10

The executive targets his opponents w/bogus investigations. His government disappears people w/out due process and vanishes them beyond reach. He usurps legislative power, controls public funds at will, & consolidates power. Loyalty is expected — or else.

Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here.