Travis
@alrajul.bsky.social
Father, bibliophile, history teacher, dabbler in politics, Mississippi Squirrel Revivalist.
My social media journey: FB > Twitter > Insta > Threads > Here. If this doesn’t work, back to writing letters and such.
My social media journey: FB > Twitter > Insta > Threads > Here. If this doesn’t work, back to writing letters and such.
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One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse
April 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse
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This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.
April 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.
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I hate to say this, and it gives me the chills just to think it, but CECOT is on (and not a short way down) the road to Auschwitz.
April 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I hate to say this, and it gives me the chills just to think it, but CECOT is on (and not a short way down) the road to Auschwitz.
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THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole.
Why?
Because an algorithm said so. 1/
Why?
Because an algorithm said so. 1/
April 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole.
Why?
Because an algorithm said so. 1/
Why?
Because an algorithm said so. 1/
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An important lesson from Jean-Luc Picard that I’m still sharing all these years later.
April 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
An important lesson from Jean-Luc Picard that I’m still sharing all these years later.
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Trump: the Wile E. Coyote of businessmen.
April 2, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Trump: the Wile E. Coyote of businessmen.
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
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Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
April 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
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I've read half a dozen biographies of our tech overlords; not one presents a decent, normal, empathetic human being who is a benefit to society. Every last one is a deeply disturbed narcissist wreaking havoc around them. Can't remember another industry where the leaders are so universally reviled.
April 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I've read half a dozen biographies of our tech overlords; not one presents a decent, normal, empathetic human being who is a benefit to society. Every last one is a deeply disturbed narcissist wreaking havoc around them. Can't remember another industry where the leaders are so universally reviled.
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All you need to know about Twitter
March 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
All you need to know about Twitter
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Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.
March 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.
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Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
March 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
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A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸
March 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸
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Perhaps the most depressing part about the last couple of months is that every awful shitty thing that’s happening to this country is self-induced. People asked for this. None of it had to happen.
March 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Perhaps the most depressing part about the last couple of months is that every awful shitty thing that’s happening to this country is self-induced. People asked for this. None of it had to happen.
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The perfect metaphor for what the Supreme Court did to this country with Citizens United v. FEC.
March 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The perfect metaphor for what the Supreme Court did to this country with Citizens United v. FEC.
“It is certain…that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
March 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
“It is certain…that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
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every single public facing person in this administration is just a different variation on baghdad bob
Kevin Hassett suggests Canadian authorities are covering up major fentanyl operations: "I can tell you that in the situation room I've seen photographs of fentanyl labs in Canada that the law enforcement folks were leaving alone. Canada's got a big drug problem."
March 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
every single public facing person in this administration is just a different variation on baghdad bob
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French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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MARCO RUBIO IN 2017: "Foreign Aid is not charity. We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1% of budget & critical to our national security.”
MARCO RUBIO IN 2025: "USAID is a global charity."
MARCO RUBIO IN 2025: "USAID is a global charity."
How Marco Rubio helped bury American soft power
This is why his boss once called him "Liddle Marco."
www.publicnotice.co
February 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
MARCO RUBIO IN 2017: "Foreign Aid is not charity. We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1% of budget & critical to our national security.”
MARCO RUBIO IN 2025: "USAID is a global charity."
MARCO RUBIO IN 2025: "USAID is a global charity."
What could possibly go wrong?
NEW: At least 6 senior FBI officials have been ordered to resign or be fired by Monday. They include those that oversee cyber, national security and criminal investigations. www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/p...
Senior FBI leaders ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday | CNN Politics
At least six senior FBI leaders have been ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday, according to sources briefed on the matter, extending a purge that began last week at the Justice Department ...
www.cnn.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:51 AM
What could possibly go wrong?
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going
January 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going
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Who’d have guessed a coalition between people who want to part out the federal government for scrap and people who want to squash women and immigrants beneath the bootheels of their stormtrooper army would turn out to be unstable
January 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Who’d have guessed a coalition between people who want to part out the federal government for scrap and people who want to squash women and immigrants beneath the bootheels of their stormtrooper army would turn out to be unstable