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Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 10h

Noted Weimar antifa operative

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 12h

I think that to combat liberal bias in higher education and fancy faculty lounge talk, AT LEAST 50% of law faculty should not know what habeas corpus is

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 14h

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 20h

I again reiterate my call to have Ian Smith and Vidkun Quisling play a harpsichord duet at halftime

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 20h

Certainties in life:
1. Death
2. Taxes
3. Republicans crying about the Super Bowl halftime show

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Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 1d

Tired: Battle of the Bands

Wired: Riff War

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats talk funny! This is government by professor!

Actual government by professors: Estado Novo

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 1d

Undercover

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 1d

The final realization of “generic democrat” from pollsters

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

Opinion | All the real-life potential 2028 Democratic nominees are weak. They should run an AI candidate instead.

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 1d

I get the urge to dunk on this, but mediocre plagiarism in photo filters are just indispensable to society

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)

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Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 2d

I understand the urge to quote Anne Frank, but we need to ask if Anne Frank was too woke

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 2d

Onto week two of the university president’s office, which is in a class building being guarded by armed guards in suits?

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 2d

A couple I play soccer with - of hispanic lineage but born US citizens with parents born US citizens - was driving to one of their parents, were spotted by people in masks in an unmarked SUV (presumably ICE?) who then followed them to the parents and then sat outside the parents house for hours

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Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 3d

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Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 4d

Me showing my young daughter Nakatomi Plaza today

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Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 4d

Government by right wing influencers going as expected

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 5d

DHS doing what appears to be content creation in Broadview.

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Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 5d

Say what you will about this staffer but using the term “douche canoe” is a redeeming quality

taber @kvetch.gay · 5d

a White House staffer was just tapping away all kinds of shit talk in the secret secure Signal chat in a place where someone could take *numerous* photographs of his phone screen undetected and walk them over to the Minnesota Star-Tribune

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Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 5d

Reminder that the first line of the white supremacist bible The Turner Diaries is killing the “professors and other race traitors”

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6d

And it's not a one-time capitulation. If DOJ ever says you violated the vague and unconstitutional terms, they will take back ALL federal funds from that year and you have to return ALL private funding from donors who want their gifts back from that year. It's a never-ending protection racket.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6d

The Act of Capitulation that Trump is demanding that all colleges and universities are to sign surrenders authority over vast areas to Trump, as the Dear Leader. www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

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Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 5d

Kinda object to the “they’re monsters” idea more broadly. Monsters entails something uniquely terrifying or intimidating and something unknown (“there be monsters”)… these clowns are just run of the mill bullies wanting to feel powerful and special

Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 5d

so much fucked up about this

Remember, Trump, as his conversation with Gov Kotek revealed, had no idea what's going on in Portland, fed 5 year old videos

Hegseth, Miller and the rest of the fascists know the reality about Portland and wanted to send the 82nd Airborne anyway. They are monsters

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 5d

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Chris Jackson @chrsjcksn.bsky.social · 5d

Hmmm, social welfare for those who qualify as “true members” of the Nation? National socialism if you will? Probably some fancy German term and one of their goofy acronyms for it…

Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 5d

I love how, even if you entertain this BS, the logic is:

"Sorry, you can't have public goods. The bad people might get them. We'd propose a way to make them more discerning and still help you out but well, we're not gonna do that."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."