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Cindy Rugeley
@cindyrugeley.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Minnesota Duluth, long-suffering Detroit Tigers fan, recovering journalist, Nikon addict.
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Cindy Rugeley @cindyrugeley.bsky.social · Jan 7
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth ― George Orwell
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Stuart Davidson @stutheeditor.bsky.social · 21h
👏👏👏👏 🇻🇪
Now let's make our posts about who won, rather than who didn't win.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d
@warnock.senate.gov: "As a man of faith, here's something that I have noticed about evil... Evil always gets a little bit too impressed with itself. It's filled up with hubris. Evil always goes too far, and because it goes too far, it contains within itself the seed of its own destruction."
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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d
The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.
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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 3d
We got some more Gaucho Nobels! #UCSB
UC Santa Barbara celebrates new Nobel Prize winners! UCSB professors John Martinis and Michel Devoret have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 3d
There is a lot that is Not Great about the current moment.

That doesn't mean that there aren't some good things too.

For the first half of the year, more energy was generated from renewables than from coal.

apnews.com/article/clim...
Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says
A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.
apnews.com
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Cindy Rugeley @cindyrugeley.bsky.social · 3d
This is the kind of stuff that once would have gotten someone fired, either the on-air talent who faked it or the people who spread the rumor that it was fake. This is a story and I would like news outlets to hold each other accountable. Is Fox faking this to stir turmoil in an American city?
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Bizzle @bizzlemcdizzle.bsky.social · 3d
hmmmm
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Cindy Rugeley @cindyrugeley.bsky.social · 3d
This is truly a bad idea
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3d
Outcry as Trump plots the plunder of US forests: "You can almost hear the chainsaws" [via @theguardian.com]
Outcry as Trump plots the plunder of US forests: "You can almost hear the chainsaws"
Public comments suggest repealing the Clinton-era "roadless rule" is wildly unpopular.
www.motherjones.com
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d
The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military.

They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 6d
Remaining feds left the scene in a large caravan, deploying more tear gas straight into the crowd - and right at my feet - as they left.
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Lizzy For Democracy @lizzy2016.bsky.social · 6d
Flood the Zone with Truth and Facts...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7d
🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d
ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.
South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'
A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.
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Cindy Rugeley @cindyrugeley.bsky.social · 7d
@cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy stopped being respected today. @msnbc.com has hired @carolleonnig.bsky.social and kept some really good news people when it split in form from NBC. There is some hope.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 7d
What I'm referring to. It's a privilege to be invited onto networks to talk about my reporting but I have limits. Similarly stopped doing NewsNation after Nextar took its Kimmel stance.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7d
This, via @jayrosen.bsky.social, is a great matrix on how to deal with right wing trolling.

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/harm-reducti...
A matrix on how to deal with each of seven tactics from "populists," including: Provocative statement Blatant lie Attack on media Extreme idea Personal softening Flooding the zone False balance point It shows that blatant lies and attacks on media, especially, cannot be ignored. It provides a series of adapted techniques on how to respond.
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✨Cramer©️ @cramer-1.bsky.social · 8d
Reminder that Stephen Miller received ZERO votes yet he’s running the executive branch of our government.
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Cindy Rugeley @cindyrugeley.bsky.social · 10d
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
Opinion | ‘Hypercharged’ Is the Only Word for This Supreme Court
www.nytimes.com
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Cindy Rugeley @cindyrugeley.bsky.social · 10d
Of course
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Cindy Rugeley @cindyrugeley.bsky.social · 11d
It is important to Europe. For the American team, not so much.
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Cindy Rugeley @cindyrugeley.bsky.social · 11d
Far Right
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 11d
'Why should I listen to Trump … and reject the words of Jesus?' asks actor and comedian @johnfugelsang.bsky.social
www.ncronline.org/opinion/why-...
'Why should I listen to Trump … and reject the words of Jesus?' asks actor and comedian John Fugelsang
This week on "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear speaks with John Fugelsang, actor, comedian, talk show host and author.
www.ncronline.org
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 12d
Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting:

Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial

100%
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Cindy Rugeley @cindyrugeley.bsky.social · 12d
What?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Clarence Thomas says precedent might not determine cases on upcoming supreme court docket
The court is expected to weigh in on same-sex marriage next session, which it legalized in 2015
www.theguardian.com
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Cindy Rugeley @cindyrugeley.bsky.social · 15d
I agree with this.
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Joel Woodruff @joelwoodruff.bsky.social · 15d
Subscribe y’all… knowledge is power
@stevevladeck.bsky.social is a huge source of knowledge and he shares it in a way that is both digestible and empowering.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15d
Today's bonus "One First" looks at how #SCOTUS's removal rulings have reconfigured the relationship b/w stare decisis and emergency relief.

"There may be persuasive justifications for such a bizarre reconfiguration of equitable relief. But, once again, the justices aren’t deigning to provide them."
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 17d
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L⭕️rd Quux RCX CCX (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image I know. But it was the best I could do to start the Tuesday. ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️😎
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 18d
The science of muddling through.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 18d
*WHITE HOUSE SAYS DOCTORS MAY BE EXEMPT FROM H1-B VISA FEES
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