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Furrowed Brow @furrowedbrow91.bsky.social · 7h

How much more are you going to take America?

The majority of We the People oppose this dangerous, unAmerican, disgusting thuggery and yet no one is marching on Washington or doing General Strikes and Boycotts or anything really at all.

We the People could stop this in weeks. US = bunch of wimps.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Governor Maura Healey @massgovernor.bsky.social · 8h

Never in the history of our great country has another President threatened to jail a Governor for disagreeing with him. I stand with Governor Pritzker and hope all Americans do as well. This is authoritarian insanity.

Donald Trump’s not fighting crime, he’s abusing power to attack opponents.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

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Dr. Tender Lettuce @tenderlettuce.bsky.social · 18h

New pub from me today at Ethics & International Affairs (PhilPapers link: philpapers.org/rec/LENDMC + EIA link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...)

Journal: Ethics & International Affairs, Cambridge University Press

Title: Detained Migrant Children, Autonomy, and Positive Duties

Author: Tyra Lennie

Abstract: Despite a heavy philosophical focus on issues pertaining to immigration, little discussion is taken up that examines the duties we owe to migrant children. This article works to bridge the gap between global justice literature and work on children’s autonomy and well-being. To capture what migrant children experience in the context of immigration and detention, the article examines the conditions on the island country of Nauru, where at least 222 migrant children experienced detention between the years of 2013 and 2019. Using this lived experience as an example, the article argues that we owe children specific positive duties, which are further supported by the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Throughout this article, the aim is to indicate how migrant children occupy a particularly vulnerable and nonautonomous status in the context of detention. Because of this, children are owed especially weighty positive duties that are not discussed in the current global justice literature.

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Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social · 17h

In recent decades, scholars have examined various facets of Avicenna’s #logic. But how did Avicenna himself conceptualize logic—its definition, status, and purpose? PhD student Shahab Khademi explores this question in a new paper! 👇📃 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #philsky #histphil #HPS

Avicenna on the Meaning of Logic: Revisiting Five Major Works

Avicenna's logic has gathered much interest in recent decades. However, one significant point that has hitherto been frequently neglected is what logic means to Avicenna in the first place. Conside...

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Furrowed Brow @furrowedbrow91.bsky.social · 11h

Nope. Dems (moderate cons) have a LOT of problems. I've never been happy with them.

Stewart is another elitist, performative, moderate narcissist. And not an expert on what he pontificates on. I only pay heed to actual intellectuals & deeply serious people, not ranting lunatics & mere entertainers.

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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 13h

This is a blatant lie, though if it were true the best path forward would be to *expand* low-cost access to healthcare. Republicans like Mike Johnson want to restrict access for everyone and they're telling blatant lies to get their way

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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R.J. Gerber Jr. @fathitler.com · 16h

There needs to be a general and prolonged strike, as soon as possible.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

Congress continues to fail at providing the checks & balances the Constitution intends on the executive branch, but Senate Democrats are working hard to try and get it there. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Oversight

Attorney General Pam Bondi showed up for an oversight hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee today, and she brought her best Scarlett O’Hara demeanor along with her.

open.substack.com

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Furrowed Brow @furrowedbrow91.bsky.social · 11h

More images coming in of war-ravaged #Portland.

As you can see, nothing's left, pure bedlam.

Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 14h

My wife @pattyskuster.bsky.social is in Portland today. It’s a war zone, insurrectionists and sunflowers everywhere.

Pretty flowers at the downtown farmers’ market.

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Furrowed Brow @furrowedbrow91.bsky.social · 11h

NO MORE CANDIDACIES FOR HIGH OFFICE ALLOWED WITHOUT IQ TEST SCORES. AT LEAST 110 SCORE REQUIRED.

That would take care of 80% of the GOP right there.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

“Have you given any more thought to suspending habeas corpus?”

TRUMP: “Suspending who?” 🤷🏼

Aaand scene.

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Furrowed Brow @furrowedbrow91.bsky.social · 11h

I'm not. Stewart is problematic at the least.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @thedailyshow.com

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Furrowed Brow @furrowedbrow91.bsky.social · 14h

know that, hence they have for decades lied about, or distorted, the truth about his degree to make it sound more impressive.

So there's nothing at all wrong with a real estate degree, but a business, & especially economics, degree sounds more impressive. Hence why dummy changed it to that. 2/2

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Furrowed Brow @furrowedbrow91.bsky.social · 14h

I should probably qualify here-& I would have earlier had I had the space-that I'm not a degree snob or elitist.

But we also have to be honest here: a real estate degree is simply not very intellectually demanding (nor is a business degree; an economics degree, however, is). And dummy's handlers 1/

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The Philosophy Teaching Library @thephillibrary.bsky.social · 16h

*New Article*

What Can I Know? Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Preface A and B

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Furrowed Brow @furrowedbrow91.bsky.social · 15h

There really is no need for them, or at least the high tuition cost.

Any decent school is going to be intellectually challenging (the source material doesn't change after all!), & often lesser known schools are actually more academically rigorous since they focus on research/academics: not brand.

Furrowed Brow @furrowedbrow91.bsky.social · 16h

Oh yea, pretty common in my experience. Know at least a few who majored or double majored in it.

So dum dum majored in real estate, & the degree was awarded by the Wharton business/economics school; hence the lie that he has a "business/economics" degree.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

The original version of the book said that Epstein was involved in introducing Melania to her beloved husband.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

Supreme Court is going to endorse torture.

Expand this corrupt Court.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

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Furrowed Brow @furrowedbrow91.bsky.social · 1d

#GOPFascism

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

It's happening right in front of you.

Trump and the GOP are creating their own manufactured crises, lighting the Reichstag fires, blaming "them" for the violence (their critics), citing "left-wing" terrorism, all as a setup for martial law and the Insurrection Act.

It's happening in plain sight.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

This is the Epstein files shutdown.

A screenshot of an X.com post by @AdelitaForAZ
, Adelita Grijalva, stating, "The people of Southern Arizona deserve representation and I'm ready to get to work. Swear me in NOW! @SpeakerJohnson
!" followed by a reply from @GavinNewsom
, Gavin Newsom, saying, "It's not even November and the GOP are already rigging elections." Below, a news headline from McClatchy by Nikki McCann Ramirez dated September 30, 2025, reads, "DEM SAYS MIKE JOHNSON IS DELAYING HER SWEARING-IN TO PREVENT EPSTEIN VOTE," with a photo of Adelita Grijalva smiling at an event in Tucson, Arizona, on Tuesday, September 23, 2025.

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Furrowed Brow @furrowedbrow91.bsky.social · 1d

It's just a real estate degree. It's *from* the Wharton school of business/economics, so they call it an econ degree, but he majored in...real estate. Meaning he's sooo dismally stupid that the best degree his dad could buy him was a real estate degree; & not even from Harvard, Yale, or Princeton.

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Furrowed Brow @furrowedbrow91.bsky.social · 1d

Some they deride as "DEIs" make it in on merit.

Most make it on on "donations". A "DD" : Donation Degree. Even the relatively not rich (I knew upper middle kids with parents who were alums/donated as little as 20k to get their kids in).

Hawley is just another rich kid twit with a DD degree.

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