@jehsenior.bsky.social
Creator/researcher of my family tree for twenty years. User of profanity and I mute here with impunity! Following news writers, legal analysts, political insiders, etc. Not interested in banter, sharing recipes, nor receiving misinformation.
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This was my point this morning on my podcast and on Velshi.
Before America's REAL civil war, people weren't calling for one.
Current talk about "civil war" is an advertising campaign for violence.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxHu...
Before America's REAL civil war, people weren't calling for one.
Current talk about "civil war" is an advertising campaign for violence.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxHu...
September 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
This was my point this morning on my podcast and on Velshi.
Before America's REAL civil war, people weren't calling for one.
Current talk about "civil war" is an advertising campaign for violence.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxHu...
Before America's REAL civil war, people weren't calling for one.
Current talk about "civil war" is an advertising campaign for violence.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxHu...
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Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be.
Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.
Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.
To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.
September 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be.
Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.
Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.
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From @mariaressa.bsky.social: "The rights you lose today you are going to have to claw back with much more than you had if you were to hold the line."
youtu.be/yWpedkNHo3E?...
youtu.be/yWpedkNHo3E?...
May 10, 2025 at 5:27 AM
From @mariaressa.bsky.social: "The rights you lose today you are going to have to claw back with much more than you had if you were to hold the line."
youtu.be/yWpedkNHo3E?...
youtu.be/yWpedkNHo3E?...
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In an unprecedented power grab, the Indiana state legislature has taken over Indiana University. They have effectively dismantled tenure protections by instituting productivity quotas and www.indystar.com/story/news/p...
'Complete takeover': Lawmakers exert control over university policy in 11th hour
They appeared near the bottom of the 220-page budget bill Wednesday evening, and rose to the forefront of the heated debate Friday morning.
www.indystar.com
April 26, 2025 at 3:20 AM
In an unprecedented power grab, the Indiana state legislature has taken over Indiana University. They have effectively dismantled tenure protections by instituting productivity quotas and www.indystar.com/story/news/p...
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Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio), 1936-2025.
Much will be said by many more knowledgeable than I about his papacy and its historical significance.
I'll only say that he seemed to me a very decent man in an age of indecency.
May his memory be a blessing.
Much will be said by many more knowledgeable than I about his papacy and its historical significance.
I'll only say that he seemed to me a very decent man in an age of indecency.
May his memory be a blessing.
April 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio), 1936-2025.
Much will be said by many more knowledgeable than I about his papacy and its historical significance.
I'll only say that he seemed to me a very decent man in an age of indecency.
May his memory be a blessing.
Much will be said by many more knowledgeable than I about his papacy and its historical significance.
I'll only say that he seemed to me a very decent man in an age of indecency.
May his memory be a blessing.
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Read more about the four ways we can confront an autocrat's dehumanizing tactics in our latest weekly briefing, and remember to subscribe: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-not-to...
How *not* to look away
Cruelty is central to the authoritarian playbook
www.ifyoucankeepit.org
April 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Read more about the four ways we can confront an autocrat's dehumanizing tactics in our latest weekly briefing, and remember to subscribe: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-not-to...
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Humanity can still win over an autocrat’s use of cruelty for power. We offer 4 ways we can confront dehumanizing tactics in a way that overcomes, not feeds, the division autocrats demand. Threaded ⬇️
Details 🔗 www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-not-to...
Details 🔗 www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-not-to...
How *not* to look away
Cruelty is central to the authoritarian playbook
www.ifyoucankeepit.org
April 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Humanity can still win over an autocrat’s use of cruelty for power. We offer 4 ways we can confront dehumanizing tactics in a way that overcomes, not feeds, the division autocrats demand. Threaded ⬇️
Details 🔗 www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-not-to...
Details 🔗 www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-not-to...
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WHAT DO THESE GENIUSES THINK WILL HAPPEN TO MANUFACTURING JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY IF THERE IS A RECESSION !?!?!?!?!?!!?
April 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
WHAT DO THESE GENIUSES THINK WILL HAPPEN TO MANUFACTURING JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY IF THERE IS A RECESSION !?!?!?!?!?!!?
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Vaccines do not cause children to have autism.
Vaccines cause children to be able to grow up to be adults, because children can stay alive instead of die from vaccine-preventable diseases like measles.
Also: autistic children are delightfully amazing and we love them. ❤️
Vaccines cause children to be able to grow up to be adults, because children can stay alive instead of die from vaccine-preventable diseases like measles.
Also: autistic children are delightfully amazing and we love them. ❤️
Today, HHS Secretary RFK Jr. promised that “by September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures.” This alarming claim is untrue, impossible, and ableist. Full statement:
autisticadvocacy.org
April 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Vaccines do not cause children to have autism.
Vaccines cause children to be able to grow up to be adults, because children can stay alive instead of die from vaccine-preventable diseases like measles.
Also: autistic children are delightfully amazing and we love them. ❤️
Vaccines cause children to be able to grow up to be adults, because children can stay alive instead of die from vaccine-preventable diseases like measles.
Also: autistic children are delightfully amazing and we love them. ❤️
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2/ This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won’t understand how the tariffs make economic sense.
That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.
That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
2/ This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won’t understand how the tariffs make economic sense.
That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.
That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.
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Inspired by @mark-carney.bsky.social and Canadians everywhere. We’re all fighting back on our home ice!
April 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
April 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
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This is a test. Not like a test as not the real thing like a fire drill, but the real thing itself: a test as in all of us are being tested, as in "these are times that try men's souls" and everyone's principles. Who will stand up to the coup/constitutional crisis? Who has already surrendered?
People Have the Power: Week Whatever of the Stupid Coup and the Pushback
I wrote the following early yesterday before the big news of the Wisconsin election in which Elon Musk's estimated $20 million and illicit bribes to voters did not net a win for his candidate and may ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This is a test. Not like a test as not the real thing like a fire drill, but the real thing itself: a test as in all of us are being tested, as in "these are times that try men's souls" and everyone's principles. Who will stand up to the coup/constitutional crisis? Who has already surrendered?
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FACEBOOK IS HIDING HEATHER COX RICHARDSON’S POSTS
SOMETHING ISN’T RIGHT
open.substack.com
April 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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In a world full of Donald Trumps and Elon Musks, be a Cory Booker.
April 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
In a world full of Donald Trumps and Elon Musks, be a Cory Booker.
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The Paul, Weiss Wikipedia page should lead with this emendation
March 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The Paul, Weiss Wikipedia page should lead with this emendation
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Millions of you, around the world, have put the lessons I wrote in #OnTyranny in late 2016 to good use. It has been humbling to learn how from courageous and creative dissenters, protestors, and oppositionists. I was honored when John Lithgow volunteered to read them aloud.
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Millions of you, around the world, have put the lessons I wrote in #OnTyranny in late 2016 to good use. It has been humbling to learn how from courageous and creative dissenters, protestors, and oppositionists. I was honored when John Lithgow volunteered to read them aloud.
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“Goldberg has responded to questions about the photo, telling CBS News: ‘If your eyeballs see us together, then I guess your eyeballs are seeing us together.’”
Mike Waltz said he never met Jeffrey Goldberg. A photo suggests otherwise
Goldberg has responded to questions about the photo, telling CBS News, "If your eyeballs see us together, then I guess your eyeballs are seeing us together."
www.newsweek.com
March 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“Goldberg has responded to questions about the photo, telling CBS News: ‘If your eyeballs see us together, then I guess your eyeballs are seeing us together.’”
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Abolish ICE is not an absurdity statement. ICE was created in 2003 as a response to 9/11 - we do not need it. We already established that following orders isn't an excuse.
March 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Abolish ICE is not an absurdity statement. ICE was created in 2003 as a response to 9/11 - we do not need it. We already established that following orders isn't an excuse.
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it makes a little more sense if you think of DOJ as daddy's lawyers frantically cleaning up after the nepobaby's binge weekend, even as the failson heads into friday ready to do it all over again. (they're trying whatever. time is on their side.)
March 20, 2025 at 5:41 AM
it makes a little more sense if you think of DOJ as daddy's lawyers frantically cleaning up after the nepobaby's binge weekend, even as the failson heads into friday ready to do it all over again. (they're trying whatever. time is on their side.)
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Beautiful, powerful letter
I have been asked by Harvard colleagues if they should keep quiet so as not put the larger Harvard community at risk with their words
Took me a while to ruminate
My response:
Harvard is its people and their voices
If we are silent then there is no Harvard to save
I have been asked by Harvard colleagues if they should keep quiet so as not put the larger Harvard community at risk with their words
Took me a while to ruminate
My response:
Harvard is its people and their voices
If we are silent then there is no Harvard to save
Agreed. We are speaking up where we can.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
A Statement by Teachers College, Columbia University Faculty
A Statement by Teachers College, Columbia University Faculty The Attack on American Education, from our Perspective as Teachers College Faculty March 19, 2025 We are a group of Teachers College facult...
docs.google.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Beautiful, powerful letter
I have been asked by Harvard colleagues if they should keep quiet so as not put the larger Harvard community at risk with their words
Took me a while to ruminate
My response:
Harvard is its people and their voices
If we are silent then there is no Harvard to save
I have been asked by Harvard colleagues if they should keep quiet so as not put the larger Harvard community at risk with their words
Took me a while to ruminate
My response:
Harvard is its people and their voices
If we are silent then there is no Harvard to save