Jerry Copus
@jerrycopus.bsky.social
“We walk in the dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no one may pass.”
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Finally had a chance to read this Incredible piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social that documents Miller’s attempt to undo and reverse the 1965 immigration settlement and reveals how central this effort is to the administration’s reactionary aim to take down the New Deal and civil rights orders.
December 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Finally had a chance to read this Incredible piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social that documents Miller’s attempt to undo and reverse the 1965 immigration settlement and reveals how central this effort is to the administration’s reactionary aim to take down the New Deal and civil rights orders.
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It's almost as if the Enlightenment figures who founded the US had learned the lessons of Europe's wars of religion and created a secular state that would both protect worshippers from political interference, AND protect the polity from becoming dominated by religious sectarians.
December 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
It's almost as if the Enlightenment figures who founded the US had learned the lessons of Europe's wars of religion and created a secular state that would both protect worshippers from political interference, AND protect the polity from becoming dominated by religious sectarians.
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
December 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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The glue, used up on purpose.
The Old Man, when the turkey fell.
Flick, his tongue stuck.
Ralphie and Scut Farkas in the alley.
The Old Man, when the turkey fell.
Flick, his tongue stuck.
Ralphie and Scut Farkas in the alley.
December 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The glue, used up on purpose.
The Old Man, when the turkey fell.
Flick, his tongue stuck.
Ralphie and Scut Farkas in the alley.
The Old Man, when the turkey fell.
Flick, his tongue stuck.
Ralphie and Scut Farkas in the alley.
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A few excerpts from Darmok's Christmas Story:
Ralphie and Flick, at the flagpole.
Randy, his arms down.
The Old Man, when the lamp broke.
Santa and Ralphie, on the mountain.
Ralphie and Flick, at the flagpole.
Randy, his arms down.
The Old Man, when the lamp broke.
Santa and Ralphie, on the mountain.
December 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
A few excerpts from Darmok's Christmas Story:
Ralphie and Flick, at the flagpole.
Randy, his arms down.
The Old Man, when the lamp broke.
Santa and Ralphie, on the mountain.
Ralphie and Flick, at the flagpole.
Randy, his arms down.
The Old Man, when the lamp broke.
Santa and Ralphie, on the mountain.
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People have been brainwashed into believing that government in 🇺🇸“doesn’t work,” and never has.
But it does, thanks to institutions like the Government Accoutability Office (GAO).
This is a key hinge to be smashed, for the self-fulfilling prophecy of making government not work.
But it does, thanks to institutions like the Government Accoutability Office (GAO).
This is a key hinge to be smashed, for the self-fulfilling prophecy of making government not work.
I think destroying GAO - which is full of embedded knowledge of how government works and does superb, nonpartisan research- would be an absolute priority for Trump. Best we can hope for, I guess, is that they can slow-walk the nomination of a replacement until after November 2026.
One Agency Has Been Calling Out Trump’s Illegal Impoundment. That May Soon Change.
Throughout 2025, the Trump administration has, time after time, simply refused to...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
People have been brainwashed into believing that government in 🇺🇸“doesn’t work,” and never has.
But it does, thanks to institutions like the Government Accoutability Office (GAO).
This is a key hinge to be smashed, for the self-fulfilling prophecy of making government not work.
But it does, thanks to institutions like the Government Accoutability Office (GAO).
This is a key hinge to be smashed, for the self-fulfilling prophecy of making government not work.
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Ok how much did the military lose. The USPS is not a business
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Ok how much did the military lose. The USPS is not a business
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This is how dictators talk
December 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This is how dictators talk
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- Threatening other countries’ territorial sovereignty
- Concentration camps
- Massive oligarchic corruption
- Extrajudicial overseas murders
- Accelerating petrostate economy
- Sanctioning foreign individuals we don’t like
We Are Nothing Like The Russians Because We Are America 🇺🇸
🧐🤔😬🤦♂️
- Concentration camps
- Massive oligarchic corruption
- Extrajudicial overseas murders
- Accelerating petrostate economy
- Sanctioning foreign individuals we don’t like
We Are Nothing Like The Russians Because We Are America 🇺🇸
🧐🤔😬🤦♂️
“Imran Ahmed, chief executive of Centre for Countering Digital Hate; Josephine Ballon and Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, leaders of HateAid, a German organization; former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, who was responsible for digital affairs; and Clare Melford, who runs the Global Disinformation Index.”
US bars five Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints online
The State Department is barring five Europeans it accuses of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.
apnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
- Threatening other countries’ territorial sovereignty
- Concentration camps
- Massive oligarchic corruption
- Extrajudicial overseas murders
- Accelerating petrostate economy
- Sanctioning foreign individuals we don’t like
We Are Nothing Like The Russians Because We Are America 🇺🇸
🧐🤔😬🤦♂️
- Concentration camps
- Massive oligarchic corruption
- Extrajudicial overseas murders
- Accelerating petrostate economy
- Sanctioning foreign individuals we don’t like
We Are Nothing Like The Russians Because We Are America 🇺🇸
🧐🤔😬🤦♂️
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1/ FACT CHECK: Trump’s post conflates two separate issues to claim “hundreds of thousands of ballots were counted twice.”
December 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
1/ FACT CHECK: Trump’s post conflates two separate issues to claim “hundreds of thousands of ballots were counted twice.”
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The Pentagon has failed its 8th straight audit, yet Congress just handed it a record $1 trillion budget that will pour billions into contractors tied to billionaires like Elon Musk and Alex Karp while ordinary Americans struggle to cover basic needs.
Pentagon Fails 8th Audit in a Row as Congress Grants It $1 Trillion Budget
This funding will enrich billionaires like Elon Musk and Alex Karp as Americans struggle to afford basic needs.
truthout.org
December 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The Pentagon has failed its 8th straight audit, yet Congress just handed it a record $1 trillion budget that will pour billions into contractors tied to billionaires like Elon Musk and Alex Karp while ordinary Americans struggle to cover basic needs.
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If Trump were a foreign agent working to destroy US power, would he do anything differently?
New in PN: Make America Weak
"It's become clear that Trump's efforts to sabotage America’s economic, political, and defense relationships with major democracies abroad are part and parcel of 'policies' he’s been pursuing at home — all calculated to make our nation more susceptible to autocracy."
"It's become clear that Trump's efforts to sabotage America’s economic, political, and defense relationships with major democracies abroad are part and parcel of 'policies' he’s been pursuing at home — all calculated to make our nation more susceptible to autocracy."
Make America Weak
Trump is systematically undermining America's interests at home and abroad.
www.publicnotice.co
December 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
If Trump were a foreign agent working to destroy US power, would he do anything differently?
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As I explained in my newsletter, this is because Trump's team has reinvented millennia of math to invert what "percentage of change" means.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/its-beginnin...
www.howtoreadthisch.art/its-beginnin...
December 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
As I explained in my newsletter, this is because Trump's team has reinvented millennia of math to invert what "percentage of change" means.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/its-beginnin...
www.howtoreadthisch.art/its-beginnin...
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IUPAT President @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social is right:
Temporary Protected Status recipients are rigorously vetted, pay taxes, and do work in critical industries. They are part of our communities and our unions—they deserve respect and protection.
America’s unions will keep fighting for them.
Temporary Protected Status recipients are rigorously vetted, pay taxes, and do work in critical industries. They are part of our communities and our unions—they deserve respect and protection.
America’s unions will keep fighting for them.
December 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
IUPAT President @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social is right:
Temporary Protected Status recipients are rigorously vetted, pay taxes, and do work in critical industries. They are part of our communities and our unions—they deserve respect and protection.
America’s unions will keep fighting for them.
Temporary Protected Status recipients are rigorously vetted, pay taxes, and do work in critical industries. They are part of our communities and our unions—they deserve respect and protection.
America’s unions will keep fighting for them.
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What’s happening with American media, American education, and America’s approach to places like Greenland & Honduras harmonizes with the “network state” movement (backed by Thiel, Lonsdale, Andreessen, etc), which calls for the construction of “parallel institutions” and “parallel societies”. 1/
IMHO, you can’t understand what’s happening to the US if u don’t know about the “network state” movement & its “parallel establishment” strategy, which includes building “parallel societies” (w/ their own physical territories) & “parallel institutions” in media, education, finance, science, etc. 1/
December 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
What’s happening with American media, American education, and America’s approach to places like Greenland & Honduras harmonizes with the “network state” movement (backed by Thiel, Lonsdale, Andreessen, etc), which calls for the construction of “parallel institutions” and “parallel societies”. 1/
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Don’t forget. Biden’s DoJ was investigating uncharged third parties in the Epstein files up until the last minute. Trump shut down the investigation, sent the files to DC, & fired the prosecutors. They went through them, redacted Trump’s name, then elected not to release them and closed the matter.
December 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Don’t forget. Biden’s DoJ was investigating uncharged third parties in the Epstein files up until the last minute. Trump shut down the investigation, sent the files to DC, & fired the prosecutors. They went through them, redacted Trump’s name, then elected not to release them and closed the matter.
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started / going
December 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
started / going
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What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.
December 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.
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Never forget this: The GOP’s nonsensical culture war is meant to distract you from corporate corruption, worker oppression, and staggering wealth inequality.
December 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Never forget this: The GOP’s nonsensical culture war is meant to distract you from corporate corruption, worker oppression, and staggering wealth inequality.
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Organizations like the Trans Youth Emergency Project will be essential in navigating a rapidly shrinking care landscape.
Group Offers Guidance to Help Keep Getting Care After New Trump Anti-Trans Rule
Organizations like the Trans Youth Emergency Project will be essential in navigating a rapidly shrinking care landscape.
buff.ly
December 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Organizations like the Trans Youth Emergency Project will be essential in navigating a rapidly shrinking care landscape.
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
the vice president is a klansman
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