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Not a wasted word. A must read for all of us:

"If the American Experiment dies, it will be because we didn’t stop the immorality of a white supremacy that calls Somali refugees “garbage” and a patriarchy that mutters “f---ing bitch” as it murders a woman in ice-cold blood...."
willbunch.bsky.social Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 4d
In a week when a century happened, from VZ to MN, the biggest story was Trump's vow that nothing can stop him but 'my own morality' and 'my own mind'

But a dictatorship that relies on brute force, alternate truth can be stopped. By our morality. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
Trump now a tyrant restrained only by ‘my own morality.’ We stop him with our own. | Will Bunch
After a monumental week that changed America, Trump believes there is no limit on his powers. We can prove him wrong.
www.inquirer.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Does the Trump regime's attempt to blame Renee Good for being murdered by an ICE agent sound familiar? snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-...
The thousands of extrajudicial killings in Maduro’s Venezuela were carried out by organized death squads. These actions were described as defensive. The Maduro regime claimed that the people they murdered were resisting government authority, and that the men who pulled the trigger had been provoked by those whom they murdered. Minneapolis has just witnessed an extrajudicial killing, at the hands of ICE, which looks more and more like a presidential paramilitary organization. The action was, horribly, excused by the president, the vice-president, and the director of homeland security, using the same lies as those told by Maduro’s Venezuelan regime. The victim was resisting government authority, they said. The man who pulled the trigger had been provoked, they said. It was not the killer who was a terrorist. It was the mom who had just dropped off one of her six-year-old at school.
January 11, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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 Anna Maria Barry-Jester @annamaria.bsky.social · Dec 15
As the Trump administration gutted USAID this year, officials, including Marco Rubio, said over and over that lifesaving operations would continue around the world and that nobody had died because of the cuts.
December 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Of course by now we are all used to this - and that is part of the problem. Everyone should be alarmed! That there are still people who support this man as President is frightening.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Dec 2
here's Trump's full racist rant about MN's Somali community: "Somalians ripped off that state for billions. And they contribute nothing... Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"
December 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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here's Trump's full racist rant about MN's Somali community: "Somalians ripped off that state for billions. And they contribute nothing... Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"
December 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Look folks - I get that talking about the history of racism and colonialism can be deeply uncomfortable. But do you know what’s way more uncomfortable than talking about the history of racism and colonialism?

Enduring racism and colonialism.

And it’s not even close.
December 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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The Trump Administration Is Quietly Preparing to Bring Back School Segregation prospect.org/2025/11...
The Trump Administration Is Quietly Preparing to Bring Back School Segregation - The American Prospect
It starts with vouchers and the destruction of the Office for Civil Rights.
prospect.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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I posted a montage of 19 clips last week of Trump making personal attacks against female reporters in just the last few months. Now we have #20.
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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@americanair.bsky.social I recognize flight delays are expected in air travel. But publishing false info should not be! Flying today and the board said “boarding soon” right up to the moment a 40 minute delay was announced. …..Then,
November 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Curriculum Censorship and Book Banning
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Sharing some thoughts on how we respond to policies that threaten ednal equity. Grateful to include things learned from Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop, Roberto and Lorena Germán, @imkcpodcast.bsky.social, @professorjvh.bsky.social .
Curriculum Censorship and Book Banning
A Very Real and Present Danger
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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It’s entirely possible that, just as John Paul II is remembered for standing up to authoritarian regimes in the East, Leo will be remembered for standing up to authoritarian threats in the West.
November 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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www.democracynow.org/2025/11/13/u...
Dr. Atul Gawande: Hundreds of Thousands Have Already Died Since Trump Closed USAID
“We had the cure for death from malnutrition, and we took it away.” We speak to surgeon and health policy expert Atul Gawande about the Trump administration’s near-total dismantling of USAID. Gawande,...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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I've learned from and am thrilled to share the work of Multicultural Classroom and Roberto and Lorena German. Thank you for the shout it in this episode. It was a thrill for me to meet Justin at my workshop and learn of his connection with you!
Episode 138 | When the Work Reaches Places You've Never Been
In this episode of Our Classroom, Roberto Germán shares a powerful testimony from community member Justin Luttrull about a moment that unfolded in a breakout session at Calvin University. A professor ...
www.multiculturalclassroom.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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OPINION: Jesus preached that one of the two greatest commandments from God is to love one’s neighbor. Compare this to Kirk’s show of antagonizing transgender people, broadcasting anti-Blackness, stoking Islamophobia and more.
religionnews.com/2025/10/14/k...
Kirk's rise as a Christian hero exposes the faith's perilous path
(RNS) — Attempts to sanitize Kirk demonstrate a perilous consensus among many Christians to make the faith the bedrock of authoritarianism.
religionnews.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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This billionaire is trolling hardworking educators—and making jokes about gutting supports for special needs kids.
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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"Whether you call it 'school choice' or vouchers, privatization of education socializes all of the costs of education, but it privatizes all the benefits." (Becky Glover). Great start to the article!
October 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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A call to engage
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A call to engage
Putting our working faith into action as the perennial midwife
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October 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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October 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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worth repeating
October 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:

Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.
Dear Madam Secretary, I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters. I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education. As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples: • MIT prides itself on rewarding merit. Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions. • MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available to any American with an internet connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly 10%. source: https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact • We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree. These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law. The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone. In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education. As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people. We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation. Sincerely, Sally Kornbluth
October 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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truthout.org
To insist that the soldiers of the 7th Cavalry “deserve those medals” is to frame the massacre at Wounded Knee as a moment of valor rather than atrocity. For Native communities, this declaration is not about honor, but erasure and cruelty that reopen and deepen a wound that has never healed.
With Wounded Knee Medals, Trump Admin Suggests There’s Valor in Genocide
The call to rescind those medals is not about erasing history, but about refusing to let lies and conquest define it.
truthout.org
September 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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The White House Press Secretary, the official spokesperson for the Trump administration, told reporters in an official briefing that the president wants to invade "every Democrat-run city" with troops.

Any media still pretending that this is about "crime" is making a conscious choice to lie to you.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 9
Leavitt: "These are the bad guys that we are picking up in Washington DC every day. The president would love to do this in every Democrat-run city across the country."
September 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM