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Patrick Clarkin

@patrickclarkin.bsky.social

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He/him UMass Boston biological anthropologist. Ph.D. War and health, growth, embodiment, DOHaD, refugees. Binghamton grad. Child of PVD. kevishere.com

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · Jul 31

Donate to World Central Kitchen.

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World Central Kitchen | Supporting Palestinian families displaced by conflict in Gaza & West Bank

In Gaza, relentless shelling and a ground offensive have killed tens of thousands of civilians and forced nearly two million more from their homes. Despite restrictions on humanitarian aid entering Ga...

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 8h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 9h

Not a drill

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 11h

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19h

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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Sickening.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 1d

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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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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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 22h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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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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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This is out of hand. These agents are there to cause trouble and violence, not to keep people safe. These are the scenes that play out in war torn, destitute countries - not America.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

The quiet part out loud

Blanche Devereaux @gingerkap23.bsky.social · 1d

Miller oopsie doodled and said the quiet part out loud, talking about DT aka himself having “plenary authority”:

A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

This image was posted on X today by a Chicago Tribune reporter. Trump’s government has declared war on the American people — or some of them, based on race.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

this is the real legacy of Charlie Kirk

Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 1d

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

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Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 1d

This has long been one of my favorites. I had my kids watch this, and my younger cousins. Of course it’s not a documentary, but I’ll take inspiration wherever I can find it.

Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 2d

“I believe, when we most needed it, he offered the world a way out of madness. But he doesn't see it. Neither does the world.”

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 2d

We live under a white nationalist government.

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Trump considers cutting US refugee intake to 7,500, focusing on white South Africans, officials say

President Donald Trump is considering admitting far fewer refugee into the U.S. this year – as few as 7,500, and mostly white Afrikaners.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2d

Last year they claimed “illegals” were voting, without any evidence.

They used fear mongering to push for voter suppression laws.

Now they claim “illegals” are getting free healthcare, again without any evidence.

So they can make healthcare unaffordable for millions of Americans.

Enough.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, it’s definitely a long list.

Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 2d

Our candidates can create an insurrection on live TV and face no consequences.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

“I am living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil.”

From July 17th: m.facebook.com/share/p/16yL...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d

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