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Raege ❌👑

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I care about social justice, education (especially higher ed), supporting those less fortunate, and morality. Raging at current events, doing what I can to make the world better.
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Same way I describe Mike Johnson.

Picture of Mike Johnson with a sidelong grin at the camera clasping a hand.

November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM

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Quote from Ron Filipkowski's daily Bulletin on on the Meidas Network. From the 11/7/2025 Bulletin 245, the quoted post reads: "Democrats: Let’s reopen the government today, extend the health insurance subsidies for one year, then let the voters decide in the midterms if they want to extend them further or cancel them. Republicans: HELL NO!!!"

November 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM

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While also having just said this, too.

Very much the vibes Trump and all his third term talk are giving.

From Richard Evans' The Coming of the Third Reich: "And, while the brownshirts unfolded this campaign of violence on the ground, Hitler and the leading Nazis were making it clear in their more unguarded moments that the coming election would be the last, and that, whatever happened, Hitler would not resign as Chancellor. ‘If we do one day achieve power,’ he had declared in a public address given on 17 October 1932, ‘we will hold on to it, so help us God. We will not allow them to take it away from us again.’ 43 The results of the election, he said in February 1933, would have no effect on his government’s programme. ‘It will not deter us should the German people abandon us in this hour. We will adhere to whatever is necessary to keep Germany from degenerating.’"

November 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM

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From Richard Evans' The Coming of the Third Reich:

November 3, 2025 at 2:26 AM

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Also, this:

Quote from Richard Evan's book, The Coming of the Third Reich, saying: "Dachau was not, therefore, an improvised solution to an unexpected problem of overcrowding in the gaols, but a long-planned measure that the Nazis had envisaged virtually from the very beginning. It was widely publicized and reported in the local, regional and national press, and served as a stark warning to anyone contemplating offering resistance to the Nazi regime."

November 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM

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Feels like a good time for a The Coming of the Third Reich quote from Richard Evans. The actions discussed below were happening in 1933, when the Nazis built their first concentration camp at Dachau.

Quote from Richard Evan's book, The Coming of the Third Reich, that reads: "Conditions in the concentration camps and detention centres of the SA and SS in March and April have been aptly described as ‘a makeshift sadistic anarchy’.96 SA and SS violence seldom involved the refined, inventive kind of torture later practised by secret policemen in regimes like the military dictatorships in Argentina, Chile or Greece in the 1970s. What they vented on their prisoners was often barely controlled anger. Nothing much more sophisticated was involved in the torture than fists, jackboots, and rubber truncheons. On some occasions the police, now freed from any constraints they might have felt applied under the Weimar Republic, joined in, looked on, or employed their brownshirt auxiliaries to beat confessions out of their prisoners."

November 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM

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Like this take:

Screenshot of comment on Substack by poster Mobiguy on 10/31/25, stating: "To this administration, a hundred protesters dancing in inflatable frog costumes in Oregon is an emergency, but 42 million Americans going hungry starting tomorrow is not. We are truly loving in the upside down."

November 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM

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I keep having too many uses for this.

A screenshot from Disney's Oliver and Company, with character Tito yelling "He's lying! He's lying! He's lying! He's lying!"

October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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A still from Disney's Oliver and Company with character Tito yelling "He's lying! He's lying! He's lying! He's lying!"

October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM

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October 31, 2025 at 9:30 AM

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Screenshot of Chicago Tribune Letter to the Editor that reads: "But so many people are quick to judge immigrants as criminals who came into the U.S. unlawfully, and people say they deserve what’s coming to them. Did you know their horrible crime is only a misdemeanor? Just like jaywalking or going 26 mph over the speed limit.

Immigrants came here to have freedom and a better life, to work and to leave a depressed area — just like most of our grandparents. Do they deserve to be racially profiled, detained, arrested, treated like animals and then sent to another country, unable to be found? That’s just insane. All for a misdemeanor?

If federal law enforcement arrested you for the very same level of crime, how fair do you think that would be? Let that soak in."

October 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM

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Screenshot from the Disney animated classic, Oliver. Shows a chihuahua mid-grimace with the caption "He's lying! He's lying! He's lying! He's lying!". This is a direct quote from this moment in the film.

October 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM

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What an amazing day in DC! The #NoKings protest was massive and -peaceful-. Even got to hear @sanders.senate.gov speak. What a day to tell the world that in America, we have NO KINGS! #NoKingsProtest #DC #resist

No Kings protest sign that had a crown with a red-X through it. Below that are the words NO KINGS, followed by a bulleted list reading:
- Pro-Democracy
- Pro-Empathy
- Pro-Science
- Pro-Education
- Pro-RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

Photo of No Kings protest crowds. Some protest signs are visible, reading "Pedophile. 86:47. RELEASE THE FILES" and "Democracy does not fear protest. Dictators do." and "Love thy neighbor" and "No fascist USA".

Picture of No Kings protest crowds in DC along Pennsylvania Ave NW.

Picture of the No Kings DC protest stage (part of it). Picture is too removed from stage to see speakers but the picture shows the crowds facing the stage with their signs and flags. In the background, you can see the Capitol Dome.

October 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM

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From @degrandpre.bsky.social

Screenshot of X post [I know, I know + author didn't crosspost] showing Andrew deGrandpré, who covers the Pentagon for the Washington Post, responding to a post by Scott Nover, who covers media and press freedom for the Washington Post.

Nover's post: "The Military Reporters and Editors "urges reporters not to sign the Pentagon’s new restrictive press policy" and calls it an "unprecedented attack on the First Amendment."

deGrandpré's response: "This is significant. MRE encompasses many of the independent newsrooms with a long, noble history of serving rank-and-file troops, vets & their families. Think deployment info, news about pay & benefits. Shows how Hegseth’s gambit actually undermines the military community too."

October 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM

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Interesting read.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Screenshot of Atlantic article, stating: "The collapse of a shared public sphere has in turn made possible a closed-mindedness that would dismay the Revolutionary generation. Political tribalism inhibits one of the essential tools of democracy: the capacity to change one’s mind, which is what the Founders did so radically throughout the Revolutionary period."

Screenshot of Atlantic article, stating: "This capacity not just to change one’s mind but to transform it was essential to the very creation of the United States as we know it. The American revolutionaries were men who changed their minds. In 1776, almost no one thought of an independent America as anything other than a broad alliance of 13 sovereign states, bound together by friendship, mutual interest, and bilateral treaties. A decade later, few thought of it as anything other than a federal state."

Screenshot of Atlantic article, stating: "They certainly imagined their new nation becoming a continental power.

But how large is too large? Madison in particular worried that a very extensive country would become prone to autocracy. If, he wrote, a republic were to acquire “the dimensions of China,” it would be difficult to resist a government capable of “veiling its designs from distant eyes” while “turning the prejudices and interests real or imaginary of the parts agst each other.” This would “gradually enable the Executive branch of the Govt. to overwhelm the others, and convert the Govt. into an absolute monarchy."

Screenshot of Atlantic article, stating: "What would surely have sickened them most is the sycophancy of legislators who abandon their duty of independent judgment and act as fawning courtiers of a monarchical presidency. Whatever else the Founders can be accused of, they were spectacularly innocent of servility. They would have had nothing but contempt for representatives who surrender their constitutional powers because they are afraid of arousing the ire of the president’s supporters."

October 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM

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Honestly, @nytimes.com, aren't we at the point where editorial standards should shift and we can call this a LIE?!! Trump is lying!

*Mutters* "Conditions on the ground...do not match those descriptions". FFS! 🤦🏾‍♀️

NYTimes app screenshot that reads: "Like a war zone”: President Trump on Monday again described Chicago as a crime-ridden “war zone.” And in a legal filing, his administration depicted Portland as a hotbed of violence and chaos, with protests against immigration enforcement efforts there posing “a sufficient impediment to the execution of federal laws and danger of a rebellion.” Conditions on the ground in both cities do not match those descriptions."

October 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM

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Excellent post. Well worth a read for those in #highered.

balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Screenshot of quote from post: "Universities' only proper response to this "compact" - and May Mailman's dangerous invitation to negotiate further, by way of providing "feedback" on the initial draft - is going offer absolutely nothing. There is no revised version of this compact that retrains its core enforcement mechanism that would be even remotely compatible with the independence of universities and their continuing vitality as venues for free speech and free inquiry."

October 6, 2025 at 3:24 AM

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Screenshot of NYTimes app notification with the news headline "Lower Drug Costs" with subtext: "President Trump made a deal with Pfizer to lower Medicaid drug prices and will create a direct buy pharmaceutical website called [pause for effect] TrumpRx".

October 1, 2025 at 2:40 AM

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VP Harris said he would use the military against Americans. Invading cities is the next step in a historically-defined playbook and Stephen Miller has been itching to go against sanctuary cities.

Source: www.cnn.com/2024/10/14/p...

Screenshot of CNN Politics article (linked in post) of a Kamala Harris quote from mid-Oct 2024. Quote reads: "She said later, “He’s saying he would use the military to go after them … and we know who he would target, because he has attacked them before: Journalists whose stories who he doesn’t like, election officials who refuse to cheat by finding extra votes for him, judges who insist on following the law instead of bending to his will. This is among the reasons I believe so strongly that a second Trump term would be a huge risk for America, and dangerous.”

September 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM

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🚨🚨🚨 Per @byheatherlong.bsky.social things are not looking good. #economicindicators #wakeupamerica #resist

Picture of screenshot of an X post by economist Heather Long. Post contains text on top and a picture of a bar chart below. Text reads: The labor market is going from frozen to cracking.

Look at how many industries have LOST jobs in the past 3 months.

Mining -13,000
Construction -10,000
Manufacturing -31,000
Information -15,000
Business/Professional -51,000
Federal gov't -34,000
Finance 0 job gains

The US job market is almost entirely dependent on healthcare. That's not healthy for the economy."

Bar chart shows employment change numbers by job industry as of Aug 2025. Many industries show in the negative, meaning those industries lost those jobs.

Post shows as having been made on X on Sept. 5, 2025, at 8:43am, per the time stamp in the screenshot.

September 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM

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This type of rhetoric is sooo dangerous. #resist

open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Screenshot of Ron Filipkowski's Today in Politics Bulletin 181, 7/29/2025. Specifically, a section of the bulletin that reads as follows: "Deportation Czar Tom Homan said on Newsmax that even though many of the people ICE are arresting don’t have criminal records, they are probably planning to commit crimes in the future: "I’ve done a lot of interviews where people keep saying that ICE is arresting a lot of people with no criminal records. They’re trying to turn the American people against us and steal the narrative. Most national security threats don't have a criminal history because they try to lay low until it's time for them to do things bad."

July 30, 2025 at 3:56 AM

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"This whataboutism has proved useful in any number of political debates. It is also entirely backward... Over the past 10 years, ...more than three-quarters of extremist killings have been at the hands of right-wing actors, often white supremacists." 20x that of left-wing extremists.