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Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hey folks: just created this starter pack for my followers.
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Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · 55m

The Turning Point USA chapter at Rutgers has been a core driver of death threats and doxxing against scholar Mark Bray and his family. Tell
Rutgers to close it.

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Disband the Rutgers Chapter of Turning Point USA

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

chng.it

Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · 9h

Just had time to watch the Pam Bondi hearings from yesterday: never, even during Watergate, have I seen an Attorney General behave like a petulant child.

Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · 9h

Hang in there Mark

Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · 10h

MLB cares so much about the fans that Philadelphia is expected to stay up up til midnight to see if our brave, troubled boys will be eliminated

a philadelphia phillies mascot in a dugout

ALT: a philadelphia phillies mascot in a dugout

media.tenor.com

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Maxine Bernstein @maxbernstein.bsky.social · 16h

Federal judge in Oregon ordered release of Iranian man held by ICE since June

@oregonian.com

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Federal judge in Oregon ordered release of Iranian man held by ICE since June

The judge's order came after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials indicated that the man “could be a candidate,” for removal via a charter flight to Iran this month.

www.oregonlive.com

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11h

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · 10h

I wish journalists would stop referring to the hostages in Gaza "who have died." They were killed.

Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · 11h

I tried to watch Chad Powers on Hulu and could not tolerate the commercials.

What does that say about me?

Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · 14h

At least she didn't say: "We'll turn Brooklyn into Gaza!!!!!"

Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · 1d

You will kill it.

Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · 1d

Will Trump free Ghislaine Maxwell now that SCOTUS declined to put a convicted sex trafficker on the street?

Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · 1d

So impressed with Oregon Governor Tina Kotek.

Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · 2d

"The site employs more than 50 employees in offices on both coasts and has attracted some well-known journalists." I mean, dear god: some English departments have "more than 50 employees."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

Paramount Buys The Free Press, Ushering in a New Era at CBS News

www.nytimes.com

Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · 2d

This is so typically: a lot of verbiage that sounds pretty but means absolutely nothing. It's all marketing.

Good luck CBS News.
www.thefp.com/p/the-future...

The Future of The Free Press

The Free Press is joining Paramount.

www.thefp.com

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Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · 2d

"The Free Press will continue to operate as an independent entity within Paramount, with Ms. Weiss remaining as editor in chief." I don't even know where to start loling about this. In corporate terms, The Free Press is like...the coffee stand in hte lobby.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

Paramount Buys The Free Press, Ushering in a New Era at CBS News

www.nytimes.com

Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · 2d

It’s kind d of like asking someone to run Harvard and Yale simultaneously.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

The Trump administration has found its seventh leader for the IRS since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term: Frank Bisignano, the head of the Social Security Administration.

Bisignano will run both agencies.

Trump’s new IRS ‘CEO’: The head of Social Security

The Trump administration on Monday found its seventh leader for the Internal Revenue Service since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term: the head of the Social Security Administration.

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Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · 2d

My mother on the Phillies: “Either they all hit or none of them hit.”

She has always been my baseball
Guru.

Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · 2d

GO PHILLIES!!!!

Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · 2d

But such an original thinker. There’s that. @moiradonegan.bsky.social, I think @newrepublic.com needs an ongoing column from me called “Lesbian Nation,” except this time it’s all about lesbians who decided to throw in their lot with the GOP

Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · 2d

How too bad that Republicans are not in control of every branch of government. Wait—they are???

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sean Duffy says the safety of the air traffic control system will start being impacted next Sunday if the shutdown continues

Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · 2d

That politically correct thing of trying to bomb North Vietnam into oblivion.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

They literally just fought a Supreme Court case for the right to racially profile. It was in the news!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

DHS's Tricia McLaughlin: "It is a disgusting smear to say there is racial profiling going on."

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Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · 2d

The last time soldiers from Texas squared off with soldiers from Illinois it did. It ended well for Texas. Watch out, bitchz.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 3d

Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical) @tenuredradical.bsky.social · 2d

I have never liked him. What is an Australian doing singing country anyway?

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2d

“I left my wife, Nicole Kidman, because I was sick of her, Nicole Kidman, needing me to have sex with her, Nicole Kidman” do you hear yourself man

Tweet from Daily Mail Celebrity @DailyMailCeleb
How Nicole Kidman's 'bottomless need for sexual attention' led to the end of her marriage to country music star Keith Urban: Nashville insiders open up to
ALISON BOSHOFF

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Maxine Bernstein @maxbernstein.bsky.social · 3d

Judge issues new broader order barring any National Guard from being relocated to Oregon

@oregonian.com

www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Judge issues new broader order barring any National Guard from relocating to Oregon

U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut issued a second broader temporary restraining order late Sunday night.

www.oregonlive.com

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