The Great Greenberg
@the-great-g.bsky.social
Secular humorist, recovering sociologist, and writer of bad science fiction.
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
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December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
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In South Africa, there was a very strong civic society organization that allied all sorts of different types of groups called the United Democratic Front.
December 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
In South Africa, there was a very strong civic society organization that allied all sorts of different types of groups called the United Democratic Front.
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That's a difficulty with too many policies and that Dems think good policies make good politics without the tough work of connecting with voters.
December 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
That's a difficulty with too many policies and that Dems think good policies make good politics without the tough work of connecting with voters.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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it's several years old but the Adele SNL Thanksgiving sketch is still perfect
A Thanksgiving Miracle - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2024 at 2:57 AM
it's several years old but the Adele SNL Thanksgiving sketch is still perfect
An excellent article.
To understand what is going on useful to put in context of an emerging international order—neoroyalism.
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Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System - Volume 79 Issue S1
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November 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
An excellent article.
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It's like going to the casino to pay your rent.
Quite frankly, I think non-fascists who are still using Twitter and somehow still believe it’ll help them achieve non-fascist aims are 100% delusional. It’s pathetic.
It's a censorship engine designed to promote ideas that Elon Musk likes and suppress ideas that Elon Musk does not like. I really don't get why this evident fact - that Musk openly admits! - is so hard for so many people to understand
November 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It's like going to the casino to pay your rent.
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Really important article about how the White House's anti-DEI crusade is cutting off data for new potential breakthroughs for African-Americans who disproportionately suffer from end-stage kidney disease. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...
The Trump Admin’s War on Data Is Compromising Major Health Advancements for Black Americans
Thanks to a 2009 medical breakthrough, researchers could be on the precipice...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Really important article about how the White House's anti-DEI crusade is cutting off data for new potential breakthroughs for African-Americans who disproportionately suffer from end-stage kidney disease. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...
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Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
There's just so many examples and types of blatant corruption out in the open that it's hard to keep up and one wonders how much we aren't seeing.
President Donald Trump has continued his purchases of municipal and corporate debt this fall, including bonds of companies affected by his administration’s policies
Trump Buys Another $82 Million of Corporate and Municipal Bonds
President Donald Trump has continued his purchases of municipal and corporate debt this fall, including bonds of companies affected by his administration’s policies.
bloom.bg
November 16, 2025 at 4:23 AM
There's just so many examples and types of blatant corruption out in the open that it's hard to keep up and one wonders how much we aren't seeing.
What about all the U.S. banana farmers who had already invested so much in infrastructure and training on the assumption banana tariffs would continue.
BREAKING: President Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee and tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices.
Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to get rid of tariffs on a broad swath of commodities, including beef, coffee and tropical fruits.
bit.ly
November 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
What about all the U.S. banana farmers who had already invested so much in infrastructure and training on the assumption banana tariffs would continue.
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I wonder how many of these I do every day.
November 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I wonder how many of these I do every day.
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This is a lot of pressure for a poo.
November 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is a lot of pressure for a poo.
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One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan.
I never made it out of the House.
I never made it out of the House.
November 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan.
I never made it out of the House.
I never made it out of the House.
This is the key for creating an accountable government.
The level of community organizing that's happening right now is WILD. Get involved.
October 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This is the key for creating an accountable government.
I imagine this will just give the ad (which is in the comments) a lot more attention.
Trump is pissed about an ad that Canada recently ran in the U.S. showing Ronald Reagan talking about tariffs in 1987.
“Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.”
“Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.”
October 24, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I imagine this will just give the ad (which is in the comments) a lot more attention.
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Isn't this trend kind of bad for Texas?
TRUMP: WE THINK OIL WILL BE UNDER $2 PER GALLON SOON
October 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Isn't this trend kind of bad for Texas?
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Adam Douglas Thompson, The New Yorker
October 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Adam Douglas Thompson, The New Yorker
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What Americans Die from?
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
October 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
What Americans Die from?
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
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South Korea’s Lee says soldiers must never again aim firearms at the people, referencing martial law.
October 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
South Korea’s Lee says soldiers must never again aim firearms at the people, referencing martial law.
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What will poor Eric Adams do for work?
That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!
That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!
September 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
What will poor Eric Adams do for work?
That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!
That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!