Thom Parker
@thomparker.bsky.social
Southpaw, autograph collector, James Madison Fellow 1995 MI, retired teacher, history nerd, Notre Dame fan, feelin’ the zeel!
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ICE data confirms:
•Only 3.1% of people sent to CECOT have a violent criminal record
•Only 3.4% of people they arrested in Chicago have a violent criminal record
•More than 75K people they've arrested have no violent criminal record
•Nearly 100% are Latino
This is not due process. This Is Fascism.
•Only 3.1% of people sent to CECOT have a violent criminal record
•Only 3.4% of people they arrested in Chicago have a violent criminal record
•More than 75K people they've arrested have no violent criminal record
•Nearly 100% are Latino
This is not due process. This Is Fascism.
December 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
ICE data confirms:
•Only 3.1% of people sent to CECOT have a violent criminal record
•Only 3.4% of people they arrested in Chicago have a violent criminal record
•More than 75K people they've arrested have no violent criminal record
•Nearly 100% are Latino
This is not due process. This Is Fascism.
•Only 3.1% of people sent to CECOT have a violent criminal record
•Only 3.4% of people they arrested in Chicago have a violent criminal record
•More than 75K people they've arrested have no violent criminal record
•Nearly 100% are Latino
This is not due process. This Is Fascism.
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Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
December 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.
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Twenty-seven grievances against Great Britian are laid out in the Declaration of Independence.
Rosemarie Zagarri, of George Mason University, unpacks this often overlooked, yet critical section of the document for the #InteractiveDeclaration: https://ow.ly/c4zJ50XH6gk
Rosemarie Zagarri, of George Mason University, unpacks this often overlooked, yet critical section of the document for the #InteractiveDeclaration: https://ow.ly/c4zJ50XH6gk
The Declaration’s Grievances Against the King | Constitution Center
Rosemarie Zagarri explains that while the list of grievances is today an overlooked part of the Declaration of Independence, the list was arguably the most critical section of the document in 1776.
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December 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Twenty-seven grievances against Great Britian are laid out in the Declaration of Independence.
Rosemarie Zagarri, of George Mason University, unpacks this often overlooked, yet critical section of the document for the #InteractiveDeclaration: https://ow.ly/c4zJ50XH6gk
Rosemarie Zagarri, of George Mason University, unpacks this often overlooked, yet critical section of the document for the #InteractiveDeclaration: https://ow.ly/c4zJ50XH6gk
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The EPSTEIN Files are a much quicker read than I expected.
December 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The EPSTEIN Files are a much quicker read than I expected.
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What makes for a great Christmas song?
What makes for a great Christmas song?
Musicologist Joe Bennett explains the common components of the most enduring Christmas songs, from "Jingle Bells" to "All I Want for Christmas Is You" – which inspires David Pogue to compose his own new holiday song.
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December 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
What makes for a great Christmas song?
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Trump wants to rewrite history, with him as hero and his predecessors as failures. He violates the norms established by George Washington and other presidents about keeping the White House nonpartisan. A very interesting analysis.
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When History Becomes Personal: How the White House Walk of Fame Threatens Democratic Memory
Dear Readers,
open.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Trump wants to rewrite history, with him as hero and his predecessors as failures. He violates the norms established by George Washington and other presidents about keeping the White House nonpartisan. A very interesting analysis.
open.substack.com/pub/iholdthe...
open.substack.com/pub/iholdthe...
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US invalidates union contract covering 47,000 TSA officers, AFGE vows to challenge reut.rs/3MrRnPQ
US invalidates union contract covering 47,000 TSA officers, AFGE vows to challenge
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Friday terminated the collective bargaining agreement covering 47,000 Transportation Security Administration officers, the department said in a statement.
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December 13, 2025 at 2:40 AM
US invalidates union contract covering 47,000 TSA officers, AFGE vows to challenge reut.rs/3MrRnPQ
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Started / Going
December 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Started / Going
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In Kent County, the home of the DeVoses, Democrats are notching win after win.
That's because groups like @kentdems.bsky.social refuse to settle, organize everywhere, and fight for something better.
Let's go.
That's because groups like @kentdems.bsky.social refuse to settle, organize everywhere, and fight for something better.
Let's go.
December 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
In Kent County, the home of the DeVoses, Democrats are notching win after win.
That's because groups like @kentdems.bsky.social refuse to settle, organize everywhere, and fight for something better.
Let's go.
That's because groups like @kentdems.bsky.social refuse to settle, organize everywhere, and fight for something better.
Let's go.
Trump, Hoekstra and Bill Huizenga (the U.S. congressman representing this area), are all a disaster for the economy. 📉📉📉
After 99 years, Michigan clockmaker Howard Miller is shutting down. The culprit: Trump's tariffs.
"If the federal government had said, ‘Oh, it's a 10% tariff, constant,' … they might've worked things out," an employee said. "But no. It's just chaos."
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
"If the federal government had said, ‘Oh, it's a 10% tariff, constant,' … they might've worked things out," an employee said. "But no. It's just chaos."
By @annaleighclark.bsky.social
In Congress, He Said Tariffs Were Bad for Business. As Trump’s Ambassador to Canada, He’s Reversed Course.
Pete Hoekstra once testified that “the market should dictate the price of steel, not the government.” But he now champions the Trump trade policies that are being linked to job losses in his former Mi...
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December 7, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Trump, Hoekstra and Bill Huizenga (the U.S. congressman representing this area), are all a disaster for the economy. 📉📉📉
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So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them.
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
A Navy warship mistook US fighter jets for enemy missiles and opened fire. The targeted pilot saw his life flash before his eyes.
New documents reveal how the USS Gettysburg shot down an F/A-18 and nearly hit a second one above the Red Sea last year.
www.businessinsider.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them.
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...
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I know we’re not supposed to question the teachings of the Church of College Football, but paying a man $33.55 million for the next six years for wining nine games in two seasons seems — what’s the word I’m looking for? — obscene.
www.detroitnews.com/story/sports...
www.detroitnews.com/story/sports...
November 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I know we’re not supposed to question the teachings of the Church of College Football, but paying a man $33.55 million for the next six years for wining nine games in two seasons seems — what’s the word I’m looking for? — obscene.
www.detroitnews.com/story/sports...
www.detroitnews.com/story/sports...
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Just a reminder that we could be living in an America in which Trump and his fellow conspirators are spending the rest of their lives in prison if we had serious politicians and a system that wasn’t hellbent on and designed toward self-destruction.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Just a reminder that we could be living in an America in which Trump and his fellow conspirators are spending the rest of their lives in prison if we had serious politicians and a system that wasn’t hellbent on and designed toward self-destruction.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Quick quiz -- which president made food stamps into a massive national program?
Trump on food stamp recipients: "It wasn't meant for people that could do whatever they want. The people that say, 'Well, I don't think I'll work. I'll just collect this money.'"
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Quick quiz -- which president made food stamps into a massive national program?
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The SNAP contingency fund holds around $6 billion.
Trump refuses to spend it on the American people.
The same guy who just fast-tracked $40 billion to Argentina.
Trump thinks Argentina deserves our money while he lets Americans starve.
Trump refuses to spend it on the American people.
The same guy who just fast-tracked $40 billion to Argentina.
Trump thinks Argentina deserves our money while he lets Americans starve.
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The SNAP contingency fund holds around $6 billion.
Trump refuses to spend it on the American people.
The same guy who just fast-tracked $40 billion to Argentina.
Trump thinks Argentina deserves our money while he lets Americans starve.
Trump refuses to spend it on the American people.
The same guy who just fast-tracked $40 billion to Argentina.
Trump thinks Argentina deserves our money while he lets Americans starve.
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Scott Bessant's net worth is ~$600,000,000. And he's literally the person who can prevent these tariffs from being enforced, yet he plays helpless victim.
Off the charts cruelty and hypocrisy from these MAGA sycophants.
Off the charts cruelty and hypocrisy from these MAGA sycophants.
October 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Scott Bessant's net worth is ~$600,000,000. And he's literally the person who can prevent these tariffs from being enforced, yet he plays helpless victim.
Off the charts cruelty and hypocrisy from these MAGA sycophants.
Off the charts cruelty and hypocrisy from these MAGA sycophants.
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The Ronald Reagan video denouncing tariffs, which Donald is in such a snit about, was posted to YouTube eight years ago. It is authentic. Donald is lying. It is not AI.
We are living in such twisted times, when Ronald Reagan's own words are offensive to Republicans.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t5Q...
We are living in such twisted times, when Ronald Reagan's own words are offensive to Republicans.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t5Q...
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
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October 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The Ronald Reagan video denouncing tariffs, which Donald is in such a snit about, was posted to YouTube eight years ago. It is authentic. Donald is lying. It is not AI.
We are living in such twisted times, when Ronald Reagan's own words are offensive to Republicans.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t5Q...
We are living in such twisted times, when Ronald Reagan's own words are offensive to Republicans.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t5Q...
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The Department of Labor's Poster Boy
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The Department of Labor's Poster Boy
Geoff Bowser, a real estate and employment attorney in Brooklyn, put together a collection of all the posters/memes the Department of Labor has been posting since around Labor Day.
open.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The Department of Labor's Poster Boy
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Ottawa County’s former board chair Joe Moss issued a stark warning last winter to commissioners: Settle a staff privacy complaint immediately or face a civil lawsuit.
www.ottawanewsnetwork.org/recordings-m...
www.ottawanewsnetwork.org/recordings-m...
Recordings: Moss pushed county board to approve $280K in controversial payouts despite no evidence of legal liability
Ottawa County’s former board chair Joe Moss issued a stark warning last winter to commissioners: Settle a staff privacy complaint immediately or face a civil lawsuit.
www.ottawanewsnetwork.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Ottawa County’s former board chair Joe Moss issued a stark warning last winter to commissioners: Settle a staff privacy complaint immediately or face a civil lawsuit.
www.ottawanewsnetwork.org/recordings-m...
www.ottawanewsnetwork.org/recordings-m...
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Need some Jack-O-Lantern pattern inspiration? Make your #Halloween truly Revolutionary with our 8 downloadable pumpkin carving stencils!
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October 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Need some Jack-O-Lantern pattern inspiration? Make your #Halloween truly Revolutionary with our 8 downloadable pumpkin carving stencils!
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When Trump says cattle ranchers "have to get their prices down," don't forget he also:
-Ended a USDA program to help states fight meatpacking monopolies
-Filled his admin with Big Ag insiders
-Revoked Biden's pro-competition executive order
Where's the beef?
-Ended a USDA program to help states fight meatpacking monopolies
-Filled his admin with Big Ag insiders
-Revoked Biden's pro-competition executive order
Where's the beef?
October 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
When Trump says cattle ranchers "have to get their prices down," don't forget he also:
-Ended a USDA program to help states fight meatpacking monopolies
-Filled his admin with Big Ag insiders
-Revoked Biden's pro-competition executive order
Where's the beef?
-Ended a USDA program to help states fight meatpacking monopolies
-Filled his admin with Big Ag insiders
-Revoked Biden's pro-competition executive order
Where's the beef?
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🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug
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The Smythe family of Chagrin Falls, USA, gets Trumped on by the president...
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Brought to you by the proud and mighty Inner Hive, including long-time member K-Poppy and new member Rosa From Mariposa.
( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE 👇
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The Smythe family of Chagrin Falls, USA, gets Trumped on by the president...
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Brought to you by the proud and mighty Inner Hive, including long-time member K-Poppy and new member Rosa From Mariposa.
( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE 👇
October 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug
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The Smythe family of Chagrin Falls, USA, gets Trumped on by the president...
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Brought to you by the proud and mighty Inner Hive, including long-time member K-Poppy and new member Rosa From Mariposa.
( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE 👇
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The Smythe family of Chagrin Falls, USA, gets Trumped on by the president...
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Brought to you by the proud and mighty Inner Hive, including long-time member K-Poppy and new member Rosa From Mariposa.
( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE 👇
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The Epstein Files must be really bad for his boss.
October 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The Epstein Files must be really bad for his boss.