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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 13h

At least DSA is actually an organization.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 14h

Ah, he’s a constitutional scholar, too!

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 14h

As Nancy Reagan once advised, just say no.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 16h

Interesting, but I teach at that time.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 18h

Hell in a handbasket.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused 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.

apnews.com

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 18h

apnews.com/article/myan... children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

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.

apnews.com

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 18h

He wasn’t on the payroll, since Prosor apparently didn’t use the speech. And Frum’s record is well known, so his offer to the ambassador doesn’t subtract from that. Maybe mildly unethical? I don’t get ‘awful.’

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 1d

“I told them that I probably wouldn’t be able to make my appointments anymore, well, because I’m really afraid given what happened to my husband.”

Harrowing reporting from @shefali.bsky.social and Mel Leonor Barclay at @19thnews.org.

ICE fears put pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk

Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.

19thnews.org

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 20h

What’s awful about it? That he is pro-Israel, or that he wrote a speech for the Israeli ambassador? I disagree with him about Israel, but come on, he’s a speechwriter.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 1d

#academicsky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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

www.theguardian.com

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 1d

Good luck! Lmk if you hear anything.

Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 1d

Scary when you reconstruct Bondi’s thought process there.

Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 2d

Also eggs. Gotta mention the price of eggs!

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 3d

The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 3d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, to be a cat, sitting in sunshine, unaware of the news.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 4d

I can tell you where I was and what I was doing when I first heard this, long long ago in the Midwest.

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 4d

#academicsky

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 4d

Remember back in April, when hundreds + hundreds of college/univ prez signed letter via @aacu.org and Amer Acad of Arts and Sciences, standing up for academic independence?

@aacu.org is back with another statement, about odious Trump "compact" www.aacu.org/newsroom/aac...

AAC&U Statement on the Trump Administration’s “Compact for… | AAC&U

AAC&U Statement on the Trump Administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

www.aacu.org

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 5d

Today so far feds in Chicagoland have:

Attacked & arrested protesters at the Broadview detention center w/the help of the ISP other agencies

Tear gassed a street in Logan Square that has a grocery store & elementary school on it, among other things

Violently handcuffed an Alderperson

It's 3pm

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 5d

This is part of my (twice-)daily routine now.

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Thomas Effing Paine @tom-effing-paine.bsky.social · 6d

@alamodrafthouse.bsky.social

I think that you know what to do!

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you Vanity Fair for printing this incredible subhed.

www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

The Onion Wants an Oscar for Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile—Coming to a Theater Near You
And Onion CEO Ben Collins knows just how to sell this 20-minute mockumentary to the Academy: “Do you like pedophiles? I don’t think you do. You know what you could do to prove it?”

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 6d

On it!

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Ted Kinnaman @tkinnama.bsky.social · 7d

#academicsky Republicans Take Aim at ‘Industry Behind the Curtain’ of College Prices www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/b...

Republicans Take Aim at ‘Industry Behind the Curtain’ of College Prices

www.nytimes.com