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Tristan Reynolds
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Educator; Writer.
Interested in international education, comparative education, educational policy, and making learning accessible to everyone.
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This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe
www.chosun.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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“In nearly all of the examples Judge Ellis cited in her 200-plus page opinion, she says the Department of Homeland Security narrative contradicts the reality of what can be seen on agents' body-worn cameras.”

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
Federal agents engaged in widespread misrepresentations to justify use of force: Judge
The ABC7 I-Team is taking a closer look at a trove of videos ordered released by a federal judge in her explanation of the preliminary injunction she issued earlier this month restricting use of force...
abc7chicago.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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We have learned that if the Amerikkkan people cannot have their burgers delivered piping hot for less than it costs in person they will collectively elect a guy who kills a million people in developing nations, so the creation of cheap burrito bots is one of the stronger moral obligations out there
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:

Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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The fact the American military is following plainly illegal orders up to and including murder suggests every aspect of America’s civic identity has curdled.

Hegseth obviously needs to be tried. So should every member of the military all the way down the chain of command who participated in this.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing

"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."

Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This should have been acceptable? Trials are good, especially when there's an important historical record to establish with regard to a crime of atrocity.
"for trial in a third, neutral country". Nope, try again.
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies:

If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
So now they’re going to be doing individualized re-review of tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees’ cases on TOP of the re-review of 200,000+ refugees who entered under Biden?
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Dipshit is smashing out a car window with his gun, barrel first. Just rogue, cowboy stiff.

There were two US citizens in the car. They were apprehended and detained for “obstructing” ICE by honking their horn to let people know ICE was in the neighborhood.
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago.

She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.

All charges against her have been dropped.

In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
At the base tier, Reuters costs the same or less than an NYTimes subscription, and I'm finding that I have a much more informative news reading experience since I switched.
Their headlines are often ridiculous, but the news articles are still generally good, and their investigative reporting as well. And one problem is that when ppl turn away from sources like NYT, what often takes its place is by far worse.
November 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Reminds me of the James Connolly quote about the monarchy: if you want the privileges and comforts associated with the institution, you can't then also disavow its crimes, faults, and failings.
Go vent to the people you think fucked up, because I have nothing to do with Landon Thomas or Epstein coverage and in my tiny square that does fit into the paper, don't pull punches or both sides anything, so if you accuse me of that, going forward I'm just going block you.
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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petro is so beast
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Good morning with good news: Global solar grew by 498 TWh (+31%) in Q1-Q3 2025, compared to 2024, "the largest increase ever over a nine-month period."

Global solar output in first 3 quarters of 2025 already surpassed total output in all of 2024.

ember-energy.org/latest-insig... #energysky
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB

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November 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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one thing that's nice about canceling your New York Times sub is every week you get at least one or two stories shared on here that make you say, "yeah, it rocks that I did that, I only wish I could do it again." highly recommend you cancel yours if you haven't already
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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The next Dem administration has to take a sledgehammer to this Supreme Court. I don’t care if it’s court packing, ignoring orders, or whatever they have to do, they need to do it in the first 100 days. We can’t go on for 30 more years of this shit.
March 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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California's redistricting commission has been good in isolation but unilateral disarmament from the start since the GOP drew several times more districts nationwide than Dems did after 2010.

Dems tried to ban gerrymandering nationwide in 2019 & 2021—but the GOP balked. This is the logical response
My new one @slate.com: "Gavin Newsom Just Proved It: Voters Want Democrats to Fight Fire With Fire" slate.com/news-and-pol...
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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that thing everyone said was going to happen is happening
November 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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This is ugly. But the reason this lady was protesting is even worse. ICE thugs detained two children and their father on their way to school. One child appears to have been beaten in detention, and no one seems to know where the 12-year-old girl is right now. The family had been seeking asylum.
Shock Video Shows ICE Agent Assaulting Woman Who Asked If He’s A Good Christian
Hundreds protested Tuesday at an ICE facility in southwest Colorado after agents detained two children on their way to school.
www.huffpost.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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This morning federal agents arrested two hard working immigrants on my street because they didn’t have their papers on them, and tried to arrest my neighbor because his green card was in his house rather than on his person.

We are now a “show me your papers” state, and it is outrageous. Get angry.
October 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
An American political who ran on inventing 戶口 here would do *shockingly* well.
most gentrification discourse is actually people reacting to violations of america's implicit caste system, which segments people by zip code.

if you move somewhere richer than where you were from, locals resent you taking what is rightfully theirs by birthright
October 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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The most Republican guy is the guy who owns the used car dealership, a tanning salon, and a boat in a place that has been economically decimated by deindustrialization

See, for instance:
October 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM