Mike Brislen 🇩🇯🇰🇪🇫🇷🇺🇲🇪🇹🇬🇧
@yurugu67.bsky.social
I recently retired from teaching at James Madison University. I have personal and intellectual interests. Personally, I enjoy sports, gardening, hiking, reading, and warm places.
Books in 2005.
Produced in StoryGraph.
Produced in StoryGraph.
January 1, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Books in 2005.
Produced in StoryGraph.
Produced in StoryGraph.
The supposed fraud among Somali day care centers is the real fraud!! A MAGA young man with a YouTube channel accosted Black and Muslim women on the street accusing them while filming. They had no idea what was going on. The MAGA YouTuber racist edits videos to make them look like fraudsters.
Right-Wing YouTuber Behind Viral Minnesota Fraud Video Has Long Anti-Immigrant History
Before alleging fraud in Minnesota’s Somali community, right-wing YouTuber Nick Shirley built a following with anti-immigrant clips.
theintercept.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:55 PM
The supposed fraud among Somali day care centers is the real fraud!! A MAGA young man with a YouTube channel accosted Black and Muslim women on the street accusing them while filming. They had no idea what was going on. The MAGA YouTuber racist edits videos to make them look like fraudsters.
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So let’s get this straight:
Trump’s DOJ buried Epstein’s crimes but kept flight logs on Julie K. Brown, the reporter who exposed them. Her 2019 American Airlines booking shows up in the files.
That’s not a data glitch or an oversight.
Trump’s DOJ buried Epstein’s crimes but kept flight logs on Julie K. Brown, the reporter who exposed them. Her 2019 American Airlines booking shows up in the files.
That’s not a data glitch or an oversight.
December 30, 2025 at 3:54 AM
So let’s get this straight:
Trump’s DOJ buried Epstein’s crimes but kept flight logs on Julie K. Brown, the reporter who exposed them. Her 2019 American Airlines booking shows up in the files.
That’s not a data glitch or an oversight.
Trump’s DOJ buried Epstein’s crimes but kept flight logs on Julie K. Brown, the reporter who exposed them. Her 2019 American Airlines booking shows up in the files.
That’s not a data glitch or an oversight.
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LOUISIANA: ICE officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing Nicaraguan detainee for
Months “while she was under his authority”
Months “while she was under his authority”
December 31, 2025 at 5:51 AM
LOUISIANA: ICE officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing Nicaraguan detainee for
Months “while she was under his authority”
Months “while she was under his authority”
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He donated $1.8 million to Trump and hired Pam Bondi’s brother as his pardon attorney. Defrauded hundreds of millions from people. Walked away free. Not Somali.
December 31, 2025 at 12:24 AM
He donated $1.8 million to Trump and hired Pam Bondi’s brother as his pardon attorney. Defrauded hundreds of millions from people. Walked away free. Not Somali.
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Should anyone be surprised!?!
🚨BREAKING: A new court filing suggests the Department of Justice (DOJ) may have pressed criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia in retaliation for a court victory that ultimately brought him back to the United States. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
'It’s A Top Priority’: Unsealed Order Suggests DOJ Retaliated Against Abrego Garcia for Court Victory
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Should anyone be surprised!?!
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I thought the slogan for RFK Jr’s movement was Make America Healthy Again?
December 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I thought the slogan for RFK Jr’s movement was Make America Healthy Again?
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Abdoulkader Houssein Omar : « Djibouti a toujours fait le choix de la paix »
Abdoulkader Houssein Omar : « Djibouti a toujours fait le choix de la paix »
l.jeuneafrique.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Abdoulkader Houssein Omar : « Djibouti a toujours fait le choix de la paix »
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RNS’ Most-Read Stories of 2025:
OPINION: Unable to win the culture war by example or argument, white evangelical Christians sought to do it by co-opting the government.
religionnews.com/2025/03/10/defunded-evangelical-aid-groups-are-reaping-what-the-religious-right-sowed/
OPINION: Unable to win the culture war by example or argument, white evangelical Christians sought to do it by co-opting the government.
religionnews.com/2025/03/10/defunded-evangelical-aid-groups-are-reaping-what-the-religious-right-sowed/
Defunded evangelical aid groups are reaping what the religious right sowed
(RNS) — Trump wooed them with his promises of the cultural domination they had been seeking since the late 1970s, but the honeymoon may be over.
religionnews.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
RNS’ Most-Read Stories of 2025:
OPINION: Unable to win the culture war by example or argument, white evangelical Christians sought to do it by co-opting the government.
religionnews.com/2025/03/10/defunded-evangelical-aid-groups-are-reaping-what-the-religious-right-sowed/
OPINION: Unable to win the culture war by example or argument, white evangelical Christians sought to do it by co-opting the government.
religionnews.com/2025/03/10/defunded-evangelical-aid-groups-are-reaping-what-the-religious-right-sowed/
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Colorado MAGA Rep. Lauren Boebert is claiming that President Trump killed a massive clean water project in her district as punishment for her voting to release the Epstein files after Trump pressed her not to. trib.al/c6jKRzd
Lauren Boebert Hints Trump Vetoed Key Project Over Her Epstein Vote
Donald Trump had tried to pressure Boebert out of voting to release the Epstein files.
trib.al
December 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Colorado MAGA Rep. Lauren Boebert is claiming that President Trump killed a massive clean water project in her district as punishment for her voting to release the Epstein files after Trump pressed her not to. trib.al/c6jKRzd
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Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are steps you can take to evade it.
The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to…
wrd.cm
December 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are steps you can take to evade it.
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EXACTLY 👇 THIS......
December 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
EXACTLY 👇 THIS......
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AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt — Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt"
December 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt — Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt"
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The first time I searched Trump, there were over 900 records found.
I also confirmed there are now 332.
I also confirmed there are now 332.
December 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The first time I searched Trump, there were over 900 records found.
I also confirmed there are now 332.
I also confirmed there are now 332.
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TIKTOKER SHOT BY ICE HAS INDICTMENT THROWN OUT
Carlitos Ricardo Parias was shot in the elbow by ICE during an immigration arrest in October.
A judge tossed the indictment after finding the government violated his constitutional rights, and it looks intentional.
1/2
Carlitos Ricardo Parias was shot in the elbow by ICE during an immigration arrest in October.
A judge tossed the indictment after finding the government violated his constitutional rights, and it looks intentional.
1/2
December 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
TIKTOKER SHOT BY ICE HAS INDICTMENT THROWN OUT
Carlitos Ricardo Parias was shot in the elbow by ICE during an immigration arrest in October.
A judge tossed the indictment after finding the government violated his constitutional rights, and it looks intentional.
1/2
Carlitos Ricardo Parias was shot in the elbow by ICE during an immigration arrest in October.
A judge tossed the indictment after finding the government violated his constitutional rights, and it looks intentional.
1/2
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This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.
"'I have my ID!' Mubashir shouted repeatedly, as heard on the video. The agents do not respond."
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
ICE agents tackle, arrest American citizen in Minneapolis
Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity.
www.mprnews.org
December 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.
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This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
December 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
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"Jabo is not known for terrorist activity and that local Christians coexist peacefully with the Muslim majority"
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/26/a...
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/26/a...
Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area | CNN
A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and c...
edition.cnn.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"Jabo is not known for terrorist activity and that local Christians coexist peacefully with the Muslim majority"
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/26/a...
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/26/a...
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Analyzing Fatal Police Shootings: The Roles of Social Vulnerability, Race, and Place in the U.S. www.ajpmonline.org/article/S074...
Analyzing Fatal Police Shootings: The Roles of Social Vulnerability, Race, and Place in the U.S.
Social vulnerability, race, and place are three important predictors of fatal police
shootings. This research offers the first assessment of these factors at the zip code
level.
www.ajpmonline.org
December 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Analyzing Fatal Police Shootings: The Roles of Social Vulnerability, Race, and Place in the U.S. www.ajpmonline.org/article/S074...
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If you think of replacement theory as a political ideology that creates policy, law, and political identity, a lot of what you're seeing and hearing in the discourse becomes intelligible and terrifying.
Bigotry always tells on itself, y'all.
Bigotry always tells on itself, y'all.
December 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
If you think of replacement theory as a political ideology that creates policy, law, and political identity, a lot of what you're seeing and hearing in the discourse becomes intelligible and terrifying.
Bigotry always tells on itself, y'all.
Bigotry always tells on itself, y'all.
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IRONY ALERT!!!
December 26, 2025 at 10:13 AM
IRONY ALERT!!!