One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Iis Now, While We Still Can.
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#Bilingual #French and #FLE professor working in #HigherEd based in #Chicago. #Academic interests include #OER and #EarlyModern and #Francophone #Literature. I love #hiking, #tennis, #pickleball, and watching as much #football (#soccer) as possible: #MNUFC, #IMFC, #MPLSCitySC & #RedStarFC. Other interests and probable toot content include #cooking, #travel (especially #NOLA and #LaRochelle), and anything #linux related. "The trouble with normal is it always gets worse. " – Bruce Cockburn
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Un homme médiocre = Trump
En général, quand une catastrophe privée ou publique s'est écroulée sur nous, si nous examinons, d'après les décombres qui en gisent à terre, de quelle façon elle s'est échafaudée, nous trouvons presque toujours qu'elle a été aveuglément construite par un homme médiocre et obstiné qui avait foi en lui et qui s'admirait. Il y a par le monde beaucoup de ces petites fatalités têtues qui se croient des providences.
Victor Hugo (Claude Gueux)
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“Stay angry, little democracy. You will need all your anger now.”
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I am not resting easy yet.
A bunch of people who are basically straight-up Nazis just got humiliated. They’re hurting, they’re angry, and they’re in my city.
And they’re pants-on-head dumbshits. (One of their posters bemoaned the “erogion [sic] of our rights.”) That’s not a comfort: sometimes that’s the most dangerous kind of right-winger. Their utter amateurishness means they have no sense of constraints and no sense of consequences. I don’t know what they’ll try to do next.
We remain wary and •highly• watchful. But I’m going to take the win on this round.
/end
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Another murder, another cover-up
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:k5nskatzhyxersjilvtnz4lh/post/3mcnnzwvxpo2q
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Really appreciate @prisonculture.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy's discussion of the book Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back in this edition of her newsletter.
Prisons, Prose & Protest - #34
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I've now already read in the media that Trump has a 'plan' for Greenland, that he has 'a vision for the future' of Greenland, and that he has 'ambitions' with Greenland.
Cut the crap. Trump threatens to annex Greenland. That's all.
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I lost a friend over my article about the murder of Renee Nicole Good.
He was angry I called out the underlying misogyny.
He was mad I didn’t give ICE the benefit of the doubt.
He made it personal.
He told me my “stupid clown hair” is why people don’t take me seriously
Everything he said to me was dripping with disdain and misogyny.
There was no debate.
There was no respectful disagreement.
In under five minutes he had attacked my intelligence, my politics, my appearance and my writing.
This is not normal behaviour.
He literally proved my point.
Had I taken the bait I’m convinced that I would have been called a “f*cking b*tch” by the end of the conversation.
This is what MAGA is doing to men.
It’s emboldening them.
It’s validating their bigotry.
I assume this person was always hateful and misogynistic on some level … but now he no longer feels he has to hide it.
He literally said as much.
He said “I never told you in the past because I wasn’t allowed. Now I am.”
Why is he allowed to tell me now??
Why does he feel justified in lashing out with rage and insults over something that has nothing to do with him?
It’s because of what happened to Renee Nicole Good.
We all watched a woman get shot in broad daylight and there’s been zero consequences
We’ve watched rapists, pedophiles and abusers go free for years.
Every woman who’s ever experienced abuse knew exactly what Jonathan Ross meant when he said “f*cking b*tch”
He didn’t fear for his life.
He was enraged she didn’t fear for hers.
My friend was enraged I dare speak out for a “lesbian leftist”.
He was enraged I didn’t remain silent, complicit and demure.
He was apparently also enraged I didn’t realize he hated my hair and change it to please him.
Make no mistake, there is a war against women going on.
This regime wants to make us “less than”.
They want us afraid.
They want us in the home serving our husbands and having children.
They want us seen and not heard.
They don’t want us resisting.
Which is why we must keep speaking out.
We must refuse to go back.
My life is better off without this person in it, and thankfully I can walk away.
Not everyone can.
Speak up if you see someone being hurt.
Protect your friends and neighbours.
Challenge misogynistic talking points.
Demand justice for Renee Nicole Good.
Don’t cower. Don’t be afraid. Don’t give up.
#reneenicolegood #abolishice #uspol #fascism #ableism #misogyny
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@pluralistic points out that
"a manufacturer can sell you a device and then mandatorily update it at a later date to take away its functionality, and then sell that functionality back to you as a “subscription”
And then gives example after example after example, etc of how this keeps happening.
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Let’s be honest, Ring was already some technocratic, dystopian BS, but if you needed a reason to finally, finally kill it with fire, here’s your reason: Ring is partnering with Flock to help ICE spy on you and your neighbors for the government 👀
#Technology #InfoSec
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/
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The Companies Behind ICE
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"When the restaurant closed that evening at 8:30 p.m., ICE agents followed departing workers and detained three of them.
The agents presumably had a good laugh about this. Perhaps they relished their meal even more because the staff that served them was frightened. Humiliation of their victims, a kind of relish in their fear and misery, a kind of—let’s call it what it is—sadism has become a dominant part of the culture of ICE."
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Hey MNGOP,
Prince would hate you for what you've done to this state. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG3VcCAlUgE
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Several Minnesota Labor Unions have called for a general strike on Friday January 23rd, in protest of ICE brutality in their communities.
Several Minnesota Labor Unions have called for a general strike on Friday January 23rd, in protest of ICE brutality in their communities. Quoting the MinneapolisUnions.org press release: The Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO along with..
Minnesota Labor Unions Call For General Strike Jan 23
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Weird how the people who complained that "not everyone who disagrees with you are Nazis" were all Nazis.
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Jamelle Bouie/NYT:
“Another way to understand this is that Trump does not see himself as a constitutional officer. His power, as he sees it, flows from his person — not the office and certainly not the people, whose only role, in his view, is to legitimize his desires. Trump is an anti-constitutional figure whose very presence on the American political scene is nothing less than a full-spectrum assault on republican government and democracy.”
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Affordability is a hoax, says golden toilet guy.
Minneapolis woman got what was coming to her, says puppy killer and lip-filled cowgirl.
ICE agents have absoute immunity, says guy who admits to lying to drive media cycles.
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