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Bill Cork

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Chaplain studying public health and working in suicide prevention. Anabaptist/Mennonite. Science. Army Veteran. Acadian.

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is a disgrace. A border wall will just destroy the nature and wildlife of Big Bend — it won't make anyone more safe or more free. Democrats and Republicans agree: Trump needs to leave Big Bend alone.
texasstandard.org
Border project contractors arrive in Big Bend National Park as Texas lawmakers call for a pause
Texas Democrats are urging the Trump administration to delay its plans for building border barriers and roads across the West Texas park. Bulldozers and trucks bearing the logo of the contractor award...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Mainstream media isn’t talking about it, but bulldozers and construction crews have descended upon Texas’ Big Bend National Park as the Trump administration moves forward with its border barrier project. The project will permanently damage one of our nation’s greatest natural treasures.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Bulldozers tearing up Big Bend National Park, just downriver from Santa Elena Canyon. This is a crime scene. IG: @ laiken_jordahl
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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. newrepublic.com/post/214111/...
newrepublic.com
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
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Bill Cork @billcork.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
How’s everyone doing? I’ve been more active lately on threads. Someone reminded me on this just now so I figured I’d come see what was happening
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Hard to argue
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Bill Cork @billcork.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Haven’t seen you for ages! Hope you are well.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/03/2026
But they said he was “The peace president.” 🥴
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Bill Cork @billcork.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
It is outrageous that Texas has a state holiday honoring slavery defenders who killed American Soldiers in an attempt to destroy the nation while also paying lip service to the national commemoration of the Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
It annoys me so much when this dorkass loser does his whole Foghorn Leghorn "I'm just a good ole boy from the South who don't understand these elites" schtick with that syrupy drawl he puts on. John Kennedy is NOT from the sticks. He comes from a long line of southern elites. (thread)
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 15, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then arrest workers
Federal agents detained three workers from a family-owned Mexican restaurant in Willmar yesterday, hours after four agents ate lunch there.

It was not immediately clear what the immigration status of those detained was, or whether the people detained included the restaurant’s owners or only workers.

An eyewitness who declined to give a name for fear of retribution, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that four ICE agents sat in a booth for a meal at El Tapatio a little before 3 p.m. Staff at the restaurant were frightened, said the eyewitness, who shared pictures from the restaurant as well as video of the arrest.

The arrest happened around 8:30 p.m. near a Lutheran church and Willmar Middle School as agents followed the workers after they closed up for the night. A handful of bystanders blew whistles and shouted at agents as they detained the people. “Would your mama be proud of you right now?” one of the bystanders asked.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
This is a big no-no in armed combat. It’s like dressing up as a doctor or a nurse and then shooting someone. If this is proven accurate, it’s 100% a war crime.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 13/01/2026
Members of Congress have the right to visit ICE facilities unannounced — it's their job and their constitutional responsibility. ICE can’t hide their cruelty and mistreatment of immigrants just because they want to.
startribune.com
Reps. Omar, Morrison, Craig denied entry at ICE detention facility
The Minnesota congresswomen attempted to tour Whipple Federal Building. DHS says requests to visit are needed seven days in advance.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Dr. @timothysnyder.bsky.social has written many powerful works, but this one stopped me dead in my tracks when I first read it. Please take the time, and share widely.
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Bill Cork @billcork.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
And that he was a Christian saint, with love and kindness for all.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2025
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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Bill Cork @billcork.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
These were martyrs.
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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Honestly, I blame the dysfunction in the white community. When will white leaders address the rampant criminality of young white men?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
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Thomas Reese @thomasreesesj.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Catholic bishops call immigration crackdown a 'category 4 storm' religionnews.com/2025/09/12/c... @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social
religionnews.com
Catholic bishops call immigration crackdown a 'category 4 storm'
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Before the Georgetown roundtable, El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz told RNS he is questioning whether Catholics can, in good conscience, join ICE.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
"Respond" to what? Brazil applying its own laws to a Brazilian in a fair and transparent process?
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.
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Drew G. I. Hart, PhD @druhart.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Be careful today friends. The spiral of violence is a real thing and people groups already deemed disposable are often the ones "sacrificed" for empire's sake. Stay vigilant.
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Bill Cork @billcork.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Guns are the issue. The second amendment is clearly about a “well-regulated militia.”
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I agree but this case is even worse: it appears that the detailed course description* explicitly mentions that it will explore how gender and sexuality are depicted in YA literature. *As the reddit poster mentions, there's some confusion and possible misreporting of which course she's teaching.
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I understand that ENG 360 is Children's Literature, and that's what has been reported, but she's not in the Course Schedule for 360. Instead, look at ENG 394, which does show as her course. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But that's what my search pulled up.

You can still find her syllabus, with a detailed course description, that falls within the range of the general description given in the Catalog.

"COURSE DESCRIPTION Did you read what we now call “young adult literature” as a young adult? What exactly is a young adult? Does the term refer to an age category or a marketing tool, a personality type or a genre? What differentiates adult from young adult from teenager from child? How do we understand the genre of literature for and about this blurry, shifting group? In this course, we will explore a range of young adult or YA literature in English, including poetry, contemporary fiction, graphic memoirs, historical fiction, and fantasy, from a diverse group of authors with many varied perspectives on race, gender, sexuality, disability and other realms of human difference. Our task is to think critically about what these books can tell us about how we (and others) understand adolescence, how those definitions have changed over time, and how these books participate in larger movements of history, culture, and literature."

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
#ScienceMatters. Important to clearly counter demonstrably false bunk. Broad consensus that: - Vaccines do NOT cause autism - Ivermectin NOT effective against cancer, covid, etc - COVID vaccines do NOT cause "sudden death" or "turbo cancer" See statement: scienceupfirst.com/sciencematte...
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HR Lady Politics enjoyer (He/Him) @ryanabt.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
This is how the fascistic system entraps. It creates pressure to comply. It offers vague legal justification for the necessity for or appropriateness of complying. The uni president is taking the easy way out by bowing to political pressure because they gave him an out. The law doesn’t demand this.
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NotQuietMode_M.D. @notquietmodemd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Qatar rolled out red carpet for Trump 4 mo ago-today Trump greenlit Israel to bomb Hamas negotiators in Qatar. Trump rolled out red carpet for Putin weeks ago- Russia sent drones into Poland tonight. Trumpmet with S Korean president 2 weeks ago, then arrested Koreans w/H1B visas last week #WeakSauce
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/09/2025
One day after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on racial profiling, federal agents swarmed a car in Van Nuys. Four masked agents with guns drawn yanked people out, slammed them to the ground, and pointed a weapon at a pregnant woman. There is no justification for this. None.
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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Wrenching and enraging. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/09/2025
Campus Reform tried to get me fired from being a *postdoc in physics* in 2015 because I said Thomas Jefferson was a rapist
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Bill Cork @billcork.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Latest arrival … I preordered in May. From @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
A rightwing student at Texas A&M secretly filmed her interaction with a professor that challenged scientifically-validated concepts on trans people. The professor has been fired. The head of the department and dean have been removed. The video is pretty intentional. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
kbtx.com
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
And please forgive my lack of grace here, but the student in question has clearly been coached. She doesn't appear to understand conceptually what she's trying to say. She doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the concept of free speech. It seems as though she was fed talking points.
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Bill Cork @billcork.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The value of a degree from a public university in Texas is diminishing with each capitulation to fascism and ignorance.
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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
“Our president’s laws”: a whole generation raised on the idea that eh laws are neither an expression of the will of the people, or an act of congress - but the whim of one man. As un-Americans as it gets.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 09/09/2025
The First Amendment protects our right to record ICE officers and law enforcement in public, whether Secretary Noem likes it or not.
prospect.org
DHS Claims Videotaping ICE Raids Is ‘Violence’
The expanded definition has justified assaults on journalists who have documented detentions of immigrants.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Register today www.bakerinstitute.org/event/scienc...
Baker Institute
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Bill Cork @billcork.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The military does not have a role in law enforcement.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
There are alarming levels of dehumanization being observed at the southern border by ICE and Border Patrol.
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International Association for Suicide Prevention @iaspinfo.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Suicide prevention requires systemic change. Governments worldwide must: - Decriminalise suicide - Implement national suicide prevention strategies - Fund accessible mental health care Policy saves lives. Let’s demand action. #WSPD2025
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws. Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.
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Bill Cork @billcork.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Goodbye, academic freedom.
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Bill Cork @billcork.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Second, what if this was a science class on evolution and the student said she didn’t want to participate because it was against your religion. This kid and the ideologues supporting her think that education at a research university should protect you from ideas you don’t like. A&M seems to agree.
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Bill Cork @billcork.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Texas A&M is an embarrassment. Teacher barely mentions sexuality and gender identity and kid, who is filming, says it is “against the president’s laws” and her religious beliefs. And the school fires the professor and the dean. First, they all need some civics lessons. President’s don’t make laws.
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Bill Cork @billcork.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Sad. Academic freedom is dead at A&M.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 09/09/2025
A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts, authorities said Monday.
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New Banksy mural of a judge beating a protester to be removed from outside London court
A new Banksy mural showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from outside a London court.
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