inklingofdoom.bsky.social @inklingofdoom.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Henry Bullinger could write in 1541 that "to say the truth, people did not inquire much, as it is no new thing to see men hanged, quartered, or beheaded, for one thing or another.” 0170
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialRick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025These motherfuckers are going to kill children. I've been saying it for a year, but RFK Jr might as well be a serial murderer. Watch: they'll start vaccine *bans* within a year. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...nytimes.comRFK Jr. Turns to a Discredited Vaccine Researcher for Autism Study (Gift Article)David Geier has been hired as a senior data analyst at H.H.S. According to several people, he will examine any potential links between vaccines and autism that were debunked long ago. 1241124344261
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/03/2025RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive. 974333299402
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/03/2025multiple issues here: -it’s unamerican and unconstitutional for the federal govt—and certainly the executive on its own, arbitrarily and in secret—to create a speech code for visa holders -even if that was permissible, suddenly accosting her in the street and abducting her is wildly disproportionate 16350921145
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025/9 And what of the informants working to undermine American free speech? What of the Canary Missions and the Columbia Alumni for Israel making lists of people to be disappeared? How should we view the people giving names to the secret police? www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/03...columbiaspectator.comIn leaked messages, members of ‘Columbia Alumni for Israel’ group chat work to identify, punish pro-Palestinian protesters<i>Updated on March 5 at 2:37 p.m.</i> 241129209
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025/8 In what meaningful way is Israel an ally of the United States, as Israel is presently led? If a country demands and encourages that secret police sweep up students from the street for writing critical op-eds, how is that country an ally and not an enemy to our basic values? 391648320
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025/7 Despite that, it’s clear that the administration is adopting the policy of Israel’s hard right — that dissent from Israel’s conduct is inherently illegitimate and worthy of sanction. This leads me to questions. 285574
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025/6 The Trump administration clearly doesn’t care sincerely for the fate of Israel or Jews. They snuggle with antisemitic bigots on the regular. Their concern is instrumental and transactional, like most of their expressed values. 51138139
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025/5 …criticisms of Israel, frequently conflating antisemitism and calls for violence against Israel with criticisms of Israeli policies and acknowledgements of the humanity of Palestinians. 587172
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025/4 And her op-ed — as well as her being in support of boycott and divestment from Israel — are certainly what brought her to the attention of Canary Mission, Israel’s volunteer Sicherheitsdienst force here in the United States. Canary Mission eagerly documents….. 17938102
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025/3 . . . In which Marco Rubio has purported to make a unilateral determination that a person’s presence in the U.S. is harmful to our foreign relations and therefore their lawful status should be revoked, since charges were not filed against her. 587873
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025/2 We don’t know — because the government won’t tell us — whether that op-ed was the deciding factor that led masked and plainclothes secret police to detain her on a street and send her to squalid ICE facilities in Louisiana. But the pattern is similar to other cases . . . 697990
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025This is the op-ed Rumeysa Ozturk co-wrote in 2024 criticizing the Tufts administration’s response to student demands for action regarding Gaza and Israel. It is unquestionably speech protected by the First Amendment. /1 www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...tuftsdaily.comOp-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions - The Tufts DailyThe independent student newspaper of Tufts University 5131541107
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialTim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social · 27/03/2025this is disgusting. 2559119971834
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/03/2025🫤 443378659
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/03/2025"freedom seeds" is somehow both cringe and incredibly dystopian 63779951148
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Whatever happened to the "5 things " DoGe emails ? Talked to someone really smart who just left gov, who said all the emails bounced back as inbox full. Already forgotten Typical Ready Fire Aim 1435432187371
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/03/2025This headline is framed to help make the story disappear, making it sound like this is an expert offering a frank assessment of the reality of the situation rather than a decision Bondi herself is making, for corrupt reasons. Don't print lies in the newspaper 361921310
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025ICE has arrested Iranian national Alireza Doroudi, a doctoral candidate studying mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama. He was arrested at home at 5 a.m. Tuesday. As with some of the others who've been disappeared, unclear why he was detained. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comICE detains University of Alabama doctoral student as government's college crackdown continuesAccording to ICE records, Iranian national Alireza Doroudi is currently being held in a "detention facility" after he was recently detained. 461823940
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Another reason that the "You're wildly overreacting when you suggest that there's a high risk the 2026/28 elections won't be free & fair" view is so deeply unserious is that, by any serious & actually democratic standard, our current elections are already not even free & fair. 720152
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/03/2025They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else. 1843269928934
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 19825602821198
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics. 35568161684
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Doing this in El Salvador with those prisoners as a backdrop is extremely twisted. 2136119512894
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialDavid Butler @dvdbutler.bsky.social · 27/03/2025They did similar shit back when Trump had his family separation policy in ‘17, several of them grandstanding around the camps to show ‘progress’ and wearing body armor to mislead people about dangers being near the border, etc 316914
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 27/03/2025I truly haven't even been able to take this in tonight because it is so horrifically appalling. 43354563
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025What if the secret to winning elections is somehow Trump's syntax. We need a guy to say stuff like "But we're going to abolish billionaires and we'll be doing it very soon. They'll be paying very high taxes but it'll be very fair. And frankly they haven't paid taxes in a very long time" 166116551645
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialLiz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Krome Immigration Detention Center in Florida which is supposed to hold 400-500 people now has over 4,000 people detained. They are now intentionally withholding water and food from Latin people who are forced to be there, killing them slowly through dehydration. This is called TORTURE!!! 510965
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialDittie @dittie.sheshed.rocks · 23/03/2025Migrants found dead at Krome Detention Center in Miami, due to possible starvation and dehydration. The facility, which was a detention facility prior to it being converted for ICE use, has a max capacity of 500.nbcmiami.com‘They are being treated like dogs': Families concerned over living conditions at Krome Detention CenterFamily members of detainees being held at Krome Detention Center are speaking out about the alleged harsh conditions of the facility. 25131882138
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialLee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 23/03/2025#ICE reported the death of Maksym Chernayak, 44, who died in ICE custody on February 20 after being detained at the #Krome Service and Processing Center in Florida. Chernakyak’s tragic passing marks the third reported #death in ICE custody since Donald Trump assumed the presidency. #immigrationaclufl.orgThree deaths in ICE custody in just over a month of Trump’s presidency marks the most deaths to occur in this fiscal year time period in five yearsThis week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported the death of Maksym Chernayak, 44, who died in ICE custody on February 20 after being detained at the Krome Service and Processing Center 6204137
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialTerrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Unfortunately, Krome has long been like this. I spent many years visiting men in detention at Krome with a local group called Immigrant Action Alliance, trying to fight these conditions. Unfortunately we were so few people with so few resources we couldn't maintain our 501c3 status. 13312
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialLiz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Krome Detention Center has approximately 4,000 people detained. There have been rumors that several people have died from a lack of water and food. If you have any information about these individuals please email ceo@internalservices.net. Thank you. www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/f...nbcmiami.com‘They are being treated like dogs': Families concerned over living conditions at Krome Detention CenterFamily members of detainees being held at Krome Detention Center are speaking out about the alleged harsh conditions of the facility. 24403286
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialTerrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Hi Aura. Former volunteer with an IAA chapter who used to visit Krome weekly. I've been inside the entire facility on an inspection. A few things to note: This is a group visitation room in the main building, not one of the pods. That means Krome is working well over the legal capacity. 334859
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialTerrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Krome is always terrible. It got worse during the pandemic and then improved a little. But I've never hear of conditions like this from the men I visited. 218111
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialTerrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025They overstuff the pods but I have never seen this. Second, these men are in blue, which means they have no criminal charges. Krome color-codes the jackets based on security levels, at least in principle. 324224
inklingofdoom.bsky.social @inklingofdoom.bsky.social · 23/03/2025This should be front page of every US newspaper, top of every news show, and blaring from everyone's phone - even if they ignore or celebrate it 010
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/03/2025“About half — possibly more — of the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country file income tax returns to document their payments to the U.S. government, according to researchers.” 814360
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialTim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 23/03/2025School Bully Shocks Nerds With Further Lunch-Money Demands 11164711271
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialDiedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 23/03/2025They say you can’t step in the same river twice. It was fascinating rewatching DEATH OF STALIN last night and realizing it’s not a specifically Russian story and one of the points of it being in English with the range of accents is that it could happen anywhere given the authoritarian circumstances 2869974
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialAlicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social · 22/03/2025one time a male student came to my office hours to say he wanted a job like mine. I told him that’s v. difficult but I would help him & as we were talking he asked how much I made. I told him & he was like, “oh never mind then.” 😂 24127
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialAlicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social · 22/03/2025I told my sister-in-law my salary last night & she was totally shocked. she was like, “I was sure you were in the six-figures.” she works in medical administration & makes 20K more than me a year just so everyone knows—assistant professors in English lit DO NOT make six figures. 541163117
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 22/03/2025I'm convinced that at least some of the cultural resentment at academia is rooted on the completely mistaken belief that we all are have permanent job security, make six figure salaries to teach 4 hours a week with summers off, and get to spend all our time Thinking, capital-t. 20907207
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/03/2025🧵 A short side thread to this one. Soon after DOGE landed at IRS very early in the admin their first demand (which wasn't just DOGE but the immigration folks at the WH) was let's let the ICE folks come over here and cross reference with their target lists. This was both to target individuals for ... 14540216
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialm @keptsimple.bsky.social · 22/03/2025ah you see trump isn't being vindictive. he is merely punishing allies of his political opponents. 26912
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/03/2025As almost every self-described American "conservative" watches on blithely as Musk's DOGE team Hoovers up tons of private data about every US citizen with which they will do God knows what, a flashback to this "conservative" pamphlet from 1963 is instructive. Conservatives hate big brother, right? 623063
Reposted by @inklingofdoom.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Fuck Stephen Miller and Tom Homan to hell. Goddamn bastards, both of them. 2169306279017
