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Ted Perlmutter

@tedperl.bsky.social
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Working on the nexuses between human rights, social media, peacebuilding and migration at Columbia University

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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
turns out firing the army was not the brightest idea, especially with all the munitions floating around.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 05/10/2026
The Plague heard who was in charge and cancelled it's marketing budget.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
thanks for linking.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
remigration also has legit academic cred. and it was used widely in Europe before 2023-24. Not to say that the present U.S. administraiton is not signaling to the far-right its sympathies, but the term is not unambiguous in terms of its origns.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Is it Trump's plan to go through every amendment and systematically undermine them?
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Do we not live in the best of all possible worlds? We should feel honored.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Do we not live in the best of all possible worlds. You should feel honored.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/a...
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Homeland Security’s Embrace of Art Reopens an Old Debate (Gift Article)
Showcasing “American Progress,” John Gast’s tableau of Manifest Destiny, is of a piece with the administration’s desire for a more traditional view of American history.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
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How Democratic Socialists Are Wrestling With Their Next Moves (Gift Article)
After notching primary victories, D.S.A. members in Chicago debated whether socialist candidates should be free to distance themselves from goals like abolishing prisons as they chase more seats this ...
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Hegseth's decapitation strategy. Fire anyone who is better at their job than he is at his.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
wapo.st/4dYKhhc No (EZ) Exit -- by DJT
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Opinion | Trump’s Iran own goal
The war has empowered Iranian hard-liners, blocked a vital shipping lane and handed a windfall to Russia.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
7 years ago, we learned about Bob Mueller’s conclusions. Today, there are a lot of posts on social media claiming it was a farce, or worse, a fraud. But those posts are disinformation. Here is the actual information, with links for those who want to do a deep dive. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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What Was Actually in the Mueller Report
There is an enormous amount of misinformation circulating about former Special Counsel Bob Mueller’s investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 U.S.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
some people neverr learn www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...
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Gregory Bovino’s Final Days: Harsh Words and Few Regrets
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius: “There will be no military participation.. We have a situation which we did not provoke.. This war started without any consultations.. What does Trump expect from a handful of European frigates in Strait of Hormuz that the mighty US Navy can't manage alone?"
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Keeping up with the Donroe doctrine is so tiresome.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The DumbRoe doctrine takes another twist.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Everything Trump Touches Dies #ETTD www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
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Trump plans to close Kennedy Center for about two years, starting in July
Under a proposal by President Donald Trump, the closure could begin July 4, with construction beginning immediately.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
#ETTD Everything Trump Touches Dies
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Or a simple #ETTD
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Editorial cartoon from chappatte.com/en
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
HORRIFIC: the Trump admin is reportedly planning to dump hundreds of parents and children arrested in the interior (including Minneapolis) into extraordinarily dangerous Mexican border towns, and make them run a gauntlet of kidnappers if they want kangaroo court hearings.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This rejection is as good a sign as any that this board is just another Trump vanity project, perhaps in compensation for his not getting a Nobel Prize.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A British executive who managed to grab a seat later told me he wanted to be in the room, “if only because seeing Trump in the wild is like a zoological experience.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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Column | Trump dominated Davos. But Canada’s Carney was the star.
Carney delivered an address that squarely confronted the world wrought by Trump’s presidency. Davos’s attendees — including Trump — took notice.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Good Carnegie Endowment story worth reading--governments are increasingly willing to bear the costs of internet shutdowns if they see immediate payoffs.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Brutal poll showing how fleeting Trump's progress was with young and minority voters. Worse than where he started from.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
consistency is the hobglobin?
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Center for Transformational Change @cftchange.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
On #MLKDay, we remember Mariam Kaba's call that "hope is a discipline." Our new zine explores how creators sustain political hope through expression and community. It asks: What gives you political hope right now? Read it here: www.transformationalchange.co/news-stories...
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The urgency of political hope — CfTC
What good is hope in a time led by charlatans and monsters?  In our present moment, forces aligned toward extraction, opportunism, oppression, and violence seem to have gained momentum over our ...
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14/01/2026
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Another example of DOL anti-globalism
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Why the Department of Labor? I know that they have been picking up on a lot of the anti-globalist language, but it seems like an odd place for Qanon sympathy.
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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The Labor Department in recent days has done multiple posts echoing QAnon phrases. QAnon influencers in response have declared vindication. One of them wrote the department "is Q posting. … This is not debatable now. If you like it, cool. If you don’t like it, too bad. It’s happening." My latest:
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QAnon community declares vindication as Trump’s Labor Department pens multiple posts echoing QAnon phrases
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Imperial dining
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Not an expert, but I never believed the slave control argument. Obviously oversimplified.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Some men dream things that never were and ask why not? RFK (the real one)
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.
Chart showing "Detention Population, Among Those Arrested in the interior, by Criminal Record, May 2019 through January 27, 2026. There are three lines on the graph: prior conviction, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record. from 2019 through January 2025, "prior conviction" is by far the highest, followed by pending charges much lower down and "no criminal record" the lowest. During the Biden admin, very few people arrested by ICE in the interior and detained had no criminal record. Beginning in January 2025, all three lines jump, but the highest spike is among those with no criminal records. By September, that has become the single largest. Since that point, there are now thousands more people in detention with no criminal record than people with prior convictions.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Heavy Weather
yellow warning sign indicating danger of ICE shooting into a car
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 07/01/2026
The Trump administration’s brazen military assault risks causing a new human rights disaster for Venezuelans. The US appears poised to actively encourage Venezuela to maintain Nicolás Maduro’s repressive apparatus as long as it furthers US interests.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Trump’s ‘High-Fear’ World talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
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Trump’s ‘High-Fear’ World
Not long after I first moved to Washington, D.C. more than 25...
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Have a link or any expanded source for coverage.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
What we don't need is violent protests in response, as that will just legitimate ICE escalation.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Trump has PTSD from impeachment efforts. Dems have better things to do.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
When will he admit the same about anti-fascist?
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
At least his unlawful belligerence is consistent.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: Trump “will try to take what he wants—that's true whether it's in a department store dressing room, or a majority of the American electorate telling him no, or the head of a sovereign foreign state telling him no, or our NATO allies, or the courts, or the Constitution.”
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Hard to see how Hegseth thinks this is a winning strategy, particularly since he had expressed similar views about not following illegal orders about a decade ago.
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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
"The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape---As the buildout of AI infrastructure alarms communities, it is fast emerging as a potent electoral issue across the political divide" wapo.st/4jytv9K
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The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape
Backlash over the proliferation of data centers has entered the national political conversation and could affect voters of all political persuasions in this year’s midterm elections.
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Ted Perlmutter @tedperl.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Another aspect of Trump administration tendency to create "narco-terrorist" organizations when politically convenient falls by the wayside. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
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Justice Dept. Drops Claim That Venezuela’s ‘Cartel de los Soles’ Is an Actual Group
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