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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
There is still time. #President McInnis: do not offer up #Yale’s legacy to Mr. Trump. Do the right thing. Stand up for higher education. Stand up for freedom. End/ ctmirror.org/2026/07/09/y...
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Yale community mobilizes against reported Justice Dept. settlement
DOJ accused Yale of continuing to consider race in med school admissions after the practice was ruled illegal in a 2023 SCOTUS case.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
When the history of this moment is written we will know who stood up and who bent the knee to Mr. Trump. 5/ www.unpopularfront.news/p/welcome-to...
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Welcome to Vichy America
After the Fall
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
#Yale President McInnis and the trustees are on the wrong side of history—collaboration with McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee was wrong in the 1950s and collaboration with authoritarians is still wrong today. 4/ www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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Trump, Yale deal would be authoritarianism by agreement | Opinion
Trump's government hopes a deal with Yale will push other universities to fold. The university should stand for the Constitution and the law instead.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
#Yale alums, faculty and students thank Bruce Cohen, Jane Fonda & the Committee for the First Amendment (CFA) for standing with us against the authoritarian assault on our university and our efforts to keep Yale from capitulating to Mr. Trump. 1/ www.committeeforthefirstamendment.com/news-updated...
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Letter on Trump Administration Demands of Yale — Committee for the First Amendment
Over the past year and a half, the Trump administration has targeted institutions of higher learning across the United States. Photo: Yale University
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
What is the Alito Doctrine?
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
As a DC reporter, I don't endorse mindless war, militarized cities, illegal abductions, defunded medical research, government insider trading, and mass pardons of violent criminals. But in the name of our norms, tonight I will break bread and share laughs with the president who did all of this.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...
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Why Yale’s term paper on what’s wrong with college gets a ‘D-’ | Will Bunch
An Ivy League university's report on the loss of faith in higher ed ignores what really killed the American Dream of college.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Great column! I, an early ‘80s vintage Yalie, was dismayed that the report did not identify the decades-long rightwing campaign against higher ed as a (if not the) major factor in the loss of the public trust. In my view, that omission renders the report intellectually unserious.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Yeah. "I disagree with the Court's legal analysis" is one thing, but "the Court isn't using legal analysis to decide cases" is another. The latter is no longer in the realm of law and should not be treated as if it is.
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David da Silva Cornell @yankeeazorean.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
How sweet it is... www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...
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Lawyer John Eastman Disbarred for Efforts to Overturn 2020 Election
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
A+ headline. defector.com/president-ex...
President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak on Crime, Also I’m Dr. Jesus Christ
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
We’ve hit the “is he the antichrist?” Part of the news cycle
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David da Silva Cornell @yankeeazorean.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Co-signing.
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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The White House circus adds a new act: Trump claims diet soda fights cancer because it “kills grass.” And Dr. Oz is apparently nodding along. If this is what passes for health advice now, America’s nutritional policy is being written by infomercials and madness.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I'm kind of fascinated by that big Lauren Sanchez Bezos feature in the Times. There's just nothing going on there at all, no insight or conflict or notable color, so the hook is just "this unfathomably rich but otherwise fatuous person enjoys their lifestyle a great deal." Fantastic stuff.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Here a grandmother is forced to do a gig job with no job security because she can’t afford to retire? What are we celebrating here?
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Lesley Abravanel🥂🪩 @lesleyabravanel.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
More than 400 women have been arrested for pregnancy‑related charges since Roe was overturned. Meanwhile, not a single man in America has faced charges from the Epstein files. If you feel like the scales aren’t balanced, you’re not imagining it. Keep resisting.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas 
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by 
@micarosenberg
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 01/02/2026
BREAKING: Democrat Christian Menefee wins special election for Texas U.S. House seat, narrowing GOP's slim majority.
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Democrat Christian Menefee wins election for US House, narrowing GOP's slim majority
Democrat Christian Menefee has won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election that will narrow Republicans’ already-slim majority.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/01/2026
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 30/01/2026
Barely a few hours after President Donald Trump named him as the next nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh was revealed to be in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files.
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Trump's Fed chair pick named in Epstein files just hours after his nomination
Barely a few hours after President Donald Trump named him as the next nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh was revealed to be in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files.According to The New Republic, "Warsh’s name appears to be on an emailed list of guests to 'St. Barth’s Christm...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Journalist Georgia Fort has been released from custody (video @fox9mn.bsky.social)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/01/2026
Six days ago federal officers murdered a man in the streets of Minneapolis and we still don't know their identities. Is there any modern precedent for this?
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Rebel with a Cause @rebelwithacause2.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
It's a tie But it's a great start with 95.3% of voters
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/01/2026
No arrests of the ICE thugs who murdered Alex Pretti, Renee Good, or Keith Porter. No arrests of anyone in the Epstein Files. But they arrested Don Lemon because of his journalism.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Few “don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone” examples as potent as an independent DOJ
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The Trump admin already failed to get an arrest warrant on him—magistrate judge refused so DOJ went to appeals court, prompting that letter from the chief district judge torching the DOJ, and appeals court denied too—so God knows what this new one is, or if they even bothered to get a warrant.
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Lindsey Rosenthal @eventsforgood.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Don Lemon was not the only journalist arrested -- Georgia Fort was as well. Don Lemon has the resources to come out of this just fine. Georgia Fort may not. Let's make sure the focus is on both of them.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Let’s try this one in foreign correspondent voice: State Security Forces Arrest Journalist Who Covered Protests Against Regime Official
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.
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Annie loves Mpls @anniekp.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
Walz: "I call on all Americans to see the decency this state is exhibiting, and the horrific cruelty, unprofessional, absolute abomination that is passing for what these f--- ICE agents are doing on our streets."
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“Are you okay?” “I’m not even mad at you, dude.” Compared with their killers’ remarks: “Boo hoo.” “Fucking bitch.”
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Frozen water needs a rebrand.
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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
My God
According to Minnesota police, Pretti had no criminal history beyond traffic violations, he worked with critically ill veterans, and he was legally carrying a gun in his belt while filming ICE agents with his cell phone. Video from the scene shows Pretti trying to help a woman who had been shoved by one of the agents, before six or seven agents pile on top of him, pepper spray and beat him while he’s restrained on the ground, remove the gun from his holster, and then shoot him several times in the chest until he’s dead. He never reaches for the gun or threatens the agents in any way; his hands are empty, he’s disarmed and lying helpless on the ground before they start spraying bullets into his body. They could have just arrested him, even though he hadn’t done a single illegal thing—but they killed him because they felt like it.
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Minnesota's state FBI-like bureau is suing Noem. It says before pre-emptively declaring the killing righteous and abandoning the crime scene, feds took exclusive custody of evidence, including "apparently seized cellphones." MN asserts a sovereign right to investigate crimes within its borders.
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#1 in Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension v. Noem (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cv-00628) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against All Defendants (filing fee $ 405, receipt number AMNDC-12575332) filed by Hennepin County Attorney's Office, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Filer requests summons issued....
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The message: Don’t believe your own eyes. An ICU nurse with no criminal record who was wrestled to the ground by half a dozen ICE agents and shot for no apparent reason is being labeled a “terrorist” by Trump’s top adviser.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Holy shit.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The nurses are pissed
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Let us not forget, it was the same administration that reduced us to wearing trash bags as protective gear while we watched the hospital go up in flames around us during the pandemic that just murdered one of our own on the streets in broad daylight. As a nurse & as a person, I will never forgive. I will never forget. I will never back down. This was never about border control.
This is about total control.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
The painful truth as the world sees it.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
To the surprise of no one, this guy served as the general manager of the Yale marching band. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_O%2...
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
As a gay man around his age, I’m really pissed about how fucking lame Bessent is.
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