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Tom Cotton: Iran has been an imminent threat to the United States for 47 years. The president was right to act.

If Iran has been an imminent threat for 47 years, and therefore must be attacked, wait until he hears about Russia, from Cold War to present

(So glad these idiots weren’t in office during the Cold War and many of them were bad enough)

You mean back to the 80s when ketchup was considered a vegetable?

Diversity is what makes us great. It’s our greatest strength.

The people currently in power want to divide us with hate just so they can keep power and increase their wealth. That doesn’t make the US better, it just benefits them.

This is vile and racist. There is a long history of comparing Black Americans to apes, insinuating they are less evolved, less intelligent, less human, and more animalistic. That a president would post this is despicable. Any other politician would be immediately done (and deservedly so)

You know Alex Pretti & Renee Good—the 2 white people ICE killed.

ICE has also killed Keith Porter, a Black man, Parady La, a Cambodian man, & 5 Latinos—Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos.

9 TOTAL.

ABOLISH ICE.

Disney's highest grossing film is about falsely demonizing minorities so you can colonize and gentrify.

Making Michigan Home Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience Author: Brett T. Olmsted

Happy #NationalMichiganDay to @brettolmsted.bsky.social's MAKING MICHIGAN HOME, an in-depth & innovative new book that spotlights the state’s overlooked Mexicanos & their distinctive experiences in the Midwest
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Watched Disney’s animated Wish tonight with my kids and couldn’t help but think Trump supporters would’ve cheered for Magnifico

If only Asha and the people had just complied, as they should have 🙄, Magnifico could have controlled all the power & controlled their lives

#NoKings #Disney #NoFascism

Showed a trailer of Spielberg’s ET to my kids for the first time and couldn’t help but think that MAGA and Trump would cheer for the government to get ET and boo when he went home

And why would any foreign country put that much of their supply chain in the stable genius’s control?

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

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Whatever Dear Leader says is just fine with us

Bumped the side of a water slide tube and broke 3 ribs

Interestingly, it didn’t hurt bad (I said “ouch”) and went on the slide again. Hurt to breathe deep the next day so scheduled an appointment.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

You forgot one:

c) not care about parents with young kids
d) all of the above

Sounds like a firing range outside my 5 year olds window

Making Michigan Home Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience Author: Brett T. Olmsted

Today marks the 90th ann. of the #UAW Sit-Down Strike.

From @brettolmsted.bsky.social's MAKING MICHIGAN HOME: "Mexicanos participated in the union’s first major victory during the Strike, their involvement only growing in subsequent years"
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It’s times like this, when elected “leaders” think they are extra special, I think of Joe Pesci’s great speech from With Honors

Pesci: “the president is not an elected king…he’s just a bum”

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#WithHonors #NoKings

First: who talks like this?

Second: whose inauguration?

Third: why would you have a president inaugurated inside where average people cannot attend when they are supposed to be “we the people’s” elected president, not some dictator…

…oh wait, that’s his plan

I will not use it at the beach
I will not use it when I teach

I do not want it in a church
I do not want it for research

I see no reason to concede
I will not use it when I read

Although its hype should have no end
Upon it I will not depend

I do not like your AI slop
I do not like it, make it stop

I do not want an AI house
I do not want an AI mouse
No AI box. No AI fox—
That AI slop can go kick rocks

I would not AI here or there
I would not AI anywhere
No AI car, no AI czar

Your AI slop is killing trees
I do not like it, let me be!

Making Michigan Home Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience Author: Brett T. Olmsted

"I want readers to unlearn that Mexicanos are just transient, exploitable migrants, but rather are neighbors that contribute and bring value to their cities, towns, and workplaces."

The Q&A for MAKING MICHIGAN HOME is live!
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Happy Pub Date for MAKING MICHIGAN HOME: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience

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#AmericanHistory #Midwest #UrbanStudies #LatinoStudies

Making Michigan Home Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience Author: Brett T. Olmsted

Happy Pub Date to MAKING MICHIGAN HOME: Mexican Americans Bridging the Rural-Urban Experience by @brettolmsted.bsky.social!
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#AmericanHistory #Midwest #UrbanStudies #LatinoStudies

...look at the leisure practices of Mexicanos in the Midwest. The author also articulates the involvement of Mexicanos in Michigan’s labor movement while telling the broader story of how Mexicanos in Michigan created their own identity. I am very excited about this book.”
—Delia Fernández-Jones,

Making Michigan Home

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