William OO Douglas

William OO Douglas

@edcu.bsky.social

LBJ was right. MLK was right. Bernie is still right.

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William OO Douglas
@edcu.bsky.social

100% agreed

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

ICE offices are based in the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building at 1 Federal Drive, Fort Snelling, Hennepin County, Minnesota. Repost if you think the local authorities should rename its address "One Renee Nicole Good/Alex Pretti Plaza."

William OO Douglas
@edcu.bsky.social

John Roberts should be impeached. The shadow docket is a breach of judicial ethics. Decisions without legal justification is a dereliction of duty. Literally is not doing his job.

Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social

Of all the terrible things Roberts has done, this was the most shocking stat: "the right-wing majority has used the shadow docket to uphold Trump’s actions roughly 90 percent of the time, repeatedly bailing him out of any obligation to follow the law"

William OO Douglas
@edcu.bsky.social

This is reality.

AnthropoceneMPG 🌊@anthropocenempg.bsky.social

Post analysis of #HurricaneMelissa found climate change: Increased maximum wind speeds by 7% Intensified rainfall near the center of the storm by 16% Made it 6 times more likely for temperature and humidity of storm to intensify

William OO Douglas
@edcu.bsky.social

Thank you @NPR. More of this, please.

NPR@npr.org

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

n.pr'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial tiesThree times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
William OO Douglas
@edcu.bsky.social

“Alternative” for profit schools are donor porn.

Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social

You should read every @toddfeathers.bsky.social investigation. But this scalpel cut into Alpha School for @wired.com is a master class in dissecting institutions that drink their own kool-aid and are stunned when someone holds up a mirror as it dribbles off the chin. www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...

wired.comParents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted OutIn Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.

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Matthew Sheffield
@matthew.flux.community

This is an ongoing thread I will be updating to post examples of violent rhetoric from prominent Republicans and media personalities. It's going to include a lot of material, so please send examples. Donald Trump uses the most violent speech, but he's far from alone.

William OO Douglas
@edcu.bsky.social

27 years ago I talked to a Chilean coup survivor (husband was tortured and dumped in the street) and she said “our smart kids, they took over our businesses, or bécame professors, and the dumb ones we sent to the military. Then the dumb ones took over and killed all their smart nieces and nephews.”

Krassensteins@krassenstein.bsky.social

AOC Just mocked Trump’s ignorant attempts at fascism.

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Scott Horton
@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Judge Immergut finds that Trump's alleged basis for calling out the national guard in Oregon is "untethered to he facts." She is a lifelong Republican and was appointed to the bench by Trump. The DOJ went through wild gyrations to get the case before her.

William OO Douglas
@edcu.bsky.social

We need more boycotts , more coordination, more targeted impact.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social

Yesterday people asked why Nexstar and Sinclair caved. The answer is simple: those who tracked which companies were advertising with them made a huge impact. Thanks to those calls, companies began pulling their ad budgets over the Kimmel blackout.

William OO Douglas
@edcu.bsky.social

This is exactly correct. John Roberts is the person who has suspended the rule of law in the United States of America

Matthew Stiegler@matthewstiegler.bsky.social

Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.

William OO Douglas
@edcu.bsky.social

@suzandelbene.bsky.social this article mentions you and the dccc as facilitators of financial fraud. This is important, and you should heed their advice.

Kate Starbird@katestarbird.bsky.social

“Political movements … require trust. … When adult children discover their parents have been drained by political fundraising operations using tactics reminiscent of common internet scams—but bearing the brand of the Democratic Party itself—the damage extends far beyond the financial.”

William OO Douglas
@edcu.bsky.social

We absolutely should be doing targeted boycotting. Targeted. Measured. Hard and fast against businesses. This is too shotgun but you all should follow this guy.

Psycho Pete@psychopete.bsky.social

We will win this. There is no limit to how far Trump will go for so there needs to be no limit to how far we will go. That's how we end it. To start, we hit the boycott and spread it hard: open.substack.com/pub/psychope...

open.substack.comPsycho Pete's Living Guide to Boycotting the Big Orange Menace.The beast eats money. Don't feed it with yours.
William OO Douglas
@edcu.bsky.social

Criminal acts by President

Jamal Greene@jamalgreene.bsky.social

We've become so accustomed to lawbreaking that this probably won't ripple much, but it is important not to forget that firing the IRS Commissioner for refusing to break the law--if that's in fact what happened here--would and should prompt immediate articles of impeachment in any other presidency.

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Alex Says Stuff
@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social

Replying to @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social

Because this hypothetical pastor - the avatar for PoliMath himself - is uncomfortable with being openly and blatantly homophobic. He subconsciously has to concede that that's a bad, reprehensible thing in a way that being uncompromisingly anti-Nazi isn't.

William OO Douglas
@edcu.bsky.social

This is wonderful to read.

Hakeem Jefferson@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

stanforddaily.comWhat DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

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The Media and Democracy Project
@mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social

Big Journalism (esp. @nytimes.com) failed to adequately & accurately cover the #handsoff pro-democracy demonstrations. Local outlets did *much* better. Newsroom leaders need to defend democracy from autocracy. Read our latest blog post. 1/n mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/local-news...

mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.comLocal news outlets show the New York Times how to cover the growing pro-democracy movement.The NYTimes leadership is still indifferent to democracy. Just look at its front page.
William OO Douglas
@edcu.bsky.social

This is great reality TV. The main character takes decisive action, that we can all see may result in disaster. We can’t look away.He will resolve it somehow. He is the Boss. This is great politics. EVERYONE IS WATCHING. EVERYONE IS ENGAGED. Dem should learn from this, rather than feel smug.

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