Jeff Holcomb
I celebrate diversity and history. Former futures trader, current teacher. Chicago is home.
- Reposted by Jeff HolcombRFK Jr starts having a tantrum as Chris Murphy details how he lied during his confirmation hearing about his anti-vax views
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- Reposted by Jeff HolcombRussell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data. www.wired.com/story/cfbp-q...
- Reposted by Jeff HolcombEd Martin, the incoming "captain" of DOJ's "Weaponization Working Group," said that he'll "name" and "shame" individuals who committed no criminal conduct in what would be a major departure from longstanding Justice Department protocols. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
- Reposted by Jeff HolcombAs part of the red-carpet treatment, Saudi officials arranged for a fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit to accompany President Trump during his stay. According to local reports, the unit was set up near the Saudi Royal Court.
- Reposted by Jeff Holcomb"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
- The Golf Analogy That Explains a Lot About Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
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- Reposted by Jeff HolcombFired a black person who was qualified, hired a white person with no qualifications whatsoever. The Trump administration in a nutshell bsky.app/profile/axio...
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- Reposted by Jeff HolcombNEW: As the Trump admin is flying Afrikaners here today to be resettled as "refugees," @Sec_Noem is terminating Temporary Protected Status for Afghanistan — meaning they may start deporting women and allies who protected our troops to the Taliban to be persecuted or killed!
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- Reposted by Jeff HolcombTrump: "Basically what we're doing is equalizing. It's a new word that I came up, which I think is probably the best word."
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- Reposted by Jeff HolcombI know Great Barrington well and it is extremely hard to imagine any scenario on this earth in this small town that would require cops to roll out like they're going to war.
- A key element of the administration’s repurposing of wartime and counterterrorism framings to other ends is aesthetic. Here ICE agents are kitted out like wannabe GWOT operators while conducting a raid in the badlands of the Berkshires. www.berkshireeagle.com/breaking/ice...
- Reposted by Jeff Holcombpulling a critique of the bell curve from a university library but not the bell curve is as concise a way i can think of to describe the goal of the speech discourse in the past 15 years
- You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
- Reposted by Jeff HolcombA man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind. “They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.” www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
- Reposted by Jeff HolcombWait. WHAT??!! abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
- Reposted by Jeff Holcomb“The first 100 days of the Trump administration will go down in history as the greatest grift in the history of our economy in terms of the amount of money stolen and the size of it over the shortest period.” -Scott Galloway
- Reposted by Jeff HolcombTrump executive order Jan. 20: "Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society." Trump Pentagon order May 9: All military commands shall purge books about racism and sexism "incompatible" with its mission by May 21. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
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- Reposted by Jeff HolcombWere you aware that Trump is destroying previous scientific research data? Not just discontinuing the funding of it. Not just hiding it from US. Literally DESTROYING IT. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
- Reposted by Jeff HolcombExclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
- Reposted by Jeff Holcomb"What did they do?" -- Trump has no idea what he's signing and has to have it explained to him
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- Reposted by Jeff HolcombNEW — Trump’s ICE has just arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. Alongside residents and other officials, Baraka has been protesting outside a detention facility that’s set to help Trump’s mass deportation regime.
- Reposted by Jeff HolcombStephen Miller says they are “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which is only allowed when the US has been invaded or during an insurrection, which would not allow people to challenge their incarceration in court if they are arrested and detained.
- Reposted by Jeff HolcombBREAKING: Rümeysa Öztürk released from ICE detention by a judge. “The decision is another blow to the Trump administration’s effort to detain and deport international students for their speech,” writes @premthakker.bsky.social for Zeteo: zeteo.com/p/breaking-t...
- China is being handed a massive intellectual talent pool and all that goes with it. Not stealing, simply being gifted by means of the most radically backwards policies the US has witnessed in the last 100 years.
- @profgalloway.com "global competitors are eagerly shopping at the greatest yard sale of human capital since German scientists bolted for America in World War II."
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- Reposted by Jeff HolcombNew Halloween costume just dropped
- Reposted by Jeff HolcombA report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...
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- Reposted by Jeff HolcombCDC leadership just told staff on Monday that they could stop sending their "5 things I did last week" emails. Finally. Per source, people were mostly just sending the same things every week. Many folks added read receipts and were able to see that no one at DOGE was actually reading the emails.
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"I will be resigning after this semester from my tenured position at West Point after 13 years on the faculty. I cannot tolerate these changes, which prevent me from doing my job responsibly. I am ashamed to be associated with the academy in its current form." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o... - Reposted by Jeff HolcombNo mother or child should die from a preventable cause. No generation should live in fear of deadly infectious diseases. And no one should be denied the chance to thrive because of where they were born. gatesnot.es/4m5pSc3
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