Chet DeFonso
Yooperprof. British historian. Occasional actor. Jet Set Chet. Reader of books. Likes opera. Also beer. LGBTQ club member. He/him.
- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoIt's obvious but still striking to consider that we have a United States government driven solely by one man's emotional dysregulation and dysfunction.
- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoThey’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.
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- Of course, it's not only Trump who is to blame. It's also the moral depravity and complete viciousness of Republican elites who support him.
- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoThis is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association. Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
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- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoI hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.
- Reposted by Chet DeFonso@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him
- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoI want to reiterate that this shit is nuts. A federal invasion of state-run elections, an intelligence community invasion of federal law enforcement, a White House invasion of a criminal investigation, and a president’s insane treasonable sore loser obsession all rolled up and muddled together.
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- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoHollywood producer Barry Josephson to Jeffrey Epstein: “I've been thinking a lot about that question that you asked bill gates 'how do we get rid of poor people as a whole'"
- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoI am speechless. "The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoUpdate: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.
- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoJournalism is a great industry to go into if you want to become speedrun becoming a Marxist.
- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoIn no functioning country is this allowed.
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- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoThis is a great example of what Marx called "the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour."
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- Reposted by Chet DeFonso6 Minn-based CVT clients, all torture survivors, all with legal status, have been taken by ICE and flown out of state. Only one was released. The situation is what they fled from. “The majority of our clients are essentially under house arrest,” said Sara Nelson www.startribune.com/rash-they-fl...
- Reposted by Chet DeFonsothe president is psychotic. in reality, his numbers are near all-time lows.
- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoAnother Lego shark has been found! It was discovered on Sunday by Emma Fraser Trecurno at East Portholland beach in Cornwall. It's one of 51,800 Lego sharks that fell into the ocean on 13th February 1997. Picture credit: Emma Fraser Trecurno
- Reposted by Chet DeFonso🇺🇸 The U.S. is actively dismantling its own soft power
- “.. a poll of Germans found nearly two-thirds said they wanted to avoid US brands. .. an astounding 83 per cent of Swedes said they were no longer buying US brands.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/3276...
- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoNew York Times covers the Economic Siege of Minnesota’s ICE occupation, a deliberate administration strategy to punish an entire blue locality. We need more national coverage alerting the nation to what’s next for them. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/b... (gift link)
- Reposted by Chet DeFonso*drum roll* Here is the cover for my book, which will be published by @cornellupress.bsky.social on 15 April 2026! I thought it would be nice to share a bit of info on who these men were and how their lives and interests inspired the design...
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- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoIn case you missed it, a Republican in *checks notes* … Texas — who Trump endorsed — just underperformed Trump by 30 points and lost a special election. The panic is going to be delicious.
- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoDemocrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state Senate on Saturday, flipping a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024. n.pr/4kcbr5h
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- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoSCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods. S1: archive.org/details/sctv... S2: archive.org/details/sctv... S3: archive.org/details/19-m... S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s... S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky
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- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoHuh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
- 1. Art and Civilization (Norris K. Smith) 2. Philosophical Classics (William Gass) 3. Urban History 4. The Long 18th Century 5. Bloomsbury
- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoNo 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.
- He's overlooking the clear anarcho-syndicalist influence of Snoopy.
- Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoJesus Christ. The "pivot" lasted about 15 minutes. Arresting a black journalist under the Ku Klux Klan Act for covering a pro-immigration protest at a Christian nationalist church led by an ICE officer is the perfect encapsulation of this administration's authoritarianism, racism, and trolling.
- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoThe largest infrastructure projects currently being built in the US appear to be data centers and detention centers. The AI boom has coincided with ICE becoming the most heavily funded government agency. It's hard not to see a connection: This is the architectures of digital fascism
- Just another day in paradise.
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- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoVideo shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history. “There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoThey don't call him Nutlick for nothing.
- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoThe *things* russians are doing: invading a sovereign state, murdering civilians, creating a humanitarian disaster in extreme cold, abducting children, razing towns to the ground, raping, torturing, looting
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- Reposted by Chet DeFonso"Must remain in seats for entirety of film." It's the new TikTok challenge, all the kids are trying it -- can you endure a documentary about the world's most boring evil woman?
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- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoIt is wild to me that a military incursion to steal another country’s resources so the president can have a personal slush fund in Qatar is like the 5th most scandalous thing currently happening.
- Reposted by Chet DeFonsothat the president is a rapidly decaying lunatic is the worst kept secret in the world right now when It Happens, we are going to get countless accounts about how bad it was and how everyone knew and it's absolute malpractice that the same media that went full court press on Biden Old ignores it
- "A key European ally of Trump said he was 'traumatized' by a meeting where the president’s 'psychological state' came across as 'dangerous.’ Robert Fico, the populist prime minister of Slovakia … characterized Trump as being 'out of his mind,' per a diplomat." www.thedailybeast.com/trump-ally-s...
- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoAbsolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
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- Reposted by Chet DeFonso“Amid accusations of AI cheating, some students are turning to a new group of generative AI tools called ‘humanizers.’ The tools scan essays and suggest ways to alter text so they aren’t read as having been created by AI. Some are free, while others cost around $20 a month.”
- Reposted by Chet DeFonsoIf media is going to claim a "pivot," let's stipulate some threshold questions: Is ICE still treating US cities like occupied territory? Will there be serious governmental investigations into ICE killings? Any accountability for them? If not, nothing is changing. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2057...
