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Posted on 05/26/2025 8:12:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, sparked controversy on May 23, 2025, by posting on the Bluesky social media platform: “If Trump doesn’t comply, we’re in second amendment territory.” The statement was made in response to a report on a federal judge’s ruling that blocked President Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, appearing to suggest people take up arms to overthrow or assassinate the America First leader.
The May 22 injunction froze the administration’s plan to eliminate the department, which included terminating around 1,300 employees. Mann’s post—interpreted by many as a call for violence—drew immediate backlash across social media platforms.
The post was spotlighted by Libs of TikTok, which tagged the FBI and University of Pennsylvania, writing: “Hi “FBI, this climate scientist and professor at @Penn appears to be calling to kill Trump and Trump officials.
”The controversy comes on the heels of two assassination attempts on President Trump in 2024. The first occurred on July 13 during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at Trump, grazing his ear and killing a supporter. The second attempt took place in September at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course, with pro-Ukraine activist Ryan Routh caught lying in wait with a firearm and seriously injuring a child during his attempted getaway.
In response to the second incident, Trump said, “The suspected gunman believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it. Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at.”Mann’s invocation of the Second Amendment in the context of killing or overthrowing Trump echoes a recent social media post by former FBI Director James Comey, who was accused of inciting violence by posting “8647” on Instagram. “86” is hospitality and mob parlance for removing or murdering someone, while “47” refers to Trump as the 47th President....SNIP
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The left plans to use “progressivism” as a one way ratchet toward communism. Anyone trying to undo any of it is in great danger.
Has he been arrested yet?
But liberals dislike the second amendment. He’s contradicting his own political ideology, by talking about the second amendment.
I take that as a lethal threat by lethal Bolsheviks.
Mann should be in “3-5 territory”
Oh, keep pushing. You lefties won’t know what hit you.
Haul Mann and his fake hockey stick to jail. Throw away the key.
This can work in the inner city but once you hit the suburbs the wave will crest.
I’ll see your hockey stick and raise you an AR.
Second, while our DOJ officials are enjoying their new celebrity status and partying with the DC crowd (Bondi, are you still hung over?), keep in mind that this rhetoric is going to inspire some liberal(s) to try even more extreme measures than before.
Get off your lazy butts and do something!
Certainly sounds like it warrants a visit from the Secret Service.
Cloward-Piven.
The new, violent Trantifa types embrace the 2nd A.
If nothing happpens to this guy for such a blatant threat on Trump, that’ll tell me a lot about how serious Trump is on changing things during his term. This is an easy win right here. EASY
Why do those on the left keep urging Civil War? They hope to end MAGA with an assassins bullet. Like they did with the George Floyde Riots. Then only one 17 year old boy stood up and fought them—it will be different next time. I say the Bullet that takes down Trump will be the first in CW II. Trump will be the first of four Million to die. Maybe that’s all they have left?
Nice for Mann to out himself as a deranged leftist.
He claimed to be a scientist.
Mann should be in 556 territory.
Somehow I just imagine most universities going up in flames first should there be a kinetic war in the US.
Democrat paid "climate science" is all three.
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