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Rebecca Pierce

@aptly-engineerd.bsky.social
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Filmmaker, writer, Black Jew. Documentaries, op eds, & sketch comedy.

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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I bought a labubu and it attached me to its purse and I don’t know where I am
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 28/07/2025
“I remember a woman crying and screaming — her daughter’s body was burned. She was begging for someone to come and save her. You could hear the ambulances trying to get in, and you don’t let them enter.” Investigation by Yuval Abraham www.972mag.com/double-tap-i...
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 24/07/2025
"Seven of the Venezuelans arrived days after the rest, deported from Guantánamo, where a hunger strike had broken out. They suggested doing the same at CECOT. Flores, Ramos, and others I spoke with said every inmate they knew joined the hunger strike, which lasted for several days."”
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Seven women between the 12th-17th c., from Iraq to Germany, Torah teachers, scribes, mystics, most or all of whom you've never heard of -- and I bet some of the details you've never gotten -- come and learn ♥️
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7 Jewish women
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Patrick deHahn @pdehello.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
"I collapsed. I tried to stay strong for my mother [...] Around me, I saw people fainting everywhere." "We can no longer do the most basic things that people around the world do every day. Hunger has stripped us of everything." www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...
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We are starving
My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Image of RFK Jr. with his mouth open and a cartoon speech bubble below him
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Rain garden can go a long way to preventing the worst of the kind of flash flooding—from rain right there, not coming downstream—that just hit NYC. They're a cheap and often beautiful way to prevent enormous damages.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/07/2025
I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside. "With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani. "And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."
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Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid? | Margaret Sullivan
With their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani
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Michael Sappir @m.sappir.net · 01/07/2025
Everyone should read this and clearly a lot of you still haven't. (Also available in German thanks to @thediasporist.bsky.social: thediasporist.de/de/der-unent... )
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Despite having several of the worst gun massacres in recent memory, Texas just banned a law that helps keep guns away from unhinged people. My latest reporting on mass shootings in America www.motherjones.com/politics/202... @motherjones.com Photo by Pete Luna, Uvalde Leader-News
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Texas forbids law that keeps guns away from unhinged people
Despite recent massacres in the state, GOP leaders ban a proven tool to help stop them.
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 02/07/2025
The UK can excuse genocide, but draws the line at festival chants - www.972mag.com/uk-idf-music...
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The UK can excuse genocide, but draws the line at festival chants
A musician’s anti-IDF slogan isn’t what is making British Jews less safe. Repressing Palestine solidarity as ‘antisemitic’ is.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
If I had said this last year, that Trump would try and deport US citizens in his first year, all Republicans and a nontrivial number of liberals and centrists would have attacked me for behind hyperbolic, and fear-mongering, and of having Trump Derangement Syndrome. And yet:
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 27/06/2025
"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
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The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness
This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.
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AFK - ON SABBATICAL @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com · 27/06/2025
This guy was indicted for bribery lmao
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/06/2025
When ordinary Republicans understand how Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” would affect the after-tax incomes of American families, it turns out they don’t find it beautiful at all. “I was really shocked."
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Ordinary Republicans hate Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill"—once they know what it does
Solid support turns to strong opposition, a new Yale study shows.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Doctors Warn Medicaid Cuts in Senate Budget Bill Will Kill Their Patients Please read the article. Closing of hospitals and kicking people off of healthcare and SNAP will lead to 100s of 1000s of deaths. Spread the message & don’t let the GOP get away with murder. truthout.org/articles/my-...
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Doctors Warn Medicaid Cuts in Senate Budget Bill Will Kill Their Patients
Protests against Medicaid cuts continued on June 25, which led to the arrests of 60 activists at the Senate.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
It should go without saying but historically people who propose denaturalization are not, as my grandfather would say, good for the Jews
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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I invited @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to this event, and so proud of it! I originally invited him (as part of the organizing team) hoping he would speak. I wanted more people to hear him, hoping more people would support him. We decided not to have politicians speak, but Zohran came anyway.
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Rebecca Pierce @aptly-engineerd.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
New York’s next mayor, America’s next boyfriend
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Truly horrified by this order in way that is deeper and darker than I have felt over many truly awful merits decisions.
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
When was the last time a socialist politician campaign in NYC in Yiddish? Meyer London?
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now. www.latimes.com/california/s...
A 37-year-old U.S. citizen who was tackled to the ground and arrested after filming federal agents at Home Depot on Thursday said he was held for more than an hour near Dodger Stadium, where agents boasted about how many immigrants they arrested.
"How many bodies did you guys grab today?" he said one agent asked.
"Oh, we grabbed 31," the other replied.
"That was a good day today," the first agent responded.
The two high-fived, as Job Garcia sat on the asphalt under the sun, he said.
Garcia was released on Friday from a downtown federal detention center. No apparent criminal charges have yet to be filed. He is one of several U.S citizens arrested during enforcement operations in recent days. Department of Homeland Security officias sav some trave ilegaly11:04 C
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"You wanted it, you got it," the man yelled.
An agent handcuffed him so hard "that there was no circulation running to my fingers," Garcia said.
Pinned down, Garcia had difficulty breathing.
"That moment, I thought I could probably die here," he said.
The agent put Garcia's phone back in his pocket. The recording kept running.
As Garcia was put into a vehicle, his video captured an agent twice saying: "I've got one back here."
"You got one what?" Garcia shot back. "You got one what?"
He said an agent told him in broken Spanish to "wait here,' though it could not be heard on the video. -11:04 €
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"I f- speak English, you f- dumbass," he clearly shouts back.
No agent asked if he was an American citizen, he said. Nobody asked for identification.
"They assumed that I was undocumented," he said later in an interview.
The video ends after about four minutes, while he is waiting in the van.
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Raid at a Home Depot in Hollywood shatters an immigrant refuge
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Garcia asked an agent to get his wallet from his car, so he could prove he was a U.S. citizen. Another agent retrieved his ID, but he remained handcuffed.
They were so tight, his hands hegan to swell.Garcia asked an agent to get his wallet from his car, so he could prove he was a U.S. citizen. Another agent retrieved his ID, but he remained handcuffed.
They were so tight, his hands began to swell.
The agents switched him to handcuffs that looked like shoelaces. They took off around a corner, stopped to shuffle him into another van and sped off down the 101 Freeway.
"I smeared my blood in their seat," he said.
And he thought, "They're going to remember me."
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
We are deep in the middle of something that will later be viewed as being on par with McCarthyism
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Rebecca Pierce @aptly-engineerd.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Some much needed news of freedom going into this Juneteenth weekend
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Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
MIT study found that AI overuse causes measurable brain damage. “Cognitive atrophy.. like a muscle that’s forgotten how to work” MIT Publication - arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088... Time Magazine - time.com/7295195/ai-c...
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ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 21/06/2025
"The moment you enter this facility, your rights leave you behind,” he said. “So once you enter there, you see a different reality, just a different reality about this country.”
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‘Justice Will Prevail,’ Mahmoud Khalil Says as He Goes Free on Bail
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Rebecca Pierce @aptly-engineerd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Only one white person has texted to wish me a Happy Juneteenth today. Ima tell Fredrick Douglass about the rest of yall 😤
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
L.A. Taco has confirmed with the family of 20yr old Adrian Andrew Martinez, who was taken by ICE while working at Walmart in Pico Rivera, is a US citizen who was speaking up for his coworker that was detained. ~ @eltragon.bsky.social
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Helicopters. Armed troops wearing masks. All for a freaking military-grade raid at a flea market that appears to have resulted in two measly arrests. DHS and ICE are out of control. ktla.com/news/local-n...
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Dozens of heavily armed ICE agents swarm popular L.A. County swap meet
With a Department of Homeland Security helicopter circling, several dozens of heavily armed, masked ICE agents dressed in military tactical gear raided one of the most popular swaps meets in Southe…
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 17/06/2025
Didn't realize police could commandeer a home.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
What's happening to libraries in Florida should frighten everyone. Spurred on by Moms For Liberty, the AG is threatening librarians with felonies for stocking LGBTQ+ books and overruling established processes for removing "harmful" material. It's a full on censorship campaign by the government.
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As Hillsborough book battle unfolds, other districts wonder who’s next
Florida school boards are weighing the state’s push to bypass standard reviews to remove controversial books.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Palestinianism? Its amazing the degree to which dehumanization of Palestinians has become normalized. Palestinian is a national identity. Its not a hateful ideology or a disease. Using the term Palestinianism is undeniably a form of racism
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 16/06/2025
Iranian-born Israeli political activist Orly Noy says Netanyahu launched his war on Iran as he "started losing support among the Israeli public" for the debacle in Gaza. "Both Netanyahu and the Israeli army needed an immediate rehabilitation to their prestige." www.democracynow.org/2025/6/16/ir...
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Georgia's mask ban is an anti-KKK law. A sole person wearing a medical mask is not causing dangers like the KKK in any capacity.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 16/06/2025
Thank fuck for the Don't Just Let Everybody Die cavalry
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The gunman no doubt thought of himself as a good person, as someone who was pro-life, but his ideology brought him to a place where he shot 17 bullets into a couple who got into politics to help get health insurance for his daughter, who has spina bifida.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/06/2025
Shots apparently fired at Utah no kings protest. The crowd panics and everyone starts running away.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/06/2025
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Sen. Alex Padilla, the first Latino to represent California in the Senate, was assaulted and dragged out of Kristi Noem's press conference before being forced to the ground, cuffed and briefly detained. All completely illegal, all completely racist, all very much happening.
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writtenbyhanna.bsky.social @writtenbyhanna.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I know *a lot* is going on but Harvey Weinstein was reconvicted in his retrial lol
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
ICE fled the scene after ramming a car in Boyle Heights! ABC-7 in L.A. reporting what police said. They're saying there was an incident involving "a federal agent." "They fled the scene." "Hollenbeck Division is even saying they're investigating this, possibly as an assault with a deadly weapon."
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ICE agents accused of hit-and-run in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles
YouTube video by ABC7
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Yuh-Line Niou @yuhline.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The government is kidnapping kids.
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