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Ariel Kalishman Walsh

@arielbkw.bsky.social
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Earth Tourist in Colorado. Pro-Palestinian Jew, pro-abortion, pro-Trans, pro good jokes, anti-assholes. Asking my kids what to do when I grow up.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thank God for Zohran Mamdani and Abdul el-Sayed, who are unbelievably good examples for what principled anti-Zionism rooted in care for human rights and dignity including that of Jews looks like.
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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
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Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I feel you, Daniel L
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government:
A chart that shows the number of emergency applications filed and granted by the Supreme Court during each presidency dating back to George W. Bush, with the data annualized to show the far-higher frequencies since 2017, but especially during the Trump I and Trump II administrations.
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Roman Mars @romanmars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Slow Horses is best show on TV in which I don’t remember a single thing that has happened in a previous season
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the @forbidden-stories.bsky.social investigation is so deeply important. put the illegality to one side. the trump admin is brazenly sending ppl to third countries, lacking any cxn, without any guarantee they won't be sent on for torture, abuse, persecution... it's horrible.
forbiddenstories.org
The Deportation Project: Inside the Trump administration's secret deals to expel people worldwide - Forbidden Stories
72 journalists, 26 news organizations, 15 countries: a global investigation into the Trump administration’s secret third-country deportation system
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
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The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Ariel Kalishman Walsh @arielbkw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New forever reply to ever supposed feel good news story that is actually an example Of our failure to protect the most vulnerable despite having the resources to do so.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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a slug🍚🐝🌱🦌💽🫙🚉 @drunk.moe · 19/09/2026
This is my favorite picture on the internet (Former French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe defeats children in a game of dominoes during a visit to a school, September 2019)
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
motherjones.com
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am very worried that AI will destroy wide swaths of society's ability to think, and thus render the masses docile, pliant and helpless in the face of technofeudalism I am not at all worried about Roko, his Basilisk, or any other AI superintelligence myth, and you cannot change my mind
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 13/09/2026
Another year full of climate extremes... Did you know the last 100 days have all set new daily records for global sea surface temperatures? Learn more about our rapidly warming oceans in our webinar this week, & bring your questions! 📣 Register in advance: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/09/2026
sure, everything on earth sucks fucking shit but on the bright side at least i’m not mentally tough enough to handle any of it
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
After 9/11, law enforcement conducted mass surveillance of Muslims based on little to no suspicion. The surveillance apparatus has only expanded since. Under Trump, it's now sweeping up anti-ICE protesters, data center critics, and left-leaning groups. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_FH...
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From mosques to data center protests: How the post-9/11 surveillance machine came for us all
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 24/08/2025
Hey so just fyi, if you're abandoning trans rights you're abandoning all civil rights At that point what the fuck is the point of the democracy you're willing to sacrifice trans people for This actually isn't hard at all, quit making it pretend hard because you finally feel scared too
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Rachel Alter, MD MPH @rachelalter007.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This infectious disease doc in training encourages you to get your flu and COVID shots this season! Preferably somewhere you get paid to do so. Thrilled with my $20 credit toward groceries for protecting myself from severe flu and covid infections!
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Ryan Bernardoni @dangercart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’ve invented a slot machine that always pays out more than it takes in and opened a casino filled with them and revenue growth is through the roof!
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John Washington @jwashing.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
New story: a group of people deported from the US to Liberia and then Equatorial Guinea faced threats, guns, and have now gone silent. Latest for @lookoutnews.bsky.social www.lookoutnews.org/ice-sent-gay...
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ICE Sent a Gay Brazilian Man to Equatorial Guinea. Now He’s Gone Silent.
Pietro Graza was granted protection from deportation to Brazil because he feared torture due to his sexuality. He says he was shackled for 36 hours and taken to a hotel where he and other deportees re...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026
Always a good time to remind ourselves that the US Confederacy was, even judged in historical context, evil -- a pathetic, morally repellant movement led by some the smarmiest narcissists ever known. It had no redeeming features & should forever be regarded with disgust & contempt.
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Trump officials strip military language criticizing Confederate memorial
A new sign at Arlington National Cemetery omits wording that said the 32-foot bronze statue “mythologized” the Confederacy and gave “sanitized” depictions of slavery.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
DHS is stealing Haitians money while they deport them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/w...
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Haitians Deported From U.S. Are Left Broke and Stranded (Gift Article)
Hundreds have been deported to Haiti in recent weeks, and some say they have been left with no money, no protection from gangs and no place to go.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
local12.com
Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Well, Elon Musk is a Nazi, but at least he's good at business - - -" NO HE IS NOT MONEY JUST MAKES MORE MONEY AS LONG AS NOBODY CALLS IN ALL THE DEBTS
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps MOREOVER, using "emergency" conditions to degrade the conditions in concentration camps was partly how death rates went from a few percent to catastrophic (via www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...)
ICE has not paid any of its providers for detainees’ care since Oct. 3, 2025, according to agency regulatory filings and the ICE website. In an internal directive issued shortly after, obtained by the Chronicle and not previously reported, ICE declared “emergency operations,” sharply limiting offsite medical care and access to medication.
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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Four out of nine Supreme Court justices find the Constitution unconstitutional, what a time to be alive
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Hey Spirits! @heyspirits.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Good morning and happy Pride, Trans women are women, and they belong in sports.
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 30/06/2026
Colorado wildfires: ‘Critical fire weather conditions’ to spur wildfire growth
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Colorado wildfires: ‘Critical fire weather conditions’ to spur wildfire growth
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 27/06/2026
“Why is Mamdani getting all the attention for doing stuff every municipal Democrat does?” Because he brags about it and they brag about means-testing playgrounds! People don’t want that shit any more!
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.
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Mental Misplay @mentalmisplay.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Damn IHOP kids placemat. You didn't have to do me like that Tag yourself. I'm #cd-rom
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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 22/06/2026
turns out that the end result of "lets connect all the people from the world together and learn about each others cultures and politics :)" is that i now know a lot about algae
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 18/06/2026
Every so often I'm reminded that I made this feed
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 08/06/2026
I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...
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Bird flu, screwworm monitoring among foreign aid programs killed by Trump
Among the more than 5,300 grants and programs killed as a result of the Trump administration’s USAID cuts are a slate of U.S.-funded programs at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, including eff...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Named by FIFA to officiate during the World Cup, the Somali referee Omar Artan, elected best African referee for 2025, was denied entry to U.S. territory despite holding a diplomatic passport.
Photo of Somali referee Omar Artan
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 07/06/2026
Welcome to FIFA World Cup Iraq's World Cup striker, Aymen Hussein, was held and questioned for nearly seven ​hours at Chicago's O'Hare airport after arriving with the squad ‌early on Saturday, an Iraqi sporting official said.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Never forget that YOU are a data center. Drink some water ffs.
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 23/05/2026
If this was a blind ballot and you only saw a campaign's backers, which side would you pick? But this isn't a hypothetical. On the left are Xavier Becerra's backers. Tom Steyer's endorsements on the right.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
LMAO
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:
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Hating AI is good, actually
LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/05/2026
Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal bit.ly/44aNdkq
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
In May, the Leona Valley is usually bustling with families who arrive from across Southern California for an annual tradition: U-pick cherries. But climate change is bringing warmer winters, and this year has been so warm that the trees produced no cherries. www.latimes.com/environment/...
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For the first time, a warm winter just wiped out SoCal's little-known cherry harvest
May is usually cherry-picking season in parts of Southern California. But Leona Valley orchards has announced there are none to pick because it's been so warm.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Experts aren't always right. That's why I put my faith in morons who are never right
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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
james lipton IS shia labeouf IN curtis sliwa: renegade angel
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.
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Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.
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