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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Of course when Russia said Ukraine had bioweapons labs what they really meant was that they did. There's a lot we don't know about the current situation. Russia should be bringing in experts from the WHO to clarify and advise. Will they? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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U.S. officials seeking details of reported Russian plague death, quarantines
Officials said they need to learn more about the evolving situation before determining the potential threat to the United States.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 26/09/2026
When Paulo Freire began his public education programs in Brazil during the 1960s, 70% of people in parts of the country were illiterate. "And if you couldn't read and write, you could not vote," says Catherine Murphy, co-director of the new documentary "Reading the World."
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“Pedagogy of the Oppressed” Brazilian Educator Paulo Freire Profiled in Film, “Reading the World”
Reading the World is a remarkable new documentary about Paulo Freire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic p...
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026
A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.
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licerdo @licerdo.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Microsoft reports are exposing Al's real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
You can apply lots of normalizing frameworks or you can just make a timeline of his calls with Putin. We don’t have a sovereign foreign policy. We have superpower suicide.
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baobabfr.bsky.social @baobabfr.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Thank Mayor Mamdani for Vetoing Anti-Democratic, Anti-Palestinian Buffer Zone Bill. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/than...
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Thank Mayor Mamdani for Vetoing Anti-Democratic, Anti-Palestinian Buffer Zone Bill.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani just vetoed Intro 175B, a dangerous bill that would have attacked our right to protest in front of educational institutions. Jewish New Yorkers — like all New Yorkers — thrive in...
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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Sky News: "While Trump, the so-called leader of the free world, sits rage-posting on SM like a man screaming into a void, France, Japan, Philippines, & UK are quietly, methodically cutting deals with Iran. The world has moved on & US Mainstream Media is not covering a bit of this."
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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
In today's headlines: East Village institution Veselka is bringing back its 24/7 service starting April 17.
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Brian Mann @brianmannadk.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
It's time for the powers that be to put benches in the Moynihan train hall in NYC. A gorgeous train station where hundreds of weary travelers are literally forced to sprawl on the floor is an ugly expression of misplaced priorities.
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Juliet Kano @julietkano.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
A view I’ve long dreamed of. From Ryūganbuchi in Shizuoka Prefecture, gazing at Mount Fuji 🗻🌸 The cherry blossoms in full bloom and the majestic mountain together created a truly breathtaking scene. #桜 #Sakura
A view I’ve long dreamed of.
From Ryūganbuchi in Shizuoka Prefecture, gazing at Mount Fuji 🗻🌸
The cherry blossoms in full bloom and the majestic mountain together created a truly breathtaking scene.
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baobabfr.bsky.social @baobabfr.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
oh man, the Walker Art Center is going to be closed on Friday (If you're not from the Twin Cities, this is like MoMA closing in support of a general strike—a very big deal)
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Walker Art Center joins growing list of organizations closing on Jan. 23
"This reflects our institutional values to center our community, support our staff, and to approach our work with care and safety in mind," a representative says.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.

I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Just a reminder that Trump is selling Venezuelan oil and depositing the proceeds into a bank account in Qatar that is NOT under any control by the US government or Congress. He's just stealing it. It really is that simple.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
If the figures we're getting out of Iran are in the right league, this weekend was, I think, one of the bloodiest state crackdowns of all time. People are talking 12,000-20,000 dead; for comparison Hungary in 1956 was about 2,500, Tiananmen - across country, in multiple cities - probably 1000+
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested. It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
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Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...
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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
They hate Minnesota because we are a people who believe that "we all do better when we all do better." Minnesota is one of the wealthiest, safest, and cleanest states in the country *because* of our openness and generosity. Our quality of life is a direct challenge to their zero-sum worldview.
A photo of a protest against ICE at Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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RECHTSfreier Raum @rechtsfreierraum.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Geniale Idee.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Domestic violence.
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Brian Mann @brianmannadk.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
NPR's Investigations team has worked to document and preserve the factual history of what happened during the 1/6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. Please share widely. It's powerful storytelling in service of American democracy. apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
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Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack
NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
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Matt Shuham @mattshuham.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather. “No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!” “No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”
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Brian Mann @brianmannadk.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
My latest reporting for NPR
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Mayor Zohran Mamdani goes straight to Brooklyn after getting sworn in to put slumlords on notice.
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year! 🎉 Walking into 2026 like Victor Laszlo ... 🗃️ #HATM www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOli...
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Victor Laszlo Gets a Crowd To Sing "La Marseillaise" (Clip) | Casablanca (1942) | TCM
YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This past Sunday, from 8am to 8pm, New Yorkers from every corner of our city traveled to the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria to share their dreams, their worries, the change they want to see across New York. It was an honor listening to each of them.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
January 1st, 2026
Apple Graphic with writing: N.Y.C. Inauguration 2026

Save the Date
Calendar Icon: January 1, 2026
Location Pin: New York City
More details to follow
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
We can set an example for the whole nation in this election.
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baobabfr.bsky.social @baobabfr.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Fighting Oligarchy: A Town Hall on Making New York City Affordable with Special Guest Zohran Mamdani act.berniesanders.com/signup/lotte...
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Fighting Oligarchy: A Town Hall on Making New York City Affordable with Special Guest Zohran Mamdani
Sign up here to enter the lottery for a chance to see Bernie and Zohran in Brooklyn on Saturday, September 6! Fighting Oligarchy: A Town Hall on Making New York City Affordable With Special Guest Zohr...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
What to do with a bookshelf when you're not up to books, White House version. (No good answer to whether Macron or Zelenskyy was more full of scorn and loathing.)
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Life-saving idea! Pass it on!
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me: “Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”
A photo of labor activist Chris Smalls, talking into a mic
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
This totally makes sense. A notable public figure in the US (Amazon labor organizer Christian Smalls) is illegally arrested by Israel and subjected to severe physical violence while on a hunger strike… and not one US media outlet of any type has decided that is news.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.
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Suzanne Cloud @suzannecloud.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Absolutely!
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baobabfr.bsky.social @baobabfr.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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Mr.E (@denzien)
Vincent Bal, a Belgian artist, is renowned for his unique style, "Shadowology," which involves turning ordinary shadows into imaginative drawings.
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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Can confirm this email is authentic — and about nothing in it is true. Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that. It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
These people are Nazis. I know that's well-understood by many people at this point, but not enough. They are Nazis and we need to keep saying it.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
One would think that Democrats would have some better targets in the midst of a coup/civil war/destruction of the Constitution and the rule of law/massive loss of rights than a Democratic candidate who just won an election.
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Turdus Merula @byvr24.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Credit Sarah McInerney, Irish journalist vm.tiktok.com/ZNHbF6bgujKP... #GenocideByIsrael
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SDDPHOTO @sddphoto.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Sad truth
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
আর অবশ্যই — আমাদের প্রিয় সিটি কাউন্সিল সদস্য, জেলা ৩৯-এর শাহানা হানিফ-কে আবারও নির্বাচিত করুন। And of course — re-elect our beloved City Council Member from District 39, Shahana Hanif. চলুন একসাথে ভোট দিই — এক হাসি-খুশি নিউ ইয়র্ক-এর জন্য। Let’s vote together — for a hashi khushi New York. 🇧🇩🗽
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
My statement on the Trump administration's illegal military actions and the wars that must end.
Donald Trump ran for President promising to end wars, not start new ones. Today’s unconstitutional military action represents a new, dark chapter in his endless series of betrayals that now threaten to plunge the world deeper into chaos. In a city as global as ours, the impacts of war are felt deeply here at home. I am thinking of the New Yorkers with loved ones in harm’s way. 

While Donald Trump bears immediate responsibility for this illegal escalation, these actions are the result of a political establishment that would rather spend trillions of dollars on weapons than lift millions out of poverty, launch endless wars while silencing calls for peace, and fearmonger about outsiders while billionaires hollow out our democracy from within. 

For Americans middle aged and younger, this is all we have known. We cannot accept it any longer.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Five things to remember about war:
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Uncle Rico Dynamite @unclericodynamite.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
It's here...
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 07/06/2025
Congratulations to Coco Gauff for winning her first French Open title! We really LOVE this.
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Bishop Steiner @bishopsteiner.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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