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@barbaragranick.bsky.social
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Retired librarian and data analyst. Lives in Madison WI #JewSky

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Don't think I've ever been as terrified in all the Trump security crises. As @pkrugman.bsky.social said, "It’s the most astonishing, awful thing that I’ve ever seen, and we’ve all seen a lot of awful things." Mainly as cope, and to teach it, I keep asking why. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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Living in Hell
War crimes coming: A horrifying update
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
You don’t owe condolences, prayers, or thoughts to anyone you don’t actually give a fuck about. Public officials? maybe, not really. You as a private citizen? No way, go live your life. Mourn only the laws that are broken, or any injustice allowed to exist. It’s not that deep.
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Martin Kleiner 🧻 @kleinergag.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
This looks like the home of a mafia oligarch or the mansion of a child trafficking boss.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.” Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.
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Steve (he/him) 🎹 ❤️ 🏳️‍🌈 @pianosteve.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
My theory is that there are 3 types here: 1. Those who don’t know what’s happening 2. Those who like what’s happening 3. Those who are trying to resist what’s happening I don’t think there’s apathy. There is, however, a lot of feeling beat down. Unsure how to resist. That kind of stuff.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Measles was eradicated with the vaccine, which is 97% effective at preventing measles. Antivaxxers are the ones keeping people sick for profit.
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jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social @jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
You just gotta LOVE MAD MAGAZINE!!!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources: 1. Federal grants 2. Private gifts/endowments 3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students) 4. State $ For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
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Opera Joe 🎼🇺🇦🇲🇽🆘🇬🇱 @operajoe.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Say goodbye to honest economic data. We knew it was coming. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump demands official overseeing jobs data be fired after dismal employment report
President Donald Trump said Friday that he has directed his team to fire the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures, after a weak report showed hiring slowed and was much weaker in ...
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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
And existing white men "affirmative action": "Who benefits from discriminatory college admissions policies? White males more qualified applications from women, who get higher grades and more than 70% of valedictorians nationwide Seeking to create some level of gender balance, many colleges accept
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Editorial: Who benefits from discriminatory college admissions policies? White males
If the Trump administration really intends to examine discriminatory college-admission policies, as a New York Times report suggests, it had best be prepared for what it will find: A lot of white peop...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
With Emil Bove's Confirmation, Trump Hones His Criminal Protection Racket www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/30/w...
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With Emil Bove's Confirmation, Trump Hones His Criminal Protection Racket - emptywheel
Emil Bove's confirmation to a lifetime appointment on the Third Circuit hones Trump's criminal protection racket in a bunch of ways, both by rewarding those who engage in abuse for him and by punishin...
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barbaragranick.bsky.social @barbaragranick.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Pippa decided she wanted to drive today. (My bike filled up the cargo section, so she goes on the floor below the passenger seat)
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A newspaper wrecked on purpose.
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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 25/07/2025
This happened to me recently. I was having an entire repository scanned for any inconsistencies. The AI then started editing files it wasn't supposed to — ones that had been painstakingly written and not yet committed. The agent was apologizing while actively destroying my setup.
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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 23/07/2025
love this. The engineer who beat Apple by creating the first USB-C iPhone has now created a phone case that switches the Lightning port on older iPhones to USB-C www.theverge.com/news/712133/...
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This iPhone case switches Lightning ports to USB-C
A solution that ditches USB-C adapters.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/07/2025
"I do think Republicans understand the mess that they have created. I don't know that they're willing to solve it." @chrismurphyct.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's pod:
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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 23/07/2025
Advising women to get helicopter insurance in case they need a lifeflight because a hospital won't provide them care is not a place that would have existed in the country I was born into, but that country exists in name only anymore. There is no man who would be denied care in the United States.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16/07/2025
“More systematically than in his first term, Trump’s administration is reaching into the federal immigration bureaucracy to roll back an array of protections for undocumented children,” @mccrummen.bsky.social writes:
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The Message Is ‘We Can Take Your Children’
More systematically than in his first term, Trump is rolling back protections for undocumented minors.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 16/07/2025
It's very difficult to measure harms prevented because they don’t happen. Do the protests or calls or court cases matter given how bad things are now? No one can say for sure. What we do know: if we stop, we lose. So, assume it is working and keep going. It's not unrealistic to hope. It's necessary.
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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
We’ve now entered the revoking citizenship of people who are mean to me phase of the presidency. It only gets worse.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/07/2025
If you're just learning about Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton... In 2024, ProPublica and @texastribune.org found that he repeatedly used the state’s consumer protection laws to investigate organizations — including hospitals and LGBTQ+ groups — whose work conflicted with his political views.
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Texas’ Attorney General Is Increasingly Using Consumer Protection Laws to Pursue Political Targets
Ken Paxton has repeatedly used laws that are supposed to protect people from fraudulent or deceptive practices to pursue entities he disagrees with politically, including hospitals, pharmaceutical…
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The time is NOW to show up. How this will work is if it's all of us, together. Solidarity is the only way home. We can do this. But only if we all do. That means you, too.
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One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...
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Craig Roblewsky @pointc.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
"As concentration camps become more common, they will offend fewer people — and they will be called normal." That line haunts me because too many things that would have offended everyone just a few years ago are now part of the daily news & ignored. Check out this one by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
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Guns or Fireworks
America is not its government and normal does not mean right.
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Moms Demand Action @momsdemandaction.org · 06/07/2025
For decades, the gun industry & NRA have stoked fear and extremism, fueling a culture of grievance. Now we’re seeing the deadly results—like the killing of MN’s Melissa Hortman and her husband. A must-read from The Trace & Rolling Stone on how gun groups helped radicalize America. thetr.ac/TLJaO
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White, Legally Armed, and Primed for Political Violence
Ian Rogers was convinced it was up to him to save America. The gun industry’s sales tactics may be creating a pipeline of extremists willing to open fire.
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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Frederick Douglass' "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" is probably the greatest-ever July 4 speech. And it is NOT a denunciation of the Declaration or the Revolution, but an indictment of failure to live up to their principles: reason.com/volokh/2020/...
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Slavery, the Declaration of Independence and Frederick Douglass' "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
July 4 is an appropriate time to remember Frederick Douglass' famous 1852 speech, "What to the Slave is the…
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Michael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The ICE budget is now set to be approximately what the NIH budget was. We’re shifting money from solving real problems to solving fictitious problems.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...
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On Tyranny free resources
To use and to share, now or any time
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
So the cuts in the Republican Trump act are delayed. OK. This isn’t rocket science. Democrats need a countdown clock. A website & an app. When every Democratic member of Congress speaks, they should start by saying it is X number of days and X number of months until Medicaid and Medicare are cut.
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bill the cat @billdiamond.com · 04/07/2025
This is just the beginning.
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bill the cat @billdiamond.com · 04/07/2025
How much have Republicans fucked over senior citizens? Trump’s plan is to kill traditional Medicare and replace it with the far more limited and low cost Medicare Part C “Medicare Advantage”. This kills all long-term care, skilled nursing, and out of pocket limits.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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CamplinK @camplink.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Totally weird from the guy who said one President can't cancel student debt while the other he said can send people to concentration camps.
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Be sure to sit down with @nhannahjones.bsky.social’s latest piece in the NYT magazine. It’s a sobering reality that we should be shouting from the rooftops. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
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How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
More fake ICE agents doing horrible things. Everyone should be speaking up about this. Masks and no ID required is a ridiculous recipe for horrors. @MarshaBlackburn & @SenJohnson & Sexton should be banning it, not protecting it.
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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
15 canceled NIH grants contained flagged words...In most cases where “trans” was flagged, the term generally referred to other words with the trans- prefix, such as disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies or signal transduction." www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
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Stalled funding, canceled grants: How the NIH crisis is affecting Duke
Duke has lost millions in funding this year as the courts and President Donald Trump clash over the future of the National Institutes of Health. Twenty-eight NIH grants awarded to Duke have been cance...
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barbaragranick.bsky.social @barbaragranick.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Did the Mother of Young Adult Literature Identify as a Man? www.nytimes.com/2022/12/24/o...
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Opinion | Did the Mother of Young Adult Literature Identify as a Man? (Published 2022)
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/06/2025
We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Inside sources told me the CDC's massive HIV surveys have been halted. This essentially wastes $72 million already spent, years of effort, and 30K people's time. Stopping the next round of surveys means trying to curb HIV in the dark. Inefficient to say the least. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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CDC Staffing Upheaval Disrupts HIV Projects and Wastes Money, Researchers Say - KFF Health News
Researchers laid off in April were putting the finishing touches on in-depth HIV surveys that guide treatment and prevention. Some staff have been reinstated, but data remains in limbo.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16/06/2025
The “No Kings” protests offered the first real sign that the grassroots resistance to Trump hasn’t died—but it does look different from how it did, and it may, perhaps, be taking a more strategic form.
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Dems Figure Out #Resistance Under Trump 2.0
The anti-Trump protest movement has become more strategic this time around.
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 16/06/2025
office of govt ethics report: trump brought in $57,355,532 for his stake in his world liberty financial crypto platform launched last year and millions more in brand royalties:
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.
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NPR @npr.org · 15/06/2025
Some early filers say worries about the future under the Trump administration moved up their timelines.
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Why there's an unexpected surge in people claiming Social Security
Some early filers say worries about the future under the Trump administration moved up their timelines.
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Madison365 @madison365.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Authorities said the perpetrator was impersonating a police officer, complete with a vehicle equipped with emergency lights. He exchanged gunfire with police before escaping. buff.ly/iqjPBrh
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Minnesota state lawmaker killed in ‘politically-motivated assassination,’ massive manhunt for suspect underway, officials say
Originally Published: 14 JUN 25 09:53 ET Updated: 14 JUN 25 11:30 ET By Rebekah Riess, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were shot and…
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.
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ImGregory📎 @imgregory.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
A most interesting read, with good recognition of Trump. It gets one to explore the boundaries or lack there of the privileged on several levels, as well as the importance to grow from all of this...
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The Verge @theverge.com · 12/06/2025
Big Tech quietly sponsors Trump’s military parade party
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Big Tech quietly sponsors Trump’s military parade party
Amazon, Oracle and Coinbase are top sponsors, while Meta’s involvement is unclear.
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