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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Bridgette @bcollado.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#Caturday
A gray and white cat trying origami with a carpet runner.Fluffy gray and white cat naps on a blue couch
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Big Tech is using panic to suck the air out of the room just as people are demanding transparency and accountability for the sector’s egregious, monopolistic overreach into every facet of our lives. My latest column with bonus track open.spotify.com/track/403oiK...
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Thieves in the Temple
Prince · Music from Graffiti Bridge · Song · 1990
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
lol there are a lot of people talking about AI who, frankly, shouldn't so here are people to listen to and then some: @timnitgebru.blacksky.app @alexhanna.bsky.social @rajiinio.bsky.social @ruha9.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Intelligence on tap, indeed: > students who do not use AI outperform those who do, on average, by around 20 points
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PISA 2025 Results (Volume I)
The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2025 evaluates what students know and can do in science, reading, mathematics and computational problem-solving, assessing how effectivel...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I have seven invitations from student groups to talk about A.I. They know what I think about A.I. That's why they asked me. They aren't feeling it, y'all.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The CLASSISM reeks. Reeks.
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Bridgette @bcollado.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
They don’t care that it’s International Cat Day. They refuse to come out for pictures. #caturday
They don’t care that it’s International Cat Day. They refused to come out for pictures. Two cats lounging in a cat tree .
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Bridgette @bcollado.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
#caturday
Fluffy gray cat loafing on the back of a beige couch. Gray and white cat in a hammock with white fluffy paws sticking out one side.Gray and white cat laying in front of a window on a perch with tail and one back leg dangling lazily.
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Bridgette @bcollado.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
#Caturday
Two cats sleeping curled together on a blue upholstered couch. The smaller cat has gray and white markings with spotted paws and is nestled against a larger, fluffy solid gray cat. Both cats have their eyes closed and are intertwined, with tails and paws overlapping.A long-haired gray cat with white paws doing a full sploot on a wooden bench, stretched completely flat with front and back legs extended. The cat's enormous fluffy tail curves upward behind them. A wooden dining table and chairs are visible in the background on hardwood floors.
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Bridgette @bcollado.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Had to share for the Catsky crew…
Cat sleeping with all four paws visible
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Bridgette @bcollado.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Caturday
Cat lying on a counter with one leg resting in the bowl of the sink.
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DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
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Blue_Riverrrr @blueriverrrr.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
We all need to sign CI-194 We need 30,000 valid signatures by June 19th Montana Plan to prohibit corporate spending in politics green lit for signature gathering After constitutional measure was found legally deficient, group submitted statutory initiative instead dailymontanan.com/2026/03/11/m...
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'Montana Plan' to prohibit corporate spending in politics green lit for signature gathering • Daily Montanan
After constitutional measure was found legally deficient, group submitted statutory initiative instead
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Bridgette @bcollado.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Love my fancy updates in my @ynabofficial.bsky.social app today. 🤩
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Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 13/03/2026
🎙️ Catch Peter McNally on Episode 35 of An N of 1, with Matt Wallaert! 🗓️ Coming out on Monday, Mar 16 at 8 am PT! #podcast #AnNof1 #behavioralscience
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Those who have tamped down concerns about the SAVE Act’s chance of passage in the Senate are wrong. Keep your eyes on the prize. The potential for a blowout in 2026 is top of mind for Trump, and there are only a few ways to avoid it. Call your Senators. 202-224-3121.
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Kenneth Hendrix @krhstoryline.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
a recent article from The Atlantic, “The Great Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the Country,” by HENRY GRABAR @henrygrabar.bsky.social, actually found a more credible theory for the nationwide decrease in crime in the U.S. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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“But only one theory can match the decline in its scope and scale: that the massive, post-pandemic investment in local governments deployed during the Biden administration, particularly through the American Rescue Plan Act, delivered a huge boost to the infrastructure and services of American communities-including those that suffered most from violent crime. That spending may be responsible for our current pax urbana.
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Bridgette @bcollado.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
My organization is pushing LinkedIn Leaning Certificates recently. Let’s put joy of learning aside for a sec… Is anyone taking these certificates seriously out there - will they help you with employment?
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Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 27/02/2026
Joy is resistance, and protesters in Minneapolis engaged in “tactical frivolity” in a unique way. Read more from @hallielieberman.bsky.social:
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How Minneapolis Fought ICE With Dildos
A sex toy has become a symbol of resistance in Minnesota and beyond.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/02/2026
It is a truth universally acknowledged that babies love bubbles 🔭🧪
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Astronomers spot a young sun blowing bubbles inside the Milky Way
A baby sunlike star blowing a bubble of hot gas called an “astrosphere” was captured for the first time by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
“As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that.””
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Joanne Bland, one of the youngest people to march on “Bloody Sunday,” has died. She was 72. "By the time I was 11-years-old, I had been arrested at least 13 documented times”
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Joanne Bland, lifelong Civil Rights activist and founder of Selma's Foot Soldiers Park, dies
Bland grew up in Selma and became involved in the Civil Rights Movement as a child foot soldier in the 1960s, participating in the historic Selma voting rights marches, including Bloody Sunday.
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Bridgette @bcollado.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Governing enjoyment? New Disney+ terms coming soon… ‘We encourage you to review the updated Subscriber Agreement in full and save a copy for your files. Once effective, it will govern your use and enjoyment of your Disney+, Hulu, or ESPN subscription.’
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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 17/02/2026
Sadly, ICE learned what not to do in Minnesota… they have not left… but are spreading out in disguise tricking and nabbing people before we can respond. We need a new plan….
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
ICE is still in my Minneapolis neighborhood today.
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Kristina Halvorson @halvorson.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...
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ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/02/2026
In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions. Then covered it up again when caught. Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Trans Youth Suicides Skyrocketed In UK After Care Drawdown; Government Covers It Up
A Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database reveals that 22 trans children under 18 died by suicide in England in 2021-22 alone.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 09/02/2026
The *only* response to this is all the other governors drop out.
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Don Lemon @donlemonofficial.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/01/2026
Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all. Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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Bridgette @bcollado.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
A thread 🧵
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The scientists leading the ABCD Study decided not to tell participants that their data had been misused for race research.

Parents and their children — who are now adults nearing the end of the decade-long study — reacted with surprise and dismay when The Times told them what had happened. They said they deserved to learn about it from the study’s organizers.

Scientists said they chose not to inform the families because they believed doing so could cause more harm than good.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
An arsonist hit a Mississippi synagogue Saturday. Seven Torahs were damaged or destroyed in the fire. One Torah, from the Holocaust, was in a glass case and wasn't touched. The same synagogue was bombed by the KKK in 1967. 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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Bridgette @bcollado.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Maybe of my last reads of 2025? therumpus.net/2025/12/09/o...
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On a street named after a forest - The Rumpus
my parents didn’t believe me that biking made no sense to my body & they told me I was too afraid & I tried to believe them & I rode where they told me to ride even though I knew it was too close to t...
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Bridgette @bcollado.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Maybe of my last reads of 2025? therumpus.net/2025/12/09/o...
therumpus.net
On a street named after a forest - The Rumpus
my parents didn’t believe me that biking made no sense to my body & they told me I was too afraid & I tried to believe them & I rode where they told me to ride even though I knew it was too close to t...
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Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 22/12/2025
🎙️ Episode 29 of An N of 1 with Matt Wallaert and Robin Kouyate is out now! ✨ Listen to the full episode at the link below👇🏻 www.buzzsprout.com/2369863/epis... Watch the full episode at the link below👇🏻 youtu.be/dPF7t2V-JM4 #behavioralscience #AnNof1 #podcast
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Bridgette @bcollado.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I wrote for The Wharton School Healthcare Quarterly on considering behavioral science in organizational strategy. Shoutout to @mattwallaert.com for the course I mention in the article. www.whartonhealthcare.org/prescription...
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Prescription for Change: Applying Behavioral Science to Workforce Wellness
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted.
Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the chemical industry. This is why you always follow the money. www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/09/17/a...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/11/2025
"fuck your grandpa and his purple heart" -- the us coast guard
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 12/11/2025
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
National Guard members are speaking out against the Trump administration’s attempt to deploy troops to Chicago. Thank you! 💚
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2 Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors"
Staff Sgt. Demi Palecek and Capt. Dylan Blaha say they'll defy federal orders regarding Trump's immigration enforcement operation in Chicago.
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