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They/Zi Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. Unitarian Universalist, multi-generation Texan, sometime climate justice organiser, cat person

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 2h
@nytimes.com: Please engage w/ historians. This account comes from ONE source, someone who never set foot out of Italy, let alone witnessed the plague outbreak at Caffa. The fiction was definitively refuted in 2021: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #BlackDeath #historiography
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Laying the Corpses to Rest: Grain, Embargoes, and Yersinia pestis in the Black Sea, 1346–48 | Speculum: Vol 96, No 1
Abstract:When, how, and why did the Black Death reach Europe? Historians have relied on Gabriele de’ Mussi’s account of Tatars catapulting plague-infested bodies into the besieged city of Caffa on the...
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 2h
#MedievalSky This from the New York Times, minutes ago: "Has plague ever been used as a bioweapon? Maybe — but it’s been a while. In the 14th century, according to one account, a Mongol army catapulted plague-infested bodies into the Crimean city of Caffa." Please don't let this nonsense persist!
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AL.com @al.com · 2h
Bodycam shows Alabama police yell ‘hands up’ after fatally shooting 16-year-old in marijuana raid mrf.lu/2fb2s
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Truthout @truthout.org · 3h
Students have highlighted the university’s failure to hold the alleged perpetrators accountable, citing the university police providing the DA with a “summary” of Jane Doe’s complaint that omitted mentions of rape, drugging, and sexual assault, leading to the DA closing the initial case.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rahm Emanuel covered up the murder of a young, Black man, Laquan MacDonald, by the Chicago Police. He belongs in prison
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Read my latest column on this National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. I name names! “Political institutions and political leaders have effectively played their part in minimizing the horrors of residential schools” www.hilltimes.com/2026/09/30/o...
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Outrage rings hollow when paired with lack of action on residential school denialism - The Hill Times
Political institutions and political leaders have effectively played their part in minimizing the horrors of residential schools.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
But why not blame it on the people marginalized with very little power. Why not blame housing prices on Blk and brown people? Because you're a racist and you can intellectualize it as much as you want but they are not the problem, real estate investment portfolios are
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Housing distribution is far more complex than supply and demand. We have an over-supply of housing stock in specific areas that aren't conducive to homes but is conducive for real estate investors and investment vehicles. Not enough has been studied abt capital flows
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I knew housing prices weren’t driven by immigration. If so we wouldn’t have empty units at stubbornly high prices. The “free market” ended up distorting the market with cheaply-made, 800K, 500 sq ft condos that no one wants. The free market over-indexed on investors not homes
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We in Canada need to get rid of "America is our friend" narrative bullshit. America is a superpower. There are no friends in global politics, only allies and enemies
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 22h
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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BFSCR @bfscr.bsky.social · 1h
"The Sinecures Must Flow!" you see 🫠
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 23h
I don't know why we are paying for this office. I called on the commissioner's office over the meeting between Alberta separatists and State Department and a $500 mil slush fund. I was blown off and told to send concerns to "general inquiries." ie. the dead letter office. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Past Alberta separatist meetings in U.S. don't fall under foreign influence registry: watchdog | CBC News
Meetings between advocates of Alberta separation and American government officials don't have to be included in Canada's new foreign influence registry because they took place before the registry went...
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Gorka Bereziartua @gorkabm.eurosky.social · 9h
I would say that they are even more violent than usual when they identify the protester as "not quite French." Last week they also brutally beat a 15-year-old girl in Bayonne for speaking Basque www.argia.eus/albistea/15-...
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Poliziak euskaraz aritzeagatik eraso egin diola salatu du 15 urteko ikasle batek Baionan
Lizeoetako blokatzeen mobilizazioen testuinguruan gertatu zen erasoa. Gazteak salatu duenez, Poliziari euskaraz zuzendu ondoren agenteek korrika jarraitu zioten eta lurrean jo zuten. Neska gazteak
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 9h
Repression in France’s overseas territories gets little attention. But protests are also happening and kids are detained. In Guadeloupe, 21 schools were blocked on the 6th of October. In Le Moule, gendarmes were choking, kicking and pinning a teenager to the ground during his arrest.
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Prof. Harley Earthling Quinn @profharleyquinn.bsky.social · 3h
He was hit by tear gas himself during the clashes and subsequently had to be treated on-site with saline solution. news.sky.com/video/french...
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French mayor exposed to tear gas during student protests
Bally Bagayoko, mayor of Saint-Denis, received saline solution to his eyes after being exposed to tear gas during student protests in Paris.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 22h
The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 9h
An important point: the protests began in working-class suburbs with large racialised populations, including Saint-Denis, north of Paris. This historic burial place of French kings now has a Black mayor, Bally Bagayoko, from the left-wing party LFI. White supremacy also underpins police brutality.
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 12h
Macron has consistently shown contempt for democracy, refusing even to appoint a left-leaning gov after 2024 elex. Today, kids demanding investment in better futures are schooling adults in democratic agency. His gov responds with manipulation, intimidation & violence - a lesson in abuse of power.
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8 graphiques pour comprendre la colère des lycéens
Etat des bâtiments, taille des classes, heures non assurées, dépenses par élève… la situation de l'enseignement secondaire en France est disparate. Mais la mul…
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 12h
Today, Interior Minister Nuñez temporarily suspended police use of stun grenades during high school protests, two days after a 15-year-old lost a hand in a grenade explosion in Lens. The decision recalls scrutiny of grenade use at Sainte-Soline in March 2023. www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...
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French justice stalls as evidence of police violence during 2023 protest is overlooked
The early November release of troubling video footage by Mediapart and 'Libération,' showing gendarmes confronting environmental activists protesting against mega-reservoirs in March 2023, has highlig...
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 13h
Distrust in media was expresed by students who drove out BFMTV over its historically police-aligned coverage. Footage circulates on social media, including from LFI lawmakers. Ex. a LFI MEP filmed an undercover officer throwing a projectile -police provocation, a known escalation practice in France.
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L'homme interpellé par le député LFI Anthony Smith était bien policier, confirme le procureur
L’homme apostrophé par le député européen Anthony Smith (LFI) lors des manifestations lycéennes, vendredi 2 octobre, à Reims (Marne) était bien un policier, confirme le procureur ce dimanche. Selon le...
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 13h
Mainstream media have been equally pathetic, demanding that left-leaning interviewees “condemn violence” - a familiar gatekeeping ritual, echoing the “Do you condemn Hamas?” routine that shifts attention from political demands to compulsory disavowals. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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Mobilisation des lycéens : les éditocrates veulent rétablir l’ordre
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 13h
The government’s response to students’ demands has been pathetic: it first blamed LFI, delegitimising the movement and focusing on “urban violence”. It then offered dialogue and an online “grievance book” to collect complaints, with no clear funding commitments.
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 13h
Protests have now spread to universities and education workers. On the 6th of October, Union étudiante reported over 57 university sites blocked. Organisers counted 450,000 demonstrators nationwide, including 100,000 in Paris, supporting students’ demands and opposing police repression.
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 13h
On the 5th of October 2026, riot police entered Sorbonne Nouvelle’s Nation campus following a student assembly and blockade. The intervention recalls the police evacuation of the historic Sorbonne on the 3rd of May 1968, which helped ignite the uprising.
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 13h
Trade unions rallied behind students: CGT from the 28th of September, FO’s private-sector healthcare unions and education federation FSU by the 2nd of October. FSU called for protective human chains. CGT, FSU and Solidaires signed a joint appeal on the 5th of October against repression.
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 13h
Arbitrarily detained students report brutality and sexualised threats from police officers, including threats to “fuck” them and being called “sluts”. Accounts describe physical violence including strangulation, intimidation and humiliation in police custody.
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 13h
Protests have been met with unprecedented police brutality & mass detention: 1,949 on the 1st October, 90% minors. This exceeds daily arrest peaks during May 1968, Yellow Vests & 2005 & 2023. 215 injured kids. 15-year-old lost a hand; another an eye to a and another suffered a fractured jaw.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h
this is an excellent and informative thread
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h
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France halts use of stun grenades after boy's hand blown off in student protests
The step comes after several groups complained of police using disproportionate force towards teenagers.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 11h
Normally they'd drop him off in gang territory and it would be the 80s-00s. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 3h
• Physicians for Human Rights documented 2,600 miscarriages, 220 pregnancy-related deaths & 1,460 premature births. More than 2,500 newborns required intensive care during the first half of 2025 alone. C-sections without anesthesia, & newborn mortality continue to be reported. #FreePalestine
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 3h
• Under the most conservative scenario, UN Women estimates close to 11,000 women and girls with lifelong injury. • One million women and girls in Gaza lack access to clean water, 690,000 are living in overcrowded shelters and 328,000 girls are out of school.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 3h
• More than 38,000 women (22,000) and girls (16,000) have been killed, including since the so-called ceasefire. These figures likely understate the true toll, as many bodies remain trapped under rubble.
The cost of the war in Gaza on women & girls
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2h
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/07/t...
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Immigrants in Texas ICE Camp Begin Hunger Strike to Protest Indefinite Detention
They are demanding to be moved out of the federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which has allowed the government to hold immigrants indefinitely.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h
stating that Israel is engaged in an ongoing genocide against Palestinian people is a basic fact. It's uncontroversial. It's true.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1h
Who could expect a US Senator to understand how Congress actually works, or to bother to explain it on the news? It can be easy to blame mid- to low-info voters for not understanding things, but honestly they are mostly trying to just live their lives while those who know actively misinform them.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 4h
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 1h
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 2h
back from being suspended for threatening violence against Cornell, a series of buildings that have no feelings 👍
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BFSCR @bfscr.bsky.social · 2h
And that Germany was not achieved by a 2 state solution with 1941 Germany, and every probable Israel PM is as genocidal to Gaza as Netanyahu. I'm not claiming change or peace are impossible, but I am saying you're being pollyannaish.
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Houston Public Media @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social · 9h
Amid an unusually competitive political landscape in Texas this midterm election, almost every Republican nominee for a statewide seat appears to be dodging debate invitations from their Democratic counterparts.
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Most Texas Republicans ignore Democratic calls to debate in statewide races
The last U.S. Senate race in Texas to go without a debate was in 2000. Gov. Greg Abbott, meanwhile, debated his Democratic opponents in each of his last three campaigns.
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BFSCR @bfscr.bsky.social · 9h
For so many of us, a quarter century now of telling people they're choosing the fashy fork in the road, then watching them sprint down it 💔
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John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 10h
They’re literally the same people (those that are still alive) which btw were literally the same coterie of Nixon-its and McCarthyites and America First-ers. Literally no distinctions
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Buckley by Sam Tanenhaus: 9780593733554 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“A magnificent achievement—a long, gripping, and enthralling account of the life of America’s premier conservative polemicist of the twentieth century.”—Max Boot, author of...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10h
This article (and Slade's book) are fan fiction. Trumpism isn't a break from Reaganism, it's the intended result, a gov't by, for, and of corruption, lawlessness, racism, and misogyny. That's why Reaganites with power—Thomas, Alito, Kennedy, McConnell—worked hard to empower and entrench Trumpism.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Paramount has closed its $81 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Billionaire David Ellison now controls: —CNN —CBS —HBO —Paramount —Warner Bros —Discovery —Skydance —Showtime —DC Studios —Nickelodeon —Cartoon Network —Food Network —MTV —Comedy Central —HGTV —TBS —TLC
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 10h
I find it deeply alarming that the Saudi regime owns a powerful stake in one of our two media monopolies in this country, AND several sporting franchises (Golf in particular), AND one of the top-3 video game studios (EA), AND the president’s son-in-law.
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Jared Kushner defends controversial $2bn Saudi investment
Donald Trump's son-in-law and ex-advisor also says he is not interested in a possible White House return.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12h
you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 06/10/2026
An NYPD officer driving an unmarked car ran a red light and hit a cyclist on Monday afternoon in Boerum Hill, sending her to the hospital, witnesses said. buff.ly/Vx6L3IS
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SEE IT! Reckless Cop Strikes Cyclist After Running Red Light In An Unmarked Car - Streetsblog New York City
Video obtained by Streetsblog shows the traumatic moment of impact.
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