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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I am stunned to hear of the passing of the fierce, brilliant and principled scholar activist Johanna Fernandez. Johanna's scholarship will endure. She was a gem and the world is worse for her no longer being here. Rest in power, comrade.
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 27/07/2026
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Hachette Workers Coalition @hbgworkers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
In a 388-130 vote, we have won our union election with a near 75% majority! A massive thank you to everyone who supported us along the way. Here’s to a brighter future!
We won our union election!
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Tal Kopan @talkopan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
New from me: As RFK Jr. has ascended from the health contrarian fringe to the center of American health care, he's been bolstered behind the scenes by a lesser-known figure. Meet the man building a MAHA political empire behind Kennedy: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/25/n...
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‘We’re on the inside now’: Meet the man building a political empire behind RFK Jr. - The Boston Globe
A longtime publisher and ally of Kennedy’s, Tony Lyons has built a sprawling political operation to promote Kennedy and his “Make America Healthy Again” brand.
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 02/04/2026
“In what has become a grotesque pattern of overreach, the government charges left-wing protestors engaged in protected First Amendment activity with the most serious felonies available.” New: Sara Van Horn reports from the Prairieland trial in Fort Worth. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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The State vs. the Emma Goldman Book Club | Sara Van Horn
The prosecutorial strategy is a puerile one: completely overwhelm the jury with unrelated images of leftist protest—for ten full days!—and then hope for guilt by association.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
“In 2019, as [Gannett] began fully moving operations out of the bldg, the entire collection—by then scattered across the basement—was suddenly in limbo… The Poughkeepsie Public Library stepped in, agreed to pay rent on a dedicated storage unit + took on physical custodianship of the archive…”
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The Poughkeepsie Journal Photo Morgue and the Fight to Save Local History
The Poughkeepsie Journal photo morgue holds decades of unpublished images. Artists, scholars, and librarians are fighting to keep it from disappearing.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 24/11/2025
A person directly familiar with the conversations tells Semafor that Donald Trump has personally pressed Larry Ellison to revive Brett Ratner's "Rush Hour" franchise. www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
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Exclusive: How Trump is trying to remake American culture — starting with his favorite buddy-cop franchise
The president is offering some creative input on potential upcoming projects.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
NEW: As immigration enforcement continues across North Carolina, communities are mobilizing--inside and outside formal organizing networks--to protect their neighbors:
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North Carolina immigration raids expected to escalate
As the impacts of the raids quickly ripple outward from Charlotte, North Carolinians are mobilizing to stem enforcement operations in their communities
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Keung Hui @keunghui.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Charlotte-Mecklebburg Schools, according to reports, saw 15% of its students absent today amid Border Patrol operations in Charlotte. If that percentage of 15% happens Tuesday in Wake County due to the Border Patrol coming to Raleigh, 24.000 students could be absent from school. #nced #ncpol #wcpss
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Sep 30: USDA issues guidance saying they can use contingency fund Oct 10: USDA tells states to prepare for lapse Oct 23: USDA deletes Sep 30 guidance Oct 24: USDA says it can’t use contingency fund Oct 31: Courts tell USDA to release funds Nov 1: no funds go out Nov 4: Trump says he’ll defy courts
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Brandon Proia @brndnpr.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A great story about a truly malignant figure www.propublica.org/article/paul...
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“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
someone on here said "years of lead paint" and I can't think of a better caption than that
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
This is the moment for print. People will want to read the truth and when it’s hard to find online people will want paper.
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Jesus Christ, this has got to be one of the worst public statements by a leader in history
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Brandon Proia @brndnpr.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The latest from the Great Leap Boerward…
A screenshot that reads “In a diplomatic cable sent July 8, embassy Charge d'Affairs David Greene asked whether the embassy could process claims from other minority groups claiming race-based discrimination such as “coloured" South Africans who speak Afrikaans. In South Africa the term coloured refers to mixed-raced people, a classification created by the apartheid regime still in use today.
The answer came back days later in an email from Spencer Chretien, the highest-ranking official in the State Department's refugee and migration bureau, saying the program is intended for white people.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/07/2025
Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: "I'm allowed to do it"
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
this is right www.todayintabs.com/p/billionair...
todayintabs.com
Billionaires Destroyed American News Media On Purpose
It's not a conspiracy, it's simply what happened.
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Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I reviewed Chuck Schumer’s new book. It is very bad. But @journalspectre.bsky.social is very good for publishing it and letting me go with Yiddish subtitles throughout. Check it out! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...
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Chuck Schumer in America—A Warning – Spectre Journal
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The authoritarian assault on higher education continues - UVA and Harvard have to hold the line www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
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University of Virginia President Under Pressure From Trump’s D.O.J. to Resign
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases. This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.
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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 22/06/2025
Wichita Falls Times, November 27, 1977
1977 article about how television is replacing books and how people don't read anymore
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 22/06/2025
here’s what the onion’s full page spot is running next to this morning
photo of two pages of the New York Times, Sunday June 22: left page is aerial photos accompanying the headline “U.S. Joins War Against Iran, Bombing Its Key Nuclear Facilities,” a NYT ad headed “Innovating new story formats,” and right page is an ad comprised of the front page of the latest print issue of the Onion, headlined: “Congress, Now More than Ever, Our National Needs Your Cowardice”
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Of course he was going to bomb Iran. Is there an antiwar party in the U.S.?
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War on Terror Nightmare Arrives As Trump Bombs Iran
Just want to congratulate everyone who said Trump was the president of peace, didn't start any new wars, etc. Is there an antiwar party in America?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/06/2025
see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 06/06/2025
ABC reports Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being returned to the United States abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...
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Mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia on way back to US to face criminal charges: Sources
Mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia is on the way back to the United States to face charges of transporting undocumented migrants within the U.S., sources say.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/05/2025
"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...
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Go, Elon, and Never Darken Our Doors Again
The worst ultra-billionaire on Earth says he’s leaving government. Let’s hope he actually does it.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/04/2025
DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Pretty much exactly what Tooze predicted two days ago adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
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Chartbook 369 Are we on the edge of a major financial crisis? Trump's Chart of Death and why bonds not equities are the big story.
The stock market sell off triggered by Trump’s grotesque Liberation Day has been dramatic and has added intense urgency to the sense of polycrisis many of us have been feeling in recent months:
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS 📚 www.wordsandmoney.com/four-of-the-...
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Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS
Shuttering IMLS would be "an act of monumental neglect, violating the very foundation of America and what it stands for as a country," the publishers assert.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 05/04/2025
funny how Jeff Bezos pivoted to " We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets" thinking that would be obviously pro-trump
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
BREAKING: Republican-majority panel of the Republican-majority NC Court of Appeals rules 2-1 that the Republican candidate for Supreme Court (their colleague on the Court of Appeals) wins the election even though he got several hundred fewer votes than the Dem appellate.nccourts.org/opinions/?c=...
Screenshot of the cover page of Griffin v Board of Elections. Text reads: "IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF NORTH CAROLINA
No. COA25-181
Filed 4 April 2025
Wake County, Nos. 24CV40619-910, 24CV040620-910, 24CV40622-910 JEFFERSON GRIFFIN, Petitioner,
v.
NORTH CAROLINA STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS, Respondent,
and
ALLISON RIGGS, Intervenor-Respondent.
Appeal by petitioner from orders entered 7 February 2025 by Judge William
R. Pittman in Wake County Superior Court. Heard in the Court of Appeals 21 March 2025."Excerpt from the panel majority opinion in Griffin v. Board of Elections. Text reads: "Upon remand, the Board is instructed to immediately direct the county boards
to expeditiously identify the military and overseas voters challenged under this
protest and notify said voters of their failure to abide by the photo ID requirement or
equivalent, to allow said voters fifteen (15) business days from the mailing of the
notice to cure the defect, and upon verification, to include in the count of this
challenged election the votes of those voters who timely cure their failure to abide by
the photo ID requirement and to omit from the final count the votes of those voters
who fail to timely cure their deficiencies.
Finally, as to the "Never Residents" voters, we conclude these purported voters
are not eligible to vote in North Carolina, non-federal elections, and the votes cast by
these purported voters are not to be included in the final count in the 2024 election
for Seat 6. The Superior Court's order in 24CV040619-910, affirming the Board's dismissal of Griffin's protest as to these purported voters is reversed with instructions to remand the matter to the Board to direct the county boards to identify the votes from "Never Residents" and remove them from the final count of the 2024 election for
Supreme Court Seat 6.
The Clerk of this Court is ordered to issue this Court's mandate on Monday, 7
April 2025 at 5 P.M. It is so ordered.
REVERSED AND REMANDED.
Panel consisting of:
Judges TYSON, HAMPSON, and GORE.
Judge Hampson dissents by separate opinion."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
NEW — After putting all Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) employees on administrative leave Monday, I'm told DOGE is canceling congressionally-appropriated grants to state libraries across the entire country. Libraries are getting notice that funding was canceled as of 4/1. More here:
everylibrary.org
EveryLibrary Condemns the Trump Administration's Termination of IMLS Grants as an Attack on Libraries, Museums, and Archives Everywhere.
State Library Agencies and other grant recipients across the country began receiving official notices from the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services terminating their grants,...
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Trump scribbling TRADE IS BAD
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
GEORGE LUCAS IN 1999: a trade embargo is going to spark the galactic reckoning and collapse ME IN 2025: ah, okay
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
DOGE has just completely gutted the IMLS, firing all staff, closing down their email addresses, and leaving any funding for 2025 in question. bookriot.com/imls-gutted/
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The Institute for Museum and Library Services Was Just Gutted
DOGE fired all IMLS employees and closed down their emails. It is assumed all funding for 2025 coming from the federal agency will not be happening.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 20/03/2025
Jeremy W. Peters gives a big hello to Ann Coulter at a 2018 book partyJeremy W. Peters intimately hugs Ann Coulter at a 2018 book partyJeremy W. Peters just keeps touching Ann Coulter for some reason at a 2018 book party
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ceddanne rafaela enjoyer 🧦⚽️🦅 @stylo.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
By the way, here is the latest from Reddit on DOGE attempts to shut down the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Because of public outrage, they will try to do it quietly. Don't let them
UPDATE: DOGE has told Institute of Museum and Library Services Employees to leave the offices (self.fednews)
submitted 21 minutes ago by ruskiytroll
"All, the traction of posts here has led to DOGE not firing or escorting IMLS employees from the offices for fear of bad press. Employees were told to leave the premises and have done so without being escorted or fired. DOGE intends to RIF notify/place employees on admin leave while no one is in the office because DOGE doesn't want video of employees being escorted out.
DOGE is unhappy with the "leak", unhappy with public discussion of illegal firings, and unhappy with the reaction in this subreddit. Keith Sonderling, the new acting director and also DepSec Labor was stopped from completely closing the agency down this morning. It was enough to spook them. This is good. Report every time they're around town on this subreddit and more widely on the niche subreddits associated with whatever service or agency they're trying to shut down next. We have the 1st Amendment, and it protects us screaming loudly at all this illegal bullshit virtually and in person.
IMLS is still likely to be shuttered by the weekend, but DOGE didn't have free reign because you all reacted here and boosted this to news media."series of posts by reddit user ruskiytroll to r/fednews and r/washingtondc
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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 18/03/2025
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada. Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:
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Trump to declare fentanyl “Weapon of Mass Destruction," per draft EO
A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Before I had to sign off I said I thought that Dems were moving toward folding. When I came back online I was very pleasantly surprised to see Schumer's floor remarks. But since I was in transit I didn't have access to @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social's reporting. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/after-h...
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After Heated Dem Meeting, Schumer Says Dems Will Push For Vote On Short Term CR First
With less than three days to go before government funding runs out,...
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
NEW: Chuck Schumer says Senate Democrats won't provide votes to pass GOP funding bill as shutdown draws near Dems say they won’t support a “partisan” House bill they lacked input in writing. Deadline: Friday midnight. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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Senate Democrats say they won't provide votes to pass GOP funding bill as shutdown draws near
After meeting with his conference, the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said "Republicans do not have the votes" to advance the House-approved measure.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 12/03/2025
BREAKING: @schumer.senate.gov is whipping Ds to vote for the Trump-Musk coup continuing resolution.
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Brandon Proia @brndnpr.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
More like “the Great Leap Boerward,” am I right folks
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.
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happy war on chrusmas @deepguava.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Rest in power to Reverend Nelson Johnson, NCA&T student activist, Communist Workers Party labor organizer and lifelong activist for social justice at the Beloved Community Center in Greensboro. Johnson was arrested for “inciting a riot” after the Klan killed five of his CWP comrades on Nov. 3, 1979.
Nelson Johnson, a young Black man with a beret, during the Greensboro Massacre, kneeling with his hand on the back of a comrade who had been shot (the image is cropped so the graphic details aren’t visible).Nelson Johnson speaking to a crowd after the Greensboro Massacre. Fellow CWP members with raised fists wear signs around their necks with photos of the victims of the massacre.Nelson Johnson, older, standing in front of the historical marker placard commemorating the Greensboro Massacre.Nelson Johnson, quite old, standing next to the collective headstone of the five CWP members who were killed in the Greensboro Massacre, one hand resting atop the stone.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
CNN with an absolutely gigantic story: "Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using the department’s own ultra-sensitive payment processing system." edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...
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Musk associates sought to use critical Treasury payment system to shut down USAID spending, emails show | CNN Politics
Four days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using...
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