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Camille Rankine

@camillerankine.bsky.social
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I am so deeply tired of this man
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nothing like an amusement park claw machine to teach your child about the evils of capitalism
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“revelations”
NY Times headline: Prosecutor in D.C. Moves to Dismiss More Reflecting Pool Cases
After revelations that a botched renovation, not vandalism, had caused the pool's recent problems, the U.S. attorney's office has dropped several prosecutions.
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Keeping his death a secret to run out the clock on a special election would be a classic Mitch McConnell move tbh
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Oh I don’t need an alarm clock I have a chipmunk that clucks outside my window every morning for 25 minutes nonstop
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
File under “true but not true like you mean”
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I wonder what it’s like to just go to a job and come home and have like a pleasant, low-stakes hobby that doesn’t define your sense of worth as a human being Anyway being a writer is super chill and great
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Canvas is hacked everyone gets an A I guess
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
For me, the question isn’t whether generating art with AI is good or bad. It’s just definitionally impossible. Art is what humans create to express the nonliteral. An algorithm, however much data it has, has no sense of the nonliteral. It might make something that pleases you, but it can’t make art.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Someone sent me this.
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Oh no did I give birth illegally
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Oh shit
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17/03/2026
This @the-independent.com story is such an obvious lift of mine that they didn’t even bother deleting my site’s referral URL. And no, they do not credit me for reporting it first or (intentionally) link to my story. In j-school, rewording someone else’s reporting was called plagiarism. 1/
A screenshot of the landing page for a story from the Independent reading: 

Delta flew 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father to ICE detention in Texas, new video shows

A photo of federal agents detaining Liam Conejo Ramos in Minnesota outraged people across the nation last year
Ariana Baio
Tuesday 17 March 2026 16:15 EDT
A screenshot of the landing page for my story reading: 
Video proves Delta flew Liam Ramos and his dad to ICE detention center
Three plainclothes federal agents can be seen boarding a Delta flight while guarding the 5-year-old boy and his father, right under unsuspecting passengers' noses.
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16 Mar 2026 - 8 min readA line from the Independent story reading: 

“The airport footage was obtained through an information disclosure request to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport by activist Nick Benson with MN50501 - a Minnesota-based organization that advocates against Trump's policies.”

I’ve highlighted the part where it links to MN50501. 
A screenshot of a browser window showing that the MN50501 link includes “?ref=gillianbrockell.com”
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
To all those who still weep
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Half size too large? He looks like a toddler who got into his dad’s closet
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
When I watch this, and this scene in Sinners, I think about all the incredible beauty and culture black people have offered this country, and the world, for centuries. Even when reviled. Even under the most brutal conditions. You’re fucking welcome.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I met Ryan Coogler at TED in 2016(?) (and I said "you got something right in Black Panther" and he was all "excuse me?" and I said "I map and ancient sites from space+ there are dozens of unmapped ancient civilizations beneath African rainforests. So core premise of BP was 100% right.... cont
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JD (by way of Blacksky) @jdot.blacksky.team · 15/03/2026
I’m watching this on repeat. #OscarsonBlacksky
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
this country seems very committed to the deaths of schoolchildren
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Pittsburgh for god’s sake put away your parking chairs it’s 60 degrees
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Dear God.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/02/2026
These guys two months ago: ha ha I hope there's a civil war we'll make those LIBERAL BITCHES cry for mercy These guys now: waaaaaa they're using whistles it's not FAIR waaaaa (You can get free community safety whistles, quantity 100 to 1000, from here: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles )
mediamatters.org
Right-wing media figures are furious at activists for using whistles during ICE activity
Right-wing media figures are lashing out at community members in Minnesota for using whistles to alert others of federal immigration enforcement in the area, asserting that whistles should be “conside...
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The world is burning, democracy is dying, etc. and I’m over here explaining the difference between “lay” and “lie” like it’s life or death
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Take it back
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Karen Schultz @oneairspace.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I spoke to a friend on the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota board. They need financial donations to keep up with the heightened demand for their services: www.ilcm.org ILCM is a nonprofit that provides free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees in MN & ND
ilcm.org
Home - Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The man who literally wrote the book on the use of vehicles as ramming weapons says any claim Good used hers as such is false, and that her execution, followed by the false claim, is "death squad behavior."
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time. Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief. Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time. Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
What a year this week has been.
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The murderer’s name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
startribune.com
Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis
Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
CBP agents shot and wounded a married couple this afternoon in a medical clinic parking lot in Portland, the Oregonian reports: "One was shot in the leg and the other in the chest, Portland police sources said." Police didn't have info on their conditions. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...
oregonlive.com
2 shot by federal immigration agents in Portland
Mayor Keith Wilson decried the shooting, saying "Portland is not a 'training ground' for militarized agents."
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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
lol yeah that’s fuckin airtight wrap it up everybody no one’s ever been stupid and evil at the same time
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
You know what, Apple? I don’t appreciate waking up on a Saturday morning only to be immediately told I did bad at sleep
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dissected @trepanation.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
billionaire: i have 3 brains. in my skull interviewer: incredible
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I see we can still count on The Atlantic to publish the absolute worst take
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Why is tinned fish suddenly everywhere I go
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
It takes years of working your way through the immigration system to get to this point. The thought of arriving at your naturalization ceremony, thinking that work is over, & having the rug pulled from under you based on where you were born makes me sick to my stomach. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
wgbh.org
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/11/2025
😩
Another AI rater who started his journey rating responses for Google’s products in early 2024 began to feel he couldn’t trust AI around six months into the job. He was tasked with stumping the model – meaning he had to ask Google’s AI various questions that would expose its limitations or weaknesses. Having a degree in history, this worker asked the model historical questions for the task.

“I asked it about the history of the Palestinian people, and it wouldn’t give me an answer no matter how I rephrased the question,” recalled this worker, requesting anonymity, having signed a nondisclosure agreement. “When I asked it about the history of Israel, it had no problems giving me a very extensive rundown. We reported it, but nobody seemed to care at Google.” When asked specifically about the situation the rater described, Google did not issue a statement.
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Trump and his favorite son
Trump touching Mamdani’s arm affectionately in the Oval Office
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Trump gazing lovingly at Mamdani in the Oval Office
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Jeffrey Epstein has united the nation, except for this guy
The sole lawmaker to vote "no" was Representative Clay Higgins, a far-right Republican from Louisiana.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/11/2025
Trump Imposes 100% Tax On Movies Where Slaves Escape
theonion.com
Trump Imposes 100% Tax On Movies Where Slaves Escape
WASHINGTON—In an effort to bring an end to what he described as an anti-American trend in filmmaking, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday imposing a 100% tax on the profits of movi...
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
hard hitting questions
Posts on social media about the email have since gone viral, with people questioning what the email means. One user wrote: "Who is Bubba, and why did Trump blow him?"
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
A "modest margin" when Mamdani beat his next closest challenger by 8 points in a three-person race. Trump won by just 1.5% and it was played off as a seismic realignment of American politics and culture.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.
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Camille Rankine @camillerankine.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Also the writing is embarrassingly bad
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Simone Browne is a professor of Black studies at the University. of Texas at Austin. She says the “AI slopaganda” is part of “mimetic warfare” from conservatives, which aims to “get us away from looking at the real political stakes” of the government shutdown... www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵
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