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Cathy Messier

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Librarian. Avid reader & movie-watcher. 🇨🇴🏳️‍🌈

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A helpful run-down on the 9 statewide ballot questions! #mapoli
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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 12/09/2026
Her team is responding solely because @lillywachowski.bsky.social is American and not subject to the draconian UK libel/slander laws. So they have to straight up lie about her £1 billion legal fund that exists solely to strip transgender people of their civil rights and silence Rowling's critics.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 10/09/2026
Oh: Catholic bishops' president urges Trump to end of mass deportations of Haitians. “Mr. President … I respectfully ask: What good is the immense wealth, prosperity, and influence with which we have been blessed as a nation if not used in service of our humanity?” religionnews.com/2026/09/09/a...
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In direct appeal to Trump, Catholic bishops' president urges end of mass deportations of Haitians
(RNS) — The letter marks a shift toward a more direct and pointed tone in challenging President Donald Trump’s immigration policy.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Awful. Just awful. A promising young man, a high school honors grad who joined JROTC and dreamed of becoming a doctor, killed himself because of the Trump admin’s obsession with hurting Haitians and the humiliating shame of an ICE ankle monitor. His blood is on their hands.
A picture of a young black man, dressed in a light blue suit with a smart black bow tie, smiling as he is handed a diploma from a school official, a white man in his 40s-50s who is also smiling. Underneath is the caption “Pierre Damas Bel receives his high school diploma. (Family Photo/Instagram)”Bel arrived in the United States in 2024 in order to reunite with his parents, who had fled Haiti three years before. The family was granted temporary protected status, purchased a home in Springfield and settled into life in the U.S. Bel dreamed of studying medicine and graduated high school last May with honors and as a proud member of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC), his father said. He was the eldest of three siblings and his family described him as smart and responsible.
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Cathy Messier @cathiusca.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
First time seeing Vertigo! Shout out to the Brattle Theatre.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026
I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
If AIPAC's commitment to arming a rogue state isn't enough for you, I cannot emphasize enough that this organization is just a slush fund for GOP donors to influence Dem races. Their donor base is mostly conservatives who want Republicans to win.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/08/2026
Public safety does not come from masked armed agents taking people off our streets.

To immigrant New Yorkers: you belong in this City, and this City stands with you.

If you need legal support, our Immigration Legal Support Hotline is free, confidential and available regardless of your immigration status. Call 1-800-354-0365.
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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Finally, papal recognition that the opening track on Horses is a banger even if it contradicts church doctrine.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Given the history of similar audits, and the fact that DHS’s systems are riddled with errors, we should expect that these numbers are very likely false and have not been properly verified yet. Multiple previous state audits produced splashy numbers that evaporated on further investigation.
The draft press release states that "reviews of the four states' records" found 190,832 noncitizens registered in California; 35,152 in New Jersey;
15,903 in Nevada; and 14,576 in Pennsylvania. It does not indicate that DHS found evidence that non-citizens cast ballots or explain how it reached a number that appears to be higher than previous reviews have found.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
They’re trying to deport the men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. newrepublic.com/article/2129...
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Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport
There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A represenative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be. | Will Bunch
Salgado came from Mexico, built the American Dream, sent his sons to college, and was senselessly killed by ICE.
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
There's a perverse symbolism in the legacy of White racism sheltering under the bowers of all African Americans have done for this country while patiently waiting for the chance to go back to insisting we are a drain upon their society and that they never needed us at all.
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Real haters don't leap. They wait and watch. They know the true reasons for hating will be Revealed
Ice detention center leader at the tay swift wedding
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Cathy Messier @cathiusca.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Pretty eventful week for me, as I’d never seen The Exorcist nor the original Stepford Wives!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/06/2026
To every New Yorker with family in Venezuela: we are holding you close.   The devastating earthquakes this week have claimed hundreds of lives and left thousands more searching for loved ones. If you're able, here's how you can support relief efforts:
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How to help those impacted by the Venezuela earthquakes
Two powerful earthquakes have rocked Venezuela, killing at least 188 people and trapping at least 200 in buildings.
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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
this is perhaps the scariest thing i've seen come out of this administration. top five, at least. 30 - 70 years for protesting. apnews.com/article/prai...
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8 convicted of terrorism charges in Texas immigration center shooting sentenced to decades in prison
A demonstrator who shot and wounded a police officer during a protest outside a Texas immigration center July 4 has been sentenced to 100 years in federal prison.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
“I carry with me a photo of a Muslim child who, during my visit to Lebanon, was standing there holding a sign that said ‘Welcome, Pope Leo,’ and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed. “As a Church, I say again: as a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Cathy Messier @cathiusca.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This is basically what the push for “neutrality” in libraries has always meant.
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Israeli attack kills famed turtle sanctuary ecologist in Lebanon |
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Israeli attack kills famed turtle sanctuary ecologist in Lebanon
Mona Khalil led decades-long effort to protect nesting site for turtles near her home in south of the country
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Such good news. Human beings are capable of magical and wonderful things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given HPV vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/06/2026
There's a certain kind of teen girl, usually dismissed as "insolent," who knows from jump that the way her world is treating her is more the world's problem than hers. I'll always appreciate Marjane Satrapi for giving that girl a strong voice. www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie...
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Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56
The French-Iranian artist and film director 'died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life,' people close to her said.
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Elijah Davidson @elijahdavidson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
PERSEPOLIS is one of cinema's great gems. I cover it in Come & See hoping readers would be prompted to watch it. I'm sharing that entry today for free in hopes of the same. The film is more essential than ever, sadly, and thank God we have it. RIP Marjane Satrapi. elijahdavidson.com/persepolis/
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Persepolis - Elijah Davidson
Marjane Satrapi has died. Persepolis, the film she directed (with Vincent Paronnaud) which is based on her graphic novel memoir of the same name, is one of cinema’s finest gems. It’s one of the lesser...
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
RIP Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi artwork from Persepolis showing you girl in hijab w “pink is not ded” on back. She is being grabbed by women in hijabs
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:
New statement from Scott Pelley:
 
There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
 
The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS. 
 
“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
 
The waste is heartbreaking.
 
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all. 
 
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
 
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
 
Scott Pelley
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.
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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Being part of the fiction jury for the Pulitzer Prize means you read A LOT of books. Inevitably, there’s more excellent work than you can count. Since the prize has been announced, I’m recommending five other books that I read and loved during the process. Read ‘em all!
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/04/2026
Oh: A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.
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AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier
Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 29/04/2026
The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—was only placed on three days of administrative leave and continues to work for the agency in another state. trib.al/C3bEEAM
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ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good in Minneapolis Gets Cushy New Job
Jonathan Ross is still avoiding accountability months after he shot and killed Renee Good.
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Cathy Messier @cathiusca.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Won’t someone PLEASE think of the “journalist” bootlickers ☹️
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Israel performed a literal quadruple tap attack in Lebanon to massacre three separate sets of medics. Truly pushing the bounds of human depravity. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
When they received the call to respond to an Israeli airstrike in the city of Mayfadoun, in southern Lebanon, most of the paramedics held back, having previously seen colleagues killed by double-tap attacks targeting rescuers. But the medics from the Islamic Health Association (IHA) rushed to the scene.

By the time the other emergency workers arrived at the site, they found the IHA medics had indeed been caught in a second strike. They started evacuating their wounded colleagues, only for their ambulances to be hit in two further attacks.

One of the paramedics covered his ears and screamed, convulsing in pain as shrapnel shattered the back window of the ambulance.

The rescue mission on Wednesday afternoon had turned into a nightmare as Israel carried out three consecutive strikes on three sets of ambulances and medical workers.
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IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
In 2003, US citizen Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli soldiers using a US-provided bulldozer. Her parents are calling on senators to vote yes today to block $295 million worth of these bulldozers to Israel. Join them by calling your senators TODAY:
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Let’s Finally Do Something About the Bulldozer That Killed My Daughter
Bernie Sanders is trying to end the shipment of US bulldozers to Israel—like the one that crushed my daughter, Rachel Corrie, to death 23 years ago.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The data we are getting out of ICE now conclusively destroys their "worst of the worst" narrative. Since the Los Angeles raids began in June last year, there has been a massive expansion of ICE arrests against people with no criminal record, while arrests of others remained flat.
Chart showing Average Daily ICE Arrests by Criminal Record, 7-Day Rolling Average, October 1, 2024 to March 5, 2026. The data shows that arrests of people with any prior conviction or any pending charge fluctuated between 300-400 a day from June 2025 to March 2026, never spiking much below or above that. By March, arrests of that group had fallen from 380 a day in June 2025 to around 300 a day in March 2025

Arrests of people with any pending charge have fluctuated between 250 and 375 a day. In June 2025 it was around 300 a day. As of March 2026, it is also around 300 a day.

By contrast, arrests of people with no criminal record spiked to nearly 600 a day during the Los Angeles operation, and have consistently been above 350. Arrests of this group were above 500 a day from the start of Operation Midway Blitz in September through January. As of March 5, they had fallen to just over 400 a day.
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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Ta-Nehisi Coates was raked over the coals for comparing Israeli apartheid to Jim Crow and to be frank you have to put effort into not seeing it. This in some important ways goes farther than US segregationists did.
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IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Gavin Newsom said last week he “regrets” using the term apartheid when describing Israel. This week, Israel’s parliament passed a death penalty law its authors say will only apply to Palestinians. One state, two legal systems. That’s apartheid.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I mean, this is just straight from the Bible: "And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood." -Isaiah 1:15
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The Verge @theverge.com · 29/03/2026
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Doing a 92Y book event in 2021 was a thrill for me, as it would be for just about any author. But there's no way I'd go back, as a speaker or an audience member, given the behavior of its current leadership.
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
If you're wondering why Thune is desperate to get Trump to cut a funding deal it's because thanks to Trump's genius political intellect captive audiences of thousands of angry swing state voters are now watching ICE get paid to to this literally in front of the TSA agents who aren't getting paid
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I want to hear from you. Reach me via Signal at marisakabas.04
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
here’s a crazy fact: under congestion pricing, NYC subway ridership grew by more than the *total* number of riders on BART last year
The first year of congestion pricing in New York saw straphangers take more than 90 million additional subway rides than in the previous year, a new report from the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA (PCAC) found.
According to the rider advocacy group's analysis, which it released on Tuesday, ridership on the city's rails grew from 1.21 billion to 1.3 billion between 2024 and 2025. The bump marked a 7.7% rise - double the increase in ridership between 2023 and
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2026
Balint to Noem: "You're the secretary of DHS -- for now. And you think you're immune from accountability. But I promise you this: one day he is not gonna be president anymore. And when that day comes, we will still be here. And in hearings like this, we are going to continue to prove your guilt."
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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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
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Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/02/2026
They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.
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