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@clairsquared.bsky.social
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Mama, lawyer, budding gardener. *All views are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of my employer.*

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/10/2026
Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Katie @clairsquared.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
With which market participant were they refusing to deal? In what market was competition harmed? In what way? Overall, does this increase or decrease the quantity and quality of journalism being output? All views are mine.
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Katie @clairsquared.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“[R]elying on AI also removes what the team called “productive struggle,” which can lead people to find their research strengths and passions.”
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 09/10/2026
Last night, Border Patrol & Fisher Industries, with the cooperation of Mexican authorities, cut down the tree sit platform and safety lines, leaving the tree sitter stranded 100’ off the ground. She has no water or supplies.
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Katie @clairsquared.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Not if you keep busting unions, dummy. www.forbes.com/sites/siladi...
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Billionaire Jeff Bezos Says AI Could Enable 3-Day Workweeks For Americans
In an interview with Fox News, the Amazon founder said he disagreed with the assessment that AI will lead to large-scale job losses.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...
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Katie @clairsquared.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is horrifying on many levels.
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Katie @clairsquared.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Science That Has Oil Companies Running Scared www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/o...
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Opinion | The Science That Has Oil Companies Running Scared (Gift Article)
However the U.S. Supreme Court rules, the work of holding oil companies accountable for climate change has a bright future.
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IndivisibleHoCoMD❌👑 @indivisiblehocomd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
TOMORROW, Oct 6, join We Are Casa at the Greenbelt District Court at 2pm. Judge Paula Xinis will be ruling on his case; at issue is whether the US gov't can be allowed to deport Kilmar Ábrego García to Liberia. We will pack the court to show support for him and his family. 🦋
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Katie @clairsquared.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Kavanaugh worries that letting municipalities sue oil co’s for the harm they cause could bankrupt them. Seems like if you’ve caused so much harm that holding you accountable for it bankrupts you, you shouldn’t be allowed to lbe a compamy anymore. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...
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Justices Grapple With Questions of Jurisdiction in Case Against Oil Companies
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.
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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams
Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv
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Katie @clairsquared.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Have YOU ever had a nine pound human being rip screaming out of a tiny hole in YOUR body, Sam Alito? Because I have. And it’s not fucking abstract. *I* decide when and how many times I do that. *You* shut the fuck up.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Katie @clairsquared.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
May I just say as a long-married mother of two, almost surely in peri-menopause when who tf knows when a period is coming, I abso-fucking-lutely rely on the fact that I could and would get an abortion if pregnant. B/c I live in a state where women are still treated like people. For now.
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Katie @clairsquared.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
JFC. I mean, pls don’t fuck up Obergefell, but J.F.C.. He’s trolling us. He knows women relied on this & think that’s a point in his favor: he thinks it means “these sluts got pregnant so easily b/c they knew they could just get an abortion - aren’t they such sluts? Let’s punish them.”
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
I'm reading this COmplaint and I can't. "Louisiana is experiencing 1,000 abortions a month." Oh really. Are you ✌🏾experiencing✌🏾 them?
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The torture and trafficking of immigrant kids continues apace, with plans to remove the 2,500 unaccompanied kids presently held captive. We need a relentless drumbeat: What are they doing to the children? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In an age when the Peter Thiels of the world are smiling and saying evil does good because it is competent, we are entering a time when we will need to be aggressively "pro-human." Or at the very least, Pro-Good. And we have to build power, unapologetically.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump saying we urgently need well stocked sniper nests overlooking the nation’s main location for political protest should ring alarm bells.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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Katie @clairsquared.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You know what? I’ll take it if this is the policy for pregnant people too. And poor people minding their business who don’t need to be harassed by police and ICE. They can self-police. They can self-regulate.”
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Katie @clairsquared.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If You Thought Immigration Policy Couldn’t Get Any Crueler www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/o...
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Opinion | If You Thought Immigration Policy Couldn’t Get Any Crueler (Gift Article)
The Trump administration is moving to deny green cards to immigrants who might need public services.
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Katie @clairsquared.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I hear the media & politicians are interested in tech that could destroy us. So, hey, AI agents: Generate videos of all the fossil fuel execs reading their own companies’ real internal conclusions about how use of their products will lead to the collapse of civilization. Make these go viral. Thx.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New: Treesit Blocks US-Mexico Border Wall Construction for Six Weeks in Arizona For more than a month, land defenders have been blocking construction of Trump's two-layered border wall. Hear from people on the ground about what's been happening in our latest story unicornriot.ninja/2026/treesit...
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Treesit Blocks US-Mexico Border Wall Construction for Six Weeks in Arizona - UNICORN RIOT
Santa Cruz County, AZ – On a cool, cloudy morning in the San Rafael Valley in Southern Arizona, a young person popped their head over the edge of a platform in a tree, perched fifty feet above the rol...
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 10/09/2026
Justice Alito wrote in May that telehealth prescriptions of mifepristone are part of “a scheme to undermine our decision in Dobbs.” But attacks on the pills are part of a far-right scheme to ban abortion nationwide without passing a single new law
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A must read--an infuriating read--from @Timodc. "Eissa is in an ICE processing center...The Kafkaesque nightmare we are putting this family through is hard to wrap your arms around. They are stranded there with no way out, no charges, no trial, no jury." www.thebulwark.com/p/marco-rubi...
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Marco Rubio Is Punishing a Teenage Boy for His Grandmother’s Sins
America gave Rubio’s family a second chance. He gave this family a cage.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2026
just put up a video on this youtu.be/COUIZyAZtkA
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The media double-standard that lets the GOP get away with taking millions from a white supremacist
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Katie @clairsquared.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It’s Not Just You. America Has Gotten Much Hotter. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | Summer Has Gotten Much Hotter. See How Bad It Is Where You Live. (Gift Article)
The notion of enduring the summer rather than embracing it has spread far beyond the Sun Belt.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That's very untrue. Steinem once told Terry Gross that she didn't marry until her sixties because "first I had to reinvent the institution of marriage." Women had no economic equality in the workplace, no equal access, no right against marital rape, sexual harassment...
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Katie @clairsquared.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Deportees Recount Harrowing Journeys to Africa: Shackles, a ‘Freezer’ and Blows www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...
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Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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Katie @clairsquared.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Actually the pay proposal uses a very limited definition of “law enforcement.” Lots of Fed employees enforce the law. But if they target rich companies rather than poor people, and use subpoenas rather than violence, I guess they don’t matter. (#AllViewsAreMine)
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
They arrived in silence, under cover of darkness, heavily armed as they surrounded the town and moved through Kenscoff’s rugged terrain and towering forests in the mountains above the Haitian capital. Numbering around 150, the gunmen swept through several locations as they made their way toward the center of the town, opening fire on resident who tried to flee. At least 13 people were shot and killed as the gunmen ran through downtown, according to an account by the United Nations human rights office. As more than 50 others sought refuge in L’Arche de la Nouvelle Alliance, a Protestant church that had been sheltering people already displaced by the violence, the gunmen pursued them. When they arrive, they forced residents from the church and executed 22 of them in its courtyard. A dozen others were killed behind the sanctuary. The attackers didn’t just stop there. Before withdrawing from downtown, an area encompassing City Hall and a Haiti National Police substation, they abducted at least 52 people, including a mother and her five children, as well as another mother and her infant. Children and elderly who could not run were killed inside their homes. Others were burned alive after gunmen set at least a dozen houses on fire, witnesses told the National Human Rights Defense Network. The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 28/08/2026
Israel is now stopping children in Gaza from even flying kites. Israel announced it would strike areas where kites are flown and force residents from their homes. @premthakker.bsky.social breaks down the psychological war being waged against Gaza’s children. Subscribe to zeteo.com
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Super disturbing. Almost every year since 2015, Idaho children in a faith-healing sect have died of treatable conditions such as pneumonia and bacterial infections that turned to sepsis. The state just lets it happen. @audreydutton.bsky.social
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These Children’s Deaths Were Preventable. Their Parents Prayed Instead of Seeking Medical Care.
For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care. Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of tr...
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
My latest, on how the British/global media hounded Jason Arday to death. “Given the history of white media’s key role in terror against Black people, at what point do we call such actions of journalism outlets digital terror campaigns? “ karenattiah.substack.com/p/jason-arda...
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Jason Arday's Death and the Age of Digital Racial Terror
What Jason Arday's death by media mob says about the old machinery of anti-Black terror in the algorithmic age.
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The U.S. has AGAIN sent people to a foreign country where they get imprisoned. This time, it’s to get around laws barring the deportation of people who face persecution/torture in their home countries. The U.S. gets paper-thin assurances that the below won't happen, which it knows will be ignored.
Three people deported from the U.S. to Equatorial Guinea - including a Phoenix man whose family fled Egypt when he was 4 - told the Arizona Daily Star their lives are in danger at the hotel. All agreed to have their full names published, despite the risks to their safety in speaking out.
In a recent late-night incident, all three say they were dragged from their rooms at gunpoint, handcuffed, assaulted and threatened by armed men guarding the decommissioned Hotel Bamy.
"They said if we leave the hotel grounds, they will shoot us and bury us across the street," said Peta-Gaye Chambers, 35, whose parents brought her to the U.S. from Jamaica when she was 5. A U.S. immigration judge granted Chambers "withholding of removal" to her home country of Jamaica in 2013, agreeing she'd face persecution there.
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NPR @npr.org · 24/07/2026
A Supreme Court ruling stripped Haitian migrants of their temporary legal status. Those with U.S.-born children face an agonizing choice if deported: Should they take them to a still-dangerous Haiti? n.pr/4wkzbcZ
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Families brace for separation as Haitians set to lose protected status next week
A Supreme Court ruling stripped Haitian migrants of their temporary legal status. Those with U.S.-born children face an agonizing choice if deported: Should they take them to a still-dangerous Haiti?
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
There's nothing else to do at the reflecting pool but loiter. It's literally the whole reason it exists, it's a public space where people are invited to linger and loiter.
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 24/06/2026
A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.
A photo of  Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada, who looks like a cuddly and rad dude, smiling while holding a sketchbook full of drawings of baby hippos.
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Katie @clairsquared.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
From the same administration that cancelled federal employee telework, basically out of spite.
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Katie @clairsquared.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Nothing says “freedom and strength” like a barracks full of fever and vomit. We face actual serious problems, which present real struggles for intelligent people working in good faith. And yet, the leadership we get does stuff like this.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Reuters: US JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO REINSTALL SIGNS, EXHIBITS IT REMOVED FROM NATIONAL PARKS DISCUSSING TOPICS LIKE SLAVERY, CLIMATE CHANGE
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