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Sam Wood

@cornerrobot.bsky.social
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Sheep farmer. Workforce development specialist. Firefighter. Artist. Used to be a journalist-night desk chief and ME at daily newspapers.

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Sam Wood @cornerrobot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
“When the power of love beats the love of power the world knows peace.” Man on wire. @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Two people unfold banner atop Empire State Building in apparent marriage proposal stunt
Sign displaying message of peace was seen on the New York landmark after two people climbed to top of the skyscraper
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Sam Wood @cornerrobot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Latest desk coffee spill: Magically missed keyboard.
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Sam Wood @cornerrobot.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I have been waiting for this book for years. So glad to have it in hand. @mollycrabapple.bsky.social’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country. Once in a while we get the book we need, when we need it most.
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Sam Wood @cornerrobot.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I am very much looking forward to this new book by Molly Crabapple.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I laid out the details of the Epstein/Maxwell transnational organized crime operation, including the names of the main perpetrators, in HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) and THEY KNEW (2022).
kendzior THEY KNEW (2022)kendzior HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)
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Sam Wood @cornerrobot.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
It’s that time of year when I come in from doing chores in my own barn to get some dinner and watch other farmers’ videos of using heat guns to thaw their water lines.
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Sam Wood @cornerrobot.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
We’ve been robbed of our freedom. Who will stand with us? I am wicked grateful right from the (hard)core of my busted punk rock heart. Thank you @dropkickmurphys.com for this well-timed album. Thank you for holding on to the ethics and the fight. Buy it, humans, and listen.
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Sam Wood @cornerrobot.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Bill Moyers leaves us a legacy well worth trying to do justice.
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Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Our Kids Poetry Studio in Odesa is in second year and kids, many of whom are refugees of war, are writing poems. If you read Ukrainian, here is the article: vo.od.ua/rubrics/kult... If you read English, here is a link: poemsnotbombs.org. Please consider support this work.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Headline from The New York Times in 2020. "US deaths near 100,000, an incalculable loss." #covid As of today, that "incalculable loss" is 1.2 million Americans. And RFK Jr is taking away our vaccines.
Headline from The New York Times in 2020. "US deaths near 100,000, an incalculable loss."
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This is how you do it. The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact". The moral imperative may be to fight... but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone: www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...
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UMass faculty calls on land grant universities to join in fight against Trump administration; McGovern, AG also weigh in
AMHERST — Faculty at the University of Massachusetts are calling on Chancellor Javier Reyes and President Martin Meehan to form a compact with the 250 land grant and public universities across the cou...
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
What if tech bros had held their nerve? What if ABC had told Trump they’d see him in court? What if Ivy League Universities had defended Columbia? What if big law firms had sued Trump? Cowardice is contagious. Welcome to the Great Grovel www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
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Since Trump came to power cowardice has become contagious
From the tech bros to the leaders of Ivy League universities, the great grovel to Donald Trump is well underway. What America needs now more than ever...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Portrait of Louise Bourgeois, 1997 by photographer Annie Leibovitz #womensart
Monochrome photograph of an older white woman, head and shoulders, facing left with right hand held in front of her face with open palm, the subject has eyes closed and long dark hair and wears a ruffled shirt, all against a plain background
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Liv2Liz @liz2liv.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Sam Wood @cornerrobot.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Take heart. There is no shortage of courage.
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Sam Wood @cornerrobot.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Shock Doctrine. I paced in my living room reading the book by @naomiaklein.bsky.social And not long after I quit the newspaper where I worked because they installed a political operative on the editorial board and flipped out when asked about it. Now that guy is one of the authors of Project 2025.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Great point listening to a talk by @timothysnyder.bsky.social: U.S. is making itself and its allies less powerful, which increases Russia’s relative power and influence, and brings about the multipolar world that it wants
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
There is new interest in Missouri as a bellwether of American decline -- a model of what the regime wants. I wrote and warned on this extensively in my 2020 book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. Some excerpts:
Www.hidinginplainsightbook.comWww.hidinginplainsightbook.com
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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
scoop: Eugene Robinson is leaving The Washington Post, per an email he sent to the staff this morning
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Damn, that's a fantastic video for a campaign launch.
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Sam Wood @cornerrobot.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The Angelus bells O’er the Liffey swells youtu.be/keWnPZOd2cw?...
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The Foggy Dew - Sinéad O’Connor & The Chieftains, 1995
YouTube video by CR's Video Vaults
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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 01/04/2025
Absolutely fantastic conversation between my friend @rushkoff.com and writer/artist @mollycrabapple.bsky.social. We have reasons to be frustrated and angry, but must remember to find fun, happiness, and purpose in some aspect in our life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Md...
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Molly Crabapple | Team Human Podcast w/ Douglas Rushkoff ep. #312
YouTube video by Douglas Rushkoff
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
In Hungary. In Tel Aviv. In Gaza. In Georgia. In Turkey. In Serbia. And growing around the US. Mass movements are happening around the world as people are demanding their freedoms back. As people begin to reclaim what these authoritarians have taken from us. Something’s growing worldwide.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/03/2025
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Sam Wood @cornerrobot.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
From HCR’s letter this morning: “As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls,” Crawford said in her victory speech, “I never could have imagined that I’d be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.”
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"Denmark has given four times as much aid per capita to Ukraine as the US....In Greenland, what we saw was American imperialism with no clothes. Naked and vain." Must read by @timothysnyder.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous | Timothy Snyder
Thanks to Trump’s administration, the US could soon have to fight wars to get things that, just a few weeks ago, were there for the asking, says professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University
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Andrew Varnon @andrew-varnon.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I'm watching the Cory Booker speech on the Senate Floor right now. #BigMessyAmerica www.npr.org/2025/04/01/n...
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Cory Booker's anti-Trump speech on the Senate floor has lasted 15 hours and counting
The New Jersey Democrat has been criticizing the Trump administration's policies on immigration, education, the economy and more since 7 p.m. Monday. Here's what to know about his marathon speech.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Right now, Booker is still at it. And you can watch: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
It’s as if Rome had elected the Vandals
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We Are Higher Ed @wearehighered.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Hello, Bluesky!! We are a collective of academics who are standing up for higher education. Join us: www.wearehighered.org
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We Are Higher Ed
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.
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The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
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Sam Wood @cornerrobot.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The Montague Reporter published in Montague, Mass. An excellent small local newspaper.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
A tiny, easy thing you can do: wherever you’re traveling, buy the local paper and boost the news of how fascism is trickling down and how everyday people are pushing back. From today’s Caledonian-Record of St. Johnsbury, VT.
Headline: Hundreds turn out to protest planned closure of social security office
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Yes, protest Musk. But what about kidnapping people off our streets for simply saying and writing things critical of Trump, the GOP, and the illegal unethical actions of this government? Stand up for the First Amendment.
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Sam Wood @cornerrobot.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Our public health infrastructure — meaning: made up of many people — was already underfunded and the current administration has just slashed it. Now measles. www.wbur.org/news/2025/03...
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Person infected with measles rode Amtrak train to D.C.
A passenger riding an Amtrak train traveling between Boston and Washington, D.C. has measles, according to D.C. health officials. Massachusetts health officials said Wednesday the passenger initially ...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Thousands held a rally to demand the release and safe return of Rumeysa Ozturk, who was disappeared by the Trump regime, one of many people that have been kidnapped nationwide. #3E
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Sam Wood @cornerrobot.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Weather tool taken down has been recreated by The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
"The same names and countries appear again and again: the US, the UK, the former USSR, Israel, Saudi Arabia. We see the same disturbing patterns. We are left with a narrative about rape, espionage, and threats; a narrative of missing pieces." --HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)
FREE EXCERPT of hiding in plain sight book cover
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gclaxton.bsky.social @gclaxton.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The destruction of the Dept. of Education is about red states being able to rewrite history, and right-wing religious zealots pretending that the country was founded as a Christian nation. To control history is to control the narrative. To control the narrative is to control the minds of the nation.
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Sam Wood @cornerrobot.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
If you are in/near Western Mass., come to the screening of Join or Die Monday, March 24 at Greenfield Garden Cinemas. It’s free. There’s a discussion with one of the directors immediately after. @joinordiefilm.bsky.social You can RSVP and find more info here: www.gcc.mass.edu/events/join-...
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Join or Die - GCC
Join us for a free screening of the documentary Join or Die, a film about why you should join a club—and why the fate of America depends on it. Q&A
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.
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Inequality Media Civic Action @imcivicaction.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“…never in the history of the world has a Nation lost its democracy by a successful struggle to defend its democracy. We must not be defeated by the fear of the very danger which we are preparing to resist…The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -FDR, 1941
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I tried to warn our profession four years ago. And now here we are. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/o...
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Opinion | Lawyers Enabled Trump’s Worst Abuses (Published 2021)
The legal profession must reckon with its complicity in Trump’s attack on democracy.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I was interviewed this week for a major US news show. My interviewer asked me why so few of my colleagues are willing to talk. It’s not just fear of losing funding, but of being singled out by a regime that wants to purge scientists from society. That’s why I do speak out. I wish more people would
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Sam Wood @cornerrobot.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Lots of local organizing.
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Andrew Varnon @andrew-varnon.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
“Boston was born standing up to bullies.” You go, Mayor Wu! #BigMessyAmerica youtu.be/5sFuF7eF67Q?...
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FULL VIDEO: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu delivers State of the City Address
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Do I like hawking my new book during a political apocalypse? No! Did I like spending a decade of my life warning of the political apocalypse, identifying the key players and plots, and getting threatened as a result? No, but I did it anyway! Buy the book! ❤️ www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
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The Last American Road Trip
The New York Times bestselling author of They Knew, Hiding in Plain Sight, and The View from Flyover Country navigates a changing America as she and her fami...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/03/2025
NEW: In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term. It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.
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The October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal Bureaucracy
Historians have hindsight when they look into the past; journalists have the facts on the ground and context to help them look ahead. That means we can sometimes be surprised by how prescient a story ...
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