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Dani Welch

@daniwelch.bsky.social
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Public defender raising a tiny human, 2 cats, and a sled dog with my husband in NYC. Once I briefly ran for Congress. #UAW Region 9A, Local 2325 pronouns: she/her

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 4h
Chris Rufo was also involved in destroying cancer research and US science. In 2024 he recommended: “usIng the power of the presidency to target…grantmaking” (This is a slide I prepared and showed to science orgs in 2024 to try to mobilize scientists to get in the fight. I didn’t do enough.)
[Our plan for] "eliminating left-wing ideologies in the federal government, " using the power of the presidency to fundamentally reshape the bureaucracy with a six-part program targeting budget, content, personnel, grantmaking, and oversight. The idea is to centralize ideological control over the federal agencies in the White House and create a team at the Office of Management and Budget to enforce it. We could easily wipe out a significant portion of the infrastructure for the left-wing ideologies within the federal bureaucracy and within the network of federal grantees and contractors
Chris Rufo, Manhattan Institute, 2023
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 11h
I didn't realize before reading this opinion that the defense attorney here *DIDN'T OBJECT* to the use of the AI video
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today's newsletter: -Texas has delayed its maternal mortality report until after the midterms -Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled -Conservatives want abortion on the 2028 ballot in Massachusetts -A Louisiana business gives little girls pretend ultrasounds before they "adopt" dolls 🙃
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Report: Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Doubled
9.9.26
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 02/10/2026
A white Dallas police officer convicted of killing a Black man in his apartment that she mistook for her own was granted parole Thursday after serving seven years of her 10-year sentence. to.pbs.org/4hWQbB8
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Former cop who fatally shot Botham Jean in apartment that she mistook for hers gets parole
A white Dallas police officer convicted of killing a Black man in his apartment that she mistook for her own was granted parole Thursday after serving seven years of her 10-year sentence.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
Ok what’s the real story here? Union busting? Trying to get higher paid people to quit?
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Air Budd Dwyer @deliciousmalk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fuck Gavin Newsom
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Catalina Fernandes @catalinafernandes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An Israeli occupation soldier plays with a Palestinian child’s toy car during the occupation forces’ raid on Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank. The disturbing scene comes amid an armed raid on the city, as Palestinian families continue to
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 01/10/2026
Do you know that Democratic politicians in the State of New York could make life very very uncomfortable for James Dolan by actually using the levers of controls they have over MSG's tax status and future? And yet! bsky.app/profile/noah...
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Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy October!
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NYC is shutting down 160 streets & plazas to cars for its largest-ever Trick-or-Streets celebration this October–with free walking tours, block parties, & 75,000 pieces of candy
NYC is opening 160 car-free streets and plazas for Trick-or-Streets this October, with Halloween fun across all five boroughs.
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Kavi Kat 🌬️ @katinthestars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Capital punishment doesn't benefit society. It's time we abolish it. 👀 deathpenaltyinfo.org/studies-deat...
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Evidence Does Not Support the Use of the Death Penalty
Capital punishment must come to an end. It does not deter crime, is not humane and has no moral or medical basis
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.
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Jane Roe Has Hope - Pro-choice Adoptee @janeroehopeful.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So yeah. If he’s got Bannon’s endorsement, something is very, very wrong.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SCOOP: Valar Atomics is planning a massive nuclear powered data center on public lands in Utah. The 9,600 acre site would include 456 reactors, along with fuel fabrication and waste storage facilities. www.npr.org/2026/09/30/n...
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A startup wants to build a massive nuclear-powered data center on public land in Utah
Valar Atomics wants to place over 450 reactors on more than 9,500 acres in Utah to power a huge data center project.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shut every fraternity down.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The only fear I ever saw in [Bad Company's] eyes was when the nurse informed him he had to be moved to the infirmary. ... He tried to go out on his own terms, but they wouldn't let him. Dying among friends in prison is apparently against protocol."
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Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wish people would stop referring to Donald Trump as "the Felon." Trump's felony convictions don't begin to capture his harm. He is so much worse than those convictions. Most people with felony convictions are so much more than theirs, yet struggle to escape the stigma of that dehumanizing label.
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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every woman you know does so much mental math on the regular regarding her safety. When to smile politely. When to confront someone. When to walk away. When to cause a scene. Who’s safe? Who’s not? Who sees her as a person? Who doesn’t? Women are taught to never leave their drink unattended.+
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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I do hope my child doesn't choose to go to Cornell. They have a very twisted view of what conduct deserves punishment.
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Cornell to Pro-Palestine Students Targeted by ICE: Come Back to the U.S. or Lose Funding
Two graduate students were finishing their degrees abroad because of the Trump administration's targeting. Cornell is ordering them back to campus.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
fucking really
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 27/09/2026


WORKERS.  
CAPITALISTS
RIGHTS [gunshots)
SALARIES
CAPITALISTS
[gunshots]
CLEAN DRINKING WATER
CAPITALISTS
BREATHABLE
AIR
CAPITALISTS
[gunshots
(gunshots]
PEOPLE'S SAVINGS
gunshots
CAPITALISTS
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
[gunshots]
CAPITALISTS
Why do young people hate capitalism?
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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Panels from GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR by Jadzia Axelrod, Vash Taylor and Ariana Maher where Galaxy says "It's not fair.
And I'm tired of it. If I'm a monster to these people for just being who I am, then I'll be a monster. I will shake their souls."
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Lena Bilik @lbilik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The US is the only OECD country w/out paid parental leave. Most other countries guarantee ~a year of parental leave before families enroll their kids in universal childcare. Instead of pitting families against each other, we should demand paid leave AND universal childcare like all our peer nations.
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Building the Future of the Care Economy - Roosevelt Institute
The US is facing a care crisis. Our care work focuses on addressing gaps in care through stable, long-term public investments that center worker equity and quality care outcomes while resisting privat...
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
All other democrats could learn something from this.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"[T]here has been no public input regarding the data center proposals ... The administration is reportedly considering proposals for data centers on at least 12 sites across six states. In total, at least 17,600 acres could be leased away to companies managing the proposed data centers."
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"But now Billy was dead, and the state of Connecticut said he owed $232,733 for room and board during his earlier prison stay. Selling the house where DeSenti now lived alone would help satisfy that debt." ctmirror.org/2026/09/27/t...
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They served their time in prison. Then the bills arrived.
Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/09/2026
Run, don't walk, to vote.nyc/page/register-vote. Register to vote by October 24 so that you can vote on faster, more efficient government.
vote.nyc
Register to Vote | NYC Board of Elections
You can register to vote online, in-person, or by mail.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 27/09/2026
On this day in 1958, after violent resistance to integrating Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, white residents voted to close local public schools rather than comply with federal desegregation orders.
calendar.eji.org
Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate
Learn more about our history of racial injustice
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
Sit in an actual room where criminal cases are adjudicated for a day and then consider the sterling standard being applied to judges.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
A lot of people are responding with the idea that real judges wouldn’t conduct themselves in this manner and y’all should volunteer for CourtWatch.
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🧵 You've heard this tune before: "A Black guy did it!" What happens when White people weaponize their whiteness—especially in criminal matters? Black people get harassed, or worse—until the truth comes out. You might want to bring a 🥃when you pull up your seat🪑. (cont)
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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 25/09/2026
Alaskans have until Oct. 4 to register to vote in the November general election, which features high-stakes races for governor, the U.S. Senate, U.S. House and state legislative seats, as well as two ballot measures. www.adn.com/politics/202...
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The voter registration deadline for Alaska’s general election is Oct. 4. Here’s how to register.
Alaska voters have until Sunday, Oct. 4 to register to vote in the Nov. 3 election.
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Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why is it orange outside?
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"As long as these deportations continue ... more people will be tortured behind walls and killed on the streets."
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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
SpaceX is going to kill imperiled animals & destroy rare habitat in TX’s Rio Grande Valley, some of the very same species & habitats the GOV, env NGOs, & private individuals have invested $$$$, many decades & much sweat restoring & protecting dustyrhoads.substack.com/p/elon-musks...
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX to Destroy Texas Horned Lizards
Texas Horned Lizards were in the news at least twice this past week. But you were probably only aware of one instance, if at all.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This means eligible voters will be wrongly labeled non-citizens due to faulty and unreliable data and be purged from the rolls
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Black Cloud Six @blackcloudsix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If the US plans and carries out an invasion of Cuba, it would be naked aggression on par with Putin’s invasion ofUkraine, no matter what one thinks of Havana’s regime; a crime against international law worthy of prosecutions by the ICC. www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-gro...
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U.S. military lays groundwork for potential action around Cuba
Some units would "possibly [be] needed in 90-120 days," according to an internal Army message reviewed by CBS News.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing
Dr. Oz on flight
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:
thehandbasket.co
I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see
'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026
Big names in AI and Silicon Valley tech announced yesterday that they're launching a boarding academy for 16 to 22 year olds. (Would you trust the people in this scene with keeping an eye on minors?) theacademysf.com
Thrilled to announce our latest incubation: Horowitz Andreessen Academy.

Horowitz Andreessen Academy will be a two-year residential program in San Francisco for 16 to 22 year olds.

My biggest regret from my college experience is how divorced it was from the real world (both practically but also intellectually)

HAA is the opposite. Students will learn from real-world practitioners and intellectuals; including founders (Sam Altman, Brian Armstrong, Jensen Huang), investors (Elad Gil, Daniel Gross), and professors (Agnes Callard, Tyler Cowen), among hundreds of others. The Academy is the educational experience I wish I had.

In 1984, the educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom published a paper about how the average student who received one-on-one tutoring focused on mastery techniques performed better than 98% of the control group. For generations, this was viewed as unrealistic to implement even if it produced the best outcomes.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“My nightmare is that we have bots on Emory Healthcare’s side, bots on Cigna’s side that keep talking to each other,” said Dr. Joon S. Lee, the chief executive of Emory Healthcare. “A whole data center could be occupied just doing that.”
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Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher
The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.
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Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is troubling for many reasons, but I find the "disloyal judge" comment to be the most disturbing.
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Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
2029. ICE detention centers can be built at lightning speed, but sure, let's allow 3 increasingly hot years to add air conditioners to address unconstitutionally cruel, life-threatening heat.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
One reason to get the shingles vax before 50: covid immunosuppresses, awakening dormant herpes viruses which *everyone has*. EBV which causes multiple sclerosis, zoster which causes shingles, etc. each infection each year bumps up the odds
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Dani Welch @daniwelch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This morning's temperature? Pleasantly cool, and also nearly twice as high as Trump's approval rating. Happy Fall, y'all.
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Halloween Pumpkin Man Dancing in Cemetery
Alt: Gif of man(?) In black suit and Pumpkin head dancing in cemetery
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mobile detention facilities. Read that again.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am thrilled to announce that the American Studies Program at Boston University will be accepting new PhD Students for the 27/28 academic year. These are fully funded, unionized, 5-year positions, with 4 semesters of guaranteed dissertation fellowship in years 4 & 5.

Application Deadline: December 15, 2026
The American Studies Program at Boston University is a nationally recognized leader in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. Our students and faculty study the disparate yet interconnected cultures of colonial North America and the United States as seen in the ideas and actions of its people, and as expressed in a range of forms, especially culture, the arts, media, literature, and institutions - often seen through a global or transnational lens. Formerly known as the American & New England Studies Program, we maintain active collaborations with many cultural institutions in the region, especially in the Boston Area. Our large PhD program has produced tenure-track protessors, public historians, museum curators, and directors at major universities, museums, and other cultural and historical institutions.
Funding Opportunities
PhD students receive full funding for up to five years (12 months a year) under a collective bargaining agreement. During this time, they take courses, teach in their fields and disciplines of interest, and develop and write dissertations. The fellowship package guarantees four semesters of dissertation fellowship in years 4 and 5, with no service obligations Additional funding is available from Boston University for travel to conferences, for archival research, and for internships.
Current students have recently received outside fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Huntington Library, the Smithsonian Institution, the Beinecke Library, the Corning Museum of Glass, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and the American Historical Association.
Graduate Student Association
The Program's own independent Graduate Student Association (GSA) is comprised of elected PhD students who sponsor events and programs for developing professional skills, while representing our students' interests to the governing faculty.
A list of affiliate faculty, available also on the program’s webpage
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