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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyway. Does anyone know how to watch a Championship club team’s matches via streaming etc? Paramount+ only appears to carry some matches, and none of them are my new favorites Bristol City FC

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

BREAKING: Area Woman Enjoying Vacation.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‎תכלה שנה וקללותיה ‎תחל שנה וברכותיה ‎Tichle shanah vekilelotehah ‎Tacheil shanah uveirkotehah. ‎The closing of a year and its troubles ‎The opening of a year and its joys.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

OUT OF OFFICE: From now until September 25 I’m on vacation. Nothing bad is allowed to happen while I’m out (it can only good happen) but if it does you will need to find others to raise it to your attention and explain it to you. If you see me posting here in the meantime, no you didn’t.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is going to drive me up a wall. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u... The "appropriate time" was literally 2 months ago. Federal law requires an announcement 60 days before TPS is set to expire as to whether it'll be renewed or terminated.

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Salvadorans to Keep Temporary Protected Status for Now, Trump Officials Say

Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador was set to expire on Wednesday. The Trump administration said it would make an announcement about the program’s future at the “appropriate time.”

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Odd vs the average person? Reporter, in the 21st century. Odd vs what you’d expect? Short-order cook. Optimizing both? Conducting song surveys for radio stations by phone.

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Do I know anyone who would donate art or crafts to our fundraiser for stopping Colorado's anti-trans ballot measures

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’m Dara, and I’m a big sucker for a sudden sung growl. “What do you gain by blacking in her name?” In “Sulky Girl” by Elvis Costello. “Make me confused, mock me with praise” when Raul Esparza sings “Being Alive.” It always grabs me like the singer is breaking the fourth wall. Love it.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I was gonna vote in the thing and then realized I had only 1 vote and a nemesis had a lot more than 1 and now I am fully content to conscientiously object to the whole enterprise

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ecuador long wanted the extradition of an exofficial accused of plotting the assassination of a presidential candidate. ICE grabbed him—and initially held back deporting him over a judge's concern he'd be tortured. A source tells us he's now being tortured in Ecuador www.notus.org/courts/ex-ec...

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An Ex-Ecuadorian Official Said He Was in Political Danger. The U.S. Deported Him.

José Serrano Salgado fled to Miami when the South American country swung from left to right politically.

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rewasem.bsky.social @rewasem.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This Administration once again takes action to assert that their people are above the law and should not be held accountable for breaking the law.

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Tommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...

"I think that we have the ability to do something that the rest of our culture is yearning for, which is make people who are too rich to care about anything resembling the public interest worry that maybe they need to tell us the truth."

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Huh, it really does seem that by expanding a fenced area inaccessible to the people of DC, they’re asserting the existence of a…federal district…that is separately governed from the existing District of Columbia Really makes you think

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I just fully gasped. I’m such, such a sucker for this. Seriously, tell me every time someone in your life gets approved for naturalization, it makes me so happy every time.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It has come to my attention that a lot of people have not played the following songs in sequence: -“Diamonds and Rust” -“Oh, Sister” (Dylan) -“O! Brother” (Baez) If you know what’s up here please don’t reply. I will block you if I need to! DM me instead.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Those who do not remember the 19th century are doomed to repeat it

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Yep. Something I think is enormously under-understood is that DHS spends so much effort coercing people into agreeing to deportation, and then…doesn’t get around to deporting them.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I appreciate @hcrichardson.bsky.social for highlighting this issue, but this figure & history is not quite right. After the earthquake in 2010, the Obama admin granted TPS, then as the recovery stumbled amid cholera outbreaks, granted it again in 2011. Roughly 50,000 people got TPS then. 1/

Yesterday the Department of Homeland Security under Trump served up straight racism and cruelty to its wavering base in a post about Haitians. About 350,000 Haitians came to the United States after a catastrophic earthquake hit their country in 2010, destabilizing both the economy and the government. As the country became overrun with violent gangs, the U.S. granted Haitians Temporary Protected Status, allowing them to stay in the U.S. because it was too dangerous to go home.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Me, before I go on television: ooh I should remind myself how much money Congress has given the Trump admin for immigration enforcement through reconciliation so far. ::math:: $240 billion, ok. Me, on television: “gajillions”

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is why I don’t use LLMs — not just for writing but at all. I pick up verbal tics like literal ticks and I am terrified of sounding even more artless in my writing than I already do.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’m so old I remember when THE conservative attack on refugee resettlement was that they got federal support

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I think there’s obviously a lot to this but I also think there was something of an attention ratchet here. Because there’s an expectation that Trump hates Haitians more than (say) Venezuelans, Haitian TPS termination got more attention from ppl who didn’t like it, and now the WH is owning the libs.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

seriously this number was less showstopper than “you can have some real grownup talent in this movie as a treat”

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It's not just pundits' fault. Ask yourself how much you listen, read, and talk about campaign strategy and Dem primaries vs. stuff like what unions are doing, or why some law firms and universities folded and others didn't. (I'm part of the problem, too)

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Human Muppet community has lost two icons in under 24 hours and we appreciate your sympathies at this time.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I am in no way a true crime girlie but every time I see a mid-trial settlement I itch for a whole investigative podcast series about How Badly Did Your Litigators Screw This Up

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

On the subject of Dolly’s union/working class solidarity, her 9 to 5 LP included Woody Guthrie’s ´Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)’, a protest song about the racist mistreatment & media coverage of exploited Mexican farm workers who died when the plane deporting them crashed in 1948.

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Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)

YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New plan for “what I would do with a bananapants amount of sudden and undeserved money” just dropped

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It’s super weird that so many people have already developed fully parasocial affective relationships to tech that _is changing at unprecedented pace_ Like. It’s distinctly _less_ important to decide whether you would defend or attack Hypothetical AGI Robots than to keep an open mind on that q??

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

BE THE CANONIZATION YOU WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

it gets even better. www.today.com/parents/moms...

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose. And do it with purpose,” Parton advises. “You got to know who you are because so many people try to emulate or copy somebody else.”

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Yes but surely this counts for at least one bsky.app/profile/tyle...

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Yes but surely this counts for at least one bsky.app/profile/tyle...

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This has been on my Facebook profile for something like 20 years.

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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We can dream bigger: every time we negatively revise our opinion of a once-lauded historical figure, everything named after them gets renamed for Dolly Parton

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Okay what if we just all agree to name it the Dolly Parton Center for the Performing Arts

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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In Tapachula, @theatlantic.com's Kevin Sieff finds a city that "looks and feels the way towns in northern Mexico along the U.S. border once did—a dumping ground for those expelled from the United States and a gathering place for those snagged on their way north." www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

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A Reverse Ellis Island

A city at the southern tip of Mexico has become the place where migrants’ dreams go to die.

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 24/08/2026

Here are some of the declines in international student applications and enrollment revealed in a lawsuit challenging new duration of status regulations that would limit the ability to offer some programs of study and create administrative bloat on campus. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

Institution Grinnell College
Enrollment data 15.8 percentage point decline in international student yield from fall 2023 to fall 2026
Institution University of Illinois Chicago
Enrollment data 50 percent decline in admitted international students over historic levels
Institution University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Enrollment data 25.1 percent decline in international graduate applicants from 2025 to 2026 cycle
Institution University of Maryland, Baltimore
Enrollment data 37.9 percent decline in new international student enrollment from fall 2024 to fall 2025. Thirty-two students admitted for fall 2026 have withdrawn applications, and 14 have requested to defer their admission.
Institution University of Maryland, College Park
Enrollment data anticipated 30 percent decline in new international graduate students year over year
Institution University of Wisconsin–Madison
Enrollment data 10.9 percent year-over-year decline in undergraduate applications, and 27 percent year-over-year decline in graduate applications. Five undergraduate students who put down deposits have since withdrawn.
Institution University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Enrollment data 42 percent decrease in applications, 29 percent decrease in admissions and 38.7 percent decrease in enrollments year over year

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Now do this with immigration policy

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Reposting accounts from some folks who had experiences today that I did not, because I want to be honest and scrupulous and not portray my experience as everyone’s — though I think that some critics are speaking from a lot more experience with races/events than others.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There were like three different spots where it was standstill crowds with no way to move and we kept running out of water, paid or free! I don’t know how that’s not a terribly run race.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

idk what to tell you but I have never been in a worse crowd crush possible situation than I was twice today at two different corners in this GP because the organizers did not understand how to build a race track and how people watch. It was dogshit.

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Ἀντιγόνη @wretch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The bridge I took was shut down shortly after I took it, and I witnessed why: track officials were taking photographs of what looked to be incomplete or failed construction (further inhibiting the flow of traffic). The bridge was also stuffed full of people standing watching.

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Ἀντιγόνη @wretch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I chose to leave about half an hour after the race started, and it took me over 45 minutes from deciding to leave to actually getting out of the area. I had to pass through multiple corridors packed wall to wall with people entering and exiting and trying to watch the race.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I gather this app has been full of trash talk about the DC IndyCar race. I, an IndyCar Knower and veteran race attendee, would like to tell you that it was actually remarkably well executed overall. And it was honestly not nearly as sycophantic as most things Trump touches are.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Very surprised I did not log on to a tag from @maxj.bsky.social noting that apparently in 2026 one can evade death, taxes AND Alex Palou.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Okay I get it, street races are Good and every city should get one.

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