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Diana King 🇺🇦

@diking.bsky.social
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Libraries & archives, film & media studies, performing arts, bonsai & urban gardening, cats, democracy. TN-born, Los Angeles-based.

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a good deep-dive into AI slop invading what used to be legit media sites. One thing I’m seeing more and more: slop outlets churning archaeology stories from 1-5 years ago and presenting them as news. 🏺🧪
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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American Rivers @americanrivers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Endangered Species Act long protected species by preventing “harm” to their habitat. But the administration recently changed the definition of “harm” to exclude protected species' "habitat", leaving these places vulnerable to destruction. 🐟 Learn more: www.americanrivers.org/2026/08/the-...
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The Endangered Species Act No Longer Includes Protection of Habitat
For more than 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has protected species from going extinct and disappearing from our planet forever. Animals and plants alike have benefited from these protections, an...
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Diana King 🇺🇦 @diking.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Ms. Daisy and her bff Mr. Snowman. He used to be a Christmas ornament but found a higher calling. #Caturday
A white kitty with tabby markings poses on a bed cutely with a snowman ornament.
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UCLA Film & Television Archive @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Honored to be visited by ABC7 anchor and local TV icon David Ono for a spotlight on Eyewitness News @abc7.bsky.social! With our UCLA Festival of Preservation just days away (May 29–31), Ono interviewed Archive Director May Hong HaDuong for a behind-the-scenes look: abc7.com/post/2026-uc...
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Inside UCLA's vast archive preserving fragile film history and how you can be part of it
Eyewitness News is highlighting a special community of experts at UCLA who are not only saving priceless films but are inviting you to witness some of their rarest treasures.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.
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Alex Haley’s “Roots” to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries
KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Alex Haley’s book “Roots” is included in an updated list of book titles to be removed from Knox County Schools libraries. The schools previously remove…
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UCLA Library @uclalibrary.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The UCLA Film & Television Archive @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social, a unit of UCLA Library, will present the 22nd edition of its biennial UCLA Festival of Preservation, running Friday, May 29 to Sunday, May 31 at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum. Full festival schedule: ucla.in/4vHiZ5q
The UCLA Festival of Preservation returns May 29–31. Free to the public, the 22nd biennial festival celebrates the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s latest preservation and restoration work. Image of “The Other Love” (1947), courtesy of United Artists / Photofest.
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Diana King 🇺🇦 @diking.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This from the genius who thought “HBO” was the toxic and commercially undesirable part of “HBO Max.” I also remember when we used to have anti-trust laws that may have occasionally been enforced. Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states
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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
In Philadelphia, ICE will share office space with a DMV. A proposed ICE office in Portland, Maine is within walking distance of 8 places of worship. Today WIRED is publishing the locations of dozens of planned ICE offices across the US, part of a major expansion. from @leahfeiger.bsky.social
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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
KNOXVILLE STUDENTS: “To see this many people come out, it means so much. Because living in the South it can feel isolating to have these different viewpoints.” Huge student-led anti-ICE walkout happened today, despite threats of discipline from school officials💪🏽 (From WBIR)
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Steeves @devonshyr.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I've found this resource helpful. naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
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How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
Last edited January 22, 2026 I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That sa…
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Yikes. www.kqed.org/arts/1398535...
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California College of the Arts Will Close in 2027
Vanderbilt University will take over the campus of the Bay Area’s last remaining nonprofit art school.
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Diana King 🇺🇦 @diking.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Ms. Daisy is thankful for the dirty yellow towel she conned out of the drywall repair guy, who noted that she loves the towel more than he ever could. #catsofbluesky
A chunky white and tabby cat sits possessively on top of a yellow towel, with a blue work mat underneath and a red vacuum behind her.
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UCLA Film & Television Archive @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
🇺🇦 “Eyes on Ukraine” (2025) Friday, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m. Join us for the official premiere of this powerful doc that explores the intersection of two crises — war and HIV. It looks to the resilience of a new generation, navigating survival and community through art and activism. Free: ucla.in/4hMXfi9
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books: www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
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Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down
Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."
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Diana King 🇺🇦 @diking.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The EPA is taking comments until Sept. 15 on its proposed delays, and will hold a public hearing on Sept. 12.
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Coal ash protections could be undone. The public must be heard | Opinion
The utility industry is trying to roll back the coal ash rule passed after the 2008 Kingston disaster, and the EPA is listening.
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UCLA Film & Television Archive @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The Archive’s Artist-in-Residence Program will host an emerging artist for two weeks during the late spring of 2026 to activate the Archive’s collection in their artistic practice, focusing on the Hearst Metrotone News, In the Life LGBTQ+ series and/or KTLA News collections. cinema.ucla.edu/air2026
Image of a film vault with text that reads: "UCLA Film & Television Archive Artist-In-Residence Program, application deadline November 14, 2025, cinema.ucla.edu/air2026
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"Half the population” of greater Los Angeles "now meet the government’s criteria for reasonable suspicion," in the wake of today's 6-3 SCOTUS ruling. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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Supreme Court upholds 'roving patrols' for immigration arrests in Los Angeles
The Supreme Court says immigration agents may stop and question people they suspect are here illegally based on little more than working at a car wash, speaking Spanish or having brown skin.
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused. Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right? Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Constitution sections on due process and foreign gifts just vanished from Congress' website Include provisions such as habeas corpus, forbidding the naming of titles of nobility, and forbidding foreign emoluments for U.S. officials. www.404media.co/constitution...
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Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website
Part of Article I Section 8, and all of Sections 9 and 10, which address things like habeas corpus, nobility, and militias, are gone from Congress's website for the Constitution.
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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?
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Mikhail Zinshteyn @mzinshteyn.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
NEW: Trump's suspensions of UCLA's research grants is around 800 -- the ~300 we knew about for NSF and *500* NIH grants. That's according to a memo a UCLA administrator sent to the campus's researchers with grants two hours ago.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Our commitment to one another and compassion may be the biggest weapon we've got against the fear L.A. is being targeted with. We've gotten dozens of questions about how you can help, including where to volunteer. We heard you, and we answered. lataco.com/los-angeles-...
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WIRED @wired.com · 10/07/2025
DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action. www.wired.com/story/dhs-te...
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Skateboards and Livestreams: DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’
DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.
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Diana King 🇺🇦 @diking.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Ukraine joins the European Audiovisual Observatory as 42nd member, as of June 19, 2025. go.coe.int/oCFKG
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Ukraine joins the European Audiovisual Observatory as 42nd member - European Audiovisual Observatory - obs.coe.int
<p>The European Audiovisual Observatory has just welcomed Ukraine as its 42nd member.</p>
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
In the aftermath of the fire that destroyed the historically Black Altadena, corporations with murky structures have been quietly buying up the area
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The Corporations Quietly Buying Up Altadena
I combed through public records to uncover who’s been scooping up burned lots in and around the L.A. community—and it’s not your neighbor.
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Another day testing the limits of resilience. The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels. Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels. The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.
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‘This is bull——”: National Science Foundation employees protest HUD's takeover
Dozens of National Science Foundation employees crowded the agency’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday to protest the news that the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, w...
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Diana King 🇺🇦 @diking.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
This episode on Arendt was very good, and unfortunately very timely.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Federal agents used explosives to enter a U.S. citizen’s home and entered — guns drawn — on a baby, a 6-year-old, and their mother. She believes it’s because her boyfriend attended an ICE protest where he accidentally hit a cop car (and was released by cops). www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/h...
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Video shows federal agents blast their way into Huntington Park home
Video appears to show an explosion set off by federal agents as they entered a Huntington Park home in an early morning law enforcement operation that startled a woman who was inside the house with he...
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Diana King 🇺🇦 @diking.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Information on new plans for renovation of the Huntington Library building and enhancements to the Art Museum. www.huntington.org/news/hunting...
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The Huntington to Revitalize Historic Library Building and Transform Library and Art Museum Collaboration | The Huntington
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is a tourist attraction and collections-based educational and research institution.
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Diana King 🇺🇦 @diking.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Oh, I think we all need to keep eyes on this one and on access to all libraries and archives, federal or local.
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Diana King 🇺🇦 @diking.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Here's the archived page from Internet Archive: web.archive.org/web/20250625...
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Diana King 🇺🇦 @diking.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Hello everyone, the College Park National Archives site has now taken down the header announcing restrictions. Because of that and the post below, I've deleted my original post because I do not want to share misinformation. My deep hope is that this was a major messaging fail. Orig. lang. below 👇
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Diana King 🇺🇦 @diking.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
It was at the top of the webpage, but they have now removed the message. Hopefully, this was just a very, very poorly worded communication fail.
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Diana King 🇺🇦 @diking.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Yes, I just noticed that the message is gone now. I will post an update based on what has been shared online.
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UC-AFT Bay Area Chapter @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Solidarity with library workers @teamsterslocal2010.bsky.social and @ucaft.bsky.social. Stand up and tell the administration to stop the layoffs at UCSD Library!
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
We're in uncharted territory with this SCOTUS. They're making decisions--without regard to precedent, without regard to norms, without regard to justice, without regard to the impact on the rule of law in the U.S., without regard to consequences, and very often with a complete lack of transparency.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards. Me, via “One First”:
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161. The Court's Disastrous Ruling in the Third-Country Removal Case
The majority did not just greenlight an especially odious immigration policy without any explanation; it did so in a case in which the government defied the district court—twice—with no consequence.
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
In one recent example, "The Complete Book of Dogs" was among nearly 600 titles pulled from school library shelves recently in Monroe County, TN. But many more dog-related books have also been singled out for censorship in a variety of school districts. pen.org/magic-tree-h...
Cover of "The Complete Book of Dogs" by Rosie Pilbeam. Labeled as BANNED in Monroe County, TN. PEN America logo appears at bottom right.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
As headlines remain focused on Iran and Israel, Russia escalates its genocidal war—targeting apartment buildings, hospitals, schools, and shelters. Despite much of the media moving on, the attacks are intensifying and growing more brazen by the day.
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Please Don't Forget About Ukraine...
While the World Watches Iran, Russia Unleashes Daily Hell on Ukraine — and Trump Helps Bury It
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/06/2025
ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her *mother* failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...
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ICE detains Marine Corps veteran's wife who was still breastfeeding their baby
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
KTLA - Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all US Marines, pepper-sprayed and punched in the face by alleged federal immigration officers while he was working as a landscaper at an IHOP. He was then forced into the back of an unmarked car in Santa Ana.
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Masked men in U.S. Border Patrol vests take Santa Ana father after repeatedly hitting him
In a graphic video that has since gone viral on social media, about seven or more masked men wearing U.S. Border Patrol vests are seen violently detaining a Santa Ana father before forcing him into…
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Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 22/06/2025
ICYMI: Vanderbilt University Medical Center, one of the largest academic research and hospital care systems in the southeast, expects to lay off 650 employees as a result of grant and other funding cuts made by the Trump Administration, it said in a statement.
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center to lay off up to 650 after Trump administration grant cuts • Tennessee Lookout
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, expects to lay off 650 employees as a result of grant and funding cuts by the Trump Administration,
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
A leaked USDA memo, reported by The New Republic, reveals Trump’s administration has banned terms like “climate,” “safe drinking water,” and “greenhouse gas emissions,” crippling scientific work and rural aid in a sweeping purge of so-called “woke” language.
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