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DioneNYC

@dionenyc.bsky.social
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Recovering lawyer. DOJ/EDNY alum. Mom. Knitter. Bitchy . . . but in a good way.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s earlier than I expected to announce this, but we’re in the process of founding an organization to build cross-generational solidarity on campus sexual violence. It’s called the Survivor Alumni Network. And if you want updates from us when we are ready to go public, you can stay in touch here:
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Survivor Alumni Network
Join a national survivor network. Access free Title IX resources, peer mentorship, and Campus Response Teams dedicated to campus safety reform.
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DioneNYC @dionenyc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
No Kings Coalition Sets Nationwide Early Voting Day of Action for October 17 www.citizen.org/news/no-king...
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No Kings Coalition Sets Nationwide Early Voting Day of Action for October 17 - Public Citizen
Washington, DC — On October 17, No Kings: Vote Early will launch a day of coordinated, nonpartisan action across the…
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it may ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Translation: "Let's retraumatize these unimaginably brave women who were raped as girls by forcing them to speak to yet another man (who will deny the crimes committed) in order to have more power to strip all women of their rights. So I can greenlight it and pretend I care about women."
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Those fools damn near wrecked the 14th Amendment and a lot of pseudo scholarship in the legal academy was used to nearly get there. Should be a badge of shame in a just world.
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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.
Man yelling into bored woman's ear in nightclub meme captioned 

I can summarize that for you
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The past was erased, the erasure won’t be forgotten, the Big Lie won’t become the truth. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores It
Last week, the Justice Department deleted thousands of press releases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection and other matters. Here they are.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Since acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has confirmed that “Anybody in this country is eligible to apply if they believe they are a victim of weaponization,” I decided to apply for reparations. Here is a template if you want to draft your own demand: shero.substack.com/p/everyone-c...
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I can't stop thinking about Justin and Cerina Fairfax, and how her death could have been prevented. I wrote about colleges and sexual assault, family courts forcing divorcing women to live with their abusers, and the entitlement of men who are cancelled by #MeToo www.vanityfair.com/news/story/j...
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I Went to Duke With Justin Fairfax and Cerina Fairfax. Decades Later, He Killed Her
Former Virginia lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax killed his wife, Cerina, months after she filed for divorce. The news about my old friend evokes the patterns that emerge in stories that end this wa...
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
NYC: Participatory budget voting is now open thru 4/19 — any New Yorker aged 11 or older can help shape how money is spent. Cast your vote! rnd.council.nyc.gov/PB_Voting/
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PBNYC - Cast Your Ballot
Vote on local projects to improve your NYC neighborhood. Vote Week: March 29 - April 6.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...
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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/02/2026
Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.
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Colgate University @colgate.edu · 13/02/2026
Happy Colgate Day.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 31/01/2026
Lag. The federal judiciary is catching up — this is a remarkable order, it's only three pages. I recommend reading it. I have, in all of my time practicing law, never seen a judge do anything like this:
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
He was doing journalism, and he died because of it. This would be an appropriate moment for organizations that protect reporters and photographers to point that out.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/01/2026
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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Ali Adair @aliadair22.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The ACLU has a Mobile Justice app that will automatically record video and send it to your local ACLU affiliate if you get attacked by ICE and they try to delete your video or steal your phone. It’s now available in 17 states and Washington D.C. www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/...
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Record and report interactions with police using the ACLU app -- here's how
Learn if your state supports the ACLU Mobile Justice app.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law"
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
It goes without saying that in the US you’re not supposed to have a masked secret police that snatches people off the streets without knowing if they’ve committed a crime. That’s about as basic a requirement for a democracy as exists.
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Secret policeman who killed Minnesota woman is identified. Via Star Tribune
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Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis
Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Tomorrow is the 5th anniversary of the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. I’m proud of the work we did on the House January 6th Committee. January 6th should’ve been the end of a political movement based on a cult of personality, conspiracism, extremism & lies. Instead, it is now in power.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
If you're having trouble watching other versions, here's an Internet Archive link for the 60 Minutes CECOT segment suppressed by Bari Weiss in the U.S.
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Inside Cecot : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonparis.bsky.social/post/3mam565pyes24
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22/12/2025
The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The Trump admin says it aims to file 100-200 denaturalization cases per month, a huge increase. But these cases are hard to file and win, and require a lot of DOJ resources, and the DOJ is incredibly stretched thin already. So we’ll see; I have serious doubts about their ability to do this.
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Emily Baker-White @ebakerwhite.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Read about Ahmed al Ahmed, local fruit stall owner and savior of who knows how many lives. May we all be this brave and righteous in a crisis. www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics
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NPR @npr.org · 30/11/2025
We couldn’t publish an edition of Books We Love without remembering our friend and colleague, NPR Books Editor Petra Mayer, 1974-2021. Today would have been her birthday, and we hope you’ll find a new read in her honor ❤️
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Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Average folks kettled ICE
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
ICE is staging in a garage on Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan ahead of what neighbors believe is a planned large-scale raid of Canal Street this afternoon. Estimated 20-25 agents inside, with more steadily joining, some taken by surprise and caught with their masks down.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 25/11/2025
If you're giving to a food drive, pick nutritious foods that you would want. (from 2023) to.pbs.org/47DU2f3
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3 things food banks really want
Even as inflation has eased and unemployment remains at historic lows, experts say many households are still struggling to afford food. Here's how to help food banks keep more families afloat.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed.
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The Conversationalist @conversationalist.org · 20/11/2025
Knitting and crochet clubs have found new meaning amongst Gen Z and Millennials, who have turned to the age-old practice as a means of bringing back the “third place” and reconnecting with their peers.
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Weaving a New Third Place
How younger generations are turning knitting and crochet into a community building affair.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 06/11/2025
Long live the jury trial in America.
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Jury finds D.C. ‘sandwich guy’ not guilty of assaulting officer
Sean C. Dunn admitted he flung the hoagie at a federal agent. His attorneys called it a “harmless gesture” of protest as Trump commandeered D.C. police.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The question being asked by the NYT after an election that promoted MANY women to power. It’s not a question. It’s a comment. An attack.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Zohran Mamdani ran on freezing the rent in NYC. Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA. Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ. Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/11/2025
I took some time to think about what I thought about Tuesday night and have now written those thoughts down. www.pbump.net/o/democracy-...
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Democracy is diversity
It seems likely that, once all the votes are in, somewhere around 10 million Californians went to the polls on Tuesday. That's well short of last year's turnout of more than 16 million, but last year ...
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇 When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 05/11/2025
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
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