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Debra Marshall

@drdebra.bsky.social
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Immigrant, Sociologist, Disco Lover, Traveler, True Blue. Soon to retire (yay!). Living in Florida (boo!). It’s all gone horribly wrong.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Bonita"' is weeding and thinning lettuce fields in Tehachapi CA. "This is hard work especially right now as it is very hot with highs in the 90s. There isn't shade in the field so the heat can feel overwhelming and we get tired easily. We earn CA minimum wage." #WeFeedYou
Workers thinning and weeding a lettuce field
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
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Snagz @snagzsong.com · 21/09/2026
For my Veteran Sisters ✊🏽♥️🔥✌🏽🇮🇪🇺🇸 actionnetwork.org/events/women...
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Women Veterans Caucus Meeting
Over the past few months, a dedicated group of FANTASTIC members have been working behind the scenes to build out the Women Veterans Caucus within Common Defense—and we’re excited to share that we’re ...
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.
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Brown University - Professor and Director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice | H-Net
1. Academic Accomplishment. We seek a scholar with a strong scholarly record, including excellence in both research and teaching, appropriate for appointment at the level of full professor in a social science, humanities, or arts department at Brown.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
To succeed in higher education leadership in Florida that you have to be a part of the dominant political regime, which hands out well-paid positions to unqualified officials. Rodeo cowboy who impersonated a police office becomes college President! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/which-stor...
Fred Hawkins, the South Florida State College president who fired the English instructor for her short story, had no higher education background. And yet he was chosen two days after he submitted his application. The board of trustees changed the selection rules to allow someone without an advanced degree to serve as President. Hawkins has no advanced degree, but was a close ally of Governor DeSantis. A former rodeo cowboy, Mr. Hawkins was arrested for impersonating a police officer just three years before becoming university president. One of the trustees explained why he would not support more qualified candidates who had actual experience: “You have to understand that we are political appointees, and they were all Democrats, The governor doesn’t appoint all Republican trustees and expect us to select a Democrat.”
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Jessica Kutz @jkutzie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I spoke to three moms who lost all of the food in their fridge and freezer during the blackout in Gary Indiana. They all had their replacement SNAP benefits denied. Experts told me they are concerned about how the state is operating the program after the disaster. 19thnews.org/2026/09/gary...
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Families lost weeks of food they couldn't afford to replace. Then their SNAP claims were denied.
As the city of Gary recovers from a devastating power outage, advocates say Indiana has a simple fix at its fingertips that could get parents the help they need.
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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Our @spspnews.bsky.social Preconference on Economic Inequality&Social Class is back,co-organized with Efraín García Sánchez, Kristin Laurin,& @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social! Datablitz submissions now open, keynotes @keithpayne.bsky.social & Jean-Claude Croizet Find us here: spsp.org/events/annua...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026
Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/
Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Bezos%27_iconic_laugh_crop.jpg

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚨 CORRUPTION #9 — THE BALLROOM ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Remember: “Taxpayers aren't paying for Trump's ballroom.” Except now we're talking about a gigantic White House redevelopment with underground security infrastructure, military facilities and hundreds of millions of dollars
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Marx will end up being right (AI and Class Struggle)
On the dialectic of the expendable bourgeois bloc.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Media has not aired this - it's up to us to do so.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A state grand jury found the DeSantis admin "misappropriated" taxpayer money when it diverted $10 million from a Medicaid settlement into the Hope Florida Foundation, arguing the transfer was "part of a sophisticated scheme to fund political activities," according to the sealed grand jury report.
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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
You have to be a better reader than a lot of people are lately to glean from this article the extent to which Finland's housing-first policy was wildly successful until a racist right-wing government derailed it by gutting funding and services. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Finland tried to end homelessness. What can we learn from its runaway success – and recent failures?
The Housing First policy led to the number of homeless people in Finland dropping by half. Those with firsthand experience explain why it worked
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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 18/08/2026
Justice for Johan. #AbolishICE (🎥: @nytimes.com)
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES DAY 09 AUGUST 2026 AMERICA, WE CAN HELP HOMELESS PEOPLE PLEASE LISTEN & WATCH THIS CLIP ⬇️⬇️ In Toronto, Canada meet Ryan Donais...He has started TinyTiny Homes Toronto He has built shelters for homeless people RYAN IS A HERO ! THIS SHOULD BE DONE ALL OVER OUR COUNTRY
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Data centers
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
WATCH — @kelseyhuse.com: “Before xAI came to Memphis, there was the Byhalia Pipeline — @Justinjpearson organized the community to fight back, and won… they underestimated people power… make sure to vote (TODAY).” #TN9
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026
Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
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Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Here's what I think about how Marco Rubio is doing:
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Means-tested programs like SNAP are shaped not just by benefit levels, but by hassle. And hassle is regressive: it hits hardest when you lack a car, flexibility, cash, or time.⁣ ⁣ newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Iran's latest.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 31/07/2026
Florida officials say it’s not climate change but their own citizens’ massive fraud that’s driving the home insurance crisis. Nice, huh? Here’s how many Floridians get zero dollars after an insurance claim:
Weiss Ratings Chart titled, "Homeowners Receiving No Payment From Claims Increases." Chart shows at least 11 insurers in Florida seeing denied claims rise from 2023-2025.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Wowza they REALLY don’t want to talk about #MissingMitchMcconnell 🤔😬
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/07/2026
Fauci accuses Rand Paul of having an "unhinged obsession with calling for my prosecution" and of making "repeated slanderous comments," then says "although it pains me to do so... under advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the 5th Amendment to refrain from answering your questions."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/07/2026
Missed payments. Slashed staffing. Broken security. A patient who froze to death on the roof of a hospital. Inside American Healthcare System, the for-profit healthcare company driving hospitals around the country to financial chaos.
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Orlando Sentinel @orlandosentinel.com · 19/07/2026
Much of Fort Lauderdale’s street art—including its rainbow pride flag—had disappeared by Saturday morning as state workers began covering it over following a settlement agreement with the city.
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Fort Lauderdale pride flag disappears as state begins removing street art
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Excellent toad news
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Endangered Houston toad spotted for first time in more than 50 years, signaling recovery milestone
An endangered Houston toad has been spotted in restored habitat for the first time in more than 50 years, marking a promising milestone in ongoing efforts to save one of the nation’s most endangered a...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
In case it wasn't yet clear, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth have no qualms about sacrificing your children in a stupid war in Iran. They don't care. They view your children as cannon fodder in service to Trump's narcissism and never-ending incompetence.
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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
“We should be collectively concerned about a reduction in the pipeline of #humanities graduates and the cold spots in knowledge it creates. In an age of AI, we’ll value the understanding of how humans think and act more, not less, in the future.” bit.ly/4fiVLeK
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Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities
Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I'm going to KEEP talking about how Florida Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚
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karenthecomet.bsky.social @karenthecomet.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Election fraud is a GOP thang
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AAUP @aaup.org · 09/07/2026
Ohio’s #SB461 forces state universities to fund partisan "civic centers" at record levels—even if students aren't taking the classes. Instead of fixing soaring tuition, lawmakers are wasting tax dollars to force an agenda. Ohio families deserve affordable education, not mandated indoctrination. 🎓❌
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The son of the man shot and killed by ICE: I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
U.S. military spending could soon hit a record $1.5 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that have routinely price-gouged the government, according to investigations. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed eight straight audits. Hello???
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
“The formula for democracy is a thing of multiple parts. At its core is nothing solid, just a framework, on which pieces brought across oceans can be conjoined. From many, one.” Fascinating interactive exploration of the powerful metaphor of the creation of the Statue of Liberty (I learned a lot):
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The Most Iconic American Artwork Is the Hardest to See (Gift Article)
The Statue of Liberty is caught between the sublime and the souvenir, our critic Jason Farago explains. Look again: She’s much stranger than you think.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”
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‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR
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Devin Burghart @dburghart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense (part of the MAHA core) rushed to blame vaccines for the death of Idaho twins last year. This is from their Good Morning CHD broadcast last year.
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Achronal Art @achronalart.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Ah yes, about that. The video is now complete. (It's not actually centered on hairstyles, it's about how Northwestern European and North American-European fashions responded to the Little Ice Age of circa. 1400-1900 CE There are some graphs involved....) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDJt...
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Dressing for the Little Ice Age: Five Centuries of Frigid Fashions
YouTube video by Achronal Art
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/06/2026
LMAO -- GOP Rep. French Hill is literally right now during a news conference touting the bipartisan housing bill and the president's support for it, unaware that Trump moments ago angrily announced he won't sign it
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/06/2026
"Current policies incentivize all of us to push care downstream. This cascade is fundamentally unsustainable, as it concentrates care in the hands of those already overburdened." My latest for @rooseveltinstitute.org on neoliberalism's trickle-down of care: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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The Care Cascade: Interviews from Our Broken Care System
Why is childcare so hard to find, and who is paying the price? Jessica Calarco examines how America's care economy systematically shifts the burden of the broken care system onto women, immigrants, an...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/06/2026
Social Security is earned, not given. We paid into it our entire working lives. Speaker Johnson knows how unpopular cuts would be. That’s why these conversations happen behind closed doors instead of out in the open. We earned these benefits. We’ll fight to keep them. #HandsOffSocialSecurity
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Debby33 ❌ 👑 @debby33.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
What in the world does this strange story have to do with AI, you ask? Turns out you shouldn't rely on AI "research" for, well, anything 🤨 The geniuses at Starbucks didn't bother to do their own research and so weren't aware they were designing an ad campaign For "Tank Mugs" in South Korea🧵
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Starbucks Korea to temporarily shut all stores for history lesson after bungled coffee promotion
The closures, so employees can watch a recorded lecture, will cost the company an estimated 2.1bn won ($1.4m) in sales
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Meet Crumb, Button, and Clover. A friend in the Bay Area found them behind a gas station. Unfortunately, she isn't able to keep them, so if she can't find someone to adopt them, they will be going to a shelter. Can you help me find them a home? They are in good health and very tame.
Three kittens in a small cage. Two are orange; one is black. The black cat wearing a blue scarf.The two orange cats in a blanket and wearing blue scarves.The two orange cats laying next to each other while wearing blue scarves.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It's never been about what this country can afford. It's about priorities.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 11/06/2026
Babies are dying because parents, confused by an HHS that deliberately sows distrust, won't give their newborns a vitamin K shot that used to be standard www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
It was 96° and sunny as this irrigator was getting ready to set up a irrigation system in a Bakersfield CA vegetable field. #WeFeedYou Estaba a 96° y soleado cuando este irrigador se preparaba para instalar un sistema de riego en un campo de vegetales en Bakersfield CA. #SoyEsencial
irrigator was getting ready to set up a irrigation system in a Bakersfield CA vegetable field.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Been a busy morning for me. This is going to be a shitshow. Schrödinger’s ceasefire is ceasing
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It was 85° at 10:30 am in Arvin, CA where this team of workers was carefully weeding the cabbage fields. They try to get as much done early before after 12 the heat intensifies. #WeFeedYou
 team of workers was carefully weeding the cabbage fields.
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