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Anne Macpherson

@drmac67.bsky.social
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Newfoundland. Great Lakes. Belize. Puerto Rico. Historian of the Caribbean. Books at uncpress.com and www.nebraskapress.unl.edu Tree-planting search engine with non AI option: www.ecosia.org

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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 1h
@morelle.house.gov we want meaningful Court reform not Third Way skim milk
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 19h
234 Caribbean people
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
iCe violated federal judge's order in removing Mexican citizen and restaurant chain owner from Puerto Rico into detention in the metropole. She's a 3-decade job creator.
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I laughed at the sportsball own goal too but this is the real headline
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NYT Games' Letterboxed doesn't have "bitch" in its word bank but Wordle has the 100% racist/misogynist "squaw" in its wordbank. NYT-G has repeatedly justified keeping it in response to my complaints. Gross. #Letterboxed is a far more mentally interesting game anyway.
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Intriguing. Wishing Senators King and Sanders good health. Mmm, but Fetterman factor. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How Senate Democrats can stop Trump from stealing the midterms | David Walbert
Republicans could lean on congressional procedure to defy the will of voters. But if they try that, the Senate has a clear way to fight back
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe.
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
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Trinidadian calypso king The Mighty Sparrow dead at 91 | CBC News
The Mighty Sparrow, the Grenada-born, Trinidadian-raised musician who helped export calypso to the masses beginning in the 1950s, has died. He was 91.
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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This man is a walking PSA for the importance of Humanities education
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 27/09/2026
Instead of spending nearly $270 BILLION on mass deportations ($2,358 PER taxpayer), we could fund: Medicaid for 12 million people. Healthcare for 5 million veterans. Free early education for 6.7 million children. Money for cruelty vs. money for community.
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... WTF
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Oxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian Library
University staff voice concerns over reputational risk of partnering with company behind ChatGPT
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy almost #caturday
White and black cat stretched on driveway with her shadow
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hot multilateralist autumn
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's possible to write KBJ (or Sotomayor) a supportive note and USPS it to the Supreme Court. 1 First Street NE, DC, 20543.
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thank you "Victor" and coworkers. Thank you to Dolores Huerta's @ufw.bsky.social for teaching us to honor their labor.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Over a year ago, farm workers across Southern CA endured weeks of illegal, racist raids. The UFW & our partners fought back. Last week we won a preliminary injunction against the Trump Admin’s DHS aiming to prevent them from making warrentless arrests. Watch to learn more.
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oo, Schumer got Duckworthed
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Sask. premier unsurprised that Trump now says U.S. will continue with Canadian potash | CBC News
Saskatchewan's premier has described Belarusian potash as "blood potash," because its proceeds would be used to support "Russian aggression."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/09/2026
UPDATE: They steal billions from us to build robots that kick the crumbs out of our mouths.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Has Mike Rogers disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ken Paxton disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Mike Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Jon Husted disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Susan Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Moody disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Hinson disavowed Elon Musk yet?
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A feature film about an 1890s Puerto Rican nationalist uprising is coming! Residente is making it happen. Bad Bunny is involved. deadline.com/2026/09/rich...
deadline.com
Richard Gadd Among 11 Cast In Bad Bunny-led Film 'Porto Rico'
Bad Bunny-led feature 'Porto Rico' adds Richard Gadd, Daniel Brühl, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Rhenzy Feliz, Albert Guerra and Ruben Blades.
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 20/09/2026
New boat strike tonight. 4 more killed in the Caribbean. The utter degradation of the United States of America continues. www.southcom.mil/News/PressRe...
234 reported people killed (including 23 unrecovered survivors).
67 reported attack events.
71 reported boats struck.
3 reported survivors recovered.
45 reported events in the Eastern Pacific. 20 reported events in the Caribbean. 2 reported events in unspecified locations.
32 events ordered by Southern Command Commander Gen. Francis Donovan (101 reported killed). 19 events ordered by President Donald Trump (76 reported killed). 14 events ordered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (50 reported killed). 2 events listed as “under the direction of U.S. Southern Command” (7 reported killed).
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“Both Russian and pro-Trump U.S. actors are amplifying and spreading misinformation about Alberta separatism in the hope of fraying Canadian unity and sowing distrust.” An overt attack on Canadian sovereignty, meant specifically to manipulate Canadians. That’s what’s fuelling Alberta separation.
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Russia and U.S. amplifying Alberta separatist narratives to stoke division, distrust: report | CBC News
Moscow has long tried to meddle in foreign elections. What's newer is Canada's neighbour overtly trying to influence and fan flames of referendum bid, warns a new report on foreign interference.
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Just Lisa @anyalogan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.” Good lord.
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Barenaked Ladies sing O Canada at Buffalo Bills home opener | CBC News
The NFL's Buffalo Bills celebrated their Canadian fans with a game of cross-border catch, from boat to boat, floating along the Niagara River, the same day U.S. President ‌Donald Trump ​signed a presi...
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In the US or more broadly? Either way, worthwhile!
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
First small group discussion today now that drop/add period over and roster has stabilized. They seemed super enthusiastic about getting know each other and to discuss the genetic and cultural legacies of the indigenous Taino in contemporary Puerto Rico.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
‼️ this is the question ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...
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The Trump Justice Department Is Way Too Comfortable Violating Court Orders
Judges have tools for responding to noncompliance. They just have to use them.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wrote about who is actually making America “poorer and dirtier.” It’s not immigrants. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Who is responsible for this terrible state of affairs? The opposition party and immigrants, apparently. Vance went on to say, “The Democrat legacy of the last few years was that they bankrupted our country and left us poor. They left our country weaker. They left our border wide open and our communities less safe.”

But this account represents a preposterous inversion. Almost every problem Vance lists, the Trump administration has made worse.

The administration’s environmental policies have made American water and air dirtier. Its health-care, tariff, and tax policies have worsened inflation and increased the financial burden on most American households, even as incomes have grown. And its public-health policies have led to outbreaks of contagious disease.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Expanding the Supreme Court is a popular idea, pass it on
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Apparently it is of no concern to any Republicans that Trump and Bessent are taking in billions of dollars from plundered Venezuelan oil and nobody knows where the money is, where is has been going, if anyone is getting proceeds, with no accounting of any of it made available.
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I wish this was being framed less as capitalist collaboration and "Europeanness" and more as a liberal democracy and human rights alliance. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
European Union invites Canada to become first ever ‘associate member’
Commission president says EU must ‘urgently reimagine our partnerships’ as she makes unprecedented offer
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The people of Guadeloupe were free 1794 until Napoleon sent army to roll back abolition. Haiti thus fought for and won independence but in Guadeloupe the freed were re-enslaved for two more generations.
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
👍🏼 Incredibly, slavery was abolished first in 1794 because of the Haitian revolutionaries' pressure on French revolutionaries but then Napoleon sent an army to RE-IMPOSE slavery. Haiti thus fought for independence but in Guadeloupe freed people were re-enslaved for two more generations.
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Forgot I had this tea of emerald green. I hope they paid Dolly a royalty.
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Nathaniel Dorsey @natedorsey60l.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Also, on this day in 1898, the National Afro-American Council is founded in Rochester, New York. Big ups to the brothers and sisters in upstate New York!
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The Gray Matters Report @graymattersrep.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
reading this should be mandatory
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the list below to reform the Roberts MAGA #SCOTUS is incomplete without expansion. Pass it on.
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Dean of Harvard College has been on a PR tour defending the institution's approach to AI and writing, but student testimony from inside the institution suggests that the school is retreating from human exchange as central to the learning experience. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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I’m a Writing Tutor at Harvard. The College is Failing Us. | The Harvard Crimson
The Writing Center’s dismantling evokes a broader pattern of institutions treating human learning and connection as costs to cut, not values to protect.
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Happy Mexican Independence Day on Sept 16!! 216 years since El Grito by Father Miguel Hidalgo. One patriot who immediately leapt into action was Gertrudis Bocanegra: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrud...
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Gertrudis Bocanegra - Wikipedia
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Gato bodega Boricua
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Historians fighting damnation daily. Today it's actually genocidal military conquest of Boriken (Puerto Rico) and political/social revolution dynamics of Spanish American wars for independence including female patriots.
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Horrifying. The teacher didn't even proofread, or is possibly not allowed to push back.
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Just FYI: This is a reprint of @annabjournalist.bsky.social’s original, deeply-reported story on @alabamareflector.com, which you can read here: alabamareflector.com/2026/09/11/a...
alabamareflector.com
Auburn University faculty protest Board of Trustees' dissolution of university senate | Alabama Reflector
On Friday, more than 100 faculty and community members gathered outside the trustees’ meeting to protest the decision and warn that it could have broader consequences.
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Anne Macpherson @drmac67.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@brenttoderian.bsky.social 🙂
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ThisIsROC — Rochester, NY @thisisroc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Frederick Douglass at the @roc.airport ✈️🏙️ #thisisroc 📍 #rochesterny #frederickdouglass
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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So many important stories to tell about SUNY alone! www.suny.edu/suny-news/
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SUNY News - SUNY
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