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Mark D

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anthro, surveillance, hr, pol conflict, decol Maghrib | member - Intl Academic Observatory on Western Sahara | cats

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Excellent thread on the political economy of critical minerals and rare earths, past and present
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/02/2026
i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want
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ACLU @aclu.org · 08/12/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech. This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
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Tiffany Cabán @tiffanycaban.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
ICE won’t tell anyone where 6-year-old Yuanxin is. He was separated from his dad at a mandatory check-in. The cruelty is unfathomable & makes us all unsafe. We must fight for freedom from fear & tyranny. We must abolish ICE & reunite all families separated by ICE. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/11/2025
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
13newsnow.com
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
"The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN." www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
cnn.com
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
We're closing in on having a trillionaire and the government remains shut down and food assistance is being withheld largely because it might result in public details about our current president's connection to a sex trafficker. Did I miss any of the high points?
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well
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Western Sahara Resource Watch @wsrw.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
📌 New study shows the #EU’s legal ambiguity over occupied #WesternSahara is a “glaring source” of vulnerability for the #Saharawi people, as their rights continue to be ignored in EU‐Morocco agreements despite mounting legal precedents. news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
news.exeter.ac.uk
EU ambiguity on Western Sahara frozen conflict is a “glaring source” of vulnerability for Sahrawis, study shows
The European Union’s legal ambiguity on the Western Sahara frozen conflict is an increasingly glaring source of vulnerability for Sahrawis, a new study shows. The lack of an EU firm position on the no...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 25/10/2025
Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper? Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.
Indiana University banned its student newspaper from printing just days before homecoming weekend — after firing the paper’s advisor when he refused to censor critical coverage. 

That would be bad enough on its own, but FIRE is taking this one personally, as the Indiana Daily Student reported this hostile campaign was due in part to its coverage of FIRE’s ranking Indiana University as the worst public university for free speech.

You read that right. The school’s response to the news that they are bad at free speech … is to censor the news. It’s ironic — and not just in the Alanis Morissette sense — that these actions will likely push its overall ranking even lower next year. At least we can’t fault them for consistency.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same. They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
My career is listening to people who flee places that get increasingly unsafe. A few months of "wait & see" can make a world of difference for safety & prospects. I've lived under authoritarianism myself. Leticia James getting indicted, Mark Bray trying to flee & being stopped. This is not okay.
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government.... On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames time.com/7323442/sout...
time.com
House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze
Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
christian zionists not only outnumber jewish ones 10 to 1, theyre a hell of a lot more powerful in the US right now
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/10/2025
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consumerreports.org
How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this
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James Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
They just can’t absorb the fact that we’ve already heard their ideas, considered them well in the scope of history, and determined that they’re bad. Bringing in reactionary speakers would be like bringing in a phlogiston theorist to a physics class, or a flat-earther to a geography class.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/09/2025
‘Forgive us, Palestinian brothers, sisters,’ says Algerian ambassador to UN Amar Bendjama after devastating outcome.
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US vetoes UN Security Council Gaza ceasefire demand for sixth time
‘Forgive us, Palestinian brothers, sisters,’ says Algerian ambassador to UN Amar Bendjama after devastating outcome.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Jay Jacob’s is a big part of the reason the Republicans hold the house. His resignation would be a blessing to the nation and the world
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
200,000 Palestinians wounded or killed *so far* in the Gaza by an Israeli military exercising no legal restraint. This is an Israeli general admitting this. How anyone can justify this genocidal rampage is beyond me. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
theguardian.com
‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000
Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/09/2025
god i wish this guy could be president
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parker higgins @xor.blue · 09/09/2025
the results so far on congestion pricing in new york have been so outrageously good that opposition to it works as a convenient identifier of unserious buffoons www.reuters.com/world/us/new...
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said on Tuesday crossing times into Manhattan in the congestion zone have dropped, making the Brooklyn Bridge 13% faster, Holland Tunnel 36% faster and Lincoln Tunnel 5% faster.

Crashes in the Manhattan congestion zone are down 14%, while traffic injuries are down by 15%, while ridership on buses is up 13% and on subways up 9%.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Today marks *1 year* since Israeli forces killed 26-year-old American Ayşenur Eygi. Her family has heard nothing from Biden & Trump admins, and Israel. State Dept. told us it has “no higher priority” than US citizens — but then referred us to Israel for info on Israel’s killing of the US citizen.
zeteo.com
First Biden, Now Trump: US Has Done 'Nothing' to Hold Israel Accountable for Killing of Young American
Ayşenur Eygi’s family is still fighting for justice one year after an Israeli soldier killed the 26-year-old peace activist in the occupied West Bank.
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
manufacturing jobs report looking bad? Trump has a deflection strategy: arrest some foreign workers at a factory, claim they were there ilegally, blames them for stealing manufacturing jobs from real Americans, and MAGA buys it.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 28/08/2025
Our client, Mohsen Mahdawi, just finished his citizenship interview when ICE arrested him in retaliation for his pro-Palestinian activism. Now, the government is asking an appeals court to re-detain him for no other reason than his speech. We won’t back down from protecting our right to dissent.
nbcnews.com
More than two dozen Israeli citizens file court document backing Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi
A group of Israeli citizens filed a legal document this week in support of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia University who was taken into custody during his naturalization interview in April.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
UPDATE: After Netanyahu called the bombing of journalists in Nasser hospital — followed by the bombing of rescue workers live on air — a “tragic accident”, the soldiers who did it are mad at him and want an apology. Yes, seriously. TLDR: It was not an accident.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Similarly, the AI boom has forced teachers who actually care about student learning to radically reconfigure their classes in order to disincentivize students from using the cheating machines they now have easy access to and which systemically undermine student learning. No one asked for this.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/08/2025
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old white man in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
ICE getting routed in my old DC Columbia Heights hood. Public, viral, resistance is the only way to prevent them from selling the idea that we love our red state military occupation are it’s a solution to urban ills Trump/Bondi/drunk Pirro are lying. Here’s how to expose the lie.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I respect Jeff’s work but we should be careful about what we forecast & how inevitable we make it seem. We are not close to a civil war, but I worry we are perilously close to a mass casualty event because of the undisciplined nature of irregular security forces & an extremely armed civil society
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 17/08/2025
“Abolish ICE” is the floor
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
this is so monstrous and brazen, and they do not think there will ever be accountability for what they’re doing, but every single person recording and asking questions is a person throwing sand on their path to a smooth authoritarian consolidation
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 14/08/2025
This is an *actual* purity test, and it’s not by leftists, it’s by the ostensible “moderates” — with purity defined as how Muslim you’re not.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
We’re in the phase where Americans, press included, should be considering all news originating with the government as propaganda first. Its institutional tendency is to evade good-faith dialogue with the public.
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Helli⭕️n Raiser @raisinghellions.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Stay salty DC 🔥
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Last month, Anas al-Sharif sounded the alarm on starvation in Gaza. Israel accused him of terrorism. "We warned this felt like a precursor to justify assassination," said Jodie Ginsberg of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Today he was killed in a targeted strike on a tent housing reporters.
aljazeera.com
Israel murders five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif
Al-Sharif was killed along with Mohammed Qreiqeh two cameramen and an assistant in an Israeli attack on Gaza City.
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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
cpj.org
Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
"Andrew Cuomo devised, implemented, and nationalized policies that have not only proved to fail at keeping people housed but have also actively grown the ranks of the homeless."
thenation.com
How Andrew Cuomo Made Homelessness Worse
Cuomo claims that “housing is a top priority.” A dig into his track record says something very different.
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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
"Today, I'm going to refuse to enlist to the IDF because the IDF is committing genocide in Gaza and I must oppose these horrible crimes." "I don't care what people who support the starving of children have to say about my morality." Shout out to Yuval, Ayana, and all who refuse.
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Daniel Brim @dbrim.com · 06/08/2025
Counterculture and punk rock is when all of the richest companies in the world try to force you to use something
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
This is the most necessary kind of journalism there is. Thank you @josephcox.bsky.social and @jasonkoebler.bsky.social. Everyone, reward/incentivize/fund this reporting by buying a subscription to @404media.co.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
"flight manifests for 3 legally contested deportation flights from Texas to El Salvador contain dozens of additional, unaccounted for passengers than a previously published Department of Homeland Security (DHS) list of people deported from the United States on those flights, 404 Media has learned."
404media.co
Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador
Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even they don’t know," one lawyer said.
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