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environmental scientist, writer, mom. Full of rage but I'm a lover not a fighter.

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dutchmansbreeches.bsky.social @dutchmansbreeches.bsky.social · 8h
willful ignorance of advances in ob/gyn healthcare doesn't make you an intellectual
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this reveals SO MUCH about legacy media
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12h
Children living safely with families are being picked up by ICE and referred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which places them in shelters or foster care. These shelters were designed for new arrivals, not settled kids—and the children are struggling badly.
motherjones.com
“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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cherfan75.bsky.social @cherfan75.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
All of the men commenting need to be given this important public service announcement…
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The fraternity brothers in the group chat who cheer violence? That behavior is being modeled by the president of this country. I cannot stress this enough — Trump is teaching young men how to be abusive every time he opens his mouth.
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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
DHS is simply buying local cops’ support with our tax dollars. Like I’ve been saying, they own a lot of these cops. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...
Even if Boring's deputies don't take any others into custody, his department is eligible for a payment equal to more than a quarter of its annual budget. Those are the terms of a Department of Homeland Security task force program that enlists local police as paid partners in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
Jurisdictions similar to Doddridge County-sparsely populated with few immigrants-make up the majority of new recruits to the
DHS task force program, which has become a cash cow for state and local law enforcement agencies nationwide. After turning over a single deportable immigrant, departments qualify to receive $60,000 a year for each deputized officer, regardless of additional arrests.The Venice Police Department in Venice, Fla., tallied one federal immigration detention in September 2025 and has since requested a total of $895,000. The department can continue collecting funds every quarter as long as it remains on the task force.
The program is most profitable for large departments. The Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office in Florida signed up more than 970 deputies, making it eligible for roughly $14.5 million in DHS funds from April to June, state records show. That pencils out to more than $2 million for each of its seven immigration arrests in that quarter.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Trump-backing Ellisons are the #1 🇺🇸 supporters of the IDF Now they control all of this Are Y’all paying attention?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026
Checking in on how things are going over at the Chronicle Against Higher Education:
Screenshot of Chronicle of Higher Education website showing featured articles: "Anthropology Has a Truth Problem"; "The Social Sciences Have a Politics Problem"; "Could AI Be Better at Peer Review Than Humans?"; "Colleges Should Take Linda McMahon's Call to Action Seriously."
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Superintendent: SO YOU'RE TELLING ME THERE'S
A MEMO THAT MAKES CLEAR IT IS LAWFUL FOR YOU TO JUST KILL PEOPLE IF YOU THINK THERE ARE DRUGS ON THE SAME BOAT?

Principal Skinner: yes

superintendent: May I see it?

Principal: no
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Maybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions).
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Pascal Sabino @pascalsabino.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s illegal in IL for cops to share ALPR surveillance data for immigration purposes. But it looks like police found a loophole— instead sharing the surveillance data with the Feds who tried (& failed) to prosecute people for protesting ICE. Excellent reporting by @mulchy.bsky.social
chicagoreader.com
Feds tapped local surveillance networks in botched Chicago prosecutions - Chicago Reader
During their failed efforts to prosecute Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ruiz, federal authorities accessed a network of Chicagoland license plate readers and surveillance cameras.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I spoke to @usatoday.com about data on sexual violence at Cornell. Victimization rates are increasing and reporting rates are falling. “Together… those two trendlines tell me that all students, including victims and perpetrators, believe that there is impunity for sexual assault at Cornell.”
usatoday.com
Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Speaking of "throwing up in one's mouth", Sen. Kennedy is a disgrace and Trump apologist. www.c-span.org/event/senate... (cartoon detail from the archives)
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dutchmansbreeches.bsky.social @dutchmansbreeches.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Which is worse: that he actually believes there is anything legal about this statement or that he believes there are Americans dumb enough to think it's acceptable?
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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 28/09/2026
I've already logged over $115 million in state grants and reimbursement requests to ICE from participating agencies on my program report. datastudio.google.com/s/plDjbKvp8YI
datastudio.google.com
Active 287(g) Agreements
Data Studio turns your data into informative dashboards and reports that are easy to read, easy to share, and fully customizable.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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dutchmansbreeches.bsky.social @dutchmansbreeches.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Amen to this editorial and bravo to the writers. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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dutchmansbreeches.bsky.social @dutchmansbreeches.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why are legitimate persons and organizations still posting on X? Every click on that site is tacit support for technofascism
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dutchmansbreeches.bsky.social @dutchmansbreeches.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Amen to this editorial and bravo to the writers. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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dutchmansbreeches.bsky.social @dutchmansbreeches.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Louisiana apparently is not ready to shed its dark past as a global hot spot for human trafficking
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh shit. THAT is worse than I realized
We are spending almost five billion more on AI related construction and ten billion dollars less on other private construction since 2024
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dutchmansbreeches.bsky.social @dutchmansbreeches.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the risks really seem high with these tools - why do we abide by this shit? for the sake of someone else's money??!?
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 25/09/2026
This is mind blowing
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 24/09/2026
*extremely tired voice*AI agents don't "go rogue". They are not sentient; they don't have agency. They work within guardrails set by humans. If the humans are so shit at building secure sandboxes for the agents to work within, that's on the humans. Stop using this framing.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026
SCOOP: ICE is trying to ignore the appeals court decision striking down its third-country removal policy, using the thinnest of legal technicalities as a justification. It wants to expel a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic tomorrow. prospect.org/2026/09/23/i...
prospect.org
ICE Is Trying to Ignore Court’s Decision Striking Down Third-Country Removals - The American Prospect
Immigration officials want to send a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic within hours, court filings show.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Aaaaaaanyway this whole thing is a perfect example of how disabled and chronically ill and marginalized people are forced out of society and then if they make a tiny enclave together where they try and make space for each other the society that forced them out tells them they can’t have that either.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
10. Turns out we do not have to experience the constant drumbeat of this man's lies. Turns out members of the press can do their jobs professionally and dispassionately, reporting on the president while also essentially putting him on mute.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
Idea: no corporate welfare, subsidies, or government contracts for corporations whose employees need to rely on government assistance because of low wages.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
nytimes.com
F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ICE is set to open a new facility for unaccompanied migrant kids in Louisiana. Our taxpayer dollars are paying for child torture and endangerment.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
15/ ProPublica is revealing the existence of the case for the first time. We reviewed a trove of evidence gathered by the FBI and thousands of pages of legal records, and have independently corroborated much of Kao’s account. This is the first piece of an ongoing series:
propublica.org
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
12/ Here’s a crazy part: Kao told the FBI that the company’s government work was of no real value. Its research under his stewardship resulted in products Navatek knew the military would never buy, former employees said. One example: This 3D-printed boat Collins is posing with 👇
Sen. Susan Collins, wearing a blue suit and red shirt, stands in front of a 3D-printed boat while holding a broken champagne bottle during a publicity event. The boat has the University of Maine logo and is emblazoned with the text "3Dirigo." Behind Collins are a group of applauding people, including a woman holding a Guinness World Records plaque.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/09/2026
HHS wants to relax regulations on human subject research (The Common Rule). For example, they want to redefine “undue influence” on vulnerable human research subjects (children, prisoners, disabled, culturally disadvantaged). 1/
From the federal register: The foundational framework for human subjects protection in the United States was established by the National Research Act of 1974 in response to widespread public concern over unethical biomedical and behavioral research practices. Following its passage, the then-Department of Health, Education, and Welfare issued the first version of 45 CFR part 46. These regulations established institutional review boards (IRBs) as the key mechanism for oversight and ethical review of human subjects research. While these protections remain vital, the current regulatory framework no longer reflects the realities of modern research.
In 1991 the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, known as the Common Rule, was formally adopted by HHS and 15 other federal departments and agencies. Although the last major revision in 2017 introduced several changes to modernize human subject protections while reducing unnecessary regulatory burden, investigators and institutions have continued to report that the Common Rule imposes unnecessary burdens and unclear requirements, particularly for minimal-risk studies. For example, the Department has received feedback that applying the Common Rule remains cumbersome for research within Learning Healthcare Systems and for other research methods that are integrated into clinical care settings and are intended to improve the quality and safety of medical care.
Without additional changes intended to clarify ambiguities, expand flexibilities, and redirect protective measures toward high-risk activities, the rights and safety of research participants as well as scientific breakthroughs can be impeded. Examples of how this rulemaking will address these issues include expanding exemptions for certain additional types of low-risk research, incorporating flexibilities for de minimis protocol changes, and clarifying key terms such as the definition of undue influence. These reforms will reduce ambiguity and undue administr…
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dutchmansbreeches.bsky.social @dutchmansbreeches.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nothing says "we're desperate to cling to any power" like the multiple Weekend-at-Bernies style charades going on in the GOP and nothing reeks quite as badly as the reporters complying with them
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I've attempted to take the "AI extinction" people at face value all weekend, like an idiot, and here's the only thing that makes sense: AI guys realized their tech is deployed to kill and surveil civilians by out-of-control (but human!) American defense contractors and stopping them is now hard.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Schumer's daughter works for OpenAI. Gillibrand's son founded a new crypto exchange backed by billionaires. In case you were wondering why things are the way they are.
@polltracker2024 on X:
Politico: OpenAI hires Senator Chuck Schumer's daughter to work for the artificial intelligence corporation.
6 Sep 26Politico: Crypto billionaire among dozens to back startup from Gillibrand’s son
Chris Larsen, John Griffin and Mark Ein are angel investors in a new financial exchange led by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s 22-year-old son.

7/2/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The current NIH Director’s animus against NIAID to sign away much needed research funds so we can continue bombing another country is… a staggering betrayal of Congressional intentions and authority. Not surprising but still staggering.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Our government kills people with no legal review, no evidence presented, no nothing. Trump and Hegseth are judge, jury and executioner. It's cold-blooded murder.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
we have immigrant concentration camps, diarrhea lettuce, zillion dollar gas, suicidal soldiers, measles resurgence, national park land sold to the highest bidder and teachers crowdfunding school supplies, but the real problems facing our country are a muslim senate candidate and an influencer
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dutchmansbreeches.bsky.social @dutchmansbreeches.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Fuck DHS
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'd only be worried about a Trump coup if... a) They fired all the professional generals and replaced them with loyal hacks b) They brought Nat'l Guard troops from pro-Trump states into DC until 1/20/29 c) Trump was building a massive bunker with drones next to the White House wait a minute...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In a functioning democracy, the public would be alarmed if the president boasted that he was “able to break the court system a little bit."
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#VeryAsian Eric @ektaka.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Or just build data centers that produce a surplus of renewable energy, don't drain the public water supply and don't pollute the environment. They have more than enough capital to build these responsibly and set a new standard for the industry. They just are choosing not to.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/08/2026
The smoking gun evidence in the hush money trial that convicted Trump on 34 felony counts included a $50K payout to Red Finch Technologies. Red Finch artificially boosted Trump's polls. Just making sure no one forgets Trump has been fixing the polls for a decade.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The renaming of this lake is so dumb and petty and should not be the focus of the news right now but … I cannot overstate enough just how sad and pathetic this update is for Google
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The MAGA movement is Christian in word but deeply un-Christian in deed.
Deportees Recount Harrowing Journeys to Africa: Shackles, a ‘Freezer’ and Blows
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail.
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