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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ICE arrested the mom of a 9-year-old at a school bus stop in Austin, leaving him alone and crying. The video has profanity and is heartbreaking to watch, but it shows the fear/pain of what happened. This is evil. This is wrong. And it has to stop.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/09/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com JD Vance’s view of what it means to be an American “does not apply, for example, to the Haitians of Springfield,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes. “They can be smeared and libeled and hounded and hunted. They can be treated as less than human.”
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Opinion | Pierre Damas Bel Should Still Be Alive
The price of unprotected status can be very high.
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It’s so weird! I co-authored a handbook for hiring grad students and am getting these emails.
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Clue is my 13-year-old’s favorite movie right now, so we’re watching it tonight to mourn Tim Curry. My goodness he was incredible.
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Doctors and others are sounding an alarm: More U.S. children have been drowning in recent years. Child drowning deaths rose from about 750 in 2019 to more than 860 in 2024, the most recent year for which complete data is available. apnews.com/article/drow...
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A child can drown in seconds. Doctors want more families to be prepared
Doctors and others are sounding an alarm: More U.S. children have been drowning in recent years. Child drowning deaths rose from about 750 in 2019 to more than 860 in 2024, the most recent year for wh...
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I didn’t realize how bad my minivan’s blind spots were until I nearly hit someone. I walk a lot so I was rattled to realize that I literally didn’t see the person at all.
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The highlight of my inbox every Tuesday! This one is heartbreakingly beautiful.
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I was in an airport while a dignified transfer was happening and everyone in the terminal stood and took our hats off out of respect for the soldiers walking out to the plane. This is sickening.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
imagine being kidnapped, trafficked, raped, impregnated, then taken to a state where you’ll be forced to give birth and every step of this is life threatening and also you are 13
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
TERRIBLE TIMING: When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran.
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Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran
The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
This is disgusting. Rationalizing the bombing of a school that reportedly killed 108 girls. But since she asked, "Currently, 161 public schools operate on military installations across the United States." www.militaryonesource.mil/education-em...
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
What the FUCK is going on and why is everyone with a soul not calling for a war crimes tribunal. Fuck impeachment, this is solidly Hague territory
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.
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US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says
At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
-Zero Congressional consultation or approval. -Zero preparation of public for need/consequences of war. -Zero evidence of thought about "OK, what might the other side do?" Next month. Next year. -Zero mention of anti-nuke agreement Trump voided, or Trump claim last year that nukes "obliterated."
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Jesus Christ they're running the war from Mar-a-Lago www.reuters.com/world/us/top...
WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine are monitoring the U.S. operation in Iran from President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where Trump is currently located, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It’s worth emphasizing that the Supreme Court has propped up this presidential lawlessness. When Congress enacted limits on presidential power in 1973, it included an enforcement provision. If the president said there’s an “emergency from attack” and Congress disagreed, it could order troops home.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/02/2026
In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Saw this and thought “I bet that’s about Clavicular, the guy that got frame-mogged by an ASU frat leader” and have never felt more like the mother of a teenage boy. At least he talks to me and thinks this is all silly?
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Breaking MS NOW: Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available. Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.
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Kash Patel’s use of jet delayed FBI team’s mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator
Sen. Richard Durbin says FBI director’s “misplaced priorities” led to the delayed response to the Brown University shooting in December.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/01/2026
"I am my own original sin. One someone is always willing to forgive. Until enough of you demand that I be better."
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I’m Still Your America
Hey, patriot. It’s been a week. As ICE spreads terror through the streets, and Teacup Eichmann presided over the murder of yet another innocent civ...
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
My family and I got to see this exhibit a few summers ago and it is deeply moving. It’s shameful that they’re taking it down.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This is Liam Ramos. The five year old that ICE took from a Minneapolis school and sent BY HIMSELF WITHOUT HIS FAMILY to a detention facility in Texas. There are monsters among us and they are wearing masks, carrying guns, and work for the US government.
Liam Ramos bring taken by iceLiam Ramos sxhool picture
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I call and email my amazing rep to say thank you for doing specific good things! It’s nice for them to hear that.
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
So proud of my rep!!
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Whenever I go on a work trip I give a hotel room tour to my kids on a video call after I check in. Tonight my 13-year-old is away on a field trip and she video called me to give me a tour of her room!! I love this so much!
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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Multiple sources have confirmed that ICE/Border Patrol is headed back to the Raleigh and Durham areas for undefined deportation actions. We've heard 50 ICE agents, charter flights and hotels booked for all of them in the Raleigh area. Let us know what you hear.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. "The order was to kill everybody," one of them said.
A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed.
As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck.
The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack - the opening salvo in the Trump administration's war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere — ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth's instructions, two people familiar with the matter said. The two men were blown apart in the water.
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
They also make me feel ancient. They’re watching Princess Bride and said Cary Elwes is the kind of old guy their social studies teacher thinks is hot.
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
My 13 year old and eight of her friends are having a slumber party and they are such a chaotic in-between age— but they are also super sweet and supportive and kind. They give me hope for the future!
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I find this with teaching coding, too. Making a mistake and figuring out what went wrong makes you a far better programmer than reading over code that works.
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I read this and just cried. She deserved so much better.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
It’s so good!! Enjoy!
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I re-upped my subscription before the reminders went out! The Flytrap is the highlight of my inbox every week— I’ve learned so much!!
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 28/08/2025
"If you don’t like my tone, it’s called 'tough love,' America. You need to change yourself or this will keep happening, and it will get worse."
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God Has Heard Your Thoughts and Prayers and He Thinks They Are Fucking Bullshit
Hi. God here. I am contacting you in response to your prayers regarding the most recent and totally horrific mass shooting in a college/ high schoo...
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This breaks my heart because my absolute favorite part of parenting is witnessing my kids growing up and developing their own interests and ideas! I hope I’m never so wedded to the idea of authority that I refuse to see what amazing adults they become.
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I went to delete a text from an unknown number but it was a statistics question so I wrote back and answered it… my Achilles heel!
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
So thankful for these scripts! I’ve left messages for Tillis and Budd and really appreciate the helpful language here.
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Jim @jimoberst.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#NorthCarolina VOTERS It is INSANE but the GOP is still fighting the 2024 election in North Carolina and their judges just said 60,000 voters don't exist 4 months later) You have 15 days to prove you exist - #NorthCarolina Post this every day 4 next 15 days www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
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NC Court of Appeals gives over 60,000 challenged voters 15 days to prove eligibility
The majority wrote that, even though they have the authority to completely throw out the contested ballots, they decided to instead mandate a cure period for most of the challenged voters.
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I helped judge our graduate student research symposium today and it just broke my heart to contrast these brilliant students presenting AMAZING and important work with how science and research are being treated by our government right now.
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I made a glaze tonight in the pot we boil eggs in every morning and as I was washing up, I told the pot (out loud) that it must’ve been a nice change of pace! 😂
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EmilyG @emilyhgriffith.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Wore my dumpster fire earrings today… feeling like they’ll be in the regular rotation for the foreseeable future.
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