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Erik Blaser @erikblaser.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver), recommended by Nikole Hannah-Jones

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The money was always there for the good things.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This is an amazing video.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 23/01/2026

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?

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Zsuzsa Kaldy @zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Faculty colleagues, please let your students know about our PhD program in Developmental and Brain Sciences at UMass Boston! Online info session coming up on 10/22 at 4.30 pm. Applications are due 12/1/25 www.umb.edu/academics/pr... #devpsych #devsky #AcademicSky

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Developmental & Brain Sciences PhD

UMass Boston's Developmental and Brain Sciences (DBS) PhD is a research-intensive program focused on understanding cognition, perception, and behavior when underlying neural and hormonal mechanisms ar...

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Zsuzsa Kaldy @zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Have you ever wondered whether going to school IN AND OF ITSELF improves children’s thinking skills? We found that it does! But not by much (about 1/4 standard deviations). Meta-analysis with Jamie Donenfeld and @erikblaser.bsky.social #DevPsySky #PsySciSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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School changes minds: A meta-analysis shows that schooling modestly improves children’s executive functions

Formal schooling places new demands on young children, requiring the inhibition of prepotent responses, sustained attention to instructions, and compl…

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

ICE officers stopped a family at gunpoint and smashed the car window on top of the newborn baby. “I was screaming that there was a baby,” cried the mother. “But they didn’t care,” and covered the baby with their bodies, fearing that the glass would hurt him.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

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tmel1219.bsky.social @tmel1219.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Other countries tax their billionaires to help its citizens. Republicans in our country believe it’s better to take away healthcare & other life-saving services, your hard earned benefits & take away regulations that keep you safe & healthy. All this & more to give to our billionaires #ProudBlue

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

📌The President of the United States posted a FAKE VIDEO TO THE WORLD of a kneeling Barack Obama being placed in handcuffs, and we are supposed go along like it is just another day. Our press has so completely lost the thread it would be laughable if it wasn't so damn dangerous and disgusting.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

NY Times showing how to both sides the secret police abduction squads story

Should ICE Agents Be Allowed to Wear Masks? It Depends Whom You Ask.
Los Angeles’s mayor said Sunday that masked immigration agents helped create a “reign of terror.” ICE’s director said agents could wear masks to “keep them and their families safe.”

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/07/2025

For years, there have been loose ends, unanswered questions, unreleased documents, and an endless amount of fodder for future conspiracy theories bit.ly/4117Cre

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There's a lot we still don’t know about Jeffrey Epstein

Amid the conspiracy theories, the totality of Epstein’s crimes—and how he made his fortune—is still a disturbing mystery.

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Doug Jones @dougjones.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The votes of Senate Republicans on the Judiciary Committee are simply shameful. While a President should be given some measure of deference in their appointments-even life time appointments-advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp. This man has no business being anywhere near the federal bench

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Adam Barnett @adambarnett.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Fun fact: Chris Wright is former CEO of oil company Liberty Energy and ex-director of oil & gas lobby group Western Energy Alliance. Not mentioned by @economist.com Heatwave is a weird time to publish climate denial from a fossil fuel lobbyist www.desmog.com/2025/02/17/u... @desmog.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Trump's big, ugly budget megabill gives ICE more cops than the FBI, more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons, and a larger budget than most countries' militaries. Once the bill is fully implemented, nowhere in America will be safe from Trump's secret police state.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

There we go www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

There were a lot of folks here insisting yesterday that weather service cuts had no impact on Texas flood deaths. There’s zero way you can draw conclusions like hours later. Important follow up here. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

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As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas

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Mr Market Miscalculates 🇪🇺🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ @mrmarketmis.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Step 1: cut the National Weather Service, FEMA and other agencies Step 2: pray when people die

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/07/2025

Grok is no longer woke.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I received this email from the SSA as well. It is a complete lie. Social Security income is still taxed — the Big, Ugly Bill did NOTHING to change that. Welcome to 1984, folks.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

If someone doesn’t ask Karoline Leavitt why she posted on social media that this bill includes no taxes on Social Security when she knows it is a lie and she intentionally lied to the American people, everyone in the room should lose their jobs.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 02/07/2025

As we knew it was going to happen, like clockwork, they're now saying they're going to prioritize denaturalizing citizens. We knew that was what they were working towards and that they are not going to stop there. Being quiet, seeing how far they will go is not an option. thehill.com/policy/natio...

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 30/06/2025

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens. Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important". Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary. substack.com/redirect/169...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/06/2025

NEW: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics…

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Call Blackburn & Hagerty and make them know you know

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/06/2025

I have literally never seen a graph like this once in all my years of being an election sicko 18-24 always lags, always, it’s just a natural law of politics and this is the guy they want to throw out of the party?!

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Tomorrow is ours if we want it. zohranfornyc.com/gotv

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/06/2025

Come on, people. Have you no decency? Whose idea was it to glitter bomb ICE? ☠️ 😂

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

There is actually a very accurate historical document of the post-9/11 vibes. A clipart comic called Get Your War On. Click on through: www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w...

Get your war on 1 #1

A three panel comic showing a white clipart business man having a phone conversation with a Black clipart businessman sitting at a computer.
Panel 1: White man says "Oh yeah! Operation Enduring Freedom is in the house"
Panel 2: Black man says "Oh yeah! Operation Enduring Our Freedom is in the motherfucking house!
Panel 3: White man says "Yes! Operation: Enduring Our Freedom to Bomb the Living Fuck Out of You is in the house!!!

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

But NYT has decided this is just not newsworthy.

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Dapo Adeola @dapsdraws.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I haven’t seen nearly enough people talking about this. The levels of greed and inhumane thinking on display is actually terrifying. America really is dystopian as fuck.

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Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Massive, almost entirely peaceful protests took place yesterday across the country, giving photojournalists unprecedented opportunity to capture images of American democracy. And yet over a third of the images in the AP photo gallery is violence. apnews.com/photo-galler...

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Photos of anti-Trump 'No Kings' demonstrations across the US

Demonstrators gathered in parks and plazas across the U.S. to protest against President Donald Trump.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Worth bearing in mind that illegal entry is a misdemeanor and being unlawfully present in the country is not even a criminal offense, but a civil one. This is the equivalent of saying we need to torch the Constitution & send in the SWAT team to catch jaywalkers & people with overdue library books.

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 A massive crowd is gathering in DC demanding that SEIU CA President David Huerta be freed. #FreeDavidEndRaids Find your event here: bit.ly/FreeDavidEnd... PASS IT ON!

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Via @btnewsroom A protester was shot in the head as Los Angeles riot. Police fired rubber bullets, during an anti-ICE protest. Community members say police refused to call an ambulance despite her bleeding. Her current condition is unknown.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/06/2025

If your response to this video is, “That’s what I voted for”— Fuck you. Fuck you very much. You’re heartless.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 08/06/2025

🧵1/3 Eyes open. Feet grounded. We need to move—together. This is a call to act peacefully as the insurrection act could be invoked at any moment. Let’s be clear: ⚠️ It bypasses governors ⚠️ It militarizes our streets ⚠️ It suspends civil rights ⚠️ It silences the press ⚠️ It crushes protest

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Their hypocrisy knows no bounds...

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/06/2025

I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

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Zsuzsa Kaldy @zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

"It’s reading an article about hunger and genocide, only to scroll down to a quiz about: ‘What Pop-Tart are you?" www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

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Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real

If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

After Musk’s dismantling of USAID, deaths can be counted by the hundreds of thousands. “If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation, at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he’s engendered.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

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