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Remora House DC @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 21m
Huge thanks to the journalists at Georgetown Voice for giving us a chance to talk about our work & what unhoused people are facing in DC right now! georgetownvoice.com/2026/10/09/m...
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 1h
What Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd was a public extrajudicial execution. Keep that in mind when you say we haven't had a public execution since 1936. We have, actually. Many times. They're called police murders.
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 5h
If nothing else, just read the opening paragraphs of the new @vevalenz.bsky.social piece. This sort of casual cruelty, and worse, is so common in U.S. jails/prisons that to most it barely registers as scandalous—but it is, and this reporting really matters: boltsmag.org/california-p...
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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tonight. The Washington Monument, in the heart of the nation’s capital. Students converging here after a nationwide walkout from classes against sexual violence, sparked by the Cornell rape case.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
we do not have to live this way.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
what if -- check me here -- the State didn't have the right to take people's lives
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m sure I’m not the only one that saw the video of this man putting himself between French national police and student protestors circulating yesterday.
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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Curtis Flowers, wrongfully imprisoned for more than 22 years, dies www.wlox.com/2026/10/07/c...
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Curtis Flowers, wrongfully imprisoned for more than 22 years, dies
Curtis Flowers, the Mississippi man who spent more than 22 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of four murders, has died. He was 56.
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The 51st @51st.news · 08/10/2026
“There's nothing wrong with you if you planted something and then your plant died. Just try again.” So ... what can you plant now? @samdelgado.bsky.social asked a few experts:
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What foods and flowers to plant for fall in D.C.
Autumn is actually the best time of year to put in perennials (and there's still time for many veggies, too).
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Protest continues in Lochiel, at the Tierra Libre tree sit resisting border wall construction. One person has locked down and border patrol is attempting to remove them. See a live feed here: instagram.com/tierralibre_noborders/
Armed border patrol officers next to person locked down to a construction truck on a dirt road.
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 08/10/2026
TODAY: Three years after the October 7 attacks and the beginning of the genocide in Gaza, a selection of our work on Israel, Palestine, and this ongoing moral and humanitarian catastrophe. www.google.com/url?q=https:...
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A Palestine reader
Three years into a genocide
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A few days ago, Shaimaa and her baby narrowly escaped a fire that destroyed their tent and all their belongings. Now, they are homeless and living on the street; she needs $300 to buy food and a tent. Please do not abandon her—she needs your help after losing everything🙏 chuffed.org/project/1730...
Selfie of Shaimaa wearing a black hijab, looking worn out, leaning her head on her right hand.A fire in the night: silhouettes of people gathering to watch the flames and the smoke.The aftermath of a fire: dust, ashes, mud and water where a tent used to be, surrounded by burnt belongings in cardboard boxes.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
this is an excellent and informative thread
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 06/10/2026
This should be considered a 5-alarm democracy fire.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Americans are getting swept up in Trump’s immigration dragnet. Over 500 U.S. citizens that we know of. Even more that we don’t. ICE’s lawlessness spares no one.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
Please help Walaa, she carried a pregnancy & had childbirth under Gaza’s brutal conditions safely Alhamdullilah, but her poor baby is so critically sick & malnourished. Let’s help her keep her precious child & support her needs to keep him alive. Boost & give.
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M @maybem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My hot take on this meme is that Spanish prepositional phrases are harder than anything on this list. Spanish verb conjugations are beautifully regular and precise. Even the irregular words follow clear paradigms.
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fibonacci in Nature. Fibonacci in Breakfast
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Street Sense Media @streetsensedc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Day one of this year's Homeless Crisis Reporting project is in the books, with stories from Street Sense and The GW Hatchet Every day, we will share articles from our partners on homelessness and related issues. You can find a full round-up of stories at bit.ly/DCHCRP.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 05/10/2026
Since July 27, brave people have been occupying an ancient cottonwood tree to block the construction of Trump's border wall, which is destroying the region's ecology. This morning, Border Patrol raided the camp, arresting a number of people and killing the tree. Background: crimethinc.com/lochiel
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The Border is an Open Wound
A report from the tree occupation in Lochiel, Arizona that is halting the construction of the border wall.
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Arizona Luminaria @azluminaria.org · 05/10/2026
Protesters had protected the tree for more than 70 days. It was cut down Monday to make way for a double border wall
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Final “grandmother” cottonwood toppled, protesters arrested in Lochiel - AZ Luminaria
Border Patrol agents raided a protest camp in Lochiel, in southeast Arizona, making way for contractors to cut down the last standing cottonwood tree Monday morning for a double border wall, after pro...
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026
The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.
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BOO Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"what good did your moderation do you?"
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026
Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 04/10/2026
Since this statement was issued the National Guard presence at DCPS schools has increased.
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 04/10/2026
The costs of the website, labor, production expenses are currently uncovered/volunteer If you'd like to help develop this project, if you think it is a worthy and potentially valuable record and resource of how we are facing and impacted by polycrisis - please consider supporting us by joining
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Membership & Support | Join, Support, Engage Now — Collective Dreaming
Support collective dreaming with membership options, access exclusive content, and contribute to a creative archive exploring dreams, art, and community insights.
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Esusina @sina21.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
This hit me so hard. Right in the fucking chest. I cried. I need to share. He’s not alone in feeling this way. I’m not alone in feeling this way ❤️
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Shame on us 🗽😔
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3 Minnesotans deported to Somalia after a month at Guantánamo
Nine men, part of a group of a dozen held in U.S. facilities in Guantánamo Bay, have been deported to Somalia.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sun-Seeker MKE is a Black Trans-led abolitionist collective in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Their 6-point praxis brings together anarcho-abolition, Black and Trans liberation and defense, youth liberation and advocacy, continuous education, interdependence, and transformative justice.
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Sun-Seeker MKE
Sun-Seeker MKE is a Black Trans-led abolitionist collective in Milwaukee, Minnesota. Their 6-point praxis brings centers anarcho-abolition, Black and Trans liberation and defense, youth liberation and...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 04/10/2026
"I did not get sentenced to malnutrition" Prison food isn't just gross-looking. It's extremely unhealthy and costly for incarcerated people and their families 🧵
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New York Banned Prison Care Packages. Fresh Food Vanished.
New York's prison package ban cut off a key source of fresh produce, which advocates say is putting incarcerated people's health at risk.
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MOHAMED AHMED @thesmallfarm.xyz · 04/10/2026
Hello friends. I send you greetings from Gaza. Believe me, the war is not over, and the bombing has not stopped. It is as if the world has forgotten what is happening to us. Please share this and donate if you can. chuffed.org/project/help...
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
this is the most video game villain coded shot I think I've ever seen irl
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"What is the question?" "Doesn't matter. The answer is 'The Hunt for Red October'"
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ta-Nehisi Coates said, ”I‘ve been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I’m not qualified to talk about.” ”No one person should be the oracle or be the articulator…be skeptical of people who attempt to appoint themselves as that. I don‘t want that job at all.”
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026
"I should get to sit down when I work but you shouldn't" is a great high level summary of labor disputes
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 03/10/2026
The African American Civil War Museum Invites Us To Remember sg.news.yahoo.com/african-amer...
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The African American Civil War Museum Invites Us To Remember
The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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What to know about TSA Gold+, the Trump administration’s new push to privatize airport security
Travelers flying out of three airports across the U.S. may see changes at security lines next year, as the Trump administration pushes a new program to privatize more aspects of screenings.
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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 03/10/2026
"The seeds of this relationship were planted in 1949, when Hughes delivered a lecture featuring his own poetry at Simone’s high school in Asheville, North Carolina. Simone – then known by her birth name, Eunice Waymon – was just 16 years old."
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Nina Simone, Langston Hughes and their forgotten creative collaboration
A new book details the fruitful creative partnership between the singer and poet that helped shape Simone’s sound.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Let's check in on how we are doing in our REBUILD fundraising campaign... Drumroll please - We're at $9859 of my $40,000 goal. Thank you to all who have contributed so far. I can't tell you how much it means to me. I really want this program to survive. www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...
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Support REBUILD 2025: Free Therapy on Mightycause
REBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
History repeats itself
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Housing protests across the Spanish state this weekend as the movement grows!
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.gofundme.com/f/help-singl... "Bri writes, "A mom recently asked for help with diapers and groceries. While we were talking, she mentioned that she’s struggling to pay her bills and rent. She’s been living paycheck to paycheck ever since her brother and sister were deported in March."
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Donate to Help Single Moms in Twin Cities stay Housed #ICEOUTMN, organized by B M
Hello, My name is Bri, and I am reaching out to share the work I am doin… B M needs your support for Help Single Moms in Twin Cities stay Housed #ICEOUTMN
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DC Public Library @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🎤 The mic belongs to the people. That means you. Live music, storytelling, spoken word, improv + an open mic at MLK Library celebrating 250 years of American democracy and the voices shaping its future. 📅 Sun., Oct. 4 | 2–4:30 PM RSVP: bit.ly/4hgpqHD
The image is a colorful promotional poster for "MARCH ON! Festival 2026," organized by DC Public Library. It includes text saying, "The People's Mic: Music, Movement & 250 Years of Democracy." The event is scheduled for Sunday, October 4, from 12 PM to 4:30 PM, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC. The website "marchonfest.org" is featured. The poster has vibrant graphics of two people, one speaking into a microphone and the other wearing a headwrap, against a textured background.
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CTXT.es @ctxt.es · 02/10/2026
El yuyu para entender lo de hoy / ✍️ @guillemmartinez.bsky.social Lo del decreto Mari y lo del decreto Carmen Es mejor ir a elecciones siendo el partido de la vivienda que siendo el partido que niega un suplicatorio al TS para empurar a Sánchez ctxt.es/es/20261001/...
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Lo del decreto Mari y lo del decreto Carmen
Es mejor ir a elecciones siendo el partido de la vivienda que siendo el partido que niega un suplicatorio al TS para empurar a Sánchez
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oct. 2, 1926: Jan Morris, a British journalist, travel writer and social historian praised for her elegant word portraits of the great cities of the world, is born in Clevedon. One of the first well-known trans figures, she chronicled her 1970s gender transition in a pioneering memoir.
Morris in 2010 (died 2020)As James Morris in 1953, she accompanied Edmund Hillary on the expedition that conquered Mount Everest and was first to report on the feat
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