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Naiad

@hipfish.bsky.social
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Not born in Maine, but planning to die here MD, PhD, reader, writer, mom Orthodox Darwinist Nicer in person

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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Same way we aren't condemning Operation Epic Fail
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
If this is the shit ICE is willing to do in public while the world watches, imagine what those fuckers do when there aren’t any cameras.
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This is scathing. Chefs kiss!
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Carol Ott 🏚️ @carolsott.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
ICE is at the Waverly Giant, Baltimore friends. Beware.
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
So the World Series MVP is an… immigrant
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
FBI: Bullet casings were engraved with anti-ICE messages Literally every reputable news source:
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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
PRESS STATEMENT: Simply unacceptable behavior by the UN, stopping this escalator while PM Tuxley II stepped onto it aside his wife, Lady Beakatrice. We will tariff & fire anyone who dares suggest these ramps never move, and we will SUE the lunatics who almost broke Lady B’s angelic features.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Does declaring war on Chicago count? Asking for a friend
Trump blames radical left' for political violence (photo caption)
Speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal strategy, the official said next steps could be directed at people who explicitly say they will commit acts of violence.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The truth of the matter is that if anyone but Charlie Kirk had been killed at today’s shooting, then Charlie Kirk would be out there right now using the shooting as pretext to deliver arguments designed to make sure that the next shooting would happen, and the next one, and the next, and the next.
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/08/2025
Over the weekend, the “sandwich thrower” posters went up all over DC. Instant icon of resistance. A remix of Banksy’s mural: not a Molotov, not a rock, but something just as disruptive, a hoagie hurled with defiance.
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Release the Tyrannodoodle
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 01/07/2025
America, listen up. We have one more chance to stop the bill that will cut $1 trillion from Medicaid. CALL. YOUR. REPUBLICAN. REPRESENTATIVES. It is your voice and your voice only that can fix this. Democrats will hold the line.
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Uh, weirdly prophetic
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
In the 20th century I went to summer research camp at Woods Hole with Ted Kennedy Jr.
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
But descendants of the Tulsa massacre? Don't even think about it.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
“When ICE grabs people, they’re grabbing some of our best. They’re grabbing you. They’re grabbing people with green cards. And US Citizens. They’re grabbing students. And lawyers. They're grabbing scientists. They're grabbing musicians. They’re not rapists. But some, I assume, are bad people.”
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Yeah, it's tyranny, but it's OUR tyranny
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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Wordle 1,421 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Consistency pays off. Like a broken calendar, I was right - once
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Online Karen *presses ctrl alt delete*: I wanna speak to the task manager
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Watching the pope unboxing with bated breath
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Emily Andras @emandras.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
For every doll you deny me I will push another jet off an aircraft carrier
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
If you haven't read Parable of the Sower in the past year, you must read it again. Holy hell, Nostradamus has nothing on Octavia Butler #ParableOfTheSower
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
She saw him in court 😂💪🏻🖕🏻
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The stench of desperation is palpable
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Yeah so it's like NATO for universities. Except they are united in defense against... our own government. So that's where we are.
nytimes.com
This State University Has a Plan to Take on Trump
Two professors from Rutgers University in New Jersey went out on a limb to write a “mutual defense compact” for Big Ten schools. Their effort is gaining steam.
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This could happen to anyone. At any time.
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
In case there's any ambiguity, if I'm wearing earbuds and reading, it's not to look cool. It's because I'm really enjoying my book. The odds that I will enjoy your words more than those of the author I just paid are very slim.
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God @thegodshow.com · 27/04/2025
You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
At this point my bingo card is just all the amendments and I cross them off as they get shredded
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
BREAKING: The constitutional crisis has arrived. We knew it was coming, just not when.
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Alison Fincher @alisonfincher.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week. They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions. Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.
bookshop.org
Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
People say I’m crazy to think JD Vance is the antichrist but the Pope met him for five fucking minutes on Easter, then promptly died.
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
My review of Death Of The Author in one thousand words #deathoftheauthor @nnedi.bsky.social
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This is amazing
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onion person @junlper.beer · 14/04/2025
important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Getting squid game vibes here
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
It was only 60 years ago that married women couldn't have credit cards in their own name. They know better than to come right out and overtly restrict the voting rights of women. But to slip it in as an "unintended consequence"? Yes. That is exactly how it will happen.
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
"Idaho forced to admit adult female's life may occasionally be deemed more valuable than fetus"
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I love finding pockets of resistance in unlikely places
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
"Stocks soar," NYT? Please, bitch. "Stocks recover a fraction of the dramatic losses seen since Trump took office in the least catastrophic day Wall Street has seen in weeks."
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
"We knew what we were doing. We knew about the indescribable suffering we were causing. We knew about the crimes we were committing, in real time. We knew, and declared for all the world to hear that this was what justice looked like, this was the face of morality."
If you're reading this, know that it really happened.
I don't know where and when you're reading this. I'm writing from my home in Jaffa, Israel, the date is 9 April 2025, the time is 13:00.
For years and years, we've said that "we need to flatten Gaza". Well, Gaza is flat now. But not because we needed to, but because we wanted to. We wanted to flatten Gaza, and we did it. We did it to the sound of roaring applause. The land filled with victorious cheers for every home collapsed and every family erased.
  We say we did it because of the 7 October 2023 massacre, to rescue the hostages taken on that day, or to make sure that a similar massacre will never happen again. I don't know which story will prevail as the accepted explanation for the destruction of Gaza in the future, but these are lies. We did it because we wanted to.
We annihilated an entire region. At this point on the timeline, I do not yet know what will be of its more than two million inhabitants. We've already killed fifty thousand at least, probably many more. As for the living, I know their present is as bad as being human gets, and their future is cast is shadow.
There is no future in Gaza. I cannot sustain life in its current condition, and any rehabilitation will take many years and enormous investments. Where things stand, we are blocking any offer to rebuild, any third party willing to take the Gaza Strip under its wing, as we continue the campaign of death and ruin.There is no past in Gaza. It used to have life, it used to have civilzation, but we annihilated any remnant of it. Universities, museums, mosques, graveyards. We didn't need to destroy them, but we wanted to. We wanted to erase any sign that life ever existed there.
The countries of the western world supported the annihilation, or stood by. The United States funded and armed it. In Israel, all state institutions did their part. The academy, the press, the courts, the culture, everyone supported and legitimized.
We all wanted to. Resistance from within was marginal and negligible, and we condemned those who resisted as traitors. The police banned any expression of resistance to the annihilation, and the public supported this silencing. The annihilation of Gaza became the national project, and we carried it out diligently and joyfully. Those who took an active part were lauded as heroes.
We knew what we were doing. We knew about the indescribable suffering we were causing. We knew about the crimes we were committing, in real time. We knew, and declared for all the world to hear that this was what justice looked like, this was the face of morality.
I don't know what I could have done differently. If there was anything I could have done to stop it, I didn't know what it was. I wanted to resist, and didn't know how. Writing this is useless, except for bearing witness to what had happened, and express my helplessness in the face of it all.
This is how it happened.
Tom Zandman, an Israeli citizen
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
These are the kind of memes currently circulating on Chinese social media. Trump bringing manufacturing back to America…
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Naiad @hipfish.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
To be clear, you are a criminal if this administration says so. The administration that accidentally tariffs penguins, merges journalist contact cards with those of senior staffers, confuses transgenic with transgender, and snorts rumors and conspiracy theories like meth.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Confirmed cases of measles in the US. 2020: 13 2021: 49 2022: 121 2023: 59 2024: 285 Total cases: 527 (5-years) 2025: (first 90 days) 628 confirmed cases of measles, and 3 deaths.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE. Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
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Jaime Montana Cook is at
Sackets Harbor Central School.
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Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal
As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly.
Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process.
They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years.
They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe.
We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release.
We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not
"being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims."
Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is.
We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting.
Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center.
The wait had already been too long a week ago.
I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community.
Jaime Cook
Prek-12 Principal
Sackets Harbor, NY
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