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Deborah Wolfson

@howlinwolfson.bsky.social
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Water towers. Dog pictures. Withering remarks. I talk about New York history here: leavesofglass.substack.com (she/her)

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10h
Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.
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A disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore Brew
BREW EXCLUSIVE: A $12.08 dispute over a McDonald’s meal leads to the arrest of a 25-year-old by ICE agents in the Carroll County District courthouse.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 12h
Hence the panic and the mania about stuffing it into schools from K on up.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Yesterday afternoon in my town, ICE kidnapped a man walking home from Dunkin Donuts with coffee for his family right off the street. New Jersey is under siege. This is the least violent kidnapping we’ve had, but it’s still a kidnapping.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh Wow.
Tweet one:
James Talarico posts a picture with Kacey Musgraves.

Tweet two:
Kristi Noem responds "I’ll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day.

And if I’m choosin’ Texas, I’ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico."

Tweet three:
Kacey Musgraves responds "I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it."
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
girls only want one thing and it is a single aspect of human life that has not been intentionally made worse in the interest of chasing limitless profit
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The New York Groove @nygroove.nyc · 12/10/2026
From the archives for today:
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Chanting ‘Danny DeVito,’ Italians for Zohran tell protesters to get over Columbus already
Mamdani fans propose some other Italians to venerate instead of Columbus
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A new statement from @maketheroadny.bsky.social says that Oscar Belgal, the man immigration agents shot in NYC last week, hasn't eaten since Thursday and still has the bullet in his neck. He urgently needs surgery, but instead, the government has him locked up in solitary.
New York, NY –– The Legal Aid Society and Make the Road New York, counsel for Oscar Belgal, issued the following joint statement in response to the deplorable conditions Mr. Belgal has endured while detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, including solitary confinement, lack of access to food, and inadequate medical care despite a bullet remaining lodged in his neck and his urgent need for surgery: 

“Since Mr. Belgal was shot in the neck by ICE agents on Thursday, with his five-year-old child in the car, he has endured horrific conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, a facility federal judges have described as ‘barbaric’ and ‘inhumane,’ where officers have been characterized as ‘contemptuous of human life and dignity. All the while, a bullet remains lodged in his neck.

“Mr. Belgal is living through an unimaginable nightmare. While he is currently in solitary confinement, a bullet remains lodged in his neck, the left side of his face is numb, and he can barely hear out of his left ear. Doctors have told him he urgently needs surgery, but that the procedure was too dangerous to perform Thursday evening without a specialized surgeon present. Although he was instructed to return to the hospital this week, he has been left in the dark about whether that surgery will even happen. He is also suffering from a shoulder wound caused by shattered glass during the incident.“Rather than receiving the urgent medical attention, care, and compassion he desperately needs, Mr. Belgal reports being confined to a solitary cell, where he is forced to relive the terrifying moments of being shot. He says he has not eaten a single meal since Thursday and has been told that the only water available to him comes from a bathroom sink.

“The deliberate indifference Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed toward Mr. Belgal when he was shot on Thursday, and the treatment he has endured in detention since, are further examples of the cruelty and disregard for basic human dignity that have long defined this agency. We will continue to fight for Mr. Belgal’s immediate release from detention and to ensure that he receives the medical care, due process, and basic human dignity to which he is entitled under the law.”
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Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If Democrats retake the Senate, Warren will surely become chair of the Senate Banking Committee and, as such, in a position to investigate, humiliate and ultimately destroy Scott Bessent.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Proposing analog to,”racism can explain every weird thing in America” is, “women are busy working for money is the secret reason everything we miss about a society is now dying.”
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is the real Russia Report, suppressed five years ago by Boris Johnson “I asked the question coming to Downing Street: was there interference in the 2016 referendum from Russia? And I’ve had the clear answer that yes, there was.” @andyburnham.bsky.social
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 10/10/2026
Non-spooky bonus episode for @erinbiba.bsky.social because this was the first thing I saw when I opened TikTok just now and I would like to buy this person a beverage of their choice immediately.
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Over at the bad place I made a post about the administration and their “Domestic Errorism”,,, the crowd coming after me for spelling or typos without understanding a good play on words 🤣🫠🤔
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City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 09/10/2026
Today, and every day, we stand with the Somali community.
The marquee at Cedar Culture Center with the message "We love our Somali neighbors" written out.
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Deborah Wolfson @howlinwolfson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
(Isn’t this basically just Beyonslay’s “Slay Ride" without the roller skates?)
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
An ICE officer shot and wounded a man today around 4:00 in Manhattan. Exact details are still coming in. I'm not seeing any further information other than that the man is at a hospital now.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WHAT THE FUCK
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CNN @cnn.com · 08/10/2026
Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership told agents nationwide to increase immigration arrests by 1,000 more people daily, returning to a previous goal of 3,000 daily arrests, according to two sources familiar with the verbal directive. cnn.it/4zgcsQc
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
white evangelical Republicans whose experience of Catholicism is limited to people like JD Vance assumed that their allies on abortion would be their allies on everything and miscalculated so badly here. even the most conservative US bishops cannot function without their immigrant parishioners!
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𝔫𝔬𝔯𝔞 𝔫𝔢𝔠𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔯 🏳️‍⚧️ @neurosismancer.gay · 07/10/2026
YOOOO LETS FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOO
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NYC moves to spend nearly $9M of gender-affirming care fund for minors
The funding is part of a $15 million investment announced in June as major hospitals retreated from providing such care.
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Deborah Wolfson @howlinwolfson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I got to write about New York’s history of losing revolutionary fights for freedom and how those battles are memorialized the Urban History Association’s blog! Come for the Knicks, stay for the slave uprisings. (Or vice versa.)
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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“La Révolution Est Morte. Vive La Révolution!”: The Battles Lost in New York City This is the fifth entry in our 10th Annual Graduate Student Blogging Contest, “Revolution.”  By Deborah Wolfson New York City likes to tilt itself towards the future—ever upwards, always remaking itself and its…
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“La Révolution Est Morte. Vive La Révolution!”: The Battles Lost in New York City
This is the fifth entry in our 10th Annual Graduate Student Blogging Contest, “Revolution.”  By Deborah Wolfson New York City likes to tilt itself towards the future—ever upwards, always remaking itself and its history. New Yorkers, too, in popular imagination, are self-styled strivers who are never satisfied without new victories.1 I would not as a general rule recommend walking up to New Yorkers and calling them losers,
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Voice4Justice @voices4justice.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
📌 @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social @repdean.bsky.social @beyer.house.gov @repcasar.bsky.social @sarajacobs.house.gov @repescobar.bsky.social To Introduce Sanctions on Drivers of Settlement Expansion 🧵 castro.house.gov/media-center...
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 06/10/2026
I swear, if the Democrats won't campaign on "The president says major American cities getting nuked is a small price to pay"
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Got political mail? Go to paidforby.info For federal races, you'll immediately get detailed information about who is behind the mail and their donors. And all uploaded mail will be reviewed by an independent journalist. (It also works for ads on TV and YouTube.)
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Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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Deborah Wolfson @howlinwolfson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A “Cake Or Death?” for a new era!
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Brett Shaw @brettshaw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 16/09/2026
ANGIE NIXON DID NOT COME TO PLAY. LETS GOOOOO! Click below and donate to her campaign for us senate❤️✊🏽 secure.actblue.com/donate/frien...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Less than 1% of major party nominees for Congress are working class. It is one of the most fundamental ways that Congress is not representative. And their views, e.g. on unregulated gambling websites, are apt to be different. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Why Working-Class Candidates Are Almost Never on the Ballot
Less than 1% of major-party candidates competing for a seat in the US Congress have a background in manual trades or service industries.
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Deborah Wolfson @howlinwolfson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
(But he was elected, right?)
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Associate Marshallian Spillover Coordinator @stevenlandgraf.com · 02/10/2026
Cathedral architects:
I Want You To Get The Word Out There That We Back Up
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
Truly, I already knew intellectually that medical emergency exceptions to abortion bans are useless, but Tierra Walker's case was ... painfully demonstrative ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It Predictable
Republican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care.
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Deborah Wolfson @howlinwolfson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve unfollowed the same person a dozen times tonight — every time my feed updates, they’re back. Has anyone else had this same glitch?
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One thing that i don’t see people noting about the Cornell Sun’s reporting on the rape case is that everyone who decided to take the risk and made the core decisions about what would be published is a woman
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Deborah Wolfson @howlinwolfson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“This is your brain on drugs” got a sequel PSA with Rachael Leigh Cook with feels like it tilts the balance.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.
Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions
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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 28/09/2026
Turns out MTA officials were right when they described Amtrak’s heretofore unreleased Penn Station contract as a bad deal for the agency. buff.ly/f7svczr
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Revealed! Trump's Penn Station Contract Would Have Handcuffed MTA On Lease — And Let Duffy Say Whatever He Wants - Streetsblog New York City
The deal really was as bad as Janno Lieber said it was.
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ashley (birthday) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Andy Beshear forever, man
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 27/09/2026
The CDC awarded a no-bid contract for exploring whether immunizing pregnant women would lead to autism in their children; to pay for this contract, the CDC took $362,000 from a program that provides free vaccines to about half American children. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
All of the older, now establishment Hollywood figures who are embracing this technology are basically pulling up the ladder behind them as they head into their sunset years
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 24/09/2026
*NY ACCUSES POLYMARKET OF RUNNING ILLEGAL GAMBLING OPERATION *NY GOV. HOCHUL, AG JAMES ANNOUNCE POLYMARKET SUIT IN STATEMENT
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