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Karen Borchgrevink

@itsmekb.bsky.social
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Founder & Executive Director of Data Reframed - datareframed.org 🇵🇸 Freedom and self-determination for Palestine!

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Karen Borchgrevink @itsmekb.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
@lexroman.com is right. Independent media is not just the future - it’s now! Take some of your monthly media expenditures & give them to folks giving us the real journalism we want & need. The Ellisons/Paramount purchase of Warner is one more sign that corporate media is doing dirty.
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Karen Borchgrevink @itsmekb.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
It’s a day to blast salsa on the radio! The great Willie Colón has left us! “His trombone was the voice of the people” writes his manager
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
“There are no sidelines any more, friends.” - @philtajitsunash.bsky.social 1942. Mochida Family awaiting deportation in Centerville, CA. Photo by Dorothea Lange. 2026. Five year old Liam Ramos taken away by ICE returning home from pre-school, Photo via Columbus Heights Elementary, Minneapolis.
Two children of the Mochida family who, with their parents, are awaiting evacuation bus
Centerville, CA, May 8, 1942 photo by Dorothea Lange5 yo in bunny hat and checked flannel shirt taken by ICE from his school
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
MAIHT3k newsletter: The narrative of the denialism frame is that those opposing "AI" are afraid, under-informed and/or engaging in wishful thinking. None of that is true: The people who oppose the "AI" project are actively fighting and refusing to accept the premise of tech bros and AI boosters.
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Resistance Isn't Denialism
By Emily I've recently noticed a new tactic on the part of AI boosters to attempt to erase the work of people who are resisting the project of "AI" and...
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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Omar Hamad and Ibrahim are gathering donations to create a public library in Gaza after Israel’s genocidal war destroyed nearly all its existing libraries, schools, and universities. lithub.com/you-can-help...
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You can help build the first public library in Gaza since the genocide began.
Two Palestinians are gathering donations to create a public library in Gaza, after Israel’s war and genocide destroyed nearly all existing libraries, schools, and universities. The two men, Omar Ha…
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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Karen Borchgrevink @itsmekb.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
It’s a day to acknowledge sumud صمود
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Not great
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 05/08/2025
📷 Drop Site News speaks with Professor Rashid Khalidi, leading historian of Palestine and the modern Middle East. Topics include: ▪️ U.S.-Israeli famine strategy in Gaza ▪️ Global complicity in genocide ▪️ Why he won’t teach at Columbia this fall www.dropsitenews.com/live-stream/...
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LIVE NOW: Genocide Complicity: From Columbia to the White House
Drop Site News on Substack
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Erin 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.
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This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron.

Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept.

This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The wording of “top-down” ideological bias is apt here…”top-down” bias is put in place to balance “bottom-up” bias. E.g., If something coming up from the bottom leans to the left, you lean it to the right at the top to make it straight.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
DAILY MEMO: ICE is Getting Busy and Bolder Despite Restraining Orders and More @eltragon.bsky.social
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 22/07/2025
🎥 “Europe will never punish its favorite child,” Middle East analyst and co-editor of Jadaliyya, Mouin Rabbani, told Drop Site’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous during this morning’s livestream.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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Karen Borchgrevink @itsmekb.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
🩸on their hands!
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The images of children starved to death in Gaza should be the lead of every news program.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
While L.A. activists accuse the home improvement retailer of being complicit in immigration raids at its stores, a nationwide boycott is being called to “stop funding the systems that don’t serve us,” and focus on small independent vendors instead. lataco.com/home-depot-b...
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
get the app
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ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral overnight after Bondi criticism | TechCrunch
The citizen app for anonymously reporting ICE agents and raids went viral after criticism from the U.S. attorney general.
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I spent most of today seeking to meet with one of the many victims of ICE raids currently jailed in Downtown LA. While @chrclla.bsky.social focuses its efforts on impact litigation, my team boosts efforts on the ground whenever possible. What I saw speaks to the crisis in LA & beyond.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Mahmoud Khalil is free.
a still of mahmoud khalil as he exited ice detention. he’s wearing a long sleeve khaki button up and a white and black keffiyeh wrapped around his neck. he’s got a big smile on his face and his fist raise in the air, defiant and proud.
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Trump's World Cup task force — part of Homeland Security — is also overseeing the Club World Cup tournament at the Rose Bowl starting Sunday fifa.com/en/tournaments/mens/club-world-cup/usa-2025 We need more reporting on what's about to happen in Pasadena. Because here's what's happening in Miami
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Questions raised about ICE and CBP agents at Club World Cup games
The FIFA Club World Cup kicks off Saturday at Hard Rock Stadium, with InterMiami playing a team from Egypt. The Department of Homeland Security announced that ICE and CBP personnel would be at the gam...
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Karen Borchgrevink @itsmekb.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Out & about this morning and it seems important to stand firm on this bottom line: ICE out of LA! No to deportations. No to a land of “Whites Only.” #StopICE
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The Black Flag Group of some 800 academics in Israel is calling upon the heads of Israeli universities and colleges to mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in Gaza
We, members of the academic and administrative staff in institutions of higher 
education in Israel, call on you to act immediately to mobilize the full weight of 
Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in Gaza. 
Israeli higher education institutions play a central role in the struggle against the 
judicial overhaul. It is precisely against this backdrop that their silence in the face of 
the killing, starvation, and destruction in Gaza, and in the face of the complete 
elimination of the educational system there, its people, and its structures, is so striking. 
Since Israel violated the ceasefire on March 18, almost 3,000 people have been killed in 
Gaza. The vast majority of them were civilians. Since the start of the war, at least 
53,000 people have been killed in Gaza, including at least 15,000 children and at least 41 
Israeli hostages. At the same time, many international bodies are warning of acute 
starvation – the result of intentional and openly declared Israeli government policy – as 
well as of the rendering of Gaza into an area unfit for human habitation. Israel 
continues to bomb hospitals, schools, and other institutions. Among the war’s declared 
goals, as defined in the orders for the current military operation “Gideon’s Chariots,” is 
the “concentration and displacement of the population.” This is a horrifying litany of 
war crimes and even crimes against humanity, all of our own doing. 
As academics, we recognize our own role in these crimes. It is human societies, not 
governments, that commit crimes against humanity. Some do so by means of direct 
violence. Others do so by sanctioning the crimes and justifying them, before and after 
the fact, and by keeping quiet  and silencing voices in the halls of learning. It is this 
bond of silence that allows clearly evident crimes to continue unabated without 
penetrating the barriers of recognition. 
We cannot claim that we did not know. We have been silent for too long.
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri was detained by masked ICE agents a month ago for committing no crime. Writing exclusively for The New Arab, his Palestinian wife, Mapheze Ahmad Yousef, calls for his release 🔗 www.newarab.com/opinion/im-b...
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 03/04/2025
Israel has killed at least 62 Palestinians today alone in Gaza. 37 of them were killed in Gaza City, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic. The death toll continues to rise.
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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 03/04/2025
As someone from a lower caste, why India is out of the question for us if we have to leave the U.S. 🫠
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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A farmworker organizer was detained by ICE this morning. The ICE agents broke is car window when he tried to exercise his rights. Find out what you can do to help here: www.instagram.com/p/DHospEeo8e... All workers deserve dignity.
Image of Alfredo Juarez with the text "urgent action needed" above it.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil finally gets the chance to speak for himself: “My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night.”
theguardian.com
‘I am a political prisoner’: Mahmoud Khalil says he’s being targeted for political beliefs
Exclusive: Palestinian activist and green card holder speaks out from Louisiana detention for first time
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Karen Borchgrevink @itsmekb.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A genuine LA welcome for Basel Adra after his Oscar win for No Other Land! I was humbled to attend tonight’s celebration with these beautiful folks (and that’s Adra with the flag). #freePalestine #oscars
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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
What Trump has been signaling loudly and clearly is that he gladly accepts and even encourages the acquisition of territory by force
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As the postwar liberal order unravels, new arrangements will be necessary | Moustafa Bayoumi
What Trump has been signaling loudly and clearly is that he gladly accepts and even encourages the acquisition of territory by force
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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 22/02/2025
fuck you, substack. so glad i stopped my newsletter rather than carry on there. please get off of that site. there are options. do not support fascist cowards like this read.substack.com/p/the-fight-...
from the substack blog:

Elon Musk has been a vocal supporter of free speech. It’s no secret that we haven’t always seen eye to eye, but he deserves a lot of credit for advancing freedom of speech on X, before it was popular and in the face of fierce criticism and opposition. But Musk’s record is not perfect—he has been credibly accused of censoring his political opponents in addition to his commercial ones. Mark Zuckerberg recently announced favorable changes in policy for Meta that should result in freer expression on its platforms. His stated reasons were a change in public sentiment and a new administration, reflecting a real change in the culture. Those who welcome the press freedom changes at Meta owe a debt to those who took a principled stand when the wind was blowing the other way.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Here is the official flyer. #LeonardPeltier is coming home! ❤️🖤💛🤍 🪶🦬 Wednesday, Feb 19 See details of the live-streamed event:
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Al-Mezan الميزان @almezan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Yesterday, our lawyer visited Dr. Abu Safiya in Ofer Prison. He detailed the torture and severe abuses he has endured since his unlawful arrest and arbitrary detention by Israeli forces and authorities. We demand his immediate and unconditional release. #FreeDrAbuSafiya mezan.org/en/post/46651/
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Dr. Abu Safiya Reports Torture and Severe Abuses in Israeli Custody; Al Mezan Calls for His Immediate Release
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Karen Borchgrevink @itsmekb.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Zül-Qarnain Nantambu, a brave and honorable man
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Jeremy Scahill @jeremyscahill.com · 04/02/2025
Watch: “International Fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu Goes to Washington.” Mouin Rabbani, Annelle Sheline and I discuss what we know about Trump’s and Netanyahu’s positions, the “ceasefire”, potential WB annexation & possible deal with Saudi Arabia. 📺🎧🔽 www.dropsitenews.com/p/netanyahu-...
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International Fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu Goes to Washington
Former State Department official Annelle Sheline and analyst Mouin Rabbani break down the Trump-Netanyahu meetings
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 05/02/2025
Palestinians have a right to their land, a right to return, a right to self-determination, and a right to liberation.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/02/2025
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com
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INTRODUCTION
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/02/2025
A physician member of the AMA—who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation—is sounding the alarm. “The current admin prohibited all communications of the CDC and other agencies with the public. Now, the public and physicians are left with no info on food recalls or disease outbreaks.“
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I’m a doctor, and I’m appalled at the silence from the American Medical Association
Many physicians feel that our values do not align with the values of our advocacy organization.
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Shamelessly Shantel @shamelesslyshantel.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Just saying
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Karen Borchgrevink @itsmekb.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." –Antonio Gramsci
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Is there a link between #ClimateChange & increasing risk/severity of #wildfire in California--including the still-unfolding disaster? Yes. Is climate change the only factor at play? No, of course not. So what's really going on? [Thread] #CAfire #CAwx #LAfires iopscience.iop.org/a...
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Karen Borchgrevink @itsmekb.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Susan Abulhawa has given one of the most blistering condemnations of the Zionist regime – and also one of the most strategically optimistic visions of the Palestinian struggle for self-determination! @ Oxford Union ❤️💚🤍🖤 #FreePalestine m.youtube.com/watch?v=nW5U...
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 11/02/2024
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 128: Hamas says an Israeli attack on Rafah would end any exchange talks for captives. The siege of the Al-Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis enters its third week, three Al-Amal patients die due to Israel blocking oxygen tanks from entering.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 128: Israeli snipers kill Palestinians at Nasser Hospital; gear up for Rafah invasion
Hamas says an Israeli attack on Rafah would end any exchange talks for captives. The siege of the Al-Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis enters its third week, three Al-Amal patients die due to I...
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Karen Borchgrevink @itsmekb.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
🇵🇸 Welcome to all the newbies who support a #freepalestine. It was too quiet here for a long time.
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Karen Borchgrevink @itsmekb.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
🇵🇸 If you raise a toast to the New Year at midnight, may it be for Gaza. #ceasefire #ceasefirenow #freepalestine #gaza #happynewyear #happynewyear2023
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Karen Borchgrevink @itsmekb.bsky.social · 23/12/2023
Bluesky butterfly? Why not a cat?
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Karen Borchgrevink @itsmekb.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
📣 Big news!!! 📣 Please share! Registration is now open for @latech4good.bsky.social 's January Data Equity workshop series! Learn how to use data responsibly, counteract harmful data bias, and contribute to social change. Thursdays January 11, 18 & 25, 2024 www.latech4good.org/dataworkshop...
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Public workshops — LA Tech4Good
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Karen Borchgrevink @itsmekb.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
www.democracynow.org/2023/11/6/dc...
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Voices from Largest Pro-Palestinian Protest in U.S. History
Tens of thousands marched from Washington, D.C.'s Freedom Plaza to the White House Saturday in the largest pro-Palestinian demonstration in U.S. history. Democracy Now!'s Messiah Rhodes, María Tarace...
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