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Jane Thackel

@janethackel.bsky.social
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Lives in Scotland, grew up in Michigan. Alpha Wolf to Ziva David (border terrier, not Mossad), foster Alpha to Ember until she grows up to be a Hearing Dog. Left wing politically. 40 yr career in higher ed. Puts two spaces after a full stop/period.

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Jane Thackel @janethackel.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
And me.
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Jane Thackel @janethackel.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Afghan-wise, this is what we should be talking about: "The super-injunction had been lifted by a judge in May 2024, the day before Rishi Sunak called the general election, but the then-Conservative government successfully appealed that decision." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Democrats Abroad @demsabroad.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
We can't let them silence us. Be loud. Be relentless.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/07/2025
ICE is going to get someone killed. This was outside 100 Montgomery in SF’s Financial District. If you needed proof these rookie hires aren’t trained, here it is. Real feds de-escalate. They call for backup. They don’t drag people down the street w/a car. Hope everyone’s OK. (Multi-angle footage)
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Rockin’ Robin 🎶 🐦🪺 🎼 @rjow.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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a woman in a plaid shirt is sitting on a couch and saying `` but why though ? ''
ALT: a woman in a plaid shirt is sitting on a couch and saying `` but why though ? ''
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.
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Jane Thackel @janethackel.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
US ex-pat, living in the UK. Just got a STEP security alert: "The conflict between Israel and Iran has resulted in disruptions to travel and periodic closure of airspace across the Middle East." Funny, no mention of the US's part in the 'conflict'.
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Jane Thackel @janethackel.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
From FB, can't find him on here.
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BlueAlaskan1 @bluealaskan1.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds New Labour initiative created ‘remarkably long-lasting’ health and education improvements, says report and the Tories destroyed them www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds
New Labour initiative created ‘remarkably long-lasting’ health and education improvements, says report
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itsclembrulee @clemflanagan.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Hey Bluesky I'm a fiction editor at BBUK. Currently looking for more 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 writers and stories from Scotland ❤️ romance (spicy and sweet) 💃 women's fiction 🏰 historical fiction 🕵‍♀️ mysteries and clever thrillers Send me your submissions!
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Hard to fathom that the legacy of 14 years could stretch beyond 10 months.
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Jane Thackel @janethackel.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Lost again eh Felon47?
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Given that most, if not all MAGA merch is made in China, I'll be really curious to see what happens to their pricing and availability 😁
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 17/04/2025
Florida: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez (20) is being held in the Leon County Jail, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien." Lopez-Gomez is a U.S. Citizen, born in the USA. He showed his U.S. birth certificate in court. The judge held him in jail anyway. This is Fascism.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
You saw the video of the ICE agent breaking a car window near the border, right? He wasn’t an ICE agent. He’s the founder of Veterans on Patrol, a FAR-RIGHT MILITIA patrolling the border for migrants. They’re basically deputizing militias to act as federal agents. This is dangerously out of control
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"nobody in Europe is even casually implying they will invade other countries.There is no Brussels quip about turning an unwilling neighbour into “our 28th state” (on the contrary, many of the eu’s neighbours are desperate to join the club)" www.economist.com/europe/2025/... Top Charlemagne column
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The thing about Europe: it’s the actual land of the free now
Europe’s very real problems don’t look so bad by comparison
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Jane Thackel @janethackel.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Don't throw away your shot.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Jane Thackel @janethackel.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I wish @umich.edu had the same integrity.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
By the time major media agree that it's a dictatorship, it will be so far along that they'll be afraid to call it a dictatorship.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Every retailer in America should display the original price of an item along with the new tariffed price. Let it sink in for the slowest in the herd. Tariffs are a tax. You're paying for them.
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Jane Thackel @janethackel.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
#FarageRiots
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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Republicans are acting scared. Why? Because the American people are speaking up and showing out. Don’t stop.
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This is the portrait of Trump that should hang in all state capital buildings. 😅 #ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #TrumpTariffs #TrumpIsARussianAsset #FuckTrump
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Jane Thackel @janethackel.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
@msu-basketball.bsky.social -- hey, assuming we take down Auburn tonight, if we go on to win it all this year, will you start using this account?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
#teslatakedown
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I had gotten tired of the Bernie memes but have to admit, this one really works.
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Jane Thackel @janethackel.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Hey Dems Abroad -- Any info on UK rallies next week (handsoff2025.com/) OUTSIDE of London? @demsabroad.bsky.social
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
CARTOON OF THE DAY #2 🇺🇸 (From @adamzyglis.bsky.social )
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Andy Heppelle🇺🇸🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇬🇱🇺🇳🏳️‍⚧️ @andyheppelle.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
On May 1, 1969, Fred Rogers, host of children's television series, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood testified before the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications to defend $20 million in federal funding for the new non-profit Corporation for Public Broadcasting 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @pbs.org youtu.be/fKy7ljRr0AA
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May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications
YouTube video by Road Less Marveled
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Has everyone in charge at Columbia simply lost their marbles? I really cannot wrap my mind around their dereliction of duty to their students. If my kid went there I would sure feel some kind of way.
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Jane Thackel @janethackel.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Vive la révolution
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Europe needs to understand that the way Trump is treating Ukraine over the new mineral deal (trying to rob them blind but give Ukr no security) is how he will deal with Europe as a whole if he sees them as weak. The only way to deal with Trump is defiance--not bridge building.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Senator, I've been in the South Bronx-representing clients in Social Security cases-for 32 years Your vote to advance the CR will likely let Trump cut their Medicaid benefits-deeply I fear some of them might not survive It's time to let somebody else lead the fight against him Please-step down
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Nina P @ninainthemountains.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Zackly.
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 20/03/2025
america's new normal
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/03/2025
Trump and Republicans have awakened a sleeping giant—and they will regret it. REPUBLICAN TOWN HALL CHANT: “Tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich…”
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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Many people are saying Elon Musk is setting Tesla dealerships on fire to collect the insurance money and then blaming it on woke liberals because nobody wants to buy his swasticars anymore.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
abducted by masked agents of the state in the streets of the capital and slated for deportation for the offense of being linked to views
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
In the Netherlands, multiple unis/colleages including @unileiden.bsky.social have had to issue a statement to staff urging them *not* to respond to a questionnaire sent by US government funders, warning that it "violates...academic freedom and independent scientific research"
"Researchers who have received a questionnaire containing political questions from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) or other American government funders such as NIH or ARPA are advised not to respond.

An email with 36 intrusive questions has been received by researchers from organisations including Wageningen University & Research (WUR). Various media have reported on this recently.

It is not yet known whether researchers from Leiden University have received such an email. ‘We want to warn our researchers about this questionnaire, which violates our academic freedom and independent scientific research – values we firmly believe in’, said Rector Hester Bijl.

Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) has also warned researchers about the questionnaire. The USGS questionnaire asks, for example, whether the researcher’s organisation works with ‘entities associated with communist, socialist, or totalitarian parties’, whether the research project has taken ‘appropriate measures’ to ‘defend against gender ideology’ and whether the project has ‘measurable benefits for US domestic industries, workforce, or economic sectors’."
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Eddie @whalepsychiatrist.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
George Soros has given away almost 80% of his overall wealth and no one ever mentions it. www.cnbc.com/2017/10/17/p...
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George Soros just gave almost 80 percent of his wealth to his charity
George Soros transferred the bulk of his wealth to his charitable organization, the Open Society Foundations.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The White House claims planes bearing migrants to El Salvador were in international waters off the Yucatán, so that’s why they ignored the court order to turn them around. International waters, eh? Isn’t that the Gulf of *America* now?
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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
CAN I GET 70 MILLION REPOSTS ON THIS? Send this message across America! Let's go for it!
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L’Etat C’est Moi @letatcestmoi.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I'm disgusted, @schumer.senate.gov, that ANY Democrat would fold to the fascist Republican Party that wants to starve those dependent on Medicaid, betray veterans, and rob us of Social Security. Especially a "leader." Tell them they can have a deal if they impeach and remove Trump. Make that deal.
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g-urameshi.bsky.social @g-urameshi.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Pay attention @schumer.senate.gov
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/03/2025
My two cents: we don’t abandon the Democratic Party. We remake it. It’s a good party. It just has bad leadership.
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 14/03/2025
Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org
A large herd of Bison crossing a field of spring grass.
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