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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
What happened in Minnesota today was not a mistake. It's a deliberate and inevitable outcome of ICE operations - part of the authoritarian script for state violence against citizens. Regime thugs target minorities Regime thugs kill protesters Regime exploits larger protests to escalate repression
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: 'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..." chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
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Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S.
“Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/10/2025
The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.
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Steve Bowen @stevebowen.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible. Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/09/2025
It's custardy. It's crustless. It has five ingredients. It's Basque Cheesecake. It’s the ideal low-effort, high-reward dessert. nyti.ms/45UEt41
A round Basque Cheesecake
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10/09/2025
The neurologist Oliver Sacks found that the social-media era resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale.
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The Machine Stops
The neurologist Oliver Sacks on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future.
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NPR @npr.org · 03/09/2025
Historians say it's good to highlight America's founders, but the project takes too narrow a view of history. n.pr/4m0dsAN
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'Founders Museum' from White House and PragerU blurs history, AI-generated fiction
Historians say it's good to highlight America's founders, but the project takes too narrow a view of history.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all. It comes at a time of near-record inequalities of income and wealth. This budget bill is a nightmare.
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The Worst Bill in History
Trump’s giant budget-busting, Medicaid-shattering, shafting-the-poor-and-working-class, making-the-rich-even richer bill
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.
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Parker Butler @parkerbutler.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Just incredible
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2025
it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/04/2025
Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
How do you transform lies into truth? By erasing the VERY REAL past.
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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research. Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts. It will directly impact YOU. #ScienceNOTSilence
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Read this right now www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Real people are being hurt by this illegal government purge by Elon Musk & Donald Trump. Read this from "Ranger Brian" Gibbs who was fired from his National Park Service job in Iowa. Just devastating. 1/
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Brian Gibbs
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I am absolutely heartbroken and completely devastated to have lost my dream job of an Education Park Ranger with the National Park Service this Valentine’s Day.
Access to my government email was denied mid-afternoon and my position was ripped out from out under my feet after my shift was over at 3:45pm on a cold snowy Friday. Additionally, before I could fully print off my government records , I was also locked out of my electronic personal file that contained my secure professional records.
Please know and share this truth widely:
I am a father, a loving husband, and dedicated civil servant.
I am an oath of office to defend and protect the constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic.
I am a work evaluation that reads “exceeds expectations."
I am the "fat on the bone."
I am being trimmed as a consequence of the popular vote
I am a United States flag raiser and folder
I am my son's "Junior Ranger" idol
I am of the place where I first told my spouse I loved her
I am a college kid’s dream jobranger brian photos
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WIRED @wired.com · 15/02/2025
SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.
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Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This is a $45,408,138 grant, set to run from 2019 to 2030, to study methods for helping students with disabilities achieve their post-high school goals. It was just arbitrarily cancelled. This is too expensive but SpaceX funtime isn't and god forbid we tax billionaires. ies.ed.gov/use-work/eva...
Students with disabilities continue to lag their peers in high school graduation, enrollment in postsecondary education, and employment more than a decade after the 2004 reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Although IDEA requires states and districts to support student efforts toward their post-high school goals, there is limited evidence about which strategies are effective. This study assesses variants of an approach that the Department has promoted — strengthening students' goal setting, planning, and self-advocacy skills and helping them apply these self-determination skills to their transition objectives. The first strategy is a more systematic and coordinated version of how schools commonly teach students these skills. The second increases the intensity, and cost, by not only teaching the skills but also providing individual mentoring to help students complete key steps toward their goals.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/02/2025
Trump has fired people who process prescriptions by mail. So if you’re a veteran, order your meds earlier than you normally would. They could take a while.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/02/2025
ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: I’ll say this again: download all your SF-50s, performance evals, and your eOPF. Now. Print hard copies. And make sure you file an informal grievance with your supervisor within 15 days of any adverse action. Here is a template: www.muellershewrote.com/p/informal-g...
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Informal Grievance Template for Adverse Personnel Actions
There is a limited amount of time to oppose personnel actions. Time is short.
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
If you’re wondering if you’re in a constitutional crisis and that the republic could collapse at any moment, you are.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Project 2025 is here Just like we said it would be
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The constitution quite clearly gives Congress the power of the purse, a power the Executive branch is pretending it now has. Or did you not pay attention at all in school?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/01/2025
This photo hits hard.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Community is the antidote to despair. Happy to host! 🌹
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Hazel Henry @childsplease.blacksky.app · 21/01/2025
Again, the World Health Organization is the single most important global entity in preventing, tracking and controlling outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics and is especially important as climate change and deforestation allow pathogens to mutate, become more infectious and spread to new regions
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
So it's dangerous for China to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps. But it's okay for America's billionaires to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps. Do I have this right?
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Julie Patchouly @juliepatchouly.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Remember the hobbit!
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Well would you look at that.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” 🇺🇸
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Heard a Fox News reporter describe the proposed tariffs on Canadian imports as being paid 100% by companies there. Kids: Study economics.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A Day That Will Live In Infamy
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Remember when, the Trump Administration caved to Big Pharma and broke their promise to enable Medicare drug negotiations? Do not forget it was President Biden and Democrats in Congress who actually got this done!
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I’m trying to strike a healthy balance between being informed and being oblivious.
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jlavigne.bsky.social @jlavigne.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Happy Sunday! Beautiful blue skies over southern Utah during our late October vacation. Reminders of the need to protect the treasure that are our National Parks system.
Zion National Park, UtahNavajo Loop Trail at Bryce Canyon National ParkBalanced Rock at Arches National Park, Utah
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