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writer of willow bird baking, a food+stories blog. progressive educational leader with anti-racist, accessible, equitable, liberatory education as the goal. former educator, current administrator. she/her. all opinions are my own.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Activists Are Pushing Cities and Companies to Cancel Parking Contracts With ICE
Protesters say they are “throwing sand in the gears” of the agency’s deportation and abduction machine.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.
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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Imagine losing a third of a city’s firefighters and then wondering why downtown is burning.” Connecting the dots between cuts and public sector failures is often difficult, but we are seeing the damage in public health. The only category of employee growing at CDC are political appointees.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"we asked a statistical model of the english language whether we should bomb a boat" what the fuck are we even doing here
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...
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Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets
The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.
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Willow Bird Baking 🏳️‍🌈 @julieruble.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I’ve paid $44,000 of my $33,000 student loan and it’s alllllllmost paid off.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
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Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's kind of crazy how large a swathe of the American intelligentsia have just decided to completely ignore climate change at the exact time when climate change is having serious material impacts on America
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Willow Bird Baking 🏳️‍🌈 @julieruble.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Sound mixing in the devil wears Prada 2: 90%: inaudible dialogue 10%: concert volume club music
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Me Dicen
Alt: Face with glasses rapidly shaking
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Epstein raped children
Megyn Kelly "Fauci hurt a lot more people than Epstein did. A lot more, amazingly"
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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coyotebroad (Jayne Cravens) @coyotebroad.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
SpaceX rocket that exploded shortly after takeoff destroyed land & wildlife: Concrete chunks had left craters a foot deep & were strewn across tidal flats, almost four acres of state park burned, 7 bobwhite quail eggs & a collection of blue land crabs incinerated. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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SpaceX Blast Left Officials in Disbelief Over Environmental Damage
Fish and Wildlife Service biologists expressed frustrations in emails obtained by Bloomberg.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 21/07/2026
Flock regularly misleads the public about their business practices, safety record, and commitment to privacy. They've even lied about partnering with the ACLU — which we'd never do. Government officials and the police shouldn't automatically trust what surveillance tech companies tell them.
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Flock Lied About its ALPR technology. What Else Has It Lied About?
ACLU documents how surveillance camera company Flock has lied to local officials about its operations
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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 20/07/2026
ICE has STOLEN an Indigenous Tribal ELDER from NM, who was on her way to CHEMO. She stopped for gas, ICE then approached her, she showed all of her proper, legal documentation. They still stole her away. They're denying her of life saving CHEMO. When will it be enough. #ShedShed #ViVaHerAlliance
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 17/07/2026
Ontario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.
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Black prisoners are assigned harsher living conditions in Ontario jails—thanks to AI ⋆ The Breach
Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities
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Willow Bird Baking 🏳️‍🌈 @julieruble.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
the only thing that’s surprising here is that they lose their jobs
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Police Keep Losing Their Jobs For Using Flock Cameras To Stalk People – Mother Jones www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Police keep losing their jobs for using Flock cameras to stalk people
Advocates say it's too easy to abuse automated license plate reader technology.
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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 16/07/2026
are young people today aware that there was an active effort 20-25 years ago to stop depicting smoking as cool and glamorous because people got tired of watching their loved ones die of cancer and heart disease from something preventable? seems like classic history repeating itself stuff
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
you absolutely do not have to hand it to the bone farmer
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 30/11/2023
posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The Democratic Party's approval rating is in the toilet, and the main reason is voters see Dem leaders and prominent members acting like things are basically okay instead of fighting like there's an emergency. Slot "my friend Lindsey Graham, so funny, how great to work with him" comments into that.
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Willow Bird Baking 🏳️‍🌈 @julieruble.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
LET’S GO
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
wow love the AI summary of rape culture dominating the comments
What readers are saying
The comments on the article express
skepticism and criticism regarding the
allegations against Graham Platner, focusing
on the repeated removal of condoms without
consent. Many commenters question the
credibility of the accuser and the timing of of the
allegations, suggesting... Show more
This summary is Al-generated. Al can make
mistakes and this summary is not a
replacement for reading the comments
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𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖈𝖐-𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖊𝖉 𝕮𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖎𝖊 ☭ @upthetwerx.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026
Platner is a product of white people who are desperate for addressing classism but refuse to acknowledge that misogyny, transphobia, homophobia and racism are components of classism that need to be exorcised for the socialism they want. They want reprieve with no deconstruction of their bigotry.
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Liv Agar @livagar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Heartbreaking hearing that the woman who Platner raped was hesitant to come forward because she agreed with his politics and didn’t want to damage the movement. If you didn’t already realize, this sort of thing happens a lot you just don’t usually hear about it
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Mayor Gumdrop @mayorgumdrop.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Broke my heart to read abt her struggle because it reminded me of Delores Huerta a few months ago opening up her story of Cesar Chavez assaulting her and her choosing to suffer in silence for decades. The world is shockingly sick with mysoginy and male violence, whether you’re 15 or 90 years old.
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Willow Bird Baking 🏳️‍🌈 @julieruble.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
They saw the backlash against policing and created a new and worse police to rebrand with less training, less accountability instead of fixing anything.
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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
(If you post online that police disproportionately target black people for stop and search you *will* get someone replying that that isn't true and you're an idiot for thinking it and they *will* transition to explaining why racial profiling is actually good, often without noticing they've done it)
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 29/06/2026
NEW: Workers say their bosses are becoming obsessed with AI and essentially turning the entire workplace into an exercise in AI psychosis -- making absurd pivots, communicating only in AI slop, and even asking ChatGPT who to fire futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire
AI-obsessed executives and managers are creating a distinct new type of toxic work environment for the slop era, workers told us.
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Willow Bird Baking 🏳️‍🌈 @julieruble.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
random ass natural craft soda that tastes chewing on a birch tree at restaurants
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Willow Bird Baking 🏳️‍🌈 @julieruble.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
This but *Hunts!!! Hunts tastes so superior to me and I really thought they were the same thing until recently.
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Willow Bird Baking 🏳️‍🌈 @julieruble.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Please donate to relief efforts if you can. fundraise.sunrisas.org/campaign/815...
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Donate to Venezuela Earthquake Relief
Venezuela Earthquake Relief https://giving.gofundme.com/campaign/815513/donate
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Vik D Birate @vikdbirate.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
This is part of the reason the oppressors push for AI so hard, to make ppl question hard video evidence. "Reasonable doubt" is about to become one of the most annoying phrases you'll ever hear
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly
‘We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers,’ says automaker
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 28/06/2026
it's okay to explore it! cis people should think about it more but if you're wondering or thinking "i'd be X if it weren't for Y," you should probably explore that!
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 28/06/2026
Once again, if you have never been to a WNBA game, I am pleading with you to go. The best vibes of any sporting event I have ever attended. The nonbinary lawyer who got presented with an award during a timeout for their work with LGBTQ kids seeking asylum got a standing ovation.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
We... don't need to learn to use AI.
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Willow Bird Baking 🏳️‍🌈 @julieruble.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Why are Lyfts so INTENSELY scented? Like even one normal air freshener would probably feel too intense for me but like every Lyft has 18 open full blast in every crevice. Does everyone not hate this?
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/06/2026
Everything is like this now One of the battles of our generation will be to destroy all efforts to dismiss truth as a central ingredient for how we process the world I remember when JD Vance said he doesn’t regret lying about Haitians because ‘it started a conversation’ It’s why I hate GenAI too.
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Willow Bird Baking 🏳️‍🌈 @julieruble.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
wow
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Ben Shapiro is the world champion of unintended direct hits.
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LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
At least 31,700 LA workers live in the Lineage warehouse fire smoke zone. 8 in 10 are Latino A new brief from the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute focuses on the people most impacted by hazardous smoke.
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At least 31,700 LA workers live in the Lineage warehouse fire smoke zone. 8 in 10 are Latino
A new brief from the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute focuses on the people most impacted by hazardous smoke.
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Frances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 26/06/2026
friend at a big tech co just told me that her company's chatbot and their client's chatbot have been caught in a mutual support loop for several days that has generated nearly 20k emails
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...
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In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz
The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...
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