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Kara

@karadidomizio.bsky.social
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Interested in current affairs, history, podcasts, museums, reading, music, and travel..

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/01/2026
Reporter to Kushner & Witkoff during Ukraine summit: "I know there's a reluctance to talk about Greenland today, but what value do these commitments have on the very day that at the highest levels of govt in Washington they are talking about seizing the sovereign territory of a fellow NATO member?"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Reformed January 6th participant (who refused a pardon): “You can't gaslight me. I was there. I saw the officers being pepper sprayed. I watched one of them fall down and hit his head and his back. So don't be telling me it wasn't violent.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Paul Singer, whose firm owns the US subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, spent millions in 2024 to re-elect Trump. Now, after Trump's invasion of Venezuela on behalf of Big Oil, he's set to cash in on his investment. A government of, by, and for the billionaires.
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Venezuela raid enriches MAGA billionaire
The ouster of Maduro is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.
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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
“…Even if they are able to clean up his mess … elect a supremely sane president next, America will NEVER again be a trusted partner. Because there are enough Americans who would vote for him … (again). I couldn't even say anything. She was right. The damage this has done is endless…”
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 02/08/2025
I just think people who rely on ChatGPT to do a bunch of extremely basic tasks are sad losers
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Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A Roman amulet, created from a small trilobite fossil, was unearthed at the Roman-era site of A Cibdá de Armea in Spain. Analysis shows it had been purposefully modified for likely use as a pendant (or bracelet) or was placed on a domestic altar as an offering.
Photo credit: A. Fernández-Fernández et al.
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The Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
190 mss, over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes, 42000 new images, 7700+ texts, new cataloguing, imaging and conservation treatments - oh my! We're so pleased to have been part of Curious Cures Congrats to @theul.bsky.social and everyone who worked on it 🎉👏👏 www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
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Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible
Over the course of the last three years, and thanks to the generous support of the Wellcome Trust, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval m...
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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Look familiar? These are the most censored books named by English teachers in a study funded by @ncte.org. The study found that although most teachers value teaching diverse texts, they are often stopped from doing so. Read more at: ncte.org/wp-content/u...
Graphic shows the 'Top 10 Censored Books Listed By Teachers" from The State of Teacher Use in US Secondary English Classrooms' reported by NCTE, featuring book covers including 'The Bluest Eye', 'The Hate U Give', works by Sherman Alexie, and 'Gender Queer' among others, with National Council of Teachers of English and PEN America logos at the bottom.
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Thony Christie @rmathematicus.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
German, Jesuit, astronomer and physicist, Christoph Scheiner, who researched sunspots and optics, was born 25 July in either 1573 or 1575 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/a...
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Apelles hiding behind the painting
Todays post combines two oft-repeated themes here at the Renaissance Mathematicus. We have another highly significant researcher who, however, does not belong to the pantheon of seventeenth century…
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Epstein matters, but there's a much greater story of American moral depravity that ought to be leading the news America is building an archipelago of squalid concentration camps. No one knows where this will end. The time to scream 'Never again'? Now! My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/us-c...
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This column on U.S. concentration camps is the one I hoped I’d never write | Will Bunch
Andrea Pitzer literally wrote the book on concentration camps. I talked to her about how they came to America.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Endless grift. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 25/07/2025
🔴 A new investigation names Russian officers behind the shootdown of an Azerbaijan Airlines jet. The commander who gave the order was later promoted.
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New Investigation Names Russian Soldiers Behind Azerbaijan Airlines Shootdown
Azerbaijani reporters reveal Russian military officers linked to the shootdown of an airliner, providing insights into the tragic December 2024 incident.
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Devin @devincole.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
ICE is torturing people right here in Burlington, Massachusetts. www.wbur.org/news/2025/07...
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Inside the Burlington office ICE has used to detain immigrants
As immigration arrests surged this summer, ICE held detainees for extended periods of time in its field office in Burlington, Mass. Two women who spent more than a week inside discuss the "horrible" c...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Page One in Scotland.
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NPR @npr.org · 19/07/2025
Last week, President Trump ramped up pressure on wavering GOP lawmakers, posting, "Any Republican that votes to allow this monstrosity to continue broadcasting will not have my support or Endorsement."
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How bipartisan support for public media unraveled in the Trump era
"It will test every single shred of creativity we have to continue to try to serve our mission," says one public media executive, as Congress ends federal funding for public broadcasting.
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Brett Holman @airminded.org · 06/07/2025
Free idea: airports should give every passenger a complimentary coffee or other caffeinated beverage on entering the terminal, purely for everyone's sanity
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Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖 @hmalagisi.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
This defeats the point of reading
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The people who lost children and other loved ones in the Texas floods are owed honest answers from officials. They should be told why flash flood warnings issued hours earlier were not conveyed to people in the path of the water. They don’t need more prayers from politicians. They need answers.
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Kara @karadidomizio.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
again, *feeding an occupied population* is one of the most basic responsibilities imaginable under international law. not doing so is an actual war crime*, as is using starvation as a weapon.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 01/07/2025
It is worth noting that the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" is incredibly unpopular. I haven't seen a single credible poll with support above 40% of adults. And that's just if you ask people, "Do you support the OBBB." If you poll them about the individual components, it's 30+ points underwater.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Republicans rushed around the parliamentarian, adopted current policy baseline, rushed the process to create special little carve-outs for their own special interests and kickbacks for states. They subverted the debt limit AND the appropriations process. What's even the point of the filibuster?
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Not that anyone cares, but now that JD Vance has cast the tiebreaking vote for $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts, I'm reupping these Vance quotes from 2017, in which he flatly declared that Medicaid cuts like these betray Trumpism's promises to the working class: newrepublic.com/article/1954...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
People have no idea, not really, how this budget is about to wreck their very foundations.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
SCOTUS just stripped judges' power to stop unconstitutional orders nationwide in a move KBJ calls "an existential threat to the rule of law" The Court has chosen a side, and it isn't the rule of law. Lower courts can't protect the Constitution because the Supreme Court won't let them.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
They are the goodest boys.
A labradoodle and a golden doodle in a sit position next to each other looking at the camera with great seriousness and dignity.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I would read a 10,000-word piece on when we started thinking that bombing another country doesn't count as a real war
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
If God wants to bomb someone, how about we let him do that shit himself?
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Shakespeare for the 21st century... 7. “To even, or can’t even, that is the question” 6. “All that glisters is not goals” 5. “Out, dammed Spotify!” 4. “As You, like, Like It” 3. “Romeo, Romeo, WTF Romeo?!” 2. “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your earbuds” 1. “Alas, poor Yorick. He got ratio'd”
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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 22/06/2025
Wichita Falls Times, November 27, 1977
1977 article about how television is replacing books and how people don't read anymore
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Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
…..I think perhaps people like Mr Osnos might be a little out of touch
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I cannot recommend highly enough the value of subscribing to a really good block list on this site if you want to simply never know the worst people alive are here
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 16/06/2025
There is simply not enough attention on the central motivation of the Trump regime, which is that he has a right to rule untethered from popular consent, and places where dissent is concentrated are unnatural and must be broken and subjugated
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Per Wash Post & CBS, the killer was very conservative and a “fan of infowars” - and “would be offended if people though he was a Democrat (as some had assumed)” More: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Unprecedented corruption “The parade is being used for advertising by these entities with close business ties to the president" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...
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Close Trump Allies Sponsored the Military Parade, Raising Ethical Concerns
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman. -Free school breakfast and lunch -Restoring voting rights for felons -Paid leave Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...
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Rep. Melissa Hortman, killed in targeted attack, was a champion for Minnesotan families
Hortman worked closely with Gov. Tim Walz to enact policies that prioritized children and expanded protections for abortion and gender-affirming care
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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
This Army birthday I’m thinking of Medal of Honor recipient Pvt Henry Johnson of the 369th NY National Guard (known as the Harlem Hellfighters). The 369th served more days in the WWI trenches than an other US unit, took more casualties also. DOD just stripped Johnson’s name off Ft. Polk.
Private Henry Johnson of the 369th New York Infantry.
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Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦 @drrobthompson.com · 14/06/2025
Where and when was he radicalized? America. Sometime last week maybe.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14/06/2025
Americans turned out en masse in communities across the country Saturday, raucously pushing back on what they see as President Donald Trump’s widening authoritarianism, attacks on immigrants and federal cutbacks to lifesaving programs.
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‘No Kings’ rallies draw huge crowds to protest Trump and his policies
Across the country, relatively few disruptions were reported during protests and marches where the mood ranged from joyful to defiant.
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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Be aware: Speaker Johnson just spoke to press and said that Padilla's behavior rises to the level of a censure. Are you freaking joking me.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Remember when you protest: you're not trying to persuade the Trump regime to stop their actions, they're not open to persuasion. You're trying to persuade the public that the Trump regime is acting unconstitutionally. The public isn't persuaded by violence. Peaceful, joyful protest tactics will win.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This is a watershed moment. Senator Padilla getting thrown to the ground and handcuffed. Trump admitting his mass deportations are targeting hard-working people that are contributing vitally to the US economy. Trump sending troops into a US city that even local law enforcement didn't ask for. 1/
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Gavin Newsom is responding to red state critics who represent states with higher murder rates than California, including Mike Johnson (Louisiana) and Tommy Tuberville (Alabama).
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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
It’s a race to be the biggest blowhard. This is the opposite of smart. The opposite of good. The opposite of effective. It’s sound and fury signifying the continued collapse of a proudly dumb and angry nation. These are children acting like children.
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Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Trump turning away from Harvard to all of California …
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a black and white image of a tower with a glowing eye
ALT: a black and white image of a tower with a glowing eye
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Marcus Cribb @mcribbhistory.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Just a kind/friendly/polite reminder, I'm uploading more videos to my YouTube Channel, including making trips to historic sites & battlefields to record new content, as well as uploading my relatively large back catalogue. Please follow me there. youtube.com/@marcuscribb...
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Battlefield Guide Heritage Manager in Scotland Keeper of Sharpe's Sword⚔️ Part Time Soldier. All views my own.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/05/2025
Guys, it's the oligarchs. If you want to blame someone for 2024, blame the oligarchs. Anyone telling you to blame someone else is part of the oligarchy. Dark money has been to blame since citizens united.
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Jaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
CONCENTRATING them. Into CAMPS.
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