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KestrelDawn

@kestreldawn.bsky.social
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Reader|Listener|Volunteer. Math&Philosophy. Worried about Environment. Troubled by Willful Ignorance. she/her

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This @publichealthpod.bsky.social episode features a 3 part series by CIDRAP news on what we've learned in the 20 years since the first human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine was approved. Read all 3 parts here: bit.ly/3RSbKIL
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20 Years of HPV Vaccine Success
CIDRAP provides an initiative dedicated to safeguarding vaccine use in the U.S, so that it remains grounded in the best available science.
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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 31/07/2026
And the official announcement — variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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Colson Whitehead’s ‘Harlem’ Trilogy TV Show in Development at Apple (EXCLUSIVE)
Apple TV is in development on a series based on Colson Whitehead's 'Harlem' trilogy, including 'Harlem Shuffle,' 'Crook Manifesto' and 'Cool Machine.'
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 18/07/2026
Yesterday the US Administration supercharged its explicit effort to bar international students from staying in the US after graduation. All Americans should know: 1/3 of *all* STEM PhDs working in the US are immigrants who graduated from US universities, then stayed. www.piie.com/index%2Ephp/...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Yeah pretty much exactly as predicted. I’d add a bunch more about overspray. Basically they created a situation analogous to painting a teflon pan. bsky.app/profile/mona...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/07/2026
Breaking news: The lining of the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool peeled in at least seven places along seams that were created when the material was applied, indicating likely problems in how it was installed, according to experts and a Post analysis.
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Reflecting Pool peeling likely caused by application flaws, experts say
President Donald Trump has blamed vandals, but a Washington Post analysis finds that the peeling tracks closely with stages of the renovation process.
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KestrelDawn @kestreldawn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
How is CARYATID not accepted!! As a sailor (and, you know, reader) I've been angry over ALEE for years. I struggle to understand what they determine is allowable when they include all sort of other specialty words. There are caryatids on buildings in New York City!
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KestrelDawn @kestreldawn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I’m so looking forward to this! I read Karla’s Choice last year and was so impressed with how it fit in with the other the George Smiley books. It expanded on the saga in a really interesting way.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Time sensitive: this is the last day to submit comments opposing the Bureau of Land Management's clearcutting of Oregon's ancient forests. This is a tool that educates you on just how diabolical it is, and it helps you submit your comment. morethanjustparks.com/oregon-old-g...
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BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests
There's a kind of forest in western Oregon that you feel before you understand. The BLM just gave the timber industry permission to tear it all down.
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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off. Leave your comment here: eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-... morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...
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BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests
One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.
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nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Beyond the fact that this bugfuck insane letter was written and sent to the leader of Norway, the State Dept agreeing to distribute it to other heads of state instead of objecting and honorably resigning or at the very least planning some kind of coverup is a sign of deep institutional collapse.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Congratulations, those of you who decided to platform fringe voices and create a climate of fear and hate out of ignorance because those voices insisted a non-problem was a problem. They're now on an HHS stage trying to ruin children's lives. You will live with the harm you have done forever.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 08/12/2025
Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):
"I guess I have a very different view of the dangers and real-world consequences of your position than what you explored with Justice Kavanaugh. My understanding was that independent agencies exist because Congress has decided that some issues, some matters, some areas should be handled in this way by nonpartisan experts—that Congress is saying that expertise matters with respect to aspects of the economy and transportation and the various independent agencies that we have. 

"So having a president come in and fire all the scientists and the doctors and the economists and the PhDs and replacing them with loyalists and people who don't know anything is actually not in the best interest of the citizens of the United States."
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 04/12/2025
Trump's attacks against the Somali community are racist, vile, & predictable. As prices rise & his popularity plummets, Trump is resorting to hate and division — hoping he can get you to blame your neighbors, so you'll forget about his failures. Don't drink his poison.
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Trump describes Somali immigrants as 'garbage' amid feud with Minnesota congresswoman, governor
President Donald Trump said of Somali immigrants on Tuesday that he doesn't "want them in our country."
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KestrelDawn @kestreldawn.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Maybe this is finally the step too far for a lot of people in the military.
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Reposting with the #ACIP hashtag
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21/11/2025
The Trump Admin will fire you for having a Pride flag on your desk but downplays & normalizes swastikas & nooses? Over 400,000 Americans died fighting Nazism. Hundreds of thousands died fighting slavery & Jim Crow. This is a slap in the face to every American who died to defeat bigoted ideologies.
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
2/2 You think Dem voters would have turned out in the numbers, and with the enthusiasm, they did JUST FIVE DAYS AGO if they thought the party was going cave like this? Jesus
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Prescient
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/11/2025
I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
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The Democratic Party Needs to Learn from Zohran Mamdani's Guts and Backbone
Zohran Mamdani did something different, and it made all the difference.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
So many own goals. Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product
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KestrelDawn @kestreldawn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
OMG! And it is Freddie!
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KestrelDawn @kestreldawn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Klein is awesome! And he looks like he's having a great time.
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KestrelDawn @kestreldawn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The worst part of staying up until 2am watching a baseball game is having to watch these terrible ads. #WorldSeries
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KestrelDawn @kestreldawn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I love how excited the crowd is getting when a ball looks like it might possibly be a home run! We are all desperate for this to be done.
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KestrelDawn @kestreldawn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Come on Betts, I believe in you!
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Interesting for Hegseth and Trump railing about “political correctness” after the admin spent two weeks policing what people can and can’t say about Charlie Kirk
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Yet another good reason for locals to resist data centers: "electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity" Gift link from @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
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KestrelDawn @kestreldawn.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
This is unbelievable. How can business accept the crony capitalism that Trump has made the guiding principle of his regime?
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Or…and hear me out now…they could just bring him back
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Kirk waged a national campaign to tarnish MLK's legacy. This was last year.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.
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Last Neocon @deejaymcg.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I'm gifting this piece from @radiofreetom.bsky.social because everyone needs to read it. It's Tom at his best. He's worth the subscription price all by himself, btw. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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The Government Wants to See Your Papers
And the Supreme Court decides that the Fourth Amendment might not be for everyone.
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KestrelDawn @kestreldawn.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This is really worth a watch!
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
A hugely important point is that international students pay full tuition, so they actually make it CHEAPER for US students to attend college, by allowing for more money for scholarships. Across the board, the reality is we need MORE international students.
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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Read this paragraph, please. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...
Mr. Digre's company has long manufactured speakers in Minnesota for export, including to a major customer in Canada. His firm relies on certain materials from China, the only place to get many small components needed for speakers. But Mr. Digre must now pay a 55 percent tariff on those Chinese imports. As a result, manufacturing for that customer from the United States no longer makes sense. So Mr. Digre has shifted speaker production to a factory in China, where he will export directly to Canada and bypass the United States entirely.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Just so’s we’re all clear, almost 3/4 of everything we buy from Europe is now 15% more expensive.
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 07/07/2025
This is a new Murderbot short story, coming out later this week on Reactor Magazine. It’s about ART and its crew, set before Network Effect, and how ART finally decided to tell them about meeting a rogue SecUnit.
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KestrelDawn @kestreldawn.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This is so cool, and such a useful technique!
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KestrelDawn @kestreldawn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This is reprehensible.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Couldn't agree more with this. It's jaw-dropping to see the patty cake people are playing with him after what was a full constitutional assault that, oh by the way, is almost certainly going to lead to tens of thousands of people in the global south dying needlessly.
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Also can we stop saying stuff like this? This is not a conflict between Harvard and the government, it is a government attack on Harvard. The article, which is generally not bad, lists 14 actions taken by the government against the school, none in the other direction www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Joe Kent, top aide to DNI Tulsi Gabbard, ordered rewriting to an intel analysis re Venezuela & TDA so the doc could not be "used against" Trump, adding to concerns about politicizing intel. More emails also emerging. @julianbarnes.bsky.social Maggie Haberman & me. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
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Official Pushed to Rewrite Intelligence So It Could Not Be ‘Used Against’ Trump
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