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Katie Jane

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 21h
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 5h
BIG NEWS. Martin Soto, one of the orginal organizers of the Delaney Hall hunger strike, whose wife Gabi was an integral part of organizing on the outside against deplorable conditions, IS FREE. He was released just a few moments ago.
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NPR @npr.org · 06/10/2026
Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border, the last of a grove estimated to be up to 250 years old. (via @kjzz.org) n.pr/4hKJ79B
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At least 10 arrested at Arizona-Mexico border as 250-year-old cottonwood tree cut down for wall
Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border in the tiny town of Lochiel. The tree was the last of an old grove estimated to be up to 250 years old.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So many people already dealing with parents/grandparents with the toxic combination of diminishing mental faculties, online radicalisation via social media and AI slop, and chatbot seduction. Unfortunately we are now all getting to see what happens when one of those cases is the president of the USA
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Katie Jane @kj-zurda.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I do not know Bro Krift but that may be the most “you don’t need a union; we’re all FAMILY here!” name I’ve ever seen. Solidarity to these incredible local journalists & media workers! #UnionStrong
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Indiana Local News Guild @inlocalnewsguild.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We have an unfortunate update. Free Press Indiana CEO Bro Krift has informed us that FPI will not voluntarily recognize our union. While this is disappointing we are confident should we go to an election that the union will succeed.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There remains an active campaign to reply-harass Black people off this platform and it is not on us to solve this problem. It’s on y’all.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
as with the fossil fuel industry the reality of the crisis is a load bearing part of the strategy - exploited to lend urgency to plutocrats' preferred political response, which they position as sensible and responsible
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 26/09/2026
Microsoft's data center subcontractor in New Jersey illegally runs a bunch of gas "backup" generators on site, figuring they won't get caught or will just eat the wrist-slap fines if they do. Regulatory enforcement is so bad that a third party had to take drone images to get the state to act.
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New Jersey datacenter fined $1.1m after visual investigation showed dozens of unpermitted generators
State regulator’s record fine for DataOne facility in Vineland follows Floodlight investigation with the Guardian
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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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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I should also add that when the movie got to showing people burning Teslas and vandalizing dealerships, the theater of mostly older folks in Santa Monica started applauding. I think it is possible Trump and Musk turned libs over 50 into John Brown.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 25/09/2026
At the end of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s unhinged rant at the UN, he recited a seemingly obscure Bible verse. But it’s actually a dog whistle for genocide. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/neta... #Palestine #Israel
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Thomas Sorlie @thomassorlie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This week, in little-noticed remarks by President Trump and Justice Department warning, the administration declared war on protestors and opponents of AI, threatening “criminal liability” if they “further the propaganda or other goals of a foreign power.” @kenklippenstein.bsky.social via Substack
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Feds Target AI Critics As “Foreign Agents”
Trump admin sees China behind opposition to AI data centers
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: Over 400 New Yorkers are risking arrest in a mass anti-war sit-in outside the United Nations during Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech to say: Stop the genocide and stop arming Israel.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
William Hinds Prescod graduated from Trinity in 1799. 200 years later, I started college at Harvard, the first in my immediate family to attend Harvard College or any Ivy League. 200 years is how long it took to make up the educational access gap that enslavement introduced into my family tree.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On AI-based prior authorization for fee-for-service Medicare, piloted in 6 states: "...not only are seniors in Washington waiting two to four times longer than prior to the introduction of the WISeR model to obtain covered procedures..."
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Fraud Prevention or Administrative Burden? Prior Authorization Comes for Medicare
Instead of reducing wasteful care, Medicare’s new WISeR model introduces administrative barriers and delays critical care for patients who need it most.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For two days, giant buffalo moved through the streets of New York City. RETURN OF THE BUFFALO: TATANKA OWE AKUPI brought Indigenous history, ceremony, music and the story of buffalo restoration into Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. redpopnews.com/return-of-th...
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RETURN OF THE BUFFALO: TATANKA OWE AKUPI Brings a Herd to New York City
For two days, a herd of life-size buffalo moved through the streets of New York City.Return of the Buffalo: Tatanka Owe Akupi, presented by St. Ann's Warehouse, The Walk Productions and KBH Arts, brou...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New: we are starting to get data showing what cops are using Axon's license plate cameras for, which are replacing Flock around the country. But we need your help: is your city using Axon? We have written the request you need to get this data yourself. Get it here: www.404media.co/is-your-city...
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Is Your City Using Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help
404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
To be specific, family annihilations are committed by men more than 90% of the time and are committed roughly every five days in the US.
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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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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
lee stuart's rendition of Ed Sheeran's The A Team following Sheeran dropping Macklemore over Palestine via www.instagram.com/reel/DdSi1yn... sharing this here bcs I don't think they're on Bluesky (pls lemme know if I missed them)
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I’m Rooting for Everybody Black @ehs06702.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026
Remember, even when Black people save lives, the system will look for ways to punish them. The Second Amendment doesn't exist for us.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 22/10/2024
According to too many, there is white and then there is political there is male and then there is political there is capitalism and then there is political there is straight and then there is political there is cis and then there is political there is non-disabled and then there is political
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404 Media @404media.co · 15/09/2026
Cops are putting gibberish, jokes, or other nonsense into Flock’s “reason” box, highlighting the casualness and lack of care some cops have when searching an incredibly powerful surveillance system. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404media.co/cops-search-...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today is the day! A journey that Astra and I started as an essay in The Guardian is now officially out in the world. End Times Fascism – And the Fight for the Living World is in bookstores now. If you are inclined, please buy one from an indie bookseller or borrow it from your local library.
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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 15/09/2026
I’m worried that this is registering to folks as “what strange times we live in” and not “something is very wrong with Sanders’s approach to this topic.”
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
A lot of people dismissed people’s concerns as unreasonable paranoia but hey www.cnn.com/2026/09/11/u...
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Mississippi police make arrest in Tasia Fortune case after medical examiner rules death a homicide | CNN
Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have arrested a man in the case of Tasia Fortune, the 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree outside an abandoned house last month, following the state medic...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
Shanah Tovah, New York! Wishing all Jewish New Yorkers celebrating a sweet, joyful and meaningful Rosh Hashanah. Here’s to a new year filled with health, happiness and blessings (and yes, even another Knicks championship).
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
As we approach the 25th anniversary of 9/11, I want to highlight a memorial not far from my home. 4 days after 9/11, a racist shot and killed Balbir Singh Sodhi, a husband, father of five, and beloved member of his local Sikh community. His murder was the first hate crime in response to the attacks.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is ADL's solitary statement after Nazis won state elections in Germany for the first time since the Holocaust:
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Ed Sheeran’s fans came for a concert, not performative, biased and hateful anti-Israel “activism” from his opener, Macklemore.

Imagine being a Jewish or Israeli fan who came with family or friends to enjoy the show, only to be confronted with this hostility from the stage. Or feeling so unwelcome by the opening act that you leave early.

This isn’t new for Macklemore. He has a record of demonizing Israel and Israelis, falsely accusing Israel of genocide and engaging in antisemitic rhetoric and behavior.

This is completely unacceptable.

(with embedded video of Macklemore's remarks on Palestine at the Ed Sheeran MetLife concert)

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Truthout @truthout.org · 06/09/2026
On the heels of their victory on silica-based powder, baristas are urging patrons to boycott until they win a contract. buff.ly/uW7erSY
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Boycott of Starbucks Is Still On as Workers Press for $17 Wage and Protections
On the heels of their victory on silica-based powder, baristas are urging patrons to boycott until they win a contract.
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Carrying out these actions at the same time viscerally illustrates the new fertility regime, where the point is producing babies, not keeping them (or the people who birthed them) alive. especially not if they’re people covered by the Office of Minority Health.
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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
More Homeland Security #surveillance www.wired.com/story/ice-wa...
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ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years
Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Proletarianization continues apace. Maybe people can learn more about the hx of technology, & recognize that workers have not reaped the benefits of increased productivity. Rather, the intensity of work increases while wages largely remain stagnant (or decline, if you factor in health insurance)
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Katie Jane @kj-zurda.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The source in this story is a man from Brownsburg who has been here 25 years. His wife and 5 children are still here. 💔
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In the 1780s and 90s George Washington kept his Philadelphia-based household staff enslaved despite Pennsylvania’s gradual abolition laws by trafficking them out of the state and back into the state to reset the clock every 6 months despite the fact that he had publicly supported the laws.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/08/2026
If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People.
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Katie Jane @kj-zurda.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Gwaltney said the city will pay for the service using funds from the nationwide opioid settlement program.” 😤
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 29/08/2026
An Arizona police department has employed thousands of "AI investigators," KJZZ reports:
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AI company says Eloy police are 1st in the U.S. to use 'virtual investigators'
Eloy is adopting new AI-powered software to streamline police investigations. eSleuth Inc. says it provides thousands of AI “investigators” to help police connect cases and look for leads.
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
landlords are not ok
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New: ICE plans to spend millions of dollars on Boston Dynamics dog robots. ICE says this is to improve "officer safety." The robots can open doors, pick up objects, have 360 cameras, infrared vision, etc. Boston Dynamics didn't respond to question on its stance on ICE www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
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ICE Plans to Spends Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots
ICE wants the robot dogs to improve “officer safety.”
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 27/08/2026
With reconstruction stalled in Gaza, boys as young as 14 are clearing the wreckage of destroyed homes by hand for as little as $10 a day. Often they are the breadwinners for their families and are forced to abandon their studies to work for survival. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/pale...
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Palestinian youth are risking their lives to clear rubble in Gaza
With reconstruction stalled in Gaza, boys as young as 14 are clearing the wreckage of destroyed homes by hand for as little as $10 a day. Often they are the breadwinners for their families and are…
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