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Liberally knitting in Colorado ~ Personal finance ~ Lifelong learner

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Csilla Gal, PhD @cgal.bsky.social · 4h
Hats off to @lkpwrites.bsky.social at WBEZ who broke the original story. www.wbez.org/education/20...
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To protect immigrant students, a Chicago-area college told Flock to remove its cameras. The company refused.
Elgin Community College resorted to covering the surveillance cameras with trash bags and zip ties. Public records show that federal immigration authorities have accessed Flock data at other Illinois ...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h
If you're a fraternity alum (from any school/state) who experienced sexual violence as a member, I'm here to listen. I understand this is extremely sensitive and I will treat your story with the utmost discretion and care. Reach out— Signal: marisakabas.04 Email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
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knitmyworld.bsky.social @knitmyworld.bsky.social · 1h
Ditto in CO!
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 3h
Shameful, unnecessary, and cruel.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Russel Vought continues to undermine peer review of NIH grants. We can’t allow this to happen. The deadline to comment on this is tomorrow, Oct 13. The fight ain’t over. A good read by the illustrious @joshuasweitz.bsky.social 🧪 joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/what-else-...
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What is NIH Leadership Trying to Hide from Researchers & the Public?
A NIH proposal to conceal reviewer rankings of investigator-initiated research grants is ripe for misuse & demands a collective response (by October 13).
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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Riverbend, like all companies these days, maintains a Facebook page where customers can leave comments. (They are also reviewed on Yelp.) Public feedback helps ensure a world where companies operate according to social norms. 3/ www.facebook.com/riverbendlan...
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Trump brought more destruction to DC this weekend, ordering the cutting of 400 mature trees before courts could stop it. Same tactic as when he knocked down the East Wing. Riverbend Landscapes & Tree Service of VA did the cutting. They knew it was wrong. And you can let them know how you feel. 1/
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 12/10/2026
This video appears to show NYPD officers told to deactivate their body cameras during the protest for the ICE shooting of Oscar Belgal
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
“In the Epstein files there are multiple allegations that [Trump] sexually assaulted young girls… [FBI found] the evidence credible, which means Bondi lied when she stated under oath that there is no evidence that Donald Trump committed a crime.” @repdangoldman.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/adel...
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Democrat Reveals Epstein File That Blows Huge Hole in Trump’s Story
Democratic Representative Dan Goldman shared a previously redacted email that contradicts Trump’s story on how he stopped being friends with the sexual predator.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 12/10/2026
Trump’s destruction of parts of a DC public park in violation of a federal judge’s order cannot go unpunished. This land, like the Kennedy Center & Yosemite belongs to the people, not him. The perpetrators need to be held in contempt.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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knitmyworld.bsky.social @knitmyworld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official
The top Pentagon official left Alvarez & Marsal Capital after ProPublica started looking into his financial ties. The contracts with a related company are another example of firms close to the Trump a...
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knitmyworld.bsky.social @knitmyworld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate
ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/10/2026
We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,600 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients. Explore the database:
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,600 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They couldn’t paint the bottom of a pool, but we’re building on the moon. 🙄
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1/ A political lie doesn’t need to convince everyone. It needs to be repeated, amplified, disguised as popular opinion, and made familiar enough to seem true. Now imagine that machinery operating across an entire billionaire funded information ecosystem #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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oldcc.bsky.social @oldcc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So Trump betrayed America and Ukraine for less than a days worth of diesel Trump the traitor
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's about the sanctions. Putin knows a few million tonnes of fuel won't transform the American energy market. But getting Trump to lift sanctions on Russia? That could be worth billions to Moscow and help finance Putin's war against Ukraine. The diesel is the bait. Sanctions relief is the prize.
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knitmyworld.bsky.social @knitmyworld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Beautiful!
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is brilliant: the acknowledgement section of PhD dissertations... "Thank you to the friends who simply knew not to ask." "I know I was the reason you bought that Roomba" science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
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The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements
After reading hundreds and hundreds of PhD theses, we accidentally discovered how to write the perfect PhD acknowledgement: it's a kind of poetry.
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knitmyworld.bsky.social @knitmyworld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#knitsky
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knitmyworld.bsky.social @knitmyworld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thanks for teaching me something!
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knitmyworld.bsky.social @knitmyworld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#knitsky
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s simple to figure out at this point, he’s a Russian asset. Thank you for your attention to this treason.
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knitmyworld.bsky.social @knitmyworld.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Camilleri said she became aware of another case last month in which a third-country national was ordered to be returned to the U.S. and decided to give it a shot. Now, she said, she hoped more attorneys would consider filing similar claims."
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knitmyworld.bsky.social @knitmyworld.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85
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Pro Democracy @krock1138.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
America, where we can watch public executions, but not Stephen Colbert.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A barbaric idea, beneath our dignity as a country. Push back on this.
Trump admin wants to televise an execution
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knitmyworld.bsky.social @knitmyworld.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
These are troops, not ICE? Probably don't want to be there.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And they voted for him anyway 😕
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
500+ US citizens have been kidnapped by #ICE Find out more from @propublica.org ⬇️ Think about this when you cast your vote. #VoteEarly #VoteBlue projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey, here's a random thought: maybe all of us who are Democrats and progressives should pause attacks on each other for the next three weeks and focus on beating Republicans. I promise our arguments will be so much more interesting in January after a blue tsunami.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
📌America has not been in this much danger since the Civil War. I bet I have typed that 155 times the past decade, because it is undeniably true. Yet our mainstream media has treated this full-blown emergency like a series of cloudy days ...
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REMOVE HIM NOW
Calling for an attack on U.S. cities better be the end of Trump, or the danger we are in today is only just beginning ...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Venezuela's Cardon Oil refinery, the country's second largest at 310,000 barrels per day, just unexpectedly exploded and caught fire, forcing a full shutdown. The fire started at a gas line connecting the refinery's diesel hydrotreater and halted the whole plant, including the boilers. #ETTD
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Will the 11th Circuit see through Trump’s new delay tactic as he tries to keep the public from seeing the Mar-a-Lago volume of Jack Smith’s report? joycevance.substack.com/p/pat-robert...
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Pat Robertson Tried It While Campaigning. Will Trump Fare Any Better?
But he shouldn’t.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 07/10/2026
Trump is the first president to call for America to be attacked. And his Republican allies said nothing. They don't care about you, or the country. Vote Democratic this November. The future of America depends on it. youtu.be/DhIeyeqI2Ng
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Martín Soto is FREE!
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bethelight.bsky.social @bethelight.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sharing this here - He is sending very realistic checks for $500, blaming JB for high healthcare costs. This is mail fraud.
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
An Unmapped Region of Antarctica Could Be Harboring a Major Threat The Wilkes Subglacial Basin contains enough ice to raise global mean sea level by 10 to 13 feet. gizmodo.com/an-unmapped-...
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An Unmapped Region of Antarctica Could Be Harboring a Major Threat
The Wilkes Subglacial Basin contains enough ice to raise global mean sea level by 10 to 13 feet.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If any other American president had encouraged our enemy to nuke an American city, they would be immediately impeached. America needs to return to a level of accountability where this kind of traitorous speech will no longer be tolerated from our leaders.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
CHEFS AGAINST FASCISM
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I give the NYT a lot of grief (well-deserved), but this is exactly how Dennis Hastert should be remembered 👇🏻
New York Times headline: Dennis Hastert, powerful politician disgraced by child abuse, dies.

Sub headline the longest serving Republican speaker of the house admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84. 
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Guardian: survivors allege girls as young as 15 were exploited in a group Trump's FCC chair belonged to for years. Carr denies knowing. Ask GOP senators if that's good enough for a man regulating your family's airwaves. Silence keeps him there. #TrumpsCorruptCongress #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
CNN and CBS News are now under the control of the Ellison family. We need independent, pro-democracy media to grow. If you agree, please subscribe to Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld
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🦋 C.G., PhD 🐸 (🪖"Prima" AKA "Battle" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Remember 👇🏾 at the polls! 🗳 #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory
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