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Kristy Rawson

@kristyrawson.bsky.social
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PhD Cinema/Media Studies, artist, nonprofit worker, digital archivist, public history, Anti-zionist; Free Palestine, Black Lives Matter, /climate justice, community gardens, old-growth forests, X-CA X-Santa Fe X-A2,MI X-Chicago | Trinidad, CO

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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 17h
I haven't been to Bend since I was a kid. I just remember a very beautiful little sleepy green town. 😣
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Katie Zacharia Reassigned to Previous Role of Posting Racist Conspiracy Theories on Social Media
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John James Dillard @johnjamesdillard.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Most of Ken Paxton’s Money Can Be Traced to One Man: Elon Musk. By Theodore Schleifer. (Gift article) "The world’s richest person ... gave $158 million to a group that quickly spent that much to help Mr. Paxton’s Senate bid in Texas." (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...
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Elon Musk Spends Heavily to Back Ken Paxton’s Senate Bid in Texas (Gift Article)
The world’s richest person, who has become the biggest known midterm donor, gave $158 million to a group that quickly spent that much to help Mr. Paxton’s Senate bid in Texas.
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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Bend, Oregon. JFC.
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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
This is my shocked face
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 15/10/2026
“This is really an insurance policy against accountability for crimes that the United States and its ally Israel are committing in plain sight."
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U.S. Sanctions ICC in a Bid to Avoid “Criminal Liability”: War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody
The Trump administration on Friday placed sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court that target the institution as a whole. This comes on top of earlier sanctions against individual ICC j...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 15/10/2026
War crimes prosecutor Reed Brody calls the International Criminal Court's arrest warrants issued against Yoav Gallant and Benjamin Netanyahu in 2024 "a watershed in international justice" — and the inciting incident for "when the United States moved to strangle this court."
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is a man who has sold his soul to the devil for power,greed and money. Marco Rubio threatening the ICC thinking that our allies will stand with the U.S over the ICC after all Trump has done and said about them Rubio is delusional.🙄
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 15/10/2026
Featuring our university and one of our brave climate center members, Sara, front and centre.
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All the Things You’re Not Allowed to Say In Texas
The state now controls what professors can teach.
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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Group Reportedly Cheered Sexual Assault At UChicago Frat House: Report blockclubchicago.org/2026/10/13/g...
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Group Reportedly Cheered Sexual Assault At UChicago Frat House: Report
An investigation is ongoing but no one was in custody as of late Tuesday, Chicago police said.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 14/10/2026
#banfrats
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Nyrod @nyrod.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Putin Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/w...
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Trump Hands Victories to Putin, Who Offers More War in Return (Gift Article)
Russia has reaped a diesel deal and an increase in U.S. pressure on Ukraine as President Trump’s political needs align with his longstanding inclinations toward Russia.
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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
There is no god.
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jddanforth.bsky.social @jddanforth.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u... This obscenity from Musk is the best possible argument for “yes” on a wealth tax. First in CA (Yes on Prop 40, no on 41 and 42) then nationwide.
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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gcm5.bsky.social @gcm5.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Trump’s October Surprise
Just ahead of the midterm elections, the president again helps Russia.
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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I say this as often as I can: the majority of conspiracies are not theoretical. Powerful people conspire all the time.
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braintelligence.bsky.social @braintelligence.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
When you read about the actual history and actions of Vought and Peter theil and jd Vance, it sounds like a made up conspiracy theory but it’s actually really This is a real conspiracy and I don’t think it gets enough attention
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Just to be clear, the latter would be wrong regardless of whom they were targeting. But they’re also clearly targeting her because of her position.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If there’s evidence of fraud or other financial crimes, let’s see it. But trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting member of Congress over mistakes a parent allegedly made on immigration forms when she was a child is immoral and reprehensible. We can’t stand for it.
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Immigration enforcement officials search Ilhan Omar's home in pre-dawn raid
Rep. Ilhan Omar's home was the subject of a pre-dawn HSI raid.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh well as long as they do their own research
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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 12/10/2026
Data centers and gas pump prices have dominated the energy story in this midterm cycle — but a second tier of climate and energy battles is running through campaigns in Colorado, where the Trump administration has ordered a power plant in Craig to keep burning coal past its planned retirement date.
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Aging coal plants in Colorado and other states turn into a midterm fight over energy costs | Colorado Newsline
A climate and energy battle is running through campaigns in Colorado, Michigan, Indiana and beyond over forced coal plant extensions.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 12/10/2026
"We don't want to be part of a government that's killing women, children, babies, and bombing every damn thing that they can, and talking about annihilating a race of people. ... That's what happened to us."
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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Trump on Abdul El-Sayed: “Mohammed El-Sayed. I call him Mohammed. Somebody said, "His name isn't Mohammed! His name is Abdul."
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026
Having legislative leaders hesitant on impeachment while the executive branch is targeting Ilhan Omar and LaMonica McIver is also… really something.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026
Almost like a direct and unmistakable demonstration of the state aiming violence at a representative of the marginalized communities which are routinely subject to such violence to maintain a white supremacist hierarchy.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026
Homeland Security raiding Ilhan Omar’s home the day after the profile on threats to politicians that didn’t squarely name Trump is …really something.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We all knew this was where we were headed the day Trump was elected. And the pro-Ukraine Republicans in Congress who claim they didn’t are either lying or stupid. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
trump [waving bible in front of them]: you morons love this shit huh 
[audience going berserk]
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OldRedInk @oldredink.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
one year when I was in college they put a sign on a door saying "use other exits due to nesting geese" and then someone had scrawled in pen underneath "this is not to protect the geese this is for your own safety" and that, my friends, is environmental storytelling
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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The great antlered giant prairie snail is rare, but an awesome inspiring sight to behold
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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
... the ICE agent was shot AFTER he assaulted two people... on the property on which he was trespassing.
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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
UGH! I was surprised to see that the IL Arts Council is calling Indigenous Peoples' Day "Columbus Day." My first guess is that they are capitulating the Trumps EOs so they'll continue to receive NEA funds.
Screen grab of a graphic from an IAC Newsletter celebrating "Columbus Day." Text reads, "In honor of Columbus Day, a state holiday, the Illinois Arts Council will be closed on Monday, October 12. The IAC office will reopen on Tuesday, October 13, 2026."
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
its a cult, continued
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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
To be fully about young women with voices right now, we must be about old women who insisted on those voices for many decades.
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donna007.bsky.social @donna007.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/b...
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Princeton Celebrates Anne Carson, a Nobel Prize Winner Who Was Denied Tenure (Gift Article)
Carson, who was awarded the Literature prize on Thursday, was denied tenure when teaching at the university in the 1980s, leading social media users to mock a congratulatory message.
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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
LOL. Fvck Mike Rodgers.
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repugfascistrebel.bsky.social @repugfascistrebel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Trump’s Team of Mercenaries
People around the president are using their roles to cash in. They learned it by watching him.
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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The two most depraved men in the 21st century US just can't quit one another.
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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Death Cult Administration
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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Death Cult Administration
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WaynoGur @waynogur.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#ICE shooting more people. Gifted article wapo.st/4yHk7qY
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ICE officer shoots, wounds man in car on crowded New York street
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said a 5-year-old child was in the car at the time of the shooting. DHS said that an immigration officer fired his weapon during a “targeted enforcement operation.”
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fuck this. I don’t know what else to say. Prison kills. mississippitoday.org/2026/10/07/c...
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Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies
After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.
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melcasmith.bsky.social @melcasmith.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...
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How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel (Gift Article)
A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.
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Jim McWilliams @jimmcwilliams.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
During the Reagan administration, Congress slashed the top income-tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent... www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...
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The Biggest Source of Inequality That No One Talks About
Progressives are focused on the wrong tax loophole.
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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Two big bits of news today: You're not allowed to be mean to one of the main AIs anymore and also the president says you're not allowed to say AI anymore.
Trump on Truth Social: The White House considers anyone that uses the term, “Artificial Intelligence,” as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, “Super Intelligence,” THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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unicosou.bsky.social @unicosou.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Apparently, Maduro was in charge of ICE… apple.news/ARhzcbV0wRtm...
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New US indictment charges former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with torture — The Associated Press
A new U.S. indictment charges former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with torture and other crimes. The indictment was unsealed Thursday in New York.
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tdillontx @tdillontx.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
DEPLORABLE:
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Arizona Congressional Candidate Says She Was Raped While Fixing Sign (Gift Article)
Bernadette Greene-Placentia, a Democrat, said the attack in August occurred while she was repairing a damaged campaign sign.
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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No notes chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/10...
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Obama Foundation and Presidential Center workers to unionize: ‘We don't even have a seat at the table’
Employees from the Obama Foundation and Obama Presidential Center are organizing to form a union with AFSCME Council 31. The group, Obama Workers United, includes more than 250 remote and in-person wo...
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