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Kyle Leach

@kyleleach.bsky.social
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PA & NH Artist-Poet, Gardener, Museum Curator, Local Activist www.kyleleach.art

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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 23h
Nobel Peace Prize: Navanethem Pillay, a tireless advocate for international justice
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Nobel Peace Prize: Navanethem Pillay, a tireless advocate for international justice
The 85-year-old South African judge, who notably served on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in the 1990s, recently chaired the United Nations Human Rights Council's Commission of Inquiry, which determined that a 'genocide' was taking place in Gaza.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h
David Walker published An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in pamphlet form in 1829. It's one of the most important and influential abolitionist texts in U.S. history. Yet, very few people have actually read it and many people don't know who Walker was especially among young people.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6h
Digital ad spending on anti trans ads is on pace with 2024 and could potentially exceed it. Despite some reporting that PACs might be retreating on anti trans ads, that doesn't seem to be the case. adtracker.lgbtqlegislation.com
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 13h
Behaviour like this from a sitting US president should be front page news. It should be ridiculed and condemned in equal measure. It doesn't matter if its a daily occurrence. You call it out every day.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14h
'Gaza is a moral tear in the universe' – Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | Radical Thinking
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'Gaza is a moral tear in the universe' – Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | Radical Thinking
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor speak to Radical Thinking, a new series from the Guardian with Aditya Chakrabortty
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
One of the handful of articles telling it like it is instead of misinforming the public. By @saragoud.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org Yes. Its bad science based on numbers out of various behinds, but that's not how most of the rest of the media is discussing it. thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...
thebulletin.org
How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business
There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of doom.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One of the first things Trump did in Feb. 2017 was set up an office in DHS to *exclusively* publicize crimes committed by immigrants — just as the Nazis used Der Stürmer to publish a special section only highlighting “Jewish crimes.” See this article from 2017: www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...
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But mass-slander-by-anecdote has a long tradition. As The Atlantic explains:
In The Nazi Conscience, Duke historian Claudia Koonz notes that the Nazi newspaper Der Sturmer ran a feature called "Letter Box," which published readers' accounts of Jewish crimes. When the Nazis took power, the German state began doing something similar.
Frustrated by the failure of most Germans to participate in a boycott of Jewish businesses in April 1933, Adolf Hitler's government began publicizing Jewish crime statistics as a way of stoking anti-Semitism.
Trump introduced a new government entity Tuesday that will similarly flag and highlight crimes by illegal immigrants - without, of course, providing any context about how many crimes they commit compared to U.S. citizens, or how illegal immigrants as a group might contribute positively to American society.
"The office is called VOICE - Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement," Trump explained. "We are providing a voice to those who have been ignored by our media, and silenced by special interests."
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Yesterday was the 28th anniversary of the premier of the TV show Charmed, so now feels like an apt time to say that Charmed is really a show about the dangers of patriarchy and also Shannen Doherty would probably still be alive if we had universal healthcare.
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Charmed Prue's Happy 'Yep!'
ALT: Charmed Prue's Happy 'Yep!'
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Lol. Princeton University praised Nobel laureate Anne Carson, a former classics professor at the school, on social media, despite denying her tenure in the 1980s.
nytimes.com
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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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Fascism is also about the pleasure of seeing unwanted bodies mutilated, tortured, killed. This has nothing to do with Hasan's crimes. It has to do with bringing back public lynchings. They're signaling to their base that they can now rejoice in the the death of undesirables.
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 08/10/2026
The greedy few who've rigged the system against working people are terrified of us uniting at the ballot box. So much so, they’ve now invested in 1,000 armed guards at at least 55 facilities across America ahead of Election Day. But we won’t let them silence us!
seiu.co
USPS Hires Security Service With History of Human Rights Abuse
Almost 1,000 armed security officers have been sent to at least 55 post office facilities.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Chatting about prosecutors and sheriffs and local elections in a minute with @msignorile.bsky.social!
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Once more for the cheap seats
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump's racism is not new, but I do want to talk about something interesting. And that is the way American fascists have been using social media to try to splinter the black vote and dissuade Black Americans from coming to the defense of Haitian and Somali people.
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Friends, please do go and write reviews of this on Amazon pointing out that it's AI plagiarised shite. Many thanks.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The MAGA regime recently killed the largest ancient 250 year old “Grandmother” Cottonwood tree in Arizona’s indigenous territory just to expand the orange felon’s fucking wall. I’ll never forgive anyone who chose this evil.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
We should apply this ligic to every “creative act” enabled by AI.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
A lot of people are struggling right now. Including your queer and trans fam, and your artists friends, and the people who are both. The mental health pressures are real and the consequences are potentially devastating. Check on your people. Let them know how much you love having them around.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the speed at which human beings move from "this terrible thing exists" to "everyone just has to learn to live with it" is truly alarming and illuminating. Immediately moving to compliance. Watching this in real time is incredible.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
But I don't want an app to remind me to buy things I don't want to buy. If I wanted those shoes, I would have bought them when I first saw them. I don't need to have one product prompt me to purchase another.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 07/10/2026
Historically redlined neighborhoods in Massachusetts experience twice the pedestrian fatalities as other neighborhoods. Is that because infra is worse there? Or because drivers are less likely to slow down when they see Black pedestrians, because they don't care about us? You already know. 🤷🏿‍♂️
chicagotribune.com
Study: drivers less likely to brake for African American pedestrians
A new study appears to offer additional evidence that drivers are less likely to brake for African-American pedestrians trying to cross the street, a phenomenon known as “walking while black.” Researc...
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As we approach the third anniversary of this genocide of children, of parents, of childhoods, of kids who are our kids, I rambled with Elia about our feelings of hurt, of connection and disconnection from other parents, of inadequacy. This is a raw one, grateful for the space to chat
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/10/2026
Can't wait for this to be cited in court cases about animus around various anti-trans policies and then SCOTUS says it doesn't count.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A lot of lovely essays in this thread
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/10/2026
it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSA
theguardian.com
Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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isaac @sevier.io · 06/10/2026
Probably not important since pipelines are regulated so heavily by the states *touches earpiece* wait no i'm hearing this would get them around the only half-serious framework + regulation PHMSA which exists at the federal level altogether. climateandcommunity.org/research/get...
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Getting off Gas: Improving Fossil Gas Regulation Now for a Post-fossil Fuel Future - Climate and Community Institute
The United States’ extensive fossil gas infrastructure is characterized by greenhouse gas emissions, methane leaks, and explosions that imperil lives, disproportionately affect the health and well-bei...
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Holy cheese on crackers there are a million ways to expand your reading / watching / listening rather than reinscribing the actual material harm done to trans people by this woman's wealth. THERE ARE SO MANY INCREDIBLE THINGS OUT THERE WORTHY OF YOUR PATRONAGE AND TIME. WATCH THEM.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's Banned Books Week. My fellow librarians, listen carefully: your book displays should be almost exclusively writers who are alive. Yes, I know classic literature is also being banned, but most of those authors are dead. They aren't suffering financially from bans and challenges.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them
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kenner3616.bsky.social @kenner3616.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Republicans are trying to destroy American institutions, the rule of law, civil and voting rights, multiracial democracy, and they’re trying to remove black and brown immigrants from the country. Going to lunch with them to try to understand them isn’t going to fix that.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 03/10/2026
The WHO's representative in Palestine calls on Israeli authorities to 'release the pressure on medical supplies'.
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WHO warns of ‘devastating consequences' due to delayed aid entry into Gaza
The WHO's representative in Palestine calls on Israeli authorities to 'release the pressure on medical supplies'.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
Soon you could buy a gun online and have it shipped to your door without ever setting foot in a gun store—if a Trump administration proposal is finalized. Donald Trump Jr. is a shareholder and board member of a company that says it’s “uniquely positioned” to capitalize on the opportunity.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Be the iceberg you want to see in the world.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If the Trump administration successfully removes race and tribal affiliation from the census it would have a profound impact on Indian Country. Many federal programs rely on accurate data of where Native people live to disperse resources.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
I was lucky enough to guest host @trektivism.bsky.social when Heather had something to attend to which means I got to help interview THE @syfysistas.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Episode out now, listen everywhere you find podcasts or check it out here: sites.libsyn.com/501853/the-s...
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TrekTivism: The Syfy Sistas Feat. Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
We are joined by the SyFy Sistas who just launched the new round of the SyFy Sistas Legacy Fund! The Sistas have been a huge inspiration and a direct catalyst of our podcast. In this episode Tamia Har...
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Another person has died in Trump's concentration camps. 47-year-old Julian Curo-Churata was from Peru. He died on Sept. 29 after he was imprisoned for three months in Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana. That camp is run by LaSalle Corrections. There's no cause of death listed.
ice.gov
Illegal alien from Peru passes away in ICE custody in Louisiana
ICE is committed to ensuring that all those in custody reside in safe, secure and humane environments.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You have to accurately assess the problem to create proper solutions
Screenshot of article which reads: Partisan polarization is not the greatest threat to American democracy. 
It is a vivid and identifiable symptom of the real threat. And it is a popu-
lar frame because it blames no one. But because political polarization is 
a symptom, and not the root of the problem that ails us, “fixing” polar-
ization will not restore American democratic health.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
fucking really
thehill.com
Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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ACLU @aclu.org · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow essential health care to be withheld from transgender people in federal prisons. Denying medically-necessary care to any incarcerated person is cruel and unusual punishment — period.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Fryer was suspended from supervising students at Harvard due to sexual misconduct 🤡
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026
It absolutely sucks, but I am going to have to start building clauses into my freelance contracts about not feeding my draft work into these software systems. Aside from my stuff being plagiarised, it's also just exposing work to potentially millions of other people
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i am torn about gentrifiers who gambled on the london housing market having no roof being unable to sell their rabbit hutches for £600k. Because we're all victims of this crisis and negative equity is a bitch. but also....it is not by force you dropped half a mil on a 1 bed flat innit
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Normally I leave stuff like this alone, but this time… nah. One strategy of dealing with the ways that millennials are blamed for circumstances beyond our control is to satirize or to take ownership of the false narrative that makes us responsible for the shit situation we’re in.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
ICE IS ABOUT TO MAKE YOUR GROCERY BILL EVEN WORSE Cattle groups in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas say ICE raids are creating a “massive chilling effect” on legal, documented workers, disrupting meatpacking and delaying the processing of thousands of cattle. They’re reporting millions in losses.
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