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abolitionist-in-training | YIMBY | #SciEd | #taiko | Urban farming 🍄🐓🧑🏼‍🌾 | cat video consumer |🌈 | No genocide in our name on our dime 🍉 | 😷

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
we have a policy for the use of genAI at the @aial.ie. we reflect on values key to scientific integrity, such as replicability, and err on the side of not using it blogpost: aial.ie/blog/gen-ai-... pdf: zenodo.org/records/2322...
A flowchart that guides reflective thinking around generative AI in the context of research. It highlights key, interconnected values underpinning scientific integrity, alongside practical and wider socio-political considerations when deciding whether to use generative AI for research.
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Megaphone News @megaphone.news · 14h
Tens of thousands of people in Madrid bid farewell to Maricarmen Abascal, 87, with candles and flowers after she died on Wednesday. She had become an icon of protests against Spain’s housing crisis and rising rents.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Private mercenary company now monitoring and enforcing U.S. elections. Very good sign for democracy.
newrepublic.com
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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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 08/10/2026
Increasing Black homeownership sounds like an easy fix for the racial wealth gap. But that assumes a housing market that treats every buyer the same. New research from @zraresearch.bsky.social breaks down three assumptions behind that idea and why they don't hold up.🧵
rooseveltinstitute.org
Homeownership Is Not a Solution to the Racial Wealth Gap
Can increasing Black homeownership close the racial wealth gap? Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana examines how wealth inequality, housing discrimination, predatory lending, and unequal appreciation make homeowner...
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 07/10/2026
Arizona and Virginia, both of which are governed by Democrats, are ending Medicaid coverage of care for trans youth, Transitics has learned. The bans, which go into effect on October 13th, mark the most significant Democratic capitulation to Trump's anti-trans demands yet. Cowards.
transiticsnews.com
Democrat-led Arizona, Virginia Quietly End Medicaid Coverage of Care for Trans Youth, Acquiescing to Trump Demands
The policy changes, which go into effect on October 13th, see Arizona and Virginia join Kansas as states where Democrats have needlessly opted to restrict Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
gadgetreview.com
One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Christie Nold @christienold.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Anti-ICE protesters blocked entrances to two Department of Homeland Security buildings in Williston [Vermont] on Tuesday, turning them into temporary community gardens as part of a weeklong series of demonstrations.” 🥰🌱 www.wcax.com/2026/10/06/w...
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Week-long protests aim to put Vermont ICE presence in focus
Anti-ICE protesters blocked entrances to two DHS buildings in Williston on Tuesday, turning them into temporary community gardens.
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WBUR @wbur.org · 08/10/2026
Real-time crime-center software is a sometimes overlooked but powerful tool allowing police to aggregate immense amounts of data, significantly expanding their surveillance reach.
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Flock is catching flak. Experts say other police surveillance tools are more worrisome
Real-time crime-center software is a sometimes overlooked but powerful tool allowing police to aggregate immense amounts of data, significantly expanding their surveillance reach.
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bplum.bsky.social @bplum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thousands of Cornell Students Protest for Accountability in Rape Case truthout.org/articles/tho...
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Thousands of Cornell Students Protest for Accountability in Rape Case
In a 2025 survey, 35 percent of undergraduate women reported experiencing sexual assault during their time at Cornell.
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De-ICE Action Network @de-ice.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
October bus tours in Massachusetts are usually for the fall foliage. Not this one. Details & RSVP: deicesignatureaviation.org @indivisiblelab.bsky.social @indivisiblemaynard.bsky.social @indactonma.bsky.social @jalsaboston.bsky.social @activistevenings.bsky.social @lexingtonalarm.bsky.social
Event flyer. At top, a photo on an airport tarmac: a white Signature Aviation fuel truck in the foreground, and behind it several people with blurred faces standing beside a white van, hands held in front of them as if restrained, flanked by people in high-visibility yellow vests. Below, on a dark background: "MBTA 76: Depot Square, Lexington → Hanscom Field. October bus tours are usually for the fall foliage. Not this one. ICE IN OUR BACKYARD. A tour and protest of ICE flights from Hanscom. When: Fri Oct 9, Tues Oct 13, Mon Oct 26, Fri Nov 6, 11:45 AM to 1:45 PM ET. Details + RSVP: deicesignatureaviation.org"
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 07/10/2026
Local cops now have access to sophisticated spy tech. Learn more about cell-site simulators, automated license plate readers, drones, and more at EFF's Street-Level Surveillance project. www.eff.org/sls
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Street Level Surveillance
EFF Presents: A Field Guide to Police Surveillance
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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As I read it, the goal is to get groups to stop registering voters before Nov. 3. These investigations are built to make us pull back. The way to make that fail is to keep registering voters wherever registration is still open: carefully, documented, and in public.
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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 01/10/2026
Gas-fired power stations to run new US data centers will generate as much emissions of the entire United Kingdom. This week @ketanjoshi.co joins @parismarx.com to discuss how the data center buildout is driving a surge in fossil fuel investment. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/348_...
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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The experiment has been run. In Quebec low cost daycare resulting in tens of thousands of additional women joining the workforce. The increase in taxes to both provincial and federal governments were more than the cost of the subsidy.
ippr.org
Lessons from Quebec's universal low-fee childcare programme | IPPR
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is an independent charity working towards a fairer, greener, and more prosperous society.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29/09/2026
Many low income people are in fact stay at home parents because the cost of daycare is so high that their salary if they went to work would not cover it.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 21/09/2026
"Mom, ICE is chasing me!...They shot me, Mom!" www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-shot-a...
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ICE Shot a DoorDash Driver in the Back in Austin
Rather than getting him medical help, they carted him off to an ICE detention complex—and the bullet is still in his back.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 20/09/2026
From @drpawandhingra.bsky.social: Anti-South Asian racism is acute in Texas right now but, nationwide, reports of online hate and threats of violence have sharply increased over the past year. But Texas also has a unique history that it can draw upon to lead the fight against such discrimination,
texasobserver.org
How Texas Can Lead in Fighting Anti-Asian Racism
Rather than demonize immigrants as forever foreigners, the Texan thing has been to document their longstanding commitments to the state.
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Cut Off the Spigot @cutoffthespigot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We creators are teaming up to fight back against #Flock surveillance in #HomeDepot and #Lowes stores! Send your own letter and tell them: DROP FLOCK! app.chilli.club/a/dac3163a-a...
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chilli | stop hardware store surveillance and ice collaboration
Force Lowe’s and Home Depot to end mass surveillance and stop enabling immigration enforcement.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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The Hechinger Report @hechingerreport.org · 13/09/2026
In rural communities, economic success often hinges on the availability of affordable child care solutions.
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When this small Alaska town was given $1 million, child care was the top priority
SEWARD, Alaska — It was 2018 when Casie Warner first realized there was a major problem in this popular cruise port, nestled on an inlet about a two-hour drive south of Anchorage. At the time, Warner worked as a home visitor, providing advice, support and resources to low-income parents with young children. Time and time again, Warner would hear the same story from parents: “‘I wasn’t able to make my medical appointments. I didn’t have child care,’” said Warner. “‘I couldn’t pick up an extra shift at work because of child care.’” …
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I didn't think we'd decarbonize through a very incompetent president making oil the price of diamonds but whatever it takes I guess
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
AAUP has a new tool and how-to webinar coming for FOIAing third party contracts! the people who do the teaching and research should be in charge of procurement of the tech used in teaching and research make the terrible terms of these contracts public! www.aaup.org/event/foias-...
aaup.org
FOIAs for Better Shared Governance Around Technology
The second session in our fall series of webinars on AI issues in higher education provides examples of how to conduct public records requests to gather and analyze information pertaining to an instit...
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Take a look at the examples Antrophic provides for research that they blocked, and it's immediately clear almost much all of it is just basic research - but research that has gotten scary-sounding names via the media. An example, put Ebola genomes into Claude Science and ask for a TMRCA > blocked!
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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here’s the Cover For American Occupation, a Powerful Document of Minnesota’s Resistance to ICE, via​ @literaryhub.bsky.social : lithub.com/heres-the-co...
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Here’s the Cover For American Occupation, a Powerful Document of Minnesota’s Resistance to ICE
Two days after Alex Pretti was murdered by federal ICE agents in Minneapolis, on January 24, 2026, we published a “Letter From Minnesota” from the poet Dobby Gibson. As I wrote at the time of the f…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 10/09/2026
Louisiana argues in FDA case that the Comstock Act, a dormant 19th-century anti-obscenity law, prohibits shipping mifepristone. But if Comstock bans mailing abortion pills, it would also ban supplies sent to clinics—even in legal states. Activists are pressing the DOJ to embrace this interpretation
autonomynews.co
‘A Big Deal’: Top Anti-Abortion Group Endorses Comstock Act As a Nationwide Ban
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America had remained silent amid growing calls to enforce the 19th century anti-obscenity law as an abortion ban. That silence ended on Friday.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
They are coming for Mifepristone and have been for a while. I can't tell you how much worse things are going to be if they criminalize it. If you are in NYC, come to our teach in about abortion on October 3: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/a... - do not be passive.
interruptingcriminalization.com
Abortion: A Community Teach-In — Interrupting Criminalization
Are you curious about how the rightwing successfully overturned Roe v Wade? Are you wondering how organizers and advocates are thinking about what comes next? Join Interrupting Criminalization for a t...
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Matthew Sparkes @sparkes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Terence Tao says AI companies are harming mathematics by dropping new results without engaging with academia. “These companies are dumping carcasses of raw meat onto our table and saying ‘here you go, I solved your food problem’ and then they just leave." www.newscientist.com/article/2588...
newscientist.com
Terence Tao: AI companies are harming mathematics | New Scientist
AI companies are making new mathematical discoveries at a rapid pace but not sticking around to help unpick the new proofs. That is not the way to advance our understanding, says mathematician Terence...
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
These #ICE thugs may even be sent by the Sociopath in Chief to harass voters in targeted, precincts to sway elections. So we need our own army of poll watchers/election observers. Look up your state Democratic party voter protection program & sign up & recruit friends! cadem.org/join-the-cad...
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...
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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch
There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
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Dr. CC 端兒 @labvixen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 07/09/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep LGBTQnation After a legal battle for nearly 10 years, Bulgarian Supreme Court bows to EU court finding that member states must recognize trans people’s gender changes and rules that Bulgarian trans people can change name and gender on govt IDs.
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"A deep relief": Trans advocates celebrate Bulgarian court's ruling in favor of legal gender changes - LGBTQ Nation
“It is a deep relief and a source of satisfaction to see that the system delivers," one advocate said.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“We have already seen an increase in swastikas drawn all over the school, Vietnamese pupils called ‘cat-eaters’… One former pupil who uses a wheelchair was very badly bullied. A group of boys told him, ‘Back in 1936 they would have gassed people like you’.” www.thetimes.com/article/0083...
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Life under the AfD: Germany prepares for a political earthquake
The hard right is poised to secure its first victory in Saxony-Anhalt, raising fears of a radical agenda targeting migrants, reforming education and smashing public broadcasters
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
‘The AfD also plans to introduce strict classroom segregation, barring children with disabilities and additional learning needs from the mainstream school system.’ www.thetimes.com/article/0083...
thetimes.com
Life under the AfD: Germany prepares for a political earthquake
The hard right is poised to secure its first victory in Saxony-Anhalt, raising fears of a radical agenda targeting migrants, reforming education and smashing public broadcasters
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/09/2026
UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale
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UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale
Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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Dr. CC 端兒 @labvixen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Well actually… they have bunkers bsky.app/profile/naom...
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Enlightening read on how difficult it is to push back against scientific racism: “When I first started testing the waters about whether we could have frank discussions about racist activism in science, a common response from other biologists (especially senior ones) was, “stop politicizing science”
spandrels.substack.com
Accidental historian: How I got a glimpse into the world of racist pseudoscience activism (Part 1)
Part 1: Setting the Stage
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 04/09/2026
Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump’s Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech
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Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump’s Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration violated the constitutional rights of international students in seeking to deport them for their pro-Palestinian activism and criticism of Israe...
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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Full sized SUVs are 2x more likely to strike pedestrians and 2x more likely to kill or seriously injure pedestrians vs passenger cars. If a child is struck by a full size SUV, they are 8x more likely to die www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
2. Literature review
2.1. Vehicle type and crash biomechanics
Desapriya et al. (2010) found that when a collision occurs, the risk of
a pedestrian sustaining a fatal injury is 50% greater with a light truck
versus a conventional car and that vehicle design characteristics such as
height, width, and length have significant associations with pedestrian
severity outcomes. In addition to the physical dimensions of the vehicles,
the authors cited light trucks’ relatively poor braking and maneuverability
as other possible contributing factors to their poor pedestrian
safety outcomes. Recent research has found that the difference is more
drastic for children, with children being eight times more likely to be
killed when struck by an SUV versus a passenger car (Edwards &
Leonard, 2022).
Front-end dimensions have been a particular focus area of past researchers.
Studies have shown that impacts with tall front-end vehicles –
including SUVs and vans – resulted in pedestrians being pushed forward
which, depending on the height of the pedestrian, sometimes resulted in
high head-ground impact speeds, likely leading to more severe injuries
(Crocetta et al., 2015; Monfort et al., 2024). Pedestrians that are pushed
to the ground by high-front-end vehicles may also be more likely to be
run over by the vehicle, as opposed to pedestrians struck by low-front-
end vehicles who may be more likely to be forced on top of the hood
(Crocetta et al., 2015).
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you have tips about the US Postal Service's effort to regulate mail voting in the midterms, please reach out. You can reach me securely on Signal at jenafifield.01 or contact our tip line at 917-512-0201.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/09/2026
A whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting that could "derail" the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed. n.pr/4xvMl7f
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Whistleblower claims USPS plan for Trump's mail voting order could 'derail' midterms
A whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting that could "derail" the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed.
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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hey I'm not actually done talking about Dolly Parton. 🧵 Specifically I want to talk about her album 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs, released in 1980 (not the soundtrack to the film 9 to 5, that's a different thing). The whole album is about work, with most of the songs focused on a different type of worker.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"A projected 111,000 fewer international students are expected in the U.S. this fall — a more than 9% drop in enrollment. A coalition of higher education organizations (AND UNIONS) sued the Department of Homeland Security to prevent the rule from taking effect." www.wuky.org/wuky-news/20...
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U.S. colleges, universities brace for loss of international students
The Trump administration is capping the length of time international students can legally remain in the U.S., and declines in their enrollment could spell disaster for colleges and universities.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.
stripes.com
West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Relevant again, as always
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 24/08/2026
Switching from Flock to another ALPR provider or other police surveillance technology isn't a fix, EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social told @NPR.org. "You're just replacing one color of camera for another. Those dangers you were concerned about are still going to be there."
npr.org
As Flock battles public scrutiny, other police surveillance companies see an opening
Dozens of cities have canceled their contracts with Flock. Some are switching to other companies, but privacy experts say they're no better than Flock.
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