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Amanda Lanigan

@laniganamanda.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate at DPCR Uppsala (@uupeace.bsky.social). Independent reviewer of Schengen area Dunkin’ franchises. Mainly here to lurk.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 7h
This was a emotionally challenging piece for me to write--angering, saddening, and tbh frightening--but I also think it's important There were so many opportunities to save Tierra Walker's life and it's so obvious why her pregnancy ended in death anyway ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It Predictable
Republican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Students across the country are making it clear: stop tearing our communities apart. "Students outraged over family-shattering policies that have left desks empty have now spent weeks walking out of school en masse to march, chant, and take a stand for their peers," writes @tusk81.bsky.social.
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Thousands of High School Students Walk Out To Protest Mass Deportation: ‘We Believe In The Constitution, ICE Does Not’
Students are facing suspension and other disciplinary actions for standing up for their peers, communities, and rights.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 22/03/2026
Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.
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Lake Tahoe isn’t sure where it’s power will come from after the next ski season
The area’s longtime power supplier, NV Energy, will cut off the region next year. It has said data centers are driving “unprecedented” demand.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/03/2026
NEW: Cherise Doyley never expected to see a judge while in labor. Yet she found herself fighting a court for the right to make medical decisions about her own body — from her hospital bed. Here’s how her case unfolded.
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She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section.
A virtual court hearing from a pregnant mother’s hospital bed shows what forced medical treatment can look like.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz... What a world
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 09/03/2026
We get an update on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran from Israel, where reports are growing of discrimination against non-Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel attempting to seek shelter from Iranian drone and missile attacks.
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“Racist Regime”: Iranian Israeli Editor Orly Noy on Israel Denying Bomb Shelter Access to Palestinians
We get an update on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran from Israel, where reports are growing of discrimination against non-Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel attempting to seek shelter from Iranian ...
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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 04/03/2026
Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday. Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection. A tooth infection. 1/3 tucson.com/news/local/b...
Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Liam Ramos. Five years old. Just starting to understand temporality, to read, to tell stories about the world around him. The world should come to a screeching halt.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Black folks and immigrants have long lived in a "perogative state" when it comes to law enforcement, and maybe pundits at the largest national outlets should recognize that their past support for punitive policing and immigration enforcement laid the groundwork for the current moment.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough. Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray
It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim
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himbobottomus.bsky.social @himbobottomus.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
this is the sickest shit ive ever seen
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Erika Uyterhoeven @electerika.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I need to apologize for something I did. The @bostonherald.com is right, there is no place for profanities in politics.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 11/01/2026
From the Editorial Board: Data centers are coming. Existing homes and businesses cannot be made to suffer for power hogs.
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Editorial: Ready or not, the data centers are coming. We must keep our electric bills from soaring.
ComEd let the public know last week that the power demand from new data centers indeed will be huge.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
One of the core purposes of right-wing media is to rewrite your memory and reprogram your moral response to an event you saw with your own eyes. George Floyd died of a heart attack. Jan 6 was a peaceful picnic. This process has already begun
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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 09/06/2025
Supporting the continued existence of ICE is a radical position that should make everyone keep an eye on you
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
NEW: “I Don’t Feel Safe.” Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force, by @wendicthomas.bsky.social @katieburgess.bsky.social w/ @mlk50.com
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“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force
A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...
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Ilker Kalin @ilkerkalin.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Our article wt @laniganamanda.bsky.social is out in Political Research Quarterly! Using a natural experiment & interviews, we find that police recertification reform in Massachusetts prompt a recalibration of officer behavior, though not a full transformation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 16/10/2025
We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 02/10/2025
shocking details out of an ICE raid on an apartment building in South Shore area of Chicago on September 30th abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Water crisis and toxic waste: Israel is committing an 'environmental genocide' in Gaza as part of the erasure of Palestinian life Alongside the genocide of Palestinians throughout Gaza, Israel is committing an environmental genocide on an unprecedented scale. www.thecanary.co/global/world...
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Water crisis and toxic waste: Israel is committing an 'environmental genocide' in Gaza as part of the erasure of Palestinian life
Alongside the genocide of Palestinians throughout Gaza, Israel is committing an environmental genocide on an unprecedented scale.
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
A journalist was arrested as ICE ramped up its use of tear gas and other non-lethal weapons against protesters in Broadview Saturday. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/28/i...
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ICE Escalates Violence Against Protesters In Broadview, Journalist Arrested
The use of tear gas, flash bang grenades and other weapons against protesters and members of the press ramped up Saturday after Broadview's mayor spoke out against ICE's tactics.
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Wendy de los Reyes, PhD🌻 @wdlr.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Oh hey, that’s us!
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 25/09/2025
Have Trump's immigrant jails become "black sites"?
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Where Are The Detainees? Hundreds of “Alligator Alcatraz” Prisoners Disappear from ICE Database
Hundreds of people who were once detained at the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” have disappeared. Democracy Now! speaks with Shirsho Dasgupta, a Miam...
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Students being progressive is not a bigger problem than a sustained assault by an authoritarian president, please get a grip www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Higher Ed Has a Bigger Problem Than Trump
Universities should see the president’s interventions as a wake-up call, not the root of their troubles.

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Universities can begin to assuage this skepticism by committing to addressing America’s biggest problems, starting with polarization. American colleges must become a venue for the frank but charitable exchange of ideas. College is not simply a debating society, yet many schools risk stifling dialogue, even if unintentionally. A recent study of University of Michigan and Northwestern University students by the psychology researchers Kevin Waldman and Forest Romm found that 72 percent reported self-censoring their political beliefs. Perhaps more troubling, 82 percent had turned in work that misrepresented their beliefs “to align with a professor’s expectations.” Such pervasive self-censorship not only undercuts universities’ academic mission—it also validates the widespread suspicion that campuses replicate bias instead of challenging it.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
NY Times showing how to both sides the secret police abduction squads story
Should ICE Agents Be Allowed to Wear Masks? It Depends Whom You Ask.
Los Angeles’s mayor said Sunday that masked immigration agents helped create a “reign of terror.” ICE’s director said agents could wear masks to “keep them and their families safe.”
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/06/2025
Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney
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Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney
If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney
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Amanda Lanigan @laniganamanda.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
What in the semantic gymnastics is this?
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Lindsay P Cohn @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Ok, I’m no @profpaulpoast.bsky.social but I shall try to do a thread on militaries and protests. Apologies up front to all the brilliant scholars I accidentally leave out - am doing this from memory. 1/
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 07/06/2025
🚨 Support Los Angeles immigrant communities 🚨 Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs: Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate LA Jail Support / Bail Fund: account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor... Unión del Barrio: uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...
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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 08/06/2025
Doce medidas que los países europeos siguen sin adoptar para intentar frenar el genocidio israelí en Gaza El análisis de @olgarodriguezfr.bsky.social
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Doce medidas que los países europeos siguen sin adoptar para intentar frenar el genocidio israelí en Gaza
Israel expulsa y arrincona a la gente de Gaza en áreas cada vez más reducidas pero ninguna nación europea ha cerrado su embajada en Israel, impuesto sanciones o suspendido relaciones: la UE no podrá d...
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 08/06/2025
I am a disabled, anti-Zionist Jew, and I believe we will see a free Palestine. But I also believe this: anyone claiming to do the work of disability rights or justice while remaining silent on Gaza is actually doing no such thing. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/ther... #Palestine #Israel
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There is no disability justice without a Free Palestine
I am a disabled, anti-Zionist Jew, and I believe we will see a free Palestine. But I also believe this: anyone claiming to do the work of disability rights or justice while remaining silent on Gaza is...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Why does President Trump perceive Harvard as his enemy? Doesn’t he know it’s a place where racist narcissists can receive tenure in the psychology department? by Stephen Pinker
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Alexandre Raffoul @awraffoul.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Uppsala University promoted research stays in Israel at the exact moment Israel was intensifying its genocide in Gaza. Scandalous, but not surprising - write 90 staff members and students: www.unt.se/debatt/artik...
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DEBATT: Uppsala universitet måste sluta stötta Israel
Universitetet marknadsför israeliska forskningsstipendier som stöttar Israels krigsföring, skriver 90 akademiker i ett upprop.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
People have literally been enslaved there. What the absolute fuck.
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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
We are now receiving applications for one fully funded PhD position in peace and conflict research, with a focus on political violence in democratic countries. Read more 👉 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... Applications are also open for our general PhD position👉 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #PhD #Democracy
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