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Lisa C Minnick

@lcminnick.bsky.social
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Restless spirit, trade unionist, recovering academic, and friend to animals. Labor creates all wealth. She/her. DC statehood now.

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Lisa C Minnick @lcminnick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Everything about this is so hilariously pathetic and embarrassing and I love it for him
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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Any time you look around an academic department and ask, "why are there no/so few tenured women?" know that the answer includes stories like this of women who quietly disappeared. (then the men that remain think, even if they never say, "there are inherent gender differences" and act accordingly)
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hatred toward Muslims is a growing problem. Pew says shortly after 9/11, Republicans and those leaning toward the GOP were slightly more likely than Democrats and Dem leaners to say Islam encourages violence (32% vs. 23%). Now the gap is huge: 76% vs. 29%. Bigotry is the Republican brand.
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Two Decades Later, the Enduring Legacy of 9/11
Twenty years ago, Americans came together – bonded by sadness and patriotism – after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But a review of public opinion in the two decades since finds that unity was fleeting. It also shows how support for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq was strong initially but fell over time.
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Lisa C Minnick @lcminnick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Down goes the Berlin Wall, 1989
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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 01/09/2026
A new report finds that most abortion patients can’t afford care amid the cost-of-living crisis. Abortion funds are seeing an increase in clients as their own resources dwindle, and many clinics are offering large discounts to help patients get care—which means absorbing financial losses.
autonomynews.co
Exclusive: ‘Toothpicks and Band-Aids’ Can’t Keep Abortion Clinics Open
A new report finds that most abortion patients can’t afford care amid the cost-of-living crisis. Clinics and abortion funds are absorbing huge losses as a result.
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Lisa C Minnick @lcminnick.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Love this one!
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I feel like I’m living In a dystopian novel written in 1993 that was rejected by dozens of publishers because it was incredibly stupid.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Alright everybody, time to text the teachers in your life. The fall semester is open at SkypeAScientist and we are ready to match classrooms, scout troops, library groups, and more with scientists! Tell the educators in your life, and send them to SkypeAScientist.com
A frog uses its comically long tongue to catch a fleeing fly and the words say “send this to a teacher” pointing right. Then under the tongue it says “Skype a scientist matches classrooms with scientists for free Q&As” and there’s a little pond scene with lily pads and spatterdock flowers and a rock with a snail on it and a salamander with the words get a match at Skype scientist.com
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. U.S. officials are concerned that Putin, squeezed in Ukraine and under pressure at home, could launch an assault ranging from a cyberattack to a small-scale land incursion, likely on a Baltic nation ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Comparing a robot to Usain Bolt just reminds me of the story of John Henry, a young Black man who was consigned to forcible labor for a railroad and died after outworking a steam-powered drill. TL;DR: there is a racialized dynamic when techbro types try to say that machines > human laborers
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Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend | Virginia Museum of History & Culture
According to the ballad that made him famous, John Henry did battle with a steam-powered drill, beat the machine, and died. Folklorists have long thought John Henry to be mythical, but historian Scott...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/08/2026
tl;dw: the job of the dem majority over the next two years, should it materialize, is to make life hell for the white house, not find points of cooperation
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What Democrats can learn from Mitch McConnell
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A reminder that there is no free speech in a private corporation- unless you are a member of a labor union. Labor unions don't just raise wages. They protect your right to speak your mind even if your boss doesn't like it - even if your boss is Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men on earth.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Will there be any accountability? The prob is was both right & left leaning news orgs & they’re circling the wagons. The lack of basic humanity & decency *after* the fact is perhaps what’s most depressing of all. Anyway, Jason’s piece is here: jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/it-sure-lo...
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Montgomery County, MD Government @montgomerycountymd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🎒 Back-to-school is almost here! MCPS will host six regional Back-to-School Fairs this Saturday, Aug. 22, with school supplies, registration help, transportation and technology support, family activities and more. Find your fair and get ready for the new school year: ow.ly/fHZq50ZBEqn
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Trump's covert surveillance of anti-ICE protesters is much worse than we thought. I dug into this and found that DHS agents secretly spied on over a dozen meetings of left-leaning groups, all protected by First Amendment. The details are unnerving. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2144...
newrepublic.com
Trump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.
Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/08/2026
Crying Newborn Has No Idea How Much Worse It Gets theonion.com/crying-newborn-has-no-…
Crying Newborn Has No Idea How Much Worse It Gets
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Lisa C Minnick @lcminnick.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
After Katrina, “many people came to Bay St. Louis to help rebuild and stayed because they loved the community.” Great story about a special place.
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Lisa C Minnick @lcminnick.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Great piece!
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
NEW from me: DHS domestic spying based on nutty conspiracy theories demands way more attention. It's a major scandal -- a milestone in our descent into a police state. But where's the outrage? presswatchers.org/2026/08/dhs-...
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DHS domestic spying based on nutty conspiracy theories demands way more attention | Press Watch
It's a major scandal -- a milestone in our descent into a police state. But where's the outrage?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/08/2026
Q: The family members of US service members are concerned about the conditions on the USS Lincoln TRUMP: No they're not Q: Has the deployment gone on too long? TRUMP: No no no. Not nearly long enough.
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Lisa C Minnick @lcminnick.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The colors 😍
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Lisa C Minnick @lcminnick.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I love this beautiful edit of @robby-the-bc.bsky.social by @riotgrlerin.bsky.social The whole thread is a delight. Erin’s art is pure joy.
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Lisa C Minnick @lcminnick.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
These are all so beautiful
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Lisa C Minnick @lcminnick.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Omg 🤩🤩🤩
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Lisa C Minnick @lcminnick.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This one’s great
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Lisa C Minnick @lcminnick.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Black and white border collie dog with tan markings on his face and legs looking surprised and also little disappointed in you while standing atop a small round dining table where he is not supposed to be yet he is the one who’s indignant
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Holy shit this is like some serious Church Committee level shit. gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
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U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
DHS's now amply-documented extensive illegal undercover surveillance of people engaging in First Amendment-protected activities should outrage you. It should be the top story on everyone's radar. This is police-state stuff. Raise your voices!
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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ACLU of Florida @aclufl.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
BREAKING: Students have filed a lawsuit against FIU for violating their right to protest on campus. They silently stood against the university's decision to contract with ICE while wearing "ICE OFF FIU" t-shirts—and they got punished for it. That's unconstitutional.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“Here’s what we found: Every additional 100kg of vehicle weight was associated with a 6% increase in odds of pedestrian fatality. Every additional 10cm of height was associated with an 11% increase in odds of pedestrian fatality. The relationship was even stronger in lower-speed environments.”
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Big US-style trucks are killing more pedestrians in Australia – our research proves it
Pedestrians are more likely to be killed by heavier cars – and even more so if the vehicle is taller, Australian-first research has found.
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Mike in the Box @mike-in-the-box.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Here's a non-paywalled link to that Washington Post exclusive about Trump's sending the White House press corps as a decoy to be blown up by Iran, while he secretly flew on a different plane: archive.is/AFteC
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
God already built a wall through Big Bend — it's called the Chisos Mountains. We don't need to give billions of our tax dollars to out of state vendors. We don't need to desecrate this sacred land. We don't need this useless, disgraceful, corrupt Big Bend border wall.
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Defector @defector.com · 06/08/2026
The Washington Mystics don't act their age: defector.com/the-washingt...
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The Washington Mystics Don't Act Their Age | Defector
The bulletin board material the Dallas Wings supplied to Cotie McMahon looked more like posterboard material. On Wednesday night, after the Washington Mystics’ 96-92 comeback win over Dallas, the rook...
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 07/08/2026
"Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s latest dismal jobs report. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July: Women lost 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000."
newrepublic.com
Trump’s Terrible July Jobs Numbers Only Hurt Women
And the number of women who have left the workforce since January is more than double the number of men.
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Jomboy Media (Unofficial) @jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Both outfielders collide on the warning track and pop the ball up and over the wall for a Ronald Acuña Jr. home run
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 06/08/2026
Twitter is a reality distortion field that stereotypes partisans as extremists and pushes the electorate right. All algorithms do this to an extent, but X is incredibly pernicious in that it's explicitly designed to do this. More on the algo here www.gelliottmorris.com/p/you-should...
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You should quit social media for good
Platforms optimized for engagement warp our politics, erode attention, and harm our wellbeing. Here’s how I minimize time on the (anti‑)social web.
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NPR @npr.org · 05/08/2026
Rates are now as bad as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick and dying. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines. n.pr/4yZJVPo
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Appalachia's black lung rates highest in nearly 50 years as miners' protections stall
Rates are now as bad as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick and dying. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion
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Decision Desk HQ @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Decision Desk HQ projects Jocelyn Benson wins the MI Governor Democratic Primary #DecisionMade: 9:00 PM EDT
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Lisa C Minnick @lcminnick.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I laughed way too hard at this
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Inflammatory disorders can be brutal. I’d know personally (thanks vasculitis et al). But the misinformation, including on vaccines, is dangerous. A deep dive from me into how MAHA sped up the inflammation panic. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
The Great Inflammation panic
The wellness world's favorite buzzword has gone federal. For those of us with real inflammatory disorders, the misinformation isn't just annoying—it's harmful.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
BREAKING WSJ: The Trump admin plans to end a subsidy program that helped hold down premiums for Medicare drug plans — a move that could leave many seniors facing higher rates for their prescription coverage next year.
wsj.com
Exclusive | Trump Administration to End Medicare Drug Plan Subsidy
Program that held down premiums won’t be renewed for 2027, resulting in higher costs for some seniors.
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Ross Schulman @rbs.io · 26/07/2026
Only exception to this: If you live in DC, call every last one of the bastards until we get the right to vote in our own legislature.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 23/07/2026
"During a conference call after Good was killed, then-Commander Gregory Bovino of the Border Patrol stunned prosecutors with his language about subduing Minnesota: 'We’re going to pacify this place, we’re going to roll ‘em up.'" minnesotareformer.com/2026/07/23/c...
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CNN report: Federal immigration agents lied to prosecutors during Operation Metro Surge • Minnesota Reformer
Many of the federal prosecutors would wind up departing in protest.
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Katie Heindl @wtevs.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
wrote about why the wnba isn't more dramatic, people just love to scrutinise women
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Women as mirrors, men as absolutes
There isn't more drama in the WNBA, there is just more scrutiny of and for women.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
nytimes.com
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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Lisa C Minnick @lcminnick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
These are really good
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