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margaretjwiener.bsky.social

@margaretjwiener.bsky.social
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Anthropologist, STS adjacent, Environmental Humanities, Equal opportunity for dogs and cats, proud mom, lover of the web of life, recent c-drama fan, Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia

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margaretjwiener.bsky.social @margaretjwiener.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
So for some reason, Facebook has suspended my account while they investigate my identity (!) Please contact me here, if you know me on both platforms and can't reach me. (I was hoping to find out who was going to the AAA meetings)
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/04/2025
Autopsies of rescue workers killed in Gaza show ‘gunshots to head and torso’
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Autopsies of rescue workers killed in Gaza show ‘gunshots to head and torso’
Findings likely to increase pressure on Israel to give a full account of incident amid accusations of war crime * The Gaza paramedic killings: a visual timeline The doctor who carried out the autopsies of the 15 paramedics and rescue workers who were killed by Israeli troops in Gaza in March has said they were mostly killed by gunshots to the head and torso, as well as injuries caused by explosives. There was international outcry last month after it emerged that Israeli troops had launched a deadly attack on a group of paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent, civil defence and United Nations workers, as they carried out a rescue operation in southern Gaza. Continue reading...
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margaretjwiener.bsky.social @margaretjwiener.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Bill 536, which would have abolished the Arkansas State Library and eliminated the State Library Board, was defeated in a House committee last week. bit.ly/4jtW9aq via @everylibrary.bsky.social
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Together, We Stopped a Dangerous Bill in Arkansas
Senate Bill 536, which would have abolished the Arkansas State Library and eliminated the State Library Board, was defeated in a House committee last week
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.
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margaretjwiener.bsky.social @margaretjwiener.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I am thrilled to announce that my new book, Magic's Translations, will be out from Duke in mid-May, with this lovely cover. Posting now for the 30% pre-order code!
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is so close to the stated justification for Indian Removal--that it would be better for the Cherokees and others Natives to be moved West of the Mississippi--although not even Andrew Jackson stooped to calling the "Trail of Tears" majestic.
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Oliver Lord @olord.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Cars are getting 1cm wider every two years. That may not sound much, but over time it adds up, and they're showing no signs of slowing down 😬 That's #carspreading. Our new campaign is calling on city leaders to make parking policies fairer by varying costs based on the size of a car. Why? 🧵1/8
A graphic showing how much wider cars are getting and especially in the SUV market
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/02/2025
someone tell ernst that neither the president nor musk embodies the american people and that if they want to cut funding they should work with congress to pass a bill www.semafor.com/article/02/0...
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Yes. More like this please.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
And here's my colleague @chrislehmann.bsky.social putting it all into words.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
What this long and detailed NYT piece calmly calls an “extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual” is in fact a blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s Article I powers and delegation of the President’s Article II duties. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
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Elon Musk’s Blitz Shakes U.S. Government as He Sweeps Through Agencies
The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It really is remarkable how the GOP is shaping itself around how much tech billionaires see their own employees as ungrateful brats. www.salon.com/2025/01/17/t...
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The tech billionaire war on "woke" is really a war on workers
Mark Zuckerberg wants "masculine energy" and "aggression" at the office — sounds like a toxic workplace
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
(WIRED) - A 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies, has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government, three sources tell WIRED. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls So...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/02/2025
The EPA plans to demote career employees and replace them with political appointees, which would give Trump administration loyalists more influence over aspects of the agency that were traditionally led by nonpartisan experts.
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E.P.A. Demotes Career Employees Overseeing Science, Enforcement and More
A spokeswoman for the agency said the change was “common practice.” Others said it injects partisanship into jobs that have always been neutral.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
It’s almost like they want to keep America stupid—less financially stable & thus more controllable.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/01/2025
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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Extinction Is Still Forever… Despite Biotech Efforts to Revive Species 🌍🐂 🦤 @yalee360.bsky.social e360.yale.edu/features/de-...
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Despite Biotech Efforts to Revive Species, Extinction Is Still Forever
In the last decade, laboratory initiatives to recreate long-extinct species have stirred controversy. Now, scientists increasingly agree "de-extinction" is not possible, but breeding living animals wi...
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