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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
battlestar gallactica but with my crappy 20 year old fridge and oven
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I hope you will read the article and let me know what you think. 4/4 www.currentaffairs.org/news/liberal...
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Liberals Can't Address the Climate Crisis Because It Means Confronting Capitalism
We have no choice but to take on the fossil fuel industry. Those who won't acknowledge this are peddling fake solutions to climate change.
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
you bastards revoked all my hei points for watching the dots show which I DID NOT EVEN DO
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Everyone is getting Digger-pilled and we can’t know whether that’s bad or good because although the film is extremely well made and interesting and devastating and unique, enjoying it is also part of what the movie itself so hatefully critiques. This is why we continue to need Adorno
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grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Reminder this investigation was started under Biden to indulge the exceptional islamophobia his administration had and was absolutely about her advocacy for Palestinian rights. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
nytimes.com
Under Biden Administration, Justice Dept. Began Examining Ilhan Omar’s Finances
The inquiry, initiated by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, appears to have stalled for lack of evidence.
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If you aren’t planning on having kids you should get an ablation!! I got one three years ago and it changed my life completely. Just spreading the good news bc I’d never heard of it before
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Digger is the most hateful movie I’ve ever seen (complimentary)
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ryandevereaux.bsky.social @ryandevereaux.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In July, I took a ride through the Arizona desert with Verlon Jose, chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation, a sprawling reservation on the U.S.-Mexico border that may soon be changed forever. It was the beginning of an investigation that ProPublica is publishing today. THREAD ⬇️
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John Washington @jwashing.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Two new pieces today: Latest from the ongoing border wall standoff in Lochiel. A person remains in the tree on the Mexican side, despite Border Patrol cutting down their platform last night. www.lookoutnews.org/lochiel-ariz... and an essay on fascism: johnwashington.substack.com/p/the-quicks...
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‘A Place Where Nobody Can Hear You Scream’: Witnesses Describe Border Patrol Crackdown At Lochiel
After a raid, a seven-hour standoff and the felling of four cottonwoods, activists say they’re staying put. Overnight, agents moved on the last tree-sitter in Mexico.
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Smokey and the Bandit; and National Treasure. Mix them together and it’s got almost everything. Diseased films
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
in retrospect it may not have been wise for us to give total control over our working conditions to a bunch of failed academics who despise us lol
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"What activists in Lochiel, Sonora, Big Bend, and beyond make clear, however, is that the government’s victory cannot be assumed. Disruptions and interventions are not just possible but also an absolute necessity, and pressure can be applied in an array of directions."
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 08/10/2026
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda reflects on three years of genocide in Gaza, a life lost forever, and her unending work to tell the truth. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/vide... #Palestine #Israel
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 08/10/2026
In Lochiel, Arizona, where people have been resisting the construction of the border wall, one brave activist locked down to construction machinery—and Border Patrol drove it away with them locked to it. "We're taking you to the middle of nowhere where no one can hear you scream."
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 07/10/2026
After a 71-day protest, the last of the 100-plus-year-old trees was cut down southeast of Tucson.
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The ‘grandmother’ cottonwood trees bulldozed for the border wall - High Country News
After a 71-day protest, the last of the 100-plus-year-old trees was cut down southeast of Tucson.
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A tree sitter has returned to the remaining cottonwood in Lochiel, which has its roots to the south of the old wall but overhangs the route of the new one
we see a large and beautiful cottonwood, hung with homemade banners decrying the border wall and with a canopy high up in the branches.
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 06/10/2026
Happening now! Border Patrol amassing forces after land defenders re-established a tree sit on the Mexican side of the border in La Noria, Sonora, this morning, stopping wall construction the day after DHS killed the Grandmother Tree.
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Honored to announce I have received a Nobel Prize for my work as a hater
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 05/10/2026
Since July 27, brave people have been occupying an ancient cottonwood tree to block the construction of Trump's border wall, which is destroying the region's ecology. This morning, Border Patrol raided the camp, arresting a number of people and killing the tree. Background: crimethinc.com/lochiel
crimethinc.com
The Border is an Open Wound
A report from the tree occupation in Lochiel, Arizona that is halting the construction of the border wall.
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not saying anything mean about Digger in case it becomes sentient
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
"A.I." boosters vs "A.I." critics
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 04/10/2026
🎥WATCH: On Feb 28, Tomahawk missiles struck a school in Minab, killing at least 156 people, including 120 children — one of the gravest US war crimes since Vietnam. @jeremyscahill.com, @mazmhussain.bsky.social & Reza Sayah (X: @SayahTweets) spent 2 months speaking w/ survivors. This is their story.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The hosts did note that, actually, most students dislike AI too. And it’s quite clear that instructors do. But the president likes it, or in any case wants it. So the university is abdicating all responsibility for managing or regulating it. That falls on us, with no new time or resources.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“At the Rashad Shawa Cultural Centre, its collection of nearly 50,000 books was entirely lost. At the Holst Library, around 10,000 books were lost after the centre sustained partial damage”
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
so true bestie, but I think we need to stay focused on an even earlier betrayal; the first sea creature who crawled onto land, cursing the human race to terrestrial existence. How fucking dare they
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i know a lot of people really, really want gaza to be a two-sides issue that maps cleanly onto US electoral politics, but it isn't. the mainstream of both parties supports the genocide, because the US as an institution supports the genocide. i know that's uncomfortable but you can't run away from it
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Max Scherzer just made me cry at sports for the first time in my life. I said I hope one day I can meet him and say “you helped a middle aged woman finally get interested in baseball” and my husband rolled his eyes and said “yeah like he’s never heard THAT before”
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’ll fix it. I’ll solve the crisis in higher ed by starting my own college and showing you how I’d do it. I’m at least as qualified as the glad-handing dandies and real estate goblins running things now. Give me a shot how bad could it be
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
boring. read a book
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don’t see this take enough!!
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
can't wait to see which specific social conditions these two economists will discover to be ideal for encouraging creativity lol
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
tough time to be living in greenfield massachusetts 😭😭😭stop texting me about it, we’ve suffered enough
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
‘Colleges & universities violated basic free speech, association, & assembly rights & caused serious harm when they summoned police. They directly or indirectly made it easier for the Trump administration to crack down on student activism, causing long-term damage to higher education.’ Major report:
ACLU / AIUSA
RESEARCH REPORT
Student Speech Under Attack
Suppression of Pro-Palestine
Speech and Dissent on Campus
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 02/04/2026
“It is a striking indication of the social and cultural decay inherent in the final stages of capitalism, when elaborate scientific methods begin to be used, no longer to promote, but to eliminate intelligence from among the workers, because intelligent workers become Communists.” R. P. Dutt (1934)
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026
Exclusive: Our new investigation uncovers the horrifying ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooter, with OpenAI’s chatbot fueling the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the day of the school massacre.
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
More on class-action suit against Columbia which my daughter is part of, including the news-to-me that CU (in the shameful tradition) actually hired Pinkerton thugs to crush their students’ peaceful protest. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/09...
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Pro-Palestinian student protesters sue Columbia over Butler protest crackdown
Three Columbia students filed a federal class action lawsuit Friday over the University’s handling of the May 7, 2025, pro-Palestinian protest at Butler Library, alleging Public Safety officers locked...
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’m really happy for you
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I know people can care about multiple things at once but the fact that "thousands" feel compelled to physically protect an arts center while concentration camps are being built and filled all around us with nowhere near this level of massed direct intervention makes me fucking sick
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
i‘ve also been driven insane by the computer but in a normal way
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
this is literally unbearable lol
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
UMass is spending tens of millions of dollars on AI while defunding the Institute for Social Science Research & the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute; the Centers for: Research on Families; Diversity Sciences; and Latin American Studies; and canceling outright the entire Arabic language program
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026
More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Palestinian folk songs do more than entertain, they document occupation in real time. Serena Rasoul launches the Palestinian Folk Music Archive: a free digital collection of 800+ songs gathered from Palestinian families everywhere. Yezen Saadah reports: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...
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Oaf @languidoaf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
CEO of Taco Bell: we’re actually worried that some of our upcoming items could destroy humanity as well
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
i'm sick of computer
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
we're about to start playing it again
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I’ll ”incorporate AI” into my classroom when I am cold in my grave
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