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Mark Urban

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Grateful husband, father, & Holy Cross educator; Goonie; Tralfamadorian; Rider of Rohan. In a world of 11s, be a Hopper. Sober & Vigilant. PEACE Long form content @ themarkivesblog.wordpress.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 1h
A beautiful evening in Northfield for the Governor’s Pheasant Opener. Pheasant hunting is a Minnesota tradition and this year we’re celebrating new public land: a 101-acre island added to the Circle Lake Wildlife Management Area in Rice County.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 1h
There’s few places better than Northfield in the fall - and it’s a beautiful weekend to kick off the pheasant opener. Happy hunting, Minnesota!
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 6h
I’ll always fight to make sure hardworking Ohioans are paid a fair wage and receive all the benefits they’ve earned.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 6h
What did the Russian whisper in your ear?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h
The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/10/2026
"This technology that is ruining education has incredible potential to save education, if only I could figure out how to use it better to improve my students’ education." buff.ly/cEmLBex
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I Need AI to Write Better Lesson Plans So My Students Stop Using AI to Write Their Papers
“This technology that is ruining education has incredible potential to save education, if only I could figure out how to use it better to improve my students...
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NPR @npr.org · 17h
A study from Common Sense Media says most safeguards in ChatGPT for Teens failed. The chatbot talks to teens like a friend and doesn't alert parents when users talk about self-harm and suicide. n.pr/4rVkQ52
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ChatGPT for Teens has special safeguards. A watchdog group finds most don't work
A study from Common Sense Media says most safeguards in ChatGPT for Teens failed. The chatbot talks to teens like a friend and doesn't alert parents when users talk about self-harm and suicide.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17h
All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23h
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Whiny billionaire's closing message to Ohioans struggling with rising costs? Celebrate me and my billions.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings.
Hanna placed the noose around Bethea's neck, adjusted it, and then signaled to Hash to pull the trigger. Instead, Hash, who was drunk, did nothing. Hanna shouted at Hash, "Do it!" A deputy then leaned onto the trigger, which sprang the trap door. citation needed! Bethea fell 8 feet (2.4 m), and his neck was instantly broken.
Afterward, two doctors confirmed he was dead.
His body was taken to Andrew & Wheatley
Funeral Home. Icitation needed! He wanted his body to be sent to his sister in South Carolina so that she could arrange for him to be interred next to his father, but against these wishes, he was buried in a pauper's grave at Owensboro Cemetery (also known as City Cemetery and
"Potter's Field") in Owensboro. 14]It was estimated that a crowd of about 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution.!9! One man, 36-year-old Leonard A. Peters, was killed in a car accident while driving to Owensboro to witness the hanging. Three others, including his wife, were injured. 15. Afterwards, Hanna complained that Hash should not have been allowed to perform the execution in his drunken
condition. Hanna further said it was the worst display he experienced in the 70 hangings he had supervised. citation needed]
The spot where the scaffold stood
(approximately 37.775248° -87.116462°) is now part of a drop-off/pick-up lane in front of the Owensboro Convention Center. citation needed]へ
End of public executions in
Kentucky
As the Kentucky General Assembly had been meeting in its biennial sessions at the time, the media circus surrounding the Bethea execution embarrassed members of the Kentucky
legislature. In spite of the humiliation, they could not amend laws regarding executions until the next session in 1938. However, the trial judges in two separate Kentucky rape cases ordered that the hangings of John "Pete" Montjoy and Harold Van Venison be conducted privately. Montjoy, age 23, was privately hanged in Covington on December 17, 1937.On January 17, 1938, William R. Attkisson of the Kentucky State Senate's 38th District (representing Louisville), introduced Senate Bill 69, repealing the requirement in Section 1137 that executions for convicted rapists be conducted by hanging in the county seat where they raped their victims. The bill was promoted in the Kentucky House of Representatives by Representative Charles W. Anderson Jr., one of the attorneys who assisted Bethea in his post-conviction relief motions.
After both houses approved the bill, Governor Chandler signed it into law on March 12, 1938; it became effective on May 30 of that year.
Chandler later expressed regret at having approved the repeal, claiming, "Our streets are no longer safe." The last person ever legally hanged in Kentucky was Harold Van Venison, a
33-year-old African-American singer, who was privately executed in Covington on June 3, 1938.
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Gabe Wasylko @gabewasylko.com · 09/10/2026
This Morning’s Sunrise at the Fort Hill Stairs inside the Cleveland Metroparks
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Mark Urban @markurban8plus1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
THIS IS GENERATIONAL TRAUMA ABOLISH ICE
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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m fighting to make sure that no child in Ohio has to experience what Phil and I survived. No one will ever be unseen by me in this state when I’m governor.
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Mark Urban @markurban8plus1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
TELL YOUR CHILDREN WHO THE COWARDS ARE Emmer is a coward
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This man is unfit in every possible sense of the word. He is the worst impulses of this nation given physical form, and it is the duty of every single one of us who actually believe in freedom and democracy to make sure he and his followers are banished from power.
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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If a school accepts public dollars, Ohioans deserve to know how those dollars are being spent and what they're getting in return. It’s time for stronger oversight, real transparency, and accountability for every taxpayer dollar.
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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hardworking Ohioans deserve to know where their tax dollars are going. Ohio is sending billions of taxpayer dollars to private schools without requiring the same level of financial transparency and public accountability we expect from our public schools.
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Mark Urban @markurban8plus1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
AHS Season 14 already?
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If Democrats win, johnson will not be speaker at the point where they are swearing in the new Congress. They are sworn in by the speaker elect, who is chosen by the member elects
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
DELAWARE: "Nurse Monica Ryadi and her husband couldn’t wait to take their 3yo son to Disneyland... They didn’t get there. The Delco nurse has lived legally in 🇺🇸 since childhood. ICE arrested her as she took her son to Disneyland." #AbolishICE www.instagram.com/p/DeAFDW5jEW0
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Mark Urban @markurban8plus1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
TELL YOUR CHILDREN WHO THE COWARDS ARE Tillis is a coward
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
convicted felon Peter Navarro, who now works in the White House again after serving a four-month sentence, goes on TV with the White House behind him to promote a new product that he'll personally profit from -- a book called "Why Fauci Must Rot in Prison"
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fighting for a better future for our students.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 06/10/2026
H’as spoken like a traitor, and shall answer As traitors do.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh, spare me the bullshit redemption tour. Everyone knew what this was going to be. “Thom Tillis calls his vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth his “biggest regret” and says Hegseth should resign.” apnews.com/article/thom...
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Republican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret of my career' in a new book
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career.”
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
O-H!
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Mark Urban @markurban8plus1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
On the heels of a 60 Minutes puff piece on Tillis SHAME ON THEM ALL
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Together, we’re going to win this election.
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Instead, 60 Minutes posts a puff piece on Tillis SHAME ON THEM ALL
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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Public safety isn’t partisan. As governor, I’ll make sure our first responders have the resources, support, and respect they deserve to keep our communities safe. www.cincinnati.com/story/opinio...
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Why this longtime Ohio sheriff is endorsing Amy Acton for governor | Opinion
Opinion: I've spent 40 years in public safety. I'm backing Amy Acton for governor.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/10/2026
Here's the part where Cornell requires a "reflection paper" from a perp who testified that after he got the "free pussy" text, he only went into the room because one of the guys in there had a vape he could borrow.
Within ninety (90) days after this Decision becomes final (otherwise subject to
reasonable extension approved by the Title IX Coordinator), Respondent will submit
to the Title IX OfEcc a reflection paper that engages with the specific circumstances for
which he was found responsible and contains a detailed proposal for future University
educational materials to train undergraduate students around the intersection of social
media use and sexual harassment, as well as bystander intervention. The reflection paper
must also include recommendations to the University's Office of Sorority & Fraternity
Life with respect to substance use prevention efforts in Greek Life organizations on
campus. Use of artificial intelligence tools of any kind in the creation of this reflection
paper is prohibited.
" The Hearing Panel expects that Respondent will take this educational opportunity
seriously and apply what he learns to help improve the University/Greek Life community.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Senator Jon Husted is in the pockets of the health insurance companies that are ripping you off. When I’m elected, I’ll take on the corruption in the health insurance industry and ban them from denying the care you pay for.
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The vocabulary of vulnerability – 10 wonderfully untranslatable words from around the world to hold our most complex and difficult emotions www.themarginalian.org/2026/08/24/b...
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The Vocabulary of Vulnerability: 10 Wonderfully Untranslatable Words from Around the World for Complex and Difficult Emotions
Language is the chalice we lift to our lips to taste our own experience — a vessel that constrains what it contains by giving it its own shape. The more complex our experience, the more muddl…
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Honored to be with Pastor Dr. Keith Troy for service at New Salem Baptist Church this morning.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My name is Mychal. I love books. I celebrate the freedom to read 📚✨
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ACLU @aclu.org · 04/10/2026
📚 Happy Banned Books Week! 📚 We’re fighting across the nation to defend everyone’s freedom to read. We want to know: What’s your favorite banned book?
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Gabe Wasylko @gabewasylko.com · 04/10/2026
Perfect Autumn Mornings in Cleveland, Ohio
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 04/10/2026
"Here we are, back in this terrible place, just forty-one years after Brett Kavanaugh became a Delta Kappa Epsilon Deke, and eight years after his confirmation to the Supreme Court. How did we get here?" buff.ly/K3eqEvg
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How Could Such a Thing Still Happen in a Country with a Frat Boy Supreme Court Justice?
“I’m just thinking out loud here, but maybe a political party that has dedicated the last forty years to taking away women’s rights could also give some thou...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.
The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.
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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 04/10/2026
Happy Banned Books Week! We’re here to remind you that they can try to censor us — but they’ll never erase who we are. 🏳️‍🌈
Yellow text on light blue background with HRC logo reads, "Banned Books Week."
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