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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you watch one video today please watch this. The story of how the people of Orillia put the run on the Nazis is a model for putting the run on hate. Please watch and please share. @meidascanada.ca youtu.be/rf6Aw3CdIcg?...

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HOW TO PUT THE RUN ON FASCISTS IN YOUR TOWN

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Dorothy🇨🇦 @dmw1959.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/char... ‘Make NAZIs unwelcome again’ Get to know your neighbours, you will discover great people on every street Stand by them&stand up for&with them if ever your community is invaded by person spewing NAZI bs -run them out of your community &tell them NAZIs are not welcome here!

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lower accountability reads as higher risk. When a town's newspaper closes those local governments end up paying higher interest rates to borrow. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 27/09/2026

“Strong Men & Women in Virginia History,” a traveling exhibit highlighting the contributions of pioneering African Americans in VA, is making its way across VA, allowing communities to learn about individuals whose work reached far beyond the pages of history books. www.nvdaily.com/nvdaily/exhi...

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Exhibit highlights African Americans who shaped Virginia communities

A traveling exhibit highlighting the contributions of pioneering African Americans in Virginia is making its way to libraries and historical institutions across the Commonwealth, allowing communities ...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The idea that deep institutional damage can be easily rolled back seems like a very odd take for a conservative. The damage to the civil service system is huge, and legislation is needed to reassure future hires they won’t be fired on a whim.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 09/08/2026

Republicans keep peddling the claim that proving citizenship at the polls is not a big deal. But do Americans know it's not as simple as just showing a photo ID? 🪪 Here’s what you need to know: demdock.com/4gT3Glp

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The detail I can’t get out of my head here is how he told his ex-wife that he had been hired by ICE, but she thought he must have been having a delusion, because how could ICE hire someone who had such a long history of family violence?

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Martha McNeill @martharmc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This interview with Ty Cobb is vital (and damned scary).

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 17/07/2026

Ava DuVernay announced Thursday that she has made a documentary for Netflix on the 14th Amendment, which gave liberty and rights to formerly enslaved people following the Civil War, and which has come under legal attack from President Donald Trump. to.pbs.org/44vhaML

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Ava DuVernay announces '14th,' new documentary on birthright amendment contested by Trump

The film will mark a return to nonfiction for DuVernay, the filmmaker of “Selma” and “Origin,” and a follow-up to DuVernay's 2016 film “13th,” her examination of the legacy of the 13th Amendment, whic...

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In all seriousness, they've been doing this for years (remember Roger Stone saying that if Trump wasn't POTUS in 2016 there'd be a "bloodbath") and the real question is why officials refused to enforce accountability and still refuse to do so. But that requires having a memory and doing research.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Issa Kohler Hausmann at Yale Law School. "What’s missing from the news coverage, and from universities’ capitulation, is that the legal rule supposedly compelling this surrender doesn’t exist. The whole campaign rests on invented law and distorted statistics." news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchan...

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A Yale-Trump Settlement Would Concede Live Constitutional Issue

Opinion: The precedent Yale University would set in settling with the Department of Justice matters for every institution navigating the murky waters the Supreme Court left behind with its 2023 ruling...

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 15/07/2026

Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug 1855

How could I be? How can anyone who abhors the oppression of Negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal except negroes." When the Know-nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes and foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty,--to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16/07/2026

"What the federal government has been doing to people assumed to be immigrants is different from normal police brutality. It is a targeted campaign. We are witnessing, for the first time since Jim Crow, American death squads."

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America’s Death Squads Are Real

Sometimes you can’t see the world clearly from the inside.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.

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Opinion | ICE Is Out of Control. Here’s What to Do About It.

Congress must push back against our inhumane immigration tactics.

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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

@duvernay.bsky.social is bringing the 14th Amendment to @netflix.com. 14th. a documentary on birthright citizenship and equal protection, arrives this fall and our Director @sifill.bsky.social is featured in the film. Who gets counted in America? We're about to find out deadline.com/2026/07/ava-...

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Ava DuVernay & Netflix Reteam For Constitutional Documentary '14th'

A decade after Ava DuVernay's award-winning 13th debuted on Netflix, the filmmaker & streamer have reteamed for Constitutional documentary '14th'.

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genna @genna.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

iPhone doesn’t do justice to the rust-coloured haze over Toronto, or the stench. I was fine in an N95. Birds were having a bona fide party in an utterly deserted Home Smith Park. Thinking about my impassioned speech in elementary school arguing for the swift implementation of the Kyoto accords.

N95 wearing genna with yellow haze over the river

Cormorants in the river with sickly yellow tinge reflected

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 15/07/2026

Trump’s attempts to interfere with the midterms aim to (among other things) stir fear and confusion in the minds of voters. Americans should know that they can vote with certainty. bit.ly/4fhKEmb

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Trump Accelerates Efforts to Undermine Election

His threats and executive orders may motivate the very voters he’s trying to keep at home.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 15/07/2026

Correct. I asked Senator Blackburn to support a Finance Committee subpoena for the Treasury’s Epstein files and she refused. Those files are still being hidden at the Treasury Department.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Honest to god if I were one of those Kalshi perverts I would be reading Judith Butler to short the Iran War.

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David Elfstrom 🍁 @davidelfstrom.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Forest fire smoke in Ontario has cut air temperature 4-5°C than forecast, greatly reducing electricity demand today. You can see the areas with clear sky in Norfolk County near Lake Erie are around 32°C while Toronto is 28°C. Normally Toronto is one or two degrees warmer.

MSN air quality map of southern Ontario showing high particulate matter in the Toronto area (orange/red) while in Norfolk County it's much better (green)

MSN air quality map of southern Ontario showing Norfolk County with temperature of 32 C compared to Cambridge and Toronto with only 28 C. This is reverse from typical - or at least Cambridge and Toronto would be the same temperature if it wasn't for the forest fire smoke.

Ontario Demand from IESO showing at least 2000 MW lower than forecast at 11 AM EST on July 15 2026

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AAUP @aaup.org · 29/06/2026

Todd Wolfson & Randi Weingarten on 3-year degrees: "A bachelor's degree should both prepare students for the workforce & provide deep learning, broad intellectual development, & sustained engagement with faculty & peers—not simply the fastest possible route to the labor market." Full Statement:

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Three-year Bachelor’s Degrees Devalue Student Education, Do Nothing to Address Root Cause of Affordability Crisis

The approval of accelerated three-year bachelor’s degrees at Suffolk and Merrimack Universities in Massachusetts threatens academic integrity.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 16/06/2026

"There is a reason that totalitarian governments, eager to avoid dissent, purge academics. Research collaboration, academic exchanges, and the pursuit of knowledge should continue to be a beacon during difficult times. If institutions impose restrictions, we limit these opportunities."

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The Economist @economist.com · 16/06/2026

Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical offers “an opening between technology and religion”, writes Glen Weyl in a guest essay. “The case for bridging the divide is both principled and practical; spiritual and secular”

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Silicon Valley needs to get God

Tech must reorient towards moral purpose for it—and humankind—to flourish, argues Glen Weyl

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Rev. Dr. Robin Tanner 🏳️‍🌈 @rockinrevrobin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

@kairoscenter.org and many other beloveds brought song and shifted the space…we will keep singing, praying, protesting until every camp is shut down. No one is free until all are free. #FreeFamilies

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The “cosplay soldiers” of ICE are the least qualified and most poorly trained government agents in US history. PAXIS.app (now in the hands of thousands) gives immigrants and allies the constitutional and legal strategies to deal with them. Fight ICE: www.gofundme.com/f/PAXIS

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 28/05/2026

I appreciate how much this resembles the famous “Napoleon’s humiliating retreat from Russia” chart.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Over 50 years later, this anti-Vietnam War PSA still rings true.

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Articles describe Busch as "struggling with a sinus cold." This is such uncritical journalism. Read the Swiss Re report. Up to 150,000 Americans are expected to die as a consequence of COVlD this year (excess deaths). Swiss Re: tinyurl.com/swiss19

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Good revision here ⬇️

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Martha McNeill @martharmc.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Disgusted by the Christian Nationalists and the Rededicate 250 event? All day today, May 17th, you can join and/or view Redirect 250 on YT and Vote Common Good, including this: www.youtube.com/live/OqnpGaN...

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Redirect 250 - Hour 5

YouTube video by Vote Common Good

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 17/05/2026

OPINION: "[M]eaningful journalism cannot stop at reporting what happened yesterday or just who did the bad things. It must also examine why things happen, what can prevent it, who is affected and what systems continue to shape outcomes long after the headlines fade," MFP Publisher Tami Jones writes.

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Publisher’s Note | MFP Journalism Interrogates Systems Toward Real Change

Tami Jones writes about how the Mississippi Free Press practices journalism through systemic reporting by asking not just what happened but why.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/05/2026

A 57-year-old resident with no criminal history was detained on a layover as she traveled home from visiting her ailing father in France. She was forced to spend the night in a holding cell and was threatened with deportation.

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A Noncitizen Says She Was Told She Could Vote. Then Customs Detained Her at the Airport and Threatened to Deport Her.

The case, which hasn’t previously been reported, marks a new escalation in the Trump administration’s efforts to find and prosecute instances of noncitizen voting, despite evidence that it is rare.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Republican C-SPAN caller: “It’s hard for me to say this, but I think if I can open up about it in public it might help others… I regret my support for Trump, and I should’ve known better. He’s a con man. A liar. The worst, most corrupt president we’ve ever had.”

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Craig Spencer MD MPH @craigspencer.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

A year ago I warned what would happen if the US tore down our disease detection system around the world With Hantavirus & Ebola we are seeing VERY clearly what we’ve lost And why it matters Read my @theatlantic.com piece from last year outlining what happened www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The Diseases Are Coming

Elon Musk’s slash-and-burn government tear will have lasting effects on global health.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

"If we don't have immigration and population growth, the number of people who can pay off that debt just went down." That's the key mechanism.

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Rob Pegoraro @robpegoraro.com · 17/05/2026

Here's a real photo of the Reflecting Un-Pool that I took yesterday. In addition to everything else wrong in that AI slop Trump posted--like the pool is too wide and the Lincoln Memorial is reversed--it doesn't even have the right kind of blue.

The bottom of the Reflecting Pool is mostly covered with a dark-blue surface, with some workers and equipment scattered around. The Washington Monument rises behind it.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

If you connect ChatGPT to your bank account…well…I just don’t even know what to tell you.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Whatever one's views on Reagan, he made the GOP in the 1980s what I call "the party of everyone else" - that is, anyone who wasn't an unshakeable Dem. Today, Trump's awfulness has given the Dems have the opportunity to be that kind of party, but some in the party seem determined not to do it.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Trump doesn't care about the economic plight of the average American because he's too busy calling his broker His stunning 3,700 trades in just 3 months in firms like Palantir, Nvidia and Boeing should be another Watergate. Here's how to make it one My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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The E-Trade presidency: Trump trades stocks while America burns | Will Bunch

The tangled web between Trump’s stock purchases, his policies, and blatant promotion is a new low for a corrupt regime.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Raskolnikov?

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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 17/05/2026

#Opinion: Alberta’s separatist sentiment has borrowed heavily on what you might call "Quebec envy," writes @susandelacourt.bsky.social. But as far as we know, no separatists from Quebec have sought out meetings with the Trump administration, as some Albertans have.

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Susan Delacourt: Alberta puts its own chaotic spin on the separation playbook

Alberta’s separatist sentiment has veered far from the well-worn path of Quebec, Susan Delacourt writes.

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