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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A Senegalese basketball player for Kentucky State University was detained on August 7 at an airport while traveling with her team and has been in ICE custody ever since, despite her removal order being rescinded by an immigration judge.

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@emilyslist.bsky.social endorses @angieforfl.bsky.social. emilyslist.org/news/emilys-... If you read this @nytimes.com profile of her, you'll get why, and also why she won the Florida Senate primary — agree with her or not. Fascinating candidate. Gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/u...

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She’s Been Fighting for 20 Years. Has Angie Nixon’s Moment Come? (Gift Article)

The Democratic nominee for Senate faces strong headwinds in a decidedly Republican-leaning state. She has been a fighter, and an underdog, for years.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in U.S. history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge U.S. infrastructure projects such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

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The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History

Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Even though you make many cries, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood."

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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026

Ahmed Soliman's loved ones have also set up this website to help you send letters to your representatives demanding they get involved in the fight for the his release. findahmedsoliman.org

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Help find Ahmed Soliman — Civic Action Tool

Review a draft, open it in Gmail, Outlook, or your mail app, and send it yourself. No sign-in, no data collected.

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Scott Sandage @scottsandage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#ThatFeelingWhen you’ve got 26 original printings of The Columbian Orator, enough to put one into the hands of each student as you begin teaching how #FrederickDouglass taught himself #HowToRead and #SpeakTruthToPower

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.

According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

40,000 More One-Ton Bombs to Israel! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...

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Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In 9 African countries, average incomes have MORE than DOUBLED since 1990. Mauritius, Egypt, Cape Verde, Ghana, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, Burkina Faso, and Mozambique. Poverty fell. Child mortality fell. In all nine. 1/2

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In these nine African countries, average incomes have more than doubled since 1990

Economic growth is most important for the world's poorest people, and most of the world’s poorest live on the African continent. Are Africa’s economies growing?

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN NORTH AFRICA Absolute insanity going on with thousands of records every day for months allover North and Central Africa Today 45.2C Bima HOTTEST SEPTEMBER DAY EVER RECORDED IN NIGER 44C in Morocco The heat will just get worse. 45C North Africa,40C Spain.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/09/2026

This trend—GDP goes up, but workers take home a slimmer share of that money—has been building for fifty years.

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It's a bad time to be an American worker

Workers' share of US wealth has (once again) fallen to its lowest level ever recorded.

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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Large crowds gathered in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood to bury 100 people – 70 of them children - found under the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israel:

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Gaza mourns 100 victims, mostly children, found under rubble

Large crowds gathered in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood to bury 100 people – 70 of them children - found under the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israel

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Carl Heilman II @carlheilman2.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Adirondack High Peaks, reflections, and morning mist from 8/1/26

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Jessica Kutz @jkutzie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I spoke to three moms who lost all of the food in their fridge and freezer during the blackout in Gary Indiana. They all had their replacement SNAP benefits denied. Experts told me they are concerned about how the state is operating the program after the disaster. 19thnews.org/2026/09/gary...

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Families lost weeks of food they couldn't afford to replace. Then their SNAP claims were denied.

As the city of Gary recovers from a devastating power outage, advocates say Indiana has a simple fix at its fingertips that could get parents the help they need.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.

They arrived in silence, under cover of darkness, heavily armed as they surrounded the town and moved through Kenscoff’s rugged terrain and towering forests in the mountains above the Haitian capital. Numbering around 150, the gunmen swept through several locations as they made their way toward the center of the town, opening fire on resident who tried to flee. At least 13 people were shot and killed as the gunmen ran through downtown, according to an account by the United Nations human rights office. As more than 50 others sought refuge in L’Arche de la Nouvelle Alliance, a Protestant church that had been sheltering people already displaced by the violence, the gunmen pursued them. When they arrive, they forced residents from the church and executed 22 of them in its courtyard. A dozen others were killed behind the sanctuary. The attackers didn’t just stop there. Before withdrawing from downtown, an area encompassing City Hall and a Haiti National Police substation, they abducted at least 52 people, including a mother and her five children, as well as another mother and her infant. Children and elderly who could not run were killed inside their homes. Others were burned alive after gunmen set at least a dozen houses on fire, witnesses told the National Human Rights Defense Network. The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave.

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is a sickening thing to do. Their country is not safe.

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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.

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The pundits have completely lost the plot

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026

"even when we decided to make the difficult decision to asked to be allowed to voluntarily leave the US [...] the govt not only opposed it but suggested that it would appeal any judicial decisions that grant us departure [...] they want to continue our indefinite detention without any end in sight"

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is a very worrying story. Ecuadorian fishermen are being attacked and killed, and the perpetrators seem to be either the U.S. military engaged in clandestine operations or an American mercenary company working for Bukele or another Central American country.

Far out in the Pacific Ocean, Ecuadorean fishermen have been attacked by unidentified “gringos” using drones, survivors say, spurring a mystery over whether the American military, the armed forces of another country or private military contractors were behind the strikes.

One fishing boat has been lost at sea since January, the U.N. says, with eight people still missing and presumed dead. The survivors of two other vessels said they came under attack in March by English-speaking assailants wearing matching uniforms with American flag patches, but without any clear insignia to link them to an official government force.

Some of the surviving fishermen said they had been hauled out of the water, questioned and then handed over to El Salvador’s navy before being released. The Pentagon has denied involvement, as has the U.S. Coast Guard.

Survivors have also said that a plane followed and seemingly surveilled them before the strikes.

The New York Times analyzed flight data and found that a maritime patrol plane — based out of a military base in El Salvador — flew in the direction of all three boats in the days before they were attacked. The pilots onboard spoke English with American accents, according to air traffic control communication recordings.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I’m surprised by how little attention this case has gotten. Even I didn’t really register it for a while. This entire family of three permanent residents were summarily detained without even the option of bond, all as collective punishment for one one of them being the son of an Iranian official

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Former head of Israel’s NSC: “Israel has no interest in Gaza being rebuilt, it is better for us that it be destroyed for generations to come... The greater the despair in Gaza and the greater the destruction, the greater the monument to what they did on Oct. 7" www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli...

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Israeli general says Gaza should remain ‘destroyed for generations’

Giora Eiland says Palestinian despair serves Israel and demands permanent control beyond the Yellow Line

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Trump administration will pay German energy firm RWE $1.22 billion to abandon plans to build wind farms off the coasts of New York, California and Louisiana. Including this project, the government has so far spent roughly $3.9 billion to get companies to terminate 12 offshore wind leases

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Trump Administration to Pay German Firm $1.2 Billion to Cancel Wind Leases

It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Leaked video from an ICE camp details people suffering from tuberculosis, a never ending “flu” & conjunctivitis. ICE enforcement is a mass disabling event. These are concentration camps. They’re a breeding ground for disease which will lead to preventable suffering, disability and death.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

West Bank — Israeli settlers raid the village of Sarra and set fire to the homes of Palestinians

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The largest dinosaur weighed around 85 tons. Some male blue whales weigh as much as 200 tons. A blue whale's heart is 6 feet wide and weighs 400 lbs. The largest animal that ever lived.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/07/2026

A reminder from an 11th Circuit ruling, penned by the very conservative Chief Judge William Pryor in December 2023, STATES ADMINISTER ELECTIONS, NOT PRESIDENTS. The case was Mark Meadows trying to get his Fulton County case to federal court. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

One child who has been forced to appear in deportation court alone is ten-year-old Wilfredo. Despite the fact that he arrived with his mom and both have pending asylum cases, he’s been separated from her since last year, after she was detained during a routine traffic stop👇🏽

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

More signs of resurging HIV after USAID’s closure. African Neonatal Network reported at IMNCH (a global health conference): HIV+ pregnant women ↑50% & those not on antiretrovirals ↑>300%, year-on-year, across 22 hospitals in 5 nations. @vtoxfordnetwork.bsky.social

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Bernita Bowlding's brother: "They say that 'We love you, we got you,' but the reality is that this woman is homeless." The white supremacy in the frame and the homelessness outside it. A distinctly American story.

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The Woman in the Photo Wanted to Be Alone. Instead, She Went Viral.

America saw what it wanted to see on the face of its newest icon. And everyone saw it wrong.

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Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Dr. Edward Bouchet (born in New Haven, CT in 1852) was among the first Americans in U.S. history to earn a Ph.D. in physics. The son of a formerly enslaved father, Dr. Bouchet earned his doctorate from Yale in 1876.

Portrait of a man in a jacket & tie gazing to the side. The bottom reads "Edward A. Bouchet, New Haven"

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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Mother Earth carries both birth and burial inside her. Every forest is one of her lungs. Every river is one of her veins. Every mountain is an old bone pushed through her skin. She gives without speaking, which is why people mistake her silence for endless permission.

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Rotating Earth Live Wallpaper

ALT: Rotating Earth Live Wallpaper

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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

How Restoration News, a media outlet funded by conservative donors, is “waging a permanent campaign to defeat the radical left,” by C.J. Robinson. www.cjr.org/tow_center/i...

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Inside Restoration News, a political nonprofit’s “newsroom.”

How a media outlet funded by conservative donors is “waging a permanent campaign to defeat the radical left.”

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 07/07/2026

An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Afghan national who fought with U.S. forces died of allergic reaction in ICE custody

Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to an unidentified substance, which triggered anaphylaxis and exacerbated his asthma, the death report shows.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 07/07/2026

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Hope this administration is proud of itself. It killed someone who fought alongside us in Afghanistan —probably at great peril to himself and his family. No words suffice.

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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

While scientists have long braced for climate change, the growing severity of its impacts is shocking them. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Extreme Heat Stuns Even Climate Scientists Who Saw It Coming

Record-breaking heat waves are even stunning scientists monitoring the acceleration of climate change.

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Scientists built a solar reactor that eats plastic bottles and burps out clean hydrogen at scale Cambridge Uni made the device with simple materials using a paint sprayer—offering a possible dual fix for plastic pollution and dirty hydrogen production www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/07/scie...

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Scientists built a solar reactor that eats plastic bottles and burps out clean hydrogen . . .at scale.

A Cambridge University team made the device with simple materials using a paint sprayer—offering a possible dual fix for plastic pollution and dirty hydrogen production

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Prof. Carl LeVan @democracyprofdc.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Jamie Raskin, Brian Fitzpatrick, James Walkinshaw, and Herb Conaway joined over 130 former USAID officers and Alliance for American Leadership advocates for a press conference on USAID and foreign assistance. The bipartisan group of lawmakers: No pocket rescissions! www.youtube.com/watch?v=65Ed...

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Alliance for American Leadership Hill Day Press Conference

YouTube video by Alliance for American Leadership YT

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/06/2026

NEW: The administration is defying Congress on foreign aid that Trump himself agreed to spend. “It is a huge grab of power from the president, taking powers away from Congress,” said David Super, a leading scholar on administrative and constitutional law.

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“A Huge Grab of Power”: Trump Is Defying Congress on Foreign Aid

Lawmakers gave specific orders to Trump officials on foreign aid spending, but officials have refused to follow many of them — likely in violation of the law, experts say. In doing so, they’re escalat...

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