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Melissa Johnson

@meljohn.bsky.social
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Professor of Anthropology, Environmental Studies and Race and Ethnicity Studies at Southwestern University. Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12h
Congressional investigators uncovered an email from Botstein to Jeffrey Epstein in which Botstein asked if a young woman was “for me, or are you keeping her for yourself?” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Leon Botstein resigns from Bard roles as key Democrat demands investigation into Epstein links
Jamie Raskin says ‘startling’ email asked whether young woman was ‘for me, or are you keeping her for yourself’
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court 8 years ago on October 6, 2018. @bagleycartoons.bsky.social
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is sad news. Simon was a big help with this story that showed Howard Lutnick apparently lied about his business entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein—a story that deserves more attention. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender
The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tom Homan: “I think September is going to be the highest deportations of any month in the history of ICE. We are removing and arresting more people right now than we ever have in the history of this nation. Wait until you see what we do next year.” ABOLISH ICE. www.thebulwark.com/p/doral-flor...
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Trump Turned His Beloved Golf Hub Into a Ghost Town
In Doral, there are empty tables, shuttered businesses, and families struggling to survive after their loved ones have been thrown in detention.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We all complain about the media’s failures but organizations like @propublica.org and @texastribune.org are doing the work and deserve our financial support
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
“On Tuesday, department chair Danielle Clealand told faculty in the Social and Cultural Analysis Department that the provost’s office rejected all women’s and gender studies courses from counting toward UT’s core, according to an email reviewed by the Statesman.”
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UT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classes
The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Taught the Fugitive Slave Act for the first time in a few years. Man, my head was spinning as I uttered my familiar refrain about how the FSA radicalized Northerners who maybe never thought much about slavery until they saw people being snatched off the street right in front of them...
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Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us
Alt: Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us
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Sado @marinovic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hell of a cover
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Geoff Bowden @geoffbowden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The first thing a Dem Congress does is pass a resolution saying the President is not immune from any prosecution, and remove it from SC jurisdiction.
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My Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“This is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government” — @sarahkendzior.bsky.social on MSNBC January 2019
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 19/09/2026
In the early 1950s, Roy Cohn destroyed the lives of thousands of civil servants: He targeted closeted homosexuals and was the boyish prosecutor who gleefully sent Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair. bit.ly/46uvhCX
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We Are Living Under Roy Cohnian Logic
The political fixer created a career for himself as a self-promoting, ubiquitous hustler. Like Trump, he got away with it by having the right friends.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"What they hide matters less than creating a world in which future generations do not even know what to seek. A silo in which even your scream is just an echo, fine-tuned by an algorithm that never lets you escape a machine's perception of yourself.” sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-great-...
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The Great Unconformity
On heading to a future with a deleted past.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Must be nice to just be able to go home when you don’t feel like working — and still get paid for it.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Video and a photo show Marshall Rawson—the current GOP nominee to be a state representative in Florida—marching alongside neo-Nazis at the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a new TPM investigation reveals. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“The labs are saying to governments: ‘We’re quite likely to kill every human being on Earth; please stop us.’ Governments respond with ‘Can we give you a tax break? Build you a datacenter?’ Perhaps at some point governments will remember that their voters prefer not to be dead.”
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Why the AI race has its creators fearing human extinction
Advances in autonomous agents and bitter rivalry between Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed once-fringe fears into the mainstream
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Oh a trans athlete might have some sort of physical advantage? Let me introduce you to Michael Phelps, Victor Wembanyama and Oskar Svensden
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The AI and tech boom runs on critical minerals. In Congo, their extraction is bound up with smuggling, exploitation, and war. As the United States and China compete for Congo’s vast mineral wealth, Judi Rever investigates the bloody underside of the global supply chain.
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Congo is at the centre of a critical minerals race between China and the West
The rise of artificial intelligence and the global transition to green energy are inextricably linked to conflict minerals in central Africa. Rwanda has used a well-oiled international network of elit...
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Melissa Johnson @meljohn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Stony Brook in New Jersey
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I guess it’s important to communicate that MAHA is fundamentally an movement by individuals to capture health care dollars by lying to people about having products and services that work
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Game of Thrones got it wrong; the big danger is that Summer is Coming
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 05/09/2026
Not The Onion.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 05/09/2026
Your 'doom quote' for today: "The comparison of the growth and form of cities and cancer is obvious." www.thriftbooks.com/w/homo-ecoph...
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Homo Ecophagus book by Warren M. Hern
Buy a cheap copy of Homo Ecophagus book by Warren M. Hern. Home Ecophagus by Warren M. Hern is a wide-ranging look at the major problems for the survival of not just the human species, but all other s...
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#ThrowbackThursday
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thomas Massie warns Speaker Mike Johnson might send everyone home to avoid another vote on the Epstein files. Why are some of these politicians bent on protecting pedophiles?
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The iconic weeping willow trees outside the Kennedy Center have been cut down by Trump.
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
On August 25, 1976, a local rock band that had started a few years earlier in the basement of an MIT grad student turned Polaroid mechanical engineer released a self-titled album that would go on to become one of the best-selling rock records of all time. I'm talking, of course, about Boston. +
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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is your periodic reminder that the leader of the Republican party and the person elected president by 77 million of our worst is a rapist.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Do we get to randomly rename stuff too? "The president lives at the Pedophile House, where he checks in on the latest news in the Iran conflict from the Department of Massive Losses before doing an event with Secretary of Human Suffering RFK Jr."
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Whatever you call it, you just made all the goods we buy that come across our border more expensive. Michigan, he’s asking us to pay for his vanity trade war with our money.
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"The United States has doubled down on its opposition to plastic production limits in global treaty talks, pushing to create a broad loophole to disregard the treaty on national security grounds." National security grounds??
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Leaked memo shows how U.S. aims to weaken global limits on plastic pollution
A memo reviewed by The Washington Post, circulated by U.S. diplomats, comes as negotiations over a plastics treaty reach a critical point.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
Rolling out “academic freedom” as a rallying cry now, after the CRT panic led to a bunch of Black scholars and theory to be literally banned from classrooms, shit is too rich lol
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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Every couple years all the just-asking-questions racists in academia have to sign an open letter about free speech or some shit. It’s basically how they declare eligibility for right wing dark money.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026
yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/08/2026
Here's your daily reminder: Trump and Republicans are kicking 15 million Americans off their health care so that people like Mark Zuckerberg can buy another yacht.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The next time you hear Republicans in Congress complaining about the national debt, remember that roughly 25% of it has been added during Trump's presidencies — largely thanks to his tax cuts for the rich. The notion that Republicans care about the debt is one of the biggest lies in politics.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
As we have seen in Texas, Florida, and other places, Republicans can control everything for 30 years in their states and still blame Democrats for their failures, so what Republicans are doing nationally is their standard playbook. They accept responsibility for nothing.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from oil and gas assets since joining supreme court, analysis shows www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... The Supremely Corrupt Court !
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Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from oil and gas assets since joining supreme court, analysis shows
Critics argue US high court justice should recuse himself from upcoming fossil fuel firms’ climate accountability case
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/08/2026
White House Doctor Claims President Has Always Been Face Drawn Onto Cantaloupe theonion.com/white-house-doctor-cla…
White House Doctor Claims President Has Always Been Face Drawn Onto Cantaloupe
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The best measure of how America is doing isn’t the unemployment rate, or the stock market, or the rate of economic growth, or the inflation rate, or the average wage. It’s how well most Americans are living. And the reality is that most Americans are struggling.
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Universities must focus on the quest for truth, which is why the football coach is the highest-paid person on campus.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 20/08/2026
David Axelrod is operating in a 2010s mentality. The mainstream media's audience is much smaller now. To reach the people with a message, it has to be viral. Democrats had two times in 2024 where this happened: Tim Walz's "weird" attack. The other was started by Taraji P. Henson on Project 2025.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Mamdani is succeeding in part by projecting joy Ossoff is succeeding in part by projecting steely ferocity We’re in a moment when attitude is nearly as powerful as ideology, because we all need courage. And these are two ways of summoning it
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Clayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · 17/08/2026
Organized people rose up and fought back. Thank you to all the Texans who organized themselves to help stop this. But our fight isn’t over. Organized money will try again, so we need you to vote in November.
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In other words, harp on it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Seriously, this shows where the Administration’s priorities lie ….
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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Monday Morning Kittens
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Mathew Helman @mathelman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It's not just Cornyn VOTERS rejecting Corrupt Ken Paxton. Cornyn STAFFERS are also rejecting #KenPaxton and joining @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social #TXSen #Texas #txlege @jamestalarico.bsky.social
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