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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓

@meredithalberta.bsky.social
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skarù•ręʔ by mother line at 6N | Asst Prof at UBuffalo in Geog and Indigenous Studies | (Indigenous) Geog PhD at Berkeley | MPH | writer | tall | lifter | she

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Scare-o-lyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
From pages 38-45 of this remarkable book is a section on journalism that is so urgent, so compelling, so precise in identifying some of the major flaws and failures of mainstream journalism as an industry at this moment in time, that I wish I could make all American journalists read it.
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad, as held by me on an NYC subway car.
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Joe Robertson @joro.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
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Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/12/2025
"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."
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A war criminal without a war
It's just murder.
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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Is it possible that Bluesky is even more reactive and angry than Twitter ever was? Yikes on bikes.
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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
New article just dropped!
Cover of the "Native American and Indigenous Studies Association" journal, volume 12.2, 2025. The journal cover is teal with purple text, and in the middle is an image of a dress made out of body bags, by Abigail Echo-Hawk. This is an image of the title, authors, and abstract of the article that was just published. See the link for more details.
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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I record every single lecture in my large anonymous undergrad classes. I know it's not Texas but I keep my receipts anyway. I speak carefully but factually.
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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
“We must be very aware of the future that we portray in English. I think of English as a strange wing that sprouted, not grounded in the old thinking about the land, but one that we must learn to soar in.” – Dian Million, PhD, Tanana Athabascan.
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LaMeep @lameep.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice
This is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have don...
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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I got to meet and present with the brilliant Dr. Melanie Yazzie in April at Dtmth. She's analytically sharp, a storyteller, and funny af. Fk Ann Coulter.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Border patrol walking McArthur park here in LA
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Ali Nahdee @alinahdee.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
From @witchytwitchy.bsky.social on IG
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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I desperately want historians of sci to step up & remind us how complicit we scientists were for decades, all in the hope of keeping that sweet money coming. I've watched scis ruin activist & labor movements on uni campuses all from the fear of appearing political. Time for a reckoning, and repair.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
“In the last week, more than 200 veterans have volunteered to attend immigration hearings with Afghans who worked with U.S. forces during the 20-year war in Afghanistan…”
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Hundreds of veterans volunteer to attend asylum hearings with Afghans
The effort began after a former Afghan interpreter was detained after his San Diego asylum hearing this month.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.
Jason Delgado (Florida Capitol reporter for Spectrum News 13) on X: "Quick look at what inside a detainment tent looks like here at Alligator Alcatraz." What is shown in the picture is a long tent structure, about 50 feet wide. There is a corridor running down the middle. On each side are three rows of bunk beds. The bunk beds are sectioned off into cells which are constructed out of chain link fence, with chain link on the ceiling as well, making each cell a literal cage. It looks to me like each cell contains 9 bunk beds, so has capacity for 18 people each.
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L ⩜⃝ur ⩜⃝ ✨ R ⩜⃝mundo ♒️ @lvr1258.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Honestly, just let the Marxist bros have their highfalutin debates about Settler Colonialism. Give them some Capital Vol. III and snacks and they'll keep themselves busy.
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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
External camps. Internal camps. Where are the women?
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now. www.latimes.com/california/s...
A 37-year-old U.S. citizen who was tackled to the ground and arrested after filming federal agents at Home Depot on Thursday said he was held for more than an hour near Dodger Stadium, where agents boasted about how many immigrants they arrested.
"How many bodies did you guys grab today?" he said one agent asked.
"Oh, we grabbed 31," the other replied.
"That was a good day today," the first agent responded.
The two high-fived, as Job Garcia sat on the asphalt under the sun, he said.
Garcia was released on Friday from a downtown federal detention center. No apparent criminal charges have yet to be filed. He is one of several U.S citizens arrested during enforcement operations in recent days. Department of Homeland Security officias sav some trave ilegaly11:04 C
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"You wanted it, you got it," the man yelled.
An agent handcuffed him so hard "that there was no circulation running to my fingers," Garcia said.
Pinned down, Garcia had difficulty breathing.
"That moment, I thought I could probably die here," he said.
The agent put Garcia's phone back in his pocket. The recording kept running.
As Garcia was put into a vehicle, his video captured an agent twice saying: "I've got one back here."
"You got one what?" Garcia shot back. "You got one what?"
He said an agent told him in broken Spanish to "wait here,' though it could not be heard on the video. -11:04 €
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"I f- speak English, you f- dumbass," he clearly shouts back.
No agent asked if he was an American citizen, he said. Nobody asked for identification.
"They assumed that I was undocumented," he said later in an interview.
The video ends after about four minutes, while he is waiting in the van.
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Raid at a Home Depot in Hollywood shatters an immigrant refuge
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Garcia asked an agent to get his wallet from his car, so he could prove he was a U.S. citizen. Another agent retrieved his ID, but he remained handcuffed.
They were so tight, his hands hegan to swell.Garcia asked an agent to get his wallet from his car, so he could prove he was a U.S. citizen. Another agent retrieved his ID, but he remained handcuffed.
They were so tight, his hands began to swell.
The agents switched him to handcuffs that looked like shoelaces. They took off around a corner, stopped to shuffle him into another van and sped off down the 101 Freeway.
"I smeared my blood in their seat," he said.
And he thought, "They're going to remember me."
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 20/06/2025
Watch this. Let their bravery fill you up. We should be fighting tooth and nail alongside these people. If we don't, we're just telling capitalists that they can do this to our communities and no one will stand up for us. Solidarity is hope—the people united will never be defeated!
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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
If you're NDN and want to have a wild night, put your Nations name in the bluesky search bar and see how yt ppl on here are invoking your histories/governance etc for their various arguments about whatever.
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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Though AI helps, does it dull us over time? A study from MIT found that regular ChatGPT use weakens memory, focus, and brain activity. 83% couldn't quote their own text. Essays became repetitive. Researchers call it "cognitive debt"—a slow erosion of independent thinking. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872
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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I finally experienced that toxic male bullsht of old Twitter again. I really didn't miss that lol.
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Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Two Palestinians legally visiting the US with visas, invited by local Jewish leaders to speak on human rights, are being held at SFO to be sent to West Bank.
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
“If it is a “political” act to do certain kinds of intellectual work..it is considered even more so to break the boundaries of Academia & to..work alongside the masses in their struggle.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...
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When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review
A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous. prospect.org/justice/crie...
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Cries of Defiance and Songs of Joy in Los Angeles
The protesters are being called unspeakably violent by the Trump administration. I mostly saw clergy sit-ins and Tejano bands.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The Overton Window has shifted all the way to ban all non-white people from coming to America. It was never about illegal immigration.
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
With the escalating attacks in Los Angeles on our free speech rights & right to assemble/protest, I am sharing some resources. First, our protest rights guide @freepress.bsky.social in English & Spanish! www.freepress.net/sites/defaul... www.freepress.net/sites/defaul...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/06/2025
we’ve got a bunch of parents voluntarily guarding the elementary school gates if you want to know how LA feels this morning
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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Hey all! I am trying to get an elder access to pay-walled scholarly journal articles, so she can work on her next book. Does anyone know the best way to do this? Feel free to message or text.
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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Theory: the new masked ICE raid and patrol teams are made up of Pr0ud Boys and 0ath Keepers. To be willing and ready to use these tactics we see takes preexisting dedication, goals, and vision.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
if you were still hoping to die from bird flu, I've got some good news for you... HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m... via @statnews.com
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HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics
HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics.
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I don’t want to “streamline” my writing. I don’t want to “increase my output.” I don’t want to “write a novel with one click.” I want to write stuff only I can write. I want to read and write novels with soul and heart and a unique voice. Fuck AI. Long live real writers.
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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I've seen the same. I was discussing the content and breadth of DEI programs with a student - a bright, inquisitive student interested in social justice. Even THEY thought DEI meant "giving jobs to less-qualified POC over white people." They HAD NO IDEA this is a lie. The BASICS.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Don't look away, don't normalize: this is the virtually unconstrained leader of the world's most powerful country ambushing the president of South Africa with conspiracy-fueled racist propaganda promoted by his unelected billionaire maybe-appointee who has caused the deaths of children through DOGE.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
“I am sorry I don’t have a plane for you” The President of South Africa deftly reminds us that he has a lot of experience in dealing with White Supremacists and autocrats.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/05/2025
“Sesame Street” has signed a new distribution deal with Netflix, as well as a separate deal with PBS, the show announced on Monday. This gives the children’s show a much needed-boost as it battles a financial crisis. nyti.ms/3Zswh7l
Elmo and other “Sesame Street” characters with their puppeteers on set. Text reads: "‘Sesame Street,’ Facing Crisis, Signs New Deal With Netflix." Photo by Jonah Markowitz for The New York Times.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 19/05/2025
I still cant believe we raised $11,282.93 in 19 days Y’all are all we have in terms of support to restart our Mother’s Day 365 program. With the loss of TWO recurring grants due to Trump, we need your help providing baby formula & housing relief to moms! Donate @ tpfwoman2woman.funraise.org
I still cant believe we raised $11,282.93 in 19 days

Y’all are all we have in terms of support to restart our Mother’s Day 365 program. With the loss of TWO recurring grants due to Trump, we need your help providing baby formula & housing relief to moms! 

Donate @ tpfwoman2woman.funraise.org
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Bravo for Above The Law. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Did we ever get to hear Luigi's "why"? What was his personal story that led him to do it?
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Shana V. White (she/her) @shanavwhite.blacksky.app · 10/05/2025
Let's add: Dr Brandeis Marshall, Aerica Shimizu Banks, Dr Emily Bender, Dr Sasha Luccioni, Dr Ruha Benjamin, Dr Sasha Costanza-Chock, Adrienne Williams, Tawana Petty
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Highly recommend following the work of the Southern Environmental Law Center who have tracking this and other polluting data center projects in the South www.selc.org/topic/data-c...
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Data centers across the South
There’s a data center boom in the South, with inadequate consideration of how we will provide energy to these facilities that consume 10 to 50 times the amount of energy of a typical commercial buildi...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 11/04/2025
BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech. The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Welp they're doing the Roosevelt Reservation crazy strategy, giving the military "jurisdiction" over a 60-foot-wide stretch of land from CA to AZ, authorizing troops to detain migrants for "trespassing on military property," thus trying to bypass the Posse Commitatus Act. It's bad and dumb, folks.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
photo of a red shopping basket filled with turnips, under the headline: 
If you’re worried about food tariffs, adopt a frugal mindset and cook smarter
Learn to shop for groceries like a thrifter and work on eliminating waste
By Sheryl Julian Globe Correspondent,Updated April 7, 2025, 7:21 a.m.

caption: The big question is, writes Sheryl Julian, are we expected to remove all the pleasures from the table and turn the nightly dinner into a feast of locally grown turnips (above) and leafy greens?Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 07/04/2025
ICE's use of electronic monitoring has rapidly expanded. Now, more than 200,000 people on any given day are regularly surveilled & detained by ICE – over 4x as many as a decade ago.
Graph titled: The rapid expansion of ICE's electronic monitoring program
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🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Hey NDNs from Nations/tribes within US boundaries, can you check if your tribal lands and historical censuses are still up on dot/gov websites? Or if they've been removed and/or links are broken? I'm trying to see something
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