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Mary F. Kesson

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“A regime of secret policing has no place in our society. Here, the Government’s power is derived by the People, and the People must be able to identify the Government when it acts to infringe on their liberty.”

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Mary F. Kesson @mfkesson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Lake Superior Intelligence. It’s only a matter of time.
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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this. pubpeer.com/publications...
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 05/08/2026
The important thing to know about boots is that Dr. Martens was bought by a private equity firm a while back, the boots are now garbage in terms of construction quality, but Solovair set up to make similar boots on the old equipment in the old factory and their versions are much better quality.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?
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Mary F. Kesson @mfkesson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
With apologies to Balogun, in a football controversy between 🇺🇸 and 🇧🇪, it’s clear who we should be supporting.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com
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Mary F. Kesson @mfkesson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Welcome to Waltham, boys. #bentley
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26 JOUEURS, 1 ÉQUIPE, 1 PAYS 🇫🇷
YouTube video by Fédération Française de Football
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Scott Pelley has provided @status.news a statement blasting current CBS News management and even accusing them of having tried (and failed) to "inject falsehoods and bias" into his stories. www.status.news/p/scott-pell...
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WPRI 12 @wpri12.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Dozens gathered in downtown Providence Thursday morning, calling on Citizens Bank to stop funding companies that operate federal immigration detention centers. Full story: www.wpri.com/news/local-news/provid… 
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Rhode Island Current @rhodeislandcurrent.com · 13/04/2026
COMMENTARY: After last fall’s service cuts to Rhode Island Public Transportation Authority service, the state bus system's diminished size is not big enough for everyday Rhode Islanders. By @dariaphoebe.com
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Drives me nuts. It’s Persian! Calling it ‘Farsi’ in English is like calling German ‘Deutsch.’ The correct English name is Persian, and using it keeps the language properly situated historically and culturally.
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Derek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Let's say Geno is correct - that he confronted Staley because she snubbed him at halfcourt before the game. That implies he was thinking about that during the entire game, and it was more important than anything else at its end. Really?
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Mary F. Kesson @mfkesson.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
h/t to someone in MN for the pizza sign idea #providence #nokings
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Mary F. Kesson @mfkesson.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
To be quoted, some day in the future.
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Globe Rhode Island @globeri.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
After successfully pressing Avelo Airlines to end deportation flights for the federal government, anti-ICE protestors are ramping up pressure on another corporate target: Providence-based Citizens Bank.
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Anti-ICE protests to hit Citizens Bank over ties to prison management companies - The Boston Globe
Protests are planned at more than 60 Citizens branches on Saturday in states including Massachusetts and Rhode Island, over the bank's involvement with companies that run ICE detention centers.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Interestingly, a lot of people are asking whether the rules of war apply differently depending on whether there’s a declared war or not. Most do not. Most depend only to a “state of belligerency” existing in fact, regardless of official declarations.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
You have clearly not read the War Powers Act, Mike. Everything you've written is totally wrong. The War Powers Act SPECIFICALLY PROHIBITS military action unless: a/ there is a prior congressional authorization; or b/ it's a response to an attack against the U.S.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
From aviation-world reporting experience, I know something about planes like the flying yacht/spa/hotel/bistro/737MAX that Noem has ordered for herself, at our expense. Many "real" billionaires would consider this too ostentatious. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
Photo of a bedroom inside a plane.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
This is an important point. As yet Andrew has not been arrested for anything involving Giuffre, which is difficult to prove in court. They have him on information in the Epstein files regarding his time as trade envoy, which was well known to be corrupt. They mean to put him in prison.
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Mary F. Kesson @mfkesson.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Biathlon commentators dating themselves with references to DVDs. What’s the right comparison for the kids? Large bagel? #olympics #biathlon
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Mary F. Kesson @mfkesson.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
We don’t need the luge drone, but we’re happy to have it.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.
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Mary F. Kesson @mfkesson.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I’d like to lock him in a room with John King to review the results of those races.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 03/02/2026
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
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Mary F. Kesson @mfkesson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
#booksky
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Mary Kesson's review of The Goldfinch
4/5: There's nothing that I can add to the 89K and counting reviews that have been written, but here are a few thoughts that I'm capturing for myself. I think half of the references to Dickens are fro...
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The hits: they keep on coming
Patriots owner Bob Kraft mentioned in the Epstein files
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 27/01/2026
Immigrants in the US consumed about 24% fewer welfare and entitlement benefits per capita than native-born Americans in 2023, new Cato Institute research finds. Learn more from Alex Nowrasteh and Jerome Famularo: ow.ly/2w4Z50Y4Bsj
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Americans have a habit of trying to compare all authoritarianism to Nazi Germany. I think in some ways i think it is comforting to view authoritarianism as a foreign ideology. If you want to understand our current authoritarian moment, you need to look to our own past, not to Europe 1/x
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Things are so bad that the Minnesota prison system has had to launch a website specifically to combat DHS lies. The first major release from DOC officials suggests Gregory Bovino outright lied about the target of the Border Patrol operation during which agents shot and killed Alex Pretti.
KARE 11: Minnesota DOC launches new website to 'address ongoing misinformation by DHS'
The DOC names Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino directly in a statement.Minnesota Department of Corrections Statement on Minneapolis Shooting and Federal Claims
January 24, 2026
The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) extends its condolences to the family and loved ones of Alex Pretti, who was shot and killed by federal agents this morning in Minneapolis. The loss of life is tragic, and Minnesotans deserve transparency, accountability, and facts.

In the hours following the shooting, U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino held a press conference asserting that the operation was targeting an individual named Jose Huerta-Chuma and characterized him as having a significant criminal history. Because federal statements have repeatedly included inaccurate information about Minnesota custody and criminal records, the DOC reviewed available records to determine whether the individual referenced had any connection to Minnesota state prison custody.ased on DOC records and publicly available Minnesota court data:

The individual identified by federal officials has never been in Minnesota DOC custody.
DOC and court records show no felony commitments associated with this
Public Minnesota court records reflect only misdemeanor-level traffic offenses from more than a decade ago.
The individual is not currently under DOC supervision.
DOC records further indicate that an individual by this name was previously held in federal immigration custody in a local Minnesota jail in 2018, during President Trump’s first administration. Any decisions regarding release from federal custody at that time would have been made by federal authorities. DOC has no information explaining why this individual was released.
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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.
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Antonio Bruno @antoniobruno.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Amazing moment on French TV. A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy basically trying to intimidate her during Le Pen's trial for embezzlement - something they've done to other judges around the world.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 21/01/2026
The beloved Ocean Mist in 1991 (all that beach!) vs. today. Climate change is driving up RI sea levels faster and faster. Fossil fuel lying and denying can’t change these facts.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 21/01/2026
The gentleman who ICE hauled without cause out of his home in his underwear into the icy Minnesota winter (after terrifying his 5-year-old grandson) was from Laos, one of the Hmong hill tribes people of the then-Kingdom of Laos. You should know a bit about the background of those people. 🧵
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Jackie Wong | Rocker Skating @rockerskating.com · 19/01/2026
2025-26 ISU season best scores as of 18 January 2026 ⛸️🧵 Added competition for this week’s lists: European Championships
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
A group of Senators met with the Foreign Minsters of Denmark and Greenland and it was so maddening. People in our country are losing their health care, facing price hikes on everything - and Trump is prepping an invasion of Greenland. Here's what I learned in the meeting.
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Mary F. Kesson @mfkesson.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
First time in St Louis, where it’s incredibly easy for visitors to get around the city. Elevator out of service at our destination, an indifference to fare collection, and minimal ridership by locals. But for those who do hop on board, a great ride.
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Mary F. Kesson @mfkesson.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
#booksky
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Mary Kesson's review of Extraction
4/5: Books about climate change and the environment can get repetitive – there’s only so much “do this, don’t do that” that anyone needs to read. They’re more interesting when they dig into a topic yo...
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Mary F. Kesson @mfkesson.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
#booksky
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Mary Kesson's review of Fault Lines
3/5: I think I've finally settled on rating this a three, but I'm recommending it more than most three-star books because the setting in Tokyo is interesting. I don't often read books or watch shows s...
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 24/12/2025
they don’t tell you when you buy a christmas tree at the christmas tree farm that you could take it home, decorate it, and then be relaxing in your living room seven nights later when A BAT suddenly flies out and starts CRASHING AROUND YOUR HOUSE
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 15/12/2025
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 15/12/2025
When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
When I was a department chair, I leared that only 22 percent of the Navy's admirals had gone to NWC. The other services - who all regarded us as the best - made their students *compete* to get in to NWC. The Navy fought us constantly, on the belief that education is a waste of time.
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Mary F. Kesson @mfkesson.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
More than a few Tidewater detractors would think this was the hard-hitting piece they’ve been waiting for.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Mary F. Kesson @mfkesson.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
#booksky
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Mary Kesson's review of Small Ceremonies
4/5: First let me share thanks for the local librarians who selected this book, as we're far from Manitoba and it might not be an obvious choice for readers in our area. Aside from a general awareness...
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I've watched countless videos now of confrontations between DHS agents and ICE observers, and it's awesome how many are women recording, challenging male agents, refusing to give up their rights. I'd say the number of women involved in documenting ICE crimes outnumber men three to one or more.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
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Leading Autism and Disability Organizations Statement on CDC's Vaccines and Autism Page
As national organizations dedicated to advancing the well-being of autistic individuals and partners across the disability and public health sectors, we are deeply disappointed by the latest update to...
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