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Anis Mojgani

@mojgani.bsky.social
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Poet & picture maker. NOLA born & raised. Oregon’s 10th Poet Laureate Emeritus. Trying days, trying heart.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h
"The plaintiffs are suing to restore visitation rights and ask a court to force the county to disgorge the hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits it has made from video calls." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Families of Inmates Fight Against Jails That Profit From Visits
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 15h
"This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app cuts to the AI chase.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12h
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 23h
Fascinating new study of New Mexico's universal childcare program, first of its kind, finds the program dramatically increased work for lower-income moms www.the74million.org/zero2eight/n...
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Nearly a Year In, Universal Childcare Is Reshaping Work for Moms in New Mexico
A new study highlights some early impacts of universal childcare on labor supply for mothers in New Mexico.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
Russ Vought: "We fund what we need to fund. I'm not at all shy about we want to spend billions of dollars on a new shipyard. We're up there defending the $1.5t that the Department of War needs. But it's also coming at a ton of reduction on the non-defense side"
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 02/10/2026
Tennessee death row prisoner Christa Pike “has just experienced the most agonizing attempt at lethal injection in the country’s history."
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“Cruel & Torturous”: Christa Pike in Critical Condition After Botched Tennessee Execution
Tennessee’s Governor Bill Lee has halted executions for the remainder of the year after a death row prisoner survived two lethal injections on Wednesday. According to her lawyers, Christa Pike was sti...
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New: Jasmine Crockett was offering government relations & lobbying services on a campaign-funded website. It was taken down after Zeteo reached out. Experts say they’d never seen something like this before. Rules bar members from lobbying and from using campaign funds for non-campaign purposes.
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Jasmine Crockett Offered Lobbying Services on Her Campaign-Funded Website – While in Office
The offering was removed after Zeteo contacted the Texas Democratic congresswoman’s office.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Trump: "The greatest ballroom ever built -- it's also a tremendous military complex with a drone port on top. Be careful. Don't fall over the edge. And only a Hispanic could survive that fall."
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hard to imagine what that would be like
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Every three weeks it’s like but white supremacists who mostly care about testosterone and killing minorities were supposed to fix the economy
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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mayor Wilson should probably concern himself more with fulfilling his campaign promise to end unsheltered homelessness in a year (guess we’re getting close to the 2 year mark, imagine if I’d made such a promise!) than disparaging councilors who are undoubtedly returning to office. Just a thought!
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.
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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Probably time to stop calling them judges
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
theguardian.com
Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i wonder how many people realize this is a real problem or just assume the party in power just always uses government money for campaign ads
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's very "funny" this is happening at the same time the AI companies got away with stealing everyone's books
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Climate change affects everything. "These threats are not regarded as some far-off or remote contingency: disastrous impacts, for instance on the UK’s food supply, could be expected as soon as 2030, it warns."
What is the report?
In the first report of its kind, the UK’s spy chiefs set out stark warnings of the catastrophic risks to the UK from the collapse of vital ecosystems around the world, driven by the climate crisis and our failures to protect nature. The Guardian has seen part of the report and has spoken to a large number of people familiar with its contents, which warn of food shortages, conflicts, mass migration and other threats to the UK’s national security, including going as far as the risk of nuclear war or the breakdown of society. These threats are not regarded as some far-off or remote contingency: disastrous impacts, for instance on the UK’s food supply, could be expected as soon as 2030, it warns.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you guys broke watergate
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the most high profile funder of the Republican Party. Tesla Argues in Court That the N-Word Is Acceptable Under Certain Circumstances futurism.com/advanced-tra...
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Tesla Argues in Court That the N-Word Is Acceptable Under Certain Circumstances
An important trial in California kicked off with Tesla's lawyers arguing that the n-word is a term of "respect and endearment."
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I promise, no matter what they say they are doing, Meta is using this to scrape everything they can find on your devices and recording everything you do or say. It is what they’ve done with every product they’ve ever released. Nothing of yours is safe if you use this, no matter how careful you are.
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Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To
Permission isn't the same and what a user actually expects your AI product will do with their personal information.
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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just a reminder that Ed Henry was fired from Fox News in 2020 for sexual harassing Jennifer Eckhart and other staffers. She died by suicide this week tragically.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Donate to Angelita Morillo for Portland City Council in District 3!
Help give Portland the progressive leadership we deserve!
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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 23/09/2026
After a series of procedural moves, the mayor and six of the Council's more moderate reps facilitated it with none of the additional enforcement measures the public demanded.
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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 23/09/2026
The City Council on Wednesday called on Mayor Keith Wilson to use his tie-breaking power for just the second time in his term. Wilson voted to approve the transfer of a contract Zenith Energy has with the city to an international investment firm called I Squared Capital.
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Mayor Wilson Rams Through Massive Fossil Fuel Deal in Second-Ever Tie-Breaking Vote - Portland Mercury
Mayor Keith Wilson on Wednesday used his power to break a tie City Council vote for the second time on his watch, this time to facilitate a massive fossil fuel deal. Wilson joined six councilors in voting to transfer a contract the city has with Houston-based fossil fuel company Zenith Energy to a Miami-based international […]
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Living in American has become that part of “American Life” where Madonna started rapping.
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Massive meat recall on beef, pork and more: USDA
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced a massive meat recall on more than 167,000 pounds of of raw pork, beef, and goat products that officials said were produced without the benefit of f…
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026
look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
Dr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is not great
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Piper @the-pied-piper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We are bringing back shame.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026
for your future voting knowledge, Gavin Newsom was central in pressuring the AGs to settle their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount:
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Done! Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount agreed to settle an antitrust suit by a dozen State Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to its merger with WBD.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here's David Ellison's statement on his successful Paramount-WBD. Thanks Newsom "for his support throughout this process." State AGs were on track to kill the the merger with litigation and delay. Is Newsom giving up on the presidency and instead pursuing a post-gov career as Friend of Oligarchs?
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I think we need to take seriously that ordinary folks aren't meant to have audiences in the tens of thousands or more. This is novel and disruptive in human experiences
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Russell Vought cannot be given the power to decide what science is funded. He knows nothing about science; in fact, he seems to hate it and everyone who does it. And he has all of the worst characteristics of humanity. The Republican Congress is a fucking disease.
arstechnica.com
Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
god this is giving me such trauma flashbacks to how all of us who worked at twitter felt when the acquisition finally went through. just abject despair.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LOL -- Fox News cuts away from Vance's speech and a host says, "we will bring you back to this rally if he starts to make news"
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
imagine if the WH press corp had banded together 18 fucking months ago
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Some cities and states love data centers
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Chalk Girl @chalkgirl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Re-elect the women who fight for working class Portlanders, immigrant Portlanders, houseless Portlanders, small business owning Portlanders, renter Portlanders, bicyclist Portlanders. Let the Mayor and PPB never forget the energizing effect their attempt at election interference caused. #portland
Chalk on sidewalk reading “don’t let PPB and Mayor Wilson buy this election. Reelect Morillo and Koyama Lane.”
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