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David F. Sandberg @ponysmasher.social · 14/04/2026

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

Headline on Hollywood Reporter that reads ”Paddington 4, Escape From New York' Reboot in the Works”

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Grieved by the horrific events that have unfolded in Tumbler Ridge, BC. As an educator in British Columbia, this does hit close to home. I’m grateful for first responders and also for local and national media that have handled this with compassion and resisted sensationalizing a tragedy.

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David Eby @davidebybc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Our hearts are in Tumbler Ridge tonight with the families of those who have lost loved ones. Government will ensure every possible support for community members in the coming days, as we all try to come to terms with this unimaginable tragedy.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 04/02/2026

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I really wish there was a column in teacher observation forms for "were students smiling and laughing?" because, at the end of the day, that might matter the most

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 28/01/2026

The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is illuminated with the slogan of the international memorial campaign "#WeRemember" on Holocaust Remembrance Day. January 27 also marks the 81st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I hope to return one day. We’ll see.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Just saw this in the photocopy room. I guess this is where we’re at now.

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

no way a young mountain lion can afford rent in Pac Heights

ALERTSF: A young mountain lion was spotted near Pacific/ Octavia. If you see it, slowly back away.

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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement:

“Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer.

“Today, we demand accountability.

“In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota.

“Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.

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Sam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

My most boring class to teach, AP Government, is on our unit on the federal bureaucracy & federal agencies right now, where the College Board material places an enormous weight on expertise-driven independence and the principal-agent problem, hard for the kids to square with ICE/CBP agency actions.

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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

It isn’t lost on many of us that the people pretending their 2nd amendment fetish was about preserving the right to stand against a tyrannical regime—who spent both terms of the Obama admin (and every year since) screaming warnings of the government coming to take their guns—are now cravenly silent.

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Glenn Butner @dglennbutner.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Social media just makes this an uphill battle even more than it normally would be. I work hard to convince 60 evangelicals in a Sunday school class that the immigration system is unjust, and evangelical Josh Howerton has 1.8 million followers he can pepper with short media to defend the system.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

They murdered Good and Pretti, a poet and a nurse, one whose last words were “I’m not mad,” another whose last act was shielding another. Because of course that’s who they killed. Everyday people.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Alex Pretti's gun is like Renee Good's car: irrelevant to the central fact that they were murdered by ICE. ICE wants us to debate whether Pretti should have been carrying because that avoids the central fact. Pro-carry, anti-carry--that has as much to do w/ his murder as his fashion choices. Zero.

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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

This March 1965 Herblock cartoon about police violence against civil rights activists has added relevance today.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

i honestly don't know what this administration would do if confronted with a national mass movement would they get scared and back down? would they pull out machine guns?

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

History teachers across the country and at every grade level should organize a teach-in this week by having students explore the Boston Massacre as part of the #America250 commemoration.

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Raoul Meyer @mistermeyer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Just for a little historical context, the first planned march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 was to demand answers about the death of protestor Jimmie Lee Jackson.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

My wife is back from protesting and I have done all the dishes, laundry, given elder kid a haircut and shower, made a pot roast, lit a fire. Mostly failed to write. Had some rolling panic attacks. My only punk these days is #HyggePunk

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🦋💔🇺🇸SEB🇺🇸💔🦋 @sebastiangarof5.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Isn’t it crazy that people who voted for a criminal to be in the White House are worried about immigrants being criminals? Just saying ! 🤷‍♂️ 🔄

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🦌 The Deer Whisperer 🦌 @thedeerwhisperer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Good night, Bluesky! The last 4pm hour sunset in the Seattle area until November! This marks the official end of "The Big Dark"😁

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 23/01/2026

It shouldn‘t get lost that NPS removed interpretive panel talking about climate change at Fort Sumter this week too. In the next few days we’re going to start hearing about all the other NPS signage that has been removed and it’s going to be ugly.

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

To all my media friends. This is the guy you want to talk to about the situation at the President's House in Philly.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Carney: "In a time of rising populism and ethnic nationalism, Canada can show how diversity is a strength, not a weakness... Canada can't solve all the world's problems. But we can show that another way is possible. That the arc of history isn't destined to be warped toward authoritarianism".

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 22/01/2026

are they not monsters?

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

“We cannot comfort ourselves with the belief that real Christianity is somehow separate from what’s happening politically… The church is not the antidote. For white evangelicals, it appears to be the incubator.”— @trippfuller.bsky.social

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Bonhoeffer's Warning, Unheeded: The Moral Collapse of White Evangelicalism

Why the Most Devout White American Evangelicals Are the Most Captured

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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Facebook reminds me that on this day in 2017 a woman turned to me in the veg section of Sainsbury's and said "hopefully now we've left the EU we can have loose carrots that aren't wet"

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 21/01/2026

How fares the King

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Molly MacVeagh @mollymacv.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

everything is bad but teaching close reading remains so good

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/01/2026

Mark Carney: "Stop invoking the “rules-based international order” as though it still functions as advertised. Call the system what it is: a period where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as a weapon of coercion."

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Thanks For Sharing, Jerk @thx4sharingjerk.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Watch out: the guy who bombed Iran, kidnapped a foreign leader, and is currently invading a city in his own country is going to stop being so peaceful

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Ryan Voutilainen @yvrwxwatcher.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

If you can get away from the light over the next hour or two Vancouver, there is a possibility of still seeing the northern lights this evening. My current view in the Pitt Meadows area. 6:24p PST | 20 Jan 2026 #BCSTORM #BCSTORMWATCH #AURORAWATCH

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

On behalf of historians, please don't wait.

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Robynne Rogers Healey @rrhealey.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

PM Carney's speech today at the WEF was thoughtful and clearly articulated. Lots of good quotes, but this one spoke to me: "We should not allow the rise of hard power to blind us to the fact that the power of legitimacy, integrity, and rules will remain strong — if we choose to wield it together."

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Nuclear defense is why we built a base on Greenland in 1951. We had this idea 75 years ago. The base has been there since then. You don’t have to invade a country where you already have everything. Invasion just destroys what you have and much else besides.

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Ryan Voutilainen @yvrwxwatcher.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Strong ridge of high pressure firmly in place over most of #BritishColumbia & US Pacific Northwest— a vast expanse of fog easily visible in the Columbia Basin of E. #Washington. The ridge looks to hang in until at least Monday! Enjoy the dry weekend! #BCwx #WAwx #ORwx #BCstorm

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I thought I recognized that view! Lovely.

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David McFarland @mrmcfteaches.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Not sure they’re aware of their history reenactment.

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Brian Heffern @bheffern55.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

#Catalina California #sunset #scape the lines in the water are so attractive! #photography #landscapephotography #nature

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