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❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎💗🤍💙 I have no chill. she/her. working hard to be anti-racist. probably sitting down #BlackLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #StopAsianHate #StopAAPIHate

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 14h
Musk, Zuckerberg, Pichai, Amodei, Brockman and Huang signed Trump’s "AI accord" requiring outside oversight. Three helped write the "self-regulation" rules and are building the body that would set standards for and certify the auditors policing them.
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The Real AI Threat Isn’t the Machines. It’s Money, Power and Impunity.
Six tech oligarchs signed Trump’s voluntary AI safety accord. Their companies hold billions in federal contracts. The conflict of interest is explicit: three helped design the rules meant to police th...
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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Oh my God Taskmaster has hit Hulu. I repeat all seasons of Taskmaster are on Hulu. If you've never watched Taskmaster go start watching it literally right now
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of my weirder preoccupations in celebrity bodyguards. Imagine your job is just being paid to be massive and hover and make eye contact with people and glower and be like "I wouldn't, babes." Have you seen Kendrick Lamar's bodyguard?
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Every conversation about the Cornell case is irritating me because there is no way there was just one victim. Just one report. I need people to stop talking like no one had any idea they were rapists. Go crack open those middle school and high school records.
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Ms. Pointy @mspointy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Personally? I’m cool with it
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Cartman Says "Nice, I Like That" in South Park
Alt: Cartman Says "Nice, I Like That" in South Park
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
share.inquirer.com/4R4zKp?utm_s... [gift link]
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U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver is eight months pregnant and facing 17 years in jail | Jenice Armstrong
McIver’s inner strength is next level. She is running for reelection while fighting efforts by the Trump administration to jail her. Plus, she’s repping her constituents and caring for her family.
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Bleeding Cool @bleedingcool.com · 24/09/2026
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells is being officially adapted into a graphic novel by Erica Schultz and Gary Erskine, published by Cosmic Lighthouse, and containing a new Murderbot short story by Martha Wells, exclusive to the graphic novel #murderbot
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The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells is being officially adapted into a graphic novel by Erica Schultz and Gary Erskine, published by Cosmic Lighthouse, and containing a new Murderbot short story by Martha Wells, exclusive to the graphic novel #murderbot
The Murderbot Diaries gets adapted into graphic novels by Erica Schultz and Gary Erskine, with an exclusive Murderbot story by Martha Wells
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 25/09/2026
Prosecutor at center of ‘Broadview Six’ scandal retires, says Boutros ordered grand jury transcript
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Prosecutor at center of ‘Broadview Six’ scandal retires, says Boutros ordered grand jury transcript
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rowan MacGregor, UK based artist making delicate copper sculptures #WomensArt
Flat copper artwork featuring a central tree with birds and a human figure either side of the trunk
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Physics @physics.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Carlsberg Brewery offered Niels Bohr a house next to the brewery in honor of his 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics. One of the benefits of the house was a direct pipeline from the brewery, effectively providing Bohr with free and unlimited beer for life.
A black and white historical portrait of Niels Bohr sitting on stone steps. He is wearing a rumpled suit, a tie, and heavy boots, with one leg crossed over the other.
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CHIRP Radio 107.1 FM @chirpradio.org · 23/09/2026
💪Your support powers CHIRP, keeping this community radio station 100% independent and commercial-free! ⏰️There's only a little over 24 hours left in our fall fundraiser, and that means your time is running out to grab one of our limited edition thank-you gifts! ➡️Donate today: chirpradio.org/donate
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The newly discovered cuneiform tablet fragment contains text from a section of the Treaty of Kadesh related to the treatment of Hittite and Egyptian refugees in the Bronze Age (circa 1269 BC). 🧪🏺
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'We have found traces of peace, thousands of years old': Fragment of world's oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey
Archaeologists excavating in the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusha have uncovered a fragment of the world's oldest peace treaty, signed around 1269 B.C.
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Vikas Bajaj @vikasbajaj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Staying warm this winter is going to be a lot more expensive this winter, especially for people who use heating oil -- a group of people who mostly live in the Northeast and Alaska. @arunisoni.bsky.social reports. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/b...
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Iran War Will Make Winter More Expensive for Some Americans (Gift Article)
The cost of heating oil, which is similar to diesel and used extensively in Northeastern states, has climbed sharply because of the war in Iran.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump's Big Ugly Bill upended the student loan repayment process; borrowers are getting confusing and incorrect billing details, causing even more stress for millions. That is why today AFT and 88 other groups called for emergency oversight now. www.businessinsider.com/student-loan...
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Student-loan borrowers are facing 'drastic changes' to repayment that require lawmakers to step in, 89 organizations say
Nearly 100 organizations are calling on Congress to hold an "emergency hearing" in light of major student-loan repayment changes over the past months.
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is human trafficking on a massive scale.
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Catblossom @catblossom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Seriously, fuck this guy. He better not run for president. Make it clear now that he absolutely doesn't have your vote.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 23/09/2026
Can confirm (see 🧵 ). But let me share some optimism. A NIH colleague said today that against all odds, NIH has been…winning. “We made this EO a necessity. We fought hard. We threw sand in all the gears. All the lowdown ways of blocking grants failed to produce the results Vought et al wanted.”
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So what did Dolly Parton name the entity she established to oversee her estate, publishing interests, and legacy after her death? “She’s Alive LLC.” Absolutely perfect.
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Renée Feltz @reneefeltz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My latest. A hard story to work on, but its important not to look away. truthout.org/articles/ten...
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Tennessee Is Days Away From Executing a Sexual Assault Victim
Christa Pike’s lethal injection is booked for September 30. She may be the first woman Tennessee executes in 200 years.
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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Missed earlier: “She said she wanted the second line of her obituary to acknowledge her role as a shop steward @sagaftra.com the union that represents NPR's editorial workers. She wanted the line to say that her "proudest achievement" was helping convince NPR to increase its paid parental leave.”
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Editor Rose Friedman, who helped shape NPR's cultural coverage, dies at 38
Friedman was in her early 20s when she landed her first position as an editorial assistant at NPR. She became an editor and reporter, and a co-creator of the annual Books We Love reading guide.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 22/09/2026
“I haven’t talked to any service member who said that they are scared of dying in a war that they don’t believe in...They’re scared of killing in a war that they don’t believe in.”
thenation.com
As Morale Sags, More Military Service Members Are Having a Crisis of Conscience
According to multiple GI rights organizations, service members are inquiring in unprecedented numbers about seeking conscientious objector status.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 22/09/2026
May Day Matters Now More Than Ever
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May Day Matters Now More Than Ever - Colorlines
A Book Review: “This Is How We Win”
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 22/09/2026
GoFundMe continues to be a lens into the modern American dystopia. From jacobin.com/2026/09/infl...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026
Meet the California lawmaker forcing Big Food to clean up its act.
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The California lawmaker forcing Big Food to clean up its act
While DC dithers, Jesse Gabriel has quietly become America’s de facto food safety chief.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you couldn't visit the breathtaking, immersive abolitionist exhibit The Warehouse in NYC, check out this short video all about it! 👇🏾 #Abolition
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The Warehouse Exhibition - April to June 2026 at Bedford Library
YouTube video by Mariame Kaba
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/09/2026
I first wrote about dicamba back in 2017 when most of the coverage was limited to farming publications. And there's something that I think is missed in the Guardian piece that I think it's important to note about why Bayer is doing this.
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A chemical meant to save plants is actually killing them—and it's spreading
New formulations of dicamba, an herbicide, seem to be causing havoc in America's soybean fields
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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 10/09/2024
fit check
Alien xenomoph action figure in a wool knit extra-turtleyneck sweater and a classic black and white houndstooth flap bag with gold accents
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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I just think it’s strange that all the gambling companies have ads with athletes and celebrities instead of featuring all their users who have become millionaires betting, very strange indeed
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marxuckerberg @marxuckerberg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is why I’m having some difficulty with the CPS board elections, by the way. I just listened to the WTTW panel for CPS pres and no candidate answered a question about selective enrollment with “competitive admissions for high schools is fucking batshit, lets be more normal”
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Ms. Pointy @mspointy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I guess now I’m canceling after Percy Jackson S03 airs Fuck Them All
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NM Dept. of Memes @nmdeptofmemes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Another lesson focuses on free universities and the history of radical public pedagogy at CUNY. We'll meet with the folks at Lost & Found and study their chapbooks exploring Toni Cade Bambara's, June Jordan's, Audre Lorde's and Adrienne Rich's radical pedagogy across CUNY campuses in the 60s + 70s.
November 11:  THE POETICS OF PUBLIC PEDAGOGY 

Location: This week we’ll meet at the CUNY Graduate Center, at 365 5th Avenue, between 34th and 35th Street. More instructions forthcoming. 

Agenda: We have a few nested purposes today: to contemplate the history of CUNY itself as a once-free and still-relatively-accessible-but-ever-less-so public university, and to consider the types of public study that inclusivity (ideally) makes possible; second, to engage with Lost & Found: The Cuny Poetics Document Initiative, which centers the “interplay of poetry, poetics, friendship, and politics” through collaborative archival research and experimental publishing; and third, to focus specifically on Lost & Found’s “CUNY Pedagogy” series, which engages with Toni Cade Bambara’s, June Jordan’s, Audre Lorde’s, and Adrienne Rich’s radical pedagogy and commitments to public study on CUNY campuses. We’ll meet today with Ammiel Alcalay, poet, Professor of Comparative Literature at CUNY, and initiator of Lost & Found; Stephon Lawrence, writer and artist; Sampson Starkweather, poet, small press editor, and Director of Communications for CUNY’s Center for Humanities; and Kendra Sullivan, poet, artist, and director of CUNY’s Center for Humanities. 

To Prepare for This Week: 
Please skim CUNY’s official institutional history page and explore the CUNY Digital History Archive; you’re welcome to meander, but the “Documents on the Origins of CUNY,” “Operation SEEK” (Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge), and “Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover” records are particularly pertinent to our interests. 
This April 1973 issue of Tiger Paper, the Borough of Manhattan Community College’s underground faculty newspaper, addresses the threats of imposing tuition, which arrived in 1976. 
Now, I invite you to introduce yourself to the CUNY Grad Center’s Center for the Humanities and its Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. 
Let’s pay closer attention to Lost & Found’s “CUNY Pedagogy Series.” This series exists as a set of lovely chapbooks (which I’ll bring to class if I can find my copies in storage, and which our hosts can surely share!), but it’s also freely available online via the Manifold digital publishing platform; you’ll find links to each volume here. You’re welcome to skim any or all, and to engage more closely with those segments pique your interest, but the following sections seem most directly relevant to our study of public study:
* Toni Cade Bambara, “Realizing the Dream of a Black University” in Realizing the Dream of a Black University & Other Writings, Part II, edited by Makeba Lavan & Conor Tomás Reed (Lost & Found, 2017). 
* June Jordan, “The City and the City College: An Off-Campus, Off-Camera Perspective” and “Statement at CUNY Board of Higher Education Tuition Hearing [May 5, 1976]” in Life Studies, 1966-1976, edited by Conor Tomás Reed and Talia Shalev (Lost & Found, 2017). 
* Adrienne Rich, “Notes, Statements & Memos on Seek, Basic Writing & the Interdisciplinary Program” in Teaching at CUNY, 1968-1974, Part I, edited by Iemanjá Brown, Stefania Heim, erica kaufman, Kristin Moriah, Conor Tomás Reed, Talia Shalev, Wendy Tronrud, and Ammiel Alcalay (Lost & Found, 2013). 
* Adrienne Rich, “Teaching Materials: Book Lists, Syllabi, Notes & Assignments” in Teaching at CUNY, 1968-1974, Part II, edited by Iemanjá Brown, Stefania Heim, erica kaufman, Kristin Moriah, Conor Tomás Reed, Talia Shalev, Wendy Tronrud, and Ammiel Alcalay (Lost & Found, 2013). 
Audre Lorde, “Syllabi, Teaching Journals, Notes, and Course Proposals From John Jay College of Criminal Justice” and “Syllabi, Outlines, and Teaching Notes From Hunter College” in “I Teach Myself in Outline”: Notes, Journals, Syllabi, edited by Miriam Atkin and Iemanjá Brown (Lost & Found, 2017). 
Let’s acknowledge, too, progressive pedagogy and experimental programs within or adjacent to other institutions of higher learning. See the Interference Archive’s 2018-19 “Free Education! The Free University of New York, Alternate U, and Learning Liberation” exhibition (thanks, Laura!). The following merit a shout-out for now, and a closer read when time allows!: Eli Meyerhoff’s Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World (University of Minnesota Press, 2019); and Reid Pitney Higginson’s “When Experimentation Was Mainstream,” History of Education Quarterly 59:2 (2019): 195-226. 
Finally, if you have time: to remind ourselves of the polysemic nature and prismatic politics of free education, read Irit Rogott, “Free,” e-flux education (originally published March 2010). 

Supplemental Resources: 
Matt Brim and Davica Savonick, “Access and the Poor College,” PSU Open (April 2, 2025). 
Conor Tomás Reed, New York Liberation School: Study and Movement for the People’s University (Common Notions Press, 2023). 
Cono Tomás Reed, “New York Liberation School,” Debt Collective (July 26, 2023). 
Conor Tomás Reed’s many programs with the Center for Humanities. 
Davica Savonick, Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College (Duke University Press, 2024)
“Tuition at CUNY,” “‘The End of An Era’: The Impact of the 1975 New York City Financial Crisis at CUNY”
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Briefly detained” = beat half to death
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19/09/2026
It should be illegal to buy a company with debt and then sell it off to a foreign owner, but that fight was lost long ago. Anyway, now the Saudis own a truly distressing portion of American entertainment, from Hollywood to Video Games to Sports. This is not neutral behavior. Anyway.
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FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar
FCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner.
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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m in grief stages and I do have to say I can’t believe this Mets team played 81 games this year with Mendoza after the 2025 collapse. Both teams who fired their managers sooner are fighting for wild cards. Probably the worst decision of the year.
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socraticme.bsky.social @socraticme.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This right here is the mind killer. Fear has fucked me up all right, but nothing has eaten my mind like the steady comfort and determined ignorance that is trained into you and demanded as payment by Whiteness.
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Dan LK, 💖💜💙 Visibly Bisexual @2ndlevelbard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Liberals say that Trump and his band of drunks, sex abusers, and white nationalists have put our democracy at risk. They're wrong—Trump and his band of drunks, sex abusers, and white nationalists have put our republic at risk.
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“The median personal income for a man in 2025 was $55,940 and for a woman was $38,670, according to new census data.”
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U.S. poverty rate drops slightly, but experts fear worse ahead
The census data released Tuesday did not include the impact of more recent cuts to social safety net programs.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Rachel Hayes, contemporary artist who creates textile based largescale outdoor, site specific installations #WomensArt
Photo featuring a textile installation with checked and striped translucent material forming an arch in a field as the sun rises or sets
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/09/2026
Speaker Mike Johnson announced Wednesday that he would send Congress home early for recess ahead of November’s midterm elections. The move effectively shields Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth from a scheduled impeachment vote brought by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) over the Iran war.
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Mike Johnson can't protect Pete Hegseth forever
The secretary of testosterone is hiding from his own party.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/09/2026
A building damaged by Israeli strikes collapsed suddenly in Gaza City, killing at least 21 people. Over one-fifth of buildings in Gaza assessed by a refugee council in March were not structurally sound, but residents said they had nowhere else to go. wapo.st/46YipoO
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Earlier this week, I published videos of an arrest near a bus stop in Danbury, Connecticut, after federal officials denied such an arrest ever happened. Now I have the man’s first-hand account, from a court filing. My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
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CT man describes ICE arrest after dropping son at school bus stop
The man was one of 118 arrests ICE said it made during a Connecticut operation that week.
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nicole froio @nicolefroio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
people keep saying Ed Sheeran is Irish (he is a quarter Irish) when he has clearly been so depoliticized that "being Irish" doesn't mean anything to him anymore. so seeing an actually Irish band quit on him over Palestine is both satisfying and telling--Irish-Palestinian solidarity is undefeated.
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fanatical anti-AI luddite @3ahiru.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NAZI SHIT
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