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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Vote Forward @votefwd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Join @standupamerica.com & @votefwd.bsky.social for a letter-writing party with our special guest, Jess Craven! Plus, you'll hear from Vote Forward's Data & Research team on how they set up experiments so that the letters are a lab for strengthening democracy. RSVP: votefwd.org/party

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Vote Forward @votefwd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

🔔 New feature alert! You can now filter Vote Forward’s letter-writing campaigns by type, so it’s easier than ever to sign up. Give it a try—there are thousands of voters waiting to be adopted! Visit go.votefwd.org/letter-campaigns to get started!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11/10/2026

RFK Jr is one of the worst people to ever wield power in US government. Eternal shame on anyone who has ever elevated him.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A Texas Democratic Governor Hinojosa is a real game changer for Texas and national politics

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

Way too many people are responding to this saying that it would involve paying musk money, when the option of seizing all his assets after prosecuting him for fraud and election interference and his many many other alleged and sometimes almost seemingly admitted crimes is like… right there.

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

While consistently connecting it to a larger narrative that they're morally corrupt and it's dragging us down in every way. It's the synthesis of insult and narrative that allows him to dominate in a way other Dems don't manage.

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's getting less attention bc it was a long time ago, but Navi Pillay was also an absolute trailblazer in the fight against Apartheid in South Africa, winning a ruling that brought those incarcerated on Robben Island, including Mandela, the right to counsel. She knows apartheid when she sees it.

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J. Smith @jooltman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A wide swath of New Yorkers marching this evening to demand an end to ICE terror on our streets, a full independent investigation of yesterday’s shooting, action from our Electeds, and an end to NYPD cooperation with ICE. #ICEOut #ICEOutOfNYC

Protest in streets. Signs saying Defeat Fascism, I heart Immigrant NYC, End ICE, etc.

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Tom Bonier @tbonier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In Hennepin County, which endured some of the most brutal ICE raids and the murder of Renee Good, Hispanic turnout is literally 5x what it was at this point in 2022, and >50% above 2024 at the same point.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 09/10/2026

We would LOVE to hire another journalist. But the only way to make the numbers work is if 3 percent of our 64,000 free newsletter subscribers become paid subs. Are you one? Take advantage of our Biggest Sale Ever now at 35 percent off! hellgatenyc.com/membership/

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Art! Crime! This week @artcrimeprof.bsky.social joins me on the pod. We discuss forgery in the 1920s, including an Italian anti-fascist, womanizing art forger who fooled American museums. A man whose unwillingness to carve imperfect noses and breasts, put a pair gay art experts onto his trail...

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Episode 35: The Anti-Fascist Italian Art Forger that fooled America

The Untitled History Podcast · Episode

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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

hi everyone, your new gay great-grandpas just dropped excuse me, "inexplicably lifelong bachelors with matching terriers" honestly this whole thing is gayer than a kj charles book (complimentary, on both ends AS IT WERE HOHO)

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mash Up

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This dude’s ability to pop up every single time ICE makes the news is astounding. He was at Canal St. last year. It is also speculated that he was one of the agents who wounded Chidozie Wilson Okeke in Brooklyn in May and left the hospital with him.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026

Here he is hearting racist ass comments on his watermelon gun

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Good advice - New York City #FridayPhoto 🗃️📷📸

Sidewalk Art stating: FUCK YOUR PHONE - KEEP YOUR HEAD UP!

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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 09/10/2026

She wrote this op-ed last year.

Screenshot of a New York Times opinion guest essay.

“OPINION
GUEST ESSAY

My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide

Sept. 16, 2025”

Below the headline is a large Reuters photograph showing a grieving person dressed in purple, hunched forward with their face buried in their hands. Several people surround and comfort them, resting their hands on their shoulders, arms, and head. Another person wearing a light purple headscarf leans in from the left.

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By Navi Pillay

“Ms. Pillay is the chair of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.”

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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In sum.

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mr Big Stuff, who do you think you are?

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Graduate Center is proud to welcome the inaugural class in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies (BRES), our first new Ph.D. program in more than 25 years www.gc.cuny.edu/news/graduat... @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s notable to me that TWO of the most recent women who have won a NoBel Prize were denied tenure from their institutions: Anne Carson and Katalin Karikó

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Linda Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think that one of the most important messages that candidates like Ossoff communicate when they openly condemn neo-Nazis and white supremacists is “I’m confident that I can win without the support of people who think I’m out of line here.”

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

To every politician in New York: Do not tell the protesters to behave peacefully. Do not tell the protesters to disperse and go home. Instead, tell ICE to behave peacefully. Tell ICE to disperse and go home. Side with your constituents, not the Trump administration.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/10/2026

Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson - ICE get the fuck out

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/10/2026

Press conference in the Bronx after the ICE shooting - - @cndelarosa.bsky.social speaking

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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

UIUC is seeking candidates for a 1-year Sawyer Seminar postdoctoral associate whose research focuses on the economic, political, or technological challenges confronting US universities in the past and present. Incredibly timely and you'd work with great people! networks.h-net.org/jobs/70532/u...

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artnau @artnau.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

William Kentridge www.instagram.com/williamkentr...

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Gerhard Richter, September, 2005 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…

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LunchCounterPunch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ossoff being laser focused on illuminating the white nationalist ties of his opponent is extremely important and demands to be replicated by the party more broadly.

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

(Others have gotten close, but only Ossoff is fully doing what people really want in this moment. Not a fan of pres handicapping this early but I've lowkey thought for a while that it'll be him.)

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I wrote back in the first week of January that this would be "the century-long year," and I regret to inform you that the mayhem will likely be even worse this month. So buckle up to get through it, and let's make sure these are the death throes of Trumpism and everything it stands for.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

But we know more than enough to say this: We, the people of NYC refuse to accept authoritarianism at our doorsteps. We will always defend the humanity of our immigrant neighbors. ICE's operations in New York City — and everywhere else — must come to a permanent end. #AbolishICE #ICEOutNow

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Asinus Pervicax @knownagitator.lol · 08/10/2026

if this presidency has been good for any one thing, it's trump's utter commitment to making the ambient violence in the society that's usually left at a subtextual level into outright text in bold face.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is going to be a real test of both whether the mayor is willing to take concrete action that is squarely within the city’s power to investigate and, if reasonable, prosecute a federal agent; and whether the NYPD is willing to go through with that. I wrote about the process here

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Prosecuting ICE’s Goons Will Be Hard—but Not Impossible

To a growing number of Americans, the necessity of holding the fashy agency to account is becoming obvious. Better start planning how to do it now.

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The level of violence the US is about to go through for at least the next 4-5 months

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Did that this semester, it's been the best version of this class I've ever taught in 15 years. Hard recommend.

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ICE agents shot and wounded a man in a car on a bustling New York City street Thursday afternoon, narrowly missing a child who was seated in the vehicle and sparking a heated confrontation between the feds and outraged citizens, officials said www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/08/f...

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ICE agents nearly hit child as they open fire on man in NYC clash

The incident happened at about 4 p.m. on Marble Hill Ave. near W. 225th St., officials said.

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

it's unreal to me that we're getting dominated by such pathetic losers

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

this is fucking insane. fuck this country. jesus.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I love this, too. AND it actually hits the reason that so many rural conservatives hate cities: precisely BECAUSE cities offer an alternative for family members whom the conservatives want to control. It's a narrative as old as urbanization itself, that city out there will corrupt "our" child.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And don't underestimate the extent to which this is an erotic experience for them, a deeply charged feeling of pleasurable release. That's key to the intensity of their attachment.

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