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Nancy Cooper Frank

@ncooperfrank.bsky.social
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Reader, sometime writer, curious person. Russian literature Ph.D. Interested in Slavic languages, French language & literature, world history, archeology, linguistics, trivia Also: Abolish ICE. Living with cancer.

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Aerin Finehair @vagablondviking.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ragnar the Derpiful, first of his name, Floofus of the Hedgewatch and Protector of the realm #Caturday #CatSky #Siamese
blue point Siamese kitty Ragnar curled up on a window seat, enjoying a sunbeam with the curtains draped around him casting the room into shadow
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Genial Black Man @trecoolx.bsky.social · 20h
Hey, the police (and SF District Attorney) suck. "Public defenders say police severely beat a Black man last year and the DA’s office tried to suppress evidence, including footage of the white resident who called SFPD threatening to stab him and using racial slurs in front of officers."
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SFPD Officers Accused of Beating Man Into Near-Coma After Ignoring Racial Threats
Public defenders say police severely beat a Black man last year and the DA’s office tried to suppress evidence, including footage of the white resident who called SFPD threatening to stab him and usin...
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Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I don’t know any parent who’s gonna react to an attempted carjacking with their kid in the car in any other way.
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Absolutely pathetic to believe that Ukraine should give a shit about the midterms instead of fighting their invader and occupier.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.
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William Snyder @profsnyder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Redacting the signatory might be unprecedented. I've never seen or heard of the like.
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French Morning @frenchmorning.com · 09/10/2026
19e édition à Boston du Festival du Livre avec les auteurs français Mathias Énard, Gaëlle Bélem et Anne Pauly. Rendez-vous le samedi 17 octobre. www.frenchmorning.com/lecrivain-mat…
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L’écrivain Mathias Énard au Boston Book Festival le 17 octobre
Le Boston Book Festival revient pour une nouvelle édition, le samedi 17 octobre. Comme chaque année, des dizaines d’autrices et d’auteurs sont attendus en Nouvelle-Angleterre pour des rencontres à travers toute la ville. Partenaires de cet évènement, la French Library et la Villa Albertine accueilleront plusieurs écrivains francophones, dont Mathias Énard, et une conversation sur […]
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Death of a handyman: ICE cited “convictions for driving with expired vehicle registration” and an unspecified judgment against him in favor of the Maryland comptroller. The 47-year-old Curo-Churata "had volunteered to leave the country on his own, but a judge denied the request."
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Laurel father and husband died in ICE custody in Louisiana
Julián Curo-Churata lived in Laurel for about 17 years before he was detained in June by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. He died in the agency’s custody on Sept. 29.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/10/2026
New Yorkers: Do you have a form of immigration relief called withholding of removal? Have you received an ICE letter summoning you to 26 Federal Plaza? Here’s what  you can do:

1. Call our Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365, or call 311 and say "Immigration Legal" for free, confidential help in your native language.

2. Fill out our intake form to get help from the Rapid Response Legal Collaborative: nyc.gov/RRLC

3. Make a plan. Make sure you have an emergency contact and that someone you trust has your A-number. Talk to a lawyer before making any decisions.
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For Day 8 #spacetober_challenge prompt supernova: Sophie Brahe (1559 or 1556 -1643) 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭 horticulturalist, astronomer, genealogist, & alchemist with the gardens at her brother #astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg estate, where she often assisted his research, alchemical tools & illustrations of the
My 11” x 14” linocut portrait of Sophie Brahe, a Renaissance aristocrat in headgear, ruff, dark clothing with medallion on a wide band and a long scarf or other thin fabric draped over her shoulders with her hands folded in front of her and alchemical vessels, printed in dark bronze ink, on a bronze background. In green behind her head is a map of the gardens at Uranienborg, with her head at the centre of the diamond shaped pale green knot garden (geometric planned gardens). This is surrounded by an orchard in darker green with semicircle bump outs on each side of the diamond. The stars of Cassiopeia from De stelle nova are printed in gold on top of everything; there are stars across her chest and ruff and in the garden and the large supernova is above her head
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ACLU of Texas @aclutx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The ICE agent who shot and killed Houston resident Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was identified last week. Accountability starts now. ICE must: ⚫️ Disclose the names of ALL officers involved. ⚫️ Cooperate with local investigators and public information requests. ⚫️ Return his wallet and phone to his family.
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How the shooting death of a Houston father is igniting Latino politics in Texas
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was fatally shot on his way to work by an ICE officer, after authorities say Salgado Araujo used his vehicle as a weapon. An outraged community is demanding justice — and change...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ICE appears to be using the parking lot of the Roxbury warehouse for processing and brief detention, and at least once appears to have taken people inside. But also, read this inside look from a federal contractor about how everyone knew the warehouse plan was insane but Miller demanded inhumanity.
NPR spoke to an official at a government contractor whose company was approached to convert several of the warehouses into ICE facilities. He spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from the government.

"No one that we spoke to at DHS was for this idea whatsoever. The deputy director told us point-blank that they had pushed back very hard on it. Everybody knew warehouses are horrible places to put people," he says.

At a meeting with a deputy director at DHS, he says, his company proposed an alternative: FEMA-style camps in Texas that would be more humane.

He says that idea was swiftly shot down. While White House adviser Stephen Miller was not at the meeting, they were told that this was not what Miller wanted.

The contractor says his understanding from that meeting was that "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted."

"Steve Miller certainly seemed to make that point to everyone that he wanted it to be cruel. This was what Miller had stated to the DHS at that time, to the DHS director and deputy director. What surprised me was just how adamant the people were that it was going to happen. Damn the consequences. I would say in 25 years of working with the U.S. government, I've never been in that position before."
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king's co-op boo store 👻 @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
a nobel prize is cool i guess but Anne Carson also received a Sappho finger puppet from yours truly and just look at that smile
anne carson with a Sappho finger puppet next to a bearded bookseller
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Otomi embroidery is a traditional Mexican embroidery style known as "Tenangos", featuring vibrant colors, and unique floral and animal designs #WomensArt
Colourful embroidery with birds, animaks and plants against a white background
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The 1924 sketchbook of Sonia Delaunay, Ukrainian-born French artist & textile/fashion designer #womensart
Open sketch book with writing and paintings of zig zag designs
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Blanche K @blanchekolaczek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They are eager to put children in jail alone.
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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This was one of my leadership principles I leaned on during my last few months at CDC
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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I came here to say this!
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW from me: New preliminary research from the University of Michigan shows women living in states with post-Dobbs abortion bans may be more likely to shoulder costs for employer-sponsored health insurance premiums, with data reflecting a 5.4% increase in annual premium expenditures after 2022.
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Research suggests women living in states with abortion bans bear higher health insurance costs • Stateline
New preliminary research from the University of Michigan shows women living in states with post-Dobbs abortion bans may be more likely to shoulder costs for employer-sponsored health insurance premium...
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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Quince? Wayfair? that mobile telephone service? Apps to help you manage your budget? Therapy apps? Just wondering, idly, if we are listening to the same podcasts. I don't mind the ads in principle (can't be a paid subscriber to every podcast) but they ARE relentless
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is it a bad sign that the PDF copy of the U.S. Constitution that has been available at house.gov now 404s? uscode.house.gov/static/const...
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Under Maintenance
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Forget "Hamilton," forget "Eugene Onegin" and all those pesky musketeers. THIS is the duel scene to end all duel scenes.
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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
love the annotations here! Ouch ouch and ouch
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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We had a tiny b&w TV. Our grandparents had a big newfangled color TV. Startled, buried my face in a cushion at the sight of the GREEN of Margaret Hamilton's face
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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I didn't comment on the other two books because I haven't read them. (Though I've read and been deeply drawn into other books by Olga T.)
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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Enard is absolutely brilliant and immersive
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video. 
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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I totally agree. It's not just that I'm doing the dishes or the laundry, it's that I love to have access to a medium that engages the ears alone. There's a reason why radio held its own power and place for so many decades alongside of movies and TV.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom"
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 02/10/2026
ICE posted another detainee death report on its FOIA Library today. This one is for Charles Leo Daniel, a 61-year-old man from Trinidad who died in ICE custody in 2024 after four years in ICE detention at the Northwestern Immigrant Processing Center in Tacoma, WA. Archived below.
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psb-foia/ice/FOIA Library Artifacts/ICE Mortality Reports/ddrCharlesLeoDaniel.pdf at main · projectsaltbox/psb-foia
FOIA requests and released records for Project Salt Box's reporting on ICE detention and federal contracting. - projectsaltbox/psb-foia
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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just popping to the authentic golem shop if anyone wants anything...
Shop shelves with miniature golem figurines with a hand written sign reading 'authentic golem'
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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Agreed! A solid, wide-ranging and eye-opening book
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 02/10/2026
Under the old rules, immigrants in the United States legally — including refugees and asylees — were eligible for Medicaid before they got their green card.
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Minnesota family stuck without care after thousands of immigrants lose Medicaid coverage
A Twin Cities family says their mother could soon be left without care for a brain injury, after Medicaid coverage ended for thousands of Minnesota immigrants. Advocates and government officials are s...
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Lucy Goodchild @lucygoodchild.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m absofuckinglutely thrilled to be writing a paper on what’s happening syntactically when we shove a swear word into the middle of a perfectly whole other word (aka tmesis). I’m also intrigued about whether (and how) this happens in other languages. Have you got any examples? #linguistics
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mexican ska 🎸🎶 El Tiny returns with a takeover until Oct. 15 for #LatinMusicMonth. #TinyDesk "Panteón Rococó has been at the forefront of Mexican ska for over three decades.. the band’s skankin’ grooves slide easily between cumbia and Afro-Caribbean rhythms. "
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Panteón Rococó: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
you bet! @autonomynews.co is such a great resource on what's going on in the repro justice world, and I like to nod to both the work that activists are doing and the people whose thinking/writing informs my own thinking/writing
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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is beyond my comprehension. Toddlers alone in courtrooms clutching teddy bears and being asked to choose voluntary departure or a removal order. And once deported, where are they sent to, and is there anyone to care for them? www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Same! Tangible palpable buttons, I miss them so much on tech
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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I took this photo a while back at a museum of soldiers with bicycles at Yellowstone National Park in 1896. For those, like me, who enjoy mountain biking, my morning ☕️ thread is about a pioneering group of African-Americans who probably deserve the title of the “first American mountain bikers.”
A photo of a diatomaceous with a large photo of three soldiers in uniform standing next to their bikes on the Minerva Terrace at Yellowstone National Park.



#history #militaryhistory 🗃️
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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reading the book of that title right now and it's superb
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Center for Reproductive Rights @reprorights.org · 29/09/2026
Yesterday Europe shined green in support of abortion rights for International Safe Abortion Day! 💚💚💚 This is a global call to action for access to timely, affordable, and quality abortion care. Read our recap of the day: bit.ly/4xLM1Rb
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
good point, hadn't thought of that!
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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Spotted parked in front of a big single-family house in San Francisco this morning. Too early? Yes, too early
Red-and-white truck labeled "Christmas Light Pros" parked in front of an ivy-covered house wall
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The rise of 287(g) programs has meant that ICE is increasingly using local police as a very significant force multiplier, with up to 1 in 8 arrests of noncitizens in the interior now being carried out by state and local police. This is going to have profound impacts on community relations.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Even worse, ‘Dilley 2’ in Alexandria, Louisiana, aims to deport migrant kids as quickly as possible, some to third countries, putting them at risk of falling into “horrific cycles of trafficking,” Sen. Ron Wyden warned. www.thequeenzone.com/exclusive-to...
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Exclusive: Top Senate Dem Responds to Christian Faith Group's Plea for Oversight of New ICE Facility for Kids
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, has responded to a Christian faith group that...
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Smile, it’s Friday! 😃 Meet ‘The Oldest Smile in the World’ a tiny face that’s been smiling for some 7,400 years! Carved from oak during the Mesolithic, this small human figure was found in 1966 in a layer of peat during dock construction at Willemstad in the Netherlands. #FindsFriday #Archaeology
My photo shows a human figure roughly carved from dark brown oak wood during the Mesolithic period about 5,400-5,300 BC. It is 12.5 cm tall with a long body with two finger-shaped indents on the right hand side (left in my photo), suggesting it was made to be held in the hand. The stylized head has deeply carved eyes, nose, and open mouth. The triangular shape of the mouth makes it look as if the figure is smiling, leading to its description as ‘The oldest smile in the world’. It is displayed against a black display case background at Landesmuseum Halle in Germany where the figure is currently on loan for the ‘Shamaness’ exhibition. It is part of the permanent collections of Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, Netherlands. It was found in a layer of peat in 1966 during the construction of a dock at Willemstad, North Brabant, Netherlands.
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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just some GREAT conversation here, a simultaneous profundity and lightness of touch
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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I've seen some wacky Soviet movies but somehow never this particular one
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